According to an Internetnews.com article this morning a study released today by security vendor Cenzic Firefox accounts for 44% of all browser vulnerabilities for January through June 2009. Safari (Apple) is second at 35% and Internet Explorer (Microsoft) is third at 15%. If you follow the space this will not come as a surprise. My advice would not be to recommend changing back to Internet Explorer if you use Firefox or Safari and like it. The advice would be to minimize the add-ons you use and always run the updater when prompted to do so.
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Reuters reported on 11/3/2006 that Internet Advertising firm Zango, Inc. agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that it's pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of unsuspecting users personal computers.
This is a huge blow to the perpetrators of a crime that has up to this point been quite difficult to prosecute. While difficult to estimate there is no doubt that the impact of adware world-wide is in the billions of dollars. This resulting from lost productivity, expenses to remove the programs and system resources. Considering all the fiscal expenses, the biggest victim is the privacy of internet users. Adware often tracks users web habits and funnels users to websites selling products or services that are related to those habits. In some cases, such as the Zango case, popups deploy on the affected users PC's forcing them to close the windows manually and making it difficult for them to efficiently use their computer.
This is some of the best news in the fight against Adware in recent history. Hopefully the government will continue to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes and expand their capabilities to tackle some of the tougher issues like SPAM, Viruses and Malware. For now this is a good start.


Welcome to the fourth installment of The Smooth Traveler. If you read the first three editions, (Sorrento, Rome, and Egypt), you have probably realized that I am, well, not so smooth. I am a little clumsy, a little goofy, and a bit of a goober! In fact, I am pretty sure that when I take a vacation, my brain takes a little vacay as well!
About nine years ago, we took a Southern Caribbean cruise that stopped in Aruba. We were pretty excited to hit up the A of the ABC islands, and we decided we should start off the day with some beach time followed by a bit of exploring on the island.
Being that we were not sure of our full day's agenda, I was having trouble deciding if I should wear a swimsuit and bring along a change of clothes or vice versa. I ultimately determined that I could go half and half. I can't remember the logic (or lack thereof) completely–something to do with comfortable walking, maybe–but I suppose I thought that bathing suit bottoms would be fine all day, but I could put the top on once we hit the beach.
As soon as the ship docked, we eagerly disembarked and made for the public bus stop. I remember waiting forever on the bus, as it seems they will not depart without a warm body for each seat, but rather than get too annoyed, we just chalked it up to being part of the experience. Once the bus was filled, off we went to Palm Beach.
When we arrived at the beach, we paid for chairs and a palapa, then got settled in for a lovely swim in the warm Caribbean waters. Here is where we got set up–doesn't leave much to be desired, does it?
So this was it, we were all situated with our shaded loungers, and ready to dive in that aqua blue water. So happy was I to be already wearing my suit, I cast off my shirt and shorts and headed out. But wait, something wasn't right. I paused and reflected: did we have our towels? Did we secure our valuables? Had we lathered up with SPF? Yes, yes, and yes. Then I had a flashback to the room when I was getting ready–something about my suit.GAH! I am wearing my bra, not my swim top! I rushed to the cover of my husband who was laughing a bit too hard to give offer sanctuary. I then wrapped up with a towel until I could devise a plan for a modest switch.
But please let me assure you that all ended well. I managed to properly suit up for the beach and, once my mortification eased into mild embarrassment, I was able to go enjoy a dip in the perfect Caribbean Sea. I should also take this moment to let you know that at no point was I actually even uncovered, as my skivvies are probably more modest than most swimwear these days (thank goodness!). And finally, it should be said that our traveling friends were rewarded with terrific fodder that would provide many chuckles at my expense for years to come.
After our beach time, we slowly meandered toward the bus stop. It was quite the nice stroll, as we were escorted by butterflies (most likely escapees from the nearby butterfly farm). We also came across this rather bright green lizard.
Before heading back to the ship, we also stopped for a late lunch at a small restaurant where we discovered the joy of a grilled cheese sandwich with gouda, ham, and pineapples. I dare say it is the best grilled cheese I have ever had the privilege of sinking my teeth into.
You Smooth Traveler ae so entertaining. It's a beautiful place though, so glad everything worked out.
Haha, thanks Jen. My blunders keep me entertained, I figured I should share the laughs. 😛 Definitely a beautiful place–we are renting a jeep and seeing the full island next time, and I can hardly wait.
haha, he did have a bit of a judgmental look in his lizardy little eye. I remember my grandparents sitting at the table eating chocolate chips cookies and cheese slices together. If they were able to reach that level of shared interests, you will surely have Adi savoring the tea with cakes (and maybe some cheese slices?? 😛 ).
Oh no Kristyn, I am worried about the maniacal glint he gets with cheese after Amsterdam. I promise you, I had a tough time not letting him overdo it with buying tons of cheese wheels to haul back home. Whoever thought I would have to restrain Adi from buying things and not the other way around. I like that visual you create of the grandparents. Darned cute.
Aw 🙂 It is seriously sweet as you put it. It is my favourite part of growing older. Aruba has fantastic gouda? Then you should absolutely go for the haul. We just about finished our gouda loot a couple of months ago and Adi was seriously thinking of ordering a wheel even though we are moving at the end of this month. I hate wasting food, let alone cheese, so I had to put in a fair bit of work weaning him off the idea.
I am guessing the gouda is good–I remember laughing at cruise passengers bringing big cheese wheels back on board with them in both Aruba and Curacao. And now… I may be laughing at myself bringing a big wheel of cheese when we go to Aruba and Curacao. I will just need to take measurements of the stateroom beforehand so my cheese does not overtake our living space. 😛 Yeah, half a month is not very long to devour an entire wheel of cheese–probably best left as a housewarming gift. Are you moving nearby or to a different area??
I am visualising you trying to edge the captain out of his fantastic chambers to give the cheese a good room before it actually reaches home. Everything for cheese. Gosh it does make a good picture. A cruise ahead of you?! Why how exciting! When do you set out? My move is to New York 🙂 I just spoke to the borough council here and the man was funny. "You are abandoning this borough to go to NY! And you want sympathy, eh?" When I got the parking waiver info that I wanted, he said, "Just get me a big donut." But I wish I did not have to leave Northampton!
Again great possibilities lie ahead – sea and cheese and a whole lot of wine to complete the sigh-y picture. I shall sigh from NY or NJ and wait for the cheese loot. I am quite excited about setting up a new place, yes. We have a host of wall art and knick knacks to play around in the new place. Oh yeah, I got itchy hands.
Ah the trifecta: cheese, wine, and the sea. It is the life. 🙂 I am excited for you as you prepare for this next great adventure in New York/Jersey. When will you be sure of the location? Regardless of where, I'm sure it will be perfect once you turn it into home.
Btw have you changed the look of your blog? It looks different and lovely.
Thank you. 🙂 But trust me, we have some rough pictures. Sometimes I look at them later and am thinking, what is that even a picture of???
For me, what I have finally done away with is overly worked on photos. They annoy me now. I used such terrible effects! I hit myself mentally for all the good photos I have ruined and then also deleted the originals alongside.
Har har har. Introducing imperfections into the perfect you mean. I have such bad photos of our wonderful time in Bruges that I cringe now. But it is a costly lesson learnt alright.
LOL. I want to go to Egypt too. Ah to do return trips to every place!
Cute pictures! I have always wanted to visit Aruba, it's the perfect spot for a cruise stop!
Wow- Aruba looks so amazing! That water is sparkling blue!! So having vacation envy rn.
Aruba seems as interesting as it name💞💞may be someday I will get to visit and write a story too..
It really is a great island. I hope you can make it there as well. 😊 On this last trip, we toured Aruba more thoroughly, so I will post more soon.
Aruba is the best place to visit and you can explore many things there and summer is the peak time to visit and this season you can get the hotels at the affordable prices and in this time you can visit this place and explore many new things easily and weather is also the perfect at this time.
Aruba is a famous spot in italy and its a pleasure to spend the vaccation in italy and the weather is also great every time and there is no perfect time to visit this place you can go any time and it is great vaccation spot.
If you are travelling to a place like aruba than keep some safe precautions book the hotel before travelling and at the time of booking just check the reviews of the hotel and don't make the decissions in a hurry and always take the guidance from the travel agents they are the best medium to travel the unknown place .


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Ghana Tourism makes money on selfies
Ghana Tourism is a big business and full of surprises. This is also true for Mr Guru, Ghanaian, a comedian who went to Facebook after being asked to pay GH¢4.00 , what is a little less than a US-Dollar when he wanted to take a photo when crossing Kwame Nkrumah bridge.
In his Facebook message he addressed the Ghana President: "Your Excellency Mr. President, this is the receipt given to me today 19th April 2019 at Adomi bridge as a fee for pictures I wanted to take as a Ghanaian on the bridge Kwame Nkrumah built and which Mahama renovated.
The people in charge told me that the order is from the President, that even if you want to take selfie it's 2gh per person. Your Excellency if indeed you authorized this God forsaken tax then am disappointed in you. How much do Ghanaians pay when they travel to Dubai, China, American, etc yet those countries are 100× developed. Even China's world's longest 30 miles sea bridge to Hong Kong is free, what is happening? What a shame!!!!
It's said; there is no free lunch anywhere. Henceforth, you may have a good phone with a good front camera but you may have to pay between GH¢2.00 and GH¢4.00 to pose for a picture on Kwame Nkrumah's Adomi Bridge.
One of the longest bridge on the Volta Lake in Ghana built some decades ago was recently renovated to avert any possible danger to the lives of motorists.
The government instituted the levy as a measure to rake in some revenue to sustain its numerous projects hence a levy on the bridge.
Tourists have taken to social media to cry over the levies expressing disappointment at the move by government.
Johannes Nartey Mr Guru, Ghanaian comedian took to Facebook to lament after being asked to pay GH¢4.00
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Ghana welcomes back people of African origin this year
January 19, 2019 by PressEditor
by Apolinari Tairo
Targeting to attract people of the African origin to visit their continent of origin, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has designated the year 2019 as the "Year of Return" to commemorate the resilience of Africans forced into slavery and to encourage their descendants to come home.
"We know of the extraordinary achievements and contributions Africans in the Diaspora made to the lives of the Americans, and it is important that this symbolic year, 400 years later, we commemorate their existence and their sacrifices," President Nana said earlier in September last year.
His timing was based on the first recorded landing of a ship carrying Africans in Virginia, US, in August 1619 according to historians.
The Ghanaian president proclaimed 2019 as the "Year of Return" for all Diaspora descendants of Africans who were captured and transported into the Americas as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Titled, "Year of Return, Ghana 2019", the proclamation was read in September last year at a ceremony held at the United States National Press Club in Washington DC to formally launch a program of activities marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to English North America in 1619.
The Year of Return seeks to make Ghana the focus for millions of African descendants reacting to their marginalization by tracing their ancestry and identity. By this, Ghana becomes the beacon for African people living on the continent and the Diaspora.
The Proclamation recognizes Ghana's unique position as the location for 75 percent of the slave dungeons built on the west coast of Africa and the current President's policy making it a national priority to extend a hand of welcome back home to Africans in the Diaspora.
As well as taking note of the fact that "Ghana has more African Americans living in the country than any other African country," it also expressed happiness about Ghana's Right of Abode immigration law that grants freedom to persons with this right "to live and to come and go into and from the country without let or hindrance."
Another factor influencing the Proclamation is the 115th US Congress Resolution (HR 1242) establishing the 400 Years African American History Commission to commemorate the anniversary.
With the Washington universal launch, Ghana is thus empowered to proceed with its intention to undertake activities throughout the year, 2019, to commemorate the event.
Speaking at the launch, President Akufo-Addo recalled Ghana's early Pan African leadership role and pledged that "under my leadership, Ghana will continue to ensure that our hard-won Pan African reputation is not lost."
"Making Ghana the focus of activities to commemorate the landing of the first enslaved Africans in the English colonies in North America is, therefore, a huge opportunity to entrench Ghana's leadership," President Akufo-Addo said.
The Chief Executive of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Mr. Akwasi Agyemang, situated the "Right of Return" within the context of the Christian Bible in which the people of biblical Israel were promised a return to their rightful land after 400 years in exile.
"In the year 2019, we open our arms even wider to welcome home our brothers and sisters in what will become a birthright journey home for the global African family," he said.
Celebrities including supermodel Naomi Campbell and actors Idris Elba and Rosario Dawson kicked off the year-long program by attending the Full Circle Festival in Accra in late in December.
Ghana is still dotted with dungeons and castles established during the slave trade, which serve as a powerful reminder of the past to educate citizens and foreign visitors about slavery.
US former president Barack Obama and his family visited the Cape Coast Castle in 2009 and described it as a place of "profound sadness."
"It reminds us that as bad as history can be, it's also possible to overcome," Obama told reporters during the tour of the landmark, with its infamous "door of no return" in the dungeon.
In 2000, Ghana passed legislation designed to make it easier for people from the African Diaspora to live and work in this African country. President Akufo-Addo has pledged to simplify the visa process.
Tourism Minister Catherine Abelema Afeku is organizing music and culture festivals, including Ghana independence celebrations in March this year including Panafest, a theatre festival aimed at bringing together Africans on the continent and those in the Diaspora to celebrate then discuss the issues of slavery.
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Architects Gallagher and Associates asked Sunrise Systems to provide a monumental digital signage solution for their client CWRU. To honor Toby Devan Lewis, one of their greatest supporters, the University erected two pylons outside their Museum of Contemporary Arts. The etched granite bases with the LED display sitting atop it stands nearly 3 stories tall. The content consists of digital art created by students at the University as well as portraits of Toby herself.


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'I love my Shoe Hotel. And for so many reasons. I used to struggle to find my shoes, keep them on the shoe rack, keep the shoe rack standing up and there was never enough room for all of my shoes. They were on the rack, under the bed, in the bottom of the cupboard.
I designed my Shoe Hotel with Save Your Sole to fit behind my door and they custom built my Hotel for me after looking at all of my shoes & designing it for my shoes. I love that now I can see all of my shoes in one place. And if I move I can take it with me!' Another happy Shoe Hotel owner in Notting Hill.
A Space for a Shoe Hotel?
At the site for this new hotel we consulted the owner and looked at their 'shoe collection'. We designed the hotel with racks for heels, one shelf for flats, then built cupboard doors to store trainers & boots in. That way the beautiful shoes were always on display and the trainers were hidden behind closed doors (where the belong!).
We built the Shoe Hotel offsite as it was being fitted to an open space and it took 3 hours to install, fit & put the shoes into their new home.
The owner told us that the Shoe Hotel transformed her life by putting all of her shoes in one place where they were easy to access and see, and now that she could see them, she now wears them!
The new Shoe Hotel in Notting Hill!
Save Your Sole specialises in caring for shoes & giving them a place to be seen. They are after all an investment! We believe that all shoes should live in a hotel & be cared for just like their owners.


The reigning hallmark of your culture is that you live in a chaotic universe that is generally random, if not actually hostile.
Many of the ways that many of you react to this, simply in order to cope, is to hoard, to protect, to step back, to worry, and to deny who you are, just to name a few.
We want to speak with you about what is really going on.
You are here, as an extension of unconditional love, on a delicious journey without distance.
This journey is completely enfolded in a place and a time that is of your own making.
This place where you find yourself is fully placed inside your own mind.
This time where you space out your adventures in order to keep from having them all at once is simply a tool and it does not define or limit you.
The relationships that surround you are ideas you have borrowed and formed in this amazing reality for the purpose of seeing yourself reflected back to you in an infinite array of wonder and joy.
Everything here is working for you, on your behalf, and to your benefit.
This is a friendly universe. And it is composed of your thoughts.
As we go through this series of seven conversations, we invite you to more deeply relax and enjoy what you are experiencing.
It is not our intention to solve your problems so it is very likely you will find very knotty issues untangle with great ease.
It is not our intention to teach you anything so it is very likely you will discover increasingly more delicious truths within yourself, many far beyond what you ever thought would be possible.
It is not our intention to fix you so it is very likely you will touch into the wholeness that is your powerful self.
We invite you to join us as we weave a magnificent matrix of joy and wonder and delight by communing with you on the very powerful topic of this friendly universe.
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Image's Tokyo Ghost is scary, but not in the horror-flick/ghost story kind of way. No, Tokyo Ghost is frightening because its pointed commentary reveals a harsh truth about our current social norms, and how we might be evolving as people. The team of Rick Remender (Uncanny Avengers), Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus), and Matt Hollingsworth (Daredevil), bring to life a dystopian landscape in 2089 Los Angeles. Here, people have fused their lives with technology, the internet, and constant information. People who embrace this lifestyle are basically junkies losing themselves to the drug that is virtual reality. Along with being addicts in the real world, people often lose their identities, become a shell of a person almost, and depend on a codependent loved one to help them get by. That's how the more technologically plugged-in characters seem to work in Tokyo Ghost, while the characters clean from this addiction are labeled straight-edge. While reading it, I saw signs from my personal life that helped me believe the world of Tokyo Ghost was alive.
I'm very aware that when I have dinner with my partner, I tend to look at my phone to see view counts, read my emails, and scroll my newsfeed. When I stop and look around at every one else in the restaurant, I'm guaranteed to see more than one person checking their phone as well. If we sit and think about it, we need information NOW. We always do. I'm guilty of deactivating my social media accounts and feeling withdrawals the very next day. This isn't new to me because I've heard several people say the same thing. We've blended ourselves with tech. We're basically cyborgs and drug addicts, but this fusion is still in its infancy. Imagine if decades pass, technology matures, information is received at unimaginable speeds, and we're able to modify ourselves with the click of a button. What would that world look like? How would our morals evolve? What if we lose our closest loved ones to being plugged-in too deep for too long? All of these questions have answers in Tokyo Ghost.
While left with a thousand questions after reading issue #1, I'm happy that I wanted more. There's a lot of critique here, unbelievable art that makes the world breathe, likable and relatable main characters, and a very controversial villain. Simply put, I loved reading this book. It's not perfect, however. While the serious themes and pointed social commentary blend perfectly together, there seems to be an imbalance with the graphic and bloody action. Sure, I can see how it fits, but it's disappointing knowing that a younger reader can't pick up this book due to its content, which perhaps could help them question the amount of technology that they use in their everyday. I'm also aware that some adult readers may be turned off by the book's hyper violence. Those violent panels disturbed me momentarily, and almost distracted me from the awesome message and stunning art. However, there's too much good here. The book is highly original, mature with themes, thought-provoking, and filled with a ton of eye candy. It's one of those pieces of entertainment that can generate a lot of interesting conversations within social groups. I want all of you to read a copy so that I have people to talk about it with.
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Veritas Racing is the website of a company which is focused on go-kart racing in Asia, primarily Singapore.
We want to focus on branding ourselves as a focused, dedicated karting team which consists of currently four primary drivers. Veritas Racing provides and offers services such as driver training, coaching, Arrive and Drive programs analysis and improve of driver qualities and caters to racing enthusiasts.
We are a new company and we need a high impact, tasteful site which will leave a strong, lasting impression on first time visitors but we do not want a boxy template.
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Target audience of Veritas Racing are primarily males from age 5 to 50. We want to portray ourselves as a professional entity that any enthusiast go-karter or karter's parents would like to sign up with.
Website would have to be designed on a base white background. Our logo is provided in the files below. We would like to site to have a fresh, modern look and feel, without being too cluttered.
Karters would be able to visit our website, sign up and register to receive monthly newsletter updates.
Fonts should clear and should go well with our site. The look should give a great first-time impression and rich colors, effects are very welcome. We don't want it to be boring and stuffy, so feel free to lend a hand to giving it a fresh web blend of web 2.0 elements (i.e. useful and accessible buttons, rollover tool tips etc). Links should be intuitive and not complicated.
We don't like 'boxy' template look and feel as those are really quite standard web designs and we would like to avoid those.


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"Dads": Fresh twist in busy life
We expect Michael O'Neill to be in support and in command.
In recurring roles, he's been the Secret Service chief in "West Wing," a sergeant major in "The Unit," a counter-terrorism official in "24," senators in "Rectify" and "Jack Ryan."
"I've played a lot of … authority figures," O'Neill said. "That's the mustache, by the way. They think because I have a mustache, I have authority."
But now "Council of Dads" gives him fresh turf. His character is a key part of the story … and is a guy whose life used to be out of control. Read more…
By Mike Hughes / April 28, 2020
But now "Council of Dads" gives him fresh turf. His character is a key part of the story … and is a guy whose life used to be out of control.
"Larry lost his first family due to alcoholism," O'Neill said. "Now he has a chance to help."
The series is based loosely on the real life of author Bruce Feiler. Facing a rare form of cancer, Feiler asked friends to become a "council of dads" to his children, if he died.
That's fictionalized here, with two key changes: The real-life Bruce picked six friends; the fictional Scott picked three. Bruce didn't die; Scott did.
That happened in the opener, which aired March 24, after the "This Is Us" season-finale. Now that opener reruns at 9:02 p.m. Thursday (April 30), leading into the second episode at 10.
Both bring what "This Is Us" offers – optimism about the human condition. "We live in an incredibly divided, heartbreaking, terrifying, isolated time …. We're tired of the bleakness," said Sarah Wayne Callies, who plays Scott's widow.
You hear that a lot now – but she was talking to the Television Critics Association in January, before the latest dose of heartbreak and isolation began.
In an interview later that day. O'Neill echoed that. He's played lots of cold authority figures, but he comes across as a warm guy who's had a little help from friends and strangers.
O'Neill grew up in Montgomery, Ala., got an Auburn business degree, even applied to Harvard's MBA program. Then came the detour:
He gave a fraternity talk that was shown to prominent Lamda Alpha Chi people around the country. One was Will Geer, best known as the "Waltons" grandfather. As O'Neill recalls it: "He called and said, 'Son, you ought to try acting before the corporate structure snaps you up.'"
O'Neill – whose only acting experience was playing a leaf in 1st grade – had his doubts. He asked "one of the most no-nonsense men I've ever meant. He said, 'You know you have to go, don't you?'"
In California, O'Neill studied under Geer and his daughter, actor-director Ellen Geer. Then he tried New York. "I was wooden; I would act in plays I shouldn't have been in."
He worked as a carpenter, a construction worker, a bicycle messenger, a bartender, "a lot of odd jobs." But New York gradually worked for two reasons: He met his wife Mary (a younger sister of actor Michael O'Keefe); he also gradually became a real actor.
Then came a chance to do "The Legend of Bagger Vance," with Robert Redford directing. Except he'd belatedly become a dad in his mid-40s, with three daughters – newborn twins and an18-month-old.
"I had to go away for four months," O'Neill recalled. "And a woman with Stage Four cancer came to my home every night and helped my wife bathe those babies."
That's one reason he feels "Council of Dads" is believable. People really do help each other, he said. "We had a community of people who were incredibly generous to us."
He's also played the flip side: Back in 2010, "Grey's Anatomy" wanted him to play "a horrifying, brutal man. Shonda (producer Shonda Rhimes) called me at home. I said, 'I don't think I can do it.'"
She said he could; he did four episodes, ending with a horrific shooting spree that upset viewers.
O'Neill is used to that, too. In "Rectify," he played the ex-prosecutor, trying to preserve a shaky conviction. "I got hate mail for that."
Now he's in the relative comfort of playing a good guy, making amends for a bad life. He plays someone who is strong, solid, authoritative … and, of course, has a mustache.
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"Skywalker" arrives early; awards change
Best-bets for April 30: Three shows end, one returns


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As an Association we organise a number national events across the year as well as regular regional meetings.
From time to time we also get notified by other bodies – both in the palliative care and social work sphere – of meetings, conferences and events that members might be interested in attending.
If you'd like to suggest an event to be added to the calendar then please send it through to secretary@apcsw.org.uk for consideration.


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RockFarmer Properties Reveals Phase Two of Astoria Lights in Queens
7:30 am on July 4, 2019 By Sebastian Morris
RockFarmer Properties is readying for the second phase of Astoria Lights, a redevelopment of a 20s-era property in Astoria, Queens. Originally constructed in 1929, RockFarmer began the first phase of the conversion of in 2014, which introduced 57 co-op apartments. Phase two of the development will include an additional 38 units that are on track to launch in 2020. With completion just one year away, developers have unveiled a sales gallery and model residence with pricing beginning at $475,000.
Renderings Revealed for 21-21 31st Street AKA The Rowan, in Astoria, Queens
7:30 am on June 25, 2019 By Sebastian Morris
Today YIMBY has the reveal for The Rowan, a new ground-up condominium project coming to 21-21 31st Street, in the Ditmars section of Astoria, Queens.. Designed by New York City's DXA Studio, The building will feature a terraced massing of light gray masonry that rests above a glass-encased retail base.
Permits Filed for 31-22 29th Street in Astoria, Queens
6:30 am on June 13, 2019 By Vanessa Londono
Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 31-22 29th Street in Astoria, Queens. Located between 31st Avenue and Broadway, the lot is two blocks west of the Broadway subway station at 31st Street, serviced by the N and W trains. Bell Realty is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 30-82 Crescent Street in Astoria, Queens. Located between 30th Drive and 31st Avenue, the interior lot is four blocks from the 30th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Robert Cerrone under the 25-24 30th Drive LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Permits have been filed for a three-story apartment building at 69-03 Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, Queens. Located between Hazen Street and 70th Street, the corner lot is about 15 blocks east of the Ditmars Boulevard subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Andrew Zoitas is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Permits have been filed for a four-story apartment building at 25-61 37th Street in Astoria, Queens. Located between Astoria Boulevard and 28th Avenue, the interior lot is five blocks east of the Astoria Boulevard subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. George Sitaras, under the 25-61 37th Street Partners LLC, is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Leasing has officially launched for a new, two-towered development by The Durst Organization in Astoria, Queens. Located at 10 Halletts Point, the 22 and 19-story towers are just the first components of a sprawling, seven-building development that will eventually comprise 2.4 million square feet. It will include more than 2,100 apartments, affordable housing, a public waterfront esplanade, and retail area.
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Permits have been filed for an eight-story building at 11-35 31st Drive in Astoria, Queens. Located between Vernon Boulevard and 12th Street, the lot is ten blocks west of the 30th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Li Qing of Blue Mountain Capital, LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Permits have been filed for a 70-foot tall residential building at 25-22 30th Drive in Astoria, Queens. Located between Crescent Street and 29th Street, the interior lot is two city blocks west of the 30 Avenue subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Salvatore Lucchese is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Permits have been filed for a three-story mixed-use building at 21-01 21st Street in Astoria, Queens. Located between 21st Avenue and 21st Road, the corner development site is three blocks east of the Ralph Demarco Park along the East River. The closest transit access is the Ditmas Boulevard Station in the neighborhood, serviced by the W train. D.A. Development Group is behind the applications.


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Planned Parenthood sells fully intact baby corpses after delivering them whole
by Daniel Crane
(NaturalNews) In a new bombshell allegation, the head of the undercover organization currently exposing Planned Parenthood's ghoulish practice of harvesting aborted baby body parts and selling them for profit through a series of videos says a tissue firm trying to block new video releases is only trying to cover up a horrific fact: that it purchase entire, intact aborted (killed) babies from the "women's health" provider.
David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress told CNN Friday that employees from the company StemExpress were allegedly captured on video May 22 by undercover operatives arranging the transactions.
"In a meeting with their top leadership, they admitted that they sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics they work with, and that could be prima facie evidence of born alive infants," Daleiden told the cable news channel. "And so that's why they're trying to suppress that videotape and they're very scared of it."
In recent days, StemExpress officials managed to convince a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to issue a restraining order against the center, a highly controversial censorship that, for now, prevents the center from releasing the video featuring the company's employees.
Daleiden has said he does not expect that order to hold on appeal.
Why else would StemExpress sue to censor a video if it wasn't trying to hide something?
More details on the alleged sale, as reported by Breitbart News:
On May 22, Daleiden and his team had lunch with StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer and other senior personnel from the company that is the main buyer of freshly killed baby parts from Planned Parenthood. As the Center for Medical Progress has released videos, four so far, it is certain that anyone who met with Daleiden, who was posing as CEO of a fictitious company called BioMax, would become worried about what they might have said. Apparently StemExpress talked about things that may shock America and any future stockholders of the as-yet privately held company.
You can see Daleiden's CNN interview here.
While Daleiden's version of what is contained on the StemExpress video cannot be confirmed by Natural News at this time since it has yet to be released, given the actions of Planned Parenthood and the progressive-left mainstream media in attempting to deflect criticism away from the abortion mill and change the narrative, it would follow that a company likely would fight the release of explosive or embarrassing information.
In terms of changing the narrative and burying coverage of its body parts business, Planned Parenthood has hired SKDKnickerbocker, a crisis management firm that is attempting to divert attention away from PP and convince any media interested in advancing the alarming story to drop coverage.
We have called for a criminal probe
Since the story initially broke with the release of the center's first video, many in the mainstream media have either attempted to downplay its significance or give voice to Planned Parenthood. In a recent op-ed in The Washington Post, PP president Cecile Richards attacked the Center for Medical Progress as "extremists" while failing to directly address what has been revealed on the center's undercover videos – except to say that what Americans are actually viewing and hearing on them isn't real.
For our part, we at Natural News have called for a criminal investigation into the actions of Planned Parenthood, given that the sale of human body parts is a clear violation of U.S. statutes.
For Richards to argue that the Center for Medical Progress is just another "right-wing" "anti-abortion group" looking to "wage a war on women" is not only incorrect; it is farcical nonsense.
For us, the issue here is not, as Richards ridiculously claims, to disbar PP from providing health services to women, which it undoubtedly does; the issue is to punish illegal behavior taking place as much as it is to define what we want to be, and what we want to stand for, as a nation.
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FBI Warns Of Swatting Attacks Targeting Smart Home Devices
Hackers Use Stolen Email Credentials to Takeover a Home Smart Devices Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 31, 2020
The FBI is warning of a rise in "swatting attacks,"' which see hackers use compromised email accounts to access poorly-secured home smart devices that are equipped with cameras and voice capabilities to make hoax calls to emergency services.
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The FBI reports the offenders gain access to the smart devices by using stolen email passwords and then target customers who do not practice good cyber hygiene and re-use those passwords on their home smart devices. The attackers use these email credentials to log into a smart device, hijack its features, including the live-stream camera and the device's speakers to make the hoax calls.
"As law enforcement responds to the residence, the offender watches the live stream footage and engages with the responding police through the camera and speakers. In some cases, the offender also live streams the incident on shared online community platforms," the FBI reports.
The agency notes it is working with smart home device makers to advise their customers to use complex, unique passwords and two-factor authentication to prevent their devices from being hacked.
"Swatting is a term used to describe a hoax call made to emergency services, typically reporting an immediate threat to human life, to draw a response from law enforcement and the S.W.A.T. team to a specific location," the FBI notes.
Swatting Attacks
The FBI says those implementing swatting attacks differ from financially motivated hackers by being interested in revenge, harassment, or just pranking emergency services.
These threat actors do share one common trait with their money-centric colleagues: the desire to remain anonymous.
The FBI notes the offenders go to great lengths to hide their identities. This includes the use of spoofing technologies to anonymize their phone numbers to make the swatting call look as if it is originating from the victim's phone number, the report says.
This is not the first time the agency has warned about attacks striking smart devices. Last year, it reported that hackers could target IoT-based smart home devices to gain sensitive user data and also to break into homes. The agency added that no more than two devices should be connected to the same network, as the hackers could then compromise the router to gain access to all the connected devices.
This month a report by security firm Forescout revealed that millions of consumer and enterprise IoT devices have software flaws in their TCP/IP stacks that could result in remote code execution, denial of service, or a complete takeover of a device (see: Millions of IoT Devices at Risk From TCP/IP Stack Flaws).
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new head coach named at tottenham hotspur
He was named just 11 hours after Poch was sacked.
Jose Mourinho with Harry Kane. Photo: Getty Images
The "Special One" Jose Mourinho has been named as the head coach of Tottenham Hotspur just 11 hours after Mauricio Pochettino was given his marching orders.
Many have labelled the move by Spurs chairman David Levy 'drastic' as Pochettino's record was one of the best seen at the club but a poor start to the domestic campaign and a 7-2 loss at home to Bayern Munich in the Champions League have seen the Argentine shown the door.
Having won 25 senior trophies, Mourinho brings with him a wealth of experience and success but his most recent stint in England - with Manchester United - wasn't a good one, lasting under three seasons.
Jose Mourinho at work, the boss of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club 👁 pic.twitter.com/eoj2qe8QaN
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Announcing Mourinho's arrival, Levy said: "In Jose we have one of the most successful managers in football."
"He has a wealth of experience, can inspire teams and is a great tactician. He has won honours at every club he has coached."
Mourinho has signed a contract until the end of the 2022-23 Premier League season.


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Bacon Fest 2013 - Seminole Coconut Creek
PRESS RELEASE - The Buzz Agency
THE SIZZLE IS ON!
BaconFest Florida 2013 Announces Updates to the February 23 Event at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
COCONUT CREEK, Fla., February 8, 2013 – Making its debut in the Sunshine State, the 2013 BaconFest Florida ( http://www.baconfestflorida.com), presented by Hormel® Black Label® Bacon and hosted by Chef Todd Fischer from Discovery's Destination America show, 'United States of Bacon,' will take place at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 6 p.m. This event will feature performances by The Bacon Brothers and The Dan Band with frontman Dan Finnerty, who is most recognized as the wedding singer from Old School. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com. BaconFest has become a highly popular event held annually in cities such as Chicago, New York, and Kansas City.
This outdoor concert will be a bacon-lover's paradise, filled with free food sampling from a variety of vendors offering a bacon-inspired twist on fare from 20 South Florida restaurants. Hormel® Black Label® Bacon will be the key ingredient in all of the savory and sweet samplings, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey and Jack Daniel's No. 7 will be featured as the official beverage sponsors. BaconFest will also feature a chef throw down competition with celebrity judges for the best bacon recipes, as well as a number of fun bacon-related activities, including Harley the Mechanical Pig rides, corn-hole and beer can bowling, and a Harley Davidson exhibit with more than 50 'hogs.' Tickets include all the delicious indulgences you can eat, with drinks available for purchase. Fans can follow all the updates on Twitter via #BaconFestFL.
Culinary participants serving divine bacon goodies include: Bacon Bites, Big City Tavern, Bru's Room Sports Grill, Caffé Luna Rosa, Gimme a Burger, Grind Espresso, Hibiscus Café, Jodi's Cupcakes and More, Kapow! Noodle Bar, La Marquise Desserts, Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, The Melting Pot, Over the Top Culinary Affairs, Red Rock Oasis, Rock 'n Roll Ribs, Shooters, Smokey Bones, Susy Pops, Sybarite Pig, The Gypsy Horse, and Ms. Cheezious food truck.
Live entertainment includes a fitting performance by The Bacon Brothers as headliners, featuring Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael, performing some of their greatest hits (start time 9 pm); The Dan Band, a comedy band from L.A. featured in the hit films, Old School, The Hangover and Starsky & Hutch (start time 7 pm); and the popular DJ Zog from Power 96 who will kick off the event at 6 pm.
BaconFest Florida is strictly for guests age 21 and over. Tickets start at $25* and are available at http://www.ticketmaster.com/Baconfest-Florida-tickets/artist/1813999. *Additional fees may apply.
About Seminole Casino Coconut Creek
The all-new Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is South Florida's hottest place to play. With its recent $150 million expansion, the entertainment destination now features 65 table games of live Blackjack, Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Let it Ride and Spanish 21 plus a High-Limit area and lounge on a 100,000-square-foot casino floor. The new second floor non-smoking Stax Poker Lounge offers high stakes no-limit action including Texas Hold 'em, 7-Card Stud and Omaha Hi Lo tournaments. More than 2,300 Las Vegas-style slots include Wide-Area Progressive Jackpots and Mega Jackpots. Three new restaurants - the upscale NYY Steak, Sorrisi Italian Restaurant and the New York-style 1st Street Deli – join the award winning Fresh Harvest, Nectar Lounge and Sunset Grill. Taking total guest enjoyment to a new level is The Pavilion, a 1,200-seat concert venue, and the revolutionary Player's Club showcasing an innovative and immersive experience eliminating wait times. An environmentally friendly garage with solar energy and green art technology offers 2,400 covered parking spaces. An adjacent transportation hub is outfitted with valet service and a bus lounge for ultimate comfort and guest convenience. Open 24/7, 365 days, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek is located at the corner of U.S. 441 (State Road 7) and Sample Road at 5550 NW 40 Street. For more information, call 954-977-6700, visit us online at http://www.seminolecasinococonutcreek.com or http://www.facebook.com/seminolecasinocococreek. Follow us on Twitter @SemCasinoCoCo.


Do you think branding is snake-oil or the stuff of life? I encounter many organisations that sit somewhere on this spectrum of opinion. Yet few would regard their reputation as unimportant and many recognize that they have many constituencies that they serve. Even the simplest of organisations have employees and customers. In my executive career I was responsible for brands such as Vodafone, Cadbury, Milka and Dove. Fabric of the nation brands; brands supporting the critical infrastructure of the nation; big, complex organisations with many stakeholders.
If the very essence of the organization can be captured, distilled and brought to life, everyone in it walks a little taller and tries a little harder. And if the individuals served can be understood and respected, powerful empathy for them can be created. Connecting these two things together inspires and reinvigorates. That is great branding; rooted in truth and serving people. Whether you are in the snake oil camp or not, I hope my talk will open your eyes to what focusing an organisation on these aspects involves and what it can deliver.
How do you get to the bottom of the essence of the organization? There are many ways. At Vodafone, I looked at the culture and values, at Cadbury the heritage and history, and with Dove, what the brand did when it was at its best. Values are often a wish list carved on a wall in reception and rarely represent truth, which is why trying to leverage this nonsense often fails. The real values of an organization take more winkling out but are much more resonant when you do. The Vodafone story is a powerful one.
How do you find the real unifying insight with so many different stakeholders? Generally, the deeper and more emotional you go, the more people are the same. Fundamental human needs, to love, to provide, to succeed, to nurture, to give are universal and you need to find one that is relevant and resonates. With Dove, the insight came from intuition, validated by psychologists. With Vodafone, it was inspired by academic research. Rarely, in my experience do these deeper insights come from conventional market research. You have to go further and dig deeper… then use research to validate.
With Dove, we found an insight, which united every woman in the world. There was a huge challenge with bringing this understanding to the organization, though. Most of the senior stakeholders were men, and just didn't get it. We engaged them in the most spectacular way, and this internal stakeholder engagement was a critical success factor in inspiring thousands of people in Unilever.
I am looking forward to telling these stories at the conference and hope to help you to look somewhere you might not have looked to reinvigorate your own organisations. I run a charity enabling young people from tough backgrounds to start careers in marketing, so am passionate about the state sector and education. Although brands and education might seem strange bedfellows, I hope thinking about things differently will inspire you as leaders of the most important organisations in the country.
To hear from Daryl Fielding, visit her keynote session on Purpose Branding: The Relationship between culture, brand and leadership on Tuesday 20 November at AoC Annual Conference and Exhibition 2018.


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A Academia Real de Pintura e Escultura (Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, em francês) foi fundada em Paris em 1648 por Luis XIV, ainda criança, e dirigida pelo pintor oficial da corte, Charles Le Brun (1619-1690). Nomes fundamentais para a arte ocidental, como os franceses Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) e seu aluno Jean-Auguste Ingres (1780-1867), fizeram parte da academia e de sua corrente, o academismo.

História
A certidão de nascimento da Academia Real de Pintura e Escultura data de 20 de janeiro de 1648, dia da petição do amante de arte, Martin de Charmois, ao Conselho do rei Luis XIV. A instituição foi fundada sob um mandato real por instigação de um grupo de pintores e escultores reunidos por Charles Le Brun. Escolhendo como lema a frase em latim Libertas artibus restituta, que significa liberdade restaurada aos artistas, eles exigiram da autoridade real o fim da corporação de pintores, ourives, escultores e vidraceiros que tinham mantido, desde o século XIII, o monopólio da produção para a venda de pinturas e esculturas, conforme o estatuto do antigo regime. Eles queriam escapar do status de artesãos e usar a pintura para as artes liberais. Eles atribuíam o sucesso e o prestígio da arte italiana à existência da "Academia de São Lucas" em Roma, onde se ensinavam as belas-artes. A ambição da academia era treinar e reunir os melhores artistas do reino, os mais talentosos dentre eles seriam nomeados como acadêmicos, um título de prestígio que garantia notoriedade.

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 Academicismo
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Frugivores and fruit syndromes: differences in patterns at the genus and species level
K. E. Fischer, C. A. Chapman
Barshop Institute
The authors compiled data on fleshy fruit traits from five regional floras to test the hypothesis that fruit traits form character complexes which covary independently of phylogeny (ie across lineages). Results suggest that such character complexes are rare, and that analyses of covariation among these character complexes are extremely sensitive to the investigator's choice of sampling unit. When syndromes derived from observations of the foraging behavior of frugivores are analyzed using species as sampling units, data show significant associations among traits at four out of five locations. When genera are used as sampling units, there is no significant association among traits at any of the sites. Theories of coevolution between fruits and frugivores have proposed that fruit morphology is a response to selective pressures exerted by frugivorous birds and mammals. If these frugivores have shaped fruit morphology into dispersal-related character complexes or syndromes, then traits associated with a syndrome should be absent or much reduced in frequency in regions lacking that guild of dispersers. To test this prediction, the authors examined the flora of New Guinea, which lacks primates and other diurnal mammalian frugivores, and found no difference in the frequency of traits associated with dispersal by diurnal mammals. -from Authors
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Fischer, K. E., & Chapman, C. A. (1993). Frugivores and fruit syndromes: differences in patterns at the genus and species level. Oikos, 66(3), 472-482. https://doi.org/10.2307/3544942
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Liquid can get in a cellphone display screen if the phone is dropped into water, such as a swimming pool, toilet or puddle. Moisture can also condense in the display screen if the cell phone is exposed to high humidity, such as in a sauna or a greenhouse. There is less chance of irreparable damage to the phone if you remove the water from the display screen as soon as possible.
Fill half a bowl with uncooked rice.
Place the cellphone in the bowl with the display screen facing down.
Place enough uncooked rice in the bowl to cover the phone.
Leave the phone in the rice overnight. The rice will draw the moisture out of the display screen.
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Q: Find unmatched records from 2 tables using Access sql I'm trying to find unmatched records in both tables(contains more than 100 records in both) using below query (query was built from access query wizard)
Table A
    EC ID   wt
     1001   339.55
     1007   3.77
     1008   1.76
     1009   13.48
     1010   5.86
     1011   11.58
     1012   37.89
     1013      4.88
     1015      6.98

Table B
     EC ID  wt_xxxx
     1001   339.55
     1002      1.99
     1003      1.78
     1004       2
     1007   3.77
     1008   1.76
     1009   13.48
     1010   5.86
     1011   11.58
     1012   37.89

Query1 retruns all records in table A those are not in table B.
  SELECT A.[EC ID], A.wt
  FROM A LEFT JOIN B ON A.[EC ID] = B.[EC ID]
   WHERE (((B.[EC ID]) Is Null));

Returns
   EC ID    wt
   1013      4.88
   1015      6.98

Similarly Query2 retruns all records in table B those are not in table A.
  SELECT B.[EC ID], B.wt_xxxx
  FROM B LEFT JOIN A ON B.[EC ID] =A.[EC ID]
  WHERE (((A.[EC ID]) Is Null));

Returns
    EC ID    wt_xxxx
     1002      1.99
     1003      1.78
     1004       2

when running second query the access is closing itself . But in sometimes it gives result . Couldn't understand why. is there any efficient way to do it. i used a query in stackoverflow
         Finding unmatched records with SQL performance is very poor it takes 15min to get result. Any other solution is there with unmatched records query?

A: if a record will only appear once in a table
select count(*),EC ID,wt_xxxx
from (select B.[EC ID], B.wt_xxxx
      TABLEB B
      union all
      select A.[EC ID], A.wt_xxxx
      TABLEB A) q
group by EC ID,wt_xxxx
having count(*) =1

OR
using what you have. You are close, just use a full outer join to look for nulls in either table
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Q: Vectorizing multiplication of matrices with different shapes in numpy/tensorflow I have a 4x4 input matrix and I want to multiply every 2x2 slice with a weight stored in a 3x3 weight matrix. Please see the attached image for an example:

In the image, the colored section of the 4x4 input matrix is multiplied by the same colored section of the 3x3 weight matrix and stored in the 4x4 output matrix. When the slices overlap, the output takes the sum of the overlaps (e.g. the blue+red).
I am trying to perform this operation in Tensorflow 2.0 using eager tensors (which can be treated as numpy arrays). This is what I've written to perform this operation and it produces the expected output.
inputm = np.ones([4,4]) # initialize 4x4 input matrix
weightm = np.ones([3,3]) # initialize 3x3 weight matrix
outputm = np.zeros([4,4]) # initialize blank 4x4 output matrix

# iterate through each weight
for i in range(weightm.shape[0]):
    for j in range(weightm.shape[1]):
        outputm[i:i+2, j:j+2] += weightm[i,j] * inputm[i:i+2, j:j+2]

However, I don't think this is efficient since I am iterating through the weight matrix one-by-one, and this will be extremely slow when I need to perform this on large matrices of 500x500. I am having a hard time identifying a way to vectorize this operation, maybe tiling the weight matrix to be the same shape as the input matrix and performing a single matrix multiplication. I have also thought about flattening the matrix but I'm still not able to see a way to do this more efficiently.
Any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

A: Alright, I think I have a solution but this involves using both numpy operations (e.g. np.repeat) and TensorFlow 2.0 operations (i.e. tf.segment_sum). And to warn you this is not the most clear elegant solution in the world, but it was the most elegant I could come up with. So here goes.
The main culprit in your problem is this weight matrix. If you manipulate this weight matrix to be a 4x4 matrix (with correct sum of weight at each position) you have a nice weight matrix which you can do an element-wise multiplication with the input. And that's my solution. Note that this is designed for the 4x4 problem and you should be able to relatively easily extend this to the 500x500 matrix.
import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf

a = np.array([[1,2,3,4],[4,3,2,1],[1,2,3,4],[4,3,2,1]])
w = np.array([[5,4,3],[3,4,5],[5,4,3]])

# We make weights to a 6x6 matrix by repeating 2 times on both axis
w_rep = np.repeat(w,2,axis=0)
w_rep = np.repeat(w_rep,2,axis=1)

# Let's now jump in to tensorflow
tf_a = tf.constant(a)
tf_w = tf.constant(w_rep)
tf_segments = tf.constant([0,1,1,2,2,3])

# This is the most tricky bit, here we use the segment_sum to achieve what we need
# You can use segment_sum to get the sum of segments on the very first dimension of a matrix.
# So you need to do that to the input matrix twice. One on the original and the other on the transpose.

tf_w2 = tf.math.segment_sum(tf_w, tf_segments)
tf_w2 = tf.transpose(tf_w2)
tf_w2 = tf.math.segment_sum(tf_w2, tf_segments)
tf_w2 = tf.transpose(tf_w2)

print(tf_w2*a)

PS: I will try to include an illustration of what's going on here in a future edit. But I reckon that will take some time.

A: After realising @thushv89's trick, I realised you can get the same result by convolving the weight matrix with a matrix of ones:
import numpy as np
from scipy.signal import convolve2d

a = np.ones([4,4]) # initialize 4x4 input matrix
w = np.ones([3,3]) # initialize 3x3 weight matrix

b = np.multiply(a, convolve2d(w, np.ones((2,2))))

print(b)


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Out of curiosity, was Sunfire's costume designed by Dave Cockrum or was it pre-existing? I've never been sure what the heck is supposed to be going on with his mask.
Don Heck, I think–I know the character was officially co-created by Heck and Roy Thomas.
The eyes make him look like some kind of fish to me. Because… koi are Japanese..? I guess?
Although I guess they got less fishy pretty quickly, which means I have no idea.
Yeah, I looked at the cover to Uncanny Avengers and it's a little less ridiculous there.
I'm just surprised no one's given him a full redesign. Especially since his costume dates back to that time where every Japanese hero needed to have a rising sun motif, even though that's still a touchy subject in Japan.
I have a question, that I hope isn't too late to get answered. You mentioned that the X-Men comic went into reprints for a long time. During those years, how often did X-Cast characters pop up in other books or stories? I know Beast was in Avengers eventually, but otherwise did we see Slim, Hank, Marvel Girl, or Prof X in any comics?
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Aeolus 13 Umbra first turned its attention to the venerable Mr. Smith in Rare Video: Howard K. Smith Commentary on Television and the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, July 20, 1969, as well as contemporary views of the Beat Generation in the WNYC FM radio documentary, "Footloose in Greenwich Village," also broadcast in 1960. While the WNYC documentary provides a more objective look at the Beats, Smith interprets the movement as a counter to the prevalent conservative attitudes of the times — which, of course, it was.
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Grab the opportunity
Some data suggests that the convenience store sector is missing out on food-to-go growth. Yes, the food-to-go market in general is in growth but data from MCA Insight suggests that food-to-go sales in convenience will remain static for some time. But, helpfully, there is more data at hand to show why food-to-go in convenience is not always a hit with shoppers. Him's Convenience Tracking Programme 2018 asked shoppers what stopped them from buying more food to go than they currently do.
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Latest data from IGD says the UK's food-to-go sector is in 'rude health' and is on schedule to be worth £23.5bn by 2022 up from this year's expected £17.4bn.
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If you're of a certain age, you may remember your mum telling you that it was wrong to be seen eating out on the street. How times have changed! Eating on the move and buying food-to-go is commonplace and we're doing it more and more. Indeed IGD estimates that the food-to-go market will leap from the current £16.1bn to be worth £21.7bn by 2021. It adds that 'convenience, forecourts and other retailers' will see growth from £2.5bn in 2016 to £3.3bn in 2021.
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Opium poppy cultivation was up 21% in 2017.
Mexico is world's No. 2 opium producer with 5.6% of production: UN
Afghanistan continues to lead with 86%
Published on Thursday, June 27, 2019
Mexico was the world's second largest illicit opium producer in 2017 behind Afghanistan, according to a new United Nations report.
An estimated 586 tonnes of opium were produced in Mexico between July 2016 and June 2017, an increase of 100 tonnes compared to the same period a year earlier.
The figure accounted for 5.6% of global production of the drug, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in the publication World Drug Report 2019.
However, Mexico's production was dwarfed by that of Afghanistan, which produced 86% of the world's illicit opium in 2017. Myanmar was the third largest producer, providing 5.3% of global supply.
Mexico's increased opium production was driven by an expansion of the area of land on which illegal poppy crops are grown, the UNODC said.
According to the report, opium poppy cultivation increased by 21% in 2017 to 30,600 hectares.
However, the latter figure falls well short of the estimate made by the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy, which said that poppies were grown on 44,100 hectares of land in Mexico in 2017.
Even though the area of land on which poppies are cultivated and opium production both went up in 2017, the UN report shows that Mexico did have some success in its fight against the drug.
The government eradicated opium poppy crops on more than 29,000 hectares of land in 2017, more than any other country.
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The Cray bridge works are a little off the beaten track for me but most days I get a report from someone who gets caught up in the traffic disruption as far away as Penhill Road. It's horrendous apparently, it must be doing wonders for the borough's economy.
Twice the partial reopening has been deferred because Bexley Council's inadequate survey failed to discover hidden snags but only another month to go now, barring more incompetence.
I found myself in Bexley this evening so here's a few pictures of what is going on.
The Nasty Party
Nothing much has happened since the police harassed the family living next door to Councillor Massey's rented house in Sidcup. The householder had previously asked the police for advice on a noisy all night party at the Massey's place. As a result of what the police could hear down the phone, they decided to pay a visit.
With the complainant's consent the story was reported here and it seems reasonable to assume that the police were asked to get heavy. Who do you think might indulge in such revenge?
Police procedures are clear enough; those accused of harassment must be told exactly what they are accused of so that they have every opportunity to modify their behaviour. The falsely accused neighbour asked Bexley police for a copy of the complaint against them. They were made to fill in a request form three weeks ago and told they'd get a copy of the complaint against them within a couple of days.
They are still waiting and the latest advice is that it will take 40 days to provide a copy of the complaint the Massey's were said to have made against their long-suffering neighbour.
All is now becoming clear. A properly executed Harassment warning requires the issue of a Form 9993 and a written statement of what the alleged offence is. How else is the accused supposed to know what the problem is?
No such form has been issued. It looks likely that someone reminded the police that their first duty is to protect Bexley Council and suggested the frighteners should be put on an innocent resident. This is how Bexley police has operated in the past although I had hoped they had learned their lesson.
The 40 days is the period allowed for a Subject Access Request to be made under the Data Protection Act. If no Form 9993 was issued Bexley Police will be hard pressed to come up with any reason for putting the screws on the Massey's neighbour. If they cannot provide evidence that the Massey's made a formal complaint, albeit a malicious one, and there was nothing more than a word in a receptive ear, it will become clear that Borough Commander Jeff Boothe's force is still in the business of jumping to Bexley Council's tune. The case will inevitably go to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
I've been down that path rather too many times. I was with two police officers from the Directorate of Professional Standards only last week pursuing a case of Misconduct in Public Office against former Borough Commanders Stringer and Olisa. Mick Barnbrook has a case outstanding against CS Ayling who followed them to Bexley and it would be unsurprising to see the fourth successive Borough Commander go down the same route.
Police officers must be absolutely mad to leave themselves open to such serious allegations just to protect their crooked Council friends.
The noisy party definitely took place, pictures of it were plastered all over social media.
Bexley Social Services
I have been following several cases of families who have had children stolen by Bexley Council, which is generally speaking a subject that does not lend itself to publicity due to confidentiality and court proceedings.
However it is good to report that in the longest of the cases brought to my attention, Bexley Council has been ordered by the Ombudsman to apologise to the mother for the treatment they dished out to her. It was quite appalling. She still hasn't got her child back though.
Lesnes Abbey
I said recently, on Twitter, not here, that the last news I had from Bexley Council for when they might finish spending £4·2 million on Lesnes Abbey park was the end of June, I suppose I should add 2016 bearing in mind just how far behind schedule the project appears to be.
It certainly looked nice today in the Spring sunshine and the view towards the city was much improved over that at the weekend.
However the reason for returning to Lesnes Abbey so soon after the last time was that a number of people have told me that their recent enquiries to Bexley Council revealed that the project is unlikely to be completed before the end of August 2016.
Trains will be running from the new Platform 2 at Abbey Wood station before then and it doesn't exist at the moment, not even the foundations.
Another bit of misinformation was the statement that track piling behind Coptefield Drive finished a week early. The news came from Crossrail, not Network Rail, exactly a week ago. It was wrong. more piles were delivered today and the banging went on all morning.
Network Rail confirmed today that there is more to do but the piles are only being thumped into the ground where their surveys showed ground conditions were unstable. I suspect their surveys are more reliable than Bexley Council's.
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Sometimes old demons become new again. Dallas star Ken Kercheval found this out the hard way on December 27th. The 77-year old actor showed up for a chat on London's morning Breakfast show and with just a few minutes to go before air time, producers realized that Ken was most definitely sloshed. The actor was slurring and unsteady on his feet. He was in great spirits according to the latest GLOBE print edition. The problem was that he was so drunk that nothing that he said even remotely resembled the English language and eventually producers convinced the star to go and sleep it off.
Apparently Breakfast had been anxious to have him live because Ken was starring in a Christmas stage show over the Christmas holiday in Manchester. Instead they got an aging actor that was just a little too spirited for morning television audience.
Ken has had a long running battle with alcoholism with various tumbles off the wagon here and there. He appears to be one of those people that gets it together but simply can't keep it that way. His character, Cliff Barnes, has been an integral part of the rebooted Dallas. His character has always been closely connected to Larry Hangman's JR Ewing so you have to wonder what the shows powers-that-be have in store for him. Plus if the actor isn't sober and can't show up and do his job as a professional then it'll be interesting to see if Cliff Barnes is simply phased out, at least for awhile.
Do you think this was just a stupid slip on Ken's part or is he drinking heavily again? Is another rehab trip in the actors future? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below! Is Dallas one of your fave shows? What should be done to stop all this Ken Kercheval drunk behavior?


Nestled in the tiny town of Hillsboro, Our Town Bakery is like something out of a fairytale—everyone is friendly, and everything is delicious.
Down a straight and dusty road in North Dakota, halfway between Fargo and Grand Forks, sits a grain elevator and its town of Hillsboro. The city occupies just one square mile of land. And inside that square, there's a large city hall with a stately bust of Abraham Lincoln, an itsy-bitsy vintage shop, and a magical little bakery.
Our Town Bakery has everything you need to start your day: fluffy doughnuts with colorful sprinkles, hearty caramel rolls that are worth the sticky fingers, comfy couches where you can slowly sip your joe, and a delightful owner (the town pastor's wife) at the helm. It's something out of a fairytale, where everyone's friendly and everything's delicious.
Lunchtime brings a variety of goodies, like wild rice soup made with local rice and a rotating selection of hearty meat pies. If you're lucky, there may even be slices of freshly made pizza.
Vintage vibes and gorgeous natural light make for a homey feel that might have you planning to pack up and move to this tiny town so that you can come here every day.
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Bonifácio Piccinini S.D.B.  (13 May 1929 – 28 November 2020) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.

Piccinini was born in Brazil and was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. He served as titular archbishop of Turres in Byzacena and as coadjutor archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá Brazil, from 1975 to 1981 and as archbishop of the archdiocese from 1981 to 2004.

Piccinini died from COVID-19 in 2020.

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