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RESULTS: Grangemockler/Ballyneale eliminated from Munster Championship whilst Boherlahan-Dualla progress to Junior B football final
Paul Carroll
It wasn't to be for Grangemockler/Ballyneale today in the Munster Junior hurling championship.
They were taking on Ballygiblin in their quarter-final tie in Semple Stadium this afternoon.
The South Tipp side led by two points at half-time on a scoreline of 0-07 to 0-05.
However, two second half goals for the reigning Munster Junior champions saw Ballygiblin beat the Tipp men on a scoreline of 2-10 to 0-11.
Meanwhile, Boherlahan-Dualla have booked their place in this year's County junior B football final.
The Mid Tipp side defeated Shannon Rovers in today's semi-final clash in Templederry.
Trailing four points at half-time, Boherlahan outscored Rovers 0-05 to 0-00 in the second half to win on a final score of 0-07 to 1-03.
They now go on to the final to play the winners of Kilruane MacDonaghs and Cappawhite.

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Oh, Beloved Unknown! Divine spirit of a million mysteries! Feel free and at home in my consciousness. Sweet Unknown! Make yourself at home in the tissues of my body and in my cells and beneath my skin. Welcome, Great Mystery after Great Mystery! Your humble yogi only knows, most honorable Unknown, that You play a key role in fueling my Devotion. Newborn stars, armed forces, refugees, migrants, lawmakers, nuclear power, body cameras, angels, prime real estate, surf boards, crystal singing bowls, smart phones…All come from and all return to the True, Divine, Beloved Unknown. The greatest of great mysteries that forever eludes solving, I bow to You!


The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it is waiving estimated tax penalties for some taxpayers. The penalty waiver applies to taxpayers whose 2018 estimated tax payments did not meet the penalty's usual safe harbor.
1. Having tax withheld from paychecks and other income.
2. Making estimated tax payments.
Generally, a penalty applies at tax filing when the taxpayer has paid too little during the year. However, if the taxpayer meets the safe harbor, then the penalty doesn't apply.
Safe harbor is met when the person's tax payments were at least 90 percent of the liability for the year or were at least 100 percent of the prior year's liability.
With the change to the safe harbor for 2018 tax payments, the IRS will waive the penalty for any taxpayer who prepaid at least 85 percent of their total tax liability for 2018. Taxpayers who did not prepay less than 85 percent are not eligible for the waiver. The IRS will calculate their penalty using the 90-percent threshold.
Form 2210 and its instructions will be updated accordingly, as well as integrating the new penalty computation into commercially available software.
Every year, especially this year with tax reform changes, the IRS urges everyone to check their withholdings for 2019.
Itemized in the past, but now take the increased standard deduction.
Have nonwage sources of income.
For more information on how this penalty waiver may apply to you, contact Doeren Mayhew's tax advisors today.


22/05/2015�� Once you find the pinhole leak in the copper pipe you need to turn the water off at the water main. Dry off the copper pipe with a towel. Mold the Fix �... They work by compressing a brass ferrule against both the copper pipe and the inside walls of the fitting. Occasionally the fittings leak because they were not properly tightened in the first place. To fix a leak, first try carefully tightening the nut on the fitting. If that doesn�t work, you can replace the ferrule to make a new seal.
The best long-term solution to a leaking copper pipe is welding the damaged section closed. Unfortunately, most do-it-yourselfers don't have the equipment, nor the skills, necessary to weld a pipe.
I've had issues with a leak in a pipe directly over my Utica gas/hot water boiler (we have radiators throughout the house). The quick question is, is it possible to tape the leaking pipe, add a compound on top of the tape, and then for the pipe to 'fix itself' over time?
This Instructable shows how to use white bread and standard pipe sweating techniques to repair a leaking copper pipe. There are a ton of excellent instructions online and here at Instructables for pipe sweating, this isn't meant to replace those, but rather to show a trick I learned over a decade ago for sweating a pipe that is actively leaking.


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2001 Yamaha TDR 250 - Added by mafti.mafti.de on 24-Apr-2019
2001 -Yamaha - TDR - 43936
More Information on the Yamaha TDR 250
The Yamaha TDR250 was a street-legal middleweight dual-sport bike produced by Japanese motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha between 1988 and 1993.
It was powered by the naturally-aspirated, crankcase reed-valve inducted, liquid-cooled 249cc parallel-twin two-stroke engine from the first generation TZR250 (this same engine also powered the R1-Z). This motor featured the 'YPVS' Yamaha Power Valve System, CDI ignition and digital spark advance [1]. Almost all of the engine, gearbox, and electrical components are interchangeable with the TZR and R1-Z.
The TDR was designed to provide agile handling and quick acceleration both on and off the road, and power delivery was modified to suit its intended use [2]. The special upswept expansion chambers, unique to the TDR, part of this; as well as aiding ground clearance. The bike was originally released in a 250cc format, but a 240cc derivative was also produced exclusively for the French market.
Specifications of TDR 250
Note: []= French Model
Yamaha Motor Co. ltd - YMC- Japan (Global)
http://www.tdr250.org/tdr_250_2.html
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Q: Can't Subscribe to Facebook Page Feed via Koala & Rails Has anyone been able to actually subscribe to a Page Feed via Koala to Facebook?  I'm able to subscribe to User Likes, Friends, Feeds etc and Page Photo, Checkins. But I can not get Facebook to subscribe and post back updates on Page Feeds.  Here's what I run through the
Rails Console (postback url is changed)
updates.subscribe("page", "feed", "http://domain.com/facebook_updates", FacebookUpdatesController::VERIFY_TOKEN)
Koala::Facebook::APIError: OAuthException: (#100) "feed" is an invalid field name
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/koala-1.2.1/lib/koala/graph_api.rb:217:in `block in graph_call'
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/koala-1.2.1/lib/koala.rb:69:in `api'
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/koala-1.2.1/lib/koala/graph_api.rb:215:in `graph_call'
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/koala-1.2.1/lib/koala/realtime_updates.rb:62:in `subscribe'
    from (irb):66
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:45:in `start'
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
    from /opt/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.1.0/lib/rails/commands.rb:40:in `<top (required)>'
    from script/rails:6:in `require'
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A: Ok...once again I think I figured it out.  Here's what I corrected:

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*Properly setup your Facebook application to be accessible to Facebook Pages. See tutorial http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/tutorial-add-an-iframe-application-to-your-facebook-fan-page-fall-2012/

*You must subscribe to 'user', 'feed' to access a Page's feed data. Example:
updates.subscribe("user", "feed", "http://domain.com/facebook_updates", FacebookUpdatesController::VERIFY_TOKEN)

*Omniauth must have the proper permissions to receive the Feed realtime update. In particular I had to add 'read_stream' to the scope parameter.  I'm using devise with Omniauth here's an example from the devise.rb file:
config.omniauth :facebook, 'APP_ID', 'APP_SECRET', {:scope => 'publish_stream,email,offline_access,user_location,user_likes,user_interests,read_stream,manage_pages',
:client_options => {:ssl => {:ca_file => '/usr/lib/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'}}}
I do hope this helps others that were struggling like me.

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MADZ AT THE LIPA CATHEDRAL THIS 2023
by Ace Miel | Jan 12, 2023 | Press Release | 0 comments
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines presents the Philippine Madrigal Singers in cooperation with the City Government of Lipa, Batangas in a night of beautiful and uplifting choral music on January 18, 2023, Wednesday, 7pm at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, Lipa City.
Together with the "Madz'" choirmaster, Mark Anthony Carpio, the concert features crossover violinist Jobry Cimafranca. This special outreach concert is a project of the Cultural Center of the Philippines that aims to cultivate and enhance public interest and appreciation for the arts and culture, bringing them closer to the people, especially to the regions.
Tickets are free and are open to the public. It will also simultaneously be live-streamed via the Cultural Center of the Philippines Facebook page.
For more information, visit the CCP website (www.culturalcenter.gov.ph) and follow the official CCP social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the latest updates.


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Q: Cant resume from suspend when screen not turned on I'm having an intermittent problem resuming from sleep/suspend. One of my displays is an OLED TV and it turns itself off sometimes to power save. I think the problem happens when the system tries to resume and this display is turned off. I have another monitor connected  which turns back on but it only shows the background and I'm not able to do anything on it, I've tried hitting tab and entering my password but it seems hung and all I can do is reboot.
I am able to SSH into the machine when this happens and it seems to work fine over a shell. As an interim if there was something I could do to re-enable the display remotely that would help me too.
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this but I suspect it's something to do with the GPU. I've pasted the output from journalctl.
The pertinent error seems to be GPU state invalid after WaitForTokenInRange
I'm on Ubuntu 21.04.
I have an Nvidia 3090 RTX GPU. Driver 470.57.02
Motherboard is an ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE
Any pointers welcome. Thanks!
https://pastebin.com/4rmKX3qC
Edit: Updated mobo BIOS drivers (WRX80) and same thing happened. New logs here, https://pastebin.com/qwVWkEAj


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Bushes, trees overgrown the path nearly blocking access/passing. Opposite 145 to 151 high st, you nearly can't pass
16:41, 30 Sep 2020, 0.6km, last updated 08:48, 10 Nov 2020
Lees street has very bad pot holes
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5 foot x 3 foot damaged area tovroad
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Large amount of overgrown vegetation overhanging the pavement
Blocked drain causing overflowing water during rainfall. Located in road (High St Irthlingborough) outside Chilli House
17:22, 12 Aug 2020, 1.0km, last updated 17:01, 19 Aug 2020
Bollard missing
Pot hole on speed hump
A number of pot holes between the cross and college street
Blocked storm drain & flooding in church street/nene view, Irthlingborough
09:51, Tuesday, 1.3km, last updated 09:55, Tuesday
A number of pot holes
Wall collapsed onto public footpath at 44 Station Road
Large branch fully across road
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Road disintegration on finedon road
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WVU College Ambassadors Partner With WVU Falling Run Greenspace to Plant Trees
Lillian Oles and Lauren Williams
On November 6th we held our tree planting stewardship event at West Virginia University Falling Run Greenspace, located just a ten-minute walk from the WVU Mountainlair, the main hub for all students. We partnered with Falling Run to plant eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) and Canaan/Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) in an area that had been clear-cut due to houses being built near the greenspace. This greenspace is integral to students and Morgantown residents alike, as it provides easy access to the peace and serenity of nature while being located in town.
The event had a very successful turnout, with twenty-three WVU students volunteering their Sunday afternoon to plant the trees. The event lasted for three hours, consisting of an educational talk about what stewardship means to us all, and how it impacts the Falling Run Greenspace. All the students had a can-do attitude when it came to planting, and the buzz of excited talk could be heard throughout the day. We had people partner up and claim their trees to plant, and we heard some really catchy lines from the group! One of our favorites was the christening of Pinelope the eastern white pine.
We had students from all parts of the college come to this event, spanning from business majors to environmental majors and everything in between! As ambassadors, we found it was easy to converse with all of the students as they all had questions as to what we were doing and why we hosted the event. Many of the students developed a strong interest in the National Park Trust and what we do as college ambassadors, and we had several requests to let them know when our next events would be. All in all, it was a wonderful day, and all of the students left with smiles and a sense of pride, knowing that they contributed to making the world a better place.
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What if in 6 days you could take control over your life and achieve the life you know you deserve?
But if I know this area like I think I do-- the truth is that you probably worked longer and harder than you wanted to. Remember last January, 2012? Maybe you set out with awesome dreams and well thought out goals to eat right and exercise, be a rockstar at the office and be the most outstanding family member possible while making 2012 "The Best Year Ever!"
And now it's December 2012. Are you happy with what you're seeing in the mirror? How are you feeling? Overworked? Stressed? Worried about heading into the inevitable Holiday Weight Gain portion of the year?
Truth is, living in our world isn't getting any easier. That's the bad news.
The great news is we have a solution. It's simple, actually.
We make ourselves better. Change ourselves.
How do we do it? It's pretty straightforward. We're going to set a goal for you that inspires the hell out of you. This goal will then provide you with the physical and emotional strength and energy to see it through.
Because you will see it through. I will promise you that.
Somehow, some way-- I've stumbled on the Holy Grail of situations that work in absolute synergy to transform your body and mind in no time at all.
It's not just a vacation. It's a Transformation. When you finally tire of the mega-resorts with their all-you-can-buffets of lukewarm food, sugary drinks, and over-crowded beaches, and you're tired of coming home feeling fat and unhealthy... It's time to try something different.
ReBoot Camp is designed to Detox your body (and your mind) with lots of sun, fresh air, ocean water, and individualized training sessions. You'll feast on fresh, local foods- and be astonished at the way your body heals and gets leaner and stronger. We'll have fresh caught snapper with avocado salsa while dining on the beach with our bare feet in the sand. We'll train on the ocean's edge while welcoming the sun every morning.
We will focus on exactly what YOU need, as an individual-- to finally reach YOUR HIGHEST LEVEL.
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BJP Issues Whip to Its MPs in LS, Asks Them to be Present on June 28, July 1
According to sources, the whip has been issued as some important legislations are likely to be taken up for passage.
Updated: June 26, 2019 10:48 PM IST
By PTI Email
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday issued a three-line whip to all its members in the Lok Sabha asking them to be present in the House on Friday (June 28) and Monday (July 1).
Bharatiya Janata Party has issued three line whip for its Lok Sabha MPs to be present in the House on 28 June and 1st July. pic.twitter.com/bqwzQir6vs— ANI (@ANI) June 26, 2019
The BJP has a clear majority in the house with 303 MPs. At present, the strength of the Lok Sabha is 542.
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Conduit is gold at Broadband Forum
by Charles James
— 27 Sep, 2013
The September 19 Broadband Forum held at the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop attracted 120 participants.
Excitement is high for the way the new Digital 395 fiber optic network will revolutionize the Internet for use by businesses, schools, homes, and even the local internet service providers along the U.S. 395 corridor.
Inyo County CAO Kevin Carunchio offered a brief welcoming message before introducing the chairman for the Eastern Sierra Connect Regional Broadband Consortium, Mono County Information Technology guru (Director) Nate Greenberg and 1st District Inyo County Supervisor Linda Arcularius.
Arcularius evoked laughter when she compared the pioneering spirit of the first Inyo County settlers crossing the mountains to begin new lives to the present day effort of overcoming the mountains of paperwork and regulatory difficulties faced by those working on the broadband project.
Michael Ort, President and CEO at Praxis Associates, Inc., the company responsible for the oversight of the new backhaul, fiber network system, spoke to the incredible possibilities it will provide to all those it serves. He described its capacity as one that will likely never be exceeded well into the future.
That is a good thing considering the project's service area is, according to the California Broadband Cooperative's website, a network that encompasses 36 communities, six Indian reservations, two military bases, 26,000 households and 2,500 businesses. In addition, 35 public safety entities, 47 K-12 schools, 13 libraries, two community colleges, two universities, 15 healthcare facilities and 104 government offices will also be served, as well as the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab, the White Mountain Research Station and the California Institute of Technology Owens Valley Radio Observatory. All that with enough capacity left over to lease unused, high-capacity fiber known as dark (unused) fiber to other wholesale users in the future.
After describing some of the challenges with approvals on National Forest Service permits, which recently slowed progress but are now resolved, Ort told the audience that Bishop will very soon be onboard with other towns and communities as soon as testing the "last mile" infrastructure is in place. That infrastructure is all ready to go in the Bishop area for many residents thanks to Suddenlink's ambitious efforts to upgrade its system in anticipation of the new fiber optic network. An interesting side-story to the fiber network is that its monitoring capability for the system can be used to detect ground vibrations, giving it the ability to serve as an earthquake monitor.
The network, said Ort, should be completely up and running by no later than November, bringing new, better jobs and more visitors to the area. Mobile devices should also be greatly enhanced once telecommunication companies such as Verizon and AT&T express interest in the system.
Ort felt that the hospitality industry would greatly benefit from the improvements in bandwidth, as will the advertising and the recreation industry when it becomes available coupled with wireless access. Ort promised that the backhaul network would stay on the cutting edge and hoped to serve top-tier users.
The first panel of the forum featured educators speaking on the opportunities for broadband in education. Deanna Campbell from Cerro Coso Community College told the gathering that the new fiber optic system would greatly enhance the ability for outreach and improve the Internet experience for students and staff alike, offering additional access to shop for classes. She cautioned that access is not the end-all answer to education, but another valuable tool when used correctly.
Inyo County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Terry McAteer, stole the show by sharing some very interesting and exciting news. A leader in promoting access to the latest technologies to students that they will need to succeed in the future in both education and the workplace, McAteer noted that many students and families simply do not have access to the Internet. So his office spent $300,000 to provide iPod Touch devices to all students in the K-2 grades last year throughout the county and this year is spending another $300,000 to purchase and provide 730 Acer laptops to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students within the next month. This will be followed next by the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students, and finally laptops will be provided to all high school student, containing everything they will need, including all their textbooks, to prepare for the future in a world of ever-expanding technology.
These efforts will make Inyo County the first county in California in which every student will have a laptop and high-speed Wi-Fi access in their schools. A recent UC Irvine study has shown a 25% increase already in educational test scores with the use of laptops. The technology purchases were made possible, according to McAteer, thanks to the revenue generated through the administration of 23 charter schools in Southern California which are overseen under contract to the state by the Inyo County Office of Education.
As if that was not enough, ICOE has also provided new computers to all the county libraries to improve access for students and families and it is looking into providing Wi-Fi access throughout the main corridor in Bishop as well.
Nancy Masters, Inyo County Library Director, stated that high-speed Internet is now available at all 6 library branches and that Wi-Fi access is available so that students can perform their educational activities when not in their school. The library system will provide access to databases and e-books, along with a host of other applications found on their website such as Mango Languages.
The Director of the Bishop Paiute Headstart Program, Susie Cisneros, said their key objectives are to involve families in a diverse learning experience and to have a computer library, asking that anyone wishing to donate a computer to please contact them.
Some concern was expressed by a forum participant that all the new access to technology will make students become even more "disengaged" from face-to-face interpersonal skills, and that social etiquette needs to become part of the technology. McAteer addressed the issue by saying that the K-2 iPod program had parent trainings and workshops on how to best use the devices and avoid problems, while the students in the 3rd to 5th grades will not be allowed to take laptops home, noting that "Kids need to play." As for 6 th grade up to high school, McAteer said that Internet safety is important, but students need to take their laptops home to receive the maximum benefit of the technology. High school students' textbooks will be on the Internet with many of the textbooks including interactive learning programs that go along with them.
The second panel addressed business development opportunities. It was announced at the beginning that there will be a ten-week Small Business Development Resources class offered through Cerro Coso Community College specifically targeting business owners unfamiliar with the use of the Internet.
Crowdfunding was discussed as a way to raise capital for new startups citing an example of a group initially attempting to raise $100,000 in seed money to build a "Dick Tracy"-style smartwatch using a website called Kickstarter. Instead of $100,000, they raised $10 million in one month. And in another piece of interesting news it was announced that the Federal regulators will soon allow small businesses to sell shares of their business.
Nate Greenberg spoke on local businesses making greater use of Internet shopping opportunities which increased 15% last year to the tune of $186 billion. Tech savvy consumers are increasingly using the Internet to research products, make comparisons, and find low prices. "It is vital that businesses have a basic online e-commerce presence even if it is only a simple brochure-style website," said Greenberg. He noted that, "While consumers are going online, they still make 88% of their purchases offline."
In a nod to social media, Greenberg encouraged business owners to also "leverage other websites such Facebook, Yelp, Trip Advisors and others that allow users to make recommendations on products and businesses, directing traffic to their business."
"We need to market our regions unique resources, offering free public Wi-Fi to promote, maintain, and expand our businesses," said Greenberg, "So fully embrace the new technology and the opportunities it provides."
Rod Blair of Sportogo & Spacetronlaser spoke on how to bring technology ideas to market, stressing how important it is to protect your ideas and intellectual property through registering trademarks and applying for patents, while protecting trade secrets. He noted that it has been made much less expensive to apply for a new patent. It is easier and less expensive than ever to bring prototypes of products to market using new Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology which is an additive manufacturing technology commonly used for modeling, prototyping, and production applications. "FDM technology," he said, "reduces the costs and time to production from many months or even years, down to a fraction of the time."
In the afternoon session, the City of Bishop Public Works Director David Grah spoke about the way government can better serve the public using technology to provide greater interaction and access to public meetings. He observed that at the City Hall, "We sometimes have just 5-10 members of the public attending. Having public meetings online would greatly improve both access and participation."
Steve Blum of Tellus Venture Associates addressed the value of local public policy development in creating opportunities far into the future. Stating that "Conduit is gold!" and that Public Works departments are best at leading the way on many of the projects. Blum noted that "if there is something they [Public Works] know and do well, it is digging holes and knowing what is beneath the ground in local communities." He stressed the importance of a "Dig Once" policy that provides that any time a street is opened up, the local city or county should lay empty conduit for future use simply because it saves a lot of taxpayer money down the road, noting that there is a 10:1 cost advantage to "Dig Once" policies.
Technology is rapidly advancing the point where our machines, appliances, and mobile-to-mobile devices will "talk to each other" said Blum, and "radios will be in everything." All this will change how we live and interact with our environment at home and work. It will encourage telecommuting and increase how government can provide greater access to services.
The Internet Service Panel allowed local ISP providers Schat.net, Suddenlink, Lone Pine TV, and IWVISP in Ridgecrest to discuss how they have already prepared for or will be connecting customers to the new fiber network. Suddenlink's Jason Oelkers said they have been making preparations for months and that Mammoth Lakes is already up and running, and they expect Bishop to begin testing the final mile connections this week. For information on the other service providers, customers should contact them directly as they are in varying stages of preparation, but it all sounded as if they are ready to move forward quickly as the network becomes available to them.
All-in-all the ESCBRC Forum was successful and well-planned. It provided those attending with a great deal of information on how to make the best use of the Digital 395 broadband network.
For more information, please contact the ESCBRC office at 760.463.1261 or visit www.escrbconsortium.org.
Topics: Digital 395
— Charles James
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Regulation + innovation = a better deal for bank customers
by Simon Carroll April 15, 2017
Do you love your bank? Does it give you value for money and great customer service? Is it the cornerstone of your financial life or a necessary evil?
However you feel, the good news is that you can expect things to get better.
As in so many sectors, technological innovation is shaping the future of banking and offering incumbent institutions a choice – take advantage of the shiny new opportunities or be challenged by the insurgent start-ups that are doing just that.
Scale is no defence. A raft of new legislation has been drafted to create the environment for competitive innovation and to allow smaller players opportunities to break into newly evolving markets.
Consumers stand to benefit from this concerted drive to open up the banking sector to make it more competitive and to drive value and choice.
In the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is imposing – their word – an Open Banking revolution after an investigation finding "older and larger banks do not have to compete hard enough for customers' business".
Then there is a newly updated EU Payment Services Directive – PSD2 – that will end banks' monopoly on their customers' data. The idea is allow third party companies to shake up the market by offering services that sit between a bank and a customer.
Internet of Me spoke to eWise, a company that occupies this middle ground and offers solutions to both fintech innovators and financial institutions, about this new landscape of challenges and opportunities.
CEO David Hamilton started by telling how eWise was born out of a similarly disruptive climate in the Australian banking marketplace back in the late 90s and early 2000s.
eWise CEO David Hamilton
A period of disintermediation saw non-bank and non-regulated business models emerge and proliferate, undercutting traditional banks to offer mortgage and credit products and services. Customers went from having just one or two relationships with financial institutions to having a whole range covering the spectrum of products.
"The number of institutions people were doing business with exploded," says David. "The underlying hypothesis we had was that although people were beginning to demonstrate this unbundling behaviour, at some point they would want to rebundle them back together, at least from a money management perspective in order to get a clearer picture of their finances."
PSD2 is designed to turbo-charge this intermediate market between the big financial players and their customers by creating third party payment processors (TPPs) with two key functions: the Payment Initiation Service Provider (PISP), which initiates payments for the user, and the Account Information Service Provider (AISP), which offers an aggregated overview of accounts.
The latter is right in the sweet spot of what eWise – now headquartered in Switzerland – is doing for its clients.
David says: "While many banks are scratching their heads about how to comply with PSD2 regulation a lot of our customers are looking beyond to whether open banking APIs are the way forward and how they can take advantage of that and go well beyond the scope of what PSD2 is asking for and offer a more comprehensive set of banking data APIs that we can monetise."
Monetising bank APIs
The eWise solution is to provide account aggregation that happens at the user end rather than on banks' servers. Data is held securely on a personal data vault downloaded onto the user's desktop or device. The eWise Personal Financial Management tool then gives them baseline account information that only they can see. Users can then permit sharing of data to enable features such as cashflow forecasting, budgeting and spending analysis.
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"They can then turn off that data sharing at any point and they can be quite granular about which accounts they choose to share data from," says David. "For example, I might choose to share data on my credit card and current account so my spend analysis is accurate and my cashflow forecasting is accurate. But I might choose to keep my saving accounts and investment and data on my insurance products completely private, so that data never leaves my personal data vault. I can see everything in one place but the data is fully encrypted and stored locally."
So the zeal for reform of the financial services sector by governments and regulators represents a boom time for start-ups and other innovative newcomers to the market. But, as David explains, that doesn't mean there is anything to stop the incumbent players from getting a slice of the action.
"I think there's a lot of noise around the fintech start-up scene and the potential for that scene to disrupt certain parts of the banking value chain. There's actually very little discussion around banks themselves becoming payment initiation service providers. Banks have played a role in online merchant transaction acquisitions now for decades and we don't see why they wouldn't want to continue to play that role.
"They've got a fairly large revenue base to protect and grow and we see them playing in that third party processor space very clearly. A lot of the banks we're working with also believe there is a role for them to play as an account information service provider – as a trusted actor in the value chain providing aggregation services not just across payments but across all types of financial instruments."
It certainly makes sense for banks to do so. While bodies like the CMA and the UK government feel banks have been failing their customers on value and service, it is still those banks that bear the brunt of regulatory burden in a way that footloose agile start-ups do not.
The banks' advantage
However, while some might think this tilts the playing field too far in favour of the incomers, David believes the true picture is not necessarily a free-for-all at the expense of the banks.
In fact, he says, the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) drawn up by the European Banking Authority place such an emphasis on data security that it might initially play out better for the banks.
"There's some conflict between what's possible technically and the innovation people want to see driven by technology. When you look at the actual underlying approach from the regulators, the recent consultation paper on the RTS for access to accounts and strong customer authentication takes the view that security in many ways trumps customer experience and there will be more friction in the payments value chain than there was prior to PSD2 assuming the current RTS is enforced and not watered down.
"Things like the Amazon 'one-click', that wouldn't comply with the currently written RTS for strong authentication because it would require, with exception of very low value transactions, multi-factor authentication on all payments occurring on a separate device from the payment itself. The way the regulatory technical specifications are being written they certainly favour the banking side more than they do the fintech innovator side, in my view."
David points out that the key advantage for fintech operators, then, is their ability to focus entirely on innovation, certainly financially.
The FinTechs' advantage
"From a software vendor standpoint the order book on our customer side has been heavily biased towards regulatory and compliance items," he says. "If you look at the IT budget in banks today a good deal of it is going to be on regulatory compliance and little will go towards innovation.
"Think of a fintech, especially those that are not regulated, and effectively 100 per cent of their IT spend can be on innovation. So there is something of an asymmetry there in what banks have to spend money on and what a fintech has to.
"Having said that, the clients we do business with and those in our pipeline are looking to get on the front foot, particularly with respect to PSD2, and turn something that is compliance driven into something that could potentially be business model and revenue driven."
So what could this market of the future look like?
"One could imagine a world where there is a virtual shop front – a broker if you like – that intermediates between the end consumer and different institutions they might want to do business with and they provide that much stronger level of customer service than the institutions might have done in the past.
"Institutions will need to decide whether they want to be that broker or storefront or whether they want to potentially just simply become a product or service provider to that ecosystem. There is some discussion around banks essentially just becoming 'balance sheet as a service' which means that someone could launch a new digital financial service offering to plug into a banking partner to leverage their balance sheet and leverage their banking charter but effectively become just the store front."
There is a lot up for grabs. In its Global FinTech Report, PwC reckons FinTech investment will exceed $150billion within three to five years køb viagra.
The same report found that 75 per cent of senior executives in leading financial institutions thought the biggest impact will be an increased focus on the customer.
As with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, PSD2 is legislation that presents real challenges for the businesses it affects while also offering opportunity for those that embrace it in spirit as well as letter.
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Download Calculus Made Easy ebook. Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson. The original text continues to be available as of 2008 from Macmillan and Co., but a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and notes for modern readers. Gardner changes "fifth form boys" to the more American sounding (and gender neutral) "high school students," updates many now obsolescent mathematical notations or terms, and uses American decimal dollars and cents in currency examples.
The original text is now in the public domain under US copyright law (although Macmillan's copyright under UK law is reproduced in the 2008 edition from St. Martin's Press). It can be freely accessed on Project Gutenberg.
Silvanus Phillips Thompson (19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916) was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print. Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


In case you haven't noticed, it's E3 2016, and there are video game trailers and footage galore being released left and right (hooray!) – including the very first gameplay footage from the crowdfunded Friday the 13th: The Game. And it's a killer.
The third-person horror survival game will allow players to either take on the role of an unlucky teen counselor at Camp Crystal Lake or – for the first time ever – of Jason Voorhees. But be aware that it's a multiplayer game, so players will have to rely on each other as a team to survive while one player will get to play as Jason.
The video below, which boasts the 1980s vibe of the early movies, is an early-alpha gameplay from the game, and it allows you to see how players will be able to control and use Jason, as well as see how you can escape the iconic killer from the counselor's perspective.
The team behind the game includes a who's who of Friday the 13th vets, including Tom Savini, Kane Hodder and Friday the 13th composer Harry Manfredini. Friday the 13th: The Game is set to be released on Xbox One, PS4 and PC sometime in the fall 2016.


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The LA bandleader participates in Amoeba Music's "What's In My Bag?" series.
Considering the Hollywood institution's jazz section is larger than most independent record stores' entire floorspace, it's no surprise that Kamasi Washington recently combed the racks at Amoeba Music for their "What's In My Bag?" video series. And if you've spent any time with Washington's 2015 LP The Epic, his choices probably won't surprise you, either.
Washington shows off his jazz bona fides and picks up a little Max Roach and Alice Coltrane (whose nephew Stephen Ellison—better known as Flying Lotus—is a frequent collaborator of Washington's), but he also selects Fela Kuti's classic Zombie, a Curtis Mayfield record that he himself had never heard of, and a collection of Indonesian gamelan music—all influences that find their way into The Epic. You can see the rest of Washington's picks on Amoeba's website, and you can watch him lament how difficult it used to be to find decent anime in the video below.
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Democratic governance constituted the bedrock for Ghana's accelerated development, Mr Isaac Osei, Ghana's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has declared.
He said it was only through the democratic process that Ghana could be transformed into a united and prosperous country.
A statement received in Accra on Tuesday from the Ghana High Commission in London said Mr Osei was speaking at a special church service organised by the Ghana Association of Reading at Reading, United Kingdom. It was under the theme: "God Bless Ghana".
The Church service, which was to mark the 47th anniversary of Ghana, also coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Association. The High Commissioner noted that the sordid periods of military dictatorship now belonged to the past.
"Ghana, under the leadership of President John Agyekum Kufuor, was now moving steadily towards the realisation of true democracy in Ghana in line with the beliefs and aspirations of Ghanaians", he said.
Mr Osei said the Government would continue to adhere to democratic values underpinned by the freedom of the individual and rule of law. He said the Government would not rest on its oars until the enabling environment had been nurtured to enable Ghanaians go about their affairs and businesses without let or hindrance.
Pastor George Dadey of the SDA Church in Reading, in a sermon urged Ghanaians to be part of the solution to the problems facing the nation. He said Ghanaians should emulate the Founding Fathers and cultivate the culture of love for one another.
Dr Joseph Senyah, President of the Association, pledged to mobilise the members to contribute meaningfully to the "Ten Pounds Save A Life Appeal Fund" set up to raise money for the Health Sector.
He said the Association had been proactive since it was established and made valuable donations to communities and institutions in Ghana. Dr Senyah said under a project developed in collaboration with the GAP, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO), selected British students would undertake a study tour of Ghana in September to share ideas with their Ghanaian counterparts.


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Ваня Атанасова Гешева е българска състезателка по кану-каяк в дисциплината каяк.

Биография
Родена е на 6 април 1960 г. в с. Брестовица, Пловдивско. Учи в Спортно училище "Васил Левски" в град Пловдив. Тренира кану-каяк при треньора Надежда Василева. Печели първия си бронзов медал на Световно първенство още през 1977 година в двойка каяк, когато е само на 17 години. Година по-късно има сребърен медал от четворка каяк.

В националния отбор треньор последователно е Недялко Петров и Дамян Дамянов. Вицешампион от летните олимпийски игри в Москва през 1980 г. в дисциплината едноместен каяк. Печели сребърен медал от Световното първенство в Тампере (1983). Световен шампион от Монреал през 1986 г.

Олимпийска шампионка на едноместен каяк от игрите в летните олимпийски игри в Сеул през 1988 г.. От същата олимпиада тя печели и сребърен медал на каяк К-2, както и бронзов на каяк К-4. Ваня Гешева е единственият спортист в историята на България, който печели златен, сребърен и бронзов медал за една Олимпиада.

След приключване на спортната си кариера работи в системата на МВР. Инспектор в Детска педагогическа стая. Служител Центъра по бойна подготовка и спорт на МВР.

Председател е на Спортен клуб по кану-каяк "Левски". Член на Управителния съвет на Българската федерация по кану-каяк и на Спортен клуб по кану-каяк "Левски". Председател на Българската асоциация на спортистите олимпийци и член на Изпълнителното бюро на БОК.

Външни препратки
 vasillevskisport.com

Български състезателки по кану-каяк
Български олимпийски шампиони
Български олимпийски медалисти
Хора от област Пловдив
Носители на орден "Стара планина"
Спортисти на летните олимпийски игри 1988
Почетни граждани на Пловдив

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Q: Modify a drools rule to set rule attributes programmatically I see classes like org.drools.lang.api.PackageDescrBuilder and org.drools.lang.api.impl.RuleDescrBuilderImpl to create rules programmatically, but I don't see any examples of that.
Basically user will create a rule and upload the file to a location. I have read these rule files and set rule attributes like date-effective, date-expires, enabled etc.
As per org.drools.rule.Rule api, there are methods to set, but I don't get any idea on how to read the rule.drl file and convert it to object of type org.drools.rule.Rule.
Any idea on this or how to modify a drools rule using drools api will be useful.
Note: I don't want to do string replacement for modifying a rule.

A: You could take a look at the tests for the PackageBuilder:
https://github.com/droolsjbpm/drools/blob/5.6.x/drools-compiler/src/test/java/org/drools/compiler/PackageBuilderTest.java
... which has examples of doing this.


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Products>The Pastoral Epistles (The New International Greek Testament Commentary | NIGTC)
The Pastoral Epistles (The New International Greek Testament Commentary | NIGTC)
by George W. Knight III
This commentary series is established on the presupposition that the theological character of the New Testament documents calls for exegesis that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of the historical, linguistic, and textual context. Such thorough exegetical work lies at the heart of these volumes, which contain detailed verse-by-verse commentary preceded by general comments on each section and subsection of the text.
An important aim of the NIGTC authors is to interact with the wealth of significant New Testament research published in recent articles and monographs. In this connection the authors make their own scholarly contributions to the ongoing study of the biblical text.
The text on which these commentaries are based is the UBS Greek New Testament, edited by Kurt Aland and others. While engaging the major questions of text and interpretation at a scholarly level, the authors keep in mind the needs of the beginning student of Greek as well as the pastor or layperson who may have studied the language at some time but does not now use it on a regular basis.
This is a thorough, full-scale English commentary on the Greek text of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. While author George W. Knight gives careful attention to the comments of previous interpreters of the text, both ancient and modern, his emphasis is on exegesis of the Greek text itself and on the flow of the argument in each of these three Epistles.
Besides providing a detailed look at the meanings and interrelationships of the Greek words as they appear in each context, Knight's commentary includes an introduction that treats at length the question of authorship (he argues for Pauline authorship and proposes, on the basis of stylistic features, that Luke might have been the amanuensis for the Pastoral Epistles), the historical background of these letters, and the personalities and circumstances of the recipients.
Knight also provides two special excursuses: the first gathers together the information in the Pastorals and elsewhere in the New Testament on early church offices and leaders; the other excursus examines the motivations for conduct in Titus 2:1-10 with a view to their applicability to present-day situations.
Knight is to he congratulated for his significant contribution to New Testament study. An excellent supplement and balance to the Dibelius-Conzelmann commentary, Knight's Pastoral Epistles will well serve teachers of the Greek text. And for preachers whose Greek is serviceable, Knight's commentary is arguably the one to turn to first.
—Restoration Quarterly
An exegetical handbook to the Pastoral Epistles...Well-written, dear, and concise...this commentary offers an excellent summary of modern scholarship on the Pastorals in addition to giving a sound and helpful discussion of the text by a seasoned scholar. It deserves to be on the reference shelf of every serious pastor and student.
—Didaskalia
Following the style of this fine series, Knight's commentary is most valuable for its detailed analysis of the Greek text of the epistles.
—The Bible Today
Title: The Pastoral Epistles: New International Greek Testament Commentary
Author: George W. Knight III
About George W. Knight III
George W. Knight III is a theologian and professor of New Testament at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary; formerly, he was a professor at Knox Theological Seminary. He has authored several works, most notably The Pastoral Epistles and a short commentary of Timothy and Titus as included in the Baker Commentary on the Bible. He received his theological doctorate from Free University of Amsterdam in 1968.


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Florida should re-invest in protecting sensitive lands | Column
It's time the Florida Legislature follow the intent of the voters and recommit to spending $300 million a year on the Florida Forever land preservation program.
Paula Dockery of Lakeland served in the Florida Legislature for 16 years. [Paula Dockery]
By Paula Dockery
Happy Anniversary to Florida's Water and Land Conservation Amendment!
It was five years ago that 75 percent of Florida voters approved Amendment One to our Florida Constitution, requiring hundreds of millions of dollars each year to go toward water and land conservation.
Wow, time sure flies when you're being rebuffed.
You could say it's been a rocky relationship between the supporters of Amendment One and the Republican-controlled Legislature.
First, money was diverted to state agency expenses that the Legislature would have had to fund prior to the amendment passing. Kind of reminds me of the Florida Lottery shell game with education funding.
Next, the Legislature spent tax dollars in court to keep from funding Florida Forever, the popular land acquisition and water resource protection program. Then legislators spent more of our money appealing the court decision.
This year, under a new governor, Ron DeSantis, there was an effort to spend some — but not all that's required — on environmental purposes, with most going to the Everglades. While environmentalists — and average Floridians — applaud this expenditure, it does not relieve the Legislature and the governor of their responsibility to fully comply with the intent of the constitutional amendment.
In the 2019-20 budget, $319 million was spent on Everglades protection, a reservoir project, springs protection and Lake Apopka. Florida Forever received $34.5 million, or roughly 10 percent of its original yearly funding before the amendment passed.
To put this in perspective: Florida's annual state budget is $89 billion (with a B). One-third of all documentary stamp revenue collected in the budget year is required to go to water and land conservation efforts. Florida Forever was the existing program when this amendment was crafted.
This yea,r the documentary stamp tax is estimated to be $2.76 billion. One-third of that is over $900 million.
Even if we were to credit DeSantis and the Florida Legislature for the $319 million for environmental funding in addition to the paltry $34.5 million for traditional Florida Forever projects, where is the rest of the $500 million plus?
Lawmakers are still using Amendment One money for cost shifts and for debt reduction from past bond issues.
Prior to Florida Forever, the state had a land acquisition program called Preservation 2000. Started under Gov. Bob Martinez, this 10-year, $3 billion program was funded every year at $300 million.
The first six years of Florida Forever, the successor to Preservation 2000, funding under Gov. Jeb Bush was also at the $300 million fully funded level. In 2006, the funding was double that, at $609 million, with $300 million for Florida Forever projects and $309 million to purchase a specific large tract of land — the Babcock property.
In Gov. Charlie Crist's first two years in office, Florida Forever was fully funded, and in his third and fourth years, because of the Great Recession, it was funded at zero and $15 million. Promises were made that funding would be restored when the economy improved. Those promises were broken.
The real damage started under Gov. Rick Scott, who signed eight annual budgets funding Florida Forever at zero, $8.4 million, $20 million, $12.5 million, $15 million, zero, zero and $100 million during his two terms in office.
Instead of the $2.4 billion that would have fully funded Florida Forever, Scott allowed only $155.9 million over eight years to protect and conserve our natural resources.
It's worth mentioning that the last four years of measly conservation spending under Scott occurred after Amendment One passed.
It's also worth noting that the state budget was $48 billion in 2001 when Florida Forever was fully funded —quite a bit less than the $91 billion projected for the current budget year.
We're five years into the 20 years of funding required under our state Constitution due to the passage of Amendment One. What's the Legislature's plan — let the clock continue to run out while it ignores the voters and our Constitution?
As the state gets more developed, land gets more expensive to buy and our water resources get more depleted and degraded. Our quality of life gets diminished as shortsighted elected officials squander our opportunities for the sake of their political ambitions.
Sen. Linda Stewart, D-Orlando, has filed SB 332, which would provide a stable annual funding floor of $100 million for Florida Forever. It also would prohibit using these dollars for state agency expenses.
On our anniversary, Stewart's bill passed through a Senate committee unanimously. Thank you, Sen. Stewart.
Now let's get that funding floor up to $300 million and get the representatives, senators and governor to uphold their vows.
Paula Dockery is a syndicated columnist who served in the Florida Legislature for 16 years as a Republican from Lakeland. She is now a registered NPA. PBDockery@gmail.com.
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Here's some interesting commentary from the opposite poles of the political spectrum.
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Here's what readers have to say in Sunday's letters to the editor.
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Impeachment was never supposed to be impartial
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Are lengthy prison sentences discriminatory? | Editorial
Women, Hispanics and residents from smaller counties are disproportionately serving long drug sentences that are no longer in place.
Here's an honest state slogan for Florida | Column
Many of Florida's problems originate with that 'motto,' writes historian Gary Mormino.
How my dad captured this famous photo of Martin Luther King Jr. | Column
Griff Davis' daughter recounts how the photographer and Foreign Service officer captured a famous photo of King and Richard Nixon.
Tampa Bay's big-city mayors agree transit is a priority. What are they doing about it? | Editorial
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman should lead an effort for robust regional transit.
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A bill would end the confusion and save lives by making crosswalk signals red.


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Q: How to change the data type of a string column to double in spark as a stage in a pipeline? I am creating pipeline with stages as:
Array(Some_Indexer, Some_Encoder, Some_Assembler)
The assembler is a VectorAssembler that does not support StringType.
How can I create one more stage in the pipeline to convert the datatype of string columns to double values?

A: The StringIndexer (import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.StringIndexer) is what you're looking for.  The documentation link describing it:  StringIndexer
Here's an example using the Titanic dataset.  The Sex and Embark fields are categorical, and need to be converted to numerics.

Sample Code:
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.ml.classification.LogisticRegression
import org.apache.spark.ml.feature.{OneHotEncoder,StringIndexer,VectorAssembler,VectorIndexer}
import org.apache.spark.ml.linalg.Vectors
import org.apache.spark.ml.Pipeline

val training = spark.read.option("header","true").option("inferSchema","true").format("csv").load("train.csv")

// Convert the categorical (string) values into numeric values
val genderIndexer = new StringIndexer().setInputCol("Sex").setOutputCol("SexIndex")
val embarkIndexer = new StringIndexer().setInputCol("Embarked").setOutputCol("EmbarkIndex")

// Convert the numerical index columns into One Hot columns
// The One Hot columns are binary {0,1} values of the categories
val genderEncoder = new OneHotEncoder().setInputCol("SexIndex").setOutputCol("SexVec")
val embarkEncoder = new OneHotEncoder().setInputCol("EmbarkIndex").setOutputCol("EmbarkVec")

// Create the vector structured data (label,features(vector))
val assembler = new VectorAssembler().setInputCols(Array("Pclass","SexVec","Age","SibSp","Parch","Fare","EmbarkVec")).setOutputCol("features")

// Create the Logistic Regression instance
val lr = new LogisticRegression().setMaxIter(100).setRegParam(0.3).setElasticNetParam(0.8)

// Create the model pipeline
val pipeline = new Pipeline().setStages(Array(genderIndexer,embarkIndexer,genderEncoder,embarkEncoder,assembler,lr))

// Create the Logistic Regression model by fitting the training data
val lrModel = pipeline.fit(training)

// Score the data
val results = lrModel.transform(test)

Sample Data:
training.show(5,false)

+-----------+--------+------+---------------------------------------------------+------+----+-----+-----+----------------+-------+-----+--------+
|PassengerId|Survived|Pclass|Name                                               |Sex   |Age |SibSp|Parch|Ticket          |Fare   |Cabin|Embarked|
+-----------+--------+------+---------------------------------------------------+------+----+-----+-----+----------------+-------+-----+--------+
|1          |0       |3     |Braund, Mr. Owen Harris                            |male  |22.0|1    |0    |A/5 21171       |7.25   |null |S       |
|2          |1       |1     |Cumings, Mrs. John Bradley (Florence Briggs Thayer)|female|38.0|1    |0    |PC 17599        |71.2833|C85  |C       |
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The Merkin's Cover Seven Nation Army As GOT Parody.
Posted on April 23, 2019 by Big Red	in featured news, TV Booty and tagged game of thrones, game of thrones parody, got, knight king, movie and tv news, movie news, seven kingdom army, seven nation army, the merkins, the white stripes, trailers, tv, tv news, white walkers.
There's only a handful of Game Of Thrones episodes left and as the tension mounts and fans get nervous over the fate of their favourite characters, the comedy band The Merkins have released a fantastic GOT themed parody of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.
Entitled Seven Kingdom Army it has band members dressed as White Walkers belting out a tune which I will probably constantly think about when we finally watch The Knight King and his un-dead horde descend upon Winterfell.
Trailer For New Amazon Crime Series Too Old To Die Young Looks Amazing.
Posted on April 4, 2019 by Big Red	in TV Booty and tagged amazon prime, crime series, miles teller, nicolas wingding refn, too old to die young, too old to die young trailer, trailers, tv.
Here's your first official look at the new crime series developed for Amazon Prime, by acclaimed director Nicolas Wingding Refn, (Driver, Pusher Trilogy).
Too Old To Die Young stars Miles Teller, (Whiplash), as a police officer who, through a series of events, finds himself thrust into a criminal underworld populated by working class hit men, Yakuza soldiers, cartel assassins sent from Mexico, Russian mafia captains and gangs of teen killers.
The trailer itself looks stunning and as Refn has proved in previous projects his stylish presentation is something to behold.
Too Old To Die Young will be available to watch on Amazon Prime on June 14th.
Luther Series 5 Trailer Is Here…Finally.
Posted on November 29, 2018 by Big Red	in TV Booty and tagged DCI JOHN LUTHER, Idris Elba, Luther, luther season 5, LUTHER SERIES 5 TRAILER, LUTHER TRAILER, trailers, tv, tv news, tv series.
I love the detective drama series Luther but there's one massive reason this show get's on my nerves. The wait.
After three years. Three, whole, long years fans and viewers are expected to pick up from where Idris Elba's protaginist DCI John Luther left off. The first series consisted of six episodes and was broadcast in 2010. Due to it's high ratings and popularity the BBC commissioned a second series almost immediately, which consisted of only four episodes and was aired in 2011. Following on from this a further four episodes were filmed for series three but the didn't hit the screens until 2013 and then almost three years later we got series 4 which was a paltry two episode affair. Now here we are three years after the last series aired with just 16 episodes in total over almost a decade. A fucking decade!
Anyway the trailer for series 5 is above. Luther is back solving crime and locking super villians up and some character is returning that we all thought was dead…but none of us can really remember as it's been that fucking long ago!
Breaking Bad Movie Gets A Title And A Premise.
Posted on November 8, 2018 by Big Red	in Movie Booty, TV Booty and tagged breaking bad, breaking bad movie, BREAKING BAD NEWS, breaking bad sequel, jesse pinkman, movie and tv news, movie news, tv, tv news, tv series, tv shows, VINCE GILLIGAN, walter white.
*This original post was featured on our sister site Sequels Prequels.*
Call me Sherlock "Meth Lab Motor' Holmes because I've always had a sneaking suspicion that we hadn't seen the last of Jesse Pinkman or Walter White in Vince Gilligan's amazing Albequerqiverse.
Yesterday, in an announcement TV fans didn't see coming, series creator Vince Gilligan revealed that there will be a Breaking Bad movie and it will focus on the fate of Jesse Pinkman, who we all watched drive off into the sunset with an acute case of post traumatic stress disorder.
Greenbrier will begin production as early as next month and will be a straight sequel to the award-winning crime drama series and will also tie up the fates of a few periphery characters we may have forgotten about, (Badger?). Actor Aaron Paul will reprise his role and there's even a rumour Bryan Cranston could return in flashback scenes as Walter White, although he has stated he has yet to see the script.
As a long time fan of the original series and spin-off Better Call Saul, (which, in my humble opinion is the superior of the two), I think Gilligan is doing something very special. Stretching an epic story with rich characters across two series and now a movie. His plan, so far, hasn't suffered from any form of weakness or dilution and it's exciting to watch a master storyteller create an entire universe these complex, rich and diverse characters inhabit.
No word yet if the movie will be a TV feature only or will get theatrical release.
Twelve Deadwood Cast Members Confirm Return For Movie.
Posted on November 6, 2018 by Big Red	in Movie Booty, TV Booty and tagged deadoowd movie, deadwood, hbo, movie news, tv, tv news, tv series, westerns.
HBO's terrifically, gritty and sweary, western drama Deadwood is finally getting a movie and now it seems a dozen key characters will be returning for the big screen production.
Series creator David Milch has written a script and Daniel Minahan has been named as director and production of the Deadwood movie is now officially underway and today's announcement that a dozen original cast members will be reprising their roles has sent fans of the series into meltdown.
The twelve returning cast members are as follows:
Ian McShane (Al Swearengen)
Timothy Olyphant (Seth Bullock)
Molly Parker (Alma Ellsworth)
Paula Malcomson (Trixie)
John Hawkes (Sol Star)
Anna Gunn (Martha Bullock)
Dayton Callie (Charlie Utter)
Brad Dourif (Doc Cochran)
Robin Weigert ("Calamity" Jane Canary)
William Sanderson (E.B. Farnum)
Kim Dickens (Joanie Stubbs)
Gerald McRaney (George Hearst)
The movie will be set 10 years after the series finale and these characters and more will all be reunited to celebrate South Dakota's statehood where former rivalries are reignited, as they all face the changes modernity and time have wrought.
No word yet if this will be a TV feature or will be theatrically released but for now a script, director and cast is in place and Deadwood the movie is scheduled for completion next year.
Trailer For Second Season Of Ash Vs Evil Dead.
Posted on July 23, 2016 by Big Red	in TV Booty and tagged ash vs evil dead, ash vs evil dead season 2, ash vs evil dead season 2 trailer, ash vs evil dead trailer, bruce campbell, horror, horror tv shows, sam raimi, tv news, tv shows.
I have yet to watch the first series of Ash Vs Evil Dead, but it is on my list. Ratings and reviews of the American comedy-horror TV show, produced and developed by director Sam Raimi, were solid and extremely positive. Hence why we now have a second season.
The trailer above sees the return of Bruce Campbell as Ash battling the evil dead once more with plenty of claret and the odd perfectly timed one-liner.
Ash Vs Evil Dead season two is set for release this October.
Conan Vs A Network Censor.
Posted on February 4, 2016 by Big Red	in Funny Booty, TV Booty and tagged conan, conan meets his censor video, conan o'brien, conan videos, funny conan videos, funny videos, tv news.
Watch this hilarious meeting between late night talk show host Conan O'Brien and his network censor.
The conversation revolves around what Conan can and cannot, say, wear or do during his live broadcast shows, which the censor might deem as offensive or inappropriate.
Of course Conan, being Conan, takes it right to the edge.
Partisans 1941 Is A Modern Version Of Commandos.
Two Stories Which Eulogise Keith Flint and Luke Perry Perfectly.
HMS Friday


If you live in Los Angeles but you wanted to search for something specifically in Australia, all you had to do was go to google.com.au and then search. But apparently, Google thinks that it's more important now to get results based on where you actually are. They have now updated how they label country services for both apps, mobile web, and desktop searches. By default, your results will be based not on the URL but on where you are located.
Google has made this change in search results because they say that one in five searches made are actually location-based and so they are making it their priority to actually bring relevant results based on accurate information. Previously, you could access this information through ccTLD or country code top-level domain names. But now, you don't even have to do that as whatever you search for will be based on where your location is, regardless of the domain you're searching from.
But if you still want to get results based on another location other than where you are now, you can still do it but it will take a few manual tweaks. Go to the search settings menu at the bottom right, and then choose a new location in the Region for Search Results section. Just don't forget to bring it back to your actual country settings later on when you need your actual location.
Google also emphasized that while it will change how Google Search and Google Maps services are labeled, it will not affect how the products actually work "nor will it change how we handle obligations under national law." Has your search experience actually gotten better since the change has been implemented?


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One-page letter on illustrated stationery from a prize-winning poulty breeder who served as the Superintendent of P. T. Barnum's Bridgeport Hospital.
C. H. Crosby
Bridgeport, Connecticut: Bridgeport Hospital, 1890. Envelope or Cover.
This one-page letter, dated Jun 12 1890, is written on illustrated stationery that features an image of Bridgeport Hospital. P. T. Barnum's name stands at the top the list of hospital officers as the institution's "President". Crosby is identified as the institution's "Superintendent." The letter is in nice shape.
In addition to serving as the hospital's superintendent, Crosby was a champion chicken breeder who entered and won contests throughout the Mid-Atlantic and New England. He also served as the Vice-President of the American Poultry Association. In this letter to important chicken breeder and competitor, W. W. Smith, he bluntly informs a potential customer that
"The hen you wanted is dead. I have lost since Feb in one way or another 10 birds that were worth a good deal of money - 2 were killed by a dog that were wonders – I inclose your samples of feathers from one of them - the Underhill is out with 3 or 4 of my best ones and a fine cock being bred from – I shall have to leave them with the man till next fall. As he wants to get all the chickens he can from them I have nothing that you want that I can spare just now . . ..". Very good. Item #009399
While P. T. Barnum is most remembered for his incomparable showmanship, he was also a civic-minded politician who did much for Connecticut, especially Bridgeport. He served two terms as a Republican representative in the Connecticut Legislature where he was a strong supporter of the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery in the United States. He also served as the Mayor of Bridgeport where he worked hard to improve the water supply, bring gas lighting to streets, and enforce liquor and prostitution laws. It was during this time that he was instrumental in the founding of Bridgeport Hospital and subsequently served as its first president as shown on this letterhead.
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Things are finally heating up here in the UK, and it I am excited to say that appears our summer is just beginning. With the scorching temperatures recently, I have been dipping into my holiday wardrobe to accommodate for the heat – and I am loving it! It's so nice to be able to leave the house without a jacket, and finally catch some rays without travelling far from home.
I was recently sent two beautiful swimsuits from UK Swimwear, and have been dying to get them out and take them for a spin. They are actually so lovely just as bodysuits, making them super versatile and great for taking on holiday. I have worn them both with jeans and skirts, but they look gorgeous just as a one-piece swimsuit, so I reached straight for them this weekend when I knew it was going to be hot.
This one is the Vacanze Italiane Gold Label Sailing Bandeau Swimsuit, and is definitely one of my favourite swimsuits that I own. The style is incredibly flattering, with black detailing to accentuate the waist and enhance the appearance of curves, as well as the central split with super cute sailing style rope lace up, which can be adjusted to fit perfectly. I also love the cut-out back, and the straps are removable as well as adjustable, so this swimsuit is just beautiful for all shapes and sizes.
This will be first in my suitcase on my next vacation, but I just love that it can double up as a bodysuit, and I will most definitely be pairing it with jeans and skirts this summer. Here I have added a black denim mini with some gladiator sandals and Gucci bag, for a summer look that is really easy to throw on but transition well from day-to-night, for an effortlessly cool look.
*This swimsuit was kindly gifted to me for review – as ever, all opinions are my own.


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Accueil Wathinote élection Gambie 2021 contexte sécuritaire Lessons from Gambia on Effective Regional Security Cooperation, Africacenter, March, 2017
Lessons from Gambia on Effective Regional Security Cooperation, Africacenter, March, 2017
25 novembre 2021 Wathinote élection Gambie 2021 contexte sécuritaireWATHI
Author: Paul Nantulya
Site of publication: Africa Center for Strategic studies
Type of publication: Article
Date of publication: March 27th, 2017
Link to the original document
On the evening of January 22, 2017, Yahya Jammeh boarded a plane and after 22 years in power, departed Banjul for the final time as Gambia's leader. His departure was not voluntary, but rather the result of active diplomatic and ultimately military pressure from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In the process, a major political and humanitarian crisis for the region was averted. While the episode has been largely overshadowed by other exigencies on the continent, the ECOWAS handling of the Gambia crisis holds many valuable lessons for regional security cooperation in Africa.
After initially accepting a surprise defeat in Gambia's presidential election in December, Jammeh changed his mind and insisted on hanging on, claiming irregularities and declaring a national emergency. Jammeh subsequently annulled the election results and deployed troops to seize the headquarters of the electoral commission. Fearing widespread violence, an estimated 45,000 Gambians fled across the border to Senegal.
ECOWAS leaders firmly rebuffed Jammeh's efforts to justify a continuation of his time in power. With Gambians flowing to neighboring Senegal in fear of imminent violence, ECOWAS leaders, key among them Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari, Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Ghana's Nana Akufo-Addo and his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama, launched a series of diplomatic initiatives to persuade Jammeh to step aside. They cited the African Union's Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance, which states that any refusal by an incumbent to relinquish power to the winner of a democratic election or create any constitutional or legal amendments that violate the principles of democratic transition are considered "unconstitutional changes of government" that will trigger "appropriate sanctions from the AU."
The ECOWAS leaders' democratic credentials and international reputations brought considerable legitimacy to the process. Buhari, a longtime Nigerian opposition leader, came to office in 2015 in a democratic election that marked the first time an incumbent had been defeated since military rule ended in 1999. Sirleaf was Liberia's first democratically elected leader and the second woman Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Dramani Mahama's presence on the regional diplomatic team was powerfully symbolic as he had conceded power to his successor, Akufo Addo, less than a month before Gambians went to their polls. Indeed, nearly all of ECOWAS's 15 members have made demonstrative progress in establishing democratic institutions (Togo being the notable exception).
On January 18, regional leaders announced their intent to deploy forces to Gambia, under the banner of the Economic Community of West African States Military Intervention in Gambia (ECOMIG), to enforce the election results. The UN Security Council promptly authorized Senegal's request on behalf of ECOWAS to intervene. The decision invoked ECOWAS's supplementary protocol on democracy and good governance, which allows "zero tolerance for power obtained or maintained by unconstitutional means." It also invoked Article 25 of the ECOWAS Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peacekeeping, and Security, which authorizes military intervention in the event that "democracy is abruptly brought to an end by any means or where there is massive violation of human rights in a member state."
Beyond maintaining stability in the region, the ECOWAS action in Gambia was an effort to uphold presidential term limits among member states, countering a trend seen elsewhere in Africa. Crucially, ECOWAS leaders were keen to send a different message and were willing to accept the risk of deploying without Jammeh's consent. The negotiations and ultimately peaceful conclusion reflect the decisiveness and timeliness of the coordinated intervention
ECOMIG was mandated to "facilitate the exit of Yahya Jammeh, restore the popular will of the Gambian people as expressed in the December 9 elections and create conditions for normalizing the political and humanitarian situation in Gambia." The force fell under the ECOWAS command structure, with a Senegalese commander at the helm, and consisted of 7,000 troops from Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, and Togo along with air and naval assets.
In Gambia, the possibility of violence was real. A state of emergency was declared, senior officials fled into exile, and the election winner, Adama Barrow, evacuated to Senegal. A defiant Jammeh called ECOWAS's moves a "declaration of war" and promised military retaliation. ECOWAS leaders, however, steadfastly stated their preference for a diplomatic solution while keeping the credible threat of deployment on the table. Additionally, they declared that ECOMIG was there solely to facilitate a peaceful exit and create conditions for a political transition. This underscored their view that the crisis was not of a military nature, but political.
Operation Restore Democracy Averts a Crisis
Beyond maintaining stability in the region, the ECOWAS action in Gambia was an effort to uphold presidential term limits among member states, countering a trend seen elsewhere in Africa. Crucially, ECOWAS leaders were keen to send a different message and were willing to accept the risk of deploying without Jammeh's consent. The negotiations and ultimately peaceful conclusion reflect the decisiveness and timeliness of the coordinated intervention.
Lessons for Africa
ECOWAS leaders acted in a timely and decisive manner understanding that if left to fester, the Gambian crisis would create an ongoing humanitarian, economic, and security strain for the entire region. Reflecting the substantial political progress in the region, Operation Restore Democracy was also conceived and executed to enforce emerging regional and continental democratic norms. The drivers of the effort—Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Senegal—were in agreement that their region's credibility was at stake if Jammeh were to ignore the election results and stay in power. With ECOWAS taking the lead politically, financially, and militarily, backing from both the AU and the UN quickly followed.
Although the credible threat of force proved to be decisive in facilitating Jammeh's exit, this was always part of a larger political process. Crucially, the region's troop-contributing countries shouldered their own financial responsibilities in preparing, deploying, and sustaining the force. This enabled it to act quickly and decisively without having to mobilize external assistance.
Les Wathinotes sont des extraits de publications choisies par WATHI et conformes aux documents originaux. Les rapports utilisés pour l'élaboration des Wathinotes sont sélectionnés par WATHI compte tenu de leur pertinence par rapport au contexte du pays. Toutes les Wathinotes renvoient aux publications originales et intégrales qui ne sont pas hébergées par le site de WATHI, et sont destinées à promouvoir la lecture de ces documents, fruit du travail de recherche d'universitaires et d'experts.


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WebsterX – "Everything" (Video)
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WebsterX has released some of my favorite videos over the last year. Between "Doomsday," "Lately," and his subsequent KidX EP, the Milwaukee artist has shown a bright level of creativity in visualizing the themes in his music. Revisiting his Radiohead-inspired project, we're treated with another spectacular video for EP's opening track, "Everything."
The visual details an extraterrestrial being crash-landing into the snowy woods of Wisconsin with his sights set on delivering a mask to a child. Despite being chased by the media, the tall, dreaded E.T. runs with a limp in his step to find the youngin' in need of its identity. Webster delivers the mask, and then the cameras point to the child — just as the rappin' and singin' Webster believes will soon enough.
"I got a vision man, Cody and Damien [the directors of the video] allow me to share that with people," he told Pigeons & Planes, who premiered the video. "People are really starting to realize that slowly. I'll tell them what that vision is when the world fully accepts me."
Watch the video above.
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If you've ever had a credit card or purchased a car, you should be familiar with interest rates. An interest rate is the percentage of the amount you are borrowing (known as the principle) charged by the lender as a fee for allowing you to use their money.
It is critical to know what your interest rate is going into any large purchase as it can add a significant amount to your outstanding debt. When it comes to home buying, interest rates play a key role in determining how much home you can afford. A higher interest rate can add a significant amount to your outstanding debt, and you may find that the amount you qualify for will reduce considerably.
With rates expected to rise at the end of the year, if you're looking to purchase a home soon, now may be the perfect time to lock in your interest rate so you can properly budget for the future costs of your new home! This talk of rising rates may have you feeling a sense of urgency, but remember, buying a home is a big decision, and the right property may be worth waiting for, even if the interest rate is a little higher.