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Alex on SF
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
Station Eternity
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Author: Alex Good
Ed. by Jonathan Strahan
In recent years, perhaps feeling that established literary genres aren't already vague enough, some people have adopted the term "speculative fiction" as an alternative to "science fiction." Whatever the new label's merits, it's fair to say that some SF is more geared toward an imaginative sort of forecasting of what the future might actually have in store, which is the direction taken by the stories collected in the series of anthologies put out by MIT Press that started out as Twelve Tomorrows and of which Tomorrow's Parties is the latest instalment.
Despite the subtitle here, Tomorrow's Parties isn't just what's come to be called CliFi (climate-change SF). The effects of climate disaster are included, and an introductory interview with CliFi master Kim Stanley Robinson addresses the real challenge of the anthropocene, but otherwise what we get is just a great line-up of stories that survey the wide range of concerns that today's SF writers have about the future. It's hard to pick a favourite, but Dylan Gregory's "Once Upon a Future in the West" is certainly one of the highlights. A possibly cannibal Tom Hanks giving a lift to a refugee from a California forest fire is a truly magical vision of the end of the world.
By Alex Goodin stories January 2, 2023 228 Words7 Comments
Mallory Viridian isn't the kind of person you want to get too close to. She's the carrier of a weird kind of "murder virus," which means that wherever she goes someone nearby ends up being killed.
Such a fatal penumbra leads Mallory to become a mystery writer. She's also the perfect host for a new series by Mur Lafferty (the Midsolar Murders), of which Station Eternity is the first volume.
Aware of her dangerous condition, Mallory takes a lonely, and lowly, job at the sentient space station Eternity, where she is one of only a few human on board. She figures this should keep the death rate manageable, but her plans for self-quarantine go out the window when a shuttle of visitors arrives at Eternity, with many of its passengers already dead. It seems murder has followed Mallory into space. Now, as the bodies start to pile up, she's in charge of finding out what's going on.
It's a good mystery, presented in a light-hearted way and with a bit of a YA flavour, but the real treats here are the fascinating aliens, including a swarm of wasp-like creatures called the Sundry and a race of rock creatures known as Gneiss. Luckily for Mallory they seem to like her, as she'll need all the help she can get.
By Alex Goodin novels December 26, 2022 230 Words11 Comments
By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (translated by Olena Bormashenko)
The great dividing line between the modern and medieval world is the Enlightenment and the twin revolutions of the end of the eighteenth century. In Marx's terms this was also the transformation from a feudal to a thoroughly capitalist economy. The dramatic nature of this shift is why medieval times are so often invoked in SF time travel stories, from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to Connie Willis's Doomsday Book.
That watershed moment is clearly what's in play here, as communard historians from a future Soviet Earth visit a planet stuck in the Dark Ages in order to record (but not interfere with) its transition through the historical dialectic of Marxist theory. Along the way, however, a direct comparison is made to the Nazi state, with grays and blacks taking the place of Brownshirts and the Gestapo.
The Strugatskys originally wanted to tell a straight-up adventure story along the lines of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, but there's something in the idea that necessarily draws us into deeper waters. Dangerous waters too for the Strugatskys, who managed to slip in some criticism of Stalin's war on the intelligentsia and the corruption of the communist dream. The creeping shadow of darkness that Don Rumata sees overtaking Araknar camouflages the colour of many different shirts and flags.
By Alex Goodin classics, novels December 19, 2022 239 Words5 Comments
By Wade Roush
The Fermi paradox asks why we haven't any evidence of extraterrestrial life when it seems likely that we're not alone in the universe. Or, as the physicist Enrico Fermi is reported to have blurted out to a group of fellow scientists at Los Alamos: "Where is everybody?"
Assigning a number to just how likely it is that we have company is the work of the Drake equation, but both the Fermi paradox and Drake equation are just conversation starters. Given that we don't have any evidence to work with, and that we can't even be sure what sort of evidence we should be looking for, speculation is free to get highly creative and imaginative. Fertile ground for science and science fiction then.
Wade Roush keep the discussion on the level while at the same time communicating a sense of wonder when considering how Fermi's question and Drake's equation may be solved. My own sense of what's going on is that the distances involved are so great that we might as well be alone, and any message we get is likely to only be a dead letter. But just imagine!
By Alex Goodin non-fiction December 12, 2022 200 Words8 Comments
By A. G. Riddle
Even for veteran SF readers used to creative new ways of dealing with crime – like convicts having their memories wiped, or transported to penal colonies on other planets – the idea of criminals being sent back in time hundreds of millions of years so that they can fight it out with dinosaurs in an alternative Earth timeline may seem a bit of a stretch.
Nevertheless, that's the premise here as Sam Anderson, one of the scientists who developed the patented Absolom time-travel technology, is convicted of the murder of a colleague he'd been dating and then jettisoned to dinosaur-land. As he struggles to survive Triassic Park, his daughter Adeline tries to figure out who framed him back here on Earth Prime, while also working with the other Absolom scientists to develop a machine that can bring her dad back.
Lost in Time is obviously high-concept Hollywood fluff, but if you're looking for a bubble-gum page-turner with lots of silly action, cliff-hangers, and plot twists it's hard to beat a time-travel murder mystery with dinosaurs.
By Alex Goodin novels December 5, 2022 184 Words8 Comments
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
By E. A. van Vogt
A "fix-up" of four short stories that was published in the annis mirabilis of SF fix-ups (1950, which also saw the publication of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles), The Voyage of the Space Beagle has two claims to historical fame. The first story, which has the cat-like Coeurl killing and eating the crew after it's rescued from its dying planet, is considered by many to have kicked off the golden age of science fiction in 1939. And the third story, which has an evil red demon called an Ixtl laying its eggs, or guuls, inside the guts of living crewmen until they hatch and eat their way out, may have inspired Alien (the creators of Alien said it hadn't, but Van Vogt sued the studio, and the action was later settled out of court).
The Space Beagle itself is clearly a precursor to Star Trek's Enterprise, only without any women in miniskirts. Or any women at all. It's a ship on a mission to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations. What they meet up with, as with the Coeurl and Ixtl, is usually some threat to their survival. Meanwhile, politics on board play out in a nasty way, with the hero of the story being the hotshot "Nexialist" Grosvenor, whose field is a combination of all the arts and sciences. One new science being an early form of Hari Seldon's psychohistory, which is applied in highly improbable ways.
Grosvenor is also a figure who, despite all his resourcefulness, is unappealing today, being so full of himself and possessing a dubious sense of personal ethics. The writing is also casual and clumsy, unable to keep up with the fire of Van Vogt's imagination. At times he even seems impatient with the whole idea of narrative. So despite being a landmark work rooted in the pulps, I didn't find the book to be much fun. Nonetheless, its influence was dramatic, and it did much to shape the later history of SF along some interesting new lines.
By Alex Goodin novels November 28, 2022 362 Words6 Comments
By Stephen Baxter
By the year 2057 the Earth has already been through a lot. The effects of climate change have even forced the relocation of the British parliament to Newcastle and the American government to Alaska. But then the Blink occurs – a name given to the sudden disappearance of the Sun. This truly does seem like the end of things. But then, just as quickly as the Sun left, it comes back.
Obviously some very powerful forces are at work, which the global brain trusts take to calling Galaxias. It seems the removal of the Sun is a message that's been sent to us, though the meaning of that message is obscure and the nature of Earth's response much debated by the scientific bureaucracies in China and the West.
This makes Stephen Baxter's new novel a bit talky in places, but the focus on a trio of friends and the backdrop of speculative "hard" SF on a grand scale combine to make Galaxias an engaging enough cosmic mystery story, with an ending that opens up in a big way.
By Alex Goodin novels November 21, 2022 183 Words10 Comments
Artificial Condition
Artificial Condition is a sequel to All Systems Red, signaling that this will be a series of books — The Murderbot Diaries — starring the security cyborg known as Murderbot. The action picks up pretty much where All Systems Red left off, with Murderbot heading to a mining planet in order to discover how his programming got scrambled, which had led to him running amok.
Like All Systems Red this is a very short book, and it has even less story to tell. Most of the action takes place in Murderbot's head, in the form of data transfers and closed-circuit conversations he has with his new buddy, a space transport's AI that he bonds with while binge-watching serial dramas. As with a lot of second chapters in SF serials there's a sense of marking time, of bringing the story forward enough to introduce some new plot line but not really progressing the action. In other words, Wells is setting the hook. As I say, this is often the way that serials play but it means that as a standalone novel Artificial Condition doesn't have that much to offer.
By Ira Nayman
The Ugly Truth marks the finale of Toronto author Ira Nayman's Multiverse Refugees trilogy, set within his Transdimensional Authority universe. Some knowledge of what's already happened may be helpful, but given the chaotic insanity of Nayman's work (think lots of bold interrobangs) it's probably not essential.
The mouth of madness is opened after the evacuation to Earth of a bunch of blue-skinned vaudevillians (dressed in exquisite three-piece suits) whose universe is about to implode. These immigrants, who are constantly performing stand-up and slapstick for their God the Audi Enz, have various adventures that are related in a medley of forms, including news stories, pop songs, and diary entries. The odd couple of Rodney Pendleton and Daveen Rasmalai are back, while among the new characters are a superhero named Mistah Charisma (spawned by the Heronator machine) and a refugee running for parliament.
Nayman again delivers manic farce with more groaning puns and bad jokes than you can stuff in a multidimensional suitcase and winds the trilogy up nicely with a wholesome message for all of us . . . and a wink.
By Alex Goodin novels November 7, 2022 188 Words7 Comments


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Xvivo Perfusion
Xvivo Perfusion/
XVIVO Perfusion AB (publ) Report on operations 2018
Fri, Feb 08, 2019 07:30 CET
THE YEAR ENDED WITH CONTINUED STRONG GROWTH AND GOOD EBITDA
FOURTH QUARTER 2018 (OCT - DEC)
Total net sales in the quarter amounted to SEK 58.4 (41.6) million, corresponding to an increase of 40 percent in SEK and 33 percent in local currency. Net sales of non-durable goods* in the quarter amounted to SEK 52.3 (39.4) million, corresponding to an increase of 33 percent in SEK and 26 percent in local currency.
Warm perfusion sales of non-durable goods** showed a record growth of more than 50 percent during the quarter. Sales from warm perfusion represented 50 percent (43) of sales of non-durable goods.
Operating income before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to SEK 10.5 (8.6) million, corresponding to an EBITDA margin of 18 percent. In comparison the operating income before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the same quarter of 2017, excluding items affecting comparability, amounted to SEK 9.1 million.
Operating income amounted to SEK 6.1 (4.7) million, after amortization and depreciation of SEK 4.4 (3.8) million.
Net income amounted to SEK 4.9 (5.6) million, resulting in earnings per share of SEK 0.19 (0.21).
Cash flow from operating activities was SEK 2.4 (7.9) million; mainly affected by higher working capital due to strong sales in the quarter.
4 XPS machines were delivered in the quarter.
THE PERIOD 2018 (JAN - DEC)
Total net sales in the period amounted to SEK 187.9 (148.3) million, corresponding to an increase of 27 percent in SEK and 23 percent in local currency. Net sales of non-durable goods* in the period amounted to SEK 172.7 (141.0) million, corresponding to an increase of 22 percent in SEK and 19 percent in local currency.
Sales from warm perfusion** represented 43 percent (35) of sales of non-durable goods. The growth of sales from warm perfusion was about 50 percent for the period.
Operating income before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to SEK 30.9 (22.0) million, corresponding to an EBITDA margin of 16 percent. In comparison for the same period of 2017, the operating income before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), excluding items affecting comparability, amounted to SEK 24.8 million.
Operating income amounted to SEK 14.0 (7.1) million, after amortization and depreciation of SEK 16.9 (14.9) million.
Net income amounted to SEK 12.7 (6.3) million, resulting in earnings per share of SEK 0.48 (0.25).
Cash flow from operating activities was SEK 23.6 (22.2) million.
SEK 19 million share issue as a result of warrants being exercised.
PMA application for STEEN Solution ™ and XPS™ was filed with the FDA.
Perfadex® Plus, an upgraded version of Perfadex®, has been launched in Europe and the USA with successful adoption and positive feedback from clinicians and customers.
Analysis of the PrimECC®-study showed that the product is safe and showed positive clinical results.
United Therapeutics and XVIVO Perfusion executed a collaboration in which United Therapeutics intends to use XVIVO Perfusion's products in their organ assessment services.
8 XPS™ and LS™ were delivered during the period. At the end of the period 49 hospitals had access to either XPS™ or LS™.
CEO Magnus Nilsson will present the report in a conference call at 2 p.m. CET on Friday, February 8, 2019. Telephone UK: +44 (0) 3333 0008 04 or USA: +1 631 913 1422, enter code 61837473#.
XVIVO Perfusion AB (publ)
Magnus Nilsson, CEO
* The Company's revenue is segmented in Sales from non-durable goods and sales from durable goods
** STEEN Solution™ and products and services related to XPS™ and LS™.
Christoffer Rosenblad, CFO, +46 735 192159, christoffer.rosenblad@xvivoperfusion.com
Magnus Nilsson, CEO, +46 31 788 2150, magnus.nilsson@xvivoperfusion.com
For further information on XVIVO Perfusion's business, please refer to the company's website, www.xvivoperfusion.com
This information is information that Xvivo Perfusion AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 07:30 am CET on October 26, 2018.
This is a translation of the Swedish version of the press release. When in doubt, the Swedish wording prevails.
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XVIVO Perfusion AB is a medical technology company which develops solutions and systems for assessing and preserving organs outside the body and for selecting usable organs and maintaining them in optimal condition pending transplantation.
The company is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, and has one office in Lund, Sweden and one office in Denver, the USA. The XVIVO share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and has the ticker symbol XVIVO. More information can be found on the website www.xvivoperfusion.com.
XVIVO Perfusion AB (publ), Box 53015, SE-400 14 Göteborg. Corporate identity number 556561-0424.
Tel: 46 31 788 21 50. Fax: 46 31 788 21 69.
E-mail: info@xvivoperfusion.com. Website: www.xvivoperfusion.com
Transplantation , Steen Solution , Xvivo , xps , Xvivo Perfusion , Perfadex , heart transplantation , lung transplantation , Primecc , Perfadex Plus
Report on operations 2018

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Users often ask how to submit input data from a REBOL GUI form to a server. It's simple to do, but the method is not easy to find on REBOL websites.
This example shows how to write a REBOL-based client and server for a simple feedback form.
Both of these scripts have been tested with recent releases of REBOL (R2).
The client script implements a feedback form. This is an updated version of a script that I wrote in 2001 for users to submit feedback and comments.
Let's break the script into separate sections for discussion.
The first part of the client script defines the user interface. Notice that it looks a bit different from other REBOL code that you've seen earlier. It uses all of the same notations for values, but it's arranged in a different order. What you are looking at is a dialect.
Dialects provide a major benefit in REBOL. They make you more efficient in expressing concepts within specific domains, such as user interfaces. Dialects are mini-languages that have their own grammar but use the same REBOL lexicon (the way values are written such as quoted strings, numbers, URLs, blocks, etc.) In this section of the code, the domain is that of a GUI. The dialect itself is called VID, the Visual Interface Dialect.
This line calls the layout function that converts the GUI dialect block (the VID code) into actual graphical objects called faces. The function returns the top level face which holds all of the other sub-faces, and it will be displayed in a window later in the program.
These act somewhat like CSS styles in HTML. They provide some local variations to the predefined face styles. For example, the lab1 line redefines the width to be 100 pixels.
defines a label "User name" followed by an string input field. The field is given the name f-name so we can refer to it directly in our processing code.
This is another label and input field, followed by a return word. Here, within the VID dialect, return means something different from normal code. It's meaning is similar to carriage-return used with text. That is, go to the next line.
Those last few lines provide some buttons for submitting the form, clearing it, and cancelling it. Also note that keyboard shortcuts are provided for send and cancel.
A function is defined to set the elements of the GUI to its default values.
alert "The email address is not valid."
Notice that the email field is not required, but if it is set, the field must be a valid email address.
In order to submit the form data to the server, we must obtain all field values. This can be done by calling get-face on each GUI variable. Rather than use a list of all the field variables, the code below scans all GUI faces for those that have variable names, and builds a block of the names and their values.
Two functions are used to submit the form data to the server.
alert "Feedback has been sent"
If the server returns ok, the program displays a successful result and quits. Otherwise, the program displays an error message and allows the user to make corrections to any fields that may be a problem.
To send the data block to the server and get a block response back from the server we use the function below.
This is a handy function; one I use in many different programs. It's worth learning. The function takes a block, molds it into a string (of valid REBOL source), compresses it, then sends the resulting binary data to the server. The server processes the data (as will be shown below) then replies with a REBOL block, or has an error.
At the center of this is a read that uses the /custom refinement to send an HTTP POST data request to the webserver. Examine that line closely and don't forget the reduce.
In this case, because the block is not valid feedback data, you will see an error message return from the server.
On the server side we use fb-cgi.r, a CGI script like those discussed in the CGI Tutorial.
The read-cgi function is defined in newer versions of REBOL, but older versions can use this code: A Handy CGI Read Function.
Next, the script verifies that the essential fields are present, and returns an error if there's a problem.
The CGI script shown here is just an example. It's useful to use privately by yourself or your organization. If you want to use it publicly for anyone, then there are various features you'll want to add to validate users, detect large submissions, filter out miscellaneous abusive postings. Those features are beyond the scope of this tutorial.


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Q: How to set Primefaces LazyDataModel default SortField Is there a way to set the sortField parameter of a lazyDataModel on first load? I would like the DataTable to be sorted by the first column on render.
@Override
public List<T> load(int first, int pageSize, String sortField, SortOrder sortOrder, Map<String, String> loadingFilters) { }

On first load sortField is empty.
My solution is override sortField when it is empty:
if(!StringUtils.isBlank(getDefaultSort())) {
  sortField = getDefaultSort();
}

But is there no out of the box way?

A: Unfortunately, after looking at primefaces api I think the default sort field for primefaces's DataTable component cannot be set, so I've added some code on LazyModel.load method:
public List<T> load(int first, int pageSize, String sortField, SortOrder sortOrder, Map<String, String> filters) {

    if(sortField == null) {
        sortField = "defaultSortField";
    }

}

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Pakistani commuters and pedestrians cross a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Lahore on July 16, 2019. - In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, officials said at least 23 people were killed after heavy rain triggered flash floods and damaged more than 120 houses and 30 shops, while crippling the water and electricity supplies. (Photo by ARIF ALI / AFP) — AFP or licensors
Why Lahore gets flooded every year — and how to stop it
It's time to prepare the city for the climate crisis.
Dawar Hameed ButtUpdated 09 Aug, 2019 04:43pm
During the day-long rain spell on 16th July, Lahore's famous Lakshmi Chowk received more than 250 millimetres of rainfall. To put things into perspective, the average rainfall for the whole month of July (mean from 1961-1990) for the city is 202mm.
In 1996, Lahore received 496mm of rain in 36 hours during a monsoon spell, breaking all records in recent memory. The Ravi, which at the time was unhindered on the Indian side, overflowed and most of Lahore flooded.
It was an anomaly that has not been repeated since as the water flows have massively declined in the last two decades. But the Ravi does not need to overflow to have Lahore flooded.
A combination of above-average rainfalls and over-development has made the city regularly witness pluvial flooding (urban flooding caused by excess rainfall and slow drainage flows), for which no cure or mitigation has been devised.
Lahore, probably Pakistan's most developed metropolis, has become critically vulnerable to pluvial flooding. Year after year (2015, 2018), the rain causes considerable infrastructural damage, while many citizens lose their lives due to related accidents.
Increasing urbanisation and decreasing green spaces.
As Lahore's urban sprawl has grown, the city managers have largely failed to cater to its drainage needs. This simply means that, while housing societies, concrete boulevards, flyovers, underpasses, high-rises and signal-free corridors have popped up all over the city, green spaces and the urban tree canopy has had to bear the brunt of these developments. At the same time, Lahore's drainage system capacity has also declined.
By the same author: No, India is not responsible for Punjab's smog. Here's what's really happening
The city is served by eight main drains: Central, Lower Mall, Chota Ravi, Alfalah, Gulberg 1 and 2, Edward Road, Mian Mir and Gulshan-i-Ravi. 76 tributary drains are connected to them. Combined, they make up a lengthy network of 180 kilometres, with a theoretical carrying capacity of nearly 6,500 cusecs. But urbanisation and reduction of green spaces has increased the strain on these waterways.
Lahore's vast system of drains and sewers. — Jica
Lahore's tree cover fell by 72 percent from 12,359 trees in 2007 to just 3,520 in 2015. The main drains are always vulnerable to siltation as the surface runoff deposits large amounts of sediment into them. A Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) study in 2004 revealed that nearly 400,000 cubic metres of sediment deposits had gathered in these drains, which were gradually removed by the Water and Sanitation Authority (Wasa) with assistance from Jica.
The sediment deposits reduce the carrying capacity of the drains, making them less and less effective in times of heavy rainfalls. With reductions in green cover and water absorption into the soil, and increased surface runoff of sediment into the drains, Lahore can no longer deal with the monsoon.
Loss of tree cover in Lahore district. — Punjab Clean Air Action Plan
Just a few years after the Wasa reclamation project, pluvial floods struck Lahore in 2007 and 2008. They wreaked havoc in the city's northern quarters, which are also the oldest and most densely populated. Localities including Lakshmi Chowk, Bhatti Gate, Empress Road, Cooper Road and Chaburji were inundated, reminiscent of the 1996 episode.
These episodes have grown more frequent. While cumulative rainfall during monsoon has remained in the normal range, the intensity of single rainfall events has risen. Above-average single rainfalls occurred in Lahore in 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2018. Enough meteorological data is present to attribute these anomalies to the global climate crisis.
In a report published by the Pakistan Meteorological Department's Global Change Impact Study Center, researchers have predicted that, with rising temperatures, rainfall events in Lahore during monsoon will become more and more extreme.
Monsoon winds are driven towards high-temperature inlands. The urban heat island effect generated due to Lahore's accelerated development and urbanisation could become a cause of such extreme events. The urban heat island means that temperatures within the urban part of the district are higher than the peripheral and adjoining rural areas. The resulting differences can concentrate rain clouds over such hot spots.
Related: Cities, climate change and Pakistan's extended urbanisation
Future-proofing Lahore requires serious changes in the city's current urbanisation trajectory, as well as capacity building of critical agencies and departments. A master plan for Lahore's sewerage and drainage systems is needed. But financial cuts — from having a budget of around Rs18bn for Wasa in 2017 down to Rs9bn in 2019 — don't help.
With the reasons for pluvial flooding well understood, city managers must prepare in advance. Sustainable urban development practices, climate-sensitive city planning, capacity building of Wasa and creatively using Lahore's geography can provide reasonable safety nets for people to survive through monsoon spells.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department had predicted a normal to above-normal monsoon for this region well in advance this year, but the government's plan emerged only a few days ahead of the spell, and was one of disaster management rather than prevention.
In an era of highly developed climate models, the district government and Wasa should prepare beforehand to prevent flooding. The preparations require a sizable mobilisation of government apparatus, and should follow a step-by-step strategy: rehabilitate, respond and reform.
Drainage failure occurs due to siltation and extreme rainfall events. — Illustration by the author
As is evident, Lahore's entire drainage system needs regular maintenance, requiring advanced machinery such as hydraulic excavators, specialised pumps and trash-raking equipment. If Wasa is empowered and well-resourced, it would be able to mobilise resources once the rain predictions have been made several weeks ahead of time.
Drains, both major and minor, also need to be lined with trees of various native species to create a buffer against outflows and reduce surface runoff.
Read next: Exploring why Karachi's rainwater has nowhere to go
City planners have to rethink urban development as well. Pluvial flooding is not a developing world issue; Rotterdam, after suffering from numerous such episodes, is now dealing with this problem using what is dubbed as water squares. Parks and grounds, with abundant trees and at a lower elevation, allow for absorption of water, and act as temporary reservoirs during storms. An underground reservoir can both hold water during storms and allow it to percolate into the aquifer.
Urban housing can similarly be designed to prevent flooding of roads and houses, with the landscape formulated in a way to provide necessary safeguards.
Changes within existing infrastructure can provide safeguards against flooding. — Illustration by the author
These changes can prepare the city for the long-term impacts of the climate crisis, though these are likely not enough, and a thorough review of the city's current development and growth trajectory is also required.
As another spell of rainfall looms over Lahore, it is the right time for citizens and planners to start preparing for this century.
Are you an urban planner? Share your expertise with us at prism@dawn.com
Dawar Hameed Butt is a policy analyst and communications consultant, interested in governance, public policy and sustainability. Follow him on Twitter @thelahorewala.
The views expressed by this writer and commenters below do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Dawn Media Group.
Climate change does not need visas to cross borders
Is Karachi ready to fight the next big heatwave?
Is climate change depressing you too?
Excellent article. Educating our masses to clean drains is also important.
I have seen lahore transform over the time and now its too toxic to live in. The successive governments have absolutely ignored the environment and the residents have to suffer due to lung problems, chronic coughing increased and a range of health problems. The people also want to see the road expand instead of pushing government to make roads cycling friendly. With the arrival of cheap motorbikes people are not using bicycles even for short distances. Most public spaces are not friendly for pedestrian and people prefer to use car or bike wherever they want to go. Our government should look at big cities in europe like Hamburg or Berlin where they have not expanded a single road even with the increase in population. Public prefers to use public transport because getting around in a car is way more difficult.
SadFaces
No regulatory bodies for Kachi abadis means that there will always be issues of gas and electricity, water and sewerage, lack of proper medical centers, traffic management, lack of parks and recreation, lack of security, and of course lack of tax collection.
bhaRAT©
"city managers have largely failed to cater to its drainage needs." That's the crux of the problem. Road building gave the PMLn vote bank as they were 'visible development'. Drainage system is not visible development for people to see with naked eye and appreciate. Roads damaged by rains create more opportunity to make money for politicians and their favoured contractors. The cycle repeats. This is how they plunder!
For Karachi please seek out Sindh Katchi Abadi Authority.
Azam Kadeer
kepe clean people need to be educated so they do not through wastage on the street specially plastic bags
O Hanif
To resolve remaining Lahore issues please take all the budget of Karachi/Peshawar/Quetta and also London and NY. We might be able to see flood free Lahore in monsoon.
Draining relatively clean into sewage systems is NOT the solution! We need to find ways to get this water back into the water table. The government should look into permeable pavements which allow rainwater to soak into the ground below. Non-paved green areas should be created all over the city. I was surprised to know that traditional water drainage systems (gharki) is banned in DHA Lahore, even for the purpose of letting rainwater soak
Ban the plastic bags, good drainage system and divert all the water to the reservoirs for agricultural purposes. Keep the streets and roads clean and educate people and put heavy fines
Amjad Durrani Engineer USA
Recent flooding in Lahore is a result of inadequate & poor maintenance of stormwater drains, improper planning, encroachment on drains, occupation of low lying areas, modification of catchments, & climate change, typically characterized by Increase in flood peaks by 2-8 times; & volumes by 6 times; are mainly caused by 1. Increasing population & encroachment on drainage channels, 2. Increased imperviousness leading to increased runoff as compared to drainage capacity, improper waste disposal resulting in clogged drains, high intensity - high load of runoff.3. changing climate, resulting in extreme events, 4. Inefficiency of integrated flood control implementing agency An integrated solution includes: a. Renovation of existing drainage network b. Regular maintenance of stormwater drains c. Use of porous construction material for pavements d. Putting in place green cover e. Treat drainage as the base of master plans. f. Protecting existing large flood drains & clearing encroachments.
@O Hanif, money does matter also but most important is the mindset of the people. If people not behaving with responsibility and care for their environment and surroundings then all the money is like zero.
A good eye-opener for our policymakers - Its a combination of poor planning, poor maintenance, lack of green spaces, and lack of education of public that is mostly responsible for the problem in Lahore and other big cities. Shocked to read that in just eight years tree cover decreased 72 percent. This just shows that our policymakers and planners also need to be educated about the basics.
Thanks for this article. Just wanted to note that the tree statistics might be referring to acres or some other unit of measurement. I cannot believe that there are only 3520 trees in Lahore. That just seems too little. The paper you cited doesn't give a unit but this article says that it is number of trees . Maybe they can correct this?
All we need is more trees,people should be encourged to plant more trees and plants wherever possible.
Akram
it needs doing but will only happen when Pakistanis are made to pay their dues in taxes, nothing will happen without money.
M. Saeed
Lack of proper town planning and rampant violations of whatever plan is there by the unscrupulous housing societies in their insatiable greed to mint money, is the cause of frequent flooding. See the ancient town planning of old Lahore. The old city is all free of flooding for being built on raised ground level coupled with a surrounding drainage cum safety from invaders' trench, was the very simple and obvious solution of the old timer's Lahore.
Ali Xai
Its Because Khadim Alla fullfilled his promise to Change Lahore into Vienece.
Gordon D. Walker
Down the drain! A good thing... Gordon D. Walker Canada
@Tallat , a mega project to handle rainfall runoff us is Chicago, it is stated to be a hundred year project, the city is building massive underground tunnels to capture all the rainwater and store but underground. It would require 50-100 billion dollars, plus the fortitude to plan, build and continue it for 3-4 generations. We have difficulty with a 5 year project, and looters would have a field day. Simply cleaning the drains is a nonstarter idea.
We must invest in rain water harvesting. Also Lahor residents must be given incentives to use more water than necessary to decrease the surplus. For example, doubling the duration of taking bath and more frequent baths should be encouraged. This is also an opportunity to make money as we can sell surplus water to neighboring countries. Avery cheap way to store surplus water is to divert it to the off-shore oil wells. Since no oil was found, these wells would be empty and therefore capable of storing water.
LAHORI KID
Not only we have to clean the drains, we have got to redesign the drainage system of every city that floods, it won't be cheap, it won't be easy, but it'll still be cheaper in the long run, businesses and people won't suffer, there won't be sickness spreading from the floods
ARFAN ASLAM KHAN
the state of LAHORE is wrong doing of previos thieves governments,if they have spent money on people and state then it would have been alot better,instead these thieves put all the money in their accounts.shame on them.
Here are a few suggestions to reduce rain water overflow and increase sustainability in Lahore. 1. Stop providing carpeted streets in the City. Instead furnish all streets with permeable brick soling. In this way rain water will be absorbed in earth and increase the underground water level as well as reduce water flow to the drainage system. 2. Change bylaws to make sure that each new house shall have 10-25% soft scaped area. 3. All new housing societies should use separate pipe lines for soil drainage and rain drainage. There shall be collecting ponds of rain water in each society where rain water is collected, stored and used for irrigation of soft scaped areas.
matiur rahman
So many megaprojects but criminal neglect to improve the existing infrastructure. Our policies lacks coherence . Sheer Optics and not the mitigation of the people suffering is the mind set of our rulers.
@Faizan, spot on.
Guy should be an urban planner :)
Pervez
When the government's core agenda revolves around Afghanistan and Kashmir, no doubt there very little space to think about the problems in Pakistan. No doubt that we will continue to suffer like this yar after year.
This water must be stored elsewhere and used for crops and other requirements....The water must be diverted to dry regions....
Former PM and long time CM also from lahore yet basics are yet to find about urbanization. Problem is that politicians invest in cheap popular projects altogether with corruption ignoring very basics thing which required. Its a shame that such people had not done any basic infrastructure work therefore people suffers.
Billions and billion have been spent on cosmetics of Lahore .. but nothing was done regarding drainage, sewage and drinking water .. This is really sad .. It's not the government to be blamed.. it's the citizens themselves who are responsible for this mess..they never raised their voice..they never held anyone accountable Citizen don't know about their rights and they don't even care bout it Govt is surely responsible for it but the opposition and citizens are also to be blamed for being dum,deaf and blind
There should be a ban on expansion of Lahore and Karachi and borders should be limited New cities need to be planned .. and the living standards in the old ones should be improved
SHAHID SATTAR
Let it continue to rain please. It brings freshness of life to any place. Remove the factories and mills away from the city and please, please, don't let the buildings go vertical either for houses or offices. It may bring in money but the costs are enormous to the living, which unfortunately they realize after it is too late to move backwards.
Excellent article. If we see the british built the water squares (dongi grounds) in model town, samanaabad and in some towns by LDA ( e.g. faisal town, etc). As our ground level water is decreasing water squars are more required while taking appropriate measures against dengue. Rain water should be saved.
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Nancy Smithner
Clinical Professor of Educational Theatre
Music and Performing Arts Professions
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Nancy Smithner, Ph.D, is a director, performer and specialist in physical, devised and community engaged theatre. She has explored multiple genres with large casts in her directing projects, including The Good Soul of Szechuan (Brecht), The Tempest, As You Like It, Macbeth, Love's Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), The Eumenides (Aeschylus), The Imaginary Invalid (Moliere), School for Scandal (Sheridan), The Tales of the Lost Formicans (Constance Congden), Sonia Flew (Melinda Lopez), Mad Forest (Caryl Churchill); Tongues (Sam Shepard); The Memorandum (Vaclav Havel) and Voices of women: women's stories on culture and identity, with contributions from women solo artists in NYC.
Highlights of Dr. Smithner's devised work include The Last Rat of Thieresiendstadt, created with Hilary Chaplain, which won the Grand Prize for Best Original Play at the Lalka Też Człowiek Festival of 2018 in Warsaw Poland; A Chance Shadow, created with Spica Wobbe; Provocative Acts: (m)body, a play on perceptions of the body, created with graduate students at NYU, Suddenly there came a tapping: a retelling of the Raven, created with members of her company, the Ensemble of Movement Theatre, with whom she is in the process of devising a new children's theatre performance work, Beyond the North Wind, with puppetry and shadow play.
Nan has created multiple site specific and environmental theatre works including Hear Them Roar: The Fight for Women's Rights, a devised play about women's suffrage in Washington Square Park; A Journey Through Time and Space, devised with middle school students of the Institute of Collaborative Education (ICE) in Stuyvesant Square Park; The Triangle Project, a play about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, in Washington Square Park and at the site of the fire; The Poetry Corridor, a collaboration with NYU Advanced Directing Students and middle school students of ICE, in ten floors of the stairwell of the Education Building; Traversing the High Line, devised with 12 NYU graduate students on the High Line in Chelsea; and Evolution, a play created with the inmates of Woodbourne Correctional Facility, staged in a prison gymnasium.
As an applied theatre practitioner, Nan teaches and directs in medium and maximum security prisons with both male and female inmates. She also worked for two decades as a pediatric clown doctor for the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, performing for children in multiple hospitals on pediatric floors and in emergency room clinics, cancer wards as well as intensive care and burn units.
Nan has taught workshops as an international scholar at the Central School of Drama, Beijing and the Shanghai Theatre Academy, China; Incheon Catholic University and Soongsil University, Korea; and Ping Tung University and Shu-Te University, Taiwan. For the Program in Educational Theatre, she has directed numerous study abroad programs in Puerto Rico, Dublin and London, and most recently led the Dean's Global Honors Seminar in Sydney Australia. She has chaired many international forums for the Program in Educational Theatre including Performance as Activism, Theatre for Public Health, Theatre Pedagogy: teaching the art form, and organized a keynote panel for the Forum on Applied Theatre. Nan has frequently presented at numerous national conferences on her directing and teaching, and is a member of AATE and ATHE and serves as an Educational Consultant to Circle in the Square Theatre School on Broadway.
Nan oversees student teaching placements for the Program in Educational Theatre, and received the Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award in 2005. She has taught and revitalized the following courses: Styles of Acting & Directing, Physical Theatre Improvisation, Introduction to Educational Theatre, Theatre History, Acting, Character Study, Advanced Directing, Images of Women in Theatre, Drama in Education, Student Teaching Seminar, Creative Play in the Arts, Community Engaged Theatre, Devised Theatre, Theatre of Brecht & Beckett, and Doctoral Proposal Seminar. Her research interests are physical and experimental theatre, devised theatre, community engaged theatre and postmodern and feminist theory.
Smithner, N. (in print: anticipated publication date 2020) Meredith Monk: Five Decades of Embodied Innovation. Book chapter commissioned for Bloomsbury Publications: Great American Stage Directors of the Northeast: Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson
Smithner, N. (2018) Introduction: Performance as Activism ArtsPraxis, Volume 5: 2.
Smithner, N. (2017) "Teaching Artistry Full Circle: Formerly Incarcerated Students as Co-teachers" Teaching Artist Journal 15:1, 33-38, Taylor & Francis Group
Smithner, N. (2012) Exploring Pedagogical Approaches in Applied Theatre in Correctional Facilities: Discoveries and Resonances for Arts-based Educational Researchers" in Taylor, P, ed. Theatre Behind Bars: Can the Arts Rehabilitate?" NY: Trentham.
Smithner, N. (2012) Directing a Shakespeare Youth Ensemble through Physical Theatre: Case Narrative, in Landy, Robert and David Montgomery, Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Smithner, N. (2011) Creative Play: Incorporating play, liminality and ritual in teaching K – 12 in Schonnman, Shifra, ed., Key Concepts in Drama in Education, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Smithner, N. (2010) The Women's Project: Voices of Women -- a Director's Perspective on Creating a Performance Collage," ArtsPraxis: Volume 2.
Smithner, N. (2007) Devising with Physical Theatre: An Eclectic Approach, Årsskrift 200, Danmarks Dramalærerforening.
Smithner, N. (2005) Meredith Monk: Four Decades by Design and Invention, The Drama Review, Summer 2005, T186.
Smithner, N. (2002) "Directing the Acting Ensemble: Meredith Monk, Elizabeth Lecompte and Anne Bogart,"Doctoral dissertation.
Educational Theatre
Build on your performing skills and learn to create transformative theatre arts programs in schools, cultural institutions, and community settings.
Advanced Directing
Advanced Directing is an examination of advanced techniques of directing through the practical directing of scenes, exploration of rehearsal tools for work with actors, and the creation of original staging formats. Innovative directing techniques will be explored, including a study of Naturalism, Realism, Viewpoints, Rasa Boxes, and Expressionistic and Brechtian devices. Students will work towards developing their own directorial voice and performance aesthetics through practical and dynamic use of the theatre space.
MPAET-GE 2098
Elements of play scripts are analyzed and dramatized. Students cast and rehearse members of of the acting classes in brief scenes performed at workshop meetings on Friday afternoons. Class assignments included.
MPAET-UE 1081
Drama in Education I
Relationships of theories of dramatic art to general educational principles; present practices and potential of education drama at all levels of instruction. Uses of theatre and drama in education from the Greeks to present day. The history and philosophy of drama in education as they relate to a variety of classroom strategies, including the use of new technologies. The impact of human developmental processes, such as culture, personal safety, and nutrition on learning through theatre and drama. Individualizing instruction to prepare students with special needs for their highest levels of achievement.
Physical Theatre Improvisation
Physical Theatre is the study of physical, vocal and improvisational exercises designed to free the creative imagination and develop performance skills. Through the layering of words, sound and movement, students will hone the essential ingredients and tools of the performer's craft. Focus will be on vocal and movement techniques exploring atmosphere, imagery, gesture, isolation, abstraction,timing, rhythm, spatial awareness, character development, mime, body graphics, viewpoints, and the theories of Yakim, Delsarte and Laban. The creation of original material will also be studied.


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Fup by Jim Dodge
Granddaddy Jake Santee has, after six and a half decades of riotous living, found the secret of immortality. It is in the distilling and drinking of Ol' Death Whisper, a moonshine recipe given to him by a dying Indian outside a gambling hall in Nevada City. Jake has never settled, he's been married three times, has one daughter he hasn't seen since she was a baby, followed the gold rush, made a fortune, lost it, made another, won some land which suits him well, but has spent most of his life an itinerant gambler, sometimes lucky, sometimes not. But something in that dying Indian's eyes and his promise of immortality held Jake's attention, and he took himself and the recipe back home to his dilapidated ranch. He hasn't moved since:
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Category: Literary Fiction
Reviewer: Jill Murphy
Summary: A full five stars and then some for this little book with a big heart and even bigger belly laugh. Fup is a fairy tale for grown ups and with none of that nasty stuff they put in the fairy tales for children. Buy it, borrow it, steal it. Just don't miss it.
Buy? Yes Borrow? Yes
Pages: 121 Date: March 2004
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
The whiskey helped him keep still. One hit of Ol' Death Whisper would drive most humans to their knees; two produced a mildy hallucinatory catatonia. His neighbours used it for tractor fuel, blowing stumps, and, diluted by a drop to a pint of water, as a treatment for almost anything that ailed their stock, from scours to lungworm.
No wonder he stays put! Fifteen years into the perfecting of the art of distilling of Ol' Death Whisper and fifteen years into his immortality Grandaddy Jake hears news that his daughter has drowned, leaving a small son, Johnathan Adler Makhurst II, otherwise known as Tiny. After a fight with the fostering agencies and Miss Emma Gadderly, the county social worker, and a run of luck at cards which pays for the lawyers, Jake successfully adopts his grandson. Tiny is well named; like Topsy he just growed and growed and growed. He's 6'5" standing in a hollow. They get along wonderfully well together but Jake and Tiny are like chalk and cheese:
Tiny, fortunately, was as amiable as his Granddaddy was ornery, as placid and benign as the old man was fierce and belligerent. Tiny enjoyed the open, linear purity of checkers. Granddaddy favored games with hole cards, where your strength was in your secrets and you flew into the eye of chaos riding your ghost.
While Granddaddy Jake drinks himself into immortal oblivion, Tiny spends his time fence-building. He builds fences all across the ranch, the straightest, truest, most wonderfully-built fences that there ever were. He builds picket fences, post and rail fences, and wire fences. He has offers to build fences for ranches up and down the country, but Tiny prefers to busy himself with fence-building at home. Fences are his passion. His worst nightmare is Lockjaw, a local wild pig who continually disrupts the order and neatness of his fence-building. Pigs are the natural enemy of fences. Sometimes, it feels as though Lockjaw is his nemesis. One evening, after days and nights of frustrating rain, and no fence building, Tiny finds a baby mallard close to death in one of his sodden fencepost holes. It is clear from mess of earth around the hole that Lockjaw has been there, after the tiny, folorn little thing. Tiny takes the bird home, where it is revived by Granddaddy and a drop or two of Ol' Death Whisper. He calls her Fup. (You get it? Capisce? Fup Duck, FUP DUCK).
Fup is like both of her benefactors: thanks to her voracious appetite, she grows as large for a duck as Tiny is for a man. Fup could eat for her country, and she's not particularly fussy what she eats as long as there's plenty of it. She's also sharp, touchy and temperamental, just like Jake, and is not afraid to make her feelings of disapproval clear by a judicious peck or two. She shows no interest in learning to fly, despite Granddaddy's best efforts to teach her: she is happy accompanying Tiny on his fence- building endeavours and trying to help him sniff out Lockjaw on regular hunting expeditions, and eating at very regular intervals, of course. Together this odd trio rub along tremendously well. Odd they may be, eccentric they may be, but they fit together as a family should.
And if you want to find out if Granddaddy Jake is truly immortal, if Tiny ever does manage to rid himself of Lockjaw and if Fup Duck learns to fly you'll just have to read it. I've said too much already. It won't take you long, for Fup packs it all in to just a hundred or so pages. Oh, do buy it, do. Fup is a very, very funny little book and it will suit everyone: I spat my tea all over the place; my childrenlaughed out loud; my mother said "aww" a lot. What more recommendation could you want? The part where Grandaddy Jake tries to teach Fup to fly and ends up losing the few teeth he has left is hilarious, and the one where financial ruin for our threesome is luckily prevented by the foolishness of a nirvana-seeking hippy left me in stitches. Oh, go on then, have just one more little bit:
The longhair, though visibly shaken after the first swallow, managed to get down six or seven quick more gulps before he collapsed on the front porch and began writhing in such a way that Boss, Tiny's cantankerous and ever-horny Beagle, had tried to come over and hump him... He immediately bolted for the walnut tree in the front yard, went up it in a single, gigantic bound, and spent the next three hours sitting among the bare limbs hunched over like a sick buzzard. The first hour he wept. The second hour he laughed. The third hour he was silent. The fourth hour he pitched forward and fell like a sack of wet grain. He broke both arms. On the way into the hospital, he offered to buy Granddaddy's stock on hand and all future production for $20 a pint in exchange for sole distributorship.
Don't talk to Granddaddy Jake about absinthe! He's been there, seen it, done it, most certainly drunk it, probably orbitted the moon and got a better t-shirt for it to boot. So there. Ohhh, I just want to tell you it all. You'll love the marathon checkers tournament. And the cinema trips. And Johnny Seven Moons, man of few words. But I'm stopping, I'm stopping!
Fup is one of those little fables you could read again and again and again. It's funny, it's sweet, it's joyous. And it's over before you know it, and somehow, with a story like this, that's a good thing, do you know what I mean? Half the fun is in the brevity. Dodge writes in a colloquial and down-to-earth way, packing an awful lot of things into a very few words. Reading Fup you'll find some raunchy, earthy humour, some naughty sarcasm, and an awful lot of wisdom, joy and fun. It's just packed full of life and energy and humour. It's a bit like reading the philosophy of Johnathan Livingstone Seagull mixed up in the style of a beaty writer like Kesey with some vivid pictures from a sharp observer like Steinbeck thrown in, but it's both less and more than those things: it really is just a lovely, short little story-come-parable filled with a bit of magic, a bit of truth and an awful, awful lot of clear-eyed humanity. It's uplifting to read and hilariously, tea-spittingly funny. And I think that's enough, don't you? I shall stop now, or I'll write more than Dodge did, and that wouldn't be a good thing at all. You just read it.
At the very least, as Granddaddy Jake would tell you, It's better'n whacking it.
Oops, did I just say that?
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xocitus said:
I think your review exactly what the book deserves. But after I read this book I was left with a question: Why gets Fup in the way when Tiny shoots Lockjaw? There must be a reason, don't you think?
Is it because Fup actually likes Lockjaw and isn't his enemy after all. Is it because we just THINK Lockjaw attacked her, but this isn't what really happened?
Jill replied:
I think it's just all gloriously surreal and doesn't really mean anything at all!
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Here's a great comparison shot from many, many years ago on the bottom when we built a Water Garden In Little Rock Arkansas for P. Allen Smith to the top picture from last night. 😊 Can you pick us both out in the bottom photo?
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City-owned utility company Conway Corp. has invested in putting together a master plan to see the long-term potential of being able to stay in Downtown Conway.
Rik Sowell and Liz Hamilton of Rik Sowell Architects, Inc. have been working on Conway Corp.'s Prairie Street campus master plan for about four months. The plan was officially presented to the Conway Corp. Board of Directors at a meeting on Tuesday.
CEO of Conway Corp. Ritchie Arnold said he had each manager at the Prairie Street campus forecast how many employees they will need for the next 15 years.
The master plan will ensure all future development works well with existing structures, and maintains a balance of workspaces with adequate parking.
Phase one of the plan includes the construction of a new 28,000-30,000-square-foot anchor building on the corner of Locust and Prairie streets.
The building will be three stories of offices with a community room and ground floor retail space overlooking an outdoor plaza similar to Rogers Plaza in front of the Conway Chamber of Commerce building on Oak Street.
Hamilton said the retail space would be an open area at about a story-in-a-half with street facing glass displays that would rival competitors like Verizon and Apple.
The back of the building would include a two-lane drive through for customer bill pay.
In order to accommodate more employees and customers, the "rock house" and "white house" on Locust Street would be demolished to make way for an expanded parking lot.
The new parking lot would include two boulevard entrances, one on Prairie Street, the other on Locust Street, with Conway Corp. monument signs at each.
The entrance-only and exit-only driveways that currently exist on Prairie would be consolidated into one.
"We see this new building as making a good statement about downtown," Sowell said.
With a building that is brought to the property line, streetscaping and a hidden parking lot, Sowell said the master plan complies with City of Conway downtown design standards.
Phase two would remove the existing drive through, and renovate Conway Corp.'s existing building into office space.
Arnold said when the existing drive through is demolished; the parking lot will be used primarily for employee parking, but could also be utilized as additional downtown parking after hours.
Replacing the drive through is paramount, Arnold said, as the current system is intermittent and it's hard to find someone who can work on the outdated system.
Phase three consists of the demolition of the apartment building at the corner of Locust and Deer streets where it will be replaced by a 12,400-square-foot, two-story office building.
Arnold said he anticipates as the company grows, the IT Department will eventually move from its new headend building on Deer Street into this building, but not for at least another 10-12 years, he said.
The final phase would include demolishing the existing IT office building to make way for an expanded employee parking lot of 90 spaces, bringing the total number of spaces to 226.
Arnold said when he first started this process he wasn't optimistic that Conway Corp. would be able to stay downtown more than 15 years, but by building vertical he thinks they can.
He also said he was pleasantly surprised by the number of parking spaces the company would be able to retain.
Arnold said he plans to talk with Rik Sowell Architects about putting together a design contract for board approval in February, which will include a timeline for design and construction of phase one.


The Connecticut Historical Society is a lot more complicated of an organization than I had originally assumed. What I mean by that is there is a lot more happening than just exhibits about American, particularly Connecticut, history. On the second floor of the museum, there is a temporary exhibit for WWI and Connecticut history, but on the first floor, there is a regularly changing exhibit done in partnership with organizations around the state to provide the community with insight into a specific cultural practice that is practiced by some members of the Greater Hartford region. This fall there was an exhibit for Mas, the costumes used in the West Indian Independence Day Celebration that was held in Hartford this past summer. I had no idea this festival existed until I had the opportunity to check out this exhibit, and I was impressed by the fact that the intricate and bright feathery costumes were designed primarily by students. It showed me that even high school students can design something artistic and unique – one does not need to be a professional artist to make art.
One main thing that I can take away from my time volunteering with CCHAP is that it really is important and fulfilling to be involved in the community. Every single person has a story to tell about how they grew up and how their culture influences their daily living.
In addition, CHS holds free events that are open for the community to also provide a better understanding of specific cultures, which are organized through CHS's Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP). For example, I had the opportunity to volunteer at their Day of the Dead event in October and Open Studio Hartford at the beginning of November. At the Day of the Dead event,visitors made papel picado, got face paint, made sugar cookies, drew skulls,and an entire room was dedicated to ofrendas. The Open Studio Hartford was an event where artists in the Hartford region were able to teach the community how to be artists with their own unique techniques, and they had their artwork for sale. Open Studio Hartford is a citywide event that has organizations host artists who don't have studios, and CHS was one of these organizations. In addition, the Sewing Circle Project, organized by the former director of CCHAP, Lynne Williamson, made an appearance with their work. Lynne described her experience with the project to me at the beginning of my time volunteering at CHS, but it was truly something special to meet the participants in person. Each individual comes from a different country in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. The Sewing Circle brought them together with their shared expertise with weaving and sewing in a way stronger than words ever could, and I was humbled to be introduced to them.
My perspective on historical societies has been broadened and I now have a greater appreciation for organizations such as CHS. In my class at Trinity College, Arts in Action, we discuss how important the arts are for community involvement. Even if an individual doesn't consider themself to be an artist, there are plenty of opportunities for them to learn and to gain confidence in their capabilities. At the Day of the Dead event, one did not have to be an artist to enjoy themself and learn more about the festival. Children were encouraged to cut out paper picado, which only required some creative and unique cuts into a piece of paper. The end result still made them excited and inspired. The children looked at each other's work and got more ideas on how to make their own designs. They also shared ideas for what to get for their face-painted designs. They came to the event as complete strangers but left with a greater sense of community.
As a volunteer for CCHAP, I had a fantastic time meeting the people in charge of making events such as Day of the Dead happen. I had the opportunity to sit in on a few organizational meetings, and it was incredible how just a few people could then bring together dozens of volunteers who gave their own insight into how to improve the event. It brought a smile to my face to give out the sugar cookies to kids and to explain what the purpose of decorating them was. Just knowing the fact that Kate Schramm, the recently designated director of CCCHAP, came all the way from Indiana to become the spearheader of the program says a lot about how well-established is the program is. Although my semester is almost over, and with that my time at CHS, I certainly am excited to come back to CHS to see what other inspiring events will be taking place.
In my class, we also have discussed the challenges that Trinity has with its involvement in the Hartford community. Students feel discouraged from using their free city bus pass because they feel that Hartford is not safe to explore. Personally, I have never felt this way, because I am aware of all of the great opportunities that Hartford has to offer. Downtown Hartford is full of small shops, restaurants, and it is next to the Riverfront Park and the Connecticut Science Museum. CHS is another prime example of the great services that the city provides. If a student has a bit of downtime on a Saturday afternoon, CHS provides informative and fun resources that they can learn from. With the city bus pass, it is also possible for them to get to the center in less than a half an hour with zero cost.
One main thing that I can take away from my time volunteering with CCHAP is that it really is important and fulfilling to be involved in the community. Every single person has a story to tell about how they grew up and how their culture influences their daily living. Learning about everyone's uniqueness brings joy and individuality to our lives. Taking time out of one's weekend to attend an event or visit an exhibit such as the ones hosted at CHS is a fantastic way to remember all the great things that a community has to offer.


Supra Skytop III "Jade" is one of the few "Vegan" colorways to come out from this massive line of over the top skateboard shoes. That being said, Supra always has some of the more unique color schemes and who doesn't want to pretend they ride a hoverboard to school.
The collar and tongue feature a hefty amount of padding to protect your ankles. If you are the kind of skater who misses the puffy "Basketball skateshoe" from the late 90's then the Skytop III is your solution. The tongue is also a black waxed twill on the outside, but is soft and fuzzy on the inside.
Another thing you may miss from the 90's; Air! The cupsole features an air pocket in the heal. An excellent feature when pulled off successfully. Otherwise its a one way ticket to squeaker-town.


Gwen Stefani has a son who is already in his mother's footsteps.
Zuma Rossdale has already assisted Gwen with designing an eyewear line. Last spring Stefani launched an addition to her adult frames. That was an optical selection for children called gx by Gwen Stefani Juniors. There were lots of colourful frames and interchangeable emoji magnets.
According to Gwen, Zuma has been wearing glasses since the age of 5. She found it really fun to make a collection that her son will wear. He is proud of the collection and is a part of it.
9-year-old Zuna glued hamburger emojis to his glasses. Gwen perceived it as a great idea which resulted in emoji magnets for children. They can swap them out on the sides of their glasses.
As for the star, personally she loves "nerdy secretary" glasses style. And for sunglasses she loves simple classic black shades.
Expect to see the new L.A.M.B. and gx by Gwen Stefani eyewear lines next month.


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Q: Python, remove brackets from using values from a dict mappe = {10 : [10, 1]}
pair = list(mappe.values())
liste = []
liste.append((pair) + [5, 6])

--> [[10,1], 5, 6]]
how can i remove the inner brackets?

A: You can use liste.extend() instead. The function append adds the value that you pass in as a single element to a list, while extend will take an iterable object and put each item in the list as an item. Like this: liste.extend(pair + [5,6])

A: Just another approach maybe?
it might do , depends on your task if you could elaborate please I'll gladly help
mappe = {10 : [10, 1]}
#pair = list(mappe.values())
pair=[]
for element in mappe:
    for x in mappe[element]:
        pair.append(x)

liste = pair.copy()
liste+=[5, 6]

print(liste)


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/**
 * @ngdoc service
 * @name clientApp.Systems
 * @description
 * # Systems
 * Factory in the clientApp.
 */
angular.module('clientApp')
    .factory('SystemSearch', ['$resource', function($resource) {
        // Service logic

        // Public API here
        return $resource('/api/systems/search/', null, null);
    }]);

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J.W. Northrup and Terry Irving are writers. They feed on the food of writers. The words they can create, compound and put together take them to new places. I wanted to interview these two writers about J.W's bestselling book "The Gold Slaves".
The Gold Slaves are enslaved humans who have been trapped underground with lies. The lie is that they must mine gold for the Gods. They have no idea about the outside world. The truth is that they have been swindled, conned into mining for the Rockwell mining company.
Creator of "The Gold Slaves," J.W Northrup.
Nick: J.W. meet Terry- Terry meet J.W.
Terry: Mr. Northrup, an honor! Anyone who can run a marathon with the runs is a hero in my book.
Terry: Yeah, I wouldn't even have been ABLE to run straight.
J.W: I was crazy in those years. I've outgrown them.
Terry: When do we begin, Mr. Moderator? What is a "Gold Slave," J.W?
J.W: A Gold Slave is a miner raised in total ignorance of the surface, believing the universe is solid.
Terry: Sort of like Wells' Morlocks? Do you think they really exist in our world?
J.W: I think brainwashed people do. Yes, a similar type of thing!
Terry: It's very difficult to brainwash people. I've read the memoirs of several of the guys in Hanoiand it didn't take.
Nick: You wrote extensively about the propaganda of the Vietnam era in your novel "Courier," Terry. Do you think the majority of Americans were brainwashed by Nixon?
Terry: Brainwashed? NO. Hogwashed, whitewashed and swindled, yes and betrayed, if you believe LBJ.
Nick: So, I guess there could be comparisons between the Gold Slaves and the American public of 1970 in their naivety towards the world they live in?
Terry: No. This is the most upwardly mobile society in the world – still. And more people can change to a different economic strata than anywhere else. It's less so than, say, right after World War 2but it's still not bad. Back to brainwashing… Were the Gold Slaves brainwashed or did they just never SEE the surface?
J.W: They were brainwashed by the discoverer of the gold to keep it secret and keep the gold for himself.
Nick: Brainwashed or misled, J.W?
J.W: Brainwashed using the techniques of Brainology. My book was part of a story about viewpoint. The Gold Slaves were very sane, but from our viewpoint, they would be considered to be insane.
Nick: Who would you see as resembling gold slaves in today's world?
J.W: Good question. I think people who are completely tied into the "Brain is everything" concept, and we are just computing neurons crowd.
Nick: J.W, Terry- this is for both of you- do you believe a world like that of the gold slaves would make us happier people?
Terry: If the gold slaves were happier and convinced that the surface people were barbarians, why would they have to brainwashed? Sounds like they had it right–for them.
Terry Irving, with an opinion on his lips.
J.W: The mining company had to find a way to hide the mining operations and thus secure the gold for themselves. But after they were "disconnected," the Gold Slaves developed a marvelous society based upon a crazy assumption.
Terry: Once again, the North Koreans. But their society isn't as marvellous–just as crazy though. Would you say that the North Korean society would be similar to the Gold Slaves.
J.W: How were the North Koreans brainwashed?
Terry: Well, they are convinced that the little nutball with the brush cut is a god and that they have the best society on earth. I'd go with brainwashing on that one.
J.W: Happens virtually everywhere on this planet.
J.W: As I said, it's all about viewpoint. We're the brainwashed people to the North Koreans.
Terry: Possibly, although since they keep starving to death and their average height is several inches shorter than the South Koreans, I'd say they have a reality deficit.
J.W: Yeah, but try to tell them that. They'll say it's an advantage. They would call it natural selection.
Terry: I don't know. I was in Berlin when the Wall went down and, despite decades of brainwashing, damn few Germans thought life was better in the East.
J.W: I suppose a good police force can be substituted for brainwashing.
Terry: It's essential, really. but all of the Soviet bloc was worked over for 50 years and it simply didn't take. The other problem is that you have to make sure that the police force is brainwashed as well. The end of East Germany came when the rulers realized that the VoPos (Volkspolizei) were not going to fire on the people chipping at the wall. Although, there are still a lot of East Germans who thought the old days were simpler and more fair. Sort of like radical Democrats all over. Well, it sounds fascinating. Jim, I'm going to have to read it.
J.W: I think you will enjoy it!
Nick: Thanks for the debate, Terry and J.W.
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Arnaud Le Lan, né le  à Pontivy (Morbihan), est un footballeur français jouant au poste d'arrière latéral gauche. Il est entraîneur principal de l'équipe réserve du Football Club de Lorient depuis 2022.

Biographie
Il effectue son premier match en Ligue 1 a lieu le  lors d'une rencontre face à Metz.

Au début de sa carrière, il poursuit en semaine une licence de STAPS sur le campus Mazier de l'université Rennes 2 à Saint-Brieuc tout en devant jouer le week-end.

Il remporte la Coupe de France le  avec le FC Lorient face au Sporting Club de Bastia sur le score de 1 à 0. Arnaud Le Lan est l'auteur de la passe décisive pour Jean-Claude Darcheville sur l'unique but de la finale.

Il met un terme à sa carrière le  lors de la dernière journée du championnat de Ligue 1 contre le Paris Saint Germain, lors de ce match il marque l'unique but lorientais sur penalty, le deuxième de sa carrière.

Au total, Le Lan a participé à 391 matchs dans sa carrière et marqué 2 buts.

Palmarès
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de France en 2002 avec le FC Lorient
 Vainqueur du Ballon d'eau fraîche en 2012

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Footballeur français
Joueur du FC Lorient
Joueur du Stade rennais
Joueur de l'En avant Guingamp
Entraîneur français de football
Naissance en mars 1978
Naissance à Pontivy
Joueur de l'équipe de Bretagne de football (BFA)
Étudiant de l'université Rennes 2

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If, after buying your first (1) pair of SWAV Performance or Lux underapparel product, and you are not 100% satisfied after first use, we will refund your entire purchase within 30 days.
For all consecutive purchases, we will refund your order if underapparel is unworn, unwashed and returned in original condition.
For all refunds, customers must make a claim within 30 days of purchase. We will cover the cost to return the products for all domestic (US) orders. This does not include international purchases. All refunds will be processed within 30 days of claim confirmation.


The next 7 day outlook for Ballynamona shows the average daytime maximum temperature will be around 13°C, with a high for the week of 17°C expected on the afternoon of Friday 3rd. The average minimum temperature will be 6°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Thursday 2nd at 3°C. Expect the next week to have some days seeing a little precipitation and some days with rain. It looks like Tuesday 2nd will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 15.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate. Expect the strongest wind on Saturday morning, coming from a north westerly direction, and reaching around 29mph.


Franchhoek hotels in the Cape Winelands provide a base from whence you can explore all the world-famous Franschhoek restaurants.
Franschhoek is the Food Capitol of South Africa, with eight out of its ten most famous restaurants being situated near one of these 5 star Franschhoek hotels. If you are a true food lover, this Cape Winelands destination seriously ought to be at the top of your 'to do' list while you are on holiday in Cape Town.
This winner of the Diners Club Wine List award, AA Travel Guide - Gold Achiever, Conde Naste's top 130 New Hotels of the world, presents three restaurants - La Verger, the unique Orchard Restaurant and the fine dining restaurant The Dish.
With two very different restaurants: Mange Tout -elegant provençal atmosphere showcasing executive chef, Ryan Smith's skills, and Country Kitchen inside the the wine tasting facility combining two delightful epicurean adventures in one.
L Ermitage Chateau and Villas A must for do-it-yourself fanatics, trainee chefs and wanna-be cooks. These are self-catering villas, so you have the excellent opportunity to go raid the various local delicatessens, cheeseries, butcheries and farm house stalls around the chateau and bring back all you can carry and cook up a storm.
Oude Werf Hotel in Stellenbosch More than a century old, this Winelands hotel is one Stellenbosch's culinary landmarks. The '1802' restaurants' unhurried pace, extensive traditional menu, variety of lighter dishes and Continental cuisine, are a dining experience worth repeating often.
Grande Roche Hotel You have three award-winning restaurants to experience. Spectacular breakfasts to the innovative lunches and a fusion of imaginative epicurean delights, executive chef Roland Gorgosilich and his team tantalizes the most discerning of palates.
The Spier Hotel in Stellenbosch Under starlit African skies, 'Moyo' at Spier is unlike any other restaurant. Bedouin tents and gazebos set throughout the garden re-create a setting similar to a nomadic African village. Enjoy modern African cuisine including North African moroccan style meals and superb wines.
Protea Hotel Dorpshuis on Stellenbosch's historic Dorp Street, with its original antique furnishings and old-world ambience places you near such eateries as Joostenberg Bistro, 96 Winery Road, Barouche (Blaauwklippen Wine Estate), Herenhuis (Zorgvliet Wine Estate), Olivello, Die Volkskombuis, Rust en Vrede Restaurant... And that's just for starters.


House Of Prayer is a Pentecostal Church that has been meeting for about 10 years now. Many of us experienced a sustained outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the early 90's until around 2002 that has spoiled us for anything else really. We seek to know the Presence of God in all our meetings and yet long for something more – the Fear Of God and holiness. The Hallowing of the Name of God.
Our dream is to be part of a great awakening in our nation and revival in the church, and to see the lost and broken brought into the House of God healed and saved.
We believe the Bible to be the Word of God and just as relevant to us today as it has always been. It does not have to be brought up to date to suit our ever changing society, rather we need to align ourselves with it's absolute truth. We believe we live in Pentecost the dispensation that will remain until Christ returns. Therefore we believe in Divine Healing, the gifts of the Spirit and in Jesus as head of the Church.
We invite you to join us for our prayer services every Sunday at 10am and 6.30pm.
Click the button below to listen to our latest messages on SoundCloud.
We are all agreed that our primary call is to seek for holiness and the return of reverence to the House of God – for revival, not as a church growth strategy, but simply because God is Holy. To hallow His Name. We believe the church is for His glory, not for our needs. Man is most satisfied when God is most glorified.


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This is when you can buy the Greggs festive bake - and if a vegan version will be on sale
Monday, 26th October 2020, 2:04 pm
The Greggs festive bake is one of the most highly-anticipated Christmas treats in the UK, but when will it be made available this year?
Here's everything we know so far.
What is in the Greggs festive bake?
The Festive Bake consists of pieces of chicken breast, sage and onion stuffing, and sweetcure bacon in a sage and cranberry sauce - all encased within a puff pastry exterior.
When is it coming to stores?
Each festive season, the eagerly-anticipated and aptly named festive bake comes to stores for a limited amount of time.
This year, the festive bake will return to Greggs branches on Thursday 5 November 2020, which is two days earlier than last year's release date.
Greggs took to Twitter on 22 October, simply writing, "2 weeks", alongside an image of the popular pasty.
A Greggs spokesperson said, "2020 has been strange, to say the least. We're trying to bring back a little taste of normal, one bake at a time. After all, what's more normal than your favourite Greggs order?
"Our much anticipated Festive Bake is back on the menu in November, so aside from all the uncertainty we're pleased our customers can have a little something they look forward to."
What else is on the Greggs festive menu?
At the moment, it is not yet known what other festive treats will appear on the menu this Christmas, but the festive bake is definitely making a return.
What did fans of the festive bake have to say?
Fans of the festive bake were rejoiced to learn that the Christmas treat will soon be hitting stores.
One wrote on Twitter, "This is just what the nation needs to give it a lift."
Another customer tweeted, "A thing of beauty...the countdown to Christmas can begin."
Someone else added, "Omg our prayers have been answered. 2020 has been saved."
Will there be a vegan or vegetarian version of the Greggs festive bake?
Numerous Greggs fans have called for the bakery to release a vegan version of its festive bake, like the chain has done by adding vegan versions of both its staple sausage roll and steak bake to the menu.
However, the bakery has not said if this year will see a vegan or vegetarian version of the festive bake go on sale, and has only revealed the release date of the original meat bake.
One customer wrote on Twitter, "Please tell me there will be a vegan/vegetarian option of this amazing Christmas favourite. I'm gonna cry if I can't have at least one little piece of this in my life."
Another said, "Time for a vegan version surely. You've cracked the market!"
"Please tell us there's going to be a veggie/vegan version this year? That might actually save 2020," wrote another customer.
A version of this article originally appeared on our sister site, The Star.
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Stainless High Mount Stabilizer, 2014+ – Carli Suspension, Inc.
– Fits Leveled & Lifted trucks, ONLY.
– Does NOT Fit with Factory Power Wagon Sway Bar.
This unique to the industry design eliminates the possibility of destroying your stabilizer on rocks or other obstructions that you may encounter while out on the trails, by adding an auxillary stabilizer out of harm's way. Our high-mount Stabilizer consists of a 6061 billet machined clamp with 1/2″ Grade 8 Hardware, a laser cut and powder coated steel bracket, and the elite Carli Suspension Stainless Steel Stabilizer Shock. This steering stabilizer will give you the positive feel through the steering wheel that you are looking for while reducing tie rod slop. It will also help to correct any right pull from the larger more aggressive tires.
The stainless steel schrader valve shock we use is an Internal Floating Piston shock. This means there is an internal dividing piston which keeps the oil and nitrogen separated. The nitrogen gas maintains constant pressure against the low mass "floating" dividing piston and the column of hydraulic oil, virtually eliminating the possibility of oil foaming or performance loss commonly seen in emulsion style stabilizers sold by competitors.


Dr. Vonador's husband of 7 years, their 6 year old son and 1 year old baby girl, are her main driving force with God as the head.  Without any of them, she does not believe she would be the woman she is today.
To ethically and morally strive for the betterment of my community in the healing of patients through medicine. My meticulous medical practices guide patients from diagnosis through to rehabilitation, to recovery and sustained quality of life.
Dr. Dominique Vonador, AP is a NCCAOM Board Certified Acupuncture Physician. She is a self-motivated and multi-tasked Master Degreed Acupuncture Professional with extensive applied medical training and industry exposure in Traditional Chinese Medical Theory. She has demonstrated a history of successful patient care and treatment administration while formulating pragmatic and effective solutions in critical and fast paced environments. Dr. Vonador is also detail-oriented and organized, exemplifying professionalism and exhibiting strong interpersonal skills.
adjunctive therapy treatment option that was less painful, easy for the patient, but very efficient. Acupuncture proved to be the answer. Now, here she is 9 years later, continuously making a difference in the community with Oriental Medicine.


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Q: How to keep docker container running via python docker SDK? I have an iamge which is a flask app.
I am trying to run it, like so:

import docker
import requests

client = docker.from_env()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    client.containers.run(IMAGE_NAME, detach=True, ports={"1000/tcp": "1000"})
    res = requests.get("http://localhost:1000/health")
    print(res.status_code)

The flask app:

@app.route("/health")
def health_check():
    return "healthy"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", debug=True, port=int(os.environ.get("PORT", 5000)))

However I get an error:

requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))

Presumably the connection dies out after run ends?
How do I make it so that the app keeps running in the background?
My dockerfile:
FROM python:3

# set a directory for the app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app

# copy all the files to the container
COPY . .

# install dependencies
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# tell the port number the container should expose
EXPOSE 5000

# run the command
CMD ["python", "app.py"]

A: Running the container using the following should solve the issue
client.containers.run(IMAGE_NAME, detach=True, ports={"5000/tcp": "5000"}) which binds port 5000 of the container to port 5000 of the host machine.
Ports 0 to 1024 are strictly reserved for OS applications, it's always adviced to use ports greater than 1024 for the host machine. However, to use ports less than 1024 you'll need to have sudo access which is not advisable.

A: Add a few sleeps in conjunction with @Saiprasad's answer solved this issue:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    container = client.containers.run(IMAGE_NAME, detach=True, ports={"5000/tcp": "5000"})
    import time
    time.sleep(1)
    res = requests.get("http://localhost:5000/health")

    print(res.status_code)
    print(res.text)
    container.kill()
    time.sleep(1)


Trending Virtual Worlds Article - Virtual Worlds Land!
Rate this Article As of today, there are multitudes of virtual world games out there that many players enjoy on a daily basis but some of these games are simply better than their competition due to various reasons and therefore are much more trending the rest. In this article we'll be talking a little bit about the most trending virtual worlds of today.


See below for for some helpful video instruction videos that answer some of the most commonly asked questions about McCullochs robotic lawnmower. Simply click on the image to watch the video.
The McCULLOCH robotic mower will give you the perfect lawn whilst giving you more free time to enjoy the things you like to do.


a use case represents how a system interacts with its environment by illustrating the activities that are performed by the users of the system and teh system's responses.
Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design, Fifth Edition, addresses these key factors. More than 50 years' combined teaching experience in systems analysis and design have gone into creating Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design, Fifth Edition, a text that emphasizes hands-on, experimental learning.


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Beautiful Mediterranean style home with separate casita. Inside you will find features that include: Travertine tile flooring, a gourmet kitchen with large center island, granite counters, open living area, built in bookshelves, three car garage and interior wood shutters throughout. Outside courtyard features: Hill Country views, large pool and hot tub with water features, masonry fireplace, outdoor speakers and a great entertaining space with built in grill and refrigerator.