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THE BEST MUSIC FROM THE 80's TO TODAY
KISS 89.0 went on the air for the first time in Nicosia in 1996 and soon established itself as the leading English music radio station. Fifteen years later, KISS became a pancyprian station playing the best hits from the 80's to today, aiming at a bigger audience who love English music, have a modern outlook and live to the rhythm of the city.
The station's programme is complemented by a large number of competitions, live interviews from the studio and live links from all over Cyprus. KISS 89.0 is the only station that "dares" to offer "10 songs in a row" without advertising breaks with the aim of reducing clutter and listeners' tune-out.
Radio ID
Description: Pancyprian English music station
Frequency: 89,0 & 88,5
Listenership: 79,201
Soc./Ec. Class: ABC1, 72%
Men – Women: 44% / 56%
Adults: 25-44, 41%
Year of first broadcast: 1996
Source: IMR, Symmetron Market Research, University of Nicosia, Prime-Edison, Apr-May 2013
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1 Dioghenous str, 2404 Engomi
www.kissfm.com.cy
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Τηλ: 22744435
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Φαξ: +357 22590470
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Φαξ: 22590202
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Catholic life in our times can be trying but, with our trust in the Lord, we will be triumphant through Him. As I reflected on the name of my blog, I realized the time had come. Designs by Birgit no longer represents my mission or my focus in life. Begun as a Mommy Blog, Designs by Birgit shared the usual fare – home schooling, crafts, recipes, and even how to make your own veil. As they say, time marches on, and my mission grew into Pro-life Designs. My small apostolate shares pro-life memes and stories about life as a pro-life Catholic, with a sprinkling of family faith sharing.
Now, however, I find myself at a crossroads. For almost five years now, I have worked within the spiritual family of Catholic Stand. It is my pleasure to not only write for such a wonderful Catholic online publication, but to also share my talents as the graphic editor. When you work with some of the best writers in the Catholic blogosphere, some of their expertise and faith tends to rub off on you. This brings me to the conclusion – I have outgrown my niche as an author.
I have also been blessed to be linked to and written for some extremely well-known Catholic sites. The old name just seems pretentious now.
With this realization, it became evident that a new brand was needed. After asking family, friends, and faithful fans for their thoughts in a poll, a new name rose to the top. It reflects everything on which I now focus. Artistic pursuits will always be a top priority in my personal life and the pro-life memes I continue to create will be the fruit. Yet my real passion is found in discussing current events from the pro-life Catholic perspective.
Catholic life in our times is not easy. It is not for the faint of heart, but God asks us to work our hardest and make our gifts available for His work. So that is what I feel to the call to do. We Catholics are used to adversity. In fact, we tend to attract it. After all, we are in the world, not of it. From the time of Jesus and the disciples, Christianity has been an uphill battle. If we hope to join the saints in Glory, it is our job to act as the Church Militant – to fight with everything we have to battle evil.
Mine is just a simple blog from an amateur writer but, hopefully, some of my musings will hit a note with those who come here. I cannot take credit for what I write or create. It all comes from inspiration from the Holy Spirit and the talents endowed to me by God. I pray that I use these gifts wisely and touch a soul now and again. With that in mind, I humbly ask that you consider following Catholic Life In Our Times. I promise to not over burden readers and will post no more than twice per week – as the Spirit moves me. His hushed whisper will be my guide.


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Nichelle Frank PhD.
Assistant Professor of US History at Utah State University Eastern
Ms. Frank earned her doctorate in History at the University of Oregon with a dissertation entitled "Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities." She received a BA and MA in History from Colorado State University, where she wrote an undergraduate honor's thesis about Depression-era film in the United States and a master's thesis about historic movie theaters, architecture, and national-scale identity shifts in Denver, Colorado. Her interest in the intersections of environmental, architectural, women's, race, and transcultural histories in the realms of public history and historic preservation have coalesced not only in her academic roles, but also her public history work with organizations such as the National Council on Public History, HistoriCorps, and the Public Lands History Center.
Her book project is titled: Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities

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The United States has one of the safest water supplies in the world. However, national statistics don't tell you specifically about the quality and safety of the water coming out of your tap. That�s because drinking water quality varies from place to place, depending on the condition of the source water from which it is drawn and the treatment it receives. Now you have a new way to find information about your drinking water, if it comes from a public water supplier (EPA doesn't regulate private wells, but recommends that well owners have their water tested annually). Starting in 1999, every community water supplier must provide an annual report (sometimes called a consumer confidence report) to its customers. The report provides information on your local drinking water quality, including the water's source, the contaminants found in the water, and how consumers can get involved in protecting drinking water. You may want more information, or have more questions. One place you can go is to your water supplier, who is best equipped to answer questions about your specific water supply.
A clean, constant supply of drinking water is essential to every community. People in large cities frequently drink water that comes from surface water sources, such as lakes, rivers, and reservoirs. Sometimes these sources are close to the community. Other times, drinking water suppliers get their water from sources many miles away. In either case, when you think about where your drinking water comes from, it�s important to consider not just the part of the river or lake that you can see, but the entire watershed. The watershed is the land area over which water flows into the river, lake, or reservoir. In rural areas, people are more likely to drink ground water that was pumped from a well. These wells tap into aquifers, the natural reservoirs under the earth�s surface, that may be only a few miles wide, or may span the borders of many states. As with surface water, it is important to remember that activities many miles away from you may affect the quality of ground water. Your annual drinking water quality report will tell you where your water supplier gets your water.
EPA has set standards for more than 80 contaminants that may occur in drinking water and pose a risk to human health. EPA sets these standards to protect the health of everybody, including vulnerable groups like children. The contaminants fall into two groups according to the health effects that they cause. Your local water supplier will alert you through the local media, direct mail, or other means if there is a potential acute or chronic health effect from compounds in the drinking water. You may want to contact them for additional information specific to your area. Acute effects occur within hours or days of the time that a person consumes a contaminant. People can suffer acute health effects from almost any contaminant if they are exposed to extraordinarily high levels (as in the case of a spill). In drinking water,microbes, such as bacteria and viruses, are the contaminants with the greatest chance of reaching levels high enough to cause acute health effects. Most people�s bodies can fight off these microbial contaminants the way they fight off germs, and these acute contaminants typically don't have permanent effects. Nonetheless, when high enough levels occur, they can make people ill, and can be dangerous or deadly for a person whose immune system is already weak due to HIV/AIDS, chemotherapy, steroid use, or another reason. Chronic effects occur after people consume a contaminant at levels over EPA�s safety standards for many years. The drinking water contaminants that can have chronic effects are chemicals (such as disinfection by-products, solvents, and pesticides), radionuclides (such as radium), and minerals (such as arsenic). Examples of these chronic effects include cancer, liver or kidney problems,or reproductive difficulties.
Drinking water suppliers are required to monitor and test their water many times, for many things, before sending it to consumers. These tests determine whether and how the water needs to be treated, as well as the effectiveness of the treatment process. If a water system consistently sends to consumers water that contains a contaminant at a level higher than EPA or state health standards or if the system fails to monitor for a contaminant, the system is violating regulations, and is subject to fines and other penalties. When a water system violates a drinking water regulation, it must notify the people who drink its water about the violation, what it means, and how they should respond. In cases where the water presents an immediate health threat, such as when people need to boil water before drinking it, the system must use television, radio, and newspapers to get the word out as quickly as possible. Other notices may be sent by mail, or delivered with the water bill. Each water suppliers� annual water quality report must include a summary of all the violations that occurred during the previous year. For more information call the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.
Using the new information that is now available about drinking water, citizens can both be aware of the challenges of keeping drinking water safe and take an active role in protecting drinking water. There are lots of ways that individuals can get involved. Some people will help clean up the watershed that is the source of their community�s water. Other people might get involved in wellhead protection activities to prevent the contamination of the ground water source that provides water to their community. These people will be able to make use of the information that states and water systems are gathering as they assess their sources of water. Other people will want to attend public meetings to ensure that the community�s need for safe drinking water is considered in making decisions about land use. You may wish to participate as your state and water system make funding decisions. And all consumers can do their part to conserve water and to dispose properly of household chemicals.


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OHV GRANT APPLICATIONS
March 3, 2017 Gary Young
USFS and BLM 2017 OHV Grant Applications are now available for public comment.
Posted by Seth Conners
According to Deb Schweizer, The Inyo National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office (BLM) have submitted to the California State Parks Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) preliminary applications for grant funds to enhance and manage motorized recreation. The agencies invite public comments on the preliminary grant applications.
These and all other applicants' grant requests, as well as detailed instructions about the process and how to comment, can be viewed on the OHMVR website at www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/. Comments should be submitted directly through the division website and sent to the responsible agency anytime from March 7 to April 3, 2017.
The agencies also invite the public to come out to an informal open house happening from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 16, at the U.S. Forest Service/BLM office, located behind the Department of Motor Vehicles, at 351 Pacu Lane in Bishop. Copies of the preliminary applications will be available at the open house. The public can come by at any time during the open house to review and discuss the grant applications.
Representatives from the two agencies, the Inyo County Public Works Department and others who are submitting grants for activities on USFS and BLM lands, will be on site to answer questions and receive or facilitate comments on changes, concerns and support for final grant applications, which will be submitted before May 1, 2017.
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US Forest Service Announces 30-Day Public Scoping Period for Revised Forest Plan
September 9, 2014 Gary Young
USFS Pacific Southwest Region Begins Scoping on Revised Forest Plans
The U.S. Forest Service today announced a 30-day public scoping period to start the National Environmental Policy Act process for revising forest plans on the Inyo, Sequoia and Sierra National Forests. The scoping period begins August 29, 2014 with the publishing of the Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register.
The Inyo, Sequoia and Sierra are three of eight national forests selected as "early adopters," meaning they will be the first forests to revise their land management plans under the 2012 Forest Service Planning Rule. The planning rule provides the framework for Forest Service land management plans on national forests across the nation.
These three forest plan revisions will be completed through the development of one environmental impact statement (EIS). The final EIS will result in three separate Records of Decision and three separate forest plans. Forest Supervisors are the responsible officials for making decisions on their specific forest plans.
A "scoping period" gives the public a chance to tell the Forest Service what issues and concerns they think should be addressed in the EIS before alternatives are developed and analyzed in the EIS. Public involvement is a critical piece of this analysis and considered in the range of alternatives, which will be made available for public review and comment when drafted.
The Forest Service expects to release a draft of the EIS and alternatives for public review by spring 2015.
The EIS allows for a robust public involvement process, which begins with the scoping period announced today. Public meetings to answer questions and accept written public comment are scheduled. For the Inyo National Forest, they will be held on:
· 6:00-8:00 pm -Monday, September 15, at the Dyer Community Center in Dyer, NV
· 6:00-8:00pm – Thursday, September 18, Tri-County Fairgrounds, Sierra Street & Fair Drive, Bishop, CA
The Forest Service values public participation. Communications from the public regarding this project, including commenter's names and contact information, will become part of the public record.
Comments, including anonymous comments, will be accepted at any time. However, comments posted after the close of a designated comment period may not be given full consideration. Anonymous comments and comments submitted after the close of the final designated comment period will not provide the commenter standing for administrative review.
Scoping comments must be received by September 29, 2014 and may be submitted:
· Online: http://tinyurl.com/r5earlyadopters (click on the "Comment on Project" hyperlink under the "Get Connected" topic at the right side of the webpage),
· Electronic mail: R5planrevision@fs.fed.us, or
· U.S. mail: Land Management Plan Revision, U.S. Forest Service, 1839 South Newcomb Street, Porterville, CA 93257.
Please remember to specify which forest or forests your comments apply to. For forest-specific information, please contact that forest directly:
· Inyo NF: Deb Schweizer at 760-873-2427 or debraaschweizer@fs.fed.us
· Sequoia NF: Alicia Embrey at 559-784-1500 or aliciamembrey@fs.fed.us
· Sierra NF: Dirk Charley at 559-297-0706 x4805 or dcharley@fs.fed.us
The NOI, detailed proposed action and maps are available for review at http://tinyurl.com/r5earlyadopters.
For earlier information regarding forest plan revision documents and the planning process prior to the release of the NOI and scoping period, please visit the Pacific Southwest Region's planning website at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r5/FPR.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES:
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if special assistance to participate in this meeting is needed, please contact the appropriate National Forest. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Forest Service to make reasonable arrangements.
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That last two days it has been very evident that callers to the bed and breakfast are realizing that they have little time left to savor the last few official weeks of summer. As labor day weekend fast approaches and back to school sales are popping up everywhere, we all begin to realize that there is not all that much time left to this year's summer. But then, I don't mind at all as fall has always been by favorite romantic time of the year.


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Wearing Privilege
Jennifer Lee PhD on July 25, 2013
Trayvon Martin was a black teenage boy. He was walking home from the convenience store when he caught the attention and ire of George Zimmerman. Perceived as a "punk" and a threat, Martin was accosted by the older man, and a physical altercation ensued. Trayvon Martin died when he was shot through the heart at close range. Though Florida's expansive "Stand Your Ground" laws were invoked in media conversations, that defense never even entered into the trial. Zimmerman was acquitted when a jury decided he'd killed Martin in self-defense. Zimmerman has since said Martin's death was "God's plan."
Some Americans believe that race was not central to this killing or to the case that followed—they have believed it from February 2012 right up until today. But ask yourself: How many times you have been stopped and harassed because you looked threatening or suspicious wearing a hooded sweatshirt? For me, an Asian American female, that number is zero.
Yes, my gender alone distinguishes me from Trayvon Martin, but my partner Mike is a white male, and he, too, can only say "Zero." We have never been stopped nor questioned, no matter how many times we've pulled on our hooded sweatshirts for warmth (and, in my case, to hide sea-tangled hair) after early morning surfing.
Stopping for breakfast or to run errands, Mike and I may not look polished in our hoodies, but we've also never had to worry that our appearance would cause suspicion. That's privilege. It's such a privilege, this presumed innocence of ours, that the morning after Zimmerman was acquitted, we went ignored even while acting suspiciously. Hoodies up, we casually stopped to look at a condo for rent in an affluent beach community in southern California. We knew from the online ad that the condo was vacant, so we parked outside, walked up the stairs to the unit, and peered into its windows. We sauntered around the grounds and walked into the unlocked community laundry room and garage. Several neighbors saw us, and they smiled.
I couldn't help but think that the scenario would have been very different if Mike and I were black. Mike and I don't have to wear our class in order to obviate being treated like threats or criminals; we can wear hoodies and board shorts without worrying that others will be suspicious, fearful, or make assumptions about our class status. Just being "not black" affords us this benefit of the doubt. It is a privilege because it is not something we have earned, but it is gifted to us every day regardless. I have always known about my privilege intellectually, but I felt it keenly last Saturday.
That some are afforded this privilege while others are systematically denied should make us all more empathetic. People perceive and experience the same event differently, depending on visible status markers such as race, gender, age, and class. Such status markers are more than just categories, they form a "system of social practices" that organize social relations. Status markers presume difference, and so people will react to and engage with Mike or with me differently than they would with someone like Trayvon Martin, even when we're dressed the same.
We would like to believe that we don't make assumptions based on race or gender, but evidence proves otherwise, as this social experiment of three individuals (a white male, a black male, and white female) trying to steal a bike clearly reveals:
As the sociologist Robert K. Merton insightfully observed nearly three-quarters of a century ago, "The very same behavior undergoes a complete change in evaluation in its transition from the in-group to the out-group." As the video above indicates, the behavior of a black male (an out-group member) is regarded entirely differently than the same behavior of a white male and white female (in-group members).
The in-group/out-group divide goes further, with grave consequences in our criminal justice system. For example, Jennifer Eberhardt's research has shown that race affects the severity of sentences that juvenile offenders receive, even for the same crime. Just the idea of a black juvenile offender leads people to imagine juveniles more like adults. Even liberal white Americans who claim low levels of prejudice project more blame onto black boys and sentence them more harshly. As Eberhardt has shown, "race has the power to dampen our desire to be merciful."
I don't have children, but if I did, I don't know how I would explain Trayvon Martin's death or the acquittal of his killer. But even just imagining being a parent to a black son makes me feel immense empathy for the parents of young black men. Can just that simple exercise make others more aware of race and class privilege, more aware of the power they have to recognize and even challenge that privilege and its consequences? As Henry David Thoreau asked, "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Jennifer Eberhardt and Aneeta Rattan, "The Race Factor," New York Times, June 12, 2012.
Robert K. Merton. 1968 [1948]. "Self-fulfilling Prophecy," in Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure, 2nd edition. New York: Free Press.
Cecilia L. Ridgeway. 2011. Framed by Gender. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cross-posted at The Society Pages.
Jennifer Lee is a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, The Diversity Paradox, examines patterns of intermarriage and multiracial identification among Asians, Latinos, and African Americans.
julia — July 25, 2013
Heartbreaking insights. Also reminds me of this article up on Threadbared, focusing more on what we wear and how that affects how people read us: http://iheartthreadbared.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/the-hoodie-as-a-sign-screen-expectation-and-force-excerpt/
Guest — July 25, 2013
"Stand your ground" was explicitly included in the instructions to the jury and Juror B37 mentioned it repeatedly in her conversations with Anderson Cooper. I'd say it entered into the case.
pduggie — July 25, 2013
Great article on the way privilege functions. Thanks! The bike thing is interesting.
1) if you did that study with an Asian and the Asian was regarded in the same manner as a white, would that demonstrate that Asians are in an out group?
2) What role does Bayesian analysis play. You see an event that looks suspicious. and calculate say a 30% chance that what you see is indeed a problem. Then you are given additional information about the race of the person in the suspicious incident. All other things being equal, you know that race A has a higher crime rate that race B. The person is from race A. Do you now have less confidence in your initial guess at suspicion, or more confidence? Bayes theorem says more confidence.
I tell you i talked with a person on a train. You try to guess their gender. You have a 50/50 shot at being right. Then I tell you the person had long hair. Your confidence at a guess that the person is a woman increases by bayes theorem, because it it more likely for a woman to have long hair all things being equal than a man, and you know this.
You still may be wrong, but your confidence in your answer increases, not decreases.
(in the race case, you can add male, young, in this poor neighborhood, etc.) all increase confidence if, statistically it is known the statistics relative to other specified categories.
This is a huge problem.
[links] Link salad for a wake weekend | jlake.com — July 26, 2013
[...] Wearing Privilege — Does a hoodie make you a threat? [...]
Cody — July 30, 2013
I have a hard time taking this article seriously, considering the author states that she is hiding her "sea-tangle hair after surfing early morning surfing" or her boyfriend and she are in hoodies and board shorts. She says they don't have to wear their class to avoid looking suspicious, but they're absolutely wearing their class. I can't say two black men or a black man and woman in similar circumstances wouldn't be treated as suspicious, but the additional class and cultural signifiers are strongly confounding variables. Not to mention, a hoodie looks a lot different at eight in the morning than it does at one in the morning. Walking around a condo at eight in the morning looks different than it does at one in the morning. Driving up and waving to or approaching the neighbors with questions is different than avoiding contact with the neighbors.
Its difficult to decipher the second video, since I'm explicitly being asked to question biases, but the same thing applies. Some of the faces are showing classic body language of concern, some are showing defiance. Many are pedantic, the face of public service announcements. When someone asks "do I look suspicious?" with eyebrows pulled down and in and jaw set forward, my initial answer is "yes". Race may or may not play a role since all the people in the video asking the question were of a similar race.
Clothing, body language, and mode of transportation are social markers. They're part of the language. Its wrong that race is part of that language, but pretending that race is the totality of the language is grossly inaccurate.
Wearing Privilege: Robert K. Merton and the In-Group vs. the Out-Group — July 30, 2013
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Village Idiot — August 3, 2013
Quoting: Hoodies up, we casually stopped to look at a condo for rent in an
affluent beach community in southern California. We knew from the online
ad that the condo was vacant, so we parked outside, walked up the
stairs to the unit, and peered into its windows. We sauntered around the
grounds and walked into the unlocked community laundry room and garage.
Several neighbors saw us, and they smiled.
Try that same experiment on an otherwise empty, poorly-lit street at night and see how the neighbors respond if they notice you.
I bet it won't involve smiles and you might end up looking into the barrel of a gun and if you were looking into those same windows at night then finding yourself being held at gunpoint should not come as a surprise and would be justifiable. Doing this "experiment" in the daytime is utterly irrelevant to the issues under discussion and even a cop would draw their gun and detain you if they saw you peeking into the windows of a dark/unoccupied condo at night (with a hoodie on or not). So on second thought, don't try this experiment at night or you might learn a lot more about perception and risk assessment (and the real world) than you bargained for.
Anyway, it will be exceedingly hard for someone to discern your skin color at night if your hoodies are up until they are relatively close to you, and even then only if they're almost right in front of you. Letting someone we don't know get that close to us when we're walking down a dark street at night can be hazardous to our health.
So to be concerned about the motives of unknown people who may be concealing their identities (hoodies up) on an empty street (minimal traffic; few to no pedestrians) at night is entirely sensible and not automatically racist because until you're too close to someone to avoid or evade or defend against a potentially-hostile encounter with them then you quite likely won't be able to discern insignificant details like their race or sex in such a context (esp. since concealing one's identity is one of the things some folks wear hoodies for).
So it'd be prudent to give shadowy strangers encountered at night the benefit of the doubt by assuming they're potentially violent criminals and keeping your distance while staying alert and ready to respond to an assault however one is inclined to whether that means running like hell, drawing a weapon, or even screaming "Fire!" at the top of your lungs (almost nobody rushes towards cries of "Help!" but "Fire!" might at least get bystanders or people sitting indoors to look in your direction thanks to their sense of self-preservation "Fire? Where?" and the mere presence of witnesses sometimes end assaults).
fatty — September 7, 2013
Yes we should protect ourselves when we fill our safety is being threatened but , Zimmerman's safety wasn't being threatened because he called the police first because he felt Travon Martin looked suspicious, and was up to no good had he minded his own business Travon Martin would still be alive Its called racial profiling!
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Q: Why do I get an "Error tokenizing data" error loading a CSV from my Github but no error when I load the exact same file from my hard drive? I'm quite new in Python. I'm trying to learn how to load data sets from different sources. I have not found the following problem on Stack Overflow or in Google searches. I have a .csv data file which I originally downloaded from a science data repository. When I load it from my hard drive there is no problem, and I can quickly get the basic facts on the data and see there are only two NaN, and no syntax errors in the column headers. When I try to load it from my Github repository I get the following:
Code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.read_csv('https://github.com/hXXX/YYY/blob/master/CCCC.csv')

This calls the following error output:
Error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ParserError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-34-d5c99e7779b6> in <module>
----> 1 df = pd.read_csv('https://github.com/hXXX/YYY/blob/master/CCCC.csv')
...
...

ParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 1 fields in line 75, saw 4

I have looked at this type of error in several Stack Overflow questions, where typing errors in the data file were found. But there are none in my csv file that I find, especially when I compare lines between the file on my hard drive and the one in my Github repository (I loaded the file into my repository from my hard drive). I got the code for loading into Python from Stack Overflow, so assume it should work. The file isn't terribly large, (3696, 22). I appreciate any help.
Thanks
Heber

A: The URL you are using points to GitHub's web viewer for repository contents, so the data downloaded is a web page, not a raw CSV file. GitHub uses a different URL scheme for raw file contents, you can see it by using the 'Raw' button shown in the web interface when viewing any given file. For your example, the URL would be https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hXXX/YYY/master/CCCC.csv.
Please note that GitHub does not officially provide this as a way to programmatically fetch data from its repositories, so it may not work forever.

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April 25 (UPI) -- The Department of Justice announced Wednesday the indictment of 45 people in connection with a fentanyl trafficking ring as part of an investigation spanning three states.
The investigation resulted in the seizure of 30 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, two firearms and more than $500,000 in cash as part of a trafficking operation that implicated dozes of people in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
"The quantities of fentanyl that were allegedly trafficked in this case are shocking," U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said. "We will prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law and continue to take dangerous drugs -- and drug dealers -- off of our streets so that every American can be safe in their community."
Court documents show the investigation focused on a fentanyl trafficking ring led by brothers Sergio Martinez and Raulin Martinez out of Lawrence, Mass.
The brothers allegedly used a vast network of dispatchers and distributors to serve customers, while being aware most of the drugs were going to New Hampshire.
The Martinez brothers also allegedly employed people responsible for making sure distributors were consistently supplied with 200-gram bags of fentanyl and were returning drug proceeds made from the sales.
Authorities charged 32 individuals with participating in a conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl on April 4. Of those 32, 15 were arrested, seven were already incarcerated and two were located.
On April 18, 13 more people were charged in related indictments and by Tuesday 12 of those individuals were taken into custody.
If convicted most of the defendants face a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life as well as a fine of up to $10 million.
"The Granite State is faced with a fentanyl crisis unlike ever before and [Drug Enforcement Agency's] top priority is combatting the opioid epidemic," said DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Albert Angelucci. "DEA is committed to aggressively pursuing Drug Trafficking Organizations who are coming from out of state to distribute this poison to the citizens of New Hampshire in order to profit and destroy people's lives."


What do you when you are about to start a class and someone says i have scoliosis. Or you are half way through the class and someones neck pain is aggravated or they feel dizzy. Most movement teachers are not doctors, but we are asked advice on a range of medical conditions and we should have some knowledge of the most common ones so we are aware of what the condition is, and how it will affect every person differently. Any book that says do this asana or exercise for neck pain should not, learn how to read body maps and and give individual modifications to clients both in group and private programming. If you have clients turning up to your sessions, with scoliosis, kyphosis, sternosis, prolapsed disc, sciatica, spondylosis and neck problems this course is for you.
With 76% of back surgeries failing more and more people are turning to movement therapies to help alleviate pain. Low back pain is very common.
"Can't wait to show this work".
Fortunately, most people find that it only lasts a few days or weeks. The exact cause of low back pain is often difficult to find. Tension, soreness and/or stiffness are common symptoms. Joints, connective tissue and discs may contribute to the symptoms. The thoracic spine is built for rotation, flexion, and extension. It is highly mobile – or, rather, it has the potential for lots of mobility. Because of its mobility, the thoracic spine must be used, must be moved. But it has to be known. If people are unable to visualize and feel the movement of the thoracic spine, or if they're unable to even grasp the concept of its existence, they'll just attempt to twist, rotate, flex, and bend with something familiar to them: the lumbar spine. That's bad news. A movement system that gently works the entire body opening energy pathways through rhythmic, spiraling movements.
Lead a workshop using the chair as a base for support and balance. Direct the group to grasp and maintain bandha connection for back support without restricting diaphragmatic breathing. Challenge the group even further by introducing distal limb movement and directing the group into a smooth rhythmic chain of flowing movements.
Perform flexion, extension, lateral flexion and rotation of the spine safely in accordance with the student's range of motion and mobility.
Co-ordinate the breath with movement using an inhale to sustain and hold a movement and an exhale to release and glide into the next phase of the movement.
Pass the body through coronal, saggital and transverse planes using lumbar / hip flexion and torso/lateral rotation.
Use ballistic, passive and active stretches on the hips, as shown by the teacher in the class.
Raise awareness of the glut muscles and hip joints, particularly the variation in structure and ROM in relation to stabilization and core support.
Coordinate a limbering sequence in time with the music to raise the heart rate using a cross crawl variation and non-traditional spinal moves.
Demonstrate a modified version of various asana/rehab movements as practised in the class from memory.


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Is it at 1:15??? I'd better not make a mistake!


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O  trato reticuloespinal (ou reticuloespinal anterior) é um trato motor extrapiramidal que descende da formação reticular em dois tratos agindo nos neurônios motores que inervam o tronco e os músculos proximais. Está envolvido principalmente em locomoção e no controle postural, apesar de possuir outras ações.

Funções
1.Integrar informação dos sistemas motores para coordenar movimentos automáticos de locomoção e postura.

2.Facilitar e inibir movimento voluntário; influenciar o tônus muscular

3. Mediar funções autonômicas

4. Modular impulsos de dor

5. Influencia o fluxo sanguíneo para o núcleo lateral geniculado do tálamo.

Componentes
O trato é dividido em duas partes, o trato reticuloespinal medial (ou pontino) e o lateral (ou medular) (MRST e LRST, respectivamente).
 O MRST é responsável pela atividade de músculos extensores antigravitacionais. As fibras nesse trato parten do núcleo pontino reticular caudal e o núcleo pontino reticular oral, projetando-se para as lâminas VII e VIII da medula espinal.
 O LRST é responsável por inibir músculos excitatórios dos músculos axiais extensores, de movimento. As fibras desse trato partem da formação reticular medular, principalmente do núcleo gigantocelular, e descendem pelo comprimento da medula espinal na parte anterior da coluna. O trato termina na lâmina VII, com algumas fibras, contudo, terminando na lâmina IX da medula espinal.

O trato sensorial que envia informação na direção oposta é conhecido como o "trato reticuloespinal".

Importância clínica
Inibido principalmente pelo trato corticospinal, caso ocorra algum dano no núcleo rubro  ou abaixo dele (por exemplo, no colículo superior) a secção é denominada decerebração e causa rigidez decerebrada, uma extensão sem oposição da cabeça e dos membros.

O trato retículoespinal também fornece uma via pela qual o hipotálamo pode controlar o fluxo simpático toracolombar e o fluxo sacral parassimpático.

Ver também
Neurônio motor superior

Ligações externas
 BrainInfo: reticulospinal tract, pontine reticulospinal tract, and medullary reticulospinal tract.
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080405062814/http://www.lib.mcg.edu/edu/eshuphysio/program/section8/8ch6/s8ch6_29.htm

Sistema nervoso central

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Last week, Shazam received a big update to take advantage of some Windows Phone 8 magic. Not to be outdone, musiXmatch has recently updated and brings a few features with its revamped user interface. Let's check it out after the break.
We last covered musiXmatch back in early September, it was called Lyrics by musiXmatch and recently went to version 3.0. The latest version (3.1.1.0) that came out today includes a new user experience, scrolling lyrics, and some various bug fixes.
Obvisouly you'll most likely appreciate the new UI, but I really was digging the ability to see the lyrics of songs in my library and those that the app identified with its Shazam/Bing Music like discovery. Its wild, you can launch any album or song from your music library and have lyrics. Those lyrics can scroll in sync with the song. Unfortunately for you Wu-Tang fans, some words are edited.
The app is available for both Windows Phone 7.x and 8. You can get it here in the Store, by using the QR code below, or by swiping right in our app.


The Tahoe Adventure Company offers unsurpassed options for a full day of exploring. We offer a wide range of options for adventure and specialize in combining sports to allow you to get the most out of your day. Day trips include all equipment, natural and human history as well as van shuttle when necessary. A memorable lunch with a beautiful backdrop will be served by your guides at mid-day. Our knowledgeable guides will choose some of the area's most beautiful locations for your adventure and will point out the natural history and ecology along the way. Generally, you will enjoy a full day of activity from about 10 am to 3 pm. Level of difficulty will be from easy to moderate, unless a more rigorous course is requested. Seasonal conditions vary and trips are offered accordingly. We operate on an open calendar with a minimum number of participants for each trip. Below is just a sample of what we offer, please click on the associated link, call or email for more information.
There are several kayaking tours to choose from, with distances ranging from 3 to 9 miles. Advanced paddling instruction is also available. All Kayak trips include boats and protective paddling gear, comprehensive instruction, natural history, and lunch. Cost: $85 per person. 2 person minimum. For more information see Lake Tahoe Kayak Tours.
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Cost: $125 per person. 4 person minimum. For more information see Mountain Biking.
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Steven Finn was the unlikeliest of heroes as England successfully batted out the final day in Dunedin, preventing New Zealand the chance to chase down any sort of target to win the first Test. The Middlesex bowler registered a first class fifty for the first time in his career, his night watchman role producing 56 runs in an obdurate 203 ball innings. Nick Compton was unable to turn his century into a particularly big score, falling lbw to Neil Wagner for 117, and Jonathan Trott was also removed by the New Zealand bowler for 52. Ian Bell and Matt Prior saw England home with 26* and 23* respectively, and having earlier declared with a lead of nearly 300, the hosts will be disappointed not to have put more pressure on their opponents. England will undoubtedly be the more satisfied of the two sides, having dug themselves out of a pretty significant hole.
England demonstrated in their second innings the application that was lacking in their first, as what was effectively a fourth-day pitch offered nothing to the Kiwi bowlers. On paper, England are a far superior side to New Zealand, but this Test should serve as a timely reminder that four or five days of Test cricket abroad will rarely be a straightforward assignment. Compton has the monkey of a first century off his back, and the issue of a lack of playing time before this match is less prevalent now. Kevin Pietersen is definitely struggling for form, but he has a tendency to pull out an innings when it is really needed so there will not be too much concern within the England camp. Captain Alastair Cook has acknowledged the need to make better starts to Test series, and this will be all the more important for the return series between these two sides which is just two games long.
While it is impossible to say whether or not England would have collapsed as they did had the match started on schedule, there will be some who will look to the day lost to rain as the main reason the Black Caps were unable to bat again. This was, however, a lifeless pitch, as shown by a second innings score of 421-6 from England. The wickets that fell on day two were mainly down to poor batting, and the New Zealand bowlers will realise this. Captain Brendon McCullum was happy with the way his side performed in the match, and rightly so as they were completely on top for the best part of two days. They can take a great deal of confidence from their batting display in particular, and will now feel that even if they were to face the prospect of replying to an imposing score from England, they have players such as Hamish Rutherford at the top of the order who can bat long and score big.
England head to Wellington knowing that their opponents will not simply roll over, and from a long-term point of view, this is a good thing – they are favourites for the series, and are still expected to win, but they will need to work hard which is the ideal preparation for the Ashes. Whether they bat or bowl first in the second Test, England will want to take charge from the off and put their opponents on the back foot. The pitch at the Basin Reserve is expected to do far more over the course of the game which is good for the series. Jimmy Anderson aside, England's bowlers struggled in Dunedin and will hope to have more to work with when they travel to the North Island ahead of the first day's play on Thursday.


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Q: Why have my site stopped working at azure When loggin into my site at azure I get an error

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an
  object.]    GetTogetherWeb2.Models.AdminDAL.IsAdmin(Int32 user_id) in
  C:\TEMP\flow3_2_1\flow3_2_1\Models\AdminDAL.cs:148

  The error is not when I run it on localhost. All firewalls are open, all database servers works as they should.

The error turned up 1 week ago, and I have not gotten any way near a solution. I have had the webpage on Azure for 2 years with no problems deploying the project.
We are deploying on a regular basis, and it came with a deployment. However, when we rolled back the deployments to an older version, the same error was there.

A: You can put some logs to check the value of your object in the AdminDAL.cs line 148
you have NullReferenceException The exception that is thrown when there is an attempt to dereference a null object reference.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.nullreferenceexception?view=netcore-3.1


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John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, D.C.

Biography

Early life
Pope was born in New York City in 1874, the son of a successful portrait painter and his wife. He studied architecture at Columbia University and graduated in 1894. He was the first recipient of the Rome Prize to attend the newly founded American Academy in Rome, a training ground for the designers of the "American Renaissance." He would remain involved with the Academy until his death.

Pope traveled for two years through Italy and Greece, where he studied, sketched and made measured drawings of more Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance structures than he did of the remains of ancient buildings. Pope was one of the first architectural students to master the use of the large-format camera, with glass negatives.  Pope attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1896, honing his Beaux-Arts style. After returning to New York in 1900, he worked for a few years in the office of Bruce Price before opening his own practice.

American architect
Throughout his career, Pope designed private houses such as The Waves, his personal residence at Newport, Rhode Island, and public buildings in addition to the Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery, such as the massive Masonic House of the Temple (1911–1915), also in Washington, and the triumphal arch Theodore Roosevelt Memorial (1936) at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

He designed the extension of the Henry Clay Frick mansion in New York City that created the Garden Court and music room, among other features, as the house was expanded to be operated as a museum.

In 1912 he submitted several proposals for the Lincoln Memorial, but lost out to Henry Bacon.

In 1919, he developed a master plan for the future growth of Yale University. Pope's plan for Yale was significantly revised by James Gamble Rogers in 1921, who had more sympathy for the requirements of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. Rogers did keep the Collegiate Gothic unifying theme offered by Pope. Pope's original plan is a prime document in the City Beautiful movement in city planning. Pope won a Silver Medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics for his design of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

His firm's designs alternated between revivals of Gothic, Georgian, eighteenth-century French, and classical styles. Pope designed the Henry E. Huntington mausoleum on the grounds of The Huntington Library in southern California. He later used the design as a prototype for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art were both neoclassical, modeled by Pope on the Roman Pantheon.

Lesser known projects by Pope's firm include Union Station, Richmond, Virginia (1917), with a central rotunda capped with a low saucer dome; it now houses the Science Museum of Virginia; Branch House (1917–1919), a Tudor-style mansion in Richmond, now housing the Virginia Center for Architecture; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and in Washington, D.C., the National City Christian Church, DAR Constitution Hall, American Pharmacists Association Building, Ward Homestead, and the National Archives Building (illustration, left). In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he designed a severe neo-Georgian clubhouse for the University Club (1926). In Oneonta, New York, he designed the first building for Hartwick College: Bresee Hall was constructed in 1928. In 1932, he constructed the chapter house for Alpha Delta Phi at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.  Earlier, he designed the City Hall in Plattsburgh, New York, which was completed in 1917, and the city's Macdonough Monument, erected in 1926 to commemorate the naval victory of Commodore Macdonough in the Battle of Plattsburgh on September 11, 1814.

Pope designed additions to the Tate Gallery and British Museum in London, an unusual honor for an American architect, and the War Memorial at Montfaucon-d'Argonne, France. Pope also designed extensive alterations to Belcourt, the Newport residence of Oliver and Alva Belmont. The Georgian Revival residence he built in 1919 for Thomas H. Frothingham in Far Hills, New Jersey has been adapted as the United States Golf Association Museum.

Pope was a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, DC from 1912 to 1922, serving as vice chairman from 1921 to 1922.  He also served on the Board of Architectural Consultants for the Federal Triangle complex in Washington, D.C.

Legacy
A 1991 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, John Russell Pope and the Building of the National Gallery of Art, spurred reappraisal of his work. For some time, it had been scorned and derided as overly historicist by many critics influenced by International Modernism.

Pope also served as an early mentor and employer of American modernist Lester C. Tichy.

Pope was the maternal grandfather of the actress Andra Akers.

Gallery

Selected works
 1910: William B. Leeds Mausoleum, Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York
 1926: University Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 1927: Huntington Mausoleum, San Marino, California
 1927: "The Waves" (Pope's Newport residence), 61 Ledge Road, Newport, Rhode Island
 1931: First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio
 1933–1935: National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.
 1936: Dixie Plantation House, Greenville, Florida
 1938–1941: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 1939–1942: Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.

See also
 :Category:John Russell Pope buildings
 Eggers & Higgins

References

Bibliography
 Bedford, Steven McLeod. John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire, New York: 1998.
 Garrison, James B. Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope. New York: Acanthus Press, 2004.

External links

 University Club, Milwaukee

 John Russell Pope's Master Plan for Dartmouth, 1919
 Pictures and Info on John Russell Pope's Historic Long Island Commissions
 "Blanchard Randall Papers,1914–1969" Baltimore Museum Of Art <https://artbma.org/documents/findingAids/BMA_Board-of-Trustees-Records.pdf>
 "Architect John Russell Pope's Baltimore" March 31 – August 1, 2004. The Baltimore Museum of Art.
 Smith, H. D. "Recent Domestic Architecture from the Designs of John Russell Pope."  The Brickbuilder, Vol. XXV, No. 8, August 1916. pp. 189-204 and following plates.

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Smartphone shopping perils publishers
The smartphone has emerged as the hottest shopping accessory since the brown paper sack, the latter of which, as a matter of law, now costs a dime if you don't bring your own environmentally sustainable tote into the supermarket in my part of California.
With nearly one out of five consumers now consulting their mobile gizmos when making a purchasing decision, smartphone shopping represents a profound threat to newspapers, because it strikes at the heart of the historic value of the medium to the merchants who buy the preponderance of newspaper advertising.
The stakes hardly could be higher: Based on the newspaper industry's actual performance for the first nine months of last year, I estimate that national and retail advertising likely generated three-quarters of the approximately $19.3 million in print advertising sold by publishers in 2012.
Here's why smartphone shopping matters: While local media in the un-wired age were the primary conduit for connecting sellers with potential buyers, the efficiency and immediacy of smartphone-assisted shopping has created an unprecedented opportunity for both on- and off-line retailers to build powerful, personalized and direct relationships with consumers. The stronger and more efficient those ties become, the less merchants will need to buy ads from such traditional intermediaries as newspapers, radio and television.
This is not some threat in the distant future. The popularity of smartphone shopping rocketed last year during the holiday shopping season.
On Cyber Monday (the first day after the national Thanksgiving-weekend shopping orgy), more than 18% of consumers used mobile devices to visit a retailer's site, according to an analysis complied by IBM Corp. The number of smartphone shoppers was 70% greater than in the prior year.
And the mobile-ized shoppers weren't just browsing. IBM said smartphone-powered sales nearly doubled between 2011 and 2012, reaching "close to 13%" of digital volume for Cyber Monday, which historically is the busiest day of the year for online merchants. Based on ComScore data that pegged Cyber Monday turnover at a tad under $1.5 billion, smartphone shoppers bought some $200 million of goods in a single day.
Beyond their obvious convenience as point-of-sale devices, smartphones are used by one out of five consumers to share pictures of products they are considering; to consult with friends, social networks or product-review sites about a prospective purchase, and to scan barcodes in search of product information or better prices, according to a report by Business Insider.
With more than half of Americans now wielding smartphones as they prowl the aisles, merchants are moving quickly to respond to both the challenges and opportunities the phenomenon represents.
According to a survey last year by CrossView, a mobile marketing consultant to the retail industry, merchants are equipping stores with wifi, producing branded mobile apps and, to a great degree, matching in-store and online pricing to avoid angering bricks-and-mortar customers who check the web to ensure they are getting the lowest-possible price. During the Christmas shopping season, Best Buy even promised to match the prices offered by Amazon and the other leading online discounters.
Smartphone shopping is popular among all ages and genders, said CrossView. "The local retailer who makes inventory positions available to the mobile shopper has a significant competitive advantage," added the firm. "Clearly, top retailers understand this – and it's why 80% of those we surveyed allow customers to use their mobile devices to see if products are in stock at a particular store."
Though the transparency is bound to please customers, merchants aren't doing this sort of thing to be nice. The real reason retailers are embracing mobile commerce is to develop far more targeted and actionable relationships with consumers than was possible in the un-wired era.
The more shoppers use their phones to compare products, to research purchases and to scout for deals, the more digital breadcrumbs they leave for merchants to analyze, including: who they are, where they are, what they have purchased and what they might buy next. The more data that merchants capture about individual consumers, the more data they can crunch to predict the types of products or services an individual might buy, thus tailoring offers in terms of time, place, features and even pricing.
Unless newspapers want to get shut out of their lucrative and long-standing partnership with the retail industry, the shift to smartphone shopping merits their full attention.
Unfortunately, publishers are so technologically out of touch that, according to the Newspaper Association of America, only 110 (8%) of the nation's 1,382 dailies have gotten around to launching apps for the tablet, which happens to be the fastest-growing electronics product since electricity was discovered.
To play in the new order of things, publishers need to (a) talk with astute merchants to discover their needs, (b) partner with savvy technologists to meet said needs and (c) get serious about investing in modern mobile platforms.
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frank h shepherd said...
a b and c ain't gonna happen...Newspapers are locked in a terrible cultural problem with most heavily loaded with "print minded" and not hired an equal number of "digital" minded personnel; given them a separate strategic plan and supported them with bucks...and until they do they are doomed to failure...and most importantly it may be to late for most. With few exceptions newspapers are fast becoming irrelevant...
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Cancer prevented Josh Rubinstein from playing lacrosse, but Maryland keeps him close to it
Eric Myers·@EricMyers531·April 18, 2019
17-year-old Josh Rubinstein received a Maryland men's lacrosse helmet while at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut shortly after his leukemia diagnosis. (Photo courtesy Jon Rubinstein)
Two days after undergoing intensive surgery to treat a secondary disease from cancer, 17-year-old Josh Rubinstein received a FaceTime call from coach John Tillman and the Maryland men's lacrosse team.
As the Terps prepared to face Rutgers on April 14, they wanted to wish Josh well in his recovery. Josh sent Tillman a message in return, and the ninth-year Maryland coach read it to his players before they took the field.
"Let the boys know I'm rooting for them," the text read, "and for them to understand that if you're doing anything in life you give it 100% otherwise what's the point."
In that come-from-behind 16-13 win, the hat Tillman wore on the sideline had three short lines written in silver marker. The hat referenced three people close to Tillman, all of whom are enduring trying situations. The third line read "RubiStrong," a motto for Josh's battle against cancer.
This didn't come as a surprise to Josh and his family. Jon Rubinstein, Josh's father, describes Tillman as "the real deal." To him, the coach's gesture was just another part of Maryland lacrosse's support during his son's fight.
Josh Rubinstein (center) poses with Maryland men's lacrosse coach John Tillman and former midfielder Connor Kelly. (Photo courtesy of Jon Rubinstein)
That support was invaluable for Josh, who played lacrosse since he was 5 years old.
Josh played his ninth-grade season in 2017 at Trumbull High School in Connecticut and set the school's junior varsity record for assists in a season, even while feeling the effects of a cancer he didn't yet know he had. He was being recruited by private high schools, and was looking to play at the collegiate level.
In the summer of 2017, Josh's mother, Diane Rubinstein, noticed he was sluggish, and not quite right. She became concerned, and pushed for a check-up.
Soon after, the diagnosis came in. Josh had an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia — affecting red blood cells, platelet-forming cells and other types of white blood cells.
Almost immediately after his diagnosis, Josh felt the Terps' support, forging a special bond with the team and Tillman.
"He spent 180 days in the hospital, went through five chemotherapy sessions," Jon said. "He's had diseases that would kill most people. And at all times in his room when he was there, he had his Maryland helmet, he had Maryland shoes, he had Maryland jerseys."
[Read more: With 500 faceoff wins for Maryland lacrosse, Austin Henningsen still isn't satisfied]
The Terps' connection with Josh blossomed after they won the national championship in May 2017.
The Rubinsteins knew the family of Dylan Maltz, an attackman who had just finished his senior season at Maryland. Jon told the Maltz family about his son's diagnosis. Within days, he received a helmet from Maltz to give to Josh, who was staying in Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Terps furthered that bond throughout the offseason, sending more apparel, offering support and consistently checking in.
Maryland has been a constant presence in Josh's arduous journey, getting frequent updates from his family. The team heard when Josh was in remission in November 2017. Later that month, they got the news that he'd undergone a bone marrow transplant after receiving an anonymous donation.
Josh has struggled with the residual effects of his initial diagnosis. In the last two years, though, Jon said he can count the number of bad days Josh has had on one hand. His son opts to stay positive despite the cards he's been dealt.
In December 2018, the first day former Maryland midfielder Connor Kelly went back home to Connecticut for winter break, he visited Josh in the hospital about 30 miles away.
"You could tell he was going through a lot," Kelly said. "Just from me being there, giving him some stuff, I hoped I could brighten his day up a little bit."
Kelly has kept in contact with Josh ever since. To Josh's father, that continued communication — along with Maltz's initial support — is emblematic of the program that Tillman's built.
"Not just, 'Hey, here's an autographed ball. Have a great life.' It doesn't work like that," Jon said. "It's a testament to the people that Tillman recruits and coaches. And then after he coaches, they act a certain way. … The men that he produces are phenomenal."
[Read more: Maryland men's lacrosse moves up to No. 2 in rankings after comeback win over Rutgers]
It wasn't just Maryland that supported Josh. Numerous lacrosse programs across the nation reached out and sent him apparel, too.
A large faction of that support was the byproduct of connections with the Casey Powell World Lacrosse Foundation, which was started to "inspire, share and support severely injured and sick lacrosse players and their families," according to its website.
As a freshman, Josh Rubinstein set Trumbull High School's junior varsity record for assists in a season. (Photo courtesy of Jon Rubinstein)
The hardships from battling cancer have diminished the odds of Josh playing lacrosse at a high level again.
"It's like, cancer almost took my son from me, and it didn't," Jon said. "But cancer took … lacrosse from him."
But Josh cherishes the fact that he's still surrounded by the sport he loves every day, no matter how difficult things get.
"Meeting [Kelly] and the team was a huge sense of hope when I needed it most," Josh said.
Josh — whose older brother, Jake, is a junior at Maryland — had a chance to visit the team last year for its home game against Rutgers. He went to practice, met Tillman for the first time and was given the game ball from the 11-10 win.
Despite a busy schedule, Tillman keeps up with Josh, texting him frequently, checking in on how he's doing with school and calling to wish him well. For Josh, Tillman's impact has been profound.
"Coach Tillman is probably the biggest role model I have ever met," Josh said. "For a man so huge in the lacrosse community to do something so very little for no gain, just to simply help someone out, he really shaped me into who I am today."
The "RubiStrong" on Tillman's hat — which he's worn during a number of games each of the last two seasons — was another honor that Josh said has made him "feel like a real part of the team."
"He's part of our team in an adopted way, even though he's not with us every day," midfielder Roman Puglise said. "He's definitely a part of our family."
And against the Scarlet Knights again on Sunday, Josh's pregame message and overall story stuck with the players as they pulled off their comeback.
"I love getting through life with a positive attitude. A positive attitude can do amazing things in life," Josh said. "Maryland was down against a strong Rutgers team and they kept their positive attitude and pulled off a huge conference win."
On Monday, just four days after undergoing major surgery, Josh was at his high school's lacrosse practice — most likely yelling instructions at his teammates, his father said. This summer, Jon said his son will help coach his travel team.
"When you see a guy who's really fallen in love with the game and can't do that, it's definitely something that impacts you," Tillman said. "We're optimistic that his future hopefully will include lacrosse. It may not be as a player, but there's a lot of ways you can still be involved in the game."


A FRAUDSTER who plundered a couple's £90,000 pension in a stolen identity scam after intercepting their mail has been jailed.
Saeed Ghani, 30, also stole post from a millionaire and tried to sell his home, worth £500,000, after he transferred the deeds of the property into his name.
The latter plot was only foiled when the homeowner's daughter noticed the address was advertised for sale on a property website and alerted police.
In June 2012, Ghani, from Prestwich, Greater Manchester, and co-defendant Atif Mahmood, 42, conspired to steal identity documents from an insecure post box in the Stockport area.
They used the stolen mail to hijack the identity of the homeowner and then carried out the plan to sell the property from under their noses.
Finally in August 2014, Ghani and a female defendant, Toma Ramanauskaite, 30, intercepted a husband and wife's post in Boothstown, Salford, and again hijacked their identities, said police.
The pair then approached the pension company to successfully transfer almost £90,000.
Ghani, of Polefield Circle, was jailed at Preston Crown Court for seven and a half years after he pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to three counts of conspiracy to defraud.
Mahmood, of Samsfield Close, Gorton, was jailed for two years and two months after he too admitted at an earlier hearing to conspiracy to defraud.
Ramanauskaite, of Spring Street, Bury, who pleaded guilty to the same charge, will be sentenced next month.
Detective Sergeant Phil Larratt, from Greater Manchester Police's Fraud Team, said: "In all three cases Ghani worked with an associate to hijack people's identities by stealing their mail.
"Unfortunately in the final case, Ghani along with Ramanauskaite were again able to successfully hijack further identities to steal a couple's pension.
"Today's verdict will hopefully send out a message to fraudsters in Greater Manchester that people will receive significant sentences for these types of crimes.
"As this case demonstrates, fraudsters can use your identity details to open new bank accounts, request new driving licences and even try and steal your own home.
"We urge the public to secure their mail boxes and employ measures to protect their identities."


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It's a welcome addition for Apple as well, he noted, since it adds to the utility of the iPad for business use, especially when coupled with an accessory keyboard.


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