Brian Walters in Melbourne: Hoddle Highway?
Each morning Hoddle Street is choked with traffic. The government has committed to a $5 million study "to investigate ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of all modes of transport along and across Hoddle Street from Eastern Freeway to just north of the M1 Freeway".
Although the proposal is to improve "all modes of transport" the study is being conducted by VicRoads. The focus on Hoddle Street, separate from the other major transport routes with which it interrelates, suggests there will be a focus on cars and roads, rather than, for example, trains.
Grade separating some of these junctions has the potential to improve the operation of Melbourne's central road system for cars, trams, buses and commercial vehicles.
The Government will allocate $5 million to commence engineering investigations to determine the feasibility of grade separating key junctions on Hoddle Street. A key element in these investigations will be to assess how disruption to traffic could best bee minimised during any construction works.
Rail will not be considered. Nor any other more imaginative options. It's just lots of road building. Disruption "to traffic" will be considered, but not to residents or parklands.
Each morning at peak hour Hoddle Street carries in total some 8000 vehicles. There is an average of 1.1 people per vehicle. Most of the traffic is heading into the city.
The best capacity roads can achieve is about 700 cars per hour per lane. Hoddle Street is already very close to that level of use, so the benefit from expensive grade separation is necessarily minimal.
In addition to the 8000 cars along Hoddle Street, there are about 12,000 cars going along the cross streets. Along the cross streets, buses move about 4500 people at present. Trams move about 4200 people.
But the big people mover is rail. Trains in the vicinity of Hoddle Street move 80,000 people each morning. Whilst the cars sit in their traffic jams, fully loaded trains whisk by.
The train system has a lot of room for more efficiency - more frequent trains would get many more people into the city in less time. Those who have to travel by car would do so more easily.
Hoddle Street is crowded because cars are such an inefficient way to move people in numbers. The billions of dollars in upgrading Hoddle Street would be better spent upgrading the rail system.
And that's even before we've talked about peak oil or carbon emissions - or bicycles.
Residents certainly don't want this Hoddle Highway white elephant. It will mean using Yarra Park as a construction site for years, and major disruption to the local area. The Greens held a public meeting in the East Melbourne Library last week, with numbers overflowing the venue. The opposition was unanimous, well-informed and passionate.
We want imaginative solutions that deal with the real transport needs of Melbourne. The Greens' People Plan is a great start.
More road projects equals more traffic equals the perceived need for more road projects. Labor and Liberal governments are hopelessly stuck on this treadmill to turn Melbourne into Los Angeles.
The solution lies in providing efficient transport alternatives such as train, tram, but and bicycles.
You put your life into car driver's hands when you cycle along Hoddle Street -- there is no safe provision for cycling at this time.
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Due to its high ROI and relatively low costs, your solar company probably already has a robust inbound marketing plan that includes SEO, social media and blogging.
If, however, your marketing strategy doesn't include some vital outbound marketing techniques such as direct mail, email blasts and targeted banner ads, you are missing out on potential sales.
Generating brand awareness about solar energy is an effective marketing approach to get your company the solar leads and customers it wants. However, the best approach to this cannot be found in traditional outbound or inbound marketing alone.
Brand recognition—Although enthusiastic solar consumers may know one or two of the major players in the industry, the vast majority of the markets have no knowledge of even the largest solar companies. A recent study by Solar Tech found that almost 63 percent of 163 single family home owners in California could not recall the name of a single solar company. This illustrates the enormous hill most solar companies must climb to even make an impression on the public. The most effective way to produce brand awareness is to initiate a relationship through a direct mail, targeted banner advertisements and/or PPC campaigns.
Lead generation—While the industry as a whole is eager to make a greater impact on consumers, your company needs paying customersn and that starts with obtaining leads. Solar is a young industry with little mainstream recognition, so it's important to initiate the conversation by sending out emails and direct mail as well as creating quality blog posts and posting relevant, informative content on social media. Many home owners and business executives are happy to entertain offers on cutting power costs, but few know where to begin when it comes to solar.
Educating consumers—An enormous challenge for marketing solar is the common perception that solar products are expensive. Furthermore, as solar energy is a relatively new concept in the history of energy, many people don't know enough about it. Where's the first place they will turn to learn more? Google. Your solar company cannot afford to slack on the inbound marketing techniques. Creating content search engine optimized content be it in a blog and/or on social media will help your search ranking and ultimately get you found by consumers searching the web for solar answers.
Marketing solar shouldn't be about choosing between inbound and outbound; both methodologies have their benefits.
While your company should be using an inbound marketing plan for the majority of your marketing solar initiatives, using some carefully selected outbound techniques may widen your customer base and even open up some new markets.
What tactics do you use for marketing your Solar company?


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The Cutting Edge Team uses office and environmental safety to teach language function, grammar, everyday expressions, vocabulary, and speaking practices.
This tongue-in-cheek video teaches English learners ways to express offers help to other people, uses of the "want to" infinitive, and other word usage.
Chat with friends and people at work - what can you chat about; what questions could you ask? The Cutting Edge team demonstrates how to chat, and how to use English phrases that come up in chatting.
The Cutting Edge team demonstrates talking about what is the same and what is different. Learn about comparatives, irregular comparatives and adjective opposites.
Cutting Edge Basic English Series: Thanks!
Carol and the Cutting Edge team demonstrate different ways to say "Thanks" and "No thanks" according to the situation and cultural context, and how respond to other people when they say, "Thank you." Learn possessiveforms ofwords with examples.
Do You Like Them?
The Cutting Edge crew's Success at Work Series demonstrates essential employability skills Millennials can use to achieve success. In this video, The Cutting Edge team demonstrates ways to talk about what you like and don't like and how to ask others what they like.
In a tongue-in-cheek presentation, characters teach English learners to describe family members and talk about friends and relatives. They teach words and use them in sentences and conversations.
Giving Information
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The Cutting Edge team engages learners through amusing situations, entertaining characters, interesting conversation. In "How Do You Feel?," English learners will learn to communicate feelings about family, friends, work and vacations, and why they feel the way they do.
The Cutting Edge team engages learners through amusing situations, entertaining characters, interesting conversation, and strong story lines. In "How Was Your Week," English learners will learn about irregular verbs and how to talk about things that happened in the past- this morning, yesterday, last week, and last month.
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In this tongue-in-cheek film, the Cutting Edge team shows us how to give and follow simple commands and sets of instructions in an office setting.
The Cutting Edge crew's Success at Work Series demonstrates essential employability skills Millennials can use to achieve success. In this video, The Cutting Edge team demonstrates ways to makes suggestions about what to do or where to go and gives examples of ways to accept or refuse an invitation.
In this program, the Cutting Edge team demonstrates different ways to say "hello," and "goodbye," how to introduce yourself when meeting someone for the first time and appropriate body language for greeting others.
The Cutting Edge team helps English learners use words, phrases and tense to talk about the future. What is going to happen - later today, tomorrow, next week, next year?
The Cutting Edge team engages learners through amusing situations, entertaining characters, interesting conversation, and strong story lines. In "What do You do?," English learners will learn how to ask and talk about jobs- what you do and what other people do for work.
In this program, the Cutting Edge Team, demonstrate to basic English speakers how to have conversations in the workplace about such things as what is happening at this moment? What are people doing? Where are they going?
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Viewers learn phrases, for suggesting when and where to meet, from the Cutting Edge team. Use words that tell how something happens, e.g., quickly, slowly, carefully and words that describe where something is, such as: behind, near and on. Learn how to give simple directions.
The Cutting Edge team helps English learners use phrases relating to choice - this one or that one, these ones or those ones, would you like, and which.
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Chris DeRose is the author of "Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America's Greatest President" and "Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election that Saved a Nation," a Washington Post political book of the year. He is an attorney in private practice, professor of law, and a political strategist based in Phoenix, Arizona.
For the past 17 years, DeRose has worked with candidates at every level across five different states. Highlights include serving as Director of Election Day Operations for Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and managing a nationally targeted Congressional race.
A graduate of Pepperdine University Law School, DeRose serves locally on a number of boards and commissions. Of these he is most proud of being on the school board of Phoenix Collegiate Academy, a high performing inner city charter school that delivers the dream of a world class education to an underserved community.
In 1789, James Madison and James Monroe ran against each other for Congress—the only time that two future presidents have contested a congressional seat. But what was at stake, as author Chris DeRose reveals, was more than personal ambition. This was a race that determined the future of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the very definition of the United States of America. Founding Rivals tells the extraordinary, neglected story of two of America's most important Founding Fathers.
BookTV: Chris DeRose, "Founding Rivals - Madison vs. Monroe"
BookTV: "Congressman Lincoln: the Making of America's Greatest President."
In 1789, James Madison and James Monroe ran against each other for Congress—the only time that two future presidents have contested a congressional seat. It was the most important congressional race in American history, more important than all but a few presidential elections, and yet it is one that historians have virtually ignored. DeRose relives the campaign, retraces the candidates' footsteps, and offers the first insightful, comprehensive history of this high-stakes political battle.


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Q: Pyspark dataframe group by to pyspark SQL query What is the relevant pyspark sql query
df.groupBy("Country","Product Category","Sub Category").sum("Profit").show()

+--------------+----------------+-----------------+------------------+
|       Country|Product Category|     Sub Category|       sum(Profit)|
+--------------+----------------+-----------------+------------------+
| United States|        Clothing|            Vests|           2198.97|
| United States|     Accessories|         Cleaners|           1666.05|
| United States|        Clothing|          Jerseys|13798.000000000002|
|        France|           Bikes|    Touring Bikes| 6093.929999999999|
| United States|           Bikes|   Mountain Bikes|-4766.709999999997|
|United Kingdom|     Accessories|          Fenders|            845.01|
|United Kingdom|        Clothing|           Gloves|159.01999999999998|
| United States|     Accessories|          Fenders| 4376.010000000001|
|United Kingdom|        Clothing|            Socks|              15.0|
| United States|        Clothing|             Caps|            1320.0|
|       Germany|     Accessories|         Cleaners|            137.99|
| United States|     Accessories|Bottles and Cages|            1007.0|
|        France|     Accessories|  Hydration Packs|            761.99|
|       Germany|     Accessories|  Tires and Tubes|3811.9700000000003|
|        France|     Accessories|          Fenders| 66.99000000000001|
|        France|        Clothing|          Jerseys|            3436.0|
|United Kingdom|           Bikes|       Road Bikes|           -785.96|
| United States|        Clothing|            Socks|              96.0|
|        France|        Clothing|             Caps|             586.0|
|        France|           Bikes|   Mountain Bikes|-3697.829999999997|
+--------------+----------------+-----------------+------------------+

I want the same answer in pyspark sql

A: The SQL is an aggregation query:
select "Country", "Product Category", "Sub Category", sum("Profit")
from dataframe
group "Country", "Product Category", "Sub Category"

A: Just use spark.sql and pass your SQL query as per the business logic, it will return a datafram as desired
df = spark.sql("select Country, Product Category,  Sub Category, sum(Profit)
from dataframe
group by
Country,   Product Category,  Sub Category")

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The governor of Texas removed an approved display involving the Statue of Liberty because . . . Texas has a budget surplus that it would like to redistribute to ACLU lawyers?
BTW the headline originally read, "Texas Governor Orders Atheist Display Removed . . ." but there's nothing anti-God there, just pro-America and pro-Constitution. Honestly, the full-support-for-civil-liberties-lawyers theory is the only one that really fits.
This entry was posted in Civil Rights, Hypocrisy, I don't think that word means what you think it means, My (largely correct) political views, WTF?! and tagged ben franklin, founding fathers, george washington, greg abbott, nativity, texas, the constitution, Thomas Jefferson on December 23, 2015 by Amy Robertson.
Hello. Is the the ACLU of Texas?


In order to celebrate J.C. Newman Cigar Co.'s 100th Anniversary, Stanford Newman and Carlos Fuente Sr. worked together to develop this super-premium cigar which, at that time, was the only commercially produced 54-ring cigar. This particular ring gauge was utilized so that each cigar could accommodate the six to seven individual leaves of tobacco. Diamond Crown cigars are handmade by the Fuente family with an exclusive Connecticut Fermented Wrapper, a high-grade silky smooth leaf that has been double fermented to provide a sweet, smooth, rich flavor. Available in a variety of different lengths, all Diamond Crown cigars are 54-ring gauge.


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Q: ClientEvents tag not working in Infragistics WebImageViewer Iam trying automate my WebImageViewer..when the page is loaded the viewer should navigate through the slides/images in it..i've found a few examples on how it's possible, but the best one i found seems to give an exception and i can't seem to find out why. Here's the code and the exception below:-
    <ig:WebImageViewer ID="WebImageViewer1" runat="server" BorderColor="#990000"
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    style="z-index: 1; left: 221px; top: 300px; position: absolute; height: 576px; width: 720px"
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    <Footer Text="CDMS© is a product of Blue Barracuda Technologies" Visible="True">
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<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
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           imageViewer = ivCSO;
           window.setInterval('imageViewer.navigateNext();', 3000);

       }

</script>

The exception i get: Parser Error Message: Infragistics.Web.UI.ListControls.ImageItemCollection must have items of type 'Infragistics.Web.UI.ListControls.ImageItem'. 'ClientEvents' is of type 'System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl'.
Any ideas? Help would really be appreciated.

A: The error that you are getting is because the ClientEvents is within the Items collection and it shouldn't be.  The correct markup is:
<ig:WebImageViewer ID="WebImageViewer1" runat="server" BorderColor="#990000" BorderStyle="Groove"
    Style="z-index: 1; left: 221px; top: 300px; position: absolute; height: 576px;
    width: 720px" BorderWidth="2px">
    <Header Text="CDMS Features" Visible="True">
    </Header>
    <Footer Text="CDMS© is a product of Blue Barracuda Technologies" Visible="True">
    </Footer>
    <ClientEvents Initialize="ivInit" />
    <ScrollAnimations Type="NextItem" />
    <Items>
        <ig:ImageItem ImageUrl="~/Styles/DiagnosisSlider.png" NavigateUrl="http://localhost:9480/Default.aspx" />
        <ig:ImageItem ImageUrl="~/Styles/MedbookSlide.png" />
        <ig:ImageItem ImageUrl="~/Styles/ASKDOCSlider.png" />
    </Items>
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myonlinepanel - founded in 2004 - is a market research agency which specialises in online surveys.
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For conducting online surveys we use our proprietary consumer panels in the UK, Germany and France which consist at the moment of over 100,000 active panel members. In the few situations where we are not able to achieve the complete sample via our own panel members, we co-operate with proven and quality conscious agencies.
We have our own software for programming questionnaires (EQUIP Questionnaire Generator®), which also allows the application of more complex methods such as conjoint.
We manage our panel and administer our projects on our own server. This enables us to perform real time analyses of the fieldwork status and interim analyses of results.


Embarrassingly it took a video full of A-list stars to get me to sit and learn about the victims of last month's dreadful Orlando shooting at Pulse Nightclub. It's so easy to read news reports about heartbreaking attacks like this and just view the victims as part of a total number of casualties, so Murphy should be commended for helping bring these to light.
For too long, a toxic combination of anti-LGBTQ hate and easy access to guns has put LGBTQ people at disproportionate risk of violence and murder. On June 12, forty-nine innocent people -- most of them Latinx -- were killed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando simply because of who they were. It's on all of us to keep their memories alive, and to ensure part of their legacy becomes meaningful action to end hate violence.
This is going to be an uphill battle for US citizens as most of their Republican politicians are bought and sold by the NRA. Keep campaigning. Keep writing. Keep posting and tweeting.


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Carl Icahn: Soros has points with bearish bets; stocks falsely being propped up
Published Thu, Jun 9 20169:34 AM EDT Updated Thu, Jun 9 201610:48 AM EDT
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Icahn: No one can really pick the market short term
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Carl Icahn told CNBC on Thursday that bearish bets by fellow billionaire investor George Soros have merit because the stock market has been artificially boosted by prolonged low interest rates.
Some of the values in stocks, "you just have to wonder," the chairman of Icahn Enterprises told "Squawk Box" in a wide-ranging interview.
Soros has returned to trading after a long hiatus, according to The Wall Street Journal, directing a series of big, bearish investments. The paper reports he sold stocks, and bought gold and shares of gold miners.
Icahn did not get specific on areas of agreement with Soros, saying at the time of the interview that he hadn't had a chance to take a deep dive on the Journal article.
"I don't think you can have [near] zero interest rates for much longer without having these bubbles explode on you," Icahn did say. "You [also] need fiscal stimulus [from Congress]."
Lots of experts make predictions about the stock market, Icahn said, but it's "ridiculous" to think anyone can always get it right in the short term.
He added that he sees China's "credit problem" posing a "risk" to the global financial landscape: "I don't think the last bullish guy in the world would ignore that."
"If you look at what we call 'our fund' we probably are net short [in investments]. But we [also] own a lot of companies at IEP ... so you really have a built in hedge," Icahn said.
Overall at Icahn Enterprises, he added, the firm is net long, when factoring the businesses the investment firm owns, such as refineries and rail cars. "We [also] own Pep Boys."
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China's leading electric vehicle maker BYD held a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the completion of the 300th electric bus at its Lancaster manufacturing plant in the U.S. state of California.
"Do right one time, one team BYD."
Hundreds of excited American workers were cheering, colorful balloons bobbed toward the sky, and a big blue ribbon fluttered in the breeze.
"Three hundred electric buses is a significant milestone. And one million miles of emission-free transportation is pretty cool," said Frank Girardot, BYD's vice president of communications, referring to BYD's customer Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA), which is expected to realize 1 million miles (1.6 million km) of zero-emission bus operations in early May.
Local, state and international officials who attended the ceremony agreed that a concerted U.S.-China effort allowed BYD North America and the city of Lancaster to take the lead in the business of manufacturing zero-emission electric buses.
"The U.S. and China working together ... This is a successful model that the rest of the country could use to achieve similar success," said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris, in an interview with Xinhua.
Michael D. Antonovich, former Los Angeles County supervisor and Metro board chairman, signed a contract with BYD's Senior Vice President Stella Li in 2013 for 25 all-electric buses from the company, as part of the County's 30-million-U.S.-dollar clean air bus technology pilot project.
"There were some skeptics when BYD chose Lancaster as home to its operations. Now these same skeptics are true believers, as they watch this world-class company continue to literally change the world for the better," said the mayor.
Since the delivery of its first U.S. battery electric bus in 2014, BYD has provided buses for customers in 13 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces.
Shi Yuanqiang, deputy Chinese consul general in Los Angeles, said "this actually is an example of how the two sides can work together to contribute to the common cause of better, green development."
When BYD opened its Lancaster manufacturing plant in 2013, it had a handful of employees working on 10 buses in a 106,000-square-foot (9,848-square-meter) building that once housed a motorhome manufacturing facility, according to the company.
"This is just the beginning. We expect great things to happen in Lancaster," said Patrick Duan, vice president of operations for BYD North America.
Duan is credited with playing an integral role in bringing BYD to the United States and has continued to foster the continued growth of BYD in Lancaster.
He pointed out that BYD-manufactured battery electric trucks and forklifts are already in use in Los Angeles and Long Beach's ports and rail yards and that the company is doing demonstration runs with its electric garbage trucks in several cities, including Seattle, Palo Alto and Southern California.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger applauded AVTA for being the first fleet to go 100 percent electric in the nation.
"This proves we can go green and it can be painless. The cost is not significant," she said. "It becomes a cost of savings when you have a cooperative partnership between the private sector and the government."
She also praised BYD for setting a high standard for diversity hiring. "What I've found exciting is BYD employees are 85 percent minorities, veterans, a growing number of women and second-chance employees. BYD really stepped up to the plate."


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Profile: New Bridge Strategies
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Employer of John Howland
New Bridge Strategies was a participant or observer in the following events:
May 2003: White House-Connected Lobbyists Form Company to Advise Companies on Doing Business in Iraq
An alliance of Republican lobbyists form the company New Bridge Strategies to seek rights for major US companies to distribute their products in Iraq. The website states the company has been "created specifically with the aim of assisting clients to evaluate and take advantage of business opportunities in the Middle East following the conclusion of the US-led war in Iraq." As one unnamed partner at New Bridge will explain to the Washington Post in the fall of 2003, "Getting the rights to distribute Procter & Gamble products would be a gold mine. One well-stocked 7-Eleven could knock out 30 Iraqi stores; a Wal-Mart could take over the country." Another person involved in the company will note that an order signed by Paul Bremer in September (see September 19, 2003) allowing foreign companies to establish 100 percent ownership of firms in Iraq increases the attraction of doing business in Iraq. [Washington Post, 9/12/2003; New York Times, 9/30/2003; Washington Post, 10/2/2003] New Bridge has close connections to the Bush administration and highlights these ties on its website noting that its chairman, Joe Allbaugh, was "chief of staff to then-Gov. Bush of Texas and was the national campaign manager for the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential campaign." The site also says, "The opportunities evolving in Iraq today are of such an unprecedented nature and scope that no other existing firm has the necessary skills and experience to be effective both in Washington, D.C., and on the ground in Iraq." [New York Times, 9/30/2003] Allbaugh dismisses criticisms that he is using his connections to profit from the war. "The stories I've seen have been couched as if people are trying to game the system, and that's not what we're about," Allbaugh tells the New York Times. "We are trying to help Iraq become a capitalist country, and a leader throughout the Middle East. Iraqis themselves are asking for help…. We fought a war, we displaced a horrible, horrible regime, and as a part of that we have an obligation to help Iraqis. We can't just leave in the middle of the night." [New York Times, 10/6/2003] Individuals involved in the company include:
Joe M. Allbaugh, chairman. The majority of Allbaugh's career was spent in Texas politics. He was chief of staff to Governor Bush; later became his 2000 presidential campaign manager, and then was appointed by Bush as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Allbaugh currently runs his own consulting firm, the Allbaugh Company. [Allbaugh Company, 3/17/2007]
John Howland, president. He is currently a principal of Crest Investment in Houston and formerly headed the company American Rice, which was once a major exporter to Iraq. [New York Times, 9/30/2003]
Edward M. Rogers, vice chairman. Rogers served as a deputy assistant to President Bush Sr. and as an executive assistant to the White House chief of staff. In addition to his involvement in New Bridge Strategies, he is also vice chairman of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, an extremely well-connected Republican lobbying firm. Rogers's wife, Edwina, is an associate director of the White House National Economic Council. [New York Times, 9/30/2003]
Lanny Griffith, a director. He is chief operating officer of Barbour Griffith & Rogers. He served under the first President Bush as special assistant for intergovernmental affairs and then worked under him again as an assistant secretary of education. [New York Times, 9/30/2003]
Jamal Daniel, a principal. Daniel has been an associate of George Bush's younger brother, Niel, for more than a decade. An investigation by the Financial Times will find that Daniel, along with John Howland, has "attempted to exploit their association with the president's brother to help win business and investors" on several occasions. "Three people contacted by the FT have seen letters written by Neil Bush recommending business ventures promoted by Mr Howland, Mr Daniel and his family in the Middle East. Mr Daniel has also had his photograph taken with the elder Mr Bush. Such letters and photographs can be valuable props when doing business in the Middle East." Daniel is also involved in the investment fund, Crest Investment Corporation, of which Howland is also a member. The firm, which employs Neil Bush as its co-chairman, helped fund Neil Bush's educational software company, Ignite. And according to one Middle Eastern businessman, Daniel sometimes introduces himself to potential investors as a founding backer of the Ignite. [Financial Times, 12/11/2003] Daniel, from a Christian Syrian family, also has links to Saddam Hussein's Baathist party. The Financial Times reports he "is said to have been involved in the founding of the Baath Party and sustained links with it in both Syria and Iraq even after being expelled from Syria in about 1966 after Hafez al-Assad came to power. Mr Daniel has told friends that when he was young Tariq Aziz, later foreign minister of Iraq, was a visitor to the family home." [Financial Times, 12/12/2003]
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import com.github.czyzby.lml.parser.tag.LmlTag;
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The hospitality industry is on the verge of an evolutionary leap, where the relationship between customer and brand will at last become real-time and relevant. Technologies such as AI and machine learning, IoT, and near field communication (NFC) are coming of age.
And, together these technologies share the potential to create personalised moments that matter. It is possible for hospitality businesses, including restaurants, hotels, casinos and resorts, to deliver this level of experience, if they right technologies are applied in the right ways. Indeed, while travel and hospitality brands have been tiptoeing around personalisation for quite some time, 2019 could, because of these new technologies, be the year when they can make meaningful progress.
Knowing what's trending and what's important to customers (past, present and future) is key to understanding how to capture interest, and deliver a service that meets or exceeds expectations. For example, did you know that in South East Asia, consumers will spend $200 billion booking travel online by 2025? Did you also know that 70% of Southeast Asia's population is younger than age 40 and more technologically adept than their parents' generation? These statistics alone should be enough to convince a hospitality professional that opening doors to a tech-savvy customer base is a good idea. A modern ERP system will provide business decision makers with crucial insights, that can influence their next investment decision, what sort of technology they implement into their buying journey, or what locations are more likely to be successful than others.
So, welcome to a new era of intelligent hospitality, an era where personalisation is set to be unleashed.


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World Heritage Status: Added protection, or unintended destruction?
By Rebecca McLeod • 18/05/2010
Sometimes I curse being an environmental scientist. Particularly when I'm traveling overseas. While my fellow travelers gaze in awe at the natural wonders around them, I can't help but see signs of pollution and degradation. I have just returned from a stint in Vietnam where I visited a World Heritage Area. It really got me thinking…
When UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) awards World Heritage Status to a natural environment, tourist numbers soar. Visitors turn up expecting to find unparalleled beauty, and I suspect a pristine, possibly wilderness-type experience. Should these tourists come to Tongariro or Fiordland National Parks — the 'jewels in the crown' of New Zealand tourism — they are likely to find exactly that. But is that the case at World Heritage sites in other parts of the world? At what point does increased tourism actually have detrimental effects on the very environments that UNESCO intends to protect?
Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam is marketed as 'the most beautiful place in the world'. I figured this was a place I just had to see. What I found was a landscape very much reminiscent of southern Fiordland. But… a Fiordland that you might expect to find just before the world ends. Thousands of bush-clad islands with toxic plastic-laden waters lapping at the shores. Steep cliffs extending upwards into the haze created by nearby coal-fired powerstations. Sea eagles swooping down to inspect discarded nappies and plastic flotsam. And everywhere, everywhere (!) an endless procession of tourist boats spewing out raw sewerage and diesel fumes.
Tourist boats jostle to unload passengers at Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. Photo: Rebecca McLeod
I don't mean to sound like a doomsdayer, but I was incredibly upset by my experience in Ha Long Bay. By all accounts this area was not so heavily polluted even ten years ago. But rapid development throughout Vietnam and skyrocketing tourism seem to be taking their toll.
The objective of World Heritage Status is to encourage conservation of the area, by empowering local communities to improve management practices, and where needed to provide assistance should the area become at risk of degradation. The dramatic increase in tourism that often accompanies the addition of a site to the World Heritage List could perhaps be regarded as an unintentional consequence of enlistment. But the lobbying that goes on behind the scenes shows that national governments are all to aware of the financial benefits that come with having sites in their country added to the list. The UNESCO process is transparent, and reports available on the website document current concerns about the negative impacts of tourism in Ha Long Bay. In the latest document (2009), the UNESCO council requested that tourist numbers to Ha Long Bay be regulated and the tourism-associated environmental impacts monitored. Unfortunately I saw no evidence of visitor restrictions — our boat left the dock with at least 20 other boats for company, and there were always at least ten boats in sight.
Never wanting for company - and this was the quiet season! Photo: Rebecca McLeod
It could be argued that such negative implications of World Heritage status are only likely to occur in developing nations where environmental practices are largely unregulated. However, we don't have to look far to find an example of a World Heritage Area in a developed country that is suffering degradation due to its popularity with tourists.
Fraser Island, in Queensland, Australia has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1992, and since that time tourism has increased rapidly to an estimated half a million visitors a year. The majority of these tourists explore the sandy island by driving four wheel drive vehicles along the beaches. At night, the vehicles are driven up into the sand dunes, where camps are set up. Although there are established camping sites complete with toilet facilities, the quest for a true wilderness experience sees many visitors camping in non-designated areas. Perhaps this wouldn't be a problem if we were only talking a small number of tourists. But unfortunately half a million visitors a year driving their vehicles into the dunes is taking its toll. The dunes are suffering from destruction, areas are becoming nutrient-enriched, and the roar of 4WDs is detracting from the wilderness experience.
In principle I agree with what UNESCO is trying to achieve and I believe that the council has good intentions. The fact is, there are places on Earth that are so stunningly beautiful, so unique, and so vulnerable that a global approach to protection seems the only way forward. I just hope that the countries lucky enough to be the guardians of these places realize that are they to benefit from tourism in the long term, they need to control the way that tourism is conducted so that the natural beauty and value of these sites is not compromised.
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Mugham, Meykhana, Jazz: Musical Performances, Traditionalism and National Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijan
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Aneta Strzemżalska, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan again proclaimed its independence. Seceding from a superpower with a population of 250 million, and becoming a nation of its own with a population of 8 million, the Azerbaijanis started looking for answers to basic questions: Who are we? What new values should we acquire? Using music as a way to study the new national identity the researcher observed participation inmusic festivals in Baku and other South Caucasian cities, conducted in-depth interviews with local elites, musicians, people in show business, and analyzed discourse about the musicalperformances. In particular the researcher examined Azerbaijani co-called "traditional" music movements. The study explores why mugham, meykhana, and jazz have come to represent Azerbaijan, how they have been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different historical periods: the beginning of the past century, the Soviet times, and nowadays. Above all it the research points to music "traditions" in Azerbaijan as being an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented. It also demonstrates how "folk revival" has played a key role in strengthening Azerbaijani national consciousness in the post-Soviet period.
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There is a critical shortage of pilots and technicians and Justin Trudeau has failed to staff and equip our Armed Forces
The Auditor General raised national security and long-term safety concerns about the viability of Canada's fighter jets. He also raised concerns with Canada's critical shortage of pilots and technicians which the Liberals failed to address.
The used CF-18 fighter jets the Liberal government purchased from Australia have started arriving in Canada. The Royal Canadian Air Force requires a fleet of new fighter jets to meet Canada's international commitments, not used CF-18s from Australia.
Justin Trudeau deliberately misled Canadians by manufacturing a 'capability gap' to fulfill a misguided campaign promise, and in the process has put the safety and security of Canadians at risk.
According to the Auditor General, the Liberals' plan will cost taxpayers more than $3 billion dollars, while further delaying the delivery of new fighter jets for the Canadian Armed Forces.
Conservatives have repeatedly called on Justin Trudeau to cancel the purchase of used Australian fighter jets, and to immediately launch an open and transparent competition to replace Canada's fighter jets.
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By Kyle Heck | Feb. 11, 2014
The South Carolina men's basketball team has struggled this season, to say the least. With a 1-9 SEC record, the Gamecocks aren't coming out of the league basement anytime soon, as has been the case the last few years.
Equestrian dispatches No. 6 Georgia
From an outsider's perspective, Saturday's equestrian meet between No. 1 South Carolina and No. 6 Georgia had a clear favorite, even if the meet was in Athens, Ga. The Gamecocks were the top-ranked team in the country and had won their last three matchups.
Men's basketball falls to Auburn
By Kyle Heck | Feb. 6, 2014
Despite 29 points from senior Brenton Williams and recovering from a 16-point deficit, South Carolina let victory slip from its fingers once again against Auburn Wednesday night.
Return trip to Florida likely for football team
By Kyle Heck | Dec. 3, 2013
It was an eventful weekend for South Carolina fans as they defeated Clemson for the fifth-straight year.
USC vs. Clemson: Rivalry renewed
By Kyle Heck | Nov. 25, 2013
Despite not experiencing a loss to Clemson in his career, redshirt junior defensive back Victor Hampton is looking at the bigger picture when it comes to the rivalry between the Gamecocks and Tigers.
Freshmen take advantage of playing time
After the 70-10 squashing of Coastal Carolina on Saturday, coach Steve Spurrier said it was nice to put on a performance like that this late in the season, something the Gamecocks haven't had since a 69-24 win against Troy in 2010.
Strong second half propels South Carolina to victory
South Carolina men's basketball coach Frank Martin has the philosophy of if you do what you're supposed to do in practice, then you will get a chance to do what you're supposed to do in game action.
Depleted defense faces potent offense
Normally when an FCS opponent comes in to play an FBS team, it's a warm-up act for a bigger game down the road. But Coastal Carolina shouldn't be much of one.
Gamecocks' SEC hopes rest with Ole Miss
Earlier this week, students got an email reminding us to request tickets for the remaining home games against Coastal Carolina and Clemson. In that same email, students were offered a chance to apply for discounted SEC Championship game tickets.
Gamecocks rally to keep SEC hopes alive
The 2013 season has been one full of suspense for the Gamecocks and the game against the Gators was no different.
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Q: Read only rows of a large file with row names specified in vector - R I am trying to do a rather simple task in R - from a large .tsv file (4GB) that I wasn't able to read into memory I would like to read only rows with row names defined in a list. Row names are defined in the first column of the large file called "PMID" and I have a list of PMIDs that I would like to extract from the large file.
I am quite new to R and even though I can use the function match or %in% on a loaded file in R I have trouble to do the same by reading the .tsv file. I used read.table to load the large file but got an error "cannot allocate vector of size 250.0 Mb".
The large .tsv file is structured as follows:
"PMID"  "au_order"  "lastname"  "firstname" "year"  "journal    type"   "city"  "state" "country"   "lat"   "lon"   "fips"
26151967    1   Lau Ying    2016    J Hum Lact  EDU Queenstown, Singapore   -   Singapore   1.299   103.787 NULL
26151969    2   Htun    Tha Pyai    2016    J Hum Lact  EDU Queenstown, Singapore   -   Singapore   1.299   103.787 NULL
26151965    3   Lim Peng Im 2016    J Hum Lact  EDU-HOS Queenstown, Singapore   -   Singapore   1.299   103.787 NULL

My_vector = c("26151969","26151965")

Output:
"PMID"  "au_order"  "lastname"  "firstname" "year"  "journal type" "city"   "state" "country"   "lat"   "lon"   "fips"
26151969    2   Htun    Tha Pyai    2016    J Hum Lact  EDU Queenstown, Singapore   -   Singapore   1.299   103.787 NULL
26151965    3   Lim Peng Im 2016    J Hum Lact  EDU-HOS Queenstown, Singapore   -   Singapore   1.299   103.787 NULL

I would be very thankful for any help and I apologize if this is a duplicate but even after long search I could not find any answer that I would understand so far.


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How did you come to form your dynamic creative partnership and what were your respective career backgrounds leading up to this point?
Jackson: Over ten years ago, Graham sat down next to me one day at this online gambling start up we both found our way to. From then until now, we're still sitting side by side. I'd spent a couple of years in the film business and joined the company as its only copywriter. We started making banners and landing pages together, and about eight weeks in, we made a 4-page spread and 12-page insert in Esquire magazine together. The rest, as they say, is history.
Graham: I was working for an action sports company creating motion graphics and marketing materials. For our first big project together, we started showing up at 7am – that just felt like an instant connection and match – we were both aligned on hustling and being hungry, and we instantly figured out that getting in those quiet hours, we would always be in the right place, and right time for juicy assignments.
Walk us through the Pound & Grain story, highlighting the agency's guiding creative philosophy.
Graham: We left the gambling start up and ended up at another agency – one of Canada's largest in the interactive division. We met a production manager, Tara, and she got us from working with the start up to working on brands like McDonalds, SAP and Tourism British Columbia. Once there, the three of us figured we could start our own company. Like anyone else in this business, you imagine you can build a better mousetrap.
Jackson: Three years later, Graham and I gave our notice, rented a small room, bought two $50 Ikea desks and two chairs and moved in. The first three hours of putting together desks and chairs were terrifying. Had we made a huge mistake? But by the afternoon, we'd secured a website project, and a few other campaign briefs from previous contacts. From the beginning, our gut instincts told us that working hard, hustling and offering solutions – that were more about results and not about awards – would make the phone ring. We turned these into our five rules (displayed proudly on our wall): Work Hard, Be Nice, Love Digital, Think Big, Have Fun.
Graham: At the end of the day, we strive to bake utility into our projects and provide value for our clients and create experiences their customers love.
Tell us about 3 recent great digital solutions Pound & Grain has helped design for brands and businesses.
We recently launched an iOS app for the BC Dairy Association and British Columbia Agriculture Council to capitalize on the growing local movement so users could find local food and products, discover what's in season and get recipes to put it all together.
For the second Season of CTV's Motive, we created a weekly fan game – allowing fans to solve their own case by answering trivia, exploring the crime scene, and meeting the writers and cast.
Emergency Room was a six part documentary series on Knowledge Network about life in Vancouver's largest emergency room. The website we created features the ability to share a patient's "scar stories" of trips to the ER, and weigh in on some of the biggest issues facing our healthcare system today.
When it comes to the type of work you really enjoy, where do your true passions lie?
Graham: My passion lies in bringing app experiences to life. There is something so satisfying in creating an app that helps solve a problem for people, or can provide some serious value or entertainment. That motivates me to get me out of bed every morning.
Jackson: As a writer, the type of work that gets me really excited involves content. The ability to create exciting stories that work on apps, social, mobile and tablet, and even across all those platforms – that you can seamlessly weave interactivity, video, and story together – is absolutely, amazingly, insane.
What are some of the most exciting trends happening in today's digital marketing space?
Jackson: The trend that we're getting to tackle every day is how to tell stories in social and in smaller windows. Whether it is micro-videos on Instagram or how to deal with Facebook's complex newsfeed algorithm, it still is about the story.
Graham: The industry landscape seems to shift at a moments' notice under our feet. New technologies are emerging and figuring out how we can utilize them in a meaningful way is one of the most exciting parts of our jobs. Technology, such as iBeacon, and how we can use it to add value to the consumer experience (as opposed to using it) is another way to deliver a sales message to people.
What's the grandest scale project you've ever worked on?
Graham: In the past we've had three key big projects that I always think about. When we were working at the start up gambling company there was a year where we went from making banner ads to multiple TV spots, to rebuilding the brand and doing it all.
Jackson: Being in Vancouver, we also worked on two large projects supporting the 2010 Olympic Games – the first was an interactive website collecting the stories of Canadians leading up to the games called CanadaCODE. The second was on the campaign for the province of British Columbia, "You Gotta Be Here" which was a massive campaign introducing us to the world in TV spots, web videos, banners and an interactive campaign site.
What relationship advice would you offer young creative duos?
Graham: We have a strong bond that overcomes any ego and sensitivity. Challenging each other and "pulling no punches" is the only way to have a lifelong creative partnership and we'd give that advice to young creative duos as well.
Jackson: If I had a nickel for every time Graham didn't like my idea I'd be a very rich man. But without a raw reaction from each other, we wouldn't create solutions that clients need.
Describe your most challenging project.
Jackson: In the past year we got to work closely with Lululemon founder Chip Wilson building websites, creating events and telling stories about his passion for bringing 60-second meditation to the world.
Graham: Since it's about a brand and essentially about Chip's thoughts, it was hard to wrap our heads around and challenging to market. It's been a fun and demanding assignment.
Graham: We define success as being able to help our clients grow their businesses, solve business challenges and making users happy.
Jackson: That's how repeat business and agencies are built – from heavy lifting, hardworking, creative solutions that build brands. At the end of our careers we want to look back on our work and remember all the great solutions we provided for the brands and businesses we worked with.
Who have been some of the most significant mentors throughout your respective careers?
Graham: The first big influence on my career in particular, was an Art Director we were lucky to work with, Dougal Muir, who really brought out the best in us. He was, and still is, an opinionated, dogmatic, proper Englishman with a penchant for salty language and a passion for typography. He drove us crazy ensuring the tiniest details were perfect and his passion, and complete fearlessness with clients, is still inspiring.
Jackson: Our transformational mentor in this business is Richard Hadden, the Executive Creative Director at Cossette/Dare, the agencies we've worked for. We liked his approach to life and we did whatever it took to work on projects with him. This included timing our visits to his floor of the building just to get that extra edge. For us, that nugget of wisdom during challenging situations from someone who has seen and done it all is invaluable.
Graham: The stories from his career, and his drive for the business, was like warming yourself at a campfire. We get together for lunch every few months and chat business, politics and creativity. We are forever grateful for all the time he gave us over the years.
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Q: Read and parse contents of very large file I am trying to parse a tab delimited file that is ~1GB in size.
Where I run the script i get:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 1895825408 bytes exhausted  (tried to allocate 1029206974 bytes) ...

My script at the moment is just:
$file = file_get_contents('allCountries.txt') ;

$file = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\t"), array("[NEW*LINE]", "[tAbul*Ator]"), $file) ;

I have set the memory limit in php.ini to -1, which then gives me:
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1029963776) (tried to allocate 1029206974 bytes)

Is there anyway to partially open the file and then move on to the next part so less memory is used up at one time?

A: You have to use blocks to read the file. Check the answer of this question.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6564818/1572528
You can also try to use this for less large files.
ini_set('memory_limit', '32M'); //max size 32m

A: Yes, you can read it line by line:
$handle = @fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        echo $buffer;
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

A: Are you sure that it's fopen that's failing and not your script's timeout setting? The default is usually around 30 seconds or so, and if your file is taking longer than that to read in, it may be tripping that up.
Another thing to consider may be the memory limit on your script - reading the file into an array may trip over this, so check your error log for memory warnings.
If neither of the above are your problem, you might look into using fgets to read the file in line-by-line, processing as you go.
$handle = fopen("/tmp/uploadfile.txt", "r") or die("Couldn't get handle");
if ($handle) {
    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
        // Process buffer here..
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

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PHP doesn't seem to throw an error, it just returns false.

Is the path to $rawfile correct relative to where the script is running? Perhaps try setting an absolute path here for the filename.

A: Yes, use fopen and fread / fgets for this:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
string fread ( resource $handle , int $length )

Set $length to how many of the file you want to read.
The $handle saves the position for new reads then, with fseek you can also set the position later....


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Hélio Gracie (October 1, 1913 – January 29, 2009) was a Brazilian martial artist who together with his brothers Oswaldo, Gastao Jr, George and Carlos Gracie founded and developed the self-defense martial art system of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, also known as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ).

Considered as the Godfather of BJJ, according to his son Rorion, Gracie is one of the first sports heroes in Brazilian history; he was named Man of the Year in 1997 by the American martial arts publication Black Belt magazine. A patriarch of the Gracie family, multiple members of his family have gone on to have successful careers in combat sport competition including mixed martial arts (MMA).

Early life
Gracie was born on October 1, 1913, in Belém, Brazil. Contrary to popular belief, he was a talented athlete, and trained and competed in rowing and swimming since his childhood. He had his first contact in martial arts at 16, when he started training judo (at that time commonly referred to as "Kano Jiu-jitsu" or simply "Jiu-Jitsu"), with his brothers Carlos and George. He also learned catch wrestling under the renowned Orlando Americo "Dudú" da Silva, who taught his brothers for a time.

When he was 16 years old, he had the opportunity to teach a judo class, which helped him develop his family style, "Gracie Jiu Jitsu". When the director of the Bank of Brazil, Mario Brandt, arrived for a private class at the original Gracie Academy in Rio de Janeiro as scheduled Carlos Gracie, the instructor, was running late. Hélio offered to teach the class in Carlos's stead. When the Carlos arrived with apologies, Brandt assured him it was no problem, and even requested that he be allowed to continue learning with Hélio.

Gracie realized, however, that even though he knew the techniques theoretically, the moves were much harder for him to execute. Consequently, he began adapting Mitsuyo Maeda's brand of judo, already heavily based around newaza ground fighting techniques. From these experiments, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu was created. Like its parent style of judo, these techniques allowed smaller and weaker practitioners the capability to defend themselves and even defeat much larger opponents. "Carlos and Helio Gracie ... brought a fresh eye to jujitsu just as their fellow countryman brought a special new approach to football."

Aside from training with his brothers, Gracie learned further judo under Sumiyuki Kotani and Argentinian judo pioneer Chugo Sato. He might have also got training under a practitioner named Hiraichi Tada. However, the extent of his official training in this art remains unknown. According to Masahiko Kimura, Gracie held the rank of 6th dan in judo in 1951, while according to Robert Hill, Kodokan records show Gracie at the rank of 3rd dan at the time, though Hill also noted that it was not unusual for Kodokan records to show a lower rank than that actually held by non-Japanese judo practitioners.

Fighting career

First challenges
Gracie began his professional fighting career at 18 years old against boxer Antonio Portugal. The fight took place in the undercard of a "jiu-jitsu vs. boxing" event on January 16, 1932, which saw judoka Geo Omori defeating boxer Tavares Crespo. Gracie won his fight by submission in a short time, probably an armlock in 40 seconds. Portugal is sometimes incorrectly billed as a boxing champion.

His second match would be the same year in a jiu-jitsu exhibition against Takashi Namiki in September. As Namiki had a 7 kg (15 lb) weight advantage and was a native of Japan just like the art of jiu-jitsu, he was expected to defeat Gracie. Namiki dominated the match, but Gracie wasn't defeated, leading it to a draw after several rounds.

Matches against wrestlers

Also in 1932, Gracie faced professional wrestler Fred Ebert on November 6. It was his biggest challenge up to the point, as Ebert outweighed him by 29 kg (64 lb) and was a decorated freestyle wrestler, and their match would have no time limit. Gracie was positive, claiming he would submit Ebert in a short time. However, the bout lasted almost two hours, and was eventually stopped by the police at the promoters's discretion as none of the fighters was progressing or advancing position. Again, this fight is sometimes registered as a vale tudo match, but it was hosted under grappling only rules. In an interview, Gracie claimed that he had to undergo an urgent operation the next day and that the stop was demanded by the doctor due to Gracie having a high fever caused by a swelling.

In 1934, Gracie faced another jiu-jitsu practitioner named Miyaki. The latter (whose first name is unknown) was billed as a judo black belt, although he had fought only one professional fight, a loss against professional wrestler Robert Ruhmann. He is usually identified as the famous judoka and catch wrestler Taro Miyake, a theory possibly initiated by Mark Hewitt in his book Catch Wrestling: A Wild and Wooly Look at the Early Days of Pro Wrestling in America (2005). However, Miyake was 54 years old and weighted 90 kg (200 lb) at the time, while Miyaki's official stats were about 20 years old and 64 kg (141 lb), and photographic material seems to support them being different people.

In any case, Gracie passed the first 20 minutes of the match in guard position before he climbed up to mount. He then applied a gi choke which Miyaki didn't surrender to, making the Japanese fall unconscious for the victory.

On July 28, Gracie faced renowned professional wrestler Wladek Zbyszko who, very much like Ebert, had a 40 kg (88 lb) weight advantage (albeit was 22 years older) and was billed as a world champion. Although the match was promoted as a "catch-as-catch-can vs. jiu-jitsu" challenge, it was fought under jiu-jitsu rules, including judogis and a 20-minute time limit. It was an uneventful affair; Gracie pulled guard at the opening and they spent the rest of the match in said position, ending in a draw. Still, it was seen as a moral victory for Gracie not to have been finished by the larger Wladek. The wrestler himself praised Gracie's courage and resistance.

Gracie's next opponent was his own former teacher, Orlando Americo "Dudú" da Silva, who had defeated Hélio's brother George in a catch wrestling match earlier in the year 1935. Their match was stipulated as a vale tudo bout with a 20-minute time limit on February 2. During the match, the two fighters exchanged punches before Dudú, heavier by 20 kg, took Gracie down. Gracie defended from the guard, but Dudú landed heavy punishment in form of ground and pound, breaking Gracie's nose with a headbutt and making him bleed profusely. However, the wrestler ended up spending all his energy in the assault, and it allowed Gracie to counterattack gradually with short punches from the bottom. When they returned to standing by the referee, Gracie landed two side kicks of the kind called pisão in capoeira, and the tired Dudú submitted verbally shortly after.

Matches against judokas
After the fight against Dudú, Gracie was challenged by 5th dan judoka Yasuichi Ono to another vale tudo fight. This was met with heat by the Gracie side, as Ono had defeated George Gracie by choke in a jiu-jitsu match. Calling Ono a "cretin" in a newspaper interview, Gracie claimed to accept the challenge and the two were stipulated to fight in April 1935, but the bout was scrapped when Gracie pulled out. Eventually, Gracie accepted to fight Ono, but only under jiu-jitsu rules, without points or judges and in December. He also came to the match wearing a judogi with very short sleeves in order to make gripping difficult.

The affair saw Ono, though lighter than Gracie by 4 kg (9 lb), executing an exact number of 32 judo throws on Gracie through the entire match, as well as almost finishing him with a juji-gatame in the first round. However, Gracie never gave up and escaped all his holds, including one in which he dived out of the ring to avoid a choke (a legal action at the time), and even had his own modest submission attempts in the form of an armlock and a gi choke near of the ending. After 20 minutes, the bout ended in a draw.

On June 13, 1936, Gracie fought judoka Takeo Yano, a training partner of Ono who also had dominated George Gracie the previous year in a time draw. Again, Gracie demanded a match without judges and wore a modified judogi, and his brother Carlos predicted that Yano wouldn't last a single round. Indeed, Gracie showed improvement, threatening Yano with a gi choke in the second round, but Yano threw and took down Gracie repeatedly through the three rounds of the match, which ended in a draw. Ono challenged Gracie for a future rematch after the bout, which Gracie accepted. The same month, Gracie was involved in a challenge consistent in fighting three opponents the same night, being those Geroncio Barbosa, Manuel Fernandes and Simon Munich, but Gracie pulled out before the event and was replaced by his brother George.

On September 12, Gracie faced a 2 kg heavier fighter named Massagoishi. He was billed as both a sumo wrestler and judo black belt, although Takeo Yano was quoted as skeptical of the second claim. Gracie submitted Massagoishi with an armlock after 13 minutes of fighting. However, the match was criticized by the press, calling it "a comedy and a farce" due to Gracie and his opponent not living up to expectations. The Brazilian Federation of Pugilism actually suspended Massagoishi for his inactivity during the bout.

Gracie met Yasuichi Ono for the second time on October 3, 1936, again in a match under jiu-jitsu rules and with no points of judges. Press and critics were unanimous in Hélio's improvement from their first match, although Ono again threw Gracie a number of 27 times and controlled most of the match. Around the time, Gracie had another rematch, it being against Orlando Americo da Silva and under grappling only rules. Gracie lost the match when he was disqualified for using a forbidden hold. Gracie had also a match against Erwin Klausner in 1937. Klausner was mainly a boxer (although he was also known as a wrestler), but the match was contested under the usual jiu-jitsu rules. Gracie won by armlock at the second round.

In 1937, Gracie retired from competition for the first time. He did not fight again until 1950. The year of his return, Gracie challenged famous boxing champion Joe Louis to a vale tudo match in one of his visits to Brazil, but Louis declined and proposed a boxing match, which Gracie rejected.

Gracie vs. Kimura

In 1951, Gracie issued a challenge against a touring judoka and professional wrestler, Masahiko Kimura.
 In order to fight him, Gracie faced before a lesser member of Kimura's troupe, Yukio Kato. Gracie and Kato went to a draw on September 6, 1951, with Kato immediately asking for a rematch. It took place on September 29, and it saw Gracie winning by choking out his opponent. Although the win was controversial, the match against Kimura was realized, and it happened on October 22. Kimura defeated Gracie by gyaku-ude-garami at the second round in a convincing fashion. Gyaku-ude-garami then went on to be known as the Kimura lock.

Academia Gracie vs Academia Fada
Oswaldo Fadda represents a non-Gracie line of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He was trained by Luiz França who was a student of Mitsuyo Maeda around the same time as Carlos and Hélio Gracie. Fadda was known for training the poor in Rio de Janeiro, and for the use of leg locks, which the Gracies considered low class. He trained a number of students and challenged Gracie's academy in 1953. Fadda's academy won the majority of the matches.

Gracie vs. Santana
In 1955, Gracie was challenged by Valdemar Santana, a former student of his academy who now trained and fought under the management of Carlos Renato and Haroldo Brito. Reasons why Santana left the Gracie team are diffuse; one of them is that he was expelled for taking a professional wrestling bout, something that their fighters had forbidden, while another tells how Santana accidentally flooded Gracie's gym while doing cleaning chores. Gracie accepted the challenge of a vale tudo match, even though Santana was 16 years younger and 60 lb heavier.

They fought in May, both wearing a jiu-jitsu gi. The bout lasted almost four hours, possibly three hours and 40 minutes. Gracie defended from his guard for most of the fight, hitting elbows to the head and heel kicks to the back, while his opponent threw punches through the guard. After a long time of fighting, Gracie got eventually tired, and Santana took over with headbutts and more strikes. At the end, Santana lifted Gracie up and slammed him on the mat, and then landed a soccer kick to the head of a kneeling Gracie. Gracie was knocked out and his cornermen threw the towel.

Although luta livre veteran Euclydes Hatem challenged Gracie after the fight, Gracie's bout with Santana was his final match before his retirement.

Assault of Rufino Dos Santos
A dispute between Gracie's brother Carlos and Manoel Rufino dos Santos worsened after Dos Santos won a public bout against Carlos. Subsequently, the conflict then moved to the newspapers, where Rufino criticized Carlos's skill and dismissed his jiu-jitsu credentials, leading Carlos, George and Hélio Gracie to assault him in front of his teaching place at the Tijuca Tênis Clube on October 18. They hit him repeatedly with a steel box and immobilized him for Carlos to apply an armlock, dislocating Rufino's shoulder so badly that it needed surgery. The brothers were arrested and were convicted to two years and a half in prison for assault, as well as for trying to run away during the arrest, but their connections to President of Brazil Getúlio Vargas granted them a pardon.

Later life
Gracie's son, Rorion Gracie, was among the first Gracie family members to bring Gracie Jiu-Jitsu to the US. Royce Gracie, Rorion's younger brother, went on to become the first UFC champion in the organization's history; Helio coached Royce from outside the cage at UFC 1 and UFC 2.

Death
Gracie died on the morning of January 29, 2009, in his sleep in Itaipava, in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. The cause of death, reported by the family, was natural causes. His last words were: "I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood." Gracie was able to utilize the same Jiu-Jitsu techniques which he helped to develop until his death. He was 95 years old, and was teaching/training on the mat until 10 days before his death, when he became ill.

Personal life
Gracie had been married to Margarida for 50 years. During their marriage, Gracie became the father of three sons (Rickson, Rorion, and Relson) with Isabel 'Belinha' Soares and four sons (Royler, Rolker, Royce, Robin), two daughters (Rerika and Ricci) with Vera. After Margarida's death, he married Vera who was 32 years his junior. Gracie was grandfather to many BJJ black belts, including Ryron, Rener, Ralek, Kron, and Rhalan.

In his late years, Gracie was quoted as saying: "I never loved any woman because love is a weakness, and I don't have weaknesses."

Gracie was a member of the Brazilian movement Brazilian Integralism, which first appeared in Brazil in 1932. Today, many members of the Gracie family are also close to the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who received an honorary black belt from Robson Gracie in 2018.

Awards and accolades
Black Belt Magazine 1997 Man of the Year

Fight record

|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| January 16, 1932 || Win ||align=left| Antonio Portugal || || Submission (Armbar) || 0:40 || 1–0–0
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1932 || Draw ||align=left| Takashi Namiki || || || || 1–0–1
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| November 6, 1932 || Draw ||align=left| Fred Ebert || || ||1:40:00 || 1–0–2
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| July 28, 1934 || Draw ||align=left| Wladek Zbyszko || || || 30:00 ||1–0–3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=7
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| June 23, 1934 || Win||align=left| Miyake || || Submission (Choke) || 26:00 || 2–0–3
|-
! style=background:white colspan=7 |
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| February 2, 1935 || Win ||align=left| Orlando Americo "Dudu" da Silva || || TKO (Side kick to the spleen) || ||3–0–3
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| December 5, 1935 || Draw ||align=left| Yassuiti Ono || || || 1:40:00||3–0–4
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1936 || Draw ||align=left| Takeo Yano || || || || 3–0–5
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 1936 || Win ||align=left| Massagoichi || || Submission (Armbar) || ||4–0–5
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1936 || Draw ||align=left| Yassuiti Ono || || || || 4–0–6
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 1937 || Win ||align=left| Erwin Klausner || || Submission (Armbar) || ||5–0–6
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| 1937 || Win ||align=left| Espingarda || || Submission || || 6-0–6
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 1950 || Win ||align=left| Landulfo Caribe || ||Submission (Choke) || || 7-0–6
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 1950 || Win ||align=left| Azevedo Maia || ||Submission (Choke) || || 8–0–6
|-  style="background:#c5d2ea;"
| 1951 || Draw ||align=left| Yukio Kato ||Rio de Janeiro, Brazil || || || 8–0–7
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 1951 || Win ||align=left| Yukio Kato ||São Paulo, Brazil ||Submission (Choke) || || 9–0–7
|- style="background:#fbb;"
| 1951 || Loss ||align=left| Masahiko Kimura || ||Technical Submission (Kimura lock) || || 9–2-7
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 1955 || Loss ||align=left| Valdemar Santana || Rio de Janeiro, Brazil || TKO (soccer kick) || 3:42:00|| 9–3–7
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 1967 || Win ||align=left| Valdomiro dos Santos Ferreira || || Submission (Choke) || || 10–3–7
|-
| colspan=7 | Legend:

See also
List of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners
Oswaldo Fadda

References

External links
Academia Gracie de Jiu Jitsu
Gastão and Hélio Gracie talk about Gracie Jiu-Jitsu – interviewed in 1997 for Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Videos
Interview with Helio Gracie from Brazilian Playboy February 2001
Obituary: Hélio Gracie, The Guardian

1913 births
2009 deaths
Sportspeople from Belém
Brazilian male judoka
Brazilian male mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Mixed martial artists utilizing catch wrestling
Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
Martial arts school founders
Brazilian people of Scottish descent
Helio
People awarded a red belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
20th-century philanthropists

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