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National / Arun Jaitley's demise irreparable loss to the nation and a personal loss to me: Vice President
Arun Jaitley's demise irreparable loss to the nation and a personal loss to me: Vice President
2:55 PM, 24 Aug 2019
File Photo: Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu giving away Economic Times Corporate Excellence Award to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Mumbai on 28 October 2017.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday condoled the demise of former Union finance minister Arun Jaitley.
Jaitley died at AIIMS on Saturday after a prolonged illness.
The Vice President called Arun Jaitley's demise an "irreparable loss" to the nation and a "personal loss" to him.
"I am deeply shocked to learn about the demise of Arun Jaitley,a long time, dear friend and one of my closest associates. His death is an irreparable loss to the nation and a personal loss to me. I have no words to express my grief," the condolence message from M Venkaiah Naidu said.
He said Jaitley was an outstanding parliamentarian, legal luminary, towering intellectual, an able administrator and a man of "impeccable integrity".
"Jaitley distinguished himself by effectively handling important portfolios as Union minister in the cabinets of A B Vajpayee and Narendra Modi," the Vice President said.
He was also a recipient of the Best Parliamentarian Award, the Vice President said.
"Jaitley strove hard and burnt the midnight oil to bring about a consensus across the political spectrum in ushering the revolutionary GST regime in the country. He made immense contribution to public discourse on various issues from time to time," he added.
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Traverse in a Glance
Seizing Diseases
Union with Allah
An Open Invitation
Praise Worthy & Encomium
Taj Taji
Category: Bawa Tajuddin Aulia
Published: February 05 2012
Physique of Bawa (r.a.)
His Majesty Hazrat Baba Tajuddin (r.a.) had a magnificent height of 6 Feet 9 Inches; therefore even in multitude of throng His Majesty can be distinguished easily and prominently.
His Majesty's sanctified forehead was broad, which was always glowing and radiant; colour was dark brownish; celestial face was straight & sharp, blessed with a beard, neck was long and smooth; arms were long and robust; legs were also lengthy and sturdy; and body was slim and slender. His Majesty's never wore anything on his blessed head; and often remains bare footed, had a Madrasi Dialect, and His Majesty's conversation was full of humbleness and gentleness.
Way of Addressing
His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.), replies evenly in the same gesture as someone addresses. If someone says "Baba" His Majesty also calls him Baba. If someone says "Bhai" (Brother) His Majesty also give equal respect and call him Bhai.
Readers! If I kept on writing on Hazoor (r.a.) Benevolence, Munificence & affection this itself will need a proportion of books; when my Uncle requested Hazoor (r.a.) that if it's permissible than can I arrange an writer to sit nearby His Majesty, so he can record His Majesty's accounts on daily basis, on this Sarkar (lord) (r.a.) said:
" Kagaz Kalam Khan sey lay ga "
From where you will bring equivalent Pen & Paper
So, based on this envisage that only on His Majesty's (r.a.) benevolence a heap of mountain of books can be written. Therefore I sojourn on this condense account in order to write briefly on other accounts.
Pace of Speed
His Majesty (r.a.) was swift footed, alacrity and fast momentum paced; walks with steadfastness with eyes closed while in condition of Muraqba (deep meditation) and Istigraak (Rapt), irrespective how dangerous the trail. His Majesty (r.a.) never impaired by anything on path, neither ever struck by stone, nor ever spiked by any thorn, instead thrones sprawl under His Majesty's foot. Beast of Jungles fore kiss the blessed foot of Hazoor (r.a.), and whoever accompanied him, also did not get hurt by anything. By observing the pace of speed of His Majesty (r.a.) one will say it looks like that he (r.a.) is walking moalaq (in air) floating in air rather than walking on the ground. Once of Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.) bequeathed buzurg (venerable) Abdul Aziz Sahib (r.a.) known as "Nana Mian" (Maternal Grand Father) narrates:
One Day I was walking with Hazoor (r.a.) in a Jungle, and a flock of people were also along; servants were walking glooming with shades on His Majesty (r.a.). A Servant named Yaqub (Jacob) also gave me a chance to serve, I watched Hazoor (r.a.) were steadfastly and completely Mustaghrik, and cannot be distinguished who is walking? Hazoor (r.a.) wasn't looking on the path at all; it appears that Hazoor isn't walking on the ground instead walking Moalak (in air). While walking in this condition Hazoor (r.a.) s ped instantaneously near a big piece of rock which was deep rooted in the earth, immediately Sarkar (r.a.) stood up there and said:
" Aiyse Rehtey Hein, Aur Agey Barhtey hein "
Stay like this, and go onwards
His Majesty (r.a.) was a swift walker, and can be distinguished in mass gathering of people with tall heights (meaning His Majesty R.A., looks superlative and incomparable out of the crowd).
This was the testimony of your leadership. His Majesty (r.a.) style of sitting was a true Tughra (monogram) symbol of "Mohammed " (s.a.w.s.), and make a true example of Prophet Mohammed S.W.A.S. Whether eating, sitting, etc.
His Majesty (r.a.) gives great care & importance in all aspects of life in all ways and means. His Majesty was elevating to higher and highest crests.
Idiosyncratic Chaste Body
One day I (Author) was coming back from Hazoor (r.a.) devotion of service at sunset. On a far distant from Pathak (gate) I met a person who enquired me from where are you coming? I replied, I am coming from Hazrat Baba Sahib (r.a.) service of devotion. At that time I was of very young age. He asked me another question: What evidence do you have to proof that you are coming from the Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.)? I couldn't give him any answer, so he asked on his own? What you were doing over there? I replied: I was massaging His Majesty (r.a.) foot.
Then he asked: Sniff your hands, as I whiffed my hands it was fragrance with the aroma of Musk & Anbar. The gentleman grabbed my hands immediately and rubbed on his entire body, when he was rubbing my hands on his clothes the perfume was spreading to far distant vicinity.
I also rubbed my hands on my clothes and placed them separately in a suitcase. That perfume lasts for years but I never met that gentleman again.
Aroma of Sweat
The Tabarukat (gifts) preserved with me (the Author) at Durbar Taj Al Aulia, out of them is a Handkerchief, which was used to absorb Hazoor Baba Sahib's (r.a.) blessed sweat before His Majesty's parda. Until to this date aroma of Amber and Musk still persist in it. Previously all this Tabarukat were put on display for Ziarat (honorary visits) yearly, and now on insistent of devotees it happens twice a year.
So, once on the occasion of Ziarat an elderly lady visited, she was still tremendously beautiful even at this old age, and was staying at Anwar Adil Sahab, Akhtar Adil Sahab's Villa. When this Buzurga (a Pious lady) paid Ziarat (visit) to this handkerchief she start crying heavily. After Ziarat we inquired the reason of crying, she explained: I was staying in Bombay (Mumbai) hearing a lot about famousness of Baba Sahab's (r.a.) Karamat (miracles). I was affected by asthma so I requested Baba Sahib (r.a.) virtually in my house that your Majesty 's Karamat are famed and well known all over, if my disease cure I will pay a visit in respect of His Majesty (r.a.). Since I Was very strict of Hijab (veil) so instantaneously I thought there is always a crowd of devotees present in respect of Baba Sahib (r.a.) how could I go there, so I set a condition on paying a Hazri (visit) that I will visit for sure, but will take the honour of Kadam Bossi (fore kissing) when you Majesty will be alone. This was impossible. According to her by His Majesty's karam (blessings) she got cured the next day. After few days according to promise I travelled to Nagpur, in those days Sarkar (r.a.) was staying Shakar Dara. I reached there after inquiring the address, when I entered inside Sarkar (r.a.) was alone, I took the honour of Kadam Bosi (fore kissing), Sarkar (r.a.) forwarded one foot, and ordered to massage it. I acted accordingly, during this a gentleman came and stood there, Sarkar (r.a.) signalled him which I couldn't understand but he presented a Bidri (inner core of cigarette wrapped in leaves) to Sarkar (r.a.) His Majesty took couple of puffs and granted me that Bidri, I took that extinguished and wrapped in my head scarf, during that His Majesty (r.a.) ordered to massage the other foot. I was very hygienic in nature, while I was massaging my hands were sticking with His Majesty's Foot. I thought that might be somebody has applied oil on the body. I thought that I will wash my hands with soap and water later, after a long while I got permission to get disperse. I had a program to wash my hands when I will come out; I walk towards a grocery store in search of soap. By chance when my hands drawn near to my nose to correct my veil it was fragrance with the perfume of Musk and Amber. Now when I smell both of my hands they were perfumed. Until several days that aroma persisted, and this handkerchief has the same perfume. At that point I have figure out that it was not oil on the foot, but it was Sweat and perfume was because of that.
This Handkerchief was placed in a plastic box, on seeing this she make a bowl of Silver and placed that plastic box in that. The reason of weeping, she told that she has lost that Bidri, I wish I could have ate it. After this she continuously gathered in Niaz of 26th of month, and yearly Urs (Annual celebration in memory of departed) and on Youm-e- Wiladat (birthday) of Sarkar (r.a.).
Reasons of Fragrance in Sweet
Why should not the same fragrance in His Majesty (r.a.) sacred body? His Majesty (r.a.) is a Hasni wal Hussaini Sadaat (Holy Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) descendents through his dearly loved daughter Hazrat Fatimah Razi Allah Anha) and beloved of Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) and Messenger of Hazrat Zahra (Razi Allah Anha). To depict His Majesty's (r.a.) commendable attributes is like squeezing the whole universe in nutshell.
In respect of Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) Abi Abdullah has said:
Bay teebe Rasoolillahe taaba Shaiammuha
Fama lil Misku wal Kafooru wal Sandal Arratab.
Rationally by virtue of Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) fragrance's the fragrance become aromatic and it is a veracity that even the best of perfumes like Sandal, Musk or Camphor doesn't have a fragrance like that.
Hazrat Shibli (r.a.) is one of the concealed pure inner self, and a pious scholars, he explains that the terrain of Medina AlMunnawara has a idiosyncratic fragrance which even Musk or Amber does not contains, and it's not a matter of bewilderment or strange at all, because the ambience where the beloved of Allah Almighty Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) exalted and enrich the air by His sanctified breathe, then what will be the fragrance of Musk or Amber?
Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) had a great affection with the mother of Hazrat Ans (Razi Allah Anhu) she was Prophet's (s.a.w.s.) Aunty, meaning she was from Muharramat (permissible intimate relative). Whenever Prophet Mohammed (S.A.W.S) visit her in afternoon he take his rest there. It was practice of Hazrat Um Sulaim (Razi Allah Anha) that she dried out Sweat from purified sacred body of Prophet (s.a.w.s.) and gather into a Jar. Once Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) saw that and asked: "What you will do with this?" She answered: "Sarkar (s.a.w.s.) we use this as a perfume". (Muslim, Volume 2).
It has been divulged that Hazrat Baba Syed Mohammed Taj Uddin AlHasni Wa AlHusseini is a "Sadaat", from the royal family of our beloved Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.) and the messenger of Hazrat Zuhra (Razi Allah Anha). So, it is acceptable, if hand touches Musk, it becomes fragrant from the same perfume! This is matter of the royal family of Prophet Mohammed (s.a.w.s.). It should not be a matter of amaze and astonishment if similar Raison D'etre of fragrance develops in His (s.a.w.s.) family too!
Hazoor (r.a.) Routines & Preferred Cuisine
His Majesty Baba Tajuddin (r.a.) was not constraint to time and routine, whether it was period of staying at Waki Shareef, or residency at Shakar Dara, people witness that at a while His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) is sitting beside a river bank and after a while sitting in a Jungle under a tree.
Tea was served at Shakar Dara at 4:00 am in service of His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) and from that time people start to gather around His Majesty (r.a.). Sometimes Baba Sahib drink Tea, sometimes bequeaths to someone else, and sometimes His Majesty (r.a.) takes a sip and rest is distributed among the (devotees) attendees. Mostly after daybreak His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) steps out from the palace. Outside of Shakar Dara Palace each and everyone, shop keepers, Servant of Rao, and visitors keep busy in there chores, but in the interim anxiously keep on watching from time to time towards the palace door, and as soon as His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) steps out of the palace, clamour arose that Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.) is coming! The Mithai Wala (confectioner) run afterwards with there sweets, Florists run after with their Garland (Gajra) and visitors start walking behind Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.) devotees overwhelmingly shower with flowers, someone comes forward and take the privilege and lay Gajra (flower bracelet) in His Majesty (r.a.) Neck. Sometimes Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.) also sits down at locations, people present sweets and flowers, and someone present gifts and oblations.
His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) response back to Saileen (requestors) with low voice (Burburana); due to multitude of crowd sometimes His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) benevolence way of talking becomes a love filled warning (dant) and hit slightly if angered, but the devotees do not go away.
Sometimes His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) goes towards city and sometime goes in direction of Jungle. Occasionally walk towards jungle on foot also, but mostly travel by transport, and for that either Cattle Car or Tango was always accompanying His Majesty (r.a.), but he mostly travel on Tango. When H. M. Baba Sahib (r.a.) go out of palace on foot and walk for far distantly, people endeavour that H. M. (r.a.) ride the Tango by any means. It also happens that H. M. Baba Sahib (r.a.) orders for Savari (Transport) a Coachman (Coach Driver) by the name of the Heera Lal presents Tango. H. M. Baba Sahib (r.a.) has given name of " Bahadur" to the Horse of Tango.
After His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) rides the Tango then one Pahlwan (a Stalwart, strong build person) sits in the front and another sits on the footstep and goes together. The "Bahadur" Horse standby and waits for His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) signal, as soon Bawa (r.a.) spells "Barhao" (forward) the Horse start galloping immediately on his own. Coachman was not allowed to hold Bagain (pull up) horse, or to give direction to turn left or right. Bahadur on His own sprints on the route of Streets and Jungles. In next to no time the Tango come out of Shakar Dara limits, a heap of people gather around to have Ziarat (privilege of seeing) and fore kissing, and the majority of this mass jogs along side by side of the Tango. His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) takes a round of the city, and at some places order to halt the cart and meet people. There lies a secret in s ping over at places. Generally people who came from far distant places with aspiration to meet Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.) and they couldn't get a chance to meet His Majesty (r.a.) Baba Sahib (r.a.) meet with them.
It also happens that His Majesty (r.a.) s over at somewhere and give them backing and encouragement to predicament people in crisis.
Whilst His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) move on foot in direction of Jungle people accompany His Majesty (r.a.) carrying along with them Tea and Food. Bawa Tajuddin (r.a.) mostly have his lunch in Jungle. sometimes ordered by himself, sometimes people present themselves at time of lunch. Everyone untangle his or her Lunch Box or Food Basket and present in respect of His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.). Baba Sahib (r.a.) eats a little randomly from any lunch box and the rest is distributed among the visitors.
Dal (pulse), Chawwal (Rice), Machli (Fish) was His Majesty's (r.a.) preferred cuisine. In this regard, His Majesty (r.a.) sometime says these verses:
"Yeh Nahi Khaia to mitti Dhool"
If you didn't eat this, then soil & dirt
Bequeath of His Majesty Baba Sahab (r.a.) in Mefil-E-Samaa
(Session of Spiritual Music)
Hazrat Fareed Khan Sahab Fiza (r.a.) narrates I paid a visit in respect of Hazoor (r.a.) when His Majesty was staying at Jungle of Waki Shareef, at that time His Majesty (r.a.) was sitting inside of Villa. I opened the door and entered inside, Two Qawwals (Spiritual singers) were performing. Sarkar (R.A. was listening silently and this verse was replicating "Bhar Bhar Jam Pilla dey Saqi" Qawwal (a chanter of religious verses) was an ordinary one but the Kafiat of the Qawwali (poetic frenzy of Qawwali was unusual and it was persuading an extra ordinary influence on me. I said to myself Baba Sahab's (r.a.) benevolence is open on the entire human kind & civilization, and the whole world is getting benefit out of it. I wish if I also get a chunk out of it. The moment this aspiration came into my mind, instantly Sarkar (r.a.) order the devotee (me) "Aik Glass Pani do" (give me a glass of Water), I serve a glass of Water, His Majesty (r.a.) took couple of sips, and forwarded the glass towards me, I advanced to take the glass but said heartedly "Jazb nahi Salook chahta hoon" (I don't want state of Ecstasy & Trance, and deep meditation, but state of steady and awareness with deep meditation). Bawa Baba Sahab (r.a.) took his hand and start drinking himself. I ashamed of myself asked again heartedly for this benevolence. His Majesty (r.a.) again forwarded the glass towards me, but I said again the same in my heart "Jazb Nahi Salook Chahta Hoon", His Majesty (r.a.) repelled his hand, likewise His Majesty (r.a.) forwarded the glass towards me for the third time, but the misfortune didn't left me alone, that thinking and demand persisted, and upon emerging this thought Hazoor (r.a.) throw the glass on the ground with force, angered on Qawwal, hit the Dhollak & went out towards Jungle in the state of Jazb (State of ecstasy & Trance).
Hazrat Nizam Uddin Mehboob-e-Illahi (r.a.) narrates on page number 127 of Fawaid AlFuwad "Sama mard key wastey kasooti hey" (Spritual Music is a test for man), and one point author Hazrat Ameer Ullah Sanjari wrote that at one Hazri (visit) I asked solicitly Hazrat Mehboob-e-Ilahi (r.a.) that this perturb heart is astonished on its own, that it cannot practice obedience ardour as it should be, no question what would be the pinnacle of recitation and meditation of the Darwesh (pious people), but when I listen to the spiritual music it brings me absolute comfort and sob, swear to God at that time my sensual appetites are mortified and my heart get rid of this worldly carnal life and transient worldly people, and I do not remember any thing else.
Sarkar Mehboob-e-Illahi (r.a.) asked again "Kiya Dil Alaieke Duniawee sey Khali hojata hey ?" (Did the heart liberates from profess worldly desires?) I replied "Yes" upon this His Highness said:
"Samaa (Session of spiritual music) is divided into two kinds, "Hajim" (raiding) and "Ghair Hajim" (non raiding). Hajim is characterizing as upon hearing Samaa (the spiritual music) affects in the beginning, e.g.: on a melodies voice, or a pleasant verse delights, this kind of situation is called Hajim, and it cannot be defined.
Ghair Hajim (non-raiding) is defined when Samaa uplift mind and soul and bring in state of Ecstasy upon hearing a verse which defined qualities of a Saint, or on noble virtues of his Peer (a guider to the path of the spiritual world). Sarkar Mehboob-e-Illahi (r.a.) has described definition of Samma in just two words that "Samaa is man's test".
Shoes Miracle
One person met in Hungun Ghat (name of a place) narrated a miracle. Once we reached in Baba Sahib's (r.a.) Durbar (Royal Court), a devotee bought a pair of shoes for His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.). Sirkar (Baba Sahib r.a.) after wearing it, throw one pair of shoe towards me and other towards the second person. Now, demon ghosts diffuse on the hit of this shoe. Simply by smacking couple of times, the whole magic vanishes.
Allah's Praises, what a healing in these Allah beloved people.
Mystic Succession
In His last moments, Baba Murshid Said to Maharaja Ragoogee Rao that my bed would not be lift from your place for decades to come. Therefore, one can see the mystic succession place for His Majesty Baba Murshid, and until to this day it exhibits the same atmosphere as it use to be before His Majesty Baba Sahib veiled this materialistic world. All the visiting guests and devotees are being taken great care.
Court of Blessings
His Majesty Baba Sahib (r.a.) faced acute and extreme hardships for the benefit and sake of mankind. It also happened that some one said any vicious words, and the devoted servants felt bad about that, and intended His Majesty to curse him for misbehave, but Baba Sahib said, "Nako Hazrat Hamara Darbar, bud dua ka nahi" (No Hazrat (Mister), Our Court is court of Blessings, and not the Court of cursing") even people of that kind got benevolence and benefit from His Majesty.
You are a true sibling from the family of Prophet Mohammad SAW, and that is the vitality of being heart maker instead of heart breaker. That is the reason; your court is the court of blessings and mercy, which is still provoking today.
During your life before veiling this worldly life, large number of people blessed and benefited by your blessings and love, and this still continuing until today. Your Royal Court is benefiting all caste of people irrespective of there background. Either a first time visitor or a heartily devotee, every one thinks Baba Sahib affectionate me and loves me only.
Your beneficence is continuing and ever flowing. Every one receiving their desire full filled according to there desires. No one goes empty handed from His Majesty Royal Court, and this practice is still going on until today.

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Children of the New World: Stories (Paperback)
By Alexander Weinstein
A sublime collection of speculative, dystopian short stories. Weinstein's near-future is full of isolating cybersex, social media implants and memory manufacturers. A father has to deal with his malfunctioning robot son. A suburban town has to decide which local kid to shoot off into space. Perfect for fans of George Saunders or Phillip K. Dick.
October 2016 Indie Next List
"Imaginative and articulate, Children of the New World envisions fascinating technologies and the cultures shaped by them. As in the best speculative fiction, Weinstein's stories are driven by a longing for deeper answers: What defines us as human? How will we maintain this humanity as our lives become increasingly interwoven with the digital? I am haunted by many of the characters in these stories and their search for the human connection in worlds where technology appears to supersede it, but I am comforted by Weinstein's implication that such connection will still be essential. This debut is an astonishing addition to the world of speculative fiction."
— Kelsey O'Rourke (M), Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI
Selected by Electric Literature as one of the best short story collections of 2016
AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.
In "The Cartographers," the main character works for a company that creates and sells virtual memories, while struggling to maintain a real-world relationship sabotaged by an addiction to his own creations. In "Saying Goodbye to Yang," the robotic brother of an adopted Chinese child malfunctions, and only in his absence does the family realize how real a son he has become.
Children of the New World grapples with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society. Alexander Weinstein is a visionary new voice in speculative fiction for all of us who are fascinated by and terrified of what we might find on the horizon.
ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN is the director of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Among his many publications, his fiction was awarded the Lamar York Prize and the Gail Crump Prize, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been collected in the anthology 2013 New Stories from the Midwest. He is a professor of creative writing at Siena Heights University and a lecturer at the University of Michigan.
"A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined." —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
"Taken together, these stories present a fully-imagined vision of the future which will disturb you, provoke you, and make you feel alive. Weinstein is brilliant, incisive and fearless, and I expect to be reading his work for years to come."
—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
"[A] funny, discomfiting, and excellent debut… Even with a cursory reading of current events, it's difficult to deny that Weinstein's new world is the one our children will grow up in, if not the one we are already living in. Don't let anyone tell you these stories aren't real."
—David Burr Gerrard, Bomb Magazine Online
"Increasingly, genre readers need to be on the lookout for intriguing new work from beyond the traditional SF sources. Alexander Weinstein's debut collection, Children of the New World, is a great example…. This is lovely work, real science fiction, interested in the near future effect of technological and social changes, and imaginative. Most of the SFnal ideas here are fairly familiar, but treated freshly and in a very contemporary context. The stories are well-written, the characters are believable and affecting, the tone ranges from quite comic to wistful to angry…. This is as fine a debut collection as I've seen in some time, and a book to read and celebrate."
—Rich Horton, Locus
"In Alexander Weinstein's debut collection, the future is a frightening and familiar place. Weinstein takes our uneasy truce with technology and blows it up, giving us child robots and ice worlds and the dark aftermath of failed revolutions. The collection is nothing short of a gorgeous new cold war, pitting us both with and against the science that threatens to become not-so-fictional every day."
—Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World: And Other Stories
"[Weinstein's] stories look like SF—consider the childless couple living in a virtual-reality community whose child there is wiped out by a computer virus—but read like literary fiction. Calling all fans of Margaret Atwood and Emily St. John Mandel." —Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
"In each of the gripping stories in Children of the New World, Alexander Weinstein offers a unique glimpse into an unnerving not-so-distant and all-too-possible future. Weinstein explores what-ifs with both wit and sensitivity, and his cautionary tales demand to be read (before it's too late)."
—Judy Budnitz, author of Nice Big American Baby
"Mind-blowing… In the vein of George Saunders, Rick Bass, and Alex Shakar, Weinstein writes with stirring particularity, unfailing sensitivity, and supercharged imagination, creating nuanced stories harboring a molten core of astutely satirical inquiries. Sparking disquieting thoughts about how vulnerable our brains are to electronic manipulation and how eventually consciousness itself might be colonized by corporate and governmental entities, Weinstein's brilliantly original, witty, and provocative tales explore the malleability of memory and self, the fragility of intimacy and nature, forging a ravishingly powerful, cautionary vision."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist *STARRED REVIEW*
"Touching on virtual families, climate change, implanted memories, and more, Weinstein's debut collection of digital-age sci-fi stories is scary, recognizable, heartbreaking, witty, and absolutely human…. This is mind-bending stuff. Weinstein's collection is full of spot-on prose, wicked humor, and heart."
—Publishers Weekly *STARRED REVIEW*
"Missing the vague, futuristic dread you feel watching Black Mirror? Weinstein's eerie sci-fi collection—featuring adopted robot children and the addictive fictional memory industry—fills the void brilliantly."
—EW.COM "15 Books You Have to Read in September"
"These stories are equally unnerving and tender, and a reminder that what we ultimately long for is human connection."
—Michele Filgate, Literary Hub "18 Books You Should Read This September"
"[A] breath-catching in your throat collection…. Grab a glass of wine, cancel the meeting tomorrow morning, and settle down with this book. (I mean it, cancel the meeting). You'll stay up all night reading it, and then cast about for the person you'll give it too so you can talk to them about it."
—Judey Kalchik, Things I Know About Bookselling (blog)
"A bold debut collection of speculative short stories…. Weinstein deftly captures technology's limitations and leaves the reader to ponder the beauty found in the real world's imperfections. Ultimately, what is most remarkable, and chilling, about many of these stories is their resemblance to our current times."
—Jessica Pearson, Bookpage
"It's really fantastic."
—Liberty Hardy, Book Riot "All the Books" Podcast
"Children of the New World is a nuanced and complex vision of where we as a species might be going — and how, for better and for worse, we're already there."
—Jason Heller, NPR.ORG
"A darkly comic look at how far people will go to hold on to the devices that are replacing human experience." --The Washington Post
"Seductive... the best of Mr. Weinstein's stories whistle with a cockeyed, formidable intelligence, and he is not afraid to provoke…. At their finest, Mr. Weinstein's stories contain moments of moral complexity and, even more challenging — and more moving — moments of grace."
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"The timely, nuanced stories in Alexander Weinstein's Children of the New World are some of the most brilliantly disconcerting fiction in recent memory...As with George Saunders or Ray Bradbury, Weinstein's satiric ingenuity seldom overpowers his deep compassion for our wayward species....The resulting cautionary tales are superlatively moving and thought-provoking, imbued with disarming pathos and a palpable sense of wonder and loss."
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Sonya's final guest of season 2 is Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles. Mr. Garcetti is the 42nd Mayor of LA; a member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in 2013 and won re-election in 2017. He is married with one daughter and it was Sonya's absolute honor and pleasure to talk to him about his formative books in the Rare Books room of the Central Library in downtown LA.


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Kde auto resumes? Wtf man?!
Guys.....I'm trying my hardest to give kde plasma a chance but omfg. I've scoured the internet for hours trying to change default permissions on stuff that works out of the box on Debian and Ubuntu. But resume where you left off? I can't turn it off. Why do devs think it's good to have this on as a default feature? If I go through the steps to turn my computer off, it should come on fresh. It'd be one thing for a prompt, or a a specific scenario like shutting down by closing a laptop lid.
Anyway. That's my rant. Sorry.... I've got a massive headache from this and I know there are multiple kde fans here.
Ahh resuming sessions.. Yeah KDE by default saves sessions. You can turn it off though in the settings panel.
Raven67854 I have no idea what you guys are talkin' about. I know there's that feature in KDE Plasma, but it's not on by default on Kubuntu.
AH! KDE - you make me laugh, go to VIP gulag.
But yeah, I kinda get the frustration as it was annoying me too, until I found how to change it.
MrSatan I don't mind a learning curve but holy hell. I figured I'd give it a try because I was watching Linux videos...you know....like we do....and the selling point over gnome was everything is all built in, no extensions or anything. To be fair, it was in there....but with no tutorial or direction or knowing what kde/plasma called the feature, every search result returned options on how to disable it on Windows 10...which is also a PITA to disable. I hate windows 10, not because of it's closed-nature, nor it's privacy incursions. I hate windows 10 because when you shut stuff off, it isn't always off. Settings are buried and even disabling them in the registry has a 50/50 chance of working. Make no mistake, windows 7 was a closed, privacy nightmare as well, it just functioned better.
If those are my reasons for leaving Windows for Linux, why would I want that experience in Linux. I feel like kde/plasma is designed by plasma users for plasma users. The learning curve is steep and I found it no more or less functional thn any other DE. Just more headaches because of the learning curve.
Anyways, I figured it out. Thanks for the help. Lol.
B101 The best and worst part about KDE is the insane amount of customization it can do. Sometimes it really can be a hindrance. Although apparently the save session is a popular feature. I personally have never met anyone that likes it however.
Way back in the day when I was a computer science student I used slackware but I don't know what DE was used at the time. I was brand new to Linux back in 2004. A little while later, I tried Ubuntu with Unity and I kind of just played with and used it as a disk recovery tool for bad HDDs. About 3 years ago I made the full-time switch to Linux Mint, 17.3 I believe.
Cinnamon is still one of my favorite DE's not because it mirrors windows but because of its simple configuration setup for noobs. I enjoy Pantheon a lot because of the look and feel but in elementary os there was just too much nerfing going on. I use gnome almost exclusively but l think I'm going to either switch to budgie or just keep cinnamon.
Last night I was helping my son troubleshoot Saints Row 3 where I learned that some games just don't like running within gnome. I haven't looked into why yet, and I love gnome because of how it functions in a touch landscape (2-in1's/"Yoga's" are my life!!) But I really dislike having to do find the customization tools, extensions, etc to get it to where I like. I might go with Pantheon and see how it works in the Ubuntu environment separate from elementary os.
I used KDE for a long time, but an update to KWin broke drop-down functionality on secondary screens. So now I use KDE/OpenBox.
Azarilh Save session is on by default with KUbuntu. I always turn it off though.
Yeah, now i remember it was on by default the first time i installed it... The thing is that i never delete my KDE user anymore when i re-install Kubuntu, which obviously means that all the user configurations remain the same. I even have two Kubuntu installed that share the same user folder.


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'Those who violated nuclear deal are fake supporters of human rights'
TEHRAN – In an open reference to the Trump administration, Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri said on Monday that those who violated the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, are "fake supporters of human rights".
"We announced to the world that we seek peace and stood up for the JCPOA," Nategh Nouri, a member of the Expediency Council, said in a conference.
He added that those who violate the JCPOA and chant slogans about respect for human rights are "liars".
By unilaterally withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear agreement and reimposing sanctions against Iran, the Trump administration has caused a lot of problems for people, ranging from shortage of vital medicines to the price rises of basic food commodities.
Elsewhere, Nateq Nouri, who was parliament speaker from 1992 to 2000, said that the U.S. is aware of the Islamic Revolution's influence on the youths in other countries and that is why it has started the project of Islamophobia.
He noted that Islam is against violence and it is a religion of peace which supports justice.
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Q: Getting key and value of linkedHashMap I try to read data from csv file, save it to linkedHashMap and print it. But the thing is that I neet print key and value separately.
Csv file has just 2 columns: First: email, Second: name.
public class CsvReader {

String CSVPath = "c:/Users/PC/Desktop/file.csv";
CSVReader reader;

public void readCsvFile() throws IOException {
    try {

        reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(CSVPath));
        String[] column;
        ArrayList<LinkedHashMap<String, String>> myArraylist = new
    ArrayList<LinkedHashMap<String, String>>();
        LinkedHashMap<String, String> map;

        while ((column = reader.readNext()) != null) {
            map = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();
            map.put("Emails", column[0]);
            myArraylist.add(map);
        }
        reader.close();

        for (int i = 0; i < myArraylist.size(); i++) {

System.out.println(myArraylist.get(i).get("Emails").toString());

        }

    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

}

When I run this code I get the following:
info@staybysantacruz.com;Quality Inn & Suites Santa Cruz Mountains
VacationRentals321@gmail.com;In Big Bear
info@haiyi-hotels.com;Best Western Americania

so it prints email and the name together.
I tried to get to key and value of the linkedHashMap but with no luck.
Could someone help me?

A: As in your CSV file data separated with semi-columns so first of all, you have to provide CsvReader separator.
 reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(CSVPath),";");

This is deprecated constructor initialization.
For the latest API you can use below code for getting CSVReader to object with the separator.
 final CSVParser parser = new CSVParserBuilder()
  .withSeparator(';')
  .withIgnoreQuotations(true)
  .build();

final CSVReader reader = new CSVReaderBuilder(new StringReader(csv))
  .withSkipLines(1)
  .withCSVParser(parser)
  .build();

Assuming you have separator semi-column if you have any other separator except comma because it's default separator for CSVReader

A: You are reading this as CSV, but it seems to be seperated by a semicolon
so split
String email = column[0].split (";")[0];
String desc = column[0].split (";")[1];

A: For csv file it's better to use Apache commons csv jar as its effective and meant to read CSV with minimal code and better features below is the code for the same
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat;
import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser;
import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;

public class Test {

    static String CSVPath = "c:/Test/SampleFile.csv";

    public static void main(String...strings) throws IOException {
        Map<String, String> userNameEmailMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        CSVParser csvParser = new CSVParser(new FileReader(new File(CSVPath)), CSVFormat.DEFAULT);
        List<CSVRecord> values = csvParser.getRecords();
        for (CSVRecord csvRecord : values) {
            for (String rowRecord : csvRecord) {
                String[] records = rowRecord.split("\\s+");
                System.out.println(Arrays.toString(records));
                //if you want to add it to a map
                userNameEmailMap.put(records[0], records[1]);
            }
        }
        csvParser.close();

        for (Entry<String, String> entry : userNameEmailMap.entrySet()) {
            System.out.println("Email :: "+entry.getKey()+"   "+"Value :: "+entry.getValue());
        }
    }
}

I have used commons-csv 1.5
maven link https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-csv/1.5
It's better to use commons csv as it helps in future extensibility if the extra column is added.

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Over the last few days, when I have been walking past the green grocer, I have seen a box of purple carrots and thought to myself that I must pick some up and cook with them. After seeing a friend this morning I happened to walk past again and finally bought some. This dish was created.
We ate this dish with some grilled goat cheese on the side. The combination worked very well but you could also serve with meat or other vegetable dishes.
Peel and cut the Jerusalem artichoke and carrots. Toss the vegetable in oil, oregano and a pinch of salt. Roast in the oven for 40 minutes. Place the garlic halves in the oven 10 minutes into the roasting time as these will cook faster.
While the vegetables are roasting prepare the dressing and set a side.
Drizzle the dressing over the roasted vegetables as soon as they are removed from the oven. Ready to serve.
That looks lovely. I've never had them before.
Det där ser jättegott ut. Våra jordärtskockor ser dock annorlunda ut!
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Blaster Headphone: Simple looks, but sound companion
Creative Technology on Monday announced the launch of Ultra-Light Sound Blaster JAM, a Bluetooth headset which aims to compete with the already heated up sub-Rs.4,000 headphones segment.
This particular segment assumes significance as there has been a continuous demand for sturdy and bass-kicking headphones at an affordable price. The JAM enters the market with a price tag of Rs.3,499 and here is our evaluation of the new headphone:
Design: The device looks like any other normal over-the-head Bluetooth headphone. It comes with extendable flaps that helps the user adjust the headphones over his or her head and rather feels comfortable on the ear owing to the ear cushions.
The headphones sports a dedicated bass button and volume rocker controls on the right flap. The circle on the right flap acts as the start or the stop button while playing music and doubles up as a button for accepting or rejecting calls on the go. A dedicated button for changing music would have been an icing on the cake.
Audio and Connectivity: This headphone is seriously loud and has a great bass effect although the headphones seemed to miss a few lower notes at the bass mode. The Sound Blaster JAM supports Bluetooth 4.1 audio streaming allowing users to communicate and stream audio content from their mobile device.
It features Near Field Communication (NFC) wireless connectivity for one-touch pairing. Creative boasts of Neodymium drivers that has the effect of bringing the audio alive. The device has a built-in microphone with noise reduction and acoustic echo cancellation abilities that allows the user to enjoy voice clarity during calls too.
Special Mode and Battery: The headphone is loud enough but once connected to a PC it goes to extra loud mode. Sound BlasterÂ's SBX Pro Studio comprises a suite of audio technologies, such as Surround, Crystalizer, Bass, Smart Volume and Dialog Plus, giving users the ability to fully customize every aspect of the headphones' audio settings.
SBX Surround increases and expands the virtual surround spaciousness, allowing users to enjoy realistic surround sound when watching movies or playing games while SBX Crystalizer restores details and expands the dynamic range of audio. The headphone has great battery backup and can run up to 10-12 hours on a single charge.
Pricing and Availability: The Creative Sound Blaster JAM Bluetooth headset, priced at Rs 3,499 will be available in India from end of May 2015 onwards. The product will be available for purchase online on Amazon India, Flipkart and Snapdeal.
Verdict: Although the device will face stiff competition in its segment, our verdict is that the JAM is a perfect sound companion which will let users enjoy hands-free voice communication, music playback, watching movies and mobile gaming on the go for a fairly reasonable price.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Infra;

namespace Console2.G_Code
{
    public class G_048_TreeIterator
    {
        /*
         * If there is an tree structure data, design an algorithm for function next() which
         * returns one data each time and this function will access all the data only once.
         */

        private TreeNode Root{get;set;}

        private Stack<TreeNode> S;
        private bool IsBackTrack;

        public G_048_TreeIterator(TreeNode input)
        {
            Root = input;
            S = new Stack<TreeNode>();
            S.Push(input);
            IsBackTrack = false;

        }

        public TreeNode Next()
        {
            TreeNode res = null;
            if (S.Count != 0)
            {
                TreeNode tmp = S.Peek();
                if (!IsBackTrack)
                {
                    while (tmp.LeftChild != null)
                    {
                        tmp = tmp.LeftChild;
                        S.Push(tmp);
                    }
                }

                tmp = S.Pop();
                res = tmp;
                IsBackTrack = true;

                if (tmp.RightChild != null)
                {
                    S.Push(tmp.RightChild);
                    IsBackTrack = false;
                }
                return res;
            }
            return null; // if Already iterate all tree node.
        }

    }
}

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Sinn Fein Councillor Eric McGinley pictured in the Ballymagroarty area.
A brutal punishment style-shooting in a Derry housing estate has been branded "utterly appalling".
Police and local representatives have expressed condemnation of the attack in the Ballymagroarty area of the city on Wednesday evening.
Police were alerted shortly after 8:15pm that a man, aged in his 30s, had been shot in the legs in the Gogarty Close area.
It is understood the victim was shot in one leg but the bullet travelled through his other leg as well.
It has since transpired that a gang of up to eight masked and armed men had been witnessed "roaming the streets" of the area at the time, police have said.
The man was taken from the scene to hospital.
Sinn Féin Councillor for the area Eric McGinley said: "Such attacks are wrong and I condemn it.
PSNI Inspector Vince Redmond meanwhile said the attack bore "the hallmarks of a paramilitary attack". "This was a vicious and brutal shooting in early evening when families were going about their business.
"The very fact that these gunmen thought it was acceptable to recklessly shoot this man in a built-up area where children and teenagers could be passing by shows the contempt they have for people in their community. The bullets could have strayed at any moment and hit someone passing by.


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Jaime Villasenor
Federal inmate accused of two sexual assaults back in Lincoln jail
By NICHOLE MANNA / Lincoln Journal Star
A federal inmate connected to two sexual assaults last summer has been brought back to Lancaster County.
Jaime Villasenor, 33, was booked into jail Friday on suspicion of two counts of first-degree sexual assault after completing a four-year federal prison sentence for re-entering the U.S. illegally.
An arrest warrant says he is accused of raping a woman who was walking home from downtown Lincoln in November 2006. He's also accused of raping a cab driver in January 2007, the warrant says.
In both cases, the women said their attacker held a knife to their throats and threatened to cut them if they weren't quiet or if they didn't cooperate.
In June 2015, Villasenor's DNA was matched to DNA taken at the time of the alleged rapes.
He was deported in September 2006 after a conviction for second-degree burglary and assault with a deadly weapon two years earlier in Los Angeles County, California, according to federal court documents.
In January 2007, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Omaha received notice that Villasenor was in jail in Lancaster County on a first-degree sexual assault charge. He told authorities he had gotten back into the country a year earlier, and U.S. Marshals took him into custody.
In August 2007, Villasenor was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. He was deported a second time on July 21, 2010, and came back in 2012, when he was arrested in Texas, documents say.
A Lancaster County judge set Villasenor's bond at $500,000 bond and ordered him not to have any contact with the women.
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Guns, SUV stolen from Lincoln home
Two firearms and an SUV were stolen from a Lincoln home Tuesday.
Lincoln man given additional charge of first-degree sexual assault
A 21-year-old Lincoln man who was charged with two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a minor on March 3 now faces an additional charge …
Man enters pleas in sexual assaults from 2006 and 2007
A former Lincoln man accused of two rapes that happened more than 10 years ago pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree attempted sexu…
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Attorneys and Deputies - Gratuitous care allowances - where's the line?
Senior Judge Lush was understandably unsympathetic to this particular individual, however, it seems that he is willing to permit 'reasonable' payments to ensure that Attorneys are not financially disadvantaged in carrying out their duties.
The case involved an application by two Attorneys acting jointly under for the retrospective approval of monthly payments of £150 each. These payments had been made to themselves and to their sister from the donors' funds, i.e. a total monthly payment of £450.
They were advising the affairs of their parents – Bill and Betty – who had both been diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia in 2008. Both the EPA's were registered with the OPG on 6th October 2009.
Following an investigation carried out by the Office of the Public Guardian (the body which supervises Attorneys and Deputies). The OPG requested the Attorneys seek retrospective approval from the Court for the £450pcm (£150 each sibling) taken for their expenses from the joint account of Bill and Betty, despite the fact that the parents' income could easily sustain the amounts.
The Attorneys argued that "without some form of financial support the level of care we provide to maintain our parents in their home would be unsustainable."
Furthermore they said; "Our parents wish to remain together in their own home for as long as possible, and all our decisions and actions have been to that end. The £450 we have taken for care and expenses is a fraction of the cost had we involved outside agencies."
Attorneys have a fiduciary duty not to take advantage of their position, put themselves in a position where their personal interests conflict with their duties or receive any profit or personal benefit from their position. These duties are noted at paragraph 7.60 of the Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice.
Senior Judge Lush of the Court of Protection explained that what the Court were seeking to achieve was a neutral position whereby the Attorneys were not financially at a disadvantage through acting as their parents' Attorney but equally that they were not making a profit from their role.
the payments struck a reasonable balance between ensuring that the Attorneys were not financially disadvantaged by acting as their parents' Attorneys, but that they were not actually making a profit from their position.
If Attorneys or Deputies have made or intend to make any gratuitous care payments to themselves or the donor's relatives, they should be seeking (retrospective where relevant) authority for this from the court. It's clear that Attorneys cannot simply help themselves to such payments.
Article and commentary by Robert Mitchell, paralegal to Private Client team.


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Tap water isn't just full of lead, arsenic and other contaminants — 94% of U.S. drinking water contains plastic fibers, a new study has revealed.
Virtually all the world's tap water is contaminated by microscopic plastic fibers, raising fresh concerns about the implications of rampant plastic pollution on human and planetary health.
You're drinking plastic fibers almost every time you sip tap water.
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The Antonov An-225 Mriyais a Strategic Airlift Cargo aircraft that was designed by the Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau in the 1980s. The An-225's name, Mriya means "Dream" (Inspiration) in Ukrainian. It is powered by six turbofan engines and is the Longest and Heaviest airplane ever built, with a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes. It also has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service.There only exists one AN-225 which is operated by Antonov Airlines.A second Airframe was partially built; its completion was halted because of lack of funding and interest.
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The Boeing 747-8 is a wide-body jet airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Officially announced in 2005, the 747-8 is the third generation of the 747, with lengthened fuselage, redesaigned wings, and improved efficiency. The 747-8 is the largest 747 version, the largest commercial aircraft built in the United States, and the Longest Passenger Aircraft in the World.It is also the Second Largest Passenger Aircraft in the World.
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan is a strategic airlift jet aircraft. It was designed by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR). Until the Boeing 747-8F, the An-124 was, for thirty years, the World's Highest Aircraft Gross Weight Production Cargo Airplane and Second Heaviest Operating Cargo Aircraft, behind the one-off Antonov An-225 (a greatly enlarged design based on the An-124). The An-124 remains the Largest Military Transport Aircraft in the World.
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Dr. Williamson is a Professor in the Departments of Integrative Structural & Computational Biology and Chemistry, and is a member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA.
Dr. Williamson received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1988, and following postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado, he joined the faculty in the Chemistry Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990, where he attained the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 1997.
Dr. Williamson moved to Scripps in 1998 as Professor, and in 2001 he became the Associate Dean for the Chemistry Program. In 2008, he became Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for the Kellogg School of Science and Technology and in 2015 became the Vice President for Academic Affairs. In 2017, Dr. Williamson became the Executive Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs.
Dr. Williamson's research involves the study of RNA structure, RNA-protein interactions, and RNA-ligand interactions using biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology approaches.
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IGP appeals to political parties avoid violence
Accra, April 24, GNA - The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Nana Owusu- Nsiah, on Friday appealed to political parties that would be vying to occupy the seat of government to ensure decent, peaceful and violence-free electioneering campaigns to the 2004 Elections. He said, "I am hoping for a more mature, friendly and violence free political campaign by the various political parties in this year's election".
Nana Owusu Nsiah made the call at this year's annual WASSA get-together for the staff and students of the National Police Training School. He gave the assurance that the police would deal with any violent situation and to protect life and property during the elections. The IGP urged the police to stay out of partisan politics, saying that, "you have the right to vote for one political party or the other, but you must ensure that your loyalty to the State and the 1992 Constitution, which is paramount, remains intact."
He warned, "Anyone who disturbs the electoral process, must be treated as an enemy of the state, no matter his or her party affiliation." Nana Owusu-Nsiah said the Police Administration would support the police to enable them ensure peace and order during the 2004 Election but would not spare personnel who might misconduct themselves. He announced that the government has set up a committee to review the service conditions of police personnel, with the view to improving the Police Service, adding that President Kufuor had asked the body to work expeditiously on the matter.
Nana Owusu-Nsiah said: "As I speak now there is about 155,000 yards of material, berets and boots on the high seas due to arrive at the Tema Harbour by next month for the police and efforts are also underway to provide the police with four-wheel drives for out station assignments. The IGP said the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has awarded 1.8 billion cedis contract for the construction of block of classrooms at the Police Training School (NPTS) and that the project would be completed in three to four months.
Nana Owusu-Nsiah also announced that he has directed the Human Resource Development department of the Service to draft a proposal to guide the Ministry to construct the first police secondary school in the country.
Nana Owusu-Nsiah said it was part of a national programme by the Ministry and the Police Administration to build schools for children of police personnel in all the 10 regions. He said plans were also afoot to provide more dormitories and classrooms at the NPTS and the Ghana Police College (GPC), to allow for the intake of more recruits
Nana Owusu-Nsiah said the Police Administration had also decided to make the learning of French and Swimming compulsory to recruits and officers at the NPTS and the GPC, adding that the move is enable Ghanaian police officers in joint operations with their counterparts from the Francophone countries to communicate effectively. He said lessons in swimming would assist the police in rescue missions especially during water disasters and in sports.
Nana Owusu-Nsiah advised the police against anonymous letter writing as a way of addressing issues, saying that such acts tarnish the image of the Police Service.
He said, "This administration is opened to suggestions and I can assure you that you would never be victimized for any concern expressed or suggestion you make".
Nana Owusu-Nsiah also expressed concern about the slow pace at which artisans of the police service work, when contracts are given them internally.
He said: "We do not want to award all contracts within the service to outside labour, but that is what our artisans are tempting us to do, by their lackadaisical attitude to projects given to them."
Chief Superintendent Kwabena Gyamerah-Yeboah, Commanding Officer of the NPTS led the NPTS staff to enstool Nana Owusu-Nsiah as the chief of development of the school and he called for strategic partners to assist the school improve on its facilities.
Deserving staff of the NPTS who distinguished themselves in various capacities, were awarded with certificates of recognition and 200,000 cedis each.


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Q: Python Very long string in numpy array I am getting data from a csv file, using data = numpy.recfromtxt('table.csv', delimiter=';', dtype=str)
The table looks something like this:
Name; Birthdate; Biography
John; 1990; Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Hanc ergo intuens debet institutum illud quasi signum absolvere. Scrupulum, inquam, abeunti; Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur a Chryippo. Quo tandem modo?

Python and numpy seem to have a problem with this long strings.
Any ideas how this could be fixed?

A: You can use pandas package of Python.
Here is a simple idea of using it:
import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_csv("file.csv", delimiter = ";")

Hope this is what you want...

A: Kindly use pandas package to read from csv
    import pandas as pd
    data = pd.read_csv('table.csv')

Pandas can handle long strings as well.

A: I am having no problem reading it, so perhaps your question may be about formatting it in a fashion suitable for printing.  Here a few options.
>>> import textwrap
>>> a = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Hanc ergo intuens debet institutum illud quasi signum absolvere. Scrupulum, inquam, abeunti; Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur a Chryippo. Quo tandem modo?"
>>> txt = textwrap.wrap(a, width=70)
>>> print(("{}\n"*len(txt)).format(*txt))
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Hanc ergo
intuens debet institutum illud quasi signum absolvere. Scrupulum,
inquam, abeunti; Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur a
Chryippo. Quo tandem modo?

Or perhaps this one...
>>> txt2 = "\n".join([i for i in txt])
>>> print(txt2)
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Hanc ergo
intuens debet institutum illud quasi signum absolvere. Scrupulum,
inquam, abeunti; Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur a
Chryippo. Quo tandem modo?
>>>

A: The error is:
In [67]: np.recfromtxt('stack40765849.txt', delimiter=';', dtype=str)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-67-eab6d3192d4d> in <module>()
----> 1 np.recfromtxt('stack40765849.txt', delimiter=';', dtype=str)

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/lib/npyio.py in recfromtxt(fname, **kwargs)
   1949     kwargs.setdefault("dtype", None)
   1950     usemask = kwargs.get('usemask', False)
-> 1951     output = genfromtxt(fname, **kwargs)
   1952     if usemask:
   1953         from numpy.ma.mrecords import MaskedRecords
...
ValueError: Some errors were detected !
    Line #2 (got 4 columns instead of 3)

(Note, recfromtxt is using genfromtxt, which is discussed a lot.
The problem isn't the length of the string; it's with the number of delimiters.  The first line (a header?) has 2, suggesting you want 3 columns or fields.  But the 2nd line has 3; the extra may be part of the text.
Identifying the 1st line a field names gives the same error.
np.recfromtxt('stack40765849.txt', delimiter=';', dtype=str,names=True)

pandas loads this as:
In [74]: data=pandas.read_csv('stack40765849.txt',delimiter=';')
In [75]: data
Out[75]:
      Name                                          Birthdate  \
John  1990   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipi...

                                              Biography
John   Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur...

It doesn't give an error, but it doesn't look right.
==================
If I change the ; in the text to .
In [82]: np.genfromtxt('stack40765849_1.txt', delimiter=';', dtype=None,names=Tr
    ...: ue)
Out[82]:
array((b'John', 1990, b' Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Hanc ergo intuens debet institutum illud quasi signum absolvere. Scrupulum, inquam, abeunti. Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur a Chryippo. Quo tandem modo?'),
      dtype=[('Name', 'S4'), ('Birthdate', '<i4'), ('Biography', 'S225')])

I get a structured array (almost like a recarray) with 3 fields; and the last is long - the full text.  (the b'...' denotes a byte strings in Py3; that won't appear in Py2 displays.)
pandas produces something similar:
In [83]: data=pandas.read_csv('stack40765849_1.txt',delimiter=';')
In [84]: data
Out[84]:
   Name   Birthdate                                          Biography
0  John        1990   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipi...

Correct Py3 unicode load:
In [91]: np.recfromtxt('stack40765849_1.txt', delimiter=';', dtype='U4,i,U255',n
    ...: ames=True)
Out[91]:
rec.array(('John', 1990, ' Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Hanc ergo intuens debet institutum illud quasi signum absolvere. Scrupulum, inquam, abeunti. Quae diligentissime contra Aristonem dicuntur a Chryippo. Quo tandem modo?'),
          dtype=[('Name', '<U4'), ('Birthdate', '<i4'), ('Biography', '<U255')])
In [92]:


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DULUTH, Minn.–There was a rocket lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Friday morning, it was carrying the first satellite dedicated to observing nearly all the water on the earth's surface. An associate professor at UMD has been working with NASA leading up to the launch.
Sam Kelly, an associate professor in the Large Water Observatory program at UMD, got involved with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography or SWOT satellite project. He realized that no one at SWOT was looking at the Great Lakes, which he has been studying.
"There are a lot of hydrologists, people who are interested in small lakes and oceanographers, the people who are interested in the currents out in the ocean. said Kelly. "But, no one was really talking about the Great Lakes. I suggested that we could use a lot of the same tools being using over the oceans, over the Great Lakes. The NASA Program Manager thought that was a good idea. So, the next couple of years I'll be working to apply some of the oceanographic techniques to the Great Lake for the first time. We should be able to map currents in the Great Lakes."
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Patrick Coffin
Patrick Coffin is the man. Patrick is the host of most probably the biggest Catholic radio show there is, Catholic Answers Live. Anyone who listens to the show knows that Patrick means well.
Usually when someone says another person means well you are trying to say they are too stupid for their audience. I mean exactly the opposite. Patrick Coffin is too smart for his audience. But he makes a concerted effort to speak to each and every listener at his or her level, regardless of the stupidity of the questions. I cannot begin to tell you the effort that this takes.
Patrick is witty, incisive, and bitingly sarcastic when the moment calls for it. He is amazingly well educated in the faith without a whiff of the theological arrogance that typically comes along with it. He can defend without being defensive. He can destroy arguments with the greatest of ease, while making sure the daft purveyors are left mostly unscathed.
In short, when I grow up as an apologist, Mr. Coffin is my model.
Matt and I have both appeared on the show and have found him to be witty, sarcastic, and thoroughly Christian. Basically, the Patrick you hear on the show is the Patrick in real life.
Why do I bring this up? Coffin decided that he would spend his Good Friday the ol' fashioned way. Going to a meeting with the cowardly atheist Richard Dawkins and asking him to put up (as shut up is impossible.)
Dawkins, unlike Coffin, lacks the courage of his convictions. (Language Warning)
The video footage may be available at some point, but my main goal was to ask him a yes or no question: would he appear on a top-rated Catholic radio show before an international audience to talk about his atheistic worldview? No debate, no questions about why he refuses to debate his nemesis, Dr. William Lane Craig, no gotcha ambushes.
The crowd went silent and turned from me to Dawkins. After a beat, he began a filibuster about why he would not share the platform with a man who supports genocide (Dawkins has a favorite Bible passage that he thinks proves God is a moral monster — Saul's commandment to wipe out the Amaleks in 1 Samuel 15), and a longish discourse on the fact that he only debates archbishops and cardinals — including his upcoming Easter Monday debate with George Cardinal Pell. He pointed to the next questioner, but I wanted to make sure his adoring supporters plainly saw that his answer to my public invitation was to refuse the challenge. I went on (I may be misremembering the actual words), "I'm neither a cardinal nor a trained philosopher; just a lowly radio host. And I'm inviting you to have a civil, respectful conversation that gets at the specifics of your atheism. You would have a large audience around the world in which to do so. Yes, or no?"
"I have answered your question sufficiently," he huffed, to the satisfaction of the crowd. As I was walking back to my seat, someone thought it best to share with me his belief that I am an asshole. In foyer as we were leaving, two T-shirted atheists gave me the eeeevil eye. One announced, CHRISTIANS ARE ASSHOLES, the other ARREST THE POPE, complete with a rat-like caricature of Pope Benedict XVI.
Patrick is getting it done and he really deserves a lot of credit. On the list notable Catholics, Mr. Coffin deserves to be at the top of the list. Day in and day out, he does the good work with style, grace, and edge. That is not easy to pull off. Kudos to Patrick Coffin.
Ok. Enough with the niceties. I have mentioned this before.
In this head shot (Do real men have head-shots? I'm just asking?) In this head shot doesn't Patrick look like a cross between Potsie Weber and that guy Richard from "Lost" I just saying. I mean, he seems like a great guy. A great guy. But I'm fairly sure he is wearing makeup in this shot. Or something…
Did I mention that he is Canadian? I shoudn't even have brought that up, not with all the racial tensions these days. I even have some Canadian friends.
ht to Mark
Patrick Archbold
I think you meant "he can destroy arguments with the greatest of ease." ("slightest of ease" would mean that it is hard for him).
Patrick Coffin would most likely not make that mistake!
RE: "Richard" from LOST – does anyone have pictures of Patrick Coffin when he was young? i.e. do we have verifiable proof he has aged? Just askin'.
Dawkins is very vocal on why he won't debate Dr. William Lane Craig. Patrick is intersting to listen to but I don't see where he or WLG are significantly different in content. They are worlds apart in form.
Dawkins has no intention of debating minutia of God when he considers the question as germane as "What do Unicorn droppings smell like".
If he believes that the question is that silly and to be ignored it is quite curious that he spends the majority of his public life hosting and speaking at conferences on the subject…perhaps a conference next year on "Why Unicorn Droppings Don't Smell like Anything Because they Don't Exist" would be in order?
Well, in Dawkins world, There is no evidence of any god. Debating some part of Christianity is like debating some part of a unicorn. Debate what you will but there has to be some starting point in common for any debate. Him debating Coffin on religius doctrine would be like me debating you on what a unicorn likes to eat (and the future droppings).
Rover.
Ye Archbolds — if I didn't know myself so well, I'd be impressed. BTW, you're all wet as to Richard from Lost. I am actually, though, the secret lost brother of Rob Lowe, John Stamos, John Travolta, and Bishop Fulton Sheen. m'kay?
And yes, Virginia, real men do have head shots, as long as said head shots receive a Photoshop
manipedie (sp.) Now keep a lid on that man crush. lol.
A serious question: what's with these atheist combox chickens who can't post with their real names? Does disbelieving in God come with a coward gene? Dear "Rover/Anonymous," honestly, I recommend you actually read my account of the Dawkins event. I explicitly say that I am not challenging him to a duel or debate. Lacking his monster brain in evolutionary biology and a career at Oxford, he would kick my royal Canadian arse across the foyer and then take another sip of tea.
Further, you write: "Dawkins is very vocal on why he won't debate Dr. William Lane Craig," but offer no examples of WHY he won't debate Dr. Craig. Here, let me do your homework for you for the benefit of interested CMR combox readers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/richard-dawkins-william-lane-craig
And here is the opinion of fellow Oxonian atheist David Came as to why, as a result, he thinks Dawkins is a complete embarrassment to atheists:
Does Dr. Dawkins REALLY think that William Lane Craig has never answered the alleged pro-genocide charge against the Old Testament 10,000 times before? If Craig is such a pushover, why not crush him in a televised debate and be over with it, and shut up these annoying unicorn-worshipping dolts once and for all?
For myself, I take no delight in crushing debate opponents. And I pray for Richard every day, by name. What an incredible Saul-Paul Richard would make….God be praised.
I just wish Richard would put on his big boy pants and face off against Dr. Craig.
He is Risen! Alleluia!
– Patrick Coffin, the Dick Clark of Catholic radio
Dawkins is not only a philosophical illiterate—his "complexity of God" argument is tantamount to an admission he has not even skimmed the chapter headings in the Summa—he is also…not a real scientist. He's a behavioral entomologist. Or in other words, a bug sociologist. Or in yet other words, a glorified beekeeper. Similarly, Paul Z Myers is not a real scientist—the only papers he's actually published are glorified aquarium fancy. Also, Myers thinks desecrating the Eucharist on Youtube makes him a big man—when even the Westboro Baptist Church at least have the stones to do their hate-mongering in person.
Dawkins may pretend Christians favor genocide—despite the Old Testament being about Jews' morals, not ours. But the fact remains, atheist regimes killed more people in 72 years than all religions put together killed in 6000. By about an order of magnitude.
The Brights is a movement named on the same basis as Democratic People's Republics. More generally, Anglophone atheism is nothing more than unwarranted intellectual posturing by the shallowest, most reductive bunch of halfwits ever to somehow avoid eating from bottles with skulls on them. There is a reason Nietzsche described Dawkins' type of moralistic little blowhard as "English flatheads."
I talk about Patrick Coffin to my friends as if I really knew him… when really I just listen to him on the radio all the time.
Be a saint! What else is there?
Patrick, I am honored you mention me (Rover here). I must remain anonymous due to my association with churches in the Lansing area and my wifes Catholic affiliations.
I enjoy listening to you on WETN (Sirius radio).
Coward gene (God given I'm sure). Atheists are hated, even more than Gays or Muslims. I must remain anonymous or I would be attacked at work in society.
Finding someone to insult any public figure is easy. Dawkins is a thinker. You must be embarrased for AS an athiest to be embarrase FOR and atheist.
To be specific, WLC will name 30 reasons why (name the subject) can not be proved. In a 1 hour debate, you might be able to cover 5. Oh well, the other 25 I threw out he couldn't answer.
PZ Myers has an excellent blog of why he won't debate WLC. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/11/08/why-i-will-not-debate-william-lane-craig/.
Someday, I will call into the WETN and identify as Rover.
I do alot of work for Catholic and Methodist churches and can't be identified.
Sorry for the anonymous part,
Paul Z Myers won't debate WLC because he's a coward. Again, at least the Westboro Baptist Church do their hate-stunts in person.
As for Dawkins being a "thinker", Dawkins is an idiot. He does not even understand the science terms he throws around—he regularly confuses cosmic rays and gamma rays, for instance, one of which is made up of nuclear particles and the other one of which is a kind of light. When the topic turns to philosophy, he instantly transforms into Dilbert's boss: "Anything I don't understand is either simple or unimportant."
And I think the Christians in China and Cuba would love to live under the kind of "hate" you claim atheists live under, Rover. Given that both the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United fulfill all the requirements to be classified as hate groups under federal law, I'm pretty sure that's projection. Oh, but then, of course it is—just like how religion is ever so violent, but atheists are the ones who murdered 120 million people in 72 years…not counting war-dead or forced abortions.
Tell us again how scared of Christians you are, killer, I think it's funny.
Rover, I appreciate your kind words and your stab at an explanation yet I must say your inconsistency is kinda glaring
"I must remain anonymous due to my association with churches in the Lansing area and my wifes (sic) Catholic affiliations." Huh? Why do you affiliate with unicorn cult members at all?
"Atheists are hated, even more than Gays or Muslims."
Gee, gay (a worthless political identity term) is now upgraded to Gay? First, I hate a grand total of zero atheists. I don't know a single Christian who hates any atheists. We think they're wrong on THE fundamental question, but you're over playing the handy hate card, amigo. Same with Muslims. Oh, to live a thousand years as a Muslim in America than two weeks as a Christian in, say, Saudi Arabia.
"I must remain anonymous or I would be attacked at work in society."
If I had any nasally present milk, it would have spurted here. You must remain anonymous or you would be attacked at work in society? I seriously don't mean to make light of any actual threat or harm, but it sounds like you may be cowering behind your computer tower for fear of pitchfork-and-torch-laden Pilgrim villagers. Your right to speak up as a disbeliever in God's existence is well-protected under a little thing called the First Amendment.
Sophia, you are my favorite, girl! Guilty pleasure: I am a full-blown Alice Cooper minion. Still trying to cement a radio interview with the great man (and thrashingly committed Bible Christian I might add with affection and no little satisfaction.)
Liesl: the secret is way out…I'm a nobody who happened, by God's grace, upon the best job in the world.


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'Colombo Port, 11th best connected in the World'
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With the geographical coverage of these services and the high frequency of mainline liner service connections, CICT has helped the Port of Colombo to move up the Drewry's Port Connectivity Index to be ranked the 11th best connected port in the world.
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A petition, which filed by BJP MP Minakshi Lekhi, mentioned Congress President made a contempt comments on Rafale judge, has been listed for hearing on Monday in Supreme Court. Friday the apex court agreed to hear the petition.
The petition was mentioned by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi before Chief Justice of India who agreed to list the matter on Monday. The BJPhad earlier accused Congress president Rahul Gandhi of gross contempt of court. They said he attributed to the Supreme Court what it never said in its order on the Rafale deal. Rohtagi on Friday said that the Congress chief has attributed to CJI that the judges have said Chowkidar is Chor and he has given money to Anil Ambani.
Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also asserted that the court's order was not a set back and that the Congress will not be able to show its face. Lashing out at Congress chief Sitharaman also said he had crossed the line of decency in his comments on the court's order and added that it underlines his frustration that he was attributing words to the SC that it never uttered.


A service dog can help veterans with PTSD continue a normal life, but only if the dog is welcome wherever its owner goes. This video from American Humane and Mars Petcare aims to clear up confusion about how businesses should interact with customers with service dogs. Visit BetterCitiesForPets.com to join the movement and learn more about the value of making pets welcome in businesses.