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Shelf Life of Frozen Foods
By: John DeMerceau
Spoiler Alert: When Good Food Goes Bad
For How Long Is It Safe to Freeze Calamari Steaks?
If Meat Is Frozen, How Long Does It Take to Go Bad?
List of Vegetables That Contain Protein & Carbohydrates
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Freezing foods prevents spoilage and preserves taste, but some frozen foods have a specific and defined shelf life. Foods that have exceeded their freezer shelf life are usually not dangerous, but they lack taste, nutrients or both, or exhibit an unnatural texture when defrosted. Unbaked or untoasted baked goods such as muffins or waffles have a freezer shelf life of only a month or two, whereas storing nuts in the freezer extends their shelf life for two years.
Commercially Frozen Food
Packaged foods purchased frozen, such as meat, vegetables or fully prepared dinners, usually carry an expiration date. That sell-by date means the products can no longer legally be offered for sale, but it's still safe to consume them after that date. Taste or texture may be affected by prolonged storage, however.
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Bread typically lasts in the freezer for one to two months. However, defrosted bread usually has a different texture than fresh bread; it tastes best when toasted. Light pies such as chiffon pie and pumpkin pie keep for a month in the freezer, whereas heavier pies and cakes have a freezer shelf life of six months. Fruit cakes and pies can be stored in the freezer for up to a year.
Frozen meat of all types stays safe and healthy regardless of how long it is stored in the freezer. Recommendations for optimal meat storage time range from four to 12 months for uncooked, unprocessed meat, whereas ham, bacon, sausage and processed meats store well for one to two months. Chopped or ground meat should not be stored for longer than four months. Poultry recommendations are 12 months for whole, nine months for parts, and four months for cooked, whereas cooked meat is best eaten within 2 months of freezing.
Dairy Products and Substitutes
Milk can be stored in the freezer and retain its quality if used within a month, whereas most cheeses have a freezer shelf life of up to six months. Butter can be stored for up to a year, as can margarine. Cream and butter are best consumed within one to two months of storage, and ice cream tastes best when eaten within one to two months of purchase as well.
Lean raw fish such as cod has a freezer shelf life of six months, whereas fattier fish such as salmon or mackerel is best consumed within two to three months of freezing. Cooked fish retains its taste for up to four months in the freezer, whereas smoked fish has a maximum freezer shelf life of two months when kept in its original vacuum pack. Two months is the average freezing recommendation for shellfish, although live clams, oysters and scallops are best eaten within no more than 10 days of freezing.
Most fruits are best when consumed within six months of freezing, but melons have a freezer shelf life of up to a year. Freezer-stored nuts are best consumed within two years of freezing. The average shelf life for almost all frozen vegetables is eight to 12 months, but tomatoes and bell peppers are best consumed within three to four months. Do not freeze salad greens or green onions; they are not palatable when defrosted.
What's Cooking America: Food Storage Chart: Refrigerator and Freezer Storage Chart
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service: Freezing and Food Safety; June 2010
John DeMerceau is an American expatriate entrepreneur, marketing analyst and Web developer. He now lives and works in southeast Asia, where he creates websites and branding/marketing reports for international clients. DeMerceau graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in history.


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Q: Excluding value in AWS CLI command output value I am working on a task to get all instances from all the region in an aws account along with other details, my requirement is to exclude the windows instances. I have tried a lot with changes but not getting desired results, any suggestions would be appreciated.
aws ec2 describe-instances --region us-east-1 --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[Tags[?Key=='"'Name'"']|[0].Value,InstanceId,State.Name,PublicIpAddress,PrivateIpAddress,Placement.AvailabilityZone,PlatformDetails]' --filters Name=platform,Values!=windows --output table

A: A suggestion would be to try with aws ssm describe-instance-information instead of aws ec2 describe-instancesif you have ssm available on all the nodes.
You can get all the result with
aws ssm describe-instance-information --region us-east-1 --max-items 2

Also you can try
aws ssm describe-instance-information --query 'InstanceInformationList[*][PlatformType==`Linux`,InstanceId]'  --region us-east-1 --max-items 2

which can give you instance id and true or false if there is Linux/windows.
Additional requirements from the comment (IP, AZ etc) :
You can try with
aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*][][KernelId,Placement.[AvailabilityZone][],PublicIpAddress]' --region us-east-1 --max-items 2
You can add other filters as well.
As for the question about windows and linux, you can filter by KernelID. I don't have a windows server so I can't check but my guess is this field won't be present.

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Punch twenty-two 1-1/4" circles. Once you've got the pieces accordion folded, form them into yo-yo by adhering two together with Liquid Glass. Put a dollop of Liquid Glass on one of the circles so that you have a solid base for your yo-yo. Then put Liquid Glass in the center of the yo-yo and add a circle to the top. You may have to hold it for a second or two, but this is going to be an extremely strong yo-yo!
Stack all the yo-yos to create a tree. Simply use Liquid Glass to hold them together. When this was done, I added some Stardust glitz gel to the edges of each yo-yo. Again, I wish you could see how shiny my tree is! You'll need your Artiste cartridge again to cut the snowflakes. I used silver glitter paper (cuts beautifully in the Cricut!), and cut the snowflake on page 79 of the handbook at 1-1/4". I have 18 snowflakes on my tree, and I adhered them with Liquid Glass.
I went back and forth on what to use for the topper, but I love the bow on 55 of the handbook (Accent 2). I put two bows back to back on my own tree, so I couldn't imagine why it couldn't be done on this one. I cut two bows and ribbons at 1-1/4". Of course, I used Liquid Glass to put them on the tree, and then I searched my stash for some big bling buttons.
The tree took about 3-1/2 hours to make. Because of materials and time, I think this is the only one I'll make this year, but it was a super fun project! I think all the glitteriness (yes, I did just make up that word!) will really be pretty in the shimmering lights that we put up for Christmas!
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Rappelling from mountains and waterfalls is a common adventure sport, and it has now found its way to cities too — translating to urban rappelling where you replace nature with skyscrapers or monuments.
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Biochemicals synthesis from dead leaves of Acacia auriculiformis over zinc chloride and sodium hydroxide
Haruna Ibrahim*, Shamsudeen A. Jibia, Ismail Mohammed and Suleiman Magaji
Ibrahim Shehu Shema Centre for Renewable Energy Research, Umaru Musa Yar Adua
University, Katsina-Nigeria
*Corresponding Author: [email protected]
Vol 3(3), pp. 22-29, October 2022
https://doi.org/10.47721/ARJST20220303022
Received: 18th September 2022 Accepted: 28th October 2022 Published: 31st October 2022
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This study is undertaken to investigate the biochemicals and biofuel feedstocks in the waste leaves of Acacia auriculiformis. A 50g mass of pulverized dead leaves of the tree were hydrolytically extracted using ZnCl2 and NaOH catalysts at 100oC for 30 minutes. The extracts were filtered with sheet cloth and 4g of each sample was analyzed with GC-MS. The highest fatty acid yield was 235.74 g over ZnCl2 and 222.82 g over NaOH. The highest yields of other prominent chemicals found were 28.17g furan methanol over ZnCl2, 14.18g spathulenol over NaOH, 55.55g Phytol over ZnCl2, 15.94g caryophyllene over NaOH, 15.2g hydroxylamine octyl over ZnCl2, 12.33g stigmasterol over NaOH and 16.85g Methyl α-D-galactopyranoside over NaOH. The biochemicals extracted from the leaves of Acacia auriculiformis are important chemical feedstocks for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, agro-allied, and food industries.
Keywords: biochemicals, dead leaves, feedstock, synthesis, Acacia auriculiformis
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Haruna Ibrahim is affiliated to Ibrahim Shehu Shema Centre for Renewable Energy Research, Umaru Musa Yar Adua University, Katsina-Nigeria
Shamsudeen A. Jibia is affiliated to Ibrahim Shehu Shema Centre for Renewable Energy Research, Umaru Musa Yar Adua University, Katsina-Nigeria
Ismail Mohammed is affiliated to Ibrahim Shehu Shema Centre for Renewable Energy Research, Umaru Musa Yar Adua University, Katsina-Nigeria
Suleiman Magaji is affiliated to Ibrahim Shehu Shema Centre for Renewable Energy Research, Umaru Musa Yar Adua University, Katsina-Nigeria
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Ibrahim, Haruna, et al. "Biochemicals Synthesis from Dead Leaves of Acacia Auriculiformis over Zinc Chloride and Sodium Hydroxide." Applied Research Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, Oct. 2022, pp. 22–29. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.47721/arjst20220303022.
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In terms of diet, sugar is one of the main culprits that contribute to tooth decay and gum disease. Bacteria that feed on sugar deposit sticky, acidic plaque on the teeth, where it starts to break down tooth enamel. If plaque isn't removed via brushing, it hardens into tartar, which is very difficult to remove.
Combat plaque and tartar by avoiding sugary foods. When you do eat foods that are high in sugar, brush right afterward to limit their effect on your teeth.
Maintaining a diet that includes plenty of high-fiber fruits and vegetables is great for your body, and it's good for your oral health too. Crisp raw produce, such as carrots and celery help because biting and chewing these crunchy foods helps clear plaque from the teeth.
Smoking stains your teeth and affects the health of your gums, increasing your risk of severe gum disease. And chewing ice may seem like a harmless habit, but it can result in teeth fracturing and breaking.
Finally, be sure to use your teeth for eating food only. Don't use your teeth as tools, for instance, to tear open packets or break threads.
Supplementing At-Home Care with Dental VisitsThe best way to think of at-home oral care is as your first line of defense against tooth decay and gum disease. With good and consistent dental hygiene, your risk of oral health problems is greatly reduced. However, professional care from your dentist is important too, so be sure to see your dentist regularly for cleaning and checkups.
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Heigh Ho Holiday
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Christmas Revels in 17th-century London
The City Musick, William Lyons
St John's, Smith Square. 13 December 2017
King James I issued his 'Declaration of Sports' in 1617, noting that he had heard that people had been 'barred from all lawfull Recreation, & excercie vpon the Sundayes afternoone, after the ending of all Diuine Seruice'. So wrote Wiliam Lyons, director of The City Musick in his programme note for this concert, as an example of the encouragement of festivals and holy days during the early 17th century, despite opposition from Puritans and Catholic gentry. These occasions included Christmastide festivals, a time when the virtuosi musicians of the local city waits came into their own, perhaps with the opportunity to relax a little from their normal role of providing music for civic ceremonies, processions, dances, masques etc. Their musical repertoire was wide, as was the range of instruments that they played, both aspects revealed in this concert by a 21st-century incarnation of the waits – the seven musicians of The City Musick. Continue reading →
Clara Sanabras: A Hum about Mine Ears
Concert: Britten Sinfonia, Chorus of Dissent, Vox Holloway, Harvey Brough
The Barbican. 6 March 2016
CD: Britten Sinfonia, Chorus of Dissent, London Voices, Nigel Kennedy
Smudged Discs SMU607. 44'50
Singer Clara Sanabras arrived in London from her Barcelona home about 20 years ago to study music, despite not speaking a word of English. I first reviewed her shortly after her arrival in one of the many early music groups that she went on to perform with, noting that she has "an evocatively sensual and focussed voice, rich with harmonics . . . her voice is ideal for much of the early repertoire, particularly from the medieval and early renaissance". She has since built an enviable reputation as an eclectic singer/songwriter with a wide variety of musical styles, notably in the broadly folk/blues tradition. I wrote in a later review that "I hope that Sanabras is not lost to the early music world". She hasn't been, and has certainly not lost the clarity, purity and superb intonation of her evocative and sensuous voice. But there aren't many early music solo singers who could fill The Barbican hall for a concert of her own compositions, complete with over 200 supporting musicians.
That happened in the launch concert for the CD of her folk-opera, 'A Hum about Mine Ears', part of the Barbican's Shakespeare400 Weekend. As the name suggests, the music is a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's the Tempest, Continue reading →
Locke's Tempest by candlelight
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The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment continued their collaboration with The Globe's new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse with an imaginative performance of Matthew Locke's music for the 1674 production of The Tempest (or Enchanted Island), devised and directed by Elizabeth Kenny with stage direction and text adaptation by Caroline Williams. Following the Musica Brittannica edition, the music included additional pieces by Pelham Humphrey, Reggio, Banister, Purcell and Hart. The five OAE instrumentalists were joined by three singers, two boy trebles together with two actors who cleverly acted all the parts in the extracts from the rather curious version of Shakespeare's play for which Locke provided the music. Despite the oddities of the text, this Tempest was extraordinarily popular at the time, with frequent revivals over the following 150 years. Although 21st century eyes and ears might not rate the play quite so highly, setting Locke's relatively well-known music in the context of at least part of the spoken text and stage action does help with understanding the context of music like this. Along with Purcell's examples, this repertoire is difficult to slot into the mainstream European musical tradition of the late 17th century. The Wanamaker Playhouse is a gloriously intimate space for such performances, the candle lighting added much to the atmosphere. This was a lively and, at times, very funny production, not least when one of the actors portrayed a sword fight by playing both characters at the same time. The impressive singers were Katherine Watson, Frazer B Scott and Samuel Boden.


CALA Homes South occupied Burgan House in Staines before being put on notice that the site was to be redeveloped. The search commenced to find the company a new headquarters. After one or two false starts, the perfect building was found, offering not only new offices but the opportunity for CALA to occupy its own building set in landscaped grounds with ample parking.
CALA House, as it would become, was in need of a complete building refurbishment before it could be occupied. Having considered a number of fit out companies from London and the South, Gifford Grant was selected as the design and build contractor for the project.
After extensive design and space planning, budgets were agreed and work commenced. Both floors were gutted, the ceilings, flooring, partitions, kitchens and WCs were stripped out. Once back in shell state, the office fit out could begin. The first floor, predominantly open plan for land, commercial, sales and technical departments, customer services and administration staff also needed space. Offices were formed using Komfort double glazed partitions with integral blinds for the MD, Sales Director, Commercial Director and Construction Director. A meeting room was created for the land and planning team, along with a staff break out area and print/comms room. The ground floor houses a further staff break out area, boardroom, large meeting room, post room, archive store and a large sub-let area.
A new air conditioning system was installed throughout the building to replace the former R22 refrigerant system, providing heating and cooling with a separate stand alone system in the comms room. New LG7 lighting systems to the office areas are complimented by feature lights in common areas. All of the M&E provides the most sustainable and efficient equipment on the market. New flooring was selected with loop pile carpet contrasting with cut pile carpet and walk over feature lights to create interest in the open plan area. Karndean French Oak timber effect vinyl makes a statement in the entrance and reception, and complements the new solid oak stairs. New power and data infrastructures have been designed and installed, comprising of an Elektrak under floor bus bar system and CAT 5E structured cabling. AV networks have also been installed in the boardroom and meeting rooms with a wifi network serving the whole building. WC improvements were essential and new sanitary ware from Villaroy and Bosch and tiles from Porcelenosa give a clean classy look to these areas and to the new shower.
CALA House is now a striking landmark on The Causeway, Staines, Middlesex and is the perfect home for a national house builder.
Gifford Grant specialises in creative commercial interiors, refurbishments and fit outs in London and the South. Whether your organisation requires new offices, industrial premises or retail space, we have the ideas and experience you need. Contact us today on 01252 816188.


The imminence of accountable care already is beginning to transform the way healthcare is organized. It logically follows that the information technology (IT) necessary to support Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) is also changing under our feet. The massive shift of patients to the ambulatory sector to achieve lower-cost care, the need for coordinated care among diverse providers and the analytics required to manage population health are all moving the IT dial to a new frequency.
That new frequency is likely to be the cloud.
Although the federal government originated the concept of ACOs as a value-based reimbursement model for Medicare and Medicaid, commercial insurers have also seized upon it as a viable answer to higher quality, more cost-effective care. The goal is to connect hospitals, physician offices, laboratories and other parts of the healthcare continuum to offer preventive, evidence-based medicine that achieves the best clinical outcomes possible. However, connectivity within and among a wide variety of stakeholders is essential before that goal can be reached.
To date, health information exchanges (HIEs) are viewed by many experts as the best way to provide connectivity. While it is true that many public HIEs are struggling to achieve sustainability, commercial HIEs – those spearheaded by healthcare organizations – have gained momentum because they offer direct value to the organization itself. Healthcare organizations are beginning to rely on HIEs not only to deliver the highest quality care, but also to enter into the risk-sharing arrangements with payers that are integral to any accountable care model.
In other words, the ACO is considered an acceptable patient wellness model, and HIEs are its enabler. Indeed, until now HIE connectivity has offered the best model for comprehensive information sharing among those taking ownership of individual and population health.
However, traditional HIEs lack the ability to efficiently and effectively integrate and aggregate all of the data required for analysis in an accountable care world. The problems with which HIEs struggle include trying to efficiently create interoperability among dissimilar technology platforms and disparate data formats in an environment that has few standardized nomenclatures. HIEs have difficulty delivering information where it counts the most: at the point of care.
HIEs are one way to begin linking together the pieces of an ACO, but they are really only stepping stones. They are way stations, not destinations, on the journey to ACO connectivity – which brings us back to the cloud.
Cloud-based services can do more than just integrate unrelated IT systems; they can quickly and efficiently reconcile the semantic differences in the data within those systems to promote useful data analysis. Rather than construct limited point-to-point interfaces among healthcare stakeholders, cloud-based services provide healthcare organizations with an ability to widen the reach of data to wherever patients and providers need it. The cloud has a natural disposition to support healthcare organizations as their traditional walls continue to dissolve operationally.
Take the concept of a Master Patient Index (MPI) as an example. Lots of hospital applications include an MPI that acts much as a local phone book; they can match patients in a limited way. As organizations have grown, MPIs have begun to move from being system-specific to more hospital-centric. They are like a larger phone book. However, ACOs require taking that phone book outside of both individual systems and even the hospital itself; the MPI must become like a global online phone book, with information accessible by all within the healthcare continuum. A cloud-based MPI would not be bound by the department, hospital or even healthcare organization for which it was created.
As this example illustrates, cloud-based integration offers the kind of connectivity demanded for the coordinated, accountable care of populations. It introduces consistency that links not only the apps within a hospital, but the multiple apps within a healthcare organization and beyond. It facilitates the optimization of claims and financial data from payers with clinical and operational data from providers to generate the value required under accountable care.
Simply put: Cloud-based connectivity transcends the limitations of disparate data sources. By allowing all the organizations that make up the healthcare ecosystem to transcend their traditional boundaries, the cloud can offer an efficient information nexus for the ACO.
Gary Palgon is vice president of Healthcare Solutions for Liaison Technologies. This article originally appeared on Government Health IT sister site NHINWatch.


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King Edward IV's Mistress Jane Shore
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This entry is part 4 of 12 in the series Intriguing Women
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Elizabeth Woodville Queen of Edward IV
Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852 and the first computer programme
Who was Catherine of Valois?
IT Livery Companies History and Dame Shirley
Hedy Lamarr Actress and Intriguing Inventor
Lady Florence Dixie journalist and feminist 1856
Katherine Swynford Mistress of John of Gaunt
Caroline of Ansbach Wife of King George II
Margaret Pole Who Was She?
Who Was Emma of Normandy?
King Edward IV's Mistress, Jane Shore, just who was she and why did she wield so much power?
When chroniclers of the Middle Ages wrote about women, they only ever seemed to do so from the perspective of their sexuality and how it related to the men around them. However, when we also consider issues of power, politics and greed, women of the middle ages all have a more complicated history than historians present. King Edward IV's mistress, Jane Shore, was one such intriguing woman.
Women of the period, certainly those from a higher social standing, brought influence to bear in a number of ways. Some were business women, others well schooled and learned, teaching in abbeys and priories . Those that seemed to have caused most stir though were those whose lives were caught up in the turmoil of politics and succession.
Penance of Jane Shore by William Blake
Jane Shore was a woman at the heart of English politics.
As King Edward IV's mistress she appears in history as a harlot and concubine; however, there was much more to her life than he role as a mistress. She was born into a rich merchant's family in London in 1445. She was baptised by her parents John and Amy Lambert and received a good education, learning to read and write and studying a fair amount of Latin and French. Rich merchants had at that time good standing at court and John Lambert very probably lent the King money. Elizabeth (Jane), would have been at home, in the company of the royal family and court life. At the age of twenty one, she became a freeman of the city of London, due to her father being elected a freeman but there is no record of her following her father into business. Jane was quickly caught up in court life and despite becoming married to a wealthy goldsmith called William Shore, it seems very likely that Jane had caught the eye of King Edward IV from an early age.
In 1467, at the age of just twenty two years, Jane had her marriage to William Shore annulled due to his impotence. He was a young man and this must have been a very difficult move for them both, one wonders if she had sought a socially better marriage, having experienced life at King Edward's court?
The hand of the King can be felt, for on the Patent Rolls of 4th December 1476, the Kings protection was bestowed upon William Shore, citizen of London and his servants, with all his lands, goods and possessions in England and elsewhere. The account of her marriage by Sir Thomas More, renders her husband 'frigid and impotent', whatever the truth of it, William Shore did not remarry and quietly left the field free for the King.
Hinxworth Church Hertfordshire where Jane Shore is buried
The character of Jane Shore
By all accounts she was a joyous and humorous character, beautiful and intelligent. King Edward described her as:
'Merry in company, ready and quick of answer'
Jane became the mistress of the King and theirs was a friendship which lasted until his death in 1483. Quite how much sway she had in court affairs is difficult to determine, possibly less than others presumed.
She was obviously keen to hang onto her status at court because, when the King died, she became the mistress of Thomas Grey, stepson of the King and then came under the protection of Lord Hastings. These two affairs exposed her in a way that her affair with the King never had and her position became more precarious when King Richard III came to the throne.
Sir Thomas More's account of Jane Shore
Collected Works of Sir Thomas More 1557
We are lucky to have Sir Thomas More's historical account of her,in his work, 'The History of King Richard III' he uses her as an example of both proof of how beauty dissolves into corruption and for the ingratitude of human nature.
More suggests that Jane, once such a beautiful and fulsome person, is now forgotten or discarded, he writes:
"old, lean, withered, and dried up, nothing left but wrinkled skin and hard bone."
It is interesting that More refers to her as 'Shore's wife', despite having her marriage to William Shore annulled.
Many men were attracted to Jane, she was a peacemaker, again More records:
"where the king took displeasure, she would mitigate and appease his mind; where men were out of favor, she would bring them in his grace; for many that highly offended, she obtained pardon."
So what had Jane done to incur the wrath of King Richard III to the extent that he accused her of sorcery and witchcraft and had her sent to the Tower of London?
There are two possible lines to follow here, one is Jane's affair with King Edward IV, Richard III's brother. Richard only became king after the marriage between Edward and his wife Elizabeth Woodville was declared invalid and their children illegitimate and therefore unable to accede to the throne.
Richard was a complex man whose dealings with those around him have been interpreted a number of ways. Some of his actions have led many to reflect on the possibility that Richard murdered his nephews (the story of the princes in the tower).
Then there is Richard's vendetta against sexual offenders and here Jane finds herself caught. Richard brings a charge against Hastings, with whom Jane is having an affair, that, on the night before his murder he had sex with Jane Shore and that he had been guilty of:
'vicious living and the inordinate perversion of his body with many others'.
Richard goes further and accuses Hastings, Jane Shore and Elizabeth Woodville of conspiring against him. Both Jane and Hastings are sent to the Tower and Hastings is killed. Furthermore Jane is accused of sorcery and witchcraft to 'waste and wither his body'. Richard, it is thought, suffered from a curvature of the spine.
The case of sorcery and witchcraft cannot be proved against Jane and the charge is dropped to one of harlot, for this Jane is forced to walk through London in public penance for her adulteries:
"going before the cross in procession upon a Sunday, with a taper in her hand, [dressed only in her outer petticoat]."
Jane's story continues though, thrown into Ludgate Prison, she continues to attract attention and the King's solicitor, Thomas Lynom falls in love with her and enters into a marriage contract with her whilst she is still incarcerated. She had a beauty both inside and out and somehow received a pardon from Richard, despite him trying to prevent Lynom from falling into what he considered an inappropriate marriage.
Ludgate c.1650
The rest of her days were spent in marriage to Lynom with whom she had a daughter. She died in 1527 at the age of 82 and is buried in Hinxworth Church Hertfordshire.
King Edward's IV mistress, Jane Shore, lived through and was at the heart of, some of England's most dramatic historical and managed to escape fairly unscathed, a strong and fine Medieval woman.
Find out more about the period of Edward's Kingship and the rule of the House of York here and his father Richard Duke of York
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I was asked a very important question by an author friend preparing to release her first book. She asked, "What do we need to have in place for KDP Select to start off efficiently?"
"This is an extremely BIG question, because what you should be doing is what you should have been doing for the last 12 months or more… growing your social media following and integrating your followers' participation along your journey in publishing.
From what I see, your Facebook following is fairly decent for starting out (1,200'ish) but Twitter is definitely lagging (100+). Many first time authors do not realize how import their social media/platform followers are in spreading the word about their book.
Here's an example of how important Socia Media is... I offered Twisted Vengeance for free last week for two days (Mon/Tues), the worst 2 days according to some. I gave away 16,000 copies. On day one I hit #250 in the Free store. I didn't tell anyone because I really wanted to see how high I could go with an organic freebie (no help from my twitter/facebook friends). But #250 was only a few hundred and not where I wanted to be. I wanted to hit the top 20.
When day two rolled around, I threw gas on the fire and contacted my closest reader friends, Digital Book Today, my Triberr tribes, and World Literary Cafe tweet teams and asked for help promoting my free day. They did. Twisted Vengeance hit #12 in the free store and I am selling lots of books right now as a result. But there is no way I could have done that well without the reach of hundreds of thousands of interconnected twitterites.
Now, back to your question. I did not have that kind of Internet presence when I first published Reunion. In fact, I didn't sign up for Twitter until after Reunion was first released. And it was a hell of a hike from that point on.
So I say to you… expect a long haul. I know you are in for the duration as far as your career is concerned, but after releasing four books now, I've learned that the release is not as big of a deal as you might think. You will throw it out there on Amazon or wherever, and you will see a bump in sales. But you will not be overwhelmed with sales just because you have declared June 4th as your release date.
There will be many other books releasing on that date as well, and other new authors pushing their book equally as hard, along with all of us who have already published. If you get the feeling that you are entering a crowded city, you're right. Picture yourself in New York City shoving through a crowd to get into a packed subway car. The car is ready to leave and no one wants to miss the train. Ten more will get in and 1,000 will not.
This is how you have to look at your question. This is how you have to look at book marketing in general. Getting on the train is about hard work and lots of luck.
How do you prepare for luck? Answer: You don't.
You can squirm a bit and get closer to the car, but there are always bigger and stronger shoulders shoving you aside. How's that for a word picture. When you officially release your book you will need a cult following, lots of money, an anomolie of a novel, or luck to make an immediate splash. If you do not have those things you will make something that's more like a drip. It's not you… it's just the way it is.
IF YOU HAVE MONEY TO SPEND ON MARKETING... I have a few suggestions: These suggestions will take cash, but as in any form of publicity, you will not get the word out unless you pay those who have created a platform or "reach" ahead of you and for your benefit. The sites I list can help your book get noticed. They can put your book in front of readers eyes. But it is publicity, and any form of publicity, as your publicist has told you I'm sure, does not guarantee sales, but name recognition. Sales may come, but they are not guaranteed.
Name recognition is an expense paid for those looking to create a brand for themselves over a long period, not a short period. Building a brand is about making each new book you publish easier to recognize. Readers know who you are, they are familiar with your cover style, and they are waiting for what's next.
Anyway, by releasing in mid July you will have missed every major holiday in the US from now until then: Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, and The Fourth of July. These are all big holidays because mothers and fathers across the US (your biggest market by far) will receive brand new kindles and searching for books to add to their new toys.
I am recommending to my most valued clients to start booking paid promotions that surround these holidays ASAP. I have a good friend who managed a region for Border Books for years and he told me that holidays were always the best time to promote your book, put it on sale (in this case a KDP Freebie), and add to your marketing, etc. And he is right.
I am recommending running a freebie just before Mother's day and then using paid promotions between Mother's Day and Memorial Day. This is what you will have to do unless you have a far reaching social media reach.
KDP Select will help, but you still need "wheels" under your book, and KDP Select is more effective on "well traveled" books.
2 - Run a free day highlight with Kindle Nation Daily on day one of your free days ($29).
3 - Run a 2-day Daily FREEBIE Alert with The Kindle Book Review ($15) and Digital Book Today.
Total cost: $164 for "moving" ads.
Moving ads are linked to social media and are effective because they are "shares" and "retweets" which have a level of trust that works like word-of-mouth when others tweet and like your book. But the truth is, you have to come up with cheap, creative marketing ideas, or keep paying over and over to keep that momentum going.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE MONEY TO SPEND...There are free options. Blog tours can be free if you put in the many hours to schedule. Posting a giveaway on Goodreads.com will only cost you a book and postage. Goodreads giveaways are nice to introduce your book to readers, but the "buy" is slow and barely noticeable.
You can also join the WLC (worldliterarycafe.com) and join their "tweet teams". This is free and a very helpful tool, but requires reciprocity (tweeting other authors in return). But this will also get you connected with other authors, which is more important than you might realize.
Social Media is as free as you can get, so reach out to other readers and authors. Retweet their books and tweets. Grow your Twitter and Facebook following. And if you really want to take your social media to the next level, get hootsuite and/or tweetadder.
But if you want to reach a large audience, and you do not have a large following, you might have to climb on the backs of those who have already done the leg work of building a platform that connects readers to authors."
Hi Jeff, thanks for the info, it's given me a lot to think about. I'm writing, perhaps dithering is a beter word for the last few years.
I've not published anything because frankly it's not good enough yet. But I'm getting close and this info will help me do it right.
Thanks, Gordon. I hope you get a chance to read through some of my older posts or read The Indie Author's Guide to the Universe. I really appreciate you stopping by!
Every bit of advice you offered in this post is what I would call "the God's honest truth!". I've utilized almost every avenue you suggested except the blog tour. I've yet to get involved in that sort of thing. Not because I don't want to, but because I just haven't had the time to give it proper attention.
I'm finding the book promotion thing to be be very time-consuming. It's more work than writing a book, that's for sure. It's great to connect with others and network, but it leaves precious little time to write more books. I'm still trying to find a happy medium...where one doesn't overpower the other.
As always, great advice! Thanks for sharing.
Deborah, You are so right, and more so as you continue publish. Thanks for reading.
simply put, I love you. You make me wanna go sell a child on Ebay for $170 to do this. I don't plan to implement this in May. Marketing always go better for me for July and August, so I plan to do this then. If I have a jpg for it I would give you The BombDotCom Award on best marketing advice post evah!
Hey Motown, I appreciate that. Thanks for dropping by. Hope you come back.
Excellent post and lots to think about when marketing/releasing. It is all about internet connections these days. Start with building your platform/reader base and work your way from there.
Hi, Mel. I think you've nailed it. Thanks for reading.
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But this house had already dropped in price by a staggering £20,000 and the current agent was asking the seller to reduce by a further £30,000! The home was starting to actually look cheap when compared with the competition, so we knew it wasn't the reason for the lack of a sale. Once we had taken a look at various factors, we uncovered a whole raft of issues we felt were stopping the house from selling. The presentation of the house, the photography, brochure and written description and overall online marketing, all needed improving. Each one on their own maybe wasn't a deal breaker, but put them all together and add the fact the house had become stale on the market for so long, and a sale wouldn't happen unless these were all changed.
The reason premium homes take so long to sell is often because their greatest appeal – their uniqueness – can be their biggest weakness. It is difficult for a buyer to compare two unique homes. How do you compare a home with a stunning views, but on a main road, with that of a house wrapped in two acres of landscaped grounds, but no view? These two homes could be at the same price, and be roughly of the same size.
To attract that special buyer, you need special marketing. And that's where we come in.
So what did we do with the home in Bonvilston?...We didn't get to sell it because the owners decided to stay put, however we gave some great advice should they ever want to move again.
We tackled the presentation issues fairly inexpensively, with our stylists advising each room look simple yet elegant. We also advised putting the asking price up, by £20,000, to put it into a new Rightmove price bracket. And then to create a stunning brochure and a Rightmove advert that looked totally different to the previous ones.
Once we had identified the factors that were stopping this house from selling, the owners were happy to work with us to rectify the blocks to their sale. Until our visit, they hadn't known these issues existed. But unfortunately they decided not move for a while and give the marketing a long rest.
The first step in turning around a failing property sale is to identify what has gone wrong so far. Until you do this, how can you put it right? Whilst some estate agents will assume the asking price is too high, (often a price they themselves valued it at) we first assess all the other factors, including the way the house is presented, whether that's right for the target market, the motivation of the seller, the subliminal messages that the photography and words are conveying, and many other aspects that may not be apparent to the seller.
With all the houses we've helped sell, there has almost always been a host of very subtle reasons why they have not sold previously. Those reasons would stop a buyer being able to connect with the house, and to see it as their new home. Without this connection, it's almost impossible to sell your house, other than to an investor with no emotional investment. But until you know the reason, you are relying on luck playing a huge part in your property sale. It's a big gamble that with our help, you don't need to take.
So when a client asks us "When will my house sell?" we reply simply, "When we've discovered why it's not selling". And we set to work.
It's a good question. Do you start worrying after a few weeks of marketing without an offer on your house? Or should you be patient and stick with your agent and price for six months or more?
At Olivia Louise, we see so many sellers who have been on the market for over 6 months, and even over a year is not uncommon. It's true that the longer your property is on the market, the less desirable it is to a buyer, and the less confidence your agent will have that they can achieve any figure close to your asking price. It's therefore really important that your strategy in the first 2-3 months is as well thought out, planned and confident.
Choose the right agent based on marketing skills, enthusiasm and a high fee – they will earn it if they are the best agent for you.
Be realistic about your asking price. Going on the market at too high an asking price will mean you may not get any viewings at all. If you ask a price that's in line with precedent in your area and for your type of house, you'll get viewings, and the valuable feedback viewings produces.
Once you have decided with your estate agent what your asking price should be, resolve to review it in say three months' time. If you have not had any interest by then, decide in advance what price drop you'll take. For example, if you go to market in September, but you haven't had any significant viewings or an offer by Christmas, you'll withdraw from the market until February and take 10% off your asking price. Having a strategy in advance can help take the emotion out of the often difficult decision to reduce the price.
Make sure your photography and brochure is of the highest possible standard. The photography gets you the clicks on Rightmove – or else your house is ignored. And the brochure sells the viewing. Be firm about this – your home deserves the very best marketing so it stands out online, and offline too.
Commission a home stylist to give your house a once-over. Even if you and your friends think it's immaculate, you need independent, professional advice at this crucial time. At Olivia Louise our stylists are skilled at presenting rooms for photography and also sensitive to the sometimes opposing needs of the homeowner.
Follow our 5 golden rules you will be in the best possible position to sell your home within the time frame you need.
We would love to share with you our experience and ideas about your house sale – whether it's because you're simply considering a move, or because you have tried to sell but you're not getting the interest you'd hoped for. Just drop us a line or pick up the phone 029 2057 5631 – and we will pop over for a cup of tea and a chat, to see if we can help you.
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Assessing the Impact of the Trump Administration at the One-Year Mark
Randy Pherson, CEO Globalytica
In times of conflict and uncertainty, Indicators protect you against Hindsight Bias and Confirmation Bias because they provide an objective baseline from which to begin—and continue to evaluate the accuracy of—your analysis. Developing a list of Indicators is only the first step; tracking them periodically over time uncovers their true value.
On the anniversary of President Trump's inauguration, Globalytica continues its exercise in using Indicators to track its associates' predictions for the new administration. (See details below the graphic.)
In the past year, almost two-thirds of the predictions generated by administration critics have proved correct. In contrast, less than half of the predictions of administration supporters have been realized. In addition, over the past year 58 percent of what administration supporters feared might happen has come about, but only 44 percent of what administration critics' feared would happen has occurred.
From January 2017 to January 2018:
Administration critics have been more prescient, anticipating the difficulties in establishing the Executive Branch, frictions within the Republican Party, a nationalist and protectionist foreign policy, and strong anti-immigration sentiments. Much of what they feared would happen has not transpired, including defunding Planned Parenthood, disestablishing the EXIM bank, repealing Roe v. Wade, and experiencing a declining economy.
Administration supporters have seen less progress made toward implementing their anticipated agenda as the administration has failed to repeal Obamacare, build the wall, produce a balanced budget, jettison the Iran deal, or increase funding for the military. On the other hand, as predicted, the administration has eviscerated many government regulations and taken a hard line on trade. Much of what supporters feared might happen, however, has transpired, including continued terrorist attacks, partisan resistance in Congress, a sustained Russia investigation, and continued government gridlock.
More recently:
Administration critics' concerns about an upswing in racial tensions and increased criticism of the Intelligence Community, especially the FBI, have been realized.
Administration supporters have proved correct in predicting the passage of major tax cuts and the opening of investigations into Hilary Clinton.
In sum, over the past year:
Administration critics have been better predictors of Indicators they expected to happen. More than three out of five events they expected to happen have occurred; in contrast, only two out of five things they feared have come true. But an increasing number of things they were afraid would happen are starting to come true.
Administration supporters have fared less well. Only two out of five Indicators they expected to happen have occurred and nearly three out of five events they were afraid would happen have transpired.
Looking ahead, some Indicators to watch for are the potential for greater infighting within the Republican Party, an upswing in popular demonstrations, the results of the FBI investigation, a less healthy stock market or economy, a strengthened female voice in politics, and the potential for one or more foreign misadventures.
Globalytica will periodically refresh and publish this checklist to continue demonstrating the importance and value of Indicators. You can learn more about these techniques in Analyst's Guide to Indicators by Randolph H. Pherson and John Pyrik. To learn more about our associated training opportunities, including the two-week online Critical Thinking Fundamentals course taught monthly, click here.
In January 2017, Globalytica asked its associates to forecast what changes the Trump Administration would bring in its first year. After the Administration had been in place for 100 days, we assessed the accuracy of our associates' predictions (see Vol. 4, Issue 4). We took a second look at the 200-day mark (see Vol. 4, Issue 8) and a third look at the 300-day mark (see Vol. 4, Issue 10). Predictive accuracy is calculated as the percent of the 48 boxes in each quadrant of the chart that are shaded. Percent improvement is the net percent of additional boxes shaded since the 300-day mark.
At the one-year mark, we assess the accuracy of each prediction over the entire year. Each Indicator was rescored using a 5-point scale to reflect the extent to which the Indicator has come true. The complete results are displayed in the graphic above.
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FTC Investigates Broadband Service Providers for Data Security Practices; Puts a Stop to the Unwanted Illegal Robocalls
The Federal Trade Commission passed orders to seven Internet broadband provider and mutual entity in the United States. This order has been issued to examine how the internet broadband firm gathers, retain, utilize, and disclose information about users and their devices.
The orders enquire about the provider's privacy policies, procedures, and practices. The orders were issued to the companies which includes AT&T Inc., AT&T Mobility LLC, Comcast Cable Communications doing business as Xfinity, Google Fiber Inc., T-Mobile US Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., and Cellco Partnership doing business as Verizon Wireless.
The FTC is commencing this study to better understand the privacy practices followed by the service providers, for the transformation telecommunications companies into vertically integrated platforms that also provide advertising-supported content. Under current law, the FTC has the power to emphasize against biased and unreliable practices involving Internet service providers.
The FTC is seeking the following information from the providers:
-The categories of personal information collected about consumers or their devices, including the purpose for which the information is collected or used; the techniques for collecting such information; whether the information collected is shared with third parties; internal policies for access to such data; and how long the information is retained.
-Whether the information is aggregated, anonymized or deidentified.
-Copies of the companies' notices and disclosures to consumers about their data collection practices.
-Whether the companies offer consumers choices about the collection, retention, use and disclosure of personal information, and whether the companies have denied or degraded service to consumers who decline to opt-in to data collection, and
-Procedures and processes for allowing consumers to access, correct, or delete their personal information.
Demonstrating before a House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee, the Federal Trade Commission described its role in overseeing the data security practices of consumer reporting agencies (CRAs).
The testimony conveyed before the subcommittee on economic and consumer policy, the FTC characterizes its experience enforcing data security laws against CRA, as part of the agency's broader efforts over nearly 20 years to address data security through law enforcement, policy initiatives, and consumer and business education.
The FCRA needs CRAs to use legitimate procedures to make sure that the entities to which they provide consumer reports have a legalized purpose for gathering that information. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act, the Safeguards Rule requires some non-bank financial institutions, including CRAs, to safeguard nonpublic personal information.
Google search results services have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they have violated the FTC Act and the agency's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), including its Do Not Call (DNC) provisions.
Four different operations were responsible form bombarding consumers nationwide with billions of unwanted and illegal robocalls pitching auto warranties, debt-relief services, home security systems, fake charities.
Under the court orders announced recently the defendants are banned from activities like robocalling and most telemarketing, including those using an automatic dialer, and will pay significant financial judgments. The defendant in one of these cases provided the software platform that resulted in more than one billion illegal robocalls.
Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said, "We have brought dozens of cases targeting illegal robocalls, and fighting unwanted calls remains one of our highest priorities, we also have great advice on call-blocking services and how to reduce unwanted calls at www.consumer.FTC.gov."
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Q: does $f^{-1}(y)=\bar f^{-1}(y-f(x_0))$? Define a function $\bar f(x)=f(x)-f(x_0), f:R\to R$ i want to ask does $f^{-1}(y)=\bar f^{-1}(y-f(x_0))$? I ask this question as i am not sure if there is a typo in the notes as $f^{-1}(y)=\bar f^{-1}(y+f(x_0))$ but i dont quite see why?

A: $x = f^{-1}(y)$ means $f(x) = y$ (where $f$ is assumed to be one-to-one).
$x = {\overline{f}}^{-1}(y - f(x_0))$ means $\overline{f}(x) = y - f(x_0)$, i.e.
$f(x) = y$.  So yes, they are the same.


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"""
Streaming error finding.

% python calc-errors-few-pass [ <data1> [ <data2> [ ... ] ] ]

Use -h for parameter help.
"""
import sys
import screed
import os
import khmer
import argparse
import tempfile
import shutil

DEFAULT_NORMALIZE_LIMIT = 20
DEFAULT_CUTOFF = 3

DEFAULT_K = 20
DEFAULT_N_HT = 4
DEFAULT_MIN_HASHSIZE = 1e6

# see Zhang et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2975
MAX_FALSE_POSITIVE_RATE = 0.8

def output_single(read):
    name = read.name
    sequence = read.sequence

    accuracy = None
    if hasattr(read, 'accuracy'):
        accuracy = read.accuracy

    if accuracy:
        return "@%s\n%s\n+\n%s\n" % (name, sequence, accuracy)
    else:
        return ">%s\n%s\n" % (name, sequence)

def add_n_posns(posns, sequence):
    loc = sequence.find('N')
    p = set(posns)

    while loc > -1:
        p.add(loc)
        loc = sequence.find('N', loc + 1)

    return list(sorted(p))

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='XXX')

    env_ksize = os.environ.get('KHMER_KSIZE', DEFAULT_K)
    env_n_hashes = os.environ.get('KHMER_N_HASHES', DEFAULT_N_HT)
    env_hashsize = os.environ.get('KHMER_MIN_HASHSIZE', DEFAULT_MIN_HASHSIZE)

    parser.add_argument('--ksize', '-k', type=int, dest='ksize',
                        default=env_ksize,
                        help='k-mer size to use')
    parser.add_argument('--n_hashes', '-N', type=int, dest='n_hashes',
                        default=env_n_hashes,
                        help='number of hash tables to use')
    parser.add_argument('--hashsize', '-x', type=float, dest='min_hashsize',
                        default=env_hashsize,
                        help='lower bound on hashsize to use')

    parser.add_argument('--cutoff', '-C', type=int, dest='abund_cutoff',
                        help='remove k-mers below this abundance',
                        default=DEFAULT_CUTOFF)

    parser.add_argument('--normalize-to', '-Z', type=int, dest='normalize_to',
                        help='base cutoff on median k-mer abundance of this',
                        default=DEFAULT_NORMALIZE_LIMIT)

    parser.add_argument('--variable-coverage', '-V', action='store_true',
                        dest='variable_coverage', default=False,
                        help='Only trim low-abundance k-mers from sequences '
                        'that have high coverage.')
    parser.add_argument('--tempdir', '-T', type=str, dest='tempdir',
                        default='./')

    parser.add_argument('input_filenames', nargs='+')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    K = args.ksize
    HT_SIZE = args.min_hashsize
    N_HT = args.n_hashes

    CUTOFF = args.abund_cutoff
    NORMALIZE_LIMIT = args.normalize_to

    print >>sys.stderr, "K:", K
    print >>sys.stderr, "HT SIZE:", HT_SIZE
    print >>sys.stderr, "N HT:", N_HT
    print >>sys.stderr, "CUTOFF:", CUTOFF
    print >>sys.stderr, "NORMALIZE_LIMIT:", NORMALIZE_LIMIT

    print >>sys.stderr, 'making hashtable'
    ht = khmer.new_counting_hash(K, HT_SIZE, N_HT)

    tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp('khmer', 'tmp', args.tempdir)
    print >>sys.stderr, 'created temporary directory %s; ' % tempdir + \
          'use -T to change location'

    ###

    save_pass2 = 0

    read_bp = 0
    read_reads = 0

    pass2list = []
    for filename in args.input_filenames:
        pass2filename = os.path.basename(filename) + '.pass2'
        pass2filename = os.path.join(tempdir, pass2filename)

        pass2list.append((filename, pass2filename))

        pass2fp = open(pass2filename, 'w')

        for n, read in enumerate(screed.open(filename)):
            if n % 100000 == 0:
                print >>sys.stderr, '...', n, filename, save_pass2, \
                      read_reads, read_bp

            read_reads += 1
            read_bp += len(read.sequence)

            seq = read.sequence.replace('N', 'A')
            med, _, _ = ht.get_median_count(seq)

            # has this portion of the graph saturated? if not,
            # consume & save => pass2.
            if med < NORMALIZE_LIMIT:
                ht.consume(seq)
                pass2fp.write(output_single(read))
                save_pass2 += 1
            else:
                posns = ht.find_spectral_error_positions(seq, CUTOFF)
                posns = add_n_posns(posns, read.sequence)
                print read.name, ",".join(map(str, posns))

        pass2fp.close()

        print >>sys.stderr, '%s: kept aside %d of %d from first pass, in %s' %\
              (filename, save_pass2, n + 1, filename)

    n_omitted = 0
    for orig_filename, pass2filename in pass2list:
        print >>sys.stderr,'second pass: looking at ' + \
              'sequences kept aside in %s' % pass2filename
        for n, read in enumerate(screed.open(pass2filename)):
            if n % 100000 == 0:
                print >>sys.stderr, '... x 2', n, pass2filename, read_reads, \
                      read_bp

            seq = read.sequence.replace('N', 'A')
            med, _, _ = ht.get_median_count(seq)

            if med >= NORMALIZE_LIMIT or not args.variable_coverage:
                posns = ht.find_spectral_error_positions(seq, CUTOFF)
                posns = add_n_posns(posns, read.sequence)
                print read.name, ",".join(map(str, posns))

            if args.variable_coverage and med < NORMALIZE_LIMIT:
                print read.name, 'V'
                n_omitted += 1

        print >>sys.stderr, 'removing %s' % pass2filename
        os.unlink(pass2filename)

    print >>sys.stderr, 'removing temp directory & contents (%s)' % tempdir
    shutil.rmtree(tempdir)

    print >>sys.stderr, 'read %d reads, %d bp' % (read_reads, read_bp,)
    if args.variable_coverage:
        print >>sys.stderr, 'omitted %d reads for -V' % (n_omitted)

    fp_rate = khmer.calc_expected_collisions(ht)
    print >>sys.stderr, \
          'fp rate estimated to be {fpr:1.3f}'.format(fpr=fp_rate)

    if fp_rate > MAX_FALSE_POSITIVE_RATE:
        print >> sys.stderr, "**"
        print >> sys.stderr, ("** ERROR: the k-mer counting table is too small"
                              " for this data set. Increase tablesize/# "
                              "tables.")
        print >> sys.stderr, "**"
        print >> sys.stderr, "** Do not use these results!!"
        sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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03 Июн 2014 24 Сен 2017
РЭОШ в зарубежных публикациях и СМИ
Russian Website Exposes Modus Operandi of International Drug Mafia
Электронное издание Линдона Ларуша larouchepac (LaRouche Political Action) дает краткий обзор публикации председателя РЭОШ Валентина Катасонова, посвященной деятельности международной наркомафии и ее связях с банковским миром.
larouchepac
A Russian website, Strategic Culture Foundation, in a series of articles under the authorship of Valentin Katasonov, lays bare the deep involvement of the drug cartels with the banks and other legal sectors of economy. Although the article does not acknowledge the original findings of this network in 1979 by the EIR's book Dope, Inc., it is evident that Dope, Inc. is the author's principal source. What is important to note, however, is that among all major nations around the world, it is only in Russia that the drug-related criminalization of international banks is openly discussed.
Katasonov says the present-day drug mafia includes three hierarchic levels. Level 1 constitutes of those groups who are positioned at the initial point upstream and at the outlet point downstream of the drug supply chain. Level 2 groups handle the wholesale drug supply. The groups of this level are traditionally referred to as drug cartels and syndicates, and their heads as drug lords. Level 3 groups have no direct contact with drug supplies. Banks, secret services, and media are the main institutions comprising this level in the drug mafia hierarchy. All of them are completely legal from the standpoint of status, Katasonov noted.
In the section subtitled «The History of Merger between Banks and Drug Cartels,» the author says the merger between banks and the drug-supplying groups began roughly four centuries ago. In Great Britain, the alliance comprised the British East India Company to which the government issued an exclusive license for opium trade in India and other British colonies and the first British banks including the Bank of England, Barings Bank, and the Rothschild London Bank.
Katasonov points out former UN Undersecretary General and Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Antonio Maria Costa outlining in an interview the key phases of the formation of the alliance between banks and the drug mafia in the post-war era. The article says the present phase of the merger between banks and drug cartels took off roughly a decade ago and was manifest in an unprecedented synergy of the two systems. A few years later—let's say in 2002 and 2003—the first crisis hit, the IT bubble burst—and the banking system, which had spread enormously because of globalization, started to be infiltrated again by criminal assets. Namely, the anti-money-laundering controls which worked very effectively in Europe and North America in the 1990s, were weakened significantly in a number of off-shore jurisdictions. This started a new cycle of penetration of crime money, says Costa. Citing the famous case of the Wachovia Bank, the article says banks seek out money globally and offer to drug lords the services in the form of whitewashing cash and investing it in legal sectors of the economy. The drug cartels, in turn, regard the banking sector as a priority investment niche.
http://larouchepac.com/node/24173
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NVIDIA announced the Tesla M4 and M40, two cards dedicated to accelerate intensive Machine Learning workloads. The M40 is aimed at researchers to help them create new Neural Networks for each application they want to operate with artificial intelligence. The M4 is a low power accelerator designed to deploy these neural networks across the data center. Both cards benefit from a specific library for accelerating GPU treatments. Together, they enable developers to use the Tesla accelerated computing platform to manage machine learning on the data center. "The race to artificial intelligence is launched" said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. " Machine Learning is undoubtedly one of the most important developments at present in the IT field, the same as the computer, Internet and the Cloud. Machine learning is the big IT challenge of our generation. We created the range of Tesla HyperScale accelerators to multiply by 10 the Machine Learning algorithms calculation power. Time and money earned for datacenters are huge" he says.
These new software and hardware products are specifically designed to accelerate the flow of Web applications that integrate artificial intelligence capabilities. Significant advances allow to use artificial intelligence techniques to create smarter services and applications. Machine learning is used to achieve accurate speech recognition. It also allows to create automatic recognition algorithms in videos or photos, with possibility for future research. Automatic learning also enables facial recognition in videos or pictures even when the face is veiled in part. Finally, it operates services that help to know the tastes and personal interests of the user, arranging schedules, provide relevant information and answer precisely a voice command. The challenge is to get the awesome power IT needed to innovate and to train neural networks and to process information to respond immediately to the billions of requests from consumers.
With 3072 stream processors and 7 TFlops of computing power, the NVIDIA Tesla M40 accelerator GPU allows data scientists to save time, days or weeks, when they train their deep neural networks to manage huge amounts data while obtaining a higher accuracy. Adapted to automatic learning, it divides according to the manufacturer, the training time compared with 8 CPU processors (1.2 days against 10 days using AlexNet for a classical training). The support for NVIDIA GPUDirect enables rapid training and creation of multinode neural networks.
The M4 NVIDIA Tesla GPU is a low power accelerator created for HyperScale environments to enable responsive service and demanding web applications, as video transcoding, processing images and videos, and automatic learning inference. According to Nvidia, the M4 is capable of improving data analysis up to 5 times more video streams simultaneously than a conventional CPU. On the energy consumption side, the Tesla M4 consumes 50 to 75 watts, and provides energy efficiency up to 10 times better than a CPU while processing video and machine learning algorithms. The M4 has 1024 stream processors and 2.2 TFlops calculation power. The onboard memory is 4GB against 12GB on the M40.
cuDNN – the most popular software algorithms that manages deep convolutional neural networks used for artificial intelligence applications.
Accelerated FFmpeg Multimedia Software GPU – accelerated transcoding and processing videos.
NVIDIA GPU Engine REST – Create easily accelerated and deploy web services high processing capacity and low latency ranging from dynamic resizing Image accelerating research through the image classification.
NVIDIA image resizing engine – GPU-accelerated APIs with REST Service which allows to resize images 5 times faster than a CPU.
At the last demonstration of Tesla accelerated computing platform NVIDIA announced its collaboration with Apache to add GPU technology support within the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS). This strategic partnership will allow Web service companies to build and deploy their new generation accelerated applications more easily in data centers. The Tesla M40 Acelerator and HyperScale Suite are available, whereas the Tesla M4 Accelerator will be available in the first quarter of 2016.


If you're anything like me, you find it hard at times to face all the commitments of transitioning into adulthood. Many times I have taken a step back and wonder how on earth I made it to this two years removed from college. Nothing could prepare me for remembering the thirty passwords of investment sites, banking, multiple emails, and everything in between. If you suffer from an addiction to your hobby it is easy for the distraction to result in a loss of cleanliness around the house, disorganization of tackle or your vehicle, all of which weigh on your brain over the course of the day. As human beings, we experience so many stimuli in all directions in modern society; let's try not to add anything else to it. In this blog, I hope to share some of my insight on staying organized, freeing up some clutter, and sharing the sport of bass fishing with others the environmental way.
Fish for long enough and there is a good chance you will collect enough plastics to fund a starting business. I would not consider myself a tackle junkie but definitely have bought a few packs here and there for an application I never actually met on the water. As you prepare for a new set of circumstances often these bags get archived beneath other packs and the vicious cycle continues again. The best solution is to give away anything you know you are never going to use, and its not easy at times. We often build a close relationship with our baits but I can almost guarantee that if you have not used it in the past year someone could take these baits and you would never notice. When you begin to think of the money spent on the packs you begin to feel as though you are losing money. Erase this idea! From an economist perspective this is defined as a sunk cost, meaning that you already spent the money and will not get it back. Dust yourself off and let go of these thoughts.
Dispose of your soft plastic baits in the proper location, not in our waterways.
Instead of growing too large of an inventory, why not donate your unused plastics to an organization where kids will get the opportunity to experience the healthy addiction for themselves. There are plenty of kids in your area that would love for the chance to build a collection. Who knows, maybe you will inspire the next up and coming competitive angler! Whatever the case, you will certainly clean your stash and make your decisions on what tackle to carry a lot easier. As I discussed in last week's blog, just because a specific lure is not the latest and greatest doesn't mean it won't catch fish. In fact, throwing something different when everyone else seems to have gravitated to the latest trend can often pay big dividends on your local pond or waterway.
I admit that I am guilty of holding onto broken rods for no reason at all. In fact, three broken rods were just taken by the trash man a few hours ago. Other than their sentimental value they have no purpose other than taking up extra space. If you did not know already, you do not have a warranty on your rod chances are the cost of shipping the rod back and the repair costs will set you back over half the price of the rod. If that is worth it to you, go right ahead, but count me out!
Let go of holding onto your used equipment and remove the clutter.
For your used reels and rods still in working condition, why not share the sport of bass fishing with someone new. Siblings, friends, or kids in your area would love to accept a free reel or rod. What's better than getting new fishing obsessions started! If nothing else you've created a new fishermen to share experiences with. If it wasn't for a friend getting me enthusiastic about the hunt I wouldn't be chasing my dream today. Spread the love!
As of late it seems that storms of environmental destruction and human ignorance consistently fill the headlines. Floating islands of plastic in our oceans, micro beads from facial scrubs and soaps polluting the Great Lakes, and companies disposing waste in local water supplies are just a few of the many upsetting circumstances caused by human beings. As fishermen, it is important that we remember the rules of leave no trace. Recycle you fishing line and soft plastics after use in proper locations. Outdoor stores like Bass Pro or your local tackle shop often have cardboard boxes set up for disposing your used fishing line. I even saw at my local park recently a Boy Scout project in which the scouts had set up PVS pipe line collection tubes along the Potomac River. No one likes fishing and hooking onto someone else's fishing line. It has long been known that bass will eat used soft plastics discarded in the water after use resulting in clogged systems that cannot pass food and starve the species we love. Night Crawler containers, drink cans, and chip bags are common sightings unfortunately along our waterways. If this doesn't make you emotional what does?
The Incredi-Craw by Culprit getting the job done.
The sport is here for all of us to enjoy but also takes some common sense and maturity as well. Keep our waterways clean and protect the sport for the next generation. Till next time, share your passions with those around you. We are all searching for passion in life, sometimes all it takes is someone to enlighten another.