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Q: Can anybody can help me with a Rewrite API in Wordpress? I need to rewrite a URL form WP. I use this:
add_rewrite_rule( 'property-for-sale([^/]+)/([^/]+)/$', 'archive-property-for-sale.php?areas=$matches[1]&price=$matches[2]′, 'top');

i want to rewrite the url from /wordpress/property-for-sale/?area=any&price=1000000/ to /wordpress/property-for-sale/any/1000000/
property-for-sale and area are made with Types( Custom Fields) with taxonomy.

A: If it works anything like preg_replace which it probably does then the following will help you.
preg_match_all('~/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/\??area=([^&]+)?&price=([^&]+)/~',"/wordpress/property-for-sale/?area=any&price=1000000/",$m);
print_r($m);
echo preg_replace('~/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/\??area=([^&]+)?&price=([^&]+)/~','/$1/$2/$3/$4/',"/wordpress/property-for-sale/?area=any&price=1000000/");


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These two images of Saturn's largest moon Titan were taken by Cassini on October 26, 2004.
Images courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
Cassini Arrives at Saturn in June 2004
Cassini Liftoff in October 1997
Cassini Titan Flyby in October 2004
News story originally written on October 28, 2004
The Cassini spaceship flew by Saturn's moon Titan on October 26, 2004. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and has the thickest atmosphere of any moon in our Solar System.
Cassini took some great pictures of Titan during this flyby. Ten different instruments on Cassini made measurements of Titan. Cassini passed within 1,174 kilometers (730 miles) of the moon during this close encounter. Cassini, which is in orbit around Saturn, will fly past Titan 44 more times in the next four years!
Cassini will drop off a lander named Huygens. Huygens will touch down on Titan in January 2005. Some of the measurements of Titan's atmosphere that Cassini made on this flyby will help Huygens. The more scientists know about Titan's atmosphere, the safer they can make Huygens' entry into and flight through that atmosphere.
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A spacecraft named Cassini will study the planet Saturn for several years. Cassini blasted off from Earth in October 1997. After flying past Venus, Earth, and Jupiter, Cassini finally arrived at Saturn...more
Huygens probe on its way to Titan
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NASA's rover, named Spirit, has successfully landed and will soon be scouting the surface of Mars for interesting geology! Scientists are interested to know whether the depression where Spirit landed...more
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NASA announced in January 2004 that it would cancel the last planned mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The head of NASA, Sean O'Keefe, believes a mission to Hubble would be too dangerous for...more
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The Cassini spacecraft is on its way to Saturn. It will zoom close past a strange moon of Saturn named Phoebe. Cassini's close flyby of Phoebe will be on June 11, 2004. The best pictures we have right...more
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Xiang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surnames:  Xiàng () and Xiāng (). It means "to go forward"

It originated from several sources. First, from Xiang, an ancient state (located in Shandong province), destroyed in the early Spring
and Autumn period. Secondly from Xiang, an ancient state located in Henan province, which was destroyed in the late Western Zhou dynasty. Thirdly from the first character of the personal name Xiang Fu (向父), the style name of Bi, son of the Duke Huan in the state of Song.

Notable people
 Xiang Hantian (向汉天)
 Xiang Huaqiang, better known as Charles Heung (向華強)
 Xiang Jingyu (向警予)
 Xiang Rong (向榮)
 Xiang Zhongfa (向忠發)
 Xiang Zhejun (向哲浚)
 Ning Xiang (向宁), Chinese American acoustics expert
 Xiang Chong (向寵) general and politician of the state of Shu Han
 Bruce Yu-lin Hsiang (向玉麟; born 1979) better known as Gamerbee, a Taiwanese professional fighting games player
 Jacky Heung Cho (Chinese: 向佐) Hong Kong actor. He is the elder son of Charles Heung

See also
 Xiang
 Xiang Xiu

References

Chinese-language surnames
Individual Chinese surnames

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Q: How can I get the full ID of an ami before actually having to launch an ami? I use Terraform which allows me to retrieve the ami ID from the ami "name" (actually I'm a little confused about what that ami "name" is versus the ami id).
Example:
data "aws_ami" "windowsimage" {
  owners = ["amazon"]
  most_recent = true
  filter {
    name = "name"
    values = ["Windows_Server-2016-English-Full-ECS_Optimized*"]
  }
}

This is awesome because it means I don't have to hard code the ami id. But in order to get that Windows_Server-2016-English-Full-ECS_Optimized... value I had to actually launch an instance and look at the AMI ID property.
There has to be a better way! I couldn't find that value anywhere for the ami in the marketplace page. Is there a aws cli command maybe I can run to find the full ami id string of amis?

A: Yes, there is an aws cli command to do this.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-images.html
You can also add an additional line
most_recent = true

should you only wish to pull the most recent ami for that filter match.

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Idle and deep sleep are functions that are designed to prolong battery life.
When you press any button on your Suunto D5, it goes to active mode and the display backlight is activated (if turned on) and the seconds become visible on the watch face (red rectangle moving). After two minutes, the device goes to idle mode: the number of colors is reduced to save power and moving elements are turned off.
Suunto D5 wakes up when it is connected to a PC/charger, when a button is pressed, or when the water contact gets wet.
When not used, your Suunto D5 goes from active mode to idle mode and finally to deep sleep.
Wake up your Suunto D5 by pressing any button, or connecting to a computer / charger, or activating the water contact by immersing the device in water.
If your Suunto D5 runs out of battery when in deep sleep, you can only wake up your device by connecting to a charger or a computer with a USB cable of 5Vdc.


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Visit to Avenel
May 4th, 2014 | Photos, Poems for children, Songs
One of the poems, "The Sash", in my new book, "'The Billy That Died With Its Boots On' and Other Australian Verse", tells the story of a young Ned Kelly rescuing the life of another boy, Richard Shelton, from drowning in Hughes Creek, Avenel. Richard lived with his parents at the Royal Mail Hotel, which still stands today. The building is largely intact, although the original shingle roof has been replaced by corrugated iron. The building is now also surrounded by pepper trees which would have not been present in the 19th century.
Friend, songwriter, and fellow Ringwood Folk Club member Maggie Somerville has put the poem to music, and will sing the song at the launch of the book on Sunday, 18th May, at Readings bookshop in Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn.
I spent a lovely day with Maggie today, showing her the sights of Avenel, and walking in the (imagined) footsteps of Richard Shelton.
Here is Maggie singing "The Sash" outside the Royal Mail Hotel in Avenel.
(Avenel, by the way, is just off the Hume Highway, between Seymour and Euroa. It is a quiet town now, but back in Ned's time it was a busy stopover point on the way to the Beechworth gold diggings. Ned moved with his mother and siblings to Greta after the death of his father, Red, in Avenel.)


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Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (; born 15 May 1948 and originally christened Brian Peter George Eno) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.
Law is always better than war.
- Brian Eno
I don't like headphones very much and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Everybody is entertained to death.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Movingon
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
You can't really imagine music without technology.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
Most game music is based on loops effectively.
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
I take sounds and change them into words.


Look at that up there. I did that. Sometimes it's okay to be impressed by yourself, right? That doesn't make me obnoxious. Or conceited. Not if I'm legitimately amazed. Really, I think that just proves how humble I am. Freakishly humble. Impressively humble. I win at humility.
I made confit tacos. And you can too.
Confit is a scary word. You can tell because you don't pronounce the "t," which means that it's French. The French are pathologically afraid of pronouncing things. That's just about all I took away from two years of college French, but I think it's valuable nonetheless.
If your knowledge of French cuisine is anything like mine, you might be scared by this confit situation. Don't be.
Confit is just something that's been cooked in its own fat. Which sounds bad, sure. But it's no different than deep-frying something. And you know you would eat a stapler if it was deep-fried, so maybe a little less judging, yes? And we're using vegetable oil instead of pork fat here. Because we're decadent. Not crazy.
Now I'm thinking about what it would be like to make this with bacon fat. And I'm falling over with joy. But just imagine how much bacon you'd need to cook to get 2 cups of bacon fat. Also, you'd just have to let go of the concept of self-respect altogether. Not that I'd consider that a deal-breaker.
So here's what you're doing with these tacos: you're cooking the pork. You're grilling some veggies. You're chopping the veggies up to make a salsa. You're grilling the pork. Then you're nom-ing.
That's it. No sweat, right? And now you've made confit. Which basically makes you a French chef. Way to go, you.
I'm attributing this to two things: my kosher salt flakes may have been smaller than the ones used in testing this recipe, which led me to have more salt in my 1/4-cup measure than the author did. Also, I was not exceedingly careful about scraping every bit of seasoning off the pork before confit-ing. Next time I will be more assiduous.
Either way, don't let this deter you from trying the recipe. This was the most amazingly flavorful, melting pork I have ever tasted in my life. And then we put it into tacos. Life is good.
1. In a bowl, stir together Salt, Sugar, Juniper, Pepper, Garlic, Thyme, and Cilantro.
2. Add in Pork; toss to coat Pork thoroughly.
3. Refrigerate at least 8 hours, or up to 16 hours.
6. Pour Vegetable Oil over Pork.
7. Place casserole on stovetop over Medium-High heat and bring to a simmer.
8. Remove casserole from heat. Cover with an oven-safe lid and place in oven.
9. Cook 2 1/2 hours; Pork will be very tender.
10. Meanwhile, heat a grill to Medium-High heat [ I used a countertop grill, because this is Michigan in March ].
11. Brush Pineapple, Yellow Onion and Tomatoes with Vegetable Oil.
13. Cut Vegetables into 1/2-inch pieces and mix together in a bowl.
14. Mix in Mint, Red Onion, Chipotle, Lime Juice, and Cilantro.
16. When Pork is done, carefully remove from oil and place on grill.
17. Grill over Medium-High heat, turning occasionally, until charred.
18. Remove Pork to a plate and tear to shreds with 2 forks.
19. Serve Pork with Salsa and warm Tortillas.


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Kenyans have become prisoners of mobile loan Apps, shows study
A woman uses her mobile phone. 800,000 Kenyans are reported taking several loans to repay others. FILE PHOTO | NMG
The proliferation of digital loan platforms has not improved lives, a new survey shows.
Instead, the survey shows, many Kenyans have become prisoners of these systems, in some instances borrowing to gamble or settle previous debts.
The study says about 6.5 million Kenyans are digital borrowers with 31 per cent taking the cash to try their luck in betting.
Sixteen per cent of Kenyans have never taken loans through mobile phones while 20,000 Kenyans (three per cent) reported borrowing to place bets, says the report.
The joint survey conducted by the non-state financial inclusion agency – FSD-Kenya, Central Bank of Kenya, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor says that available digital loan products have not improved livelihoods.
"Digital credit is not reaching everyone and remains ill-suited for most of the population, such as farmers and casual workers, whose livelihoods are characterised by irregular cash flows," says the phone survey.
While borrowing to meet basic needs as well as replenish stocks in small businesses were the main reasons for digital borrowing, 800,000 Kenyans reported taking several loans to repay others.
"The rise of the digital credit market has raised concerns about the risk of excessive borrowing and over-indebtedness among lower-income households.
Digital loans are easy to obtain, short-term, carry a high interest rate and are available from numerous bank and non-banking institutions," states the report.
About three million borrowers reported late loan repayments that attracted hefty penalties with nine per cent of defaulters being reported to the credit reference bureau as risk-averse loanees.
"Half of borrowers spent their savings to repay loans, 20 per cent of loanees reported reducing food purchases and 16 per cent reported borrowing (mostly through family and friends). Poor business performance and loss of jobs in 2017 were the main cause of default," it says.
The study calls for the establishment of an oversight authority to scrutinise the lucrative interest rates and penalties used by the digital loan providers some of which don't fall under any regulatory regime.
The rates used are not bound by the Central Bank interest regime currently at a maximum of 13.5 per cent, giving a leeway for digital loan providers to charge higher. Some providers charge between 7.5 to 10 per cent interest for a one-month loan.
Dubbed, "The Digital Credit Revolution in Kenya: An Assessment of Market Demand, 5 Years On", the survey finds that about one million borrowers did not understand the interest regime applied where some had disbursed loans, still held in the mobile account, withdrawn abruptly.
The study proposes development of tools to track over-indebtedness whose adverse effects were hurting the well-being of families with nine per cent of the borrowers (breadwinners) being blacklisted.
It calls for further studies on product innovation that will promote proper use of loans, thereby, ensuring digital borrowers are not stuck with low-value, short-term, expensive credit despite building positive credit histories.
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Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a Brussels-based curator and researcher. He is currently the artistic co-director of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts. He has worked as an educator and an independent curator for public programs, among which: Sonic Dawn (Riga, 2019) Can Nature Revolt? for Manifesta, Palermo 2018; The School of Exceptions, Santarcangelo, 2016. He has worked as co-curator for LiveWorks, and was head of the Department of Arts and Choreography (ISAC) of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels. He graduated with Giorgio Agamben at Università Iuav di Venezia and he holds a phD in Cultural Studies from Palermo and Berlin. Recent articles appeared in South as a State of Mind (Athens), Mada Masr مدى مصر (Cairo) and Performance Journal (New York). Recent presentations include: Politics of Co-Imagination (2019, Tangier); Dance Under Cover of a Fictional Rhythm (2018, Sharjah, UAE); The Movement as Living Non-Body (2018, Oslo); Knowing the Unknown (2017, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki) and Prophecies Without Content (American University of Beirut).
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I've fallen way behind in blogging about my surgery, so this is going to be a short catchup post.
The first image from my open heart surgery to repair my mitral valve. I think this is before the repair.
In brief, I'm doing great.
Just saw my cardiologist, and like all the other health care workers I've seen, he's pleased and a bit amazed at how well I'm doing.
Last year when he first broached the subject of surgery, he thought I might not be able to take care of myself for about two weeks after the surgery, and it might take two to three months for a full recovery.
As it turned out I had two really awful days in the hospital, followed by three not so bad ones. Once I was released, I did pretty well, and full recovery came in about four weeks.
I even moved up my visit with the surgeon's office since I was feeling so good. They declared me fit as a fiddle, right as rain, and agreed that I no longer had to take that awful rat poison, uh, warfarin. They were even nice enough to give me a few photos of my heart during the surgery.
The second image from my open heart surgery to repair my mitral valve. I assume that white thing is the ring they placed around my mitral valve.
And I do seem to have developed some extra energy. I wasn't aware of it myself until the other day as I was walking home, I realized that I was sprinting to beat traffic lights and it wasn't tiring me out at all. When I arrived back at my apartment building, I took the three flights up the stairs without losing a beat. It was almost like I was 10 or 20 years younger.
I do have one lingering problem: what the medical community calls auras, and I call coruscating zigzag blobs, have been plaguing me ever since I was released from the hospital. But they are gradually diminishing, and I have every expectation they'll be back to their usual rare appearance before too long.
And I have one minor regret. When I consulted with the surgeon, I also signed up for a randomized clinical trial of atrial fibrillation remedies.
The third image from my open heart surgery to repair my mitral valve. I guess this is after the repair.
In brief, after my surgery I would be monitored for A-Fib, or irregular heartbeat, and I would be treated with one of several different medications, assigned randomly. I was looking forward to it.
The day after my surgery, Stephen, the young man who was in charge of the trial, came to see me in the ICU. He informed me that they had been monitoring my heart beat and had detected no irregular rhythms, so there had been no need for treatment yet. But, he assured me, they would continue to monitor me.
I was talking to the nurse at Penn Presbyterian who had just shaved my chest and abdomen in preparation for the open heart surgery, the day of the surgery having finally arrived.
"That's right," he replied. "I'm the cook prep nurse." At least I think that's what he said.
There were several nurses around, fiddling with this and that, asking me how I felt. I gradually became aware that there were still a bunch of tubes and IVs sticking in me and I felt pretty awful.
They told me that the surgery had been completely successful and I was now in ICU; my mitral valve had been repaired, which was the desired outcome.
A familiar face appeared. "I remember you. You're the anesthesiologist," I said, pronouncing each syllable very carefully.
"Oh, you remember me," he replied, sounding surprised.
There were several nurses who took great care of me in ICU. I remember Matt and Chris in particular, but there were at least a couple of others. Then once I got to my room, there were several more nurses who did great work. Again, I can only remember a few of their names, but here's a shout out to Bernadette, Christine, and Candace.
While most of the nurses were superb, there was one who was not. I don't recall her name, but it was during my stay in surgical ICU. As I said, I still had tubes and IVs sticking out of me, and I was in a lot of pain. I wasn't feeling pain at my incision but in my back, my trapezius muscle to be exact; apparently while I was sedated, they didn't position me for my comfort but for the surgeon's convenience. So I was feeling quite a bit of back pain, and none of the medication they gave me seemed to help at all. Not even the morphine.
Anyway, I needed to change my position fairly often, probably at least once an hour, and with the pain and the tubes I wasn't able to move myself, so I had to ask for help. Now anyone who knows me knows that asking for help is not my strong suit, but I didn't have any other choice.
Most of the ICU nurses were terrific, helping to position me whenever I needed help. But one time, after helping me into a slightly different position, Nurse Ratched asked me if that was better.
This seemed to set her off, as she proceeded to lecture me on how fortunate I was to have so many nurses looking after me in ICU, that I shouldn't expect that level of care once I got into a room, and that I better start showing some appreciation. I didn't see her after that, probably it was the end of her shift.
Other than the back pain, which never responded to the pain meds, my biggest problem in ICU was the phlegm in my throat, which caused me to cough. A lot. Several times one of the nurses would stick a vacuum down my throat to try to remove the phlegm, but to little avail. Twice the coughing jags caused me to vomit profusely, at which point they stopped feeding me ice chips.
I Have a What in my Where?
My stay in the ICU was timeless; I really had no conception of time. At one point several of the nurses helped me onto a scale. They told me that I had probably gained ten pounds during the surgery because of all the fluids that had been pumped into me. I said that was unlikely, and I was right. I had gained twelve and a half pounds.
But that raised another question in my mind. I had been in ICU for a good number of hours and I'd probably have to pee at some point. Would I require a gang of nurses to help me to the toilet?
"Do you feel like you have to pee?" asked Chris.
And for the first time I noticed a bag of amber-colored liquid at the side of the bed.
When it came time to release me from the ICU, the last thing Chris did was to remove the cath from my urethra.
I asked, "Are you a yanker?" If so, I guess that would have made me the yankee.
He was right about that. It wasn't painful, it was odd. Actually, it felt like I had just peed on Chris. I felt I owed him an apology, but he denied it.
Before releasing me from ICU, Chris gave me my incentive spirometer.
This is a device that was supposed to keep me from getting pneumonia. There was still fluid in my lungs (and yes, I could feel it; it made taking a deep breath very unpleasant), and by inhaling through the incentive spirometer I could help get the fluid out of there.
My surgery had taken place on Thursday morning; sometime around noon on Friday I was released to a private room. Chris wheeled me up there.
Given that I had not slept a wink on the night before the surgery, and not at all during my stay in ICU, I had now spent two nights without sleep. The pain meds were still doing nothing for the pain in my trapezius muscle.
I pressed the button to call for help.
I decided this was not the time to discuss the correct use of "nauseous".
This was my lowest point. Apparently the nausea was a side effect of the anesthesia they had given me. But there was a solution. I think she called it Ativan. She administered it through my IV line; she said it would take effect immediately.
I don't think it worked quite as fast as she said it would, but eventually my nausea did go away. And the pain meds kicked in. And Friday night around 8 o'clock I fell into a blissful sleep that lasted until the following morning.
Well, it probably would have lasted that long, but one of the nurses interrupted during the wee hours of Saturday morning to check my blood and make sure everything else was as it should be. I fell right back to sleep.
I saw that it was the surgeon's office. Probably reminding me that my surgery is in two days.
It was like a kick in the belly.
All my best laid plans to schedule the surgery over the Labor Day holiday so that I'd miss the damned Budweiser Made Deaf in America concert had gang aft agley.
The surgeon did call me the next day. He said he was referring me to another surgeon, as hard as that was for him to do, because after consulting with him, they had mutually agreed that the new surgeon had the facilities to guarantee a higher chance of a fully satisfactory outcome with a minimally invasive procedure.
He was also able to get me on the schedule in one week.
Of course, that meant I had to visit the surgeon and also see a new cardiologist because the venue had changed.
I won't dwell on that week. I'll just say that it was possibly the longest week I've ever lived through.
In which I get catheterized.
In which I meet the surgeon.
Part 4 of my adventures with a murmuring heart.
Part 3 of my adventures with a murmuring heart.
Part 2 of my adventures with a murmuring heart.


Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has reached a plea deal over allegations that he murdered one man and tried to kill another by running them down with a truck back in 2015.
At a hearing Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Knight plead no contest to voluntary manslaughter. His trial was scheduled to begin this coming Monday. Under the plea deal, he could get up to 28 years in prison when sentenced.
Knight, 52, had been charged with murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run for using a pickup truck to allegedly run down Carter and Cle "Bone" Sloan in the parking lot of Tam's Burgers in the 1200 block of West Rosecrans Avenue on Jan. 29, 2015. Carter died and Sloan survived his injuries.
Knight also is accused of robbery and threateningStraight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray in a separate case.
Knight co-founded Death Row Records. In January, two of his attorneys were arrested on charges that they tried to pay off potential witnesses in his murder case.


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Q: RuntimeException handling best practices RuntimeExceptions are supposed to indicate programming error and I want my application to crash when something inside my observables throws RuntimeException.
What is the best way to do this? Right now I'm considering this solution (it's Kotlin, but I hope it's understandable)
fun <T> Observable<T>.subscribeCrashOnRuntimeException(onNext: (T) -> Unit, onError: (Throwable) -> Unit) {
  this.subscribe({
    onNext(it)
  }, { e ->
    if (e is RuntimeException) {
      throw e
    } else {
      onError(e)
    }
  })
}

fun usageExample() {
  val observable = Observable.just(1)
  observable.subscribeCrashOnRuntimeExceptions(
    { next -> Log.d("TAG", "next: $next") },
    { e -> Log.d("TAG", "error: $e") }
  )
}

But I have doubts about it. For example it is hard to occasionally "catch" specific RuntimeExceptions with this solution. Perhaps there is a well known way to deal with situation that I just don't know how to google?

A: I don't think there should be much difference in handling runtime (aka unchecked) or regular (aka checked) exceptions. Both are widely used these days and could be either recoverable or not depending on particular situation.
The reactive ways of handling errors are:

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*via onErrorResumeNext or onErrorReturn operators; these allow to inspect the error and possibly recover from it

*via retry* family of operators; these allow to inspect the error and possibly recover from it by means of re-subscribing (for example retry network call)

*via onError callback of your subscribers; by the way in case you do not supply such a callback the error will be re-thrown in regular Java fashion, so your program will crash

Related topic: How to handle different kinds of errors in Retrofit Rx onError without ugly instanceof
Also note the drawbacks of throwing exceptions in regular Java way:

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*the call stack during message processing is different from the call stack when you define message processing rules; this means it could be quite hard to catch such exceptions, as well as to interpret the stack trace

*exceptions caught by schedulers might not lead to program termination; i.e. your program might end up hanging in broken state

Sample code
Observable.fromCallable(() -> {
    ...
    if (ok) return "Success!";
    else throw new RuntimeException("Failure at source");
})
.map(s -> {
    ... processing is bypassed in case of an error
})
.map(s -> {
    ...
    if (...) return s.upperCase();
    else throw new RuntimeException("Failure during processing");
})
.onErrorReturn(e -> {
    if (e.getMessage().contains("processing"))
        return "Recovered";
    throw Exceptions.propagate(e); // let it continue as an error
})
.subscribe(s -> println("got result: " + s),
           e -> println("got error: " + e);

All exceptions get caught by RxJava and passed along the defined route.
onError* operators act like intermediate catch blocks.
Subscriber's onError callback acts like top-level catch block.
More links on the subject:

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*Error handling in RxJava

*Error Handling Operators


The first airline to serve Santa Maria was Southwest Airways operating Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft.
The closest airport to Santa Maria Public Airport (SMX) is Vandenberg Air Force Base (VBG), which is located only 13 miles (21 kilometers) SSW of SMX.
Santa Maria Public Airport (SMX) has 2 runways.
The extended primary runway at Santa Maria is paved to 8,004 feet, giving the airport the longest civil runway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the central coast and Vandenberg AFB's runway are longer).
Santa Maria Public Airport is three miles south of Santa Maria, in northern Santa Barbara County, California.
The furthest airport from Santa Maria Public Airport (SMX) is Pierrefonds Airport (ZSE), which is located 11,466 miles (18,453 kilometers) away in Saint-Pierre, Réunion.
In addition to being known as "Santa Maria Public Airport", another name for SMX is "Capt. G. Allan Hancock FieldSanta Maria Army Airfield".
Because of Santa Maria Public Airport's relatively low elevation of 261 feet, planes can take off or land at Santa Maria Public Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
During its use by the military Santa Maria AAF also controlled Estrella Army Airfield, near Paso Robles as an auxiliary airfield to support the pilot training activity.


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by Joel Hruska — Thursday, July 21, 2011, 06:14 PM EDT
AMD In The Black, Still Facing Upward Struggle
AMD released its results for Q2 2011 today and the news was generally good, though not as strong as investors might have preferred.
Sales revenue was $1.57B, down two percent from Q1 and five percent year-on-year. AMD notes that Q2 was a 13 week quarter as opposed to the 14-week Q1, but that's not something that hurt Intel's results. Operating income was $105 million, up from $54M in Q1 and down from $125M, year-on-year. The company reports that customer and OEM response to the Llano and Brazos APUs has been excellent, and the two platforms already account for more than 50 percent of AMD's mobile shipments. AMD will transition away from its older mobile hardware in the next two quarters, and Brazos/Llano should account for nearly all of AMD's laptop business by the end of the year.
When it comes to APU sales and performance, company executives could scarcely have been happier. Llano and Brazos have set mobile sales records with demand expected to increase in Q2. Bulldozer--also set to launch this quarter--was another positive topic. While the company wasn't willing to talk details, AMD is clearly hoping to see Bulldozer reversing declines in both the server and desktop business segments. This is particularly important in server, where much of the gains delivered by Brazos/Llano were wiped out by continuing declines in AMD's server business. Gross margins still increased to 46 percent--up one percent quarter-on-quarter.
CEO Searches, 28nm Investment
Interim CEO Thomas Seifert continued the company's policy of zero-information guidance when it comes to the ongoing search for a new CEO. "Search for a new CEO remains a top priority. The board is pleased with the quality of the candidates interviewed and as confident in its robust and active process," Seifert said. "Meeting a timeline is not the driving force in the search. Finding the right candidate is."
Pressed for details, Seifert declined to name names, expand on what the Board of Directors' wanted to see in a candidate, or provide any sort of material update on when the BoD thought it might complete the search process. The interim CEO referred, a bit testily, to the company's strong execution over the past six months, apparently forgetting that the details of said strategy were laid down by his predecessor, Dirk Meyer.
Unlike CPU revenue, which held largely flat, graphics revenue fell by 12 percent quarter-on-quarter and nearly 17 percent year-on-year. AMD revealed relatively little on this point, saying only: "The sequential decrease was driven primarily by lower discrete mobile unit shipments and seasonality in the desktop discrete graphics add-in board market. The annual decrease was primarily driven by lower unit shipments."
The company expects to lead the move to 28nm over its rival NVIDIA and reports that R&D costs associated with that process are part of what led to a $7 million operating loss for the graphics subdivision.
Tags: Nvidia, AMD, CPU, 32nm, CEO, Enterprise, 28nm, Bulldozer, Llano, Brazos
Alleged Qualcomm Snapdragon SC8280...


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Thank you for a lovely morning view and a great quote. Happy New Year to you.
Yeah, that's the best part of every morning….opportunity. I'm with you on that.


I am invoking a Local interface method of a Bean which returns an object and I get the error. I'd appreciate any help in resolving this matter.
I can't seem to find this class in any of the jars!
but it should be in jboss-allClient.jar as well.
I have jboss-client.jar and jbossall-client.jar (not jboss-allclient.jar). But neither has this class. I have searched the whole server directory with a jar-browser. But this class is nowhere to be found!
I'd appreciate any suggestions on what I should do.
I meant to say that it's NOT in jboss-serialization.jar either!


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Drone of main six power sources introduction
Drones have provided many conveniences for people's lives, and they are now widely used in industrial applications. However, the endurance limit has been a headache for researchers, and currently drones mainly rely on six types of power, energy to complete missions.
1、Lithium battery: Most drones are equipped with a lithium battery, but the effect can only last about 20 minutes, and requires frequent disassembly and replacement of the battery, which is time-consuming and laborious. But there is new recharging solution came out to end up the headache situation- drone in the box solution, which can make drones become truly unmanned and reducing the costs.
2, hydrogen fuel cell: hydrogen fuel cell instead of lithium-ion battery, which can support the continuous operation of the drone for two hours, and charging very quickly; but the cost is very high and there is so much technology to breakthrough.
3、Laser emitter: laser emitter for drone power supply, laser beam emitted from the ground is converted into power by the receiver on the fuselage, which can almost support the drone has been working.
4、Solar power: the use of solar power generation of UAVs is usually installed at the same time lithium batteries and solar cells, when the sun can use the solar energy to provide flight power, lithium batteries as a backup battery. But the cost is still very high.
5, Internal combustion engine power generation: the use of internal combustion engine power generation can support the drone to 100 km per hour speed of flight for 1 hour, but the noise and safety hazards, because there are combustible gases inside the drone.
6, Tethered power supply: the use of tethered power supply can make the drone almost permanent operation, but also can speed up the speed of data transmission from the drone to the computer, but due to the limitations of the cable connection, cannot complete the long-distance flight.
More and more company are involved to explore a better way to make drone closer to our life. So far, drone charging station is a good choice for the commercial market.


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From the Top at Carnegie Hall; Family Affair
From the Top At Carnegie Hall Episode 101
From the Top at Carnegie Hall
Broadcast in 2007
WGBH, From the Top, and Don Mischer Productions Team Up to Make Young Talent Seen as Well as Heard in From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall. WGBH Boston in collaboration with National Public Radio's From the Top and Carnegie Hall brings the popular music variety program to PBS member stations. Like the radio series, the television series will showcase the top-notch musicianship, offbeat humor, and original insights of America's best young classical musicians.
This engaging series of 13 half-hour programs celebrates young classical musicians whose passion and talent for music is exceptional. A co-production of WGBH and From the Top, the series' mission is to encourage, support and celebrate the commitment of young people to music and the arts. The series is filmed at Carnegie Hall, where the young musicians and guest artists will perform together before a live audience and television cameras.
Just like on radio, the television show will be hosted by Christopher O'Riley and feature outstanding musical performances as well as interviews with talented young musicians, along with games, special guests and more! Series release date: 2007
It's all in the family as FROM THE TOP: LIVE FROM CARNEGIE HALL features a sister-and-brother act from Orinda, California: 10-year-old Clark (inspired by Yo-Yo Ma's appearance on MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD) on cello and 14-year-old Chloe Pang on piano; 13-year-old Leeza Ali, from a musical family in Mendota Heights, Minnesota; and 17-year-old trumpeter Conrad Jones, from Sayville, New York, whose parents are both music educators. The Pang siblings tackle a rollercoaster of a piece: the allegro from Shostakovich's Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor. Conrad displays his talents on Clarke's Carnival of Venice. Viewers get a glimpse of the everyday life of Leeza's family, where musical talent seems to be in the water.
Featured Music Leeza Ali, piano Sonata in F Major, K.332, III. Allegro assai, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Conrad Jones, trumpet, and Christopher O'Riley, piano "Carnival of Venice", by Herbert Clarke (1867-1945)
Clark Pang, cello, and Chloe Pang, piano II. Allegro from the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, Op.40, by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Chicago: "From the Top at Carnegie Hall; Family Affair," 04/07/2007, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 18, 2020, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8C1AE9ED5E3D443E8D88613E08FC6299.
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APA: From the Top at Carnegie Hall; Family Affair. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_8C1AE9ED5E3D443E8D88613E08FC6299


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Douglas Feith's Chilly Reception from Georgetown Faculty
James Joyner · Friday, May 26, 2006 · 10 comments
Douglas Feith, a former high level official in the Bush Pentagon, has been hired at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. Some of his colleagues are less than thrilled.
Douglas J. Feith's table at the Georgetown University faculty club is shaping up as a lonely one. The move to a teaching position at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown by Mr. Feith, a former Pentagon official, set off a faculty kerfuffle, with 72 professors, administrators and graduate students signing a letter of protest, some going as far as to accuse him of war crimes.
Some critics complain about the process. (He was hired without a faculty vote.) Some complain about the war in Iraq. (Mr. Feith has been accused of promoting it with skewed intelligence.) All say the open protest is unusual at a place that embraces former officials as part of its panache. A former secretary of state, Madeleine K. Albright; a former national security adviser, Anthony Lake; and a former director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, have joined the faculty without event.
But Mr. Feith, a former under secretary of defense for policy planning and analysis, is another story. "I'm not going to shake hands with the guy if he's introduced to me," said Mark N. Lance, a philosophy professor who teaches nonviolence in the program on Justice and Peace and who organized the protest. "And if he asks why, I'll say because in my view you're a war criminal and you have no place on this campus."
This level of petulance at an institution of higher learning, let alone one's whose raison detre is giving its students practical lessons in public policymaking from those who have been there, is disturbing.
There are certainly plenty of grounds for criticizing Feith. But a war criminal? And how one could be this hostile to Feith and yet embrace George "Slam Dunk" Tenet is beyond me.
Update: More from The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper.
[A]t least 35 professors have signed a letter claiming that many experts consider Feith's role in justifying and executing the Iraq war "constitute war crimes … which the most sympathetic would have to think a highly dubious grounds for further employment." The letter from faculty alleges that Feith "has sought to diminish the importance of the Geneva Conventions and has defended the use of torture in a number of public writings and talks."
A rather lame definition of "war criminal," no?
Philosophy professor Mark Lance spearheaded the protest against Feith and said he will encourage the Faculty Senate to develop tighter controls on the appointment of faculty practitioners. "The positions reflect on the status and reputation of the university and are often effectively permanent," he said.
But this is a two year, non-tenure track appointment. Feith is essentially a guest lecturer.
In an interview Tuesday [May 16], Feith said that he knows that his work in the administration was "highly controversial." "That's actually part of the reason that Bob Gallucci thought it would be a good idea that I were to come to Georgetown so that some of those controversies would be discussed in an informed and rational manner," he said.
Feith objected to what he views as oversimplifications or exaggerations of his beliefs. "It's remarkable how often I get criticized for views that I don't hold," he said. He said that he looks forward to his fall class, which will examine the Bush administration and the war on terrorism. "The university should be open to a range of ideas and I'm looking forward to engaging in discussions and debates with people about the work that I did," he said. "I hope that's going to be possible."
Sounds reasonable to me.
FILED UNDER: Education, Iraq War, BRAC, Geneva Conventions, Iraq, New York Times, torture
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Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 09:04
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Friday, May 26, 2006 at 12:31
First, I would be curious to know your rationale for allowing any suspected war criminal to teach at any institution of higher learning.
Second, If being a suspected war criminal is not enough to exclude him from a teaching post then shouldn't his poor judgement exclude him? Why would we want to foist upon students someone who cannot teach them anything except the wrong thing?
Steve in NY says:
Not that you haven't displayed some spectacularly disjointed…um…logic on this blog before, but the leap you just made has left me dizzy:
>>Mark N. Lance: "…in my view youâ??re a war criminal" [my emphasis]
>>ken: "…suspected war criminal"
Let's try this:
>>Steve in NY: "in my view, ken, you are a shameless provocateur"
>>Random OTB reader: "ken is a suspected provocateur"
Call Patrick Fitzgerald and grab the torches and pitchforks!
Stevely says:
Once again, we see the university Left displaying the open-mindedness and tolerance for which it is so well known.
Why should an institution of higher learning tolerate mendacity in new hires?
Feith is a liar, he is a suspected war criminal, he is man of low moral charactor and faulty judgement.
What possible contribution could he make to a students education?
Ken=Typical liberal.
it's probably just a misunderstanding on the part of the professors and administrators. since, due to poor spelling they thought "feith" was "faith"; and he scared the crap out of them.[well a small portion of it at least][lol]
ken;without mendacity no professor could ever get published.
Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 06:00
Well it's clear Tommy Franks wasn't
consulted on the appointment.
mark lance says:
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 18:39
The primary, fundamental war crime under international law is lauching an illegal war. Feith was centrally involved in this one. He fabricated intelligence to justify a war that he and everyone else knew to be illegal. He also signed off on pentagon memos endorsing acts that are torture under the geneva conventions. That too is a war crime.
So he is a war criminal.
The appointment is technically for 2 years, but there is no guarantee he is leaving after that. These positions tend to go as long as the former government hack wants them. (Albright, who has vastly more academic qualifications than the recent crowd, has never come up for tenure, and has been at GU for well over a decade.)
And yes, I was outraged at Tenet also, but there wasn't enough other people willing to make a fuss to make it worth pushing. In this case, nearly the entire SFS faculty opposed the appointment.
Mark Lance


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Examples: Sampling Distribution for a Single Proportion, Incidence Rate
公共健康领域的假设检验
约翰霍普金斯大学
课程 2(共 4 门,Biostatistics in Public Health 专项课程)
Biostatistics is an essential skill for every public health researcher because it provides a set of precise methods for extracting meaningful conclusions from data. In this second course of the Biostatistics in Public Health Specialization, you'll learn to evaluate sample variability and apply statistical hypothesis testing methods. Along the way, you'll perform calculations and interpret real-world data from the published scientific literature. Topics include sample statistics, the central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and p values.
Confidence Interval, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, p values, sampling
excellant descriptions, good examples and challenging practice sessions. Better if some more were added about ANOVA also. If it is considered as advanced , then it is ok. Good experience
Excellent course, excellent teaching. Prof McGready knows his stuff and also knows how to teach it. The projects exercices are fun to work on and see how statistics is used in research.
Sampling Distributions and Standard Errors
Within module one, you will learn about sample statistics, sampling distribution, and the central limit theorem. You will have the opportunity to test your knowledge with a practice quiz and, then, apply what you learned to the graded quiz.
Introduction2:42
Sampling Distribution Definition9:10
Examples: Sampling Distribution for a Single Mean16:23
Examples: Sampling Distribution for a Single Proportion, Incidence Rate16:18
Estimating Sampling Distribution Characteristics from Single Samples of Data22:08
Additional Examples7:18
John McGready, PhD, MS
Associate Scientist, Biostatistics
So, in this section, we're going look at some examples for the Sampling Distribution of Sample Proportions summarizing binary data and Sample Incidence Rates summarizing time to event data. Pay special attention to this because you'll see that the results we get here are going to be very similar to what we saw when we did means in the last section. So, upon completion of this section, you will be able to describe the sampling distribution of a sample portion and a sample incidence rate in terms of their compositions, and comment on some of the characteristics of the sampling distributions for these quantities that we'll demonstrate empirically, including the general shape of the sampling distribution, the center of the distributions, and the relationship between the variability of these distributions and the size of each sample that the statistics in the distribution are based upon. You'll also be able to comment on the similarities between this lecture section's results and the results for sampling distributions of sample means from the previous section. So, let's look at an example of taking samples of Baltimore City residents to estimate the proportion of residents who live below the poverty line. Let's suppose we took a random sample of 50 persons, and 24% of the sample live below the poverty line. Well, certainly the p-hat tells us everything we need to know about the sample result, but if we did a histogram of it, it will look like this. The proportion had values of zero, or didn't live in poverty were 76% versus 24% who were yes' or one's. Suppose we took another sample of 150 Baltimore City residents, a separate random sample, we'd expect to get a similar estimate to that's what we got our sample 50, but there'd be more data in the sample. But again we get a p-hat of 25.3%, and similar histogram with two bars one rising to 74.7%, and the other for the yes' or the ones at 25.3%. But let's now suppose we were doing this as a class, we had a large class, we were interested in poverty in Baltimore City in each of the 5,000 students in this class went out, took a random sample of 50 Baltimore City residents, and computed the proportion in their sample who were living below the poverty line. I collected all 5,000 p-hats each based on 50 persons and plotted these 5,000 p-hats in a histogram and that's what I'm showing you here. So, you can see there are some gaps in the histogram, and if you think about it, there's only 50 people in the sample. So, the proportions are in increments of two percent. In other words, an increase in one person will yield an increase in the proportion of two percent, which is why there are some gaps in this histogram. Because each proportion has to be a multiple of two percent. But you can see that the distribution of the sample portions still looks approximately bell-shaped and symmetric. Now, let's suppose we did this again in each of the 5,000 students took a random sample of 150 Baltimore City residents. I collected these 5 thousand p-hats, now each based on 150 persons, and I plotted all 5,000 p-hats in one histogram. So again, each point in this histogram is a sample proportion summarizing the proportion of persons in poverty in a sample of 150 people. Just as I noted before with the right skew data for length of stay values, now look at through or think about the original data we get in each of the samples, we're summarizing with a proportion. It's pine area, it only takes on one of two values. There's no real distribution shape to talk of, just the height of two bars, and yet when we summarize this on each sample via proportion, and then look at the distribution of the proportions across multiple samples of the same size, it is symmetric and bell-shaped. This is drawn on the same scale as a prior distribution. So, if we look at them back-to-back, we can see that the variation in these 5,000 proportions each based on 150 people is lesser than the variation in the proportions based on 50 people. Finally, if I did this one more time and sent the class out and each of the 5,000 students took a random sample of 500 Baltimore City residents and turned in not the individual measurements in the sample, but just the p-hat summarizing the proportion of the 500 persons in the sample who live below the poverty line, and I got 5,000 p-hats each based on 500 people. If I compile those and presented a histogram of those 5,000 p-hats, it would look like this. You can see it's again symmetric and bell-shaped, and an even narrower and less variable than the previous two histograms I showed you. So, just to get these on side-by-side comparison, here are the box plots of these estimated sampling distributions each based on 5,000 proportions. This first box plot shows the distribution of the 5,000 proportions each based on 50 people. The one in the middle shows the distribution of the 5,000 proportions, each based on 150 people, and the last one shows the distribution of the 5,000 proportions each based on 500 people. With a little shift here generally speaking, the center of these distributions is comparable if not totally equivalent, the medians are similar. But again the more information that each statistic is based upon, in other words the larger the sample the proportion is based on, the less variability there is in proportions across the samples. So, I created a theoretical population in my computer, which had a proportion of 25%, which is the latest estimate based on census data from the City as well. So, I had a theoretical population of thousands and thousands and thousands of persons, and each had a value of one or zero depending on whether they were in poverty or not, and the proportion across these thousands and thousands and thousands of individual observations I had for my population was 25%. Here are the mean of the 5,000 sample proportion estimates I get respectively for proportions based on samples of size 50, and the mean of those 5,000 sample proportions was 25%. So, the average of my estimates was the true population proportion even when each was based only on 50 people, and it stayed there, and the average was similarly 25% for the means. If I average all 5,000 sample means based on 150 people each, or if I average all 5,000 means based on 500 persons each. But we can see and we saw visually that these sample proportion estimates varied about the mean of the 5,000 sample proportions, and the estimated standard deviation of these proportion estimates is given here numerically and this corroborates with what we saw in the pictures, but the larger the sample that each proportion is based on, the less variable the proportions are from sample to sample. Let's do another example but looking at incidence rates. So, the University of Massachusetts Research Unit IMPACT Study, includes data on time to relapse. For persons discharged from alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities and data available on each participant clued their follow-up time, which is their time from discharged to relapse or censoring and whether or not the participant relapsed or was censored. So, via simulation from these data, I'll use these data on hundreds of persons to stand in for the infinite population, the theoretical population, and I will investigate the sampling behavior of a sample incidence rate using multiple sample sizes of size 50, a 100, and 250 perspectively taken from the data set. Just to get us started, let me just show you some information about two randomly selected samples of different sizes just to try and understand what the data look like in the population through the lens of these samples. So, my first sample had 50 randomly selected people. Here's a Kaplan-Meier curve for the percentage of persons who have not relapsed by a certain time, so who survived beyond that time without relapsing. You can see the drop off pretty steep in the first year following discharge, roughly 365 days, and then it tends to stabilize a bit more. In this sample of 50, there were 134.9 relapses per 100 person-years. That's notably larger than some of the other rates we've seen. If I look at the random sample of 250 persons here, we get a similar Kaplan-Meier curve and also a similar estimated incidence rate of 125 relapses per 100 person-years. So, what I'm going to do now is show the results of the estimated incidence rates across multiple random samples of the same size. So I took 5,000 samples each with 50 people from this population of rehab discharges, and this histogram shows the distribution of 5,000 sample incidence rates each based on a random sample of 50 persons. You can see just like we saw with means and with proportions, the distribution of the summary statistic across random samples of the same size is roughly symmetric and bell-shaped. I'll do this again but with each of my samples having 100 persons instead of 50. So again, now I have 5,000 incidence rates each computed on a random sample of 100 persons discharge from rehab, and this distribution in a 5,000 incidence rate value is also looks symmetric and bell-shaped but the variability is less than that in the previous picture, and I'll show you box plots in a minute. Then finally, I did the same thing when I took random samples of 250 discharges at a time, computed the incidence rate of relapse for each sample of 250, I did this 5,000 times. Again, got 5,000 sample incidence rates and I'm plotting them in this histogram here. So, there's 5,000 points in this histogram, each has an incidence rate based on the single sample of 250 persons. So, if I look at these distributions side by side, again, I see similar to what I saw with proportions and means that the median value of the estimator sample incidence rates is similar whether the rates are based on 50, 150, or 500 persons, but the variability in the incidence rates between samples decreases the larger the sample each statistic is based upon. So now, let's compare characteristics of our distributions of estimating incidence rates to the underlying truth based on the theoretical population I created based on the results that University of Massachusetts study. The true population incidence rate of relapse is 125.8 relapses per 100 person-years. So, that's the truth that we were estimating multiple times via our sample incidence rates based on samples of different sizes. The average of my 5,000 estimates based on sample of size 50 is 128.6 relapses per 100 person-years. So not exactly equal to the underlying truth but I will say close in value. The average of the 5,000 incidents rates each estimated from a sample of 100 persons is 126.6 relapses per 100 person-years, and the average of the 5,000 incident rates each based on 250 persons is 126.2 relapses per 100 person-years. So, none of these averages across the three estimated sampling distributions is equal in value and none of them exactly equal the truth but they all get close. Theoretically, if we were to take an infinite number of random samples, then the mean of the infinite number of estimating incidence rate should be that truth. You can see that the standard deviation or variability, though, in these incidence rates around their respective mean of all 5,000 decreases the larger the sample each incidence rate is based upon. So again, theoretical sampling distributions for sample proportions and incidence rates across random samples of the same size from the same population can be estimated via computer simulation. Simulation is a useful tool for helping explore the properties of the sampling distributions, and the properties we saw here are the same properties we saw with means. Namely, that the variation and sample estimates, whether they'd be proportions for binary sample, for binary data, or incidence rates for time-to-event data, variation in sample of estimates across samples decreases, so I'm just going to put a down arrow, in larger samples in estimates for best more eloquently for estimates based on larger samples. Then, the average of the estimates, whether there be sample proportions or incidence rates across multiple samples, approximates is about equal to the true population value that these things are estimated. So, the true population proportion for sample proportions or the true population incidence rate for sample incidence rates. Again, ultimately estimating the characteristics of a sampling distribution will be done using the results from a single random sample from a population. So, in the next lecture section that these properties that we've demonstrated empirically via simulations here and in this previous section that means will be generalized.


Did you know that the average office worker receives around 121 e-mails per day?
Not to mention, that is just the average.
I get a ton of e-mails everyday, and I send a ton of e-mails everyday. That has especially been true in the journey of creating my podcast, The Intersection of Success and Spirituality. The number of e-mails has gone up, as there is so much coordinating, researching, and a number of other things I get done for the show through e-mail.
In my experience, there are different kinds of e-mails. There are e-mails that are informative. There are e-mails that have some practicality to them and are necessary. There are e-mails that are a frustrating waste of time to read. And there are e-mails, that in the flood of 121 to more e-mails you receive a day, that get your attention.
I recently contacted on of my show's guests, Jeff Tolle, an organizational coach and pastor, for something regarding the show.
And guess what? I got an automate response from him.
The e-mail went on to say that he would respond once he got back. It also left some contact information for his congregants, in the case they needed help from some of the church staff.
Why did this e-mail stick out from the other 121 plus e-mails I get a day? The gift of this e-mail was that it reminded me of something I so easily forget.
It is okay to enjoy life, and our loved ones deserve the best of us.
I have, countless times, been on my phone, not being present with loved ones. I have countless times been so driven to do things, to the point that I don't take the time to simply have fun. (Crazy fact, I used to give myself homework during vacation in elementary school. I could not fathom the idea of doing…nothing!) I have, countless times, made some horrible choices because a pull from an organization, people or an opportunity was greater than spending quality time with family.
Ultimately, I chose to accept that pull.
As you look at your life, what are the choice you are making?
Are you trying to please everyone? Are you trying to do everything? Are you so set on striving that you have yet to enjoy life?


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The WSE Champions League is an annual club roller hockey competition organised by the World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey and contested by teams from the top-ranked European leagues. It is the top-level European club competition and its winner earns the right to play the Continental Cup, against the winners of the second-tier World Skate Europe Cup, and the Intercontinental Cup, against the winners of the South American Club Championship.

The current champions are Italian side Trissino, having beaten Portuguese side AD Valongo in the 2022 final to secure their first title in the competition.

History
Since its foundation in 1965, under the name of European Cup, the competition has been dominated by teams from Spain (mainly from Catalonia), Portugal and Italy. In 1997, the European Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup were merged to create the Champions League. In 2007, the competition name and format was changed to form the European League, a 16-team competition with no preliminary rounds. In 2020, the format was changed to a 9-team competition with no preliminary rounds. In 2021, the format was changed to an 8-team competition with no proliminary rounds. In 2023, along with a renaming back to Champions League, the format was again changed to accommodate 32 teams and two preliminary rounds.

The most successful team is Barcelona, having won a record 22 titles, including eight consecutive between 1978 and 1985. Barcelona are followed by four other Spanish teams, making Spain the most successful country in the competition, with 44 titles. Four Portuguese teams have won the trophy by eight times, while two Italian teams have won the trophy by two times.

Format
Since 2021, the competition is composed by 8 teams placed into 2 groups. The first 2 teams of each group play the final-four.

Finals

Performances

By club

By country

External links
 Official website

Roller hockey competitions in Europe
Recurring sporting events established in 1965
1965 establishments in Europe
Multi-national professional sports leagues


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Der Ejagham-See liegt im Westen Kameruns.

Beschreibung
Der See wurde 1908 von Alfred Mansfeld entdeckt und von ihm als "Totensee bei Nssakpé (Ekeu land)" benannt. Mit einer Fläche von 700*1050 Meter (0,49 km²) ist er einer der kleineren Seen Westkameruns. Im Unterschied zu den anderen Seen Westkameruns liegt er nicht in einem vulkanischen Krater, sondern in einem Einsturzkrater. Seine maximale Tiefe beträgt 18 Meter. Das Alter des Sees wird auf 10.000 Jahren geschätzt. Den Ejagham, die in der Umgebung des Sees lebende Ethnie, gilt der See als heiliger Ort.

Fauna
Die Fischfauna des Sees besteht sieben endemischen Buntbarscharten, eine kleine Barbenart sowie zwei Zahnkarpfen, einer aus der Gattung Fundulopanchax und ein Leuchtaugenfisch (Procatopus aberrans). Von den Buntbarschen gehören zwei der maulbrütenden Gattung Sarotherodon (Sarotherodon lamprechti und S. knauerae) und vier der substratbrütenden Gattung Coptodon (Coptodon deckerti, C. ejagham, C. fusiforme, C. nigrans) an.

Siehe auch
 Barombi Koto
 Barombi Mbo
 Bermin-See
 Dissoni-See
 Mboandong
 Oku-See

Literatur
 Andreas R. Dunz & Ulrich K. Schliewen: Description of a Tilapia (Coptodon) species flock of Lake Ejagham (Cameroon), including a redescription of Tilapia deckerti Thys van den Audenaerde, 1967. Spixiana, 33 2 251–280 München, November 2010  PDF
 Uli Schiewen: Vielfalt auf kleinstem Raum – Kameruns Südwestprovinz. in DATZ, 1/2003 und 2/2003,

Einzelnachweise

Gewässer in Sud-Ouest (Kamerun)


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A sneak peak of 'Hair Raising Tales of Villainous Confessions'
After a ton of hard work (not only by me and Chantell Renee but 4 other indie authors) the newest anthology from the Hair Raising Tales series, and the first collection from Mad Girl's publishing is now available for pre-order!
'Hair Raising Tales of Villainous Confessions' is out NOW and is perfect for the reader that you love, or even the horror reader within.
Inside you'll be enraptured by thirteen stories from six indie authors that make you think beyond the fairy tale image of 'evil'.
Tales ranging from murderous children to a mother's never ending love, 'Hair Raising Tales of Villainous Confessions' will make you think of the wicked in a whole new light.
This collections includes words from award-winning authors like Jae Mazer, and emerging writers like Kyle D. Garrett.
To get a taste of what you're in for I've posted the beginning of one of my pieces 'The Orchard' which is (at least right now) the darkest story I've ever written. Please be aware the story contains MATURE CONTENT!
The Orchard ©
By Melissa Algood (2016)
"I got her."
"Bullshit." A metallic click, a hiss, then I put the can of rock gut to my lips.
"I can show you." A plume of smoke followed his words.
"Show me what?"
"I kept her so you could see."
"You think I'm some kinda freak?"
For a second his eyes glazed over before he answered. "You think I'm a freak?"
"Nah, man." More beer oozed down my throat. "I mean, I know you've been talking about it. But talking ain't doing."
"I told you. I got her."
"Fine." I threw the empty can into the trash can. "Show me."
All the roads in our town were dirt; not a stoplight to speak of. Everyone who lived out here knew where they were without street signs, which was good considering we only had a handful of those. Jerry and I had lived together for a couple of years. He'd never brought a girl home, as far as I could remember, but he paid his half of all the bills on time. Up until now, I didn't mind hearing him talk about the women in town-one in particular-but I never thought that he'd really do anything about it.
"It was late, you know after the ball game, so she was out. I got into the back window. It was open just like you said…"
My jaw clenched. "I never said anything to you, Jerry."
His hands were still on ten and two when he turned to me. "Don't you remember, Noah? Back when we were looking at the yearbook a few months ago?"
Jerry's words bounced around the inside of the Silverado. "Shut the fuck up with that." The memory of the both of us drunk enough to admit our deepest desires, but sober enough to make a plan, boiled in my stomach. "Don't ever talk about that night again. You got it?"
"Say it."
"Jerry, you're so fucking stupid. Just keep your damn mouth shut."
The out-of-towners who came to see the leaves change could never tell the difference between one tree and another, but I was born here so each piece of greenery was its own landmark. I could smell the crisp apples in the air long before Jerry made the turn into the orchard. The acres that spanned before us were more than a food source; teenagers used it as a locale for parties. The first time I came out to the orchard was in fifth grade when the word around school was that the Buckhill brothers were going to rage on each other over the head cheerleader of our town's only high school. I could still feel the rush when one brother knocked out the other's front teeth. Iron still lingered in the air, although this time I knew that Jerry was the cause.
You can read this story along with a few never before seen stories like Last Look, Circus Freak, After The Fire, and a post apocalyptic flash fiction piece Underground Railroad in the upcoming collection 'Everyone Dies: Collected Works of a Morbid Author'.
Look for the first collection of short fiction of Melissa Algood brought to you from Mad Girl's Publishing out 2019.
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Former Xinjiang legislator indicted for corruption
A former senior legislator in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has been indicted for accepting bribes.
Prosecutors to target overseas illicit assets
Prosecutors pursuing corrupt officials who have moved overseas with illegally accrued fortunes will start to target the fugitives' assets, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Prosecutors stepping up graft fight
China's top prosecutors are ready to prevent corruption from derailing the nation's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), according to a senior anti-graft official.
Kenya repatriating 77 Chinese telecom fraud suspects
Kenyan police are deporting 77 Chinese telecom fraud suspects, including 45 Taiwan people, to the Chinese mainland.
Golf 'OK' for govt officials if they pay
Can officials play golf while the nation steps up efforts to clamp down on corruption and promote austerity?
Li: Central govt to decide local share of new tax
The central government will determine a reasonable share of revenue for local governments from the value-added tax, which will replace the business tax nationwide next month, Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday.
Top legislator stresses enforcement of food safety law
Top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang has urged government organs and the food industry to fully enforce and obey the country's food safety law prior to a law enforcement inspection.
Nation pledges economic help for Nigeria
China vowed to help Nigeria end three bottlenecks containing the biggest African economy's industrialization and agricultural modernization.
China-UNESCAP deal to boost Belt and Road Initiative cooperation
China and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) have signed a cooperation document to promote the Belt and Road Initiative construction.
China, Nigeria pledge to further promote strategic relations
To further deepen the two countries' friendship and reciprocal cooperation is in the interests of the two countries and peoples, Xi said.
Xi stresses balance between heritage conservation, development
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the government to strike a balance between the conservation of cultural relics and economic development.
February inflation lower than market expectation
China's consumer price index rose by 2.3 percent in March from a year ago. It was unchanged from February but lower than market expectations. Analysts said prices will not pose a serious challenge to policymakers, and the situation will benefit the country's efforts to keep growth on track.


Color information hex a75427: RGB percentage, decimal and hexa, CMYK, HSL proportion, color gradient, tints, shades, tons, palettes color and other inspirations!
The color hexa a75427 is equivalent in RGB decimal 167, 84, 39 is 167 of red, 84 of green and 39 of blue. It can also be represented by the HSL (hue, saturation and lightness) parameters, which are 0.059 of hue (5), 0.621 of saturation (62) and 0.404 of lightness (40).


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Milkshake vs. Smoothie: 8 Ways to Identify Them In the Wild
Some days just feel like milkshake days. Or smoothie days. You know the feeling: when a cone or a cup just doesn't seem quite right, and you'd rather sip your cares away than manage all the melting and dripping that comes with eating a waffle cone.
But what's the difference between a milkshake and a smoothie, anyway?
The Most Refreshing Math You'll Ever Do
The answer is in the ingredients:
Smoothie = Sorbet or Greek frozen yogurt + fruit juice + fruit
Milkshake = ice cream (or Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy) + milk (or almond milk) + whipped cream
So when fruity and fresh is the name of the game, a smoothie will hit the spot. But when creamy and indulgent is where you're at, a milkshake will make the grade.
How To Identify Them In the Wild
You're sitting at a table at your local Scoop Shop, enjoying your favorite tasty delight, and at the next table you spot someone with what looks to be an utterly delicious drinkable treat. But is it a smoothie or a milkshake? Sure, you could go ask. Or you could rely on your expert knowledge and identify it from afar. Draw on these 8 tricks for identifying smoothies and milkshakes in the wild:
1. Colors Don't Lie.
Is it bright yellow? Or orange? Or pink? You may have noticed that none of our ice cream flavors are those colors, so you're probably looking at a smoothie.
2. . . . And Neither Do Textures.
Look closely. Does it look creamy like ice cream, or bright and fruity like sorbet? A creamy texture most likely betrays a milkshake. But remember that some smoothies are made with Greek frozen yogurt, which also gives a creamy vibe.
3. Whip It.
One surefire way to know a milkshake from a smoothie is by the whipped cream topping. Milkshakes have it, smoothies don't. That said, a whipped-cream-less drink could still be a milkshake if, say, it's made with Ben & Jerry's Non-Dairy or the drinker just wasn't feeling whippy.
4. Who's Holding It?
Do they happen to be wearing a T-shirt that says "Fruit Lover 4 Life"? It's likely a smoothie. Or does it say "Chocoholic"? Chances are you've got a milkshake on your hands.
5. What Time Is It?
In the morning and afternoon, we find that more people are in a smoothie mood. With all that fruit and juice in there, it's the perfect refreshing pick-me-up. But after dinner, the milkshake crowd comes out, ready to top off the day with a sippable treat. That said, we're happy to have ice cream for breakfast, so maybe don't trust us on this one.
6. Points For Creativity.
How creative does the person holding the cup look? If they look like the kind of person who would want to customize their drink to fit their exacting standards, you might be looking at a milkshake. After all, you can always choose any two ice cream flavors to make your own unique shake.
7. Follow the #hashtag.
Smoothies and milkshakes are so irresistibly photogenic that we'd be surprised if this particular drinker hadn't taken a photo and posted it to all their social media accounts. Do some digging and see if you can find it. Is it accompanied by a #milkshakemadness or #smoothielove moniker? There's your answer.
8. Just Ask.
When you're at Ben & Jerry's, you're surrounded by peace, love, and ice cream. So go ahead, just ask. Maybe you'll make a friend. At the very least, you'll know what to order next time you're craving something frosty and sippable.


Award-wining host of "The Price is Right," Bob Barker and CSI actress, Jorja Fox will be among the first Angelenos to sign a petition from Animal Defenders International (ADI) calling for an end to the use of wild animals in traveling circuses in Los Angeles.
The petition calls on Mayor Villaraigosa and City Council to take action to protect wild animals from suffering when the circus comes to town. ADI is working with Councilmember Paul Koretz and has been presenting evidence to City Councilmembers, explaining results of years of undercover investigations and studies of animals in traveling circuses. The findings detail the need to restrict the use of wild and exotic animals in traveling circuses within the city to protect both animals and the public.
Bob Barker and Jorja Fox are giving voice to a cause that concerns many in the community. A huge public outcry greeted the opening of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey animal shows earlier this month, with hundreds of citizens protesting against animal suffering in traveling circuses.
Bob Barker has written to Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council and spoke about his determination to help circus animals: \"Along with many Los Angeles residents, I am urging the City Council to end the use of performing wild animals in our City. I have seen how these animals suffer from the deprivation and brutality of a life of constant travel, being forced to perform silly tricks for human entertainment. The stress these animals endure make them dangerous when out in public."
Jorja Fox explained how "Los Angelenos are compassionate and educated about the needs of wild animals and will be saddened to know how these animals suffer in traveling circuses. Deprived of their natural existence, the violence, suffering and stress presents a danger for both animals and people. The safe and humane thing for the City Council to do is to bring an end to the outdated and cruel practice of performing wild animals in traveling circuses in our beautiful and creative City. Such suffering does not belong in a modern, civilized society."
Traveling circuses cannot meet the physical, psychological or behavioral needs of wild animals, which suffer severe confinement, social deprivation, long periods of time in transporters, brutal control methods and physical violence.
Fear, intimidation, violence, emotional deprivation and withholding food, forces animals to perform.
Keeping large, dangerous, stressed wild animals in close proximity to the public in lightweight, temporary enclosures have proven disastrous. Workers and public have been killed and maimed; lions, tigers and elephants have all escaped.
Around 12% of Asian and 2% of African elephants in North America have tuberculosis, which is transmissible to humans.
Enforcement of animal welfare regulations is difficult as circuses are constantly moving; this justifies a restriction.
Circuses must change with the times. Human only circuses are thriving. Cirque du Soleil generates an estimated $810 million a year, whereas the Piccadilly Circus wild animal show canceled performances due to poor ticket sales.
Circus workers perform multiple roles; staff can be retrained, so jobs are not lost. In fact, some surveys show that a decline in animal circuses can be matched by a rise in circuses with human performers, creating jobs.
ADI undercover investigations of animal circuses have shown how circus animals are controlled through fear and are routinely whipped, beaten with bullhooks and electric shocked behind the scenes. ADI's observations show that tigers and lions spend between 75 and 99% of their time in severely cramped cages and elephants spend between 58 and 98% of their time chained by at least one leg.
ADI is circulating the petition among L.A. residents and will be presenting it to the City Council.
ADI leads the Break the Chain campaign, network of animal protection organizations across the U.S., gaining grassroots support for the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (H.R. 3359), which currently has 23 co-sponsors and is awaiting a hearing in the House Committee on Agriculture subcommittee of Livestock, Dairy and Poultry.
ADI investigators have studied animal circuses in the US and around the world over the past twenty years, producing comprehensive reports including scientific evidence of suffering caused by capture and transport, direct evidence from case studies, and legal analysis.
Local restrictions: Currently, over 30 cities and counties in 17 states in the US have restricted the use of animals in traveling shows including Southampton, NY, Green Bay, WI, Richmond, MO, and most recently Irvine, CA. These restrictions vary between full prohibition on performing animals, or wild animals, or specific species.
City and local government bans have been instituted on performing animals in traveling circuses in many countries around the world, including the UK (over 200), Australia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Ireland, Spain, Canada, and others.


Below you can find some links to publications featuring advice and guidance to parents. It features advice on "dealing with an aggressive toddler" or "maak so met 'n aggressiewe kleuter". It was featured on the websites of a few popular South African publications.