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Cork's 1916 Commemoration Centre officially opens on North Main Street
By TheCork.ie on 12th February, 2016 No Comment
By Bryan T. Smyth
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Cork's Lord Mayor, Cllr Chris O'Leary, officially opened the Commemoration Centre at St Peter's Church on North Main St, last evening on Thursday, February 11. One of the city centre's most iconic and historic buildings, the Commemoration Centre will host a wide range of exhibitions and cultural events during 2016 to mark Cork City Council's Centenary Programme, celebrating 100 years since the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
The Commemoration Centre will act as the hub of Cork City's 2016 Programme and a central information location for the full range of activities taking place across the city during the course of the year. Renowned Cork historian and author, Tim Pat Coogan, also spoke at today's launch.
The centre's inaugural exhibitions are Rebellion! by Rachel Abrahams, focused on the people, both well-known and unknown, who played a part in the Easter Rising of 1916. Also unveiled today is Taispeántas le Chlúdaigh Ceirníní Gael Linn – an Exhibition of Gael Linn Record Sleeves 1957-2016
Speaking at the launch, Cork's Lord Mayor, Cllr Chris O'Leary said: "As Ard Mhéara of Cork city, I am delighted to see St Peter's Church back in use, and open to the public again. I am particularly pleased that this beautiful building is being used to commemorate 1916, and to act as a focal point for Cork City 's 2016 programme.
"This exhibition gives the citizens of and visitors to Cork an opportunity to engage with the background to the rising," he continued, "while the activities and other events taking place over year will stimulate discussion and debate around the Rising, the 100 years since, and the legacy of that time into our future.
"We want to thank Rachel Abrahams, the curator of the exhibition here, who, along with Tim Murphy, has created an exhibition that explains the background to the Rising and gives a insight into the motivations of those involved."
The themes of the events programmed for the Commemoration Centre during 2016 will be aligned with the national centenary programme, namely those of Remembering, Reconciling, Presenting, Imagining and Celebrating.
Christine Moloney, CEO of LeisureWorld, St Peter's management company, said: "The team at LeisureWorld are very proud to re-open the gates of the beautiful centre at St. Peter's to the public as Cork's Centre Of Commemoration in 2016 and we honoured to be hosting the wonderful programme of 1916 events for Cork City Council and the people of Cork."
The Commemoration Centre will be open to the general public during 2016 on Tuesdays – Saturdays from 11am – 7pm and further information on events as part of the Cork City Programme 2016 can be found at www.corkcity1916.ie.
At the official opening of the Commemoration Centre at St Peter's Church on North Main St on Thursday February 11, where it will host a wide range of exhibitions and cultural events during 2016 to mark Cork City Council's Centenary Programme, celebrating the 100 years since the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
Pic: Darragh Kane
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Liz Hyder and her editor Sarah Odedina of Pushkin Children's Books win the 2020 BRANFORD BOASE AWARD awarded to the author and editor of the outstanding debut novel for children
Liz Hyder is the winner of the 2020 Branford Boase Award for the year's outstanding debut novel for children for her powerful dystopia Bearmouth. Based on real-life stories of nineteenth century child miners, Bearmouth is set in a deep underground mine, and told in a distinctive dialect, invented by Hyder and maintained throughout. The award is shared with her editor, Sarah Odedina, editor-at-large, Pushkin Children's Books.
"We're looking for the best writers with the best stories to tell"
Julia Eccleshare, chair of the judges of the Branford Boase Award, announces the results of the 2020 award and introduces highly commended author Katya Balen and her editor Lucy Mackay-Sim, and winners Liz Hyder and her editor Sarah Odedina.
"This is a very courageous book"
Julia Eccleshare, chair of the Branford Boase Award, interviews 2020 winners Liz Hyder and her editor Sarah Odedina about their winning book Bearmouth.
Bearmouth is a tour de force of a page turner with an intricate and stylised plot. Liz Hyder has created a gritty world for her hugely likeable protagonist, Newt, and a unique language which evolves as the exciting story unfolds. Original and unforgettable.
Muhammad Khan, 2019 Award Winner
Liz Hyder studied Drama at the University of Bristol and later trained with Spread the Word in London to run creative writing workshops. She also works as an arts PR consultant and worked for BBC publicity for six years on everything from EastEnders, Holby and Casualty to Radio 4 and arts TV. She has been part of Writing West Midlands' Room 204 writer development programme since 2016. In early 2018, she won The Bridge Award/Moniack Mhor's Emerging Writer Award. Bearmouth was named winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize Older Readers Category in July. Originally from North-East London, Liz has lived in South Shropshire for nearly a decade.
Sarah Odedina is a leading figure in children's fiction. She has worked at Penguin Books, Orchard Books, Bloomsbury and was instrumental in establishing Hot Key Books before joining Pushkin Press to build their children's list. Sarah has published authors such as Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book), Louis Sachar (Holes) and Sally Gardner (Maggot Moon). She oversaw the huge worldwide publication operation of J.K. Rowling's entire Harry Potter series.
This year the judges are Sue Bastone, vice-chair SLA; Victoria Dilly, creator of the Book Activist blog; Layla Hudson of Round Table Books, Brixton; and Muhammad Khan, author of I Am Thunder, winner of the 2019 Branford Boase Award. The panel is chaired by Julia Eccleshare, children's director of the Hay Festival and Branford Boase Award founder.
Now in its twenty-first year the Branford Boase Award was set up in memory of award-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase of Walker Books, who both died in 1999, and is unique in honouring editor as well as author. It is regarded as one of the most important awards in children's books and has an impressive record in picking out star authors at the start of their careers. Previous winners include Meg Rosoff, Mal Peet, Siobhan Dowd, Marcus Sedgwick and Frances Hardinge.
Past winning editors continue to shape contemporary children's literature and include J K Rowling's editor Barry Cunningham and Philip Pullman's editor David Fickling. 2020 winner Sarah Odedina has worked with Neil Gaiman, Louis Sachar and Sally Gardner.
The submissions in 2020 were particularly strong, and the judges chose to award Highly Commended to Katya Balen and her editor Lucy Mackay-Sim for The Space We're In, a moving story about a boy and his relationship with his younger brother, who is autistic.
Muhammad Khan, last year's Branford Boase Award winner says of Bearmouth: "Bearmouth is a tour de force of a page turner with an intricate and stylised plot. Liz Hyder has created a gritty world for her hugely likeable protagonist, Newt, and a unique language which evolves as the exciting story unfolds. Original and unforgettable."
Liz Hyder says: "The Branford Boase Award is such a prestigious award and I love that it celebrates both editor and author. It was a true partnership to work with Sarah on Bearmouth. I learnt so much from her and can honestly say that the experience changed my life in so many ways. To be shortlisted felt like prize enough but to win feels utterly incredible! It means the world to me not only because I'm following in the footsteps of so many authors who I admire and cherish but also because I share it with Sarah who is the best, most inspiring, wonderful editor. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!"
Sarah Odedina said: "What marks Liz out for me is her courage and originality and her faultless ability to create a story that holds the reader's attention by its sheer power. As an editor there cannot be many higher accolades than to be on the Branford Boase Award shortlist. To win the award in partnership with an author confirms that this task of bringing stories to young readers is a work of collaboration and one that is most successful when author and editor listen to one another and enjoy the process of creating a novel."
Katya Balen and Lucy Mackay-Sim, Highly Commended, said: "We're thrilled to have received this commendation from such a prestigious award, and to be recognised among a shortlist of such brilliant books – including a truly extraordinary winner. It's also a delight to receive this accolade together on a book we both care about so much."
Muhammad Khan says: "The Space We're In is a challenging story about neurodivergent siblings and what 'family' and 'home' means to them. Katya Balen writes with an assuredness that takes you directly into the characters' lives and makes you feel every beat of their joys, woes and frustrations. An incredible first novel."
Julia Eccleshare said: "The Branford Boase Award is now in its 21st year, and it has really come of age. Each year we look for exceptional books, stories we haven't read before, told in new and original ways. Both Bearmouth and The Space We're In do this, and both Liz and Katya have extraordinarily memorable voices even amongst a shortlist of such exciting debut authors. We all agreed that Bearmouth is the outstanding novel on the list, a hugely brave and impressive piece of writing, testament to the skill of both author and editor in successfully creating such characters and such a narrative. It's a book that sends shivers down the spine, truly astounding. As always, we can't wait to read what the shortlisted authors will write next."
The Branford Boase Award is supported by Walker Books.
The complete list of titles on the 2020 shortlist are:
Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties by Humza Arshad and Henry White, edited by Holly Harris and Sharan Matharu, illus Aleksei Bitskoff (Puffin)
The Space We're In by Katya Balen, edited by Lucy Mackay-Sim, illus Laura Carlin (Bloomsbury)
A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby, edited by Liz Bankes and Sarah Levison (Egmont)
Bearmouth by Liz Hyder, edited by Sarah Odedina (Pushkin Press)
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, edited by Lindsey Heaven (Electric Monkey)
Frostheart by Jamie Littler, edited by Naomi Colthurst (Puffin)
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Q: Can I display strings between certain characters? I have a huge log file and inside have hundreds of exceptions, each exception has a time that it occurred too but they're not necessarily in the same place (in the Stack trace) for each exception. The only common denominator I can see is that they're always between squared brackets.
I know the dates in the log files are always going to be of the form [25/05/21 10:28:41:231 BST]. Is there a method to only display characters between "[ ]" on a List<String>. Or just on a String if I can parse it to a string. I was then thinking of writing some logic that will test if the string 25/05/21 10:28:41:231 BST is a date to avoid getting unwanted results if there is more data between brackets.
So far I tried splitting it by "[" but I've ran into a few issues. There is some "[" in the data file which means the time and date isn't necessarily the always the first input in the String array so I couldn't just select them all.
Any input or suggestions of how to fix this/other ways to do this would be much appreciated!

A: Something of the form
"\[(\d\d/\d\d/\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d:\d\d [A-Z]{3})\]"

E.g. in scala
scala> val pattern = "\\[(\\d\\d/\\d\\d/\\d\\d \\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d:\\d\\d\\d [A-Z]{3})\\]".r
val pattern: scala.util.matching.Regex = \[(\d\d/\d\d/\d\d \d\d:\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\d [A-Z]{3})\]

scala> pattern.matches("[25/05/21 10:28:41:231 BST]")
val res5: Boolean = true

A: You can try this getBetween() method. You may find it useful for other things as well:
/**
 * Retrieves any string data located between the supplied string leftString
 * parameter and the supplied string rightString parameter.

 *

 * This method will return all instances of a substring located between the
 * supplied Left String and the supplied Right String which may be found
 * within the supplied Input String.

 *
 * @param inputString (String) The string to look for substring(s) in.

 *
 * @param leftString  (String) What may be to the Left side of the substring
 *                    we want within the main input string. Sometimes the
 *                    substring you want may be contained at the very
 *                    beginning of a string and therefore there is no
 *                    Left-String available. In this case you would simply
 *                    pass a Null String ("") to this parameter which
 *                    basically informs the method of this fact. Null can
 *                    not be supplied and will ultimately generate a
 *                    NullPointerException.

 *
 * @param rightString (String) What may be to the Right side of the
 *                    substring we want within the main input string.
 *                    Sometimes the substring you want may be contained at
 *                    the very end of a string and therefore there is no
 *                    Right-String available. In this case you would simply
 *                    pass a Null String ("") to this parameter which
 *                    basically informs the method of this fact. Null can
 *                    not be supplied and will ultimately generate a
 *                    NullPointerException.

 *
 * @param options     (Optional - Boolean - 2 Parameters):

 *
 *      ignoreLetterCase    - Default is false. This option works against the
 *                            string supplied within the leftString parameter
 *                            and the string supplied within the rightString
 *                            parameter. If set to true then letter case is
 *                            ignored when searching for strings supplied in
 *                            these two parameters. If left at default false
 *                            then letter case is not ignored.
 *
 *      trimFound           - Default is true. By default this method will trim
 *                            off leading and trailing white-spaces from found
 *                            sub-string items. General sentences which obviously
 *                            contain spaces will almost always give you a white-
 *                            space within an extracted sub-string. By setting
 *                            this parameter to false, leading and trailing white-
 *                            spaces are not trimmed off before they are placed
 *                            into the returned Array.

 *
 * @return (String[] Array) Returns a Single Dimensional String Array of all
 *         the sub-strings found within the supplied Input String which are
 *         between the supplied Left-String and supplied Right-String.
 */
public static String[] getBetween(String inputString, String leftString, String rightString, boolean... options) {
    // Return null if nothing was supplied.
    if (inputString.isEmpty() || (leftString.isEmpty() && rightString.isEmpty())) {
        return null;
    }

    // Prepare optional parameters if any supplied.
    // If none supplied then use Defaults...
    boolean ignoreCase = false;      // Default.
    boolean trimFound = true;        // Default.
    if (options.length > 0) {
        if (options.length >= 1) {
            ignoreCase = options[0];
            if (options.length >= 2) {
                trimFound = options[1];
            }
        }
    }

    // Remove any control characters from the
    // supplied string (if they exist).
    String modString = inputString.replaceAll("\\p{Cntrl}", "");

    // Establish a List String Array Object to hold
    // our found substrings between the supplied Left
    // String and supplied Right String.
    List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();

    // Use Pattern Matching to locate our possible
    // substrings within the supplied Input String.
    String regEx = java.util.regex.Pattern.quote(leftString) + "{1,}"
            + (!rightString.isEmpty() ? "(.*?)" : "(.*)?")
            + java.util.regex.Pattern.quote(rightString);
    if (ignoreCase) {
        regEx = "(?i)" + regEx;
    }

    java.util.regex.Pattern pattern = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(regEx);
    java.util.regex.Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(modString);
    while (matcher.find()) {
        // Add the found substrings into the List.
        String found = matcher.group(1);
        if (trimFound) {
            found = found.trim();
        }
        list.add(found);
    }
    return list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);
}

To use it you might do something like this:
String[] res = getBetween(logString, "[", "]");
System.out.println(res[0]);

String[] parts = res[0].split("\\s+");
String date = parts[0];
String time = parts[1] + " " + parts[2];
System.out.println("Date: --> " + date);
System.out.println("Time: --> " + time);

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"Everything evolves in circles": Interview with Detroit Swindle
Fresh off the back of their first North American Tour and due to appear on European shores this summer including at Gottwood Festival (June 20 - 23), we chat to Dutch deep house hustlers Detroit Swindle, who have made quite a big name for themselves since their first releases last year on Saints & Sonnets, Dirt Crew, Murmur and Freerange. In the past year, their jazz and soul-influenced remixes and reconceptualisation of the 'Detroit' sound have captured the hearts of the house revival movement, with irresistable grooves and soulful samplings. Ahead of their very busy summer, we caught up with the duo attempting to get the lowdown on how they source their vocals, their views on modern pop music, the Amsterdam rave scene and where to get the best Bitterballen....
Hi guys! You've just finished your first North American tour…what's it been like?
It's been super awesome. Super duper awesome! Also, we didn't sleep too much, DID drink too much and almost missed one gig and two flights. So it was just like playing back home, but more...uh...American.
You also played your first ever gig in Detroit…How was it and what was it like for you emotionally to play in the city to which your name pays homage?
That was great. The promoters there gave us plenty of shit about our name and gave us a CD that had "all songs actually made in Detroit" on it...we laughed and then tore the club down!
Hahaha a good riposte I suppose! House music has been experiencing a massive revival in the last couple of years… what do you put this renewed interest down to and how has it been to be such a key part of that scene?
Without getting too Hindu on this subject, we think everything evolves in circles. So what is cool now is so much based on what was cool fifteen years ago. But the key to cool modern house is to take great elements from what used to be and implement it into something that is really contemporary. It's great to play an old Strictly record and make it work with something that was produced last week. New combinations make for new ideas. And in the end, the 90's revival will make way for something new and it'll only be the stand out tracks that will be played once the hype is over. The thing here is to steer clear of the hype and be authentic.
A swindle being another word for a scam…have you ever been properly swindled, and if so tell us the story!
We got scammed into our USA visas by some bogus website. Not cool. End of story.
We're a big fan of Motown and recently re-watched the Tina Turner biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It"…It really struck us how much pop singers of the day sang with heart and guts in comparison to today's equivalents. What do you think of the pop music of our generation? Do you think it will stand to have an influence on future generations as Motown has?
Quality always stands out. We feel that the music industry hasn't changed that much in the last fifty years (apart from the internet messing up the business model). Artists were made then in the same way that the Justin Biebers of today are made. But the true artist, people that are in it because they need to express themselves, they'll always stand out and, through that, be an inspiration to others.
What elements do you look for in a vocal to use as a sample, and how to go about sourcing them?
That question sound close to asking a French chef his recipe for his ratatouille! Honestly, it's lots of Youtube browsing and listening to jazz and soul radio stations. And every now and then, you're sitting in a bar...you hear a tune and you get an idea for it. Enter Shazam, and you're set.
You both reside in Amsterdam, a city that has really been making waves on the club scene in the last few years…how would you compare the scene in Amsterdam to London or Berlin and what would you attribute the reason for its recent international prominence?
Amsterdam is making up for lost time. The house scene was in a lull for a bit, but we're doing well now, with some good clubs and really dedicated promoters. There have been some raves popping up as well, which wasn't really a big part of Amsterdam's culture before. Also, the Mayor of Amsterdam is the first to give out a few 24-hour licenses, so clubs have more room to improvise and do cool stuff. We've still got stuff to learn from cities like London and Berlin. It's all about the combo of a good club (which is more than just a room with some sound in it), a good promoter and a good crowd. We think Amsterdam is learning and getting these three things aligned more and more.
What do you like to get up to if you manage to get a couple of days of rest back at home?
Sleeeeeeeeep.
And sleep.
And then some more sleep.
You've achieved a dizzying amount of success in a pretty short space of time since you've been together… having achieved many of your original ambitions, what's next?
No clue to be honest. We've been ticking the boxes of our bucket list ever since we started, so we need to come up with something new. It would be really cool to do more live stuff. We're gonna work with some vocalists and are looking at collaborations with people outside of the electronic music scene as well...
Now that you're back in Europe, where can we find you this summer and what are your plans for the rest of the year? Do you have any forthcoming releases we should know about?
We're playing all over Europe in the coming months. Barcelona, Croatia, Poland, Germany, lots of gigs in the UK, Ibiza, etc.
We're also starting our own label with a Detroit Swindle release as the first one. Heist Recordings is our new baby, so that's cool. Other than that, we've got a Freerange EP coming up after summer and we're doing our album on Dirt Crew spring next year, so that's a big thing for us!
You will also be playing at Gottwood festival…what would be your perfect track to listen to/dance to in the Gottwood woods this summer? And why?
Tyler Friendman - A Night In The Woods (Rivet remix). Nice and discerning track, super energetic and rawwwwww...oh and there's something with woods in the title that might have something to do with it!
And finally…what's your favourite Dutch food AND can you tell us for our next visit to Amsterdam where's the definitive best place to get Bitterballen?? (we hear they're a must...)
Bitterballen are great, but a Frikadel speciaal (best after a few drinks) can give it a run for its money. Dutch pancakes are good as well.
Go to Van Dobben on the Korte Reguliersdwarsstraat. Hands down the best IN THE WORLD.
Sounds tasty! Will definitely check it out! Thanks for chatting to us guys and best of luck with the summer tour.
Words by Bj Daly @_bazmatazz
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Q: Plot a (polar) color wheel based on a colormap using Python/Matplotlib I am trying to create a color wheel in Python, preferably using Matplotlib. The following works OK:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

xval = np.arange(0, 2*pi, 0.01)
yval = np.ones_like(xval)

colormap = plt.get_cmap('hsv')
norm = mpl.colors.Normalize(0.0, 2*np.pi)

ax = plt.subplot(1, 1, 1, polar=True)
ax.scatter(xval, yval, c=xval, s=300, cmap=colormap, norm=norm, linewidths=0)
ax.set_yticks([])

However, this attempt has two serious drawbacks.
First, when saving the resulting figure as a vector (figure_1.svg), the color wheel consists (as expected) of 621 different shapes, corresponding to the different (x,y) values being plotted. Although the result looks like a circle, it isn't really. I would greatly prefer to use an actual circle, defined by a few path points and Bezier curves between them, as in e.g. matplotlib.patches.Circle. This seems to me the 'proper' way of doing it, and the result would look nicer (no banding, better gradient, better anti-aliasing).
Second (relatedly), the final plotted markers (the last few before 2*pi) overlap the first few. It's very hard to see in the pixel rendering, but if you zoom in on the vector-based rendering you can clearly see the last disc overlap the first few.
I tried using different markers (. or |), but none of them go around the second issue.
Bottom line: can I draw a circle in Python/Matplotlib which is defined in the proper vector/Bezier curve way, and which has an edge color defined according to a colormap (or, failing that, an arbitrary color gradient)?

A: One way I have found is to produce a colormap and then project it onto a polar axis.  Here is a working example - it includes a nasty hack, though (clearly commented).  I'm sure there's a way to either adjust limits or (harder) write your own Transform to get around it, but I haven't quite managed that yet.  I thought the bounds on the call to Normalize would do that, but apparently not.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import cm
import matplotlib as mpl

fig = plt.figure()

display_axes = fig.add_axes([0.1,0.1,0.8,0.8], projection='polar')
display_axes._direction = 2*np.pi ## This is a nasty hack - using the hidden field to
                                  ## multiply the values such that 1 become 2*pi
                                  ## this field is supposed to take values 1 or -1 only!!

norm = mpl.colors.Normalize(0.0, 2*np.pi)

# Plot the colorbar onto the polar axis
# note - use orientation horizontal so that the gradient goes around
# the wheel rather than centre out
quant_steps = 2056
cb = mpl.colorbar.ColorbarBase(display_axes, cmap=cm.get_cmap('hsv',quant_steps),
                                   norm=norm,
                                   orientation='horizontal')

# aesthetics - get rid of border and axis labels
cb.outline.set_visible(False)
display_axes.set_axis_off()
plt.show() # Replace with plt.savefig if you want to save a file

This produces

If you want a ring rather than a wheel, use this before plt.show() or plt.savefig
display_axes.set_rlim([-1,1])

This gives

As per @EelkeSpaak in comments - if you save the graphic as an SVG as per the OP, here is a tip for working with the resulting graphic: The little elements of the resulting SVG image are touching and non-overlapping. This leads to faint grey lines in some renderers (Inkscape, Adobe Reader, probably not in print). A simple solution to this is to apply a small (e.g. 120%) scaling to each of the individual gradient elements, using e.g. Inkscape or Illustrator. Note you'll have to apply the transform to each element separately (the mentioned software provides functionality to do this automatically), rather than to the whole drawing, otherwise it has no effect.

A: I just needed to make a color wheel and decided to update rsnape's solution to be compatible with matplotlib 2.1. Rather than place a colorbar object on an axis, you can instead plot a polar colored mesh on a polar plot.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import cm
import matplotlib as mpl

# If displaying in a Jupyter notebook:
# %matplotlib inline

# Generate a figure with a polar projection
fg = plt.figure(figsize=(8,8))
ax = fg.add_axes([0.1,0.1,0.8,0.8], projection='polar')

# Define colormap normalization for 0 to 2*pi
norm = mpl.colors.Normalize(0, 2*np.pi)

# Plot a color mesh on the polar plot
# with the color set by the angle

n = 200  #the number of secants for the mesh
t = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,n)   #theta values
r = np.linspace(.6,1,2)        #radius values change 0.6 to 0 for full circle
rg, tg = np.meshgrid(r,t)      #create a r,theta meshgrid
c = tg                         #define color values as theta value
im = ax.pcolormesh(t, r, c.T,norm=norm)  #plot the colormesh on axis with colormap
ax.set_yticklabels([])                   #turn of radial tick labels (yticks)
ax.tick_params(pad=15,labelsize=24)      #cosmetic changes to tick labels
ax.spines['polar'].set_visible(False)    #turn off the axis spine.

It gives this:


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Ship channel closed; draining of leaking gas tank continues
By The Associated Press 03/24/2019
The petrochemical fire at Intercontinental Terminals Company reignited as crews tried to clean out the chemicals that remained in the tanks, Friday, March 22, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Officials say efforts continue to drain a tank that is leaking flammable gas following a massive fire at a Houston-area petrochemical complex, prompting the closure of part of the Houston Ship Channel.
Intercontinental Terminals Company says pumping began Saturday afternoon to extract about 20,000 barrels of the pyrolysis gasoline, known as pygas, from the tank at the Deer Park facility. Vacuum trucks are removing liquid from a ditch.
A section of the Houston Ship Channel was closed Saturday after pygas leaked into the water. Coast Guard Petty Officer Kelly Parker says that remains closed Sunday and that the Guard hopes to reopen the waterway Monday morning.
Harris County officials said the Guard and hazardous materials teams have established perimeters around the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park.;
Parker says 52 vessels are waiting to move, but the channel won't reopen until air and water quality has improved.
In this Tuesday, March 19, 2019 photo, shows smoke rising from a fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company near the Carpenter Elementary School in Deer Park, Texas. (Jeffrey Fountain via AP)
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Tulle & Combat Boots: burgundy boots.
I barely took any outfit photos last week because of the awful weather (rain is not conducive to me looking cute or getting good photos), but I really liked my outfit on Friday so I tried my best to get half decent photos of it.
The reason there is so much Old Navy in this post is because I just ordered these pants and boots and was so excited to wear them and they go together perfectly. Both are reaaaally comfortable. I had been looking at these boots since they had them last season (and I heard rave reviews from a good friend), and when they came back and went on sale I figured I should pull the trigger. No regrets. I also got at least 3 compliments on them the first day I wore them! Well done, boots.


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#HyFi for Security Tokens — pooled assets and ownership tracking
Once Digital Securities from multiple users are mixed together inside a DeFi Smart Contract, it is important to establish rights and attributions that are consistent with the regulatory constraints of the security.
This post is part of a series that analyzes how Digital Securities can benefit from DeFi protocols bridging Decentralized and Centralized Finance in a Hybrid approach (#HyFi), and the different aspects that need to be taken into consideration to leverage this ecosystem while remaining compliant. You can read Securitize's introduction to HyFi hereSecuritize's introduction to HyFi hereSecuritize's introduction to HyFi here, learn about the impact of KYC and transfer controls hereimpact of KYC and transfer controls hereimpact of KYC and transfer controls here, and understand the impact of assets being deposited into smart contracts here.
In my previous post, I discussed the impact on compliance controls for Digital Securities when they are deposited into a smart contract controlled by a single owner, like a Balancer private pool or a Maker Vault. But this is not the most frequent case for DeFi. Protocols like UniSwap, Aave, or Balancer with their public pools rely on multiple investors depositing their tokens as a shared pool inside a smart contract.
When this happens, the Digital Security controls cannot match the pool address to a single identity, so the attribution of ownership for those balances is not straightforward. As discussed in the previous post, the smart contract can still be "allowed" to hold the tokens, following the "compliance at the edge approach" but that is a bit like looking the other way when it refers to these tokens because this does not provide answers to many specific questions:
Who is the person (physical or legal) that should appear as holder for those assets in the issuer's records? Since the issuer has reporting obligations for their holders, there must be an answer for that. In the "non-blockchain world" (some people say the "real world", but at this point debating the reality of blockchain is pointless), when securities are deposited in an exchange there is a custodian or broker-dealer that is the Holder of Record for those assets in the issuer's books. In a DeFi context, "decentralized" is the key concept, so there is no such holder.
Who should receive the economic rights derived from asset ownership? If the Digital Security is paying a dividend or performing a governance event like voting, is the smart contract holding the tokens expected to get those rights?
How does this impact investor counts for regulatory limits? Some securities have a limit in the number of worldwide holders or holders for a certain category — like non-accredited investors — that can be allowed to keep it within the present regulatory guidelines. If the compliance controls in the Digital Security keep track of those limits, how should it consider they are impacted when the tokens are deposited on a pooled smart contract?
The easiest solution to all these points is for some entity to take responsibility for all the above. For instance, a Broker-Dealer could create (or take responsibility for) the smart-contract pool, allow anyone holding the securities to provide liquidity (which by definition would be allowed holders, since otherwise, they could not hold the asset in the first place as enforced by the Digital Security smart contract), but then show up in the issuer's records as the single Holder of Record and take the responsibility of distributing the corresponding rights to the beneficial owners. This, from the issuer's (and issuer's agents) perspective, reduces the issue to the one discussed in our previous post: a smart contract that can be associated with a single identity (the Broker Dealer's in this case). But this is just a case of kicking the can down the road, because while tracking ownership and right distribution inside the pool is no longer a problem for the issuer or Transfer Agent, it becomes a problem for the Broker-Dealer itself. So we still need to find a solution for that.
Such a solution is not simple but can be addressed with the appropriate technological approach. For instance, we can consider two alternatives for handling it:
a) Have the Digital Security smart contract and the DeFi protocol have a deeper integration, so an accurate tracking of associated balances can be enforced on-chain. The DeFi protocol would communicate transactions and operations that usually are not relevant for a regular ERC20 token, but that become important for securities. While this approach is possible, it has some downsides like scalability issues for protocols in order to support a variety of specialized assets, and an increased cost of gas in all its operations. This approach may be explored in partnership with some DeFi protocol developers, and with a smart contract infrastructure that helps to address this (for instance, Securitize's Omnibus Controller smart contract, which we will discuss in the future), but this may not be the right solution for the short term.
b) Track the pool activity off-chain via the events it produces, so that while the token smart contract will only record the total balance on the pool, the issuer's records (Master Securityholder File, Transaction Log, snapshot infrastructure…) will have an accurate representation of the ownership structure inside. This is not a purely-decentralized approach, but a hybrid one (one more reason to consider that the intersection of DeFi and Digital Securities is a HyFi approximation), but one that is aligned with regulatory requirements and expectations.
If this approach is valid from a regulatory perspective, Securitize's technology would be able to do this tracking and make it available via its Transfer Agent Services, which allow issuers to provide more flexible options to investors holding their assets. This tracking works by making some specific interpretation of what happens when investors interact with the corresponding DeFi protocol.
For instance, let's say we had a UniSwap pool allowing to exchange a tokenized security called DS1 (for "Digital Security 1") for USDC, and this pool has 2 liquidity providers owing 40% and 60% of the assets respectively which currently include 10,000 DS1 tokens. If a third party investor uses the pool to buy 5,000 tokens, and the operation is approved — because the investor is authorized by the security compliance controls — the blockchain will reflect a single movement of 5,000 tokens from the pool to the new investor. But in practice, since the pool is actually co-owned by the 2 liquidity providers, for securities regulation purposes the issuer's records will show a transaction for 2,000 tokens from one of the LPs and 3,000 from the second, and their corresponding positions will be updated in such a way.
The compliance and record-keeping capabilities required to ensure this process are far from trivial, but their diligent implementation ensures that investors can interact with each other through the DeFi ecosystem, preventing bad actors to be involved in the process and providing accurate and comprehensive records that can determine at each point the rights and responsibilities of all stakeholder.
The Securitize platform has the technology which can identify interactions with these kinds of pools, and expand them in the corresponding records to reflect the relevant impact. This way the behavior of a DeFi protocol could be translated into what it actually means from a proper record-keeping standpoint. And since for this to happen specific integrations with each protocol are required, the controls are in place to only support protocols that are vetted and reviewed to guarantee issuers and investors would not get exposed by their usage. As a Registered Transfer Agent, we take this responsibility for investor protection very seriously and we understand we must perform a gatekeeping role.
Throughout this post, I have discussed depositing Digital Securities in a shared pool and the correct tracking of the transactions that happen with it. A similar approach must be taken when assets are withdrawn from the pool by liquidity providers. But there is one aspect of this process I have not discussed yet, which is that LPs can usually withdraw those assets from the pool using additional DeFi protocol tokens that the investor receives at deposit time. I will discuss these receipt tokens in a forthcoming post.
Disclaimer: The scenarios discussed in this article serve to illustrate the application of certain technological solutions. Securitize is not provided advice about the regulatory compliance of any those scenarios, nor actively involved in pursuing any such scenarios at this time.


Appeal from Circuit Court, Umatilla County.
William J. Storie, Pendleton, argued the cause and filed the briefs for appellants. With him on the briefs was Storie Olsen, Pendleton.
Douglas E. Hojem, Pendleton, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Corey, Byler, Rew, Lorenzen Hojem, Pendleton.
Before Richardson, Presiding Judge, and Newman and Deits, Judges.
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
Plaintiffs brought this action for foreclosure of a mortgage on real property owned by defendants Bunker. They appeal from the judgment of foreclosure, arguing that their mortgage was entitled to priority over a trust deed held by Benjamin Franklin Federal Savings Loan Association (Benjamin Franklin).
The trust deed was originally held by Western Heritage Federal Savings and Loan Association, Benjamin Franklin's predecessor. For convenience, we refer only to Benjamin Franklin.
On July 31, 1979, the Bunkers gave plaintiffs three promissory notes, secured by a pledge of stock and by a real property mortgage. The mortgage, which was captioned "Second Mortgage," applied to several lots in two tracts. Only one of those lots, lot 3, is involved in this appeal. Although the mortgage recited that lot 3 was encumbered by a prior mortgage, the prior mortgage actually encumbered a different lot. However, at the time that plaintiffs received their mortgage, lot 3 was encumbered by various liens totaling $37,422. Plaintiffs recorded their mortgage on August 6, 1979.
On August 13, 1979, Benjamin Franklin loaned $52,000 to the Bunkers, and they executed a promissory note in Benjamin Franklin's favor. Payment of the note was secured by a trust deed, executed on the same date, which covered lot 3. Before giving the Bunkers the loan, Benjamin Franklin ordered a preliminary title report on lot 3. That report, dated July 17, 1979, disclosed the $37,422 in liens, but revealed no prior mortgages. Benjamin Franklin intended that part of the loan would be used to discharge the liens and that it would acquire a first priority position on lot 3. Benjamin Franklin did not know that the Bunkers intended to give a mortgage to plaintiffs on the same lot subsequent to the date of the preliminary report. Before disbursing the loan proceeds on August 13, Benjamin Franklin instructed the title company to re-examine the encumbrances on lot 3 to ascertain whether there had been any changes in title. Although the title company was aware of plaintiffs' recorded mortgage, it advised Benjamin Franklin that there had been no changes. Benjamin Franklin then recorded its trust deed and discharged the liens with the loan proceeds.
The title company officer who handled the transaction testified that he knew that plaintiffs' mortgage had been recorded since the date of the preliminary report but that, on the basis of the caption "Second Mortgage" and the reference to a prior mortgage on lot 3, it was his opinion that plaintiffs' mortgage was intended to be, and as a matter of law was, subordinate to the subsequent trust deed given to Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin agreed at oral argument that the title company officer's analysis was incorrect.
The Bunkers subsequently defaulted on their payments to plaintiffs, who then brought this action. The trial court granted foreclosure but held that Benjamin Franklin was subrogated to the senior liens that it had discharged and had priority over plaintiffs' mortgage to the extent of the amounts it had paid to satisfy the liens, less the amount of the Bunkers' repayments of principal on the Benjamin Franklin loan.
"[O]ne, advancing money to discharge a prior lien on real or personal property and taking a new mortgage as security, is held to be entitled to subrogation to the prior lien as against the holder of an intervening lien of which he was excusably ignorant." 164 Or at 279.
On several occasions, the Supreme Court has considered and answered affirmatively the related question of whether the holder of a mortgage who cancels or releases it and takes a second mortgage, without actual knowledge of recorded intervening liens, may be restored to the priority of the original mortgage. South Beach Lumber Corp. v. Swank, 210 Or. 383, 311 P.2d 1018 (1957); Holzmeyer v. Van Doren, 172 Or. 176, 139 P.2d 778 (1943); Chase v. McKenzie, 81 Or. 429, 159 P. 1025 (1916); Pearce v. Buell, 22 Or. 29, 29 P. 78 (1892). The court noted in Swank that, in the absence of any showing that the intervening lienors' rights "will be unfairly impressed * * * [t]he release of the first mortgage, if it cannot be undone, will represent for the [intervenors] manna, not from heaven, but from the pocketbook of [their] adversaries." 210 Or at 393.
"[T]he principles which permit subrogation in these instances are equitable. [The mortgagee] had notice of the existence of membership agreements creating hunting and fishing rights, and chose to proceed with the mortgage transaction without further investigation. Under these circumstances, there are insufficient equities in its favor to convince us that it should be subrogated to the rights of prior lienors whose liens were discharged out of the mortgage proceeds, and thus to foreclose those hunting and fishing rights." 283 Or at 335.
Plaintiffs appear to read High as holding that subrogation is never allowable when the party claiming it is on inquiry notice of intervening rights. We do not read the case that broadly, but understand the court to have decided the subrogation issue on the facts of the case and on the relative equities favoring the parties. The practical effect of allowing subrogation and giving the mortgagee priority in High would have been to impair or destroy the enjoyment of the intervening hunting and fishing rights. Moreover, the knowledge that the mortgagee had was not only sufficient to give rise to inquiry about the specific interests; it was also sufficient in itself to reveal that there were some intervening rights. No comparable equities weigh in plaintiffs' favor here.
"denying the right of subrogation to a vender who assumes and agrees to pay an existing indebtedness as part of the purchase price of real property, as attempted to be exercised against the holder of a recorded junior lien or mortgage. Such a rule makes it incumbent upon a purchaser to consult available records in regard to contemplated real property transactions. It also minimizes, as to those transactions, the effect of any uncertainty of representation between vendor and vendee concerning existing incumbrances [sic] of record." 161 Or at 351.
The court stated its awareness of its holdings allowing "the right of subrogation of a mortgagee who releases his prior mortgage in ignorance of the existence of an intervening lien." 161 Or at 349. It is clear that Belcher decides only whether subrogation is available to purchasers of real property that is subject to recorded intervening encumbrances.
"We think that where the holder of the junior lien will stand in the same position if subrogation is allowed, as that in which he stood originally, and misrepresentation is made by the owner of the property to the effect that there is no junior lien, and the party advancing the money to defray the prior lien is not guilty of negligence, but secures an abstract from a reputable abstract company, submits the abstract to skilled attorneys and receives a report to the effect that it does not disclose any such junior lien upon the property involved, the right of substitution or subrogation to the priority of the prior lien is available." 164 Or at 283.
The major difference between Metropolitan Life and this case is that, there, the lien over which priority was sought arose from a judgment that was of record, rather than a recorded mortgage.
There is little in the Oregon case law to support plaintiffs' proposition that constructive notice arising from recording is, per se, incompatible with a lender's claim to equitable subrogation. The Supreme Court has rejected the analogous proposition in several cases dealing with mortgagees' releases of their prior mortgages and has accepted the analogous principle in one case dealing with a purchaser's effort to be subrogated to a senior lien on the purchased property. By and large, however, the cases have emphasized the competing equities that arise from factual variables and have avoided across-the-board rules of the kind that plaintiffs urge. We decline to adopt a per se rule. We might agree that a failure to search the record by a lender on record notice would be a significant negative factor in a comparison of equities. However, Benjamin Franklin did have the record searched, and the failure to detect the status of plaintiffs' mortgage was due in part to the misleading caption "Second Mortgage" and to inadvertent misinformation in the instrument itself. See n 2, supra. We conclude that subrogation is appropriate in this case.
"Any instrument creating a mortgage, trust deed, or assignment for security purposes relating to any of the interests or estates in real property referred to in this subsection, which is executed by the person from whom the mortgage, trust deed, or assignment for security purposes is intended to be given, and acknowledged or proved in the manner provided for the acknowledgment or proof of other conveyances, may be indexed and recorded in the records of mortgages of real property in the county where such real property is located. Such recordation, whether the instrument be recorded prior to or subsequent to May 29, 1963, constitutes notice to third persons of the rights of the parties under the instrument irrespective of whether the party granted such interest or estate is in possession of the real property."
We quote the statute in its present form. At the times of the relevant transactions, the statute did not refer to recording of mortgages. That omission was remedied by Or Laws 1987, ch 225, § 2. Given the basis for our disposition of plaintiffs' argument concerning ORS 93.710, we need not address the significance, if any, of the amendment or of the absence of a reference to mortgages in the statute at the time of the events in question.
"[I]n 1941 after [Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Craven, supra,] was decided, the legislature enacted OCLA 70-138A, the predecessor statute to ORS 93.710. The legislature was on notice of Metropolitan Life, and chose to enact the notice statute. The significance of the statutes is further enhanced by the fact that the most recent Oregon Supreme Court case addressing equitable subrogation, High v. Davis, [supra,] denied the application of subrogation based on notice."
We do not agree. The doctrine of subrogation has always had, and continues to have, the effect of giving priority to interests that are later in time than the interests that are subordinated to them. Stated differently, the subrogation doctrine creates an exception to the general rule, reflected in ORS 93.710 and other recording statutes, that priority is based on record seniority. Plaintiffs offer nothing to support their argument that ORS 93.710 was intended as a legislative repeal of the judicial doctrine. The significance of High v. Davis, supra, would appear to be the opposite of what plaintiffs claim for it. Although subrogation was disallowed in that case, based on the facts, the court expressly noted that "[i]t is possible for a mortgagee to be subrogated to the rights of a prior lienor." 283 Or at 355. High was decided long after the predecessor of ORS 93.710 was enacted. Moreover, South Beach Lumber Corp. v. Swank, supra, and Holzmeyer v. Van Doren, supra, where the court adhered to the rule that recorded intervening interests could be subordinated to a prior mortgagees' new security, were also decided after the enactment of the statute. We reject plaintiffs' statutory argument.
Plaintiffs' remaining contention is that the court's calculation of the value of Benjamin Franklin's subrogated interest — amounts paid to discharge the prior liens less the amount of principal repayments received from the Bunkers — "fails to take into account the fact that the prior contracts and mortgages had smaller balances, lower interest rates and longer periods for payment." Plaintiffs maintain that Benjamin Franklin may "only be allowed to be subrogated to the balance of the prior outstanding debts less the amount of principal [that the] Bunkers would have paid on those debts before the date of default." Benjamin Franklin argues that the trial court applied the law correctly in computing its subrogated interest. Neither party cites authority to support its position, and we find no dispositive authority.
It also argues that plaintiffs did not sufficiently preserve the claim of error in the trial court. We disagree.
Subrogation is a doctrine of exact substitution, under which the subrogee acquires the position, rights and liabilities of the subrogor. See, e.g., State ex rel Healy v. Smither, 290 Or. 827, 626 P.2d 356 (1981). We therefore agree with plaintiffs that Benjamin Franklin's subrogation interests are identical to the interests that the discharged prior encumbrancers would have had in this action, had they not been discharged. The value of those interests at the time of discharge should be reduced by the amount of principal and interest on the prior encumbrances that would have become due between the times of discharge and default.


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I hope it was this type of bus David recalls, but this may be too late. This cracking restoration captured at Chasewater Transport Show by Chsewaterstuff (John Daft) and posted on Flikr.
The end of the second world war brought the time of retirement for one of the Coppy Pit's long-serving miners. Ike, as he was known, had been born in Hedgeford, as he always called it, where he, like his brothers, had started his working life down the pit there as soon as was old enough. He was one of a large number of children in that family. His mother died when he was a young child, and his father then moved to the Wood to find regular work. He needed every penny to help support his family. The Coppy Pit was offering good wages and the opportunity to settle and make a new start was taken. The family settled in to their new home in Walsall Wood and lived near to the Coppy Pit.
Ike married his sweetheart, a young girl from Newcastle under Lyme who was working 'in service' in Leciestershire, in the Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church where they had met. They set up home in the village and lived the rest of their lives in the same simple cottage not far from the Coal Mine.
The hardships of the first world war years, the long hours working 1600 feet below in the twisted, bending coal seams, where he hewed coal day after day, the Strikes of the twenties and the shock and dread that each miner and his family felt, then the economic depression of the thirties, all were felt by him. He had been seriously injured at least twice in the pit. He had returned to work again after his physical scars had healed, despite the permanence of some of his injuries. He was known never to complain, or moan, or cuss.
Ike's eldest son had been called up to fight in the Second World War. He had to leave his grocers' business in Caldmore Green and become a 'Desert Rat', leaving his wife and daughter in Walsall Wood, and he went off to fight in the deserts of North Africa, and throughout the landings and campaign in Italy.
Peace in 1945 brought Ike the safe return of his son, and his own welcome, hard-earned retirement and rest from the coalface. It gave him a time to tend his garden and to see the sunshine and seasons as he had never been able to before. His landlord had put a small window in the side wall of Ike's cottage and now sunlight shone into his back kitchen, and he could gaze out to see the sunset and the stark, bare pit mound.
A view Ike would have been very familiar with, and one which bears repeating. This is what The Wood looked like 50 odd years ago. A remarkable composite panorama featured as separate images in David F. Vodden's book 'Around Pelsall and Brownhills in Old Photographs', which I scanned and reassembled. Worth clicking on to see the large version.
Sometimes, on Mondays he enjoyed taking me, his wayward grandson, with him on the Harpers bus to Lichfield. It would give somebody some respite. I was honoured to oblige! A bus-ride on the single-decker, boneshaker of a bus. A handful of bus tickets to hold, each one snapped by the conductor from the spring clipboard, "dinged" in the ticket punch, and handed to be held very tight. The balletic pas de deux was then performed by this ungainly conductor, his six-penny round spectacles every inch the model on which Benny Hill based his comic character. The orthopedic wooden slat benches that were the bus seats, the long leather thong that rang the bell. The rough roads through Stonnall, then in and out of Shenstone, along the twisting narrow lanes to Lichfield. An altogether unforgettable experience which made an invisible yet indelible impression on every passenger.
Mondays and Lichfield offered the delight of a gentle stroll from the bus station and on past the railway station with its hissing, steaming locomotives and clanking carriages, on up Green Hill to the weekly Smithfield livestock market, and its big beasts, its farmers in crooked hats, tweed jackets with patched elbows, worn waistcoats with gold chains and pocket watches, corduroy trousers, leather riding boots or hobnail boots. There was the noisy, rapid chatter and strange language from the man up in the middle of the arena, of rapid spectacle of beasts being brought in to the arena, quickly, not a minute to lose, and then taken out just as quickly.
Just by the alleyway down to the Smithfield market was a little shop. The shop is now a private house, but its still there even though the Smithfield cattle market has been demolished and replaced by a huge Tescos superstore. Not much cnage; same haste, same noise, same strange language, different smell. This little shop sold two things of great importance to a young toddler; sucky fish. Big ones which cost a penny, and smaller ones which cost a ha'penny. I was promised a big sucky fish after the market, if I had been good. I always got a ha'penny fish. Good was animpossibility for me, then. I did get to carry the new churchwarden clay pipe , that Granddad Ike often bought in that shop though. It was my sole responsibility to ensure that this instrument, this treasure, this most valuable object arrived back in the cottage in Walsall Wood in safety and in one piece .
Ah… who remembers Trugel and styptic pencils, eh?
I was often allowed to brush Granddad Ike's hair. For me this was a token of trust and, seemingly, an indication of a fairly thick skull on his part. Brushing someone's hair without "pailing" them or scraping each thinning strand from a person's scalp was a rapidly- acquired skill for any toddler who wished to see his next birthday. A small measure of trembling persistence, and lashings of Brilliantine made the job slightly easier. Brilliantine must have been both a gents' hairdressing and local anaesthetic. The oval hairbrushes, and the shaving cup, new-fangled safety razor and beaver shaving brush had their own specific place in the wall cupboard by the back-leaded range.
The little shop in Lichfield closed down many years ago. The Harper's single decker stagecoach cum cattle truck is no more. The Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church building was demolished over twenty years ago. Ike lived long enough to witness the Coppy Pit being closed down in 1964, though. He died a few months later.
This isn't going to be popular, but I feel there aren't enough pipe-smokers in the world anymore…
Now his cottage has new owners who have had the subsistence rods removed, had new windows and a new front door installed, and it looks as though the nearby cottages that have stood empty for years are about to be "done up" . The nearby colliery field which housed the brick "charge" building for the colliery many years ago, has been transformed into well-used soccer pitches some years ago and now regularly echo to the shrills blasts of the referee's whistle, and the semi-audible comments from wrongly-adjudged players. The old primary school near to Streets Corner has had a new roof, is well-painted, and has got the facilities of the Oak Park leisure centre, and a FastFood Drive-through close by. The present-day Methodist Church uses the former Sunday School building, which has been modernised and renovated.
Modern buses storm past along the main roads in this part of Walsall Wood, and all sorts and types of vehicles unimaginable to the generations of miners at the Coppy in its heyday seem to confirm that the modern Walsall Wood has evolved, and that the pace and way of life for the present generation of local people is very different, too.
David Evans December 2011
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16 Responses to Harpers, hairbrushes and sucky fish
many thanks for posting this article. My memory! Twas not a beaver shaving brush, twas a badger shaving brush. Oops. The Brilliantine was in a rectangular tin. One such tin is, or was, on display in the chemists shop in the Black Country Museum. You can buy real sucky fish in the sweet shop there! There was a sweet shop in Stafford Street Walsall , which readers may remember. But who owned the shop?.
I hope readers will enjoy . the article. The bus is a superb photo..not quite like the old bone-shaker, though! Ike appears on one of the blog's photos, as does his wife.. ..for readers to search through!
oakparkrunner says:
Lowbridges was the sweet shop in Walsall by the Savoy.
Jeepboy says:
Think the sweet shop in Stafford St belonged to Pelaris icecream
Linda Mason (@No1LindaMason) says:
I loved those old green Harper's buses! As a small child I always thought that Cross Keys and Heath Hayes sounded so exotic until that day when I actually took the bus up that way! My Mom knew all the drivers and conductors, which wasn't a difficult thing taking into account that there was a garage in Aldridge, now a carpet shop. Lovely memories.
Hi David, Great article which I enjoyed reading and which, once again, gave my own memory another little stir. Great picture of the Harpers coach, but this was one of the posh "charabancs" which were very much in demand for private hire, trips to the seaside, etc and were really the last word in luxury seating. The wooden slatted seats in the old boneshakers were a wartime measure, known as "utility seating" and as you probably remember , well outlasted the war. I too, attended the Monday auction at Lichfield as my father kept chickens and replenished his stock periodically. Mr Winterton would have a raised walkway around some of the smaller encl;osures, which he used when bidding was in progress. When funds allowed, my father would take us to Lichfield on the train from Brownhills which went via Hammerwich, catching Harpers bus from Vigo corner to Brownhills. I well remember the little shop but never sampled the sucky fish from there. I was considering whether I'd had a deprived childhood, for a few moments, until I remembered that when mom visited Walsall market she always brought a bag of sucky fish back to share amongst us kids! I'll look for Ike in the blogs photos, chances are I will know him
best wishes,.
mercadeo says:
Sadly, my memories of New Longton are slight. We left the village when I was three to go to Blackpool. However, I still remember playing in the garden at "The Shieling" although my memory of the house is patently incorrect. I came to New Longton some thirty years ago to take a look, and the house, externally, was unchanged, but I remembered it as a really big house, and was disappointed by it's size. I can also remember the shops in a parade near the railway level crossing. I often watched the steam trains pass by there, and there was a fabulous Araucaria (Monkey-puzzle tree) on the green in front of the shops. I remember being in Preston at my Dad's shop, and getting on the bus at the old bus station to come back to New Longton. The cry of the inspector at the bus station indicating that our bus was "Whitestake behind" as the buses stacked up to collect their passengers.
Sweet Mary mother of Jesus! What the nora's is a "sucky fish" when it's at home?
…..no..I musn't ! A clue; a bit like a bodge, but different.
Holy Moly David! What in the Wide World of Sports is a bodge? I thought a bodge was summit yer stuck on yer coot.
Graeme Fisher says:
Harper Bros sawed the fronts off a couple of these lovely coaches (Burlingham Seagulls) and rebuilt them into some of the ugliest flat fronted buses to ply the Kingstanding to Lichfield route, through Street's Corner and Stonnall.
Phil Burton ( ex Harpers Driver) says:
Hi Graeme, I agree the three Burlingham Seagulls that were converted into Service Vehicles by Harper's weren't the prettiest, but were done as a practical and economical move and were still nice vehicles to drive. All three were middle door vehicles with large coach seats and if you had ever had to conduct one you would see how impractical they were, especially with a standing load. The first to be done was 1032 E No 21, the middle door was removed and a mechanically operated door at the front was fitted along with bus seats, this could only be operated by a two man crew which Harpers preferred. Then the other two were converted 1031 E, No 28 renumbered 22 & XRE 725 No 50 but this time fitted with driver front operated doors to allow for one man operation. All these vehicles had come to an end of their life for the leisure side of the business with demand for the latest in coach travel, but still had years of service life left, so the economical sense was to convert them at their workshop in High Green rather than sell them for a pittance and have to buy new service buses for dwindling non economic routes.
that will be the greater bodge that you stuck in your airden
They were a tanner, if you couldn't whittle your own.
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Q: Objective-C self->_ivar access with explicit vs implicit self-> General Problem
Until now, I always thought self->_ivar is equivalent to _ivar. Today I found out that this is not entirely true.
See, for example the following code snippet:
@interface TestClass : NSObject {
    NSString *_testIVar;
}
@end

@implementation TestClass

- (instancetype)init
{
    if ((self = [super init])) {
        _testIVar = @"Testing Only";
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)test
{
    {
        NSInteger self = 42;
        NSLog(@"without arrow: %@", _testIVar);        /* OK              */
        NSLog(@"with    arrow: %@", self->_testIVar);  /* COMPILER ERROR! */
    }
}

@end

Even though I hid the original self with some NSInteger also named self, the implicit ivar syntax _testIVar still finds the "original" self whereas self->_testIVar obviously does not. In the latter case the compiler correctly complains with

Member reference type 'NSInteger' (aka 'long') is not a pointer

In the first case however, it just works.
The Real-world Problem
This example might seem rather artificial but it's not at all. For example the ExtObjC project (used by ReactiveCocoa ) defines the very handy @weakify(var) and @strongify(var) which help against strongly capturing self (and other objects) in blocks by defining a really handy syntax (no need to write the odd and cumbersome to write __weak typeof(self) weakSelf = self; [...] ^{ __strong typeof(self) strongSelf = weakSelf; [...] }  anymore). For example:
- (void)someMethod
{
    @weakify(self);
    dispatch_async(self.someQueue, ^{
        @strongify(self);
        NSLog(@"self @ %p", self);
    }
}

Without @weakify and @strongify, the block would capture a strong reference to self. With the @weakify and @strongify it doesn't. So the deallocation of self would not be postponed until the block has been run. The main advantage though is that you don't need to remember to use weakSelf or strongSelf instead of self because the "original" self is hidden.
That's very handy, the ExtObjC implements @weakify / @strongify by generating something similar like the following with macros:
- (void)someMethod
{
    __weak typeof(self) _weakSelf = self;
    dispatch_async(self.someQueue, ^{
        __strong typeof(self) self = _weakSelf;
        NSLog(@"self @ %p", self);
    }
}

Fair enough, that's even better because we can just continue to use self without actually capturing a strong reference to self. However, as soon as we use the implicit-ivars-of-self-syntax, a strong reference to the "original" self will still be captured!
- (void)someMethod
{
    @weakify(self);
    dispatch_async(self.someQueue, ^{
        @strongify(self);  /* compiler warning: Unused variable self here!!! */
        NSLog(@"self->_testIVar: %@", _testIVar);
    }
}

Misc
When using ivars in blocks, we're definitely capturing self. See for example this screenshot:
.
Another fun thing about the screenshot is that the warning messages are

Unused variable 'self'

and in the line below

Capturing 'self' strongly in this block is likely to lead to a retain cycle

That's why I think there are two versions of self :-)
Question
The actual question here is: What exactly does _testIVar mean? How does it find the "original" self pointer?
To clarify (also see my screenshot): As @MartinR pointed out (which is what I think as well), there is some special version of self which cannot be changed and is only used for implicit-self-ivar-access. Is that documented somewhere? Basically where is defined what the implicit self refers to? It seems to behave the same way that for example Java does (with this) but with the difference that this is a reserved keyword that you cannot override.
The question is also not how to "fix" it, just writing self->_testIVar will be what I want in the @weakify/@strongify example. It's more that I thought by using @weakify/@strongify you cannot make the mistake of implicitly strongly capturing self anymore but that simply does not seem to be the case.

A: All Objective-C methods are called with two hidden arguments (from the "Objective-C Runtime Programming Guide"):

*

*The receiving object

*The selector for the method

and a method can refer to the receiving object as self (and to its own selector as _cmd).
Now _ivar is equivalent to self->_ivar where self is this implicit first
function parameter.
As long as you don't define a new variable self in an inner scope, _ivar == self->_ivar holds true.
If you define a new variable self in an inner scope then you have

*

*The locally defined self,

*the "implicit self" which is the first function parameter,

and _ivar still refers to the "implicit self"! This explains the compiler warnings in your block, which seem to contradict each other:

*

*"Unused variable 'self'" refers to the locally defined self,

*"Capturing 'self' strong in this block ..." refers to the "implicit self" of the function.

The following code demonstrates also this:
@interface MyClass : NSObject
{
    NSString *_ivar;
}
@end

@implementation MyClass

- (void)test
{
    _ivar = @"foo"; // Set instance variable of receiver
    {
        MyClass *self = [MyClass new]; // Redefine self in inner scope
        self->_ivar = @"bar"; // Set instance variable of redefined self
        NSLog(@"%@ - %@", self->_ivar, _ivar);
        // Output: bar - foo
    }
}

@end


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New Solar Farm in Somerset to Generate 1.5 MW of Green Energy
Published: Friday, 25 January 2013 08:36
Higher Knapp Farm in Knapp near Taunton, Somerset has recently rented out a small percentage of its land to solar power generator, Lightsource Renewable Energy.
The land will now accommodate a solar farm generating 1.5 MW of green energy – the equivalent of enough power for around 442 households, which is more than half of the parish of North Curry. Lightsource has consulted closely with Taunton Deane Borough Council throughout the planning process, as well as engaging with North Curry Parish Council.
The principal issue raised at the initial meeting with the Parish Council back in early November 2012 was that of visibility. This concern was focused on the eastern border where the site slopes upwards. Lightsource duly planned the new solar farm so that it lay in the lower, most level areas of the land, avoiding the eastern slope. In addition, in accordance with the recommendations of Taunton Deane Borough Council, Lightsource will be planting a hazel coppice to screen the site on the eastern boundary as a condition of planning approval.
Conor McGuigan, Business Development Director for Lightsource, comments, "When we develop a new solar farm, we are entering into an agreement with the landowner and council for a period of 25 years. Therefore we are required to demonstrate that the land we build on is protected and used correctly to its fullest potential in order to obtain planning permission".
Conor continues, "We are strong advocates of optimising the opportunity that a solar farm presents to enhance site biodiversity. Higher Knapp Farm will not only benefit from a new hazel coppice, but a range of species rich wildflower mix will be planted beneath and between the solar panel rows, creating a more diverse habitat."
As part of the original planning application, Lightsource submitted a detailed flood risk assessment, which was reviewed by the Environmental Agency, who concluded that with an appropriate surface water management plan, the development would not increase flood risk within the site or surrounding area. Lightsource has prepared and submitted a detailed surface water management plan to the Council which proposes a swale system that will improve site run off and drainage.
"Our tenancy duration runs for a long period of time and it is imperative that we address any concerns like flooding risks upfront to ensure there will be no impact on the surrounding area. It is in our best interests to work with the council and address local concerns collectively" Conor adds.
Unlike some other forms of renewable energy, solar farms have negligible impact on the land they stand on. They are noise and emission free, and because they have no moving parts they do not harm wildlife. They also have less visual impact than wind farms or nuclear plants and are much easier to screen using natural planting. Another common misconception is that it's essential for the sun to be shining, when in fact ordinary daylight is sufficient to generate solar energy.
It goes without saying that the atrocious weather throughout 2012 has put many farmers to the test. However, as at Higher Knapp Farm, increasing numbers have been discovering a way to reap a weatherproof, guaranteed income over a 25 year period – at no costs to themselves. They can achieve this by renting out land or roof space to Lightsource, the UK's largest solar energy generator. There is no risk of any default on rental payments because Lightsource is backed by 25 year government investment schemes, making it a guaranteed secure tenant.
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Keith and Amy Melugin
Rescuing, Restoring and Renewing the victims of human trafficking in the Dominican Republic.
Ministry Vision
Ministries in the Dominican Republic
Ministry Phases
Keith's Experience
Globally, the average cost of a slave is $90.
Trafficking primarily involves exploitation which comes in many forms, including: forcing victims into prostitution, subjecting victims to slavery or involuntary servitude and compelling victims to commit sex acts for the purpose of creating pornography.
According to some estimates, approximately 80% of trafficking involves sexual exploitation, and 19% involves labor exploitation.
There are approximately 20 to 30 million slaves in the world today.
According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year. More than 70% are female and half are children.
The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-year-old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
California harbors 3 of the FBI's 13 highest child sex trafficking areas on the nation: Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.
The National Human Trafficking Hotline receives more calls from Texas than any other state in the US. 15% of those calls are from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year.
Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking). It reportedly generates a profit of $32 billion every year. Of that number, $15.5 billion is made in industrialized countries.
The International Labour Organization estimates that women and girls represent the largest share of forced labor victims with 11.4 million trafficked victims (55%) compared to 9.5 million (45%) men.
1 "Modern Slavery." Free the Slaves. Accessed February 25, 2014, https://www.freetheslaves.net/sslpage.aspx?pid=301.
2 "UNODC on human trafficking and migrant smuggling". Unodc.org. 2011. Accessed February 25, 2014.
3 "Human Trafficking Facts." National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://www.ncadv.org/files/HumanTrafficking.pdf.
4 Bales, Kevin. "The Number." The CNN Freedom Project Ending Modern Day Slavery. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-facts/the-number/.
5 "TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT." United States Department. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/34158.pdf.
6 Clawson, Heather J., Nicole Dutch, Amy Solomon, and Lisa Goldblatt Grace. "Human Trafficking Into and Within the United States: A Review of the Literature." Study of HHS Programs Serving Human Trafficking Victims. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/humantrafficking/LitRev/.
7 California Against Slavery. "What is Human Trafficking?." Safer California Foundation. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://www.caseact.org/learn/humantrafficking/.
8 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Human Trafficking in Texas." Texas Advisory Committee . Accessed February 25, 2014, http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/TX_HT_Report–ver%2050–FINAL.pdf.
10 "Slavery." Not For Sale: End Human Trafficking and Slavery. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/about/slavery/.
11 "WHAT IS FORCED LABOUR?." Anti-Slavery. Accessed February 25, 2014, http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/forced_labour.aspx.


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Pandemic hits unified public transportation card launch
ByShashank RaoShashank Rao / Updated: Nov 22, 2020, 06:00 IST
The pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works for the launch of the universal public transportation card.
While the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) on Friday proposed to start work on the National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) in its budget for 2021-22, the Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) said the initiative is no longer on the priority list because of the pandemic.
The MRVC is coordinating on behalf of the Indian Railways.
A passenger will be able to use the same NCMC travel card to avail of BEST bus, Metro rail and suburban railway services. The concept was conceived by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and launched on March 4, 2019.
The BEST has been conducting trials at Colaba and Wadala depots. The undertaking plans to distribute 10,000 handheld devices, once implemented. "We are conducting trials for the NCMC card as part of a pilot project. It will take two to three years for it to be implemented in a full-fledged manner, but by then four new Metro routes will be launched," said a BEST official.
MRVC officials said the state government is still mulling over its implementation. "The pandemic has slowed the process," an MRVC official said.
The MRVC is working to implement it by integrating it with the railways' ticketing system. Season ticketholders will be able to top-up payments on the card and passengers will also be able to buy tickets. Sources said that the project for railways will take shape once all approvals are in place.


It's the season of giving but it's also the season of stealing. While you're keeping an eye out for holiday sales, thieves could be keeping an eye out for you.
"They're out there preying on victims during the holiday season," said Sunrise Police Officer Christopher Piper.
The NBC 6 Investigators dug through call logs for a dozen malls in Broward and Miami Dade counties from July 2015 through July 2016. We discovered which malls are keeping police the busiest and what crimes are being reported.
The map is based on call logs provided by police departments that respond to a dozen malls in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. The information included in this map does not reflect whether mall security handled an incident instead of police.
Police in Sunrise have responded to Sawgrass Mills more than 5,400 times over the past year. The mall's football field-sized parking lot has been a touchdown for burglars.
More than 230 people reported car break-ins at the shopping center over the past year.
Scott Montero's new college laptop was stolen from his car at the Sawgrass Mills parking lot.
"It was a gift from my dad and to have to tell him it was stolen from my car, it was hard to do," said Montero.
Daniela Cuarta of Fort Lauderdale had luggage stolen from her rental car at Sawgrass Mills after she picked up family members from the airport.
"I'm frustrated," said Cuarta. "It's never nice to have your things stolen."
Detectives said burglars don't often have to use tools to break into parked vehicles.
"We find that the majority of the cars they're going into are unlocked doors," said Officer Piper.
Sweetwater police released exclusive video to the NBC 6 Investigators of what they call a serial mall car burglar.
Detectives said the video captured a 39-year-old Miami man pulling up in his Range Rover at Dolphin Mall recently and stealing bags and luggage from a vehicle in a matter of seconds. Police charged him with a similar crime at Sawgrass Mills earlier this year.
Southland Mall, Miami International Mall and Westfield Broward also made the top six list for police calls.
While car break-ins are a problem at most malls, Southland Mall also experienced a high number of larcenies, 692. A mall spokesperson said they receive between seven and eight million visitors a year.
A larceny can include anything from shoplifting to pick-pocketing.
"Whether they're snatching a phone, a purse or a bag, it comes down to being aware of your surroundings," said Officer Piper.
Miami Dade Police once again kicked off Operation Grinchbusters this week at Dadeland Mall. Starting Thanksgiving week they're having mobile command units patrol shopping centers along with undercover officers.
Most of the malls had similar responses, that safety is their top priority.


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