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The Highs and Lows of the @USOpen Qualifying Opening Round
Posted by Admin on August 23, 2017
Posted in: ATP, US Open, US Open Qualifying, USTA, WTA.	Tagged: 2017, Antonia Lottner, Conny Perrin, Danka Kovinic, Day 2, Francoise Abanda, Mitch Krueger, new york, US Open Qualifying.	Leave a comment
Steve Fogleman in New York
The 128 match-strong first round of the 2017 US Open qualifying tournament is finally in the books, some 34 hours and two different climates after it began yesterday morning. Joris De Loore became the last player to join the 127 other hopefuls to advance shortly before 9:00 p.m. tonight.
That means 128 singles players were sent packing, and that means that 128 dreams live on tonight in New York.
One of those who lives on to dream another day is Vera Zvonareva, who's already achieved more in her days on tour than many of the qualifying crew could imagine. She'll face Jamie Loeb tomorrow.
Generally speaking, I don't interview players who step off a court after a loss. They usually don't speak freely, they're in a bad mood, and you get the feeling that they'd rather be anywhere else. The tours usually don't require press conferences for the vanquished at the main draw of smaller events. But Conny Perrin used to contribute to Tennis Atlantic, and she's the highest ranked player with whom I am a Facebook friend. I have watched her ups and downs and all that she has given to be here, and she was so close to the upset of the qualifying tournament today. In the end, Perrin was narrowly defeated by the #3 seed, Danka Kovinic, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5.
Kovinic said it best after the close match today. "Oh my god, tennis is so difficult. Everything can change in a minute," she said. She's been to the big dance twice already in New York. Winning here is obviously contagious, because you see a lot of the same faces advance year after year. For every two of those, there are players who hit their emotional Nirvana when they qualify for the first time, and those moments are the greatest displays of the magic of a slam that I've ever seen.
To wit, Antonia Lottner. The German waxed poetic about last year's US Open, her first and only run into a slam in her career.
How about Mitch Krueger? The American has never been to a US Open main draw and he's never even reached Friday's third round. He scored the comeback of the qualifying rounds, down two breaks in the third set before escaping with the win today. With an 0-3 second round record, making it to the 3rd will be his 2017 season takeaway memory. He had to find a way to get to that pesky second round by outlasting Canada's Braydan Schnur in a 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 thriller.
I know that the pro tours have done everything they can to contrive a Road to Singapore or some other far-flung metropolis into a fifth grand slam, but to this old fan, it isn't working. The US Open will always be the last big stop in a season. For most American fans, the buck always stops at the US Open. These players know it, too. They won't be in on the big fun of the year-end finals, and they appreciate everything the US Open has to offer. I always call the tour the traveling circus. Well, this my friends, is the Greatest Show on Earth, since the other one folded after 146 years.
There's something surreal about New York and US Open qualifying and all that's at stake, and the players– who hail from all over the globe with their hopes and their racket bags and their moms and their dads and not much else–know it.
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Q: How to pass a column of pandas data frame as input to another dataframe I want inputvalues inside a column of pandas dataframe as input another to a dataframe for dropping columns.
Corpus words
corpus_top_words = pd.DataFrame(cv_addr.todense(), columns=cv.get_feature_names())
corpus_top_words  =corpus_top_words.sum().rename_axis('Word').reset_index(name='Freq')
corpus_top_words=corpus_top_words.drop('Freq', axis=1)

English Dictionary
from nltk.corpus import brown
    word_list=list(brown.words())
    feature_names=['Word']
    word_list= pd.DataFrame(word_list,columns=feature_names)
    brown_corpus=pd.DataFrame(word_list.Word.unique(),columns=feature_names)
    brown_corpus['Word'] = brown_corpus['Word'].apply(lambda x: ' '.join([item.lower() for item in x.split()]))

Only English Words
english_words_corpus = pd.merge(corpus_top_words, brown_corpus, on='Word', how='inner')
english_words_corpus = pd.DataFrame(english_words_corpus.Word.unique(),columns=feature_names)

I need to pass this english word corpus to the orginal dataframe to remove some columns:
data = data.drop(list_of_cols_to_drop, axis=1)

list_of_cols_to_drop = english_words_corpus

How this for sparse series
for i, col in enumerate(cv.get_feature_names()):
data[col] = pd.SparseSeries(cv_text[:, i].toarray().ravel(), fill_value=0)

A: To drop columns which match a list you can do this:
data = data.drop([col for col in list_of_cols_to_drop if col in data.columns], axis=1)

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Paco Montalvo (born 19 November 1992) is a Spanish classical musician and creator of flamenco violin as the main voice. He is the youngest violinist to make a 21st-century debut in the main hall of Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Biography
Paco Montalvo's interest in music began when he was quite young. His family introduced him to the violin at an early age. He began by taking lessons from his father at the age of five. Since then, he has studied with Yuri Petrossian and Nestor Eidler, who was a disciple of Szentgÿorgyi and David Oistrakh. He gave his first recital at the age of six. When he was twelve years old, he made his debut with the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra in Madrid, Spain. In March 2014, Paco Montalvo was included by Nestle as one of the four most outstanding violinists of the 21st century.

Career
Following his debut with the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Montalvo began a prolific public career, performing as a soloist with numerous orchestras and in festivals and recitals all over Europe, Asia, and America. At the age of 17, one of his international appearances was made with the Israel Symphony Orchestra in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The concert was such a success that, less than a year later, Montalvo was invited to perform as a soloist in the legendary Carnegie Hall.

Successful debut in Carnegie Hall
On April 24, 2011, Montalvo gave a historic performance in New York's emblematic Carnegie Hall. Accompanied by the New England Symphonic Orchestra and conducted by British composer John Rutter, he played Niccolò Paganini's Concerto No. 1 with such technical mastery and maturity that American critics hailed him as a "dazzling" musician, saying that his solos "thrilled the audience." Paco Montalvo is the first violinist of the 21st century to debut in the Stern Auditorium on the Perelman Stage there at the age of 18.

Discography

 2015 - Alma del violín flamenco
 2016 - Alma del violín flamenco en vivo
 2017 - Corazon Flamenco

Music studies
Montalvo has studied at such prestigious universities and conservatories as the Moscow Conservatory; the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Austria; the University of Charlotte, North Carolina; the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid; the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville, Spain; and the Meadowmount School of Music in New York.

By age 16, Montalvo had finished his studies at the Rafael Orozco Conservatory of Music, graduating with honors and receiving the highest certification for the violin offered by the institution. When he earned his degree at 18, he became one of the youngest university graduates in Europe.

Maestros
His lengthy list of violin instructors includes David Russel, Zakhar Bron, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Igor Ozim, Mathis Fischer, Klaus Peter, Victor Pikaizen, Salvatore Accardo, Yuri Volguin, Sally Thomas, Alexander Tronstiansky, Joel Smirnoff, Serguei Teslia, Ruben Aharonyan, Gonçal Comellas, Luis Gallardo, Serguei Fatkouline, José Gámez, Ara Bogdanian, Pavel Vernikov et Alexander Markov.

International presentations
In May 2006, Montalvo made his first trip to the United States, to Chicago, after being selected by the "Stradivari Society" as one of the most outstanding young soloists in the world. Montalvo played in the Concert Hall Stradivari, on "The Cathedral", a concert violin charged by Stradivari in 1707.

In November 2007, Montalvo performed with the National Orchestra of Cuba in the National Theater of Havana, under the direction of Juan Luis González.

He was selected as an ambassador to represent his hometown of Córdoba, Spain in a cultural tour of Poland, in 2009. In February 2011, he began filming "Córdoba, life and genius". Montalvo was one of the main characters of the film alongside some of the most famous artists of the city, including the guitarist Vicente Amigo and flamenco singer El Pele.

Each January, starting in 2011 and continuing until at least 2013, Montalvo has collaborated with the Spanish Senate to hold an International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust, in furtherance of the Senate's goal to prevent future crimes against humanity.

In March 2012, he performed as soloist with the Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra in the Danube Palace as part of a series of concerts featuring the work of Pablo Sarasate.

In April 2012, Montalvo was invited by violinist Shlomo Mintz to perform in "The Violins of Hope" concert series in the United States. The concert was broadcast nationwide on National Public Radio.

In March 2013, Paco Montalvo had a meeting with Yael Naim, an Israeli singer with whom he has worked on several projects. In May of that same year, the North American actress Eva Longoria invited Montalvo to Paris for "The Global Gift Gala".

In July 2013, Montalvo won the "Arthur Rubinstein Award for Excellence in Interpretation and Musical Composition". That same month, he performed Mozart's Third Concerto, with the conductor Peter Tiboris, in Greece as part of the IX ° International Festival of the Aegean.

References

External links

 Paco Montalvo awarded with the first Arthur Rubinstein Award

1992 births
Living people
Spanish classical violinists
Male classical violinists
21st-century classical violinists
21st-century male musicians
Spanish male musicians

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Heckler interrupts Obama health pitch
By Matthew Mosk - The Washington Times - Thursday, September 17, 2009
A heckler was escorted by uniformed officers from President Obama's speech to students at the University of Maryland College Park on Thursday after he briefly interrupted the president's defense of his health care program.
The young man, wearing a grey polo shirt and a beret, began yelling from his second-row seat at the university's cavernous basketball arena.
"Obama you're a liar. Obama, your health care kills children. Abortion is murder," he yelled.
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As the man was being escorted out, another man in the crowd grabbed his beret and tossed it, earning himself a police escort out of the arena.
The heckler drew immediate boos from those seated around him and then from a boisterous and supportive crowd, who gave the president repeated ovations. Some threw cups or crumpled paper bags at the hecker. Mr. Obama briefly paused from his remarks to ask, "What's going on?" But he quickly resumed his prepared remarks.
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The crowd roared as three uniformed officers led the man from his seat, up the arena steps, and out Gate 125.
The speech came during a sustained public relations blitz by Mr. Obama designed both to sell his plan to the American public and to put pressure on Congress to pass it.
The White House estimated the crowd at 15,000.
As part of that effort, the White House on Thursday tried to emphasize the bipartisan nature of his approach, even though the proposals being considered by a number of House and Senate committees have so far failed to attract a single Republican vote.
The White House released copies of a memorandum the president sent to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius instructing her to initiate work on pilot programs that are aimed at reducing the impact of medical malpractice lawsuits on the cost of health care. His proposal calls on the department to begin issuing $25 million in grants to states and organizations to jump-start and evaluate those efforts.
After the heckler was removed, Mr. Obama repeated his criticism of the way opponents to his proposal have carried themselves during the debate.
"Too often during this debate we've also seen the same kind of partisan spectacle," he said, "but when you ask them what their solution is … it's more of the same."
Though disruptions became a recurring feature of summer town-hall meetings held by members of Congress, the president held similar events around the country without such a scene unfolding.
"This is what they always do," he said, speaking broadly about the opposition to his efforts. "That's why I need your help. When I was running for president, I never said change was going to be easy. It's hard. It's always hard."

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The 2018/19 Bundesliga season is here with a mouthwatering fixture that will see champions Bayern Munich hoping for a blistering start against a Hoffenheim side that will come to the Allianz Arena, all guns out.
The last encounter between the two teams had seen Hoffenheim race into a 2-0 lead within the opening 12 minutes of the match, a setback that Bayern had not faced on its home soil in 40 long years. However, on that occasion in January of last season, the match concluded with the Bavarians responding with five goals to win comfortably, an outcome that Kovac and his men would love to repeat on the opening night.
There have been just three arrivals at Munich this summer, all of which were known before the end of the 2017/18 season. Leon Goretzka had agreed on a move from Schalke last January, while Serge Gnabry returned to Bayern after a season on loan at Hoffenheim. The biggest recruitment out was that of the new manager Niko Kovac, a former Bayern player, and the man tasked with taking over from legendary boss Jupp Heynckes.
"We have to try to bring joy, passion, team spirit and harmony," the recently appointed Kovac said ahead of his first Bundesliga match as Bayern coach. Interestingly, while he was managing Eintracht Frankfurt, he failed to oversee a win against Nagelsmann's Hoffenheim. Eintracht losing two and drawing the rest.
"The only chance you have against Bayern is if you play boldly. It will be difficult, but we are optimistic," Nagelsmann said ahead of Hoffenheim's first ever appearance in a Friday night Bundesliga opener. The division's youngest-ever coach when he arrived on the Hoffenheim scene as a 28-year-old in February 2016, Nagelsmann has managed to win twice and draw one of his four matches against the record champions.
As far as Bayern Munich is concerned, the state of their summer transfer window makes it seem like the Bavarians have decided to save their money this summer in the hope of making a mega-signing next year. With players like Paulo Dybala and Antoine Griezmann being considered for this deal. Nonetheless, summer of 2019 is a season away and could come following a campaign of relative disappointment for Kovac's men.
Bayern won the Bundesliga last season by 21 points and should take the title again this year, but probably not as comfortable due to Borussia Dortmund strengthening by spending cleverly in the transfer market and recruiting the weathered Lucien Favre as coach.
If Bayern manages to succeed this season too, it would be their seventh league title in a row, something which appears to have been taken as a given by the club's fans, who demand the club to compete for the treble year after year after having a taste of it in 2012/13 under Heynckes.
This being the first game of the league season, and against a tough opponent at that, Kovac is expected to start his best possible eleven.
In attack, we can expect to have Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Muller, with the flanks being managed by either Arjen Robben or Franck Ribery, if not both. The fans still continue to hope that Kingsley Coman will get his first competitive start under the new coach. However, after being proved wrong for the first time, we can't be too certain about that for the opening game which will be Kovac's third game. In midfield, we can expect Thiago Alcantara and Javi Martinez. to start. In defense, naturally it will be Joshua Kimmich at right back, David Alaba at left back (if fit, otherwise we can see Rafinha taking his place), and Mats Hummels at center back. The question is whether Niklas Sule or Jerome Boateng will be given the nod by the new manager. Considering the rumors of Boateng's departure, it's probably going to be Sule who starts on Friday. Behind the defense will be Manuel Neuer who will be looking forward to making his return to Bundesliga in style.
There's no secret that the losses Bayern suffered at the hands of Nagesmann have contributed largely to Carlo Ancelotti's waning at the club.
Will Kovac suffer the same fate as his much more experienced predecessor?
Trent Alexander Arnold : Liverpool's own.
Of all the brilliant stories behind Liverpool's thrilling run to the champions league final, Trent's story is right up there. This 19-year-old kid from West Derby has made waves ever since he's taken over the right-back spot at Liverpool since the injury of Nathanial Clyne. He first came into the limelight when he scored a brilliant free kick against Hoffenheim that kick-started Liverpool's journey to Kiev, and his game against Real Madrid meant that he became the youngest player in the club's history to play in the European club final and his rise has been nothing short of remarkable.
Just two years ago, the Liverpudlian youngster made his debut for Liverpool's under-21's and his journey to the main squad was not easy for the academy graduate. It's only his hard work and determination that has earned him a place in the main squad and he's just getting started. They say one man's loss is another man's gain and that's what has happened to Alexander Arnold when senior England right back Nathanial Clyne got injured and he's welcomed it with both hands making use of the opportunity he's got.
Trent's ability and willingness to learn from his mistakes have played a key role in his development because most young players today are reluctant to learn as they think they have already arrived which makes them complacent and therefore affects their game. He came under scrutiny when he was exposed by Manchester United winger Marcus Rashford and Crystal Palace winger Wilfred Zaha and although he has bounced back, he admits that he's aware of the fact that it won't be a smooth ride to the top, but he would always put in the hard work to cope with it.
But his greatest achievement in his young career as yet has to be his call-up for the English national squad that's traveling to Russia for the world cup. It's not often that your childhood dream of representing your country in a world cup comes true at the age of 19. Whether he gets game time or not, only time will tell but the experience that he will gain at such a young age is truly remarkable.


Just a few weeks ago our family made its way from Cincinnati to the Emerald Sands of Destin, Florida.
The family complexion had changed. Where just a short time ago, my wife and I were enjoying the moments of three boys growing into manhood, now those same boys were adult men with responsibilities – starting their own families and developing careers.
Over the years, we always managed to set aside money for a charter fishing trip during that vacation time. It was the highlight of our vacation and this vacation was not to be the exception.
The same methodical search took place for our Destin, Florida fishing captain that has taken place with the very first charter captain search.
At 5:45 am Thursday morning we met Captain JJ and requested to come on board. With permission granted, the adrenalin kicked in..
For those of you who have never fished for Bull Reds, let me assure you that this fish does not want to be caught.
It is very seldom that the Destin Bull Reds will hook themselves and when given the opportunity will high tail for a place that will snag and cut the line. Your better fishing skills must be brought to the table.
We did not bring our better fishing skills. The first several made fools of us. It added to the drama Who would be the first to land one. Would it be any of us? Travis was the one and for the next 45 minutes he reminded each one of us how much more fun it was to actually get a Bull Red in the boat. None of us appreciated his boasting.
Next it was Ryan, and thankfully now he had a picture to prove to his son he could catch fish. He was quick to emphasize to Kevin that it really was more fun to bring the Bull onto the boat.
Kevin was discusted with both of his brothers until he landed one that just happened to be the biggest Bull Red of them all.
For Destin Bull Reds look up Captain JJ.


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Q: grub filesystem is fat I was tweaking my Ubuntu 18.04 when I accidentally moved the hard drive on which it is installed. Unfortunately, I am now faced with a grub command line interface.
Here is what shows up when I run ls:
(hd0, gpt5) (hd0, gpt4) and others
After trial and error, I landed on hd0, gpt1 as others simply returned

Filesystem is unknown

The issue is running ls on hd0, gpt1 returns

Filesystem is fat.

How can I best recover my installation or even just boot to Windows?
I can't use sudo as it says command is unknown.
Please help a novice out.
Thanks a lot. (sorry, I'm now typing on my phone)

A: If one ever encounters this issue, it is actually not an error but simply a message. You can move down directories by using ls (hdX,gptY)/ which should show up your boot information. However, in  my case moving to Boot did not show grub.
Solution:
I bypassed the command line by using Ctrl+Alt+Delete and moving to Boot Load priority using F12 (for my brand) and finally moving on to boot. There was then an auto recovery ran that helped fix the issue finally letting me boot.


This lightly tinted green Mason Jar comes filled to the brim with fall charm. Large, full sunflowers are accented by beautiful fall Peruvian lilies. Golden solidago and cattails provide the finishing touch the this tall drink of fall.


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It was Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, whose efforts eventually led to what we recognize as Thanksgiving. Hale wrote many editorials championing her cause in her Boston Ladies' Magazine, and later, in Godey's Lady's Book. She was fired with the determination of having the whole nation join together in setting apart a national day for giving thanks "unto Him from who all blessings flow." In 1852, her campaign succeeded in uniting 29 states in marking the last Thursday of November as "Thanksgiving Day." Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorials and letters to governors and presidents, Hale's passion became a reality. In 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day "of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father."


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Tosca, Opera by G. Puccini
A classic story of vanity, jealousy, betrayal and death, Tosca by the great master of Italian opera Giacomo Puccini has long attained a cult status. The Leonardo Da Vinci Experience Museum in Rome presents you with the unique opportunity to see the classic work in a minimalist arrangement for principal vocal cast and an instrumental trio, a production that lays bare the Maestro's dramatic and musical genius. Included in your ticket is a tour through the museum and a 10 per cent discount in the shop. What better way to immerse yourself in true Italian culture?
The Leonardo Da Vinci Experience Museum is located in the heart of Rome, a short walk away from St Peter's Basilica. In it, you can immerse yourself into the wonderful, astounding world of one of the greatest inventors humankind has known. Starting at 7:00 pm, you are free to explore the museum with the help of an audio-guide, available in several languages, and see many of Da Vinci's fantastic inventions and visions recreated faithfully according to his copious notes. There are few better ways to experience Leonardo's gift, literally at an arm's length!
Once you have enjoyed your museum round, the performance of Tosca commences at 8:00 pm. In this 90-minute production, the intense plot that famously unfolds almost in real time is even more cinematic and engaging. Puccini's skilful operatic characterisation shines brightly in the famous arias such as 'Vissi d'arte', 'O dolci mani' or 'E lucevan le stelle'. The story of the jealous and vain singer Floria Tosca, her lover and secret revolutionary Cavaradossi, and the unscrupulous police commissioner Scarpia forms an intense triangle. As the plot takes its many shocking turns, the talented vocal cast and accompanists make Puccini's fantastic score the centre of the action.


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"The Pirates Have Seized the Ship"
Even as gunboats from across the globe move into their waters, the desperate, well-armed, and increasingly bold bandits of Somalia keep swarming the decks of the world's largest ships. They take what they want, they don't leave until the (higher and higher) ransoms are paid, and they won't stop until a modern-day war against piracy breaks out
by jeffrey gettleman
our little plane buzzed over the crumbling dunes, and the midday sun made the wasteland beneath us look impossibly bright and lifeless. We crossed over a ridge of mountains that gave way to a long empty beach and then a vast, beautiful expanse of teal blue. The pilot cut our speed, and the plane began its descent into Boosaaso, a booming pirate city and a portal into the chaotic underworld of Somalia.
The airport in Boosaaso is like most in this country, a strip of gravel with an outhouse and a corrugated-iron shack where a few veiled women stirred a murky pot of tea. Outside, in the thin lattice of shade provided by thorn trees, lurked the mooryaan, the half-starved young men with glassy eyes and loaded Kalashnikovs who haunt every nook and cranny of this country. Some of them wore military fatigues that drooped off their shoulders, making them look like boys in men's clothing, which they were. They watched as the plane rolled to a halt and the pilot opened the cabin door.
Friends who work for the United Nations in Kenya had warned me to stay away from Boosaaso. I had about a 100 percent chance of being stuffed into the back of a Toyota or shot in the head, they said, unless I was extremely well guarded, around the clock, in which case my chances were only marginally better. In Boosaaso you have to go through the local "government" to hire security, which really means you're going to criminals to hire security to protect you from criminals. The guards you're assigned may keep you from being kidnapped, or they may kidnap you themselves. There's a lot of money on the line, in a very poor place, so it's impossible to know which way it will go. (Shortly after I visited Boosaaso, two journalists who'd come here to get a closer look at Somalia's pirates were kidnapped for forty days, most likely sold out by their Somali fixer.)
I grabbed my bags and stepped out into the crushing light and heat. I'd been in contact with a young Somali journalist named Bulgaz, whom I'd deputized to line up security. He was wearing a polo shirt and wraparound shades when we met on the airstrip, and we shook hands and hugged Somali-style, shoulder to shoulder. He pulled me into a nearby four-wheel-drive truck with tinted windows, decorated like a gaudy mosque, with a feather boa covering the dashboard and gold-plated charms dangling from the rearview mirror. The windows were rolled up tight, and I nearly gagged from the overpowering smell of air freshener. Behind our truck was another pickup, with ten gunmen crouched in the back. I swiveled around to check out the guys in charge of saving my life. They looked back at me, unblinking. Their commander had just confiscated all their cell phones so that none of them could call in our location to anyone else, a smart move, security-wise, but one that immediately pissed them off. "Ten, like you said," Bulgaz said. "Let's go."
We bumped along a dirt road through a field of garbage, where goats snacked on plastic bags and thin little boys with sunken eyes watched over them. Women, veiled head to toe, trudged along the road hauling plastic jerricans sloshing with water. Occasionally a cart would pass, pulled by an emaciated donkey with every rib showing. It's impossible to overstate the level of poverty and human suffering in Somalia. After eighteen years without a functioning government, after ceaseless fighting and famine, it is the world's most failed state. And the grubby city of Boosaaso is the logical, Hobbesian end toward which all of Somalia is headed.
Boosaaso is perfectly positioned near the mouth of the Red Sea, at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia, to supply this lawless corner of the world with all its contraband needs: guns, drugs, expired baby formula, counterfeit electronics, counterfeit dollars, even smuggled human beings. If it's illegal and it makes money, then someone is trafficking in it here. When we arrived, the center of town was packed with people—money changers sitting sphinxlike in front of bricks of Somali shillings, waiting to convert pirate dollars into the filthy local notes; old men in skullcaps chewing camel steaks at dingy, whitewashed restaurants; boys hawking slices of watermelon from roadside carts. Several late-model Land Cruisers, trucks that cost at least $50,000, prowled the deeply rutted roads. As we moved through town, our driver jutted his finger toward a large white house with a steel gate. "C.I.A.," he said. He may have been right. It was an open secret that the American government was working with notorious figures in northern Somalia to track Islamist terrorists. Not far from the center of town was a neighborhood called New Boosaaso, where just beyond a cluster of refugee huts made from bits of cloth and cardboard rose a colony of palatial new homes with huge walls surrounding them and satellite dishes on their roofs. Spectral figures tramped through the dust on the way to their hovels, and right next to them were some of the nicest houses I had seen anywhere in Somalia, where so many buildings have been reduced to piles of machine-gun-chewed bricks. I suspected that this was where the pirates lived.
Thanks to Somalia, the world is in the midst of the greatest piracy epidemic since the Barbary Wars in the early nineteenth century. From Boosaaso and rocky little coves up and down the 1,900-mile coast, Somalia's pirates are threatening to choke off the Gulf of Aden, through which 20,000 ships pass each year. The economic consequences of all this piracy are potentially catastrophic. The world's biggest shipping companies are detouring their vessels thousands of miles around the Cape of Good Hope, at the bottom of Africa, rather than risking a voyage through Somalia's pirate-infested seas. Insurance costs are shooting up. Security bills are skyrocketing. The cash-starved Egyptian government could collapse if more ships avoid the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal, which provides Egypt with billions of dollars each year.
"We've never seen anything like this,'' said Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International Maritime Bureau in London. When we spoke in December, he told me that more than a dozen hijacked ships, with 300-plus hostages, were anchored just off the coast of Somalia. "You can see the images of these ships on Google Earth,'' he said. "Nowhere else in the world would this be tolerated.'' Somalia was gripped by "a national criminal ethos," Mukundan went on, and only now that pirates were threatening global trade did the world seem to care about it.
Since December, warships from China, India, Italy, Russia, France, the United States, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Greece, Turkey, Britain, and Germany have all joined the hunt for Somalia's pirates. But the pirates keep eluding them, keep hijacking merchant ships, and keep making millions in ransom payments. In the past year, they netted $120 million, an astronomical amount of money in a country where a fifth of the population is on the brink of starvation.
It's easy to think of the pirates as modern-day Robin Hoods, and in some respects they are. In Somalia, a whole mythology has grown around them. I've been told—though I haven't seen them—that entire malnourished villages along Somalia's coast are now being well-fed by the loot they bring in. Women bake bread for them; young men from the coastal villages board the ships once they're docked and act as extra muscle to guard the hostages; others serve as scouts, accountants, mechanics, and skiff builders. There's no doubt that in Somalia, crime pays—it's about the only industry that does—but this goes beyond just the money. With their black scarves covering their faces and submachine guns slung over their arms, Somalia's pirates are the real Jack Sparrows of the twenty-first century, minus the eyeliner. One young woman who lives near Boosaaso bragged about going to a pirate wedding that lasted two days. A band was flown in from neighboring Djibouti. There was nonstop dancing and an endless supply of goat meat. "They drive the best cars, they throw the best parties," she gushed. "We all want to marry them." She claimed that her own pirate boyfriend had just given her a small gift—$350,000 in cash. For young Somali men, pirate life is becoming too much to resist. Fishermen all along the coast have traded in their ragged fishing nets for rocket-propelled grenades.
despite the rash of piracy over the past year, it's only since fall that the pirates have become front-page news. In the last week of August, the MV Faina (MV stands for "motor vessel") set off from the port of Nikolayev in the Ukraine, bound for Mombasa, on Ken-ya's coast. It was a tall, lumbering freighter, painted blue and white. Its captain was Russian and its twenty-one crew members mostly Ukrainian. Its cargo was secret.
A month later, on September 25, the Faina put out an SOS. Three small speedboats were heading straight toward it, approaching fast, the typical pirate swarm. The next day, news broke that the Faina had been hijacked 200 miles off Somalia's coast. Its secret cargo, which was only reluctantly revealed by the Kenyan government, was thirty-three Soviet-designed T-72 battle tanks, 150 grenade launchers, six antiaircraft guns, and heaps of ammunition. Alarm bells started ringing—in Nairobi, Kenya's capital; in Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan; and in Washington, D.C.
The hijacking came at a precarious time for Somalia. The transitional government, a coterie of mostly ex-warlords that had been weak and unpopular since the day it was formed in 2004, was on the verge of collapse. The Islamist movement that had briefly controlled the country in 2006, and then was ousted by a joint Ethiopian-American military offensive, was now back, and American officials were convinced that an Islamist-led Somalia could blossom into a jihad factory like Afghanistan or the Sunni Triangle of Iraq.
By the time the gun-toting pirates climbed aboard the Faina, the Islamists were fighting their way toward Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. The Americans were terrified that the pirates would offload the tanks and other weapons and funnel them to the Islam-ists. Half a dozen American warships were quickly dispatched to tail the Faina, which had docked just off the coast."We can't let the Islamists get those tanks,'' one American diplomat told me. "It could change the whole balance of the war. There's no way these guys will get away with this.''
I agreed. It seemed, at the time, that the pirates were badly overplaying their cards, attracting too much notice to a problem that had been allowed to flourish for years largely because it had remained below the radar. I couldn't see how they could possibly escape, now that they were surrounded by warships and under constant surveillance by Defense Department satellites.
Over the last week of September, I repeatedly tried to make contact with the pirates on board the Faina (a high-level diplomat in Nairobi had slipped me the number for the satellite line on the ship's bridge), and when I wasn't doing that, I was boning up on all things pirate. The resemblance between the Somali pirates and their Barbary brethren was striking. By the 1600s, pirates from the Barbary Coast, which included what is today Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya, were seizing European vessels and ransoming their crews for enormous sums. Like the Somalis, the Barbary pirates usually kept their hostages alive—not out of any enlightened sense of humanity but simply because it was good business. They only hung captives from giant hooks or carved them into little pieces if they resisted. The Barbary pirates used small wooden corsairs, often powered by slaves chained to the oars, to swarm and attack the larger European ships. They hailed from a messy, underdeveloped part of the world and managed to harass and humiliate the greatest powers of the day. They would sack coastal towns in Italy and Spain, even as far as Iceland, and drag their captives back to the casbah. But their bravado became their demise.
The pirates had flourished for two centuries because various European countries—and eventually America—paid "tribute" to the pashas who underwrote their activities, and in exchange the pirates left their ships alone. In one year, 1797, the U.S. paid a million dollars in tribute fees, about a fifth of the national budget. Eventually, though, the Americans began to feel humiliated paying off a bunch of thugs in blousy pants, and in the early 1800s the American navy sailed across the Atlantic and pounded the Barbary Coast, bringing the long reign of the pirates to an end.
I figured the Faina would be a similar turning point, that the pirates had gone too far (they asked for $35 million when they learned what the cargo was) and their hubris was going to be the beginning of the end of the glory days of Somali piracy. But the guys on board the ship seemed completely unfazed that the most fearsome navy in the world had them pinned against Somalia's craggy shore. After three days of nothing but my phone ringing endlessly aboard the ship, my call was finally picked up by one of the pirates. He spoke English.
"Can I speak to the pirate spokesman, please?" (My contact in Nairobi had told me that they were more sophisticated than you'd expect and had appointed one of their own to handle PR.)
I heard some shouting in Somali, and then Sugule Ali, the pirates' official spokesman, got on the line.
"Haa," he said, the breathy Somali word for "yes."
Sugule seemed happy to chat. He talked for a while about the typical pirate diet—"rice, meat, bread, spaghetti—you know, normal human-being food"—and then he explained to us his notion of Somali piracy. "We don't consider ourselves sea bandits," he said. "We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas. We are simply patrolling our seas. Think of us like a coast guard."
the pirates often use this as a rationale for their actions. Somalia has some of the most bountiful seas in the world, and during peak seasons trawlers from around the globe converge here, using tactics like dynamiting reefs and employing waterborne vacuums to suck everything up—fish, coral, rocks, plants—from the ocean floor. Over the past few months, several fishermen turned pirates have told me how illegal fishing and toxic-waste dumping started in the early 1990s, shortly after the government collapsed, and how they often saw barrels containing who-knows-what bobbing in their seas. It was only a matter of time before the fishermen decided to strike back.
They began venturing out and boarding the trawlers and demanding that the captains pay a "tax," and before long they graduated to attacking freighters and oil tankers farther out at sea. Sometimes, Sugule explained to me, the pirates even used "mother ships," vessels they'd already hijacked, as bases on which to live and sustain themselves for weeks, hundreds of miles out in the ocean.
In another phone call, a different pirate on board, Jama Ali, described how they had been hiding out on a rock in the Gulf of Aden, spying on ships through a set of binoculars. At a certain spot in the gulf, he said, there is a narrow passage, which is where they'll often prey on ships that come in close. "If a car gets off the road, it might be in trouble," he said. "It is like that.
"We chased that Ukrainian ship for eight hours,'' Jama recalled. "We lost our ladder, but fortunately we climbed on the ship through the ropes on the side.'' (Security consultants later told me that leaving ropes dangling over the side of a ship when sailing past Somalia is a serious mistake.) Once on board, the pirates did a fast inventory of the cargo and discovered they'd hit the jackpot, Somali-style, with $30 million in arms now in their possession. They went through the paperwork on the bridge and learned that the T-72 tanks and grenade launchers were not destined for Kenya, as the Kenyan government claimed, but were actually headed to a former rebel army that now runs Southern Sudan, and that the port of Mombasa was simply the transit point. It was yet another shady African arms deal, which likely involved million-dollar kickbacks for the Kenyan officials who helped facilitate it, and the pirates had broken it wide open.
"These guys are pros," Andrew Mwangura, the head of the East Africa Seafarers Assistance Program in Kenya, told me. Many of the seafarers in Mwangura's organization have learned about Somali piracy the hard way, having been kidnapped and held for months. Still, he seemed impressed by, almost enamored of, the pirates. He explained that "investors" front the money for skiffs, guns, binoculars, GPS units, fuel, and cigarettes. The investors then take a slice of the ransom, usually about 20 percent, with another 20 percent set aside for future missions, 30 percent to bribe government officials, and the rest split between the pirates and their henchmen, who can number in the hundreds. The strings are pulled by Somali businessmen based in Kenya, Djibouti, Dubai, and even London. They have translators, accountants, money inspectors—an entire white-collar network that manages the operations from afar. Mwangura and other pirate experts told me that the investors have deep connections to Somalia's government, especially in the semiautonomous region of Puntland, where Boosaaso is. They estimated that on any given day, as many as 1,500 gunmen go out in skiffs to hunt down the ships, and thousands more work onshore guarding the captives.
Ransoms are normally paid in hand-offs on the ship, though in January, nearly two months after pirates had hijacked the Sirius Star, a Saudi supertanker, $3 million was dropped in a watertight orange case by an unmarked plane, the cash literally floating down by parachute and landing on the deck of the ship. After the pirates divvied up the booty, they were so anxious to get back to shore that they left in the middle of a storm. One of their skiffs capsized, and several pirates drowned. The body of one washed up on the beach with a soggy brick of $670,000 wrapped in his clothes, his $70,000 share plus an additional $600,000 for the investors. When I and a reporter working for me in Mogadishu tried to find out who that money belonged to, nobody in Xarardheere, the pirate town where the body was found, seemed to know. Some young kids onshore tried to run away with the cash, but elders swooped in, knowing that at some point the investors, wherever they were, would come calling.
in november, I took the train from Nairobi down to Mombasa, the steamy port town on Kenya's coast, and bribed my way past the port's main gate ($5 smacked with a smile into the guard's hand) to meet a Kenyan sailor named Athman Said Mangore, who brought me onto his jalopy of a ship. We sat in his fishy-smelling cabin, and he told me how he had been a captive for three months, kidnapped when he was working as a crew member on a ship sailing from Mombasa to Boosaaso with a shipment of rice for the United Nations World Food Program.
Three pirate skiffs struck in the dark, Mangore told me. "We didn't see them until they were on board." They were led by an older pirate named Captain Grey, who seemed to know the Somali seas intimately. "He was all right," Mangore remembered. "A short guy. Thin. Serious." Captain Grey tried to maintain discipline, Mangore said, and when he was present, the younger pirates didn't slap around their captives. But when he left, the pirates grew restless and wild. "They sprayed the windshield of the bridge with their guns," Mangore said. "They were angry about there not being enough water."
The pirates were often high on khat, the mildly stimulating leaf that Somalis chew like bubble gum. It was three months of hell living with them, Mangore said. His only redeeming memory, he told me, was of seeing a hundred-foot-long whale crash up through the water and then disappear. "I will never forget it," he said.
You would think that, with piracy such a threat to world trade, there would be a more concerted and robust response. But so far, no one seems to want to fully take the problem on. Some shipping companies are now hiring their own defenders, private security contractors fresh from Iraq who are taking gigs riding along as extra muscle on merchant voyages. I met a bunch of these guys lounging on a beach in Oman, swigging Heineken and talking about how, if it were up to them, they'd make the pirates walk the plank. Most had shaved heads and thick, tattooed arms, but that was it. No guns, no armaments. The ports in this region—with the exception of those in Somalia—don't allow weapons, and the guards are forced to confront machine-gun-toting pirates with fire hoses. (In one attack, Filipino sailors unsuccessfully pelted pirates with tomatoes.)
As for why the rest of the world doesn't want to get more involved, part of the problem has to do with the perceived legal complications of capturing and prosecuting pirates (though international-law scholars I spoke with say any country can arrest and prosecute robbers on the high seas). Then there's the bigger fear of getting sucked back into Somalia. Most military experts I've talked to say the only way to really stamp out piracy is to take out the pirates onshore. But there's the rub, because no one wants to put boots on Somali ground. The Black Hawk Down episode, in which Somali militiamen in flip-flops shot down two Black Hawk helicopters and killed eighteen American soldiers, is still fresh in everyone's memory. So for now it remains a game of chase, played out on about a million square miles of water.
I went out in December with the Italian navy on a pirate hunt, cruising the Arabian Sea on a 485-foot destroyer loaded with torpedoes, surface-to-air-missiles, heavy-caliber machine guns, radar, sonar, and infrared cameras. The Italians served up some great coffee and a mean buffet, but I got the sense that they wouldn't know what to do with a real-live pirate if they caught one. The captain told me their mission was to escort food ships and scare away the pirates. They didn't even have a brig on board, he said.
The Danish navy has arrested suspected pirates several times, apprehending young Somali men cruising around in speedboats with guns, ladders, and no fishing rods. But each time, the Danes concluded they didn't have the jurisdiction to prosecute because there was no evidence that the pirates had attacked Danish citizens.
The strategy right now is to deter attacks and then, if a ship gets hijacked, to "negotiate"—which is what the diplomats say when what they really mean is "pay off the pirates." And in each case, it actually makes sense to fork over the ransom. Even 2 or 3 million bucks (the highest ransoms yet) are cheaper than a new ship or a cargo of tanks or taking out life insurance for two dozen men. But taken as a whole, the ransom strategy is fueling the piracy and drawing in more wannabe buccaneers. And no shipping company wants to be the first to call the pirates' bluff.
As of late January, the Faina was still being held by pirates, despite the six American warships and Russian frigate pinning it against the shore. Ukrainian officials were begging the Americans not to make any rash moves. Payment would be coming, the Ukrainians assured the pirates, but there seemed to be some dispute over who was going to pay—the shipowner or the owner of the tanks or the families of the crew. (At the time of publication, the Israeli owner of the ship appeared to be close to agreeing on a ransom, although this had been rumored before.) The awkward reality is that the Faina was part of a secret arms deal, and no one involved believed it would ever be made public, until that SOS went out. It's exactly the kind of situation—a ship filled with illegal weapons, captured by well-armed and desperate and unpredictable men, surrounded by boats with massive amounts of firepower—that could spiral very quickly out of control.
in somalia, especially in Boosaaso, the local government is more than happy to throw pirates in jail. The leaders in Puntland are savvy enough to know that the Western world is fed up with the pirates, and the last thing they want is U.N. troops coming on land and shutting them down with force. Publicly, the officials say they are doing all they can to crack down on piracy. Privately, though, several Boosasso officials told me the government was rolling in pirate dough. "I know for a fact people in the Puntland administration are pirates," one member of the administration told me. When I pressed him for names, though, all he would say is, "It's not me."
Suspect number one is Mohamud Muse Hirsi, also known as Adde Muse, who was the president of Puntland until his colleagues ousted him in January. Many pirate experts say that Adde Muse works closely with the pirates and that there is no way Boosaaso could be the place it is today without his involvement. Several pirates told me that they, too, had to dish Adde Muse and his associates Barbary-style "tribute'' payments to keep operating.
When I visited him in October, Adde Muse bristled at the suggestion that he might be corrupt. "That's not true,'' he scolded. "We're the leaders of this country.'' The shades were drawn in his dimly lit office, but he still had his sunglasses on. He looked a bit like a gangster slouching in his chair, surrounded by sycophants, his copious soft belly spilling out of his shirt. He was a warlord not so long ago, and he had the same warlord habits I'd encountered in Somalia many times before—short on listening skills, physically intimidating but also, at the same time, friendly and seemingly aware of the absurdity of this whole place.
Adde Muse said his militia had recently arrested several dozen men who were planning attacks and that the pirates had been sentenced to a year in jail. "You want to see them?" he asked me. "You are free."
We jumped into our tinted-window truck and drove out of the presidential palace, past the parking lot full of technicals (the distinctly Somali invention of a jeep with the roof ripped off and a cannon riveted on back), and headed again through the fields of garbage to the outskirts of Boosaaso. The jail was down a gravel road, and since we had been given the big man's approval, the ancient wardens scrambled to their feet when we arrived and nervously dug into their pockets for their rings of keys.
They walked us briskly toward the cellblock, which had a basketball court in the middle. Guards with AK-47's prowled the tops of the prison walls. Inmates in the cellblocks thrust their arms through the bars and pleaded for water. They were packed into bare concrete rooms like sheep being led to slaughter. Some were old and shriveled. Some were just boys, including a tender-faced kid I met who'd slipped a knife into someone's ribs for teasing him. When I first walked into the courtyard, I turned to a nearby inmate who'd said hello to me in perfect English and asked him where I could find some pirates.
"Pirates? Pirates?'' he exclaimed, staring at me like I was an idiot. "This jail is full of pirates! This whole city is pirates!''
I quickly learned the pirates had special status here. They were the only inmates not cooped up in the filthy, sauna-like cells. They lounged freely on the basketball court, men with wispy beards and little, stony eyes. At first, none of them would look straight at me. They'd say something bold, like how they've made "big money, big money, a million bucks!" and then flick back their filthy heads and cackle. I scribbled down the quotes, sweat dripping off my face, woozy from the heat and the ripe, musky aroma of hundreds of unwashed men. One after the other told me about how rich he was, how rich they all were, how they had so much money they could have whatever they wanted.
One of them, Jama Abdullahi, was a tall, lean pirate with a checkered, Arab-style scarf and a serious case of ADD. I chased him around the basketball court as I interviewed him. He spoke some English, telling me the name of his operation was "Somali Coast Land.''
"You mean 'Coast Guard,' '' another pirate shot in.
"Whatever,'' Jama grunted. And he plunged back into the stories about cruising around in fast boats packed with AKs, RPGs, and bazookas, hijacking whatever crossed his path. "We got more than 500 people working for us," he said. "We make millions."
Who knows, maybe this was true. Maybe for a bunch of them it was true. Maybe they had million-dollar homes in New Boosaaso with Land Rovers parked in front of them. Maybe when they went into town, the women swooned around them and gave them whatever they desired. Certainly this was the case for some of Somalia's pirates, but the more I talked to these guys, the more their bravado struck me as an act and the sadder it began to seem.
The real pirate money was going elsewhere, to men who wore suits and had secretaries and went to offices in towering buildings, men who would never see this jail and likely never even see the shitty, lawless city of Boosaaso. The notion that the Somali pirates were Robin Hoods fighting back by going after the boats that have raped their seas—that notion is nothing but a sentimental fantasy to lay over the much uglier reality of Somalia. At best, the richest men in Boosaaso are just the current iteration of the country's infamous warlords, making millions off the chaos around them and spreading some of that wealth to the grunts beneath them. That wasn't these guys. These guys were fighting just to survive. They picked up a Kalashnikov and got on a boat because it was their way to eat.
We stood in a disappearing slice of shade. They were sickeningly skinny, with protruding collarbones and twiggy legs, most of them around six feet tall and 120 pounds. They had cracked yellow teeth. Their eyes were rheumy, and their hands were calloused by years of pulling in nets. What they really wanted to talk about was fishing. A pirate named Dirie told me about his old fishing boat. "Eight tons," he said, smiling. "An inboard engine, three pistons." He said that after the fish vanished from near the shore, he took his boat farther out into the ocean. But the big foreign fishing trawlers cut his nets and sent him home. Jama joined in the conversation. He was calmer now, talking about his family's seafood business, now defunct, how lobster and shark were the big sellers. His dad and his grandfather had both been fishermen. "Brother," he said, as he stared at the coils of razor wire all around him, "I miss the seas."
jeffrey gettleman is the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times.
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  let { pathTo } = params;
  if (type === 'problemset') {
    return getEndpoint(`/problemset${pathTo}`);
  } else if (type === 'gym') {
    let { contestNumber } = params;
    return getEndpoint(`/gym/${contestNumber}${pathTo}`);
  }
}

async function getContextRow(solution, systemAccount) {
  let { type, contestNumber, symbolIndex } = parseProblemIdentifier(solution.Problem.foreignProblemIdentifier);
  let userStatus, found = false,
    attemptsNumber = 0, maxAttemptsNumber = 10;

  while ((!userStatus || !found) && attemptsNumber < maxAttemptsNumber) {
    await Promise.delay(100 + attemptsNumber * 50);
    attemptsNumber++;
    console.log(`Attempt number: ${attemptsNumber}`);
    userStatus = await getUserStatus({
      handle: systemAccount.instance.systemLogin,
      count: 1,
      from: 1
    });
    let { result } = userStatus;
    let contextRow = (result || []).filter(row => {
      let { contestId, problem, author } = row;
      let isSolutionOwner = author.members.findIndex(member => {
        return member.handle === systemAccount.instance.systemLogin
      }) >= 0;
      return contestId === contestNumber
        && problem.index === symbolIndex
        && isSolutionOwner;
    }).map(row => {
      return {
        solutionId: row.id,
        handle: systemAccount.instance.systemLogin,
        problemIdentifier: { type, contestNumber, symbolIndex }
      }
    });
    if (!contextRow.length) {
      continue;
    }
    contextRow = contextRow[0];
    let existSolution = await models.Solution.findOne({
      where: {
        internalSolutionIdentifier: `${systemAccount.instance.systemType}${contextRow.solutionId}`
      }
    });
    if (!existSolution) {
      return contextRow;
    }
  }
  return null;
}

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

export async function debugPage (page, account) {
  const $page = await $getPage(page, account);
  const pathTo = path.join(__dirname, "/test.html");
  fs.writeFileSync(pathTo, $page.html());

  console.log('PAGE SAVED', page);
}

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It's A Level results day today (Thursday) but if things don't quite go to plan for you, help is at hand.
The Samaritans are available round the clock to speak to anyone who didn't get the results they wanted.
George from the Buxton and High Peak branch, said: "Samaritans volunteers are here round the clock, every day of the year for anyone who is struggling to cope after the AS and A Level results.
"We keep conversations private and we won't judge.
Samaritans volunteers also carry out outreach work in their branch areas and are available at festivals, in some city centres at weekends and sixth forms and further education colleges.
To contact Samaritans call 08457 90 90 90, email jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org/branches to find details of the nearest branch.


Cat Power still has an amazing voice on this track.
Everything Shifted touches turns to gold it seems.
Why don't we see the Peak more often. It's a beautiful machine.
Can't get enough of this artist, thanks @tumulishroomaroom for turning me onto him.
You're welcome ! Got one of his early release on 12" the other day. Need to get this one too !
Just discovered Phoebe Bridgers. Oh, my! What a voice.


The Nouvelle Mosquee de Vendredi is a mosque in the Indian Ocean country of Union of the Comoros. The Vendredi Mosque is noted for its unique Comoran architectural style. The Nouvelle Mosquee de Vendredi is located in the biggest island of the archipelago-Ngazidja. Ngazidja is also known as Grande Comore. The Nouvelle Mosquee de Vendredi in Comoros is situated in the country capital Moroni. The Vendredi mosque is used to hold daily prayers.


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Is Your City A "No Kill" City? Madrid Is Now
With the Ebola scare earlier this year, not all casualties were human. The city of Madrid was forced to euthanize a family dog named Excalibur after the owners were quarantined in the city for possible infection. Today, that could have been different, as Madrid has officially become a no-kill city as of March 12th. This law forbids the euthanizing of stray dogs, and makes Madrid a more humanitarian city for pets and people alike.
The group known as El Refugio is largely to thank for the new change in policy. El Refugio is an advocacy group for the humane treatment and rescue of animals. Their efforts are a testament to the strength and persistence of the group – El Refugio has been wearing down Madrid's lawmakers for the past 19 years in an effort to get this legislation passed. But with increasing support over the years, including over 62,000 signatures in a petition for a change last year alone, the group was finally able to end the city's kill laws.
The news of the change came as a great celebration, and supporters and volunteers from El Refugio gathered in the city's square known as Puerta Del Sol to mark the occasion with brightly colored signs in Spanish that read "Death is Dead." The president of El Refugio, Nacho Paunero, was ecstatic about their victory, saying that he had been fighting without stopping for 19 years to make the Madrid area a no-kill zone.
Madrid's former policy was to euthanize any animals who weren't adopted or claimed 10 days after being brought to a shelter. This policy had been in effect since 1990, and El Refugio claims that between the years of 2006 and 2012 alone the city put down 130,000 dogs and cats. With their victory and celebration, many homeless animals will live another day to hopefully find shelter, care, and a loving human companion.


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Gardens aren't all about plants, they're a place for relaxing with family, friends and pets. On this page you'll find photos from our members of their pets and gardens.
So many member have cats and dogs that we also have other pages just for pet dogs and pet cats.
This page is maintained by Terratoonie, who brings together photos, blogs and questions on pets in the garden from around Grows on You.


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This is what you would expect to find on the shores of Newfound Lake in NH. A beautifully restored year round Victorian with a private setting on .57 acres. Two fireplaces, wood-stove, hardwood floors, a modern kitchen, beachfront porch to view sunsets and boating activity. Included also are 2 garages, in-law/guest quarters. This Newfound Lake home is located in low tax Bridgewater NH. The home boasts 7 rooms with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Listed by Old Mill Properties Realtors. This home could be your vacation destination or your primary home. Close to skiing, restaurants and shopping. For additional information on this home call Lady of the Lake Realty at 1-888-737-5550 or e-mail at info@nhlakesrealty.com or visit our website to view similar lake homes in New Hampshire at www.nhlakesrealty.com or www.lakeorskirealestate.com Contact us today!


The Philippines and Thailand played out a scrappy goalless draw last night in the first leg of their AFF Suzuki Cup semi-final tie at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. It was not your proverbial sight for sore eyes; but then, semi-finals seldom are and it was a cracking match nonetheless.
Last night's result mirrors that of two years ago when the Azkals drew the home leg at the same venue then lost by the narrowest of margins to eventual champions Singapore. However, that is just about where the similarities end.
In 2012, Singapore was an experienced and disciplined side that came to close shop and methodically prevented the Philippines from playing. In contrast, the Thais last night were neither experienced nor disciplined.
The Philippines could have come away from the match with the cushion of a two goal lead. Crucially, Thailand's captain and goalkeeper Kawin Thamsatchanan managed to reach an exquisite curling freekick from Phil Younghusband in the 32nd minute to keep the game goalless.
One rather suspects that Younghusband will have the ultimate say in this intriguing cup tie with Thailand. Last night, the exquisite freekick apart, he looked at times over-eager and on one or two instances could have picked out better placed teammates but chose not to.
In the 53rd minute, a pin-point pass from Daisuke Sato sent Younghusband through on goal with just the goalkeeper to beat. The Philippines' top striker, however, lost his footing just at the point of shooting.
Although traditional thinking has it that a goalless draw is something of a disadvantage to take to an away leg of a cup tie, for the Philippines this may not necessarily be so.
Two years ago, the Azkals looked out of their depth in the semi-finals against a physically strong Singapore side that was prepared to use fair and foul means to keep them out.
Last night, the Filipinos might not have played with the panache with which Indonesia was put to the sword in the group stages; but instead played with Singapore's you-shall-not-pass attitude of two years ago.
The Philippines' defending was still not perfect, and, indeed, too many freekicks were still being conceded in dangerous positions. Significantly, however, defending at set pieces was outstanding.
Moreover, the Thais were out-hustled, out-tackled and out-muscled in a way that no team in Southeast Asia has done to them since they lost the 2012 final to Singapore. That the Philippines were the first team last night to prevent the Thais from scoring in the current tournament should not be overlooked.
The Thais looked attractive with their neat one-touch passing; and not that this unlocked the Philippines' defence last night. In fact, they faded badly after dominating the opening quarter of an hour and allowed the Philippines to get on top as the match wore on.
That they would have a go at the Philippines early in the match was, apparently, something that the Azkals' coaching staff was well aware of. Such has been the fitness and work ethic of Thomas Dooley's team that the players worked their proverbial socks off first to absorb Thailand's initial forays then later to dominate the game.
This cup tie, therefore, remains finely balanced and can swing either way. For the Thais, any home leg advantage is already tempered by the knowledge that main striker Kirati Keawsombut will likely be unavailable because of an apparent hamstring injury suffered last night.
Neither can the Thais avail of the services of his substitute Adisak Kraisorn, who was given his marching orders after an off-the-ball assault on young Amani Aguinaldo.
For the Philippines, the primary question will be if the team can play at the same level of focus and commitment inside a packed stadium in Bangkok this coming Wednesday. Crucially, the experience of having played before a raucous and hostile crowd in Hanoi last week, albeit in a losing effort, may yet serve a purpose.
Who knows, maybe liberated of the psychological need to please the home crowd, Younghusband may yet be the one who fires the Philippines in the finals. At the very least, he is due a good game. Bangkok beckons, Phil.


Designing your ID card is now simple and quick. All you have to do is follow a few simple steps and you get the cards you need for your personal use, employees, volunteers or guests. Today we look at the typical procedure you go through when designing these cards.
Before you can decide on the design for the Identification cards, you need to identify the need for the card. This can be for identification or security, or both. For instance, you might be opening a new business and you need ID cards to identify who is who in the business. Or, you might be running a mall and you need to have cards for your customers and workers to differentiate them.
The need for these cards varies from one entity to another. The need will dictate various aspects of designing the card as well.
Once you identify the need to make ID cards, the next step is to determine the total number of cards you need for the specific purpose. The number will depend on the need for cards. For instance, if you need special ID cards for the IT department, then you need to know the number of employees in this department and come up with the exact number of pieces for them.
This is why it is vital that you know the number of people who need the cards and make an order for them. At times you might have to create more in cases where you only have an estimate of the required cards. This can happen in situations such as an event that is open, which doesn't have a specific number of attendees.
The kind of information to include on the card will determine the size and style of ID card you end up with. Simple cards will be small and have minimum information. However, designing a photo ID with a lot of information will require more space. Depending on the information you need to display on the card, you might end up designing and printing a double-sided ID card for your needs.
Information to include on the card might be the name of the person, the designation, the role, and more information pertinent to the event or organization. Take time to get the right information so that you print the card once and for all.
After coming up with the information, you can now design the card. You can opt for one of the templates from one of the top ID card providers. Go ahead and hop over there to see the available templates to come up with the perfect ID cards for your needs.
Coming up with the right ID cards for your company or business is not hard at all. What you need is to know why you need the cards in the first place then gather the required information for this task. Finally, design the cards using the information you have collected.


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There's always an island lodge off the coast of Australia or a rustic-luxury tented camp in the vast deserts of Namibia. with rustic fixtures including claw-foot tubs, outdoor rain showers and enor.
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"Though born in Henan Province, he built his career in Guangdong, where he became Party chief in 1965 at the remarkably tender age of 46. Like countless other officials, he was purged during the Cultural Revolution; he was assigned the relatively menial task of being a fitter at the Xiangzhong Mechanics Factory in Hunan Province. Zhao Wujun, the youngest of his four sons (there is also one daughter), worked with him. The family lived in a small apartment nearby with a suitcase in the middle of the living room that served as the dinner table.
Zhao's return from exile shows the high regard Beijing's leaders had for him. As Zhao once described it to friends, in April 1971 the Zhao family was suddenly roused in the middle of the night by a banging at the door. Without explanation, the factory's Party chief informed Zhao that he was to go at once to Changsha, the provincial capital. The factory's only means of transport was a three- wheeled motorcycle, which was quickly readied to take him.
Zhao was driven to Changsha's airport, where a plane had been prepared to fly him to Beijing. Still unaware of what was happening, he boarded the plane; it landed in Beijing, and he was driven to the well-appointed Beijing Hotel. Zhao said he didn't sleep all night; after his years in the political wilderness, the mattress was too soft.
In the morning, he was taken for a meeting with Premier Zhou Enlai at the Great Hall of the People. When they met, Zhao began a speech he had been preparing all night: "I have been rethinking the Cultural Revolution during these years as a labourer – " Zhou cut him off and told him, "You've been called to Beijing because the Central Committee has decided to name you as a deputy Party chief of Inner Mongolia."
Zhao later learned that Chairman Mao himself had been responsible for his return from political exile. Mao one day had suddenly asked an attendant whatever happened to Zhao Ziyang? When he was told that Zhao had been purged and sent to the countryside as a labourer, Mao expressed his displeasure with the excesses of the purification effort he had launched with the Cultural Revolution: "Purging every single person? That's not what I want … " With that, Zhao Ziyang was rehabilitated."
Adi Ignatius, Prisoner of the State. The secret journal of Zhao Ziyang.
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A penniless lieutenant
Una decisión histórica
A cotton pad over their heart
La sua voce avuto un colore
Il cotello nello stomaco della moglie
Battle for the Pearl River Delta
Obama al parany xinès
Urgència per fer amics a la Xina
When Obama came to China
Partits i comparses
Three bullets into his head
Furtwängler (nota blanca i negra)
The night Zhou Enlai was drunk under the table
Cap més futur que Bach
Your son is AWOL
Mentre pixes sang


As the saying goes; Only two things are certain in this world…death and taxes. Yet even knowing this, most of us don't plan for the certainty. The need for a death plan is as essential as estate planning. Knowing this, your wishes can minimize the trauma and ease the minds of those left behind. If your death occurred today, could your loved ones answer any of the following questions?
Who is responsible for your funeral arrangements? Do you wish to be cremated? If your spouse is your primary administrator, suppose he or she dies in a common accident, who then makes the decisions? Where did you want to be buried? Do you already own a cemetery plot? If so, where is the deed?
Pre-need planning can alleviate the guesswork, make a difficult situation a bit easier, and bring peace of mind to those left behind. Should you wish to discuss your pre-need planning, contact our superintendent at 508 699 2141.


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Press Release -- August 25th, 2015
Source: Windstream, Zayo Group
Windstream Carrier Solutions Leverages Zayo's Data Center Connectivity for 100G Expansion
BOULDER, Colo. – August 25, 2015 – zColo, Zayo Group's (NYSE: ZAYO) data center and colocation business, announced that Windstream, a provider of voice and data network communications, cloud computing, and managed services, has selected Zayo to deploy its core network infrastructure within Zayo's colocation facilities in the New York metro market.
The Windstream deployment was driven by Windstream's 100G long haul express network expansion that upgraded and modernized its Northeast regional and metro DWDM network. Zayo will deploy colocation infrastructure for Windstream at zColo facilities located at 60 Hudson Street in New York City, and 165 Halsey Street in Newark. Combined, the two carrier-neutral colocation facilities provide connectivity to more than 300 customers and key carriers, enabling Windstream Carrier Solutions to offer its metro and long haul wave services to an extended customer base in the Northeast.
"zColo's carrier-neutral environment and in-building connectivity in the region provides more connectivity options, flexibility, and value for those connected and seeking to connect to Windstream's network," said Steve Finnerty, vice president of sales at Zayo. "These two locations are critical hubs for interconnection and bandwidth infrastructure on the East Coast and will provide Windstream flexibility in connecting its network to customers."
"The colocation relationship with Zayo in New York further enhances Windstream Carrier Solutions' already robust ability to serve customers with high-bandwidth needs," said Buddy Bayer, vice president of Transport Engineering for Windstream. "Expanding our long haul express network provides reliable, high-capacity connectivity from the New York metropolitan area to markets across the U.S."
Learn more about zColo's carrier-neutral colocation options at zayo.com/services/colocation.
About Zayo Group
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) provides bandwidth infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud services to the world's leading businesses. Customers include wireless and wireline carriers, media and content companies and finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. Zayo's 84,000-mile network in the U.S. and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. In addition to high-capacity dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet and other connectivity solutions, Zayo offers colocation and cloud services in its carrier-neutral data centers. Zayo provides clients with flexible, customized solutions and self-service through Tranzact, an innovative online platform for managing and purchasing bandwidth and services. For more information, visit zayo.com.
About Windstream
Windstream, a FORTUNE 500 company, is an industry-leading network and technology solutions provider for consumers, small to medium sized businesses, enterprise organizations and carrier partners across the United States. As an industry leader, Windstream delivers premiere communications solutions and services in every customer experience. The company boasts a robust nationwide network of over 115,000 fiber route miles, 27 data centers, award winning technologies and more than 13,000 employees – including numerous industry certified experts.
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