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Hawk banding shack with downtown Boise in the background.
Here Jay Carlisle is setting up the mist net triangle. A bait bird will be placed in the center with the hope trapping hawks that fly in after the bait.
Jay is setting one of the bow nets. Half of the trap is folded back and is spring loaded to flip up and over the hawk. The bow trap is held down with a tiny wire connected to a string. The string runs into the shack and is pulled when the hawk is safely in the middle of the trap. At one point that morning, a hawk was in the trap area, but Jay couldn't see if it was in the middle area or not. He did not spring the trap and the hawk flew off. The safety of the bird comes before the science!
A dove is placed into a leather harness and attached to a rope. The bait bird is then placed on the ground. The rope can be pulled from inside the shack to cause the dove to lift and flap its wings thereby attracting the hawks. The pigeon is used most as it is the largest and can quickly get a hawk's attention from a long ways away. Once it has the hawk's attention, the doves or sparrows are used to lure the hawk to the appropriately sized trap.
Even the bait birds get a little TLC with birdseed and water. The House Sparrows are also given a little half-buried wooden shelter. Very few bait birds are actually harmed during the whole capture process.
Looking through the viewing gap on the shack we scan the hills for hawks. Once we see one, Jay tugs on the bait bird ropes to get the hawk's attention. It is stunning and exhilarating to see how quickly these hawks will make their approach and attack. Within seconds of us setting up the traps and entering the cover of the shack we had three Sharp-shinned Hawks and two Cooper's Hawks all at once. It was quite a sight watching Jay shifting between pulling the bait ropes for four different traps while keeping at the ready to pull the trap trigger stings.
Jay is removing a hatch-year Cooper's Hawk from one of the bow nets, our first capture of the day.
Here Jay delicately removes our second catch of the day from the mist net, a hatch-year Sharp-shinned Hawk.
The hawk is checked out for general health and for parasites. They also check the crop to see if it is full or not. The Sharp-shinned we caught had recently eaten another bird.
The hawk is placed headfirst into a homemade tube of taped together soup cans. This allows the banders hands to be free to measure and weigh the hawk without getting gripped in sharp talons or bitten with a powerful beak. The whole process from capture to release lasts only about five minutes.
Here a young Sharp-shinned is about to be released over the skies of Boise. Happy migration! We hope somebody somewhere catches you again so we can learn more about you!
Their release was delayed a little bit this morning because some dumb blogger was there wanting to take pictures and was excited to learn more about the distinguishing characteristics between Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks. In-the-hand, both species are really easy to tell apart, much more so than in a tree or in flight. Color pattern, eye color, relative tail length, etc are so easy up close and personal.
It was such an honor to hold these raptors in my hands and to see them up close. These are birds worthy of study and protection. Please consider a donation to the Idaho Bird Observatory to further their research. Support can be given through their website here.
Coming up next...a photo quiz based on a few of the birds that were banded during my visit to the Idaho Bird Observatory. Please check back in a couple days to hone you bird i.d. skills!
That is a really well documented story (as is the previous one). Good pictures plus you show great empathy with the subject matter. Such a positive treatment will I am sure result in donations and more volunteers to help with such essential, rewarding but not always recognised work. Great Stuff.
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Ooh, another great post. Visiting a hawk banding station is HIGH on my to do list - hopefully this fall!


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Q: Spark - Keep partitioning when reading and writing table I use Spark (especially pyspark) and have the following scenario:

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*There are two tables (A and B)

*A is partitioned by columns c and d.

*I want to read all the data from A, do a tiny transformation (e.g. adding one static column) and then save the result to B.

*B should have the exact same partitioning as A.

*Shuffling needs to be avoided since we have 3 billion rows

So from a logical perspective, it should be very easy to make this happen without any shuffling.
But how?
Version 1
df = spark.read.parquet("pathToA")
df = df.withColumn("x", f.lit("x"))
df.write.format("parquet").save("pathToB")

In this case, table B is not partitioned at all.
Version 2
df = spark.read.parquet("pathToA")
df = df.withColumn("x", f.lit("x"))
df.write.format("parquet").partitionBy("c", "d").save("pathToB")

In this case, there is a lot of shuffling going in, it takes forever.
Version 3
df = spark.read.parquet("pathToA")
df = df.withColumn("x", f.lit("x"))
df = df.repartition("c", "d")
df.write.format("parquet").partitionBy("c", "d").save("pathToB")

Same as version 2 -> lots of shuffling, does never finish.
If anyone has an idea on how to archive this without shuffling, it would be very helpful! Thanks alot in advance!
Best regards,
Benjamin

A: defacto you cant version 2 is the correct way:
df = spark.read.parquet("pathToA")
df = df.withColumn("x", f.lit("x"))
df.write.format("parquet").partitionBy("c", "d").save("pathToB")

what you could do instead is if version 1 is not shuffling at all you could read in every permutation of c, d that exists by itself which would be the same as version 1. But I doubt that will be faster:
permutations = [(c,d) for (c,d) in df.dropDuplicates(['c','d']).collect()]

for (c, d) in permutations:
  df = spark.read.parquet("pathToA").filter(f'c = "{c}" AND d = "{d}"')
  df = df.withColumn("x", f.lit("x"))
  df.write.format("parquet").save(f'pathToB/c={c}/d={d}')

This is kind of workaroundy and I think if you have a hive table on top of that folder you would need to use msck repair table to refresh it.

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Bible > Numbers > Chapter 34 > Verse 10
◄ Numbers 34:10 ►
"You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.
And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham:
And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham;
From thence they shall mark out the bounds towards the east side from the village of Enan unto Sephama.
And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
And ye shall designate your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
Numbers 34:10 Parallel
The southern boundary is the same as that given in Joshua 15:2-4 as the boundary of the territory of the tribe of Judah. We have first the general description, "The south side shall be to you from the desert of Zin on the sides of Edom onwards," i.e., the land was to extend towards the south as far as the desert of Zin on the sides of Edom. על־ידי, "on the sides," differs in this respect from על־יד, "on the side" (Exodus 2:5; Joshua 15:46; 2 Samuel 15:2), that the latter is used to designate contact at a single point or along a short line; the former, contact for a long distance or throughout the whole extent ( equals כּל־יד, Deuteronomy 2:37). "On the sides of Edom" signifies, therefore, that the desert of Zin stretched along the side of Edom, and Canaan was separated from Edom by the desert of Zin. From this it follows still further, that Edom in this passage is not the mountains of Edom, which had their western boundary on the Arabah, but the country to the south of the desert of Zin or Wady Murreh, viz., the mountain land of the Azazimeh, which still bears the name of Seir or Serr among the Arabs (see Seetzen and Rowland in Ritter's Erdk. xiv. pp. 840 and 1087). The statement in Joshua 15:1 also agrees with this, viz., that Judah's inheritance was "to the territory of Edom, the desert of Zin towards the south," according to which the desert of Zin was also to divide the territory of Edom from that of the tribe of Judah (see the remarks on Numbers 14:45). With Numbers 34:3 the more minute description of the southern boundary line commences: "The south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward," i.e., start from "the tongue which turns to the south" (Joshua 15:2), from the southern point of the Dead Sea, where there is now a salt marsh with the salt mountain at the south-west border of the lake. "And turn to the south side (מנּגב) of the ascent of Akrabbim" (ascensus scorpionum), i.e., hardly "the steep pass of es Sufah, 1434 feet in height, which leads in a south-westerly direction from the Dead Sea along the northern side of Wady Fikreh, a wady three-quarters of an hour's journey in breadth, and over which the road from Petra to Heshbon passes,"
(Note: See Robinson, vol. ii. pp. 587, 591; and v. Schubert, ii. pp. 443, 447ff.)
as Knobel maintains; for the expression נסב (turn), in Numbers 34:4, according to which the southern border turned at the height of Akrabbim, that is to say, did not go any farther in the direction from N.E. to S.W. than from the southern extremity of the Salt Sea to this point, and was then continued in a straight line from east to west, is not at all applicable to the position of this pass, since there would be no bend whatever in the boundary line at the pass of es Sufah, if it ran from the Arabah through Wady Fikreh, and so across to Kadesh. The "height of Akrabbim," from which the country round was afterwards called Akrabattine, Akrabatene (1 Macc. 5:4; Josephus, Ant. 12:8, 1),
(Note: It must be distinguished, however, from the Akrabatta mentioned by Josephus in his Wars of the Jews (iii. 3, 5), the modern Akrabeh in central Palestine (Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 296), and from the toparchy Akrabattene mentioned in Josephus (Wars of the Jews, ii. 12, 4; 20, 4; 22, 2), which was named after this place.)
is most probably the lofty row of "white cliffs" of sixty or eighty feet in height, which run obliquely across the Arabah at a distance of about eight miles below the Dead Sea and, as seen from the south-west point of the Dead Sea, appear to shut in the Ghor, and which form the dividing line between the two sides of the great valley, which is called el Ghor on one side, and el Araba on the other (Robinson, ii. 489, 494, 502). Consequently it was not the Wady Fikreh, but a wady which opened into the Arabah somewhat farther to the south, possibly the southern branch of the Wady Murreh itself, which formed the actual boundary.
"And shall pass over to Zin" (i.e., the desert of Zin, the great Wady Murreh, see at Numbers 14:21), "and its going forth shall be to the south of Kadesh-barnea," at the western extremity of the desert of Zin (see at Numbers 20:16). From this point the boundary went farther out (יצא) "to Hazar-Addar, and over (עבר) to Azmon." According to Joshua 15:3-4, it went to the south of Kadesh-barnea over (עבר) to Hezron, and ascended (עלה) to Addar, and then turned to Karkaa, and went over to Azmon. Consequently Hazar-Addar corresponds to Hezron and Addar (in Joshua); probably the two places were so close to each other that they could be joined together. Neither of them has been discovered yet. This also applies to Karkaa and Azmon. The latter name reminds us of the Bedouin tribe Azazimeh, inhabiting the mountains in the southern part of the desert of Zin (Robinson, i. pp. 274, 283, 287; Seetzen, iii. pp. 45, 47). Azmon is probably to be sought for near the Wady el Ain, to the west of the Hebron road, and not far from its entrance into the Wady el Arish; for this is "the river (brook) of Egypt," to which the boundary turned from Azmon, and through which it had "its outgoings at the sea," i.e., terminated at the Mediterranean Sea. The "brook of Egypt," therefore, is frequently spoken of as the southern boundary of the land of Israel (1 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 24:7; 2 Chronicles 7:8, and Isaiah 27:12, where the lxx express the name by Ῥινοκοροῦρα). Hence the southern boundary ran, throughout its whole length, from the Arabah on the east to the Mediterranean on the west, along valleys which form a natural division, and constitute more or less the boundary line between the desert and the cultivated land.
(Note: On the lofty mountains of Madara, where the Wady Murreh is divided into two wadys (Fikreh and Murreh) which run to the Arabah, v. Schubert observed "some mimosen-trees," with which, as he expresses it, "the vegetation of Arabia took leave of us, as it were, as they were the last that we saw on our road." And Dieterici (Reisebilder, ii. pp. 156-7) describes the mountain ridge at Nakb es Sufah as "the boundary line between the yellow desert and green steppes," and observes still further, that on the other side of the mountain (i.e., northwards) the plain spread out before him in its fresh green dress. "The desert journey was over, the empire of death now lay behind us, and a new life blew towards us from fields covered with green." - In the same way the country between Kadesh and the Hebron road, which has become better known to us through the descriptions of travellers, is described as a natural boundary. Seetzen, in his account of his journey from Hebron to Sinai (iii. p. 47), observes that the mountains of Tih commence at the Wady el Ain (fountain-valley), which takes its name from a fountain that waters thirty date-palms and a few small corn-fields (i.e., Ain el Kuderat, in Robinson, i. p. 280), and describes the country to the south of the small flat Wady el Kdeis (el Kideise), in which many tamarisks grew (i.e., no doubt a wady that comes from Kadesh, from which it derives its name), as a "most dreadful wilderness, which spreads out to an immeasurable extent in all directions, without trees, shrubs, or a single spot of green" (p. 50), although the next day he "found as an unexpected rarity another small field of barley, which might have been an acre in extent" (pp. 52, 53). Robinson (i. pp. 280ff.) also found, upon the route from Sinai to Hebron, more vegetation in the desert between the Wady el Kusaimeh and el Ain than anywhere else before throughout his entire journey; and after passing the Wady el Ain to the west of Kadesh, he "came upon a broad tract of tolerably fertile soil, capable of tillage, and apparently once tilled." Across the whole of this tract of land there were long ranges of low stone walls visible (called "el Muzeirit," "little plantations," by the Arabs), which had probably served at some former time as boundary walls between the cultivated fields. A little farther to the north the Wady es Serm opens into an extended plain, which looked almost like a meadow with its bushes, grass, and small patches of wheat and barley. A few Azazimeh Arabs fed their camels and flocks here. The land all round became more open, and showed broad valleys that were capable of cultivation, and were separated by low and gradually sloping hills. The grass become more frequent in the valleys, and herbs were found upon the hills. "We heard (he says at p. 283) this morning for the first time the songs of many birds, and among them the lark.")
Numbers 34:10 Parallel Commentaries
Numbers 34:9 and the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and its termination shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.
Numbers 34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and reach to the slope on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth.
Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.
And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.
And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.
"On the east side, the boundary shall run between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.
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The exploration history of the North West Shelf suggests that the Australian petroleum systems are predominantly gas prone, typically found beneath the mid-Cretaceous regional seal.
Carnarvon Petroleum regional and local seismic mapping, in conjunction with exploration drilling results, indicates that the Triassic has three oil prone petroleum systems, the Early, Middle and Late Triassic.
Fundamental to understanding the areas where these three petroleum systems will work is a thorough understanding of palaeogeographies, palaeoenvironments and stratigraphy. Carnarvon believes the petroleum systems have a distinct palaeogeographic distribution and are not ubiquitous source rock/reservoir horizons across the North West Shelf.
Various laboratory analysis, sedimentology, seismic mapping, seismic facies work have contributed to the identification of the most encouraging areas to explore.
Additionally, the proximity of the Triassic geology of the North West Shelf to SE Asia Triassic geology, with their similar depositional setting, prior to Gondwana break-up, adds credence to the proposed theories. Examples of the early, middle and late Triassic oil petroleum systems will be illustrated and identified in some of the major basins on the NW Shelf.
This last year has taken me into the wonderful world of karstic aquifers, numerical groundwater flow - and solute transport - modelling. A 'karst' refers to terrain with distinctive structures formed from highly soluble rocks, such as limestone, dolomites, gypsums, etc. Exposure to flowing groundwater causes the rock matrix to dissolve, which can greatly affect the flow of groundwater. Caves, conduits, and fractures all present high-permeability pathways for groundwater to travel. Some of the highest quality coastal groundwater reserves around the world exist as extensive karstic aquifer systems. At coastal margins, the invisible and ever-looming seawater interface threatens fresh groundwater resources. As the changing climate affects groundwater recharge and growing world population continues to rely on these aquifers for drinkable groundwater, the risk of contamination has implications for millions of peoples worldwide.
Geophysical exploration methods offer unparalleled access to subsurface information, but it is not without flaws. Resistivity imaging is commonly used, but rarely with time-lapse investigation nor optimal acquisition/inversion strategy in mind. Numerical solute transport modelling has potential to aid our understanding, and define the limitations, of the both geophysical and conventional sampling methodology. Outcomes from this research aim to improve groundwater monitoring practices and numerical modelling outcomes with regard to the seawater interface. These outcomes will ultimately aid groundwater management decisions and help to preserve our fresh water resources for future generations.
Alex is a PhD student at Curtin University, Department of Exploration Geophysics, specializing in near-surface hydrogeophysical problems. He completed a Bachelor of Science (Geophysics) with first-class honours in 2014, and works part-time within the geophysics department as a research assistant and laboratory demonstrator. Alex's research interests include groundwater and solute transport modelling, cooperative geophysical modelling, and exploration with ground penetrating radar and electrical resistivity.


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Long: How the Chase field blew it at Dover
By Dustin LongOct 4, 2015, 10:02 PM EDT
DOVER, Del. – There was no need for any bold comments, no reason to needle anyone and no need for Kevin Harvick to make Sunday's victory any bigger than it was.
Kyle Busch took care of that.
"That was a guy that we wanted to knock out,'' Busch said after placing second to Harvick at Dover International Speedway. "That's a guy that can win all these races, and you don't want to have to compete against a guy like that.''
The rest of the Chase field blew it Sunday. Harvick whupped their asses. There's no need to be polite about it. Harvick, all but needing a win to advance to the second round of the Chase, led 355 of 400 laps.
Now he has a chance to repeat as champion when it looked as if his title hopes would be over.
Sunday's performance came a week after Harvick led 216 of 300 laps at New Hampshire Motor Speedway before he ran out of fuel while leading with three laps to go. He's led more than 80 percent of the laps run the past two weeks.
So who is going to challenge him? Who is going to do more than stare at his back bumper as it moves farther ahead? Who is going to beat him?
Busch and his three Joe Gibbs Racing teammates advanced and have combined to win nine of the previous 12 races. They've been strong on the 1.5-mile tracks and four of the final seven Chase races are at such tracks. If Harvick and his team don't beat themselves or have something happen to them, then he will prove a worthy foil to the Gibbs quartet.
Could Team Penske's Joey Logano beat Harvick? Possibly, but he needs more speed. The rest of the Chase contenders do not appear to have the strength at this point to match Harvick's cars.
That's the beauty of this Chase, though. Mistakes can end a team's championship hopes no matter how good they are. It nearly happened to Harvick. It nearly happened to Dale Earnhardt Jr.
It did happen to six-time champion Jimmie Johnson.
How Harvick's team responds will be worth watching. Did they suffer too much emotional turmoil the previous two weeks that it will be difficult to maintain their competitive level for seven more weeks? Crew chief Rodney Childers says no.
If he's right, is this just the start of a coronation?
Harvick wouldn't get into such debate. This was not the same driver who said before the Chase started: "I wouldn't consider us behind the Gibbs cars. I think we're going to pound them into the ground.''
Harvick didn't need to say such things because his actions spoke loudest Sunday.
Still, the Chase is better off with Harvick in it. He needles, he pokes, he prods and he picks. He can provide a sideshow quality that is hard to ignore – infuriating for fans of other drivers and fun for his fans.
Remember how Harvick tried to bait Joey Logano at last year's championship press conference before Homestead? Harvick was not happy that Logano had blocked him at Talladega a few weeks earlier, allowing Brad Keselowski to win that race, and used that to try to unsettle the driver viewed as Harvick's biggest threat for the title.
"Karma catches up with you,'' Harvick said to Logano last year without looking at his foe. "I'm a firm believer in karma. At some point it comes full circle.''
Earlier in that Chase, Harvick said Matt Kenseth would not win the title after Kenseth slid up the track and got into Harvick at Martinsville, causing Harvick to hit the wall.
That boisterous Harvick got Sunday off.
No sense in kicking someone when they're down.
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I'm working on an exercise that attacks BGP configurations on a HTB machine to track traffic to a specific machine.
I have root access to the original computer and am now trying to configure the relevant routes to direct the traffic to me.
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Yesterday I took my little girl to Disneyland my son had school so I took her for a girls day. My little girl had me up slot of the night she slept pretty good but kept kicking and putting her head in my back and neck lol. So I was tired but excited for our day.
It was super windy on our drive there but we were both so excited to be there. It was pretty crowded we were able to have a great day. There was a fire just outside of Anaheim and it made the air quality poor abs it was hazy outside.
We took a picture in front of large Mickey 🎃 we went on The Jungle Cruise, we went to get a Mickey Mouse pretzel . We also went and saw Elana of Avalor, Cinderella, and Snow White.
We went on King Arthur's Carousel then we stopped to have more snacks and we thought the parade was starting but it wasn't so we went through some shops . Then we went on the train took it to Main Street.
We were able to get a good seat for parade and enjoyed it before heading home 🏡. My daughter passed out in the car so I just got myself a fast food combo to eat before getting on the road. I had no clue what I was in for.
The Drive was horrible from 6pm-8pm it was a parking lot fastest we were going was 8 miles an hour. Finally once we passed Ontario airport we were able to go 60 mph I didn't get home until 9:40pm. Was beyond exhausted and needed to go straight to bed once I tucked my daughter in.


In the style of interactive books, the player is put in a fantasy world. In a maze like dungeon he goes from room to room in the search of the exit. The game itself is text based and all input is done via multiple choice. Nonetheless the game is complex in its own way, it allows solving riddles in more than just one way. The player (YOU), can chose what kind of profession he prefers. Whether to fight or to trick or use to magics. In a retro style you even get hand drawn Pen&Paper like glimpses of your surroundings. If you are stuck – you pray to god for help. Once you DO reach the exit your doings will be evaluated. Can you become a MASTER?


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Praga ou Peste de Siroes  foi uma epidemia que devastou as províncias ocidentais do Império Sassânida, principalmente a Mesopotâmia (Assuristão), matando metade de sua população, incluindo o xá que deu o nome à praga,  Siroes. A peste foi uma das várias epidemias que ocorreram no Irã ou perto dele, dois séculos após a primeira pandemia de peste trazida pelos exércitos sassânidas de suas campanhas em Constantinopla, Síria e Armênia.

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Toronto mayoral race: John Tory defeats Doug Ford
Oct. 23, 2014: Toronto mayoral candidates Doug Ford, left, and John Tory shake hands during the final mayoral debate for the Toronto mayoral race in Toronto. (AP/The Canadian Press)
TORONTO – Toronto elected a moderate conservative as mayor on Monday night, ending the Rob Ford era marked by scandals over his illegal drug use and public drunkenness.
John Tory, a former chief executive of major cable company Rogers Communications, had 40 percent of the vote, compared to 34 percent for Doug Ford, brother of outgoing Mayor Rob Ford. Left-leaning Olivia Chow was third with nearly 23 percent. The results were announced with more than 90 percent of polling stations reporting.
Rob Ford's four-year tenure as mayor of Canada's largest city was marred by his drinking and crack cocaine use. He announced last month that he wouldn't seek re-election as he battles a rare form of cancer. His brother, a city councilor, ran in his place.
However, Ford will not disappear from Toronto politics anytime soon.
Despite the cancer, he opted to seek the City Council seat from the Etobicoke district where he launched his political career. He won his old seat in a landslide Monday and strongly hinted he may seek to run for mayor again in four years.
"In 4 more years, you're going to see another example of the Ford family never, ever, ever giving up," he said.
After months of denials, Rob Ford in 2013 acknowledged he had smoked crack cocaine in one of his "drunken stupors," but he refused to resign. The City Council stripped Ford of most of his powers but lacked the authority to force him out of office because he wasn't convicted of a crime.
Ford announced he was entering rehab for drugs and alcohol in April 2014 after newspaper reports detailed three nights in which he was extremely intoxicated. One report was about a video that appeared to show him smoking a crack pipe again — nearly a year after reports of a similar video first brought international attention.
Rob Ford's antics made him the target of late-night television comedians in the U.S. Last March, he appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after months of wooing by the talk-show host, who introduced his guest by saying he "has tripped, bumped, danced, argued and smoked his way into our national consciousness."
When Ford was elected mayor in 2010, his drug and alcohol use weren't known — but his bluster was. A plurality of voters backed him, eager to shake things up at a City Hall they viewed as elitist and wasteful. Ford's voter base resided mainly in those outer suburbs like Etobicoke. He appealed to those residents with his populist, common man touch and with promises to slash spending, cut taxes and end what he called "the war on the car."
He first won as mayor by promising to "stop the gravy train" of government spending. But Toronto got more turmoil than expected.
Tory, 60, a longtime moderate conservative politician and adviser, has also served as commissioner of the Canadian Football League and more recently hosted a radio talk show. He ran for mayor in 2003 and lost.


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Bringing the Workplace Comedy to School
A conversation with Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson.
By Jason Johnson
Dec 11, 202110:00 AM
Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Pamela Littky/ABC via Getty Images.
How do you make the struggles of an underfunded school into a laugh-out-loud sitcom? ABC's new comedy Abbott Elementary manages to ace that test, thanks to its creator and star, Quinta Brunson. She built the foundation of her comedy career online with her own Instagram series and later working for BuzzFeed, eventually landing a role on HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show. On Friday's episode of A Word, I spoke with Brunson to discuss the sitcom, and her unconventional path to comedy stardom. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Jason Johnson: Congrats on Abbott Elementary. As we've said, you're not just the star, you're the creator. What was the inspiration behind this project for you?
Quinta Brunson: Well, one thing is I'm just a huge fan of workplace comedies. It's my favorite kind of sitcom. I was obsessed with that dynamic of people coming together who would not maybe talk to each other if it weren't for this workplace. So, that was huge for me. And then mockumentary-style comedies proved to be my favorite in the long run.
When The Office and Parks and Recreation came along, I was like, well, this is extremely my jam. What made those comedies work was having a veil to go behind. And I thought, we know teachers. We have this one-dimensional version of them in our heads. But what's behind that one dimension? I wanted to make it a little bit more on purpose, having a documentary crew in a school to show us what goes on behind the lives of these people we all know. One of the cast members on the show says, "Well, you either are a teacher or you had a teacher." And I had seen other workplace comedies about teachers and stuff, but none that really went behind the veil in that way that I thought could be really cool.
What's interesting is that none of these workplace comedies have ever had this many Black people before. All we had was Retta on Parks and Recreation.
I know! And here's the thing, Retta and Darryl in The Office… I don't know, something about seeing people like that. Seeing our people in that format, I think that Retta and Darryl are two of the best characters of all time in my world. And I think it's because they got to talk to us via that camera about what their life is at these workplaces. And I think that's so special for us. We are people existing in a world where we exist as side characters. We're reduced to our races and not our actual feelings and thoughts, so that really drew me to the mockumentary format. It was honestly one of those things where I was like, why haven't we done this yet? There really wasn't anything out there using this format yet with Black people at the forefront. People of color at the front. And yes, we have white characters in our show because that's just the makeup of a Philadelphia public school, but none such stories where Black people were at the forefront.
How did you pull together this cast for Abbott Elementary? You've got Tyler James Williams, who everybody loves from Everybody Hates Chris. You did a hilarious segment with him when you guys were both on A Black Lady Sketch Show. How did you decide that he was one of the main characters, and how did you fill out the rest of the cast?
First of all, the role of Gregory, I actually kind of wrote for Tyler. When I worked with him on A Black Lady Sketch Show, I just really enjoyed working with him so much. I talked to him about this show. He mentioned to me that he would love to get a series, just to have some stability. And I was like, "Hey, I think I might have a role for you. I'm writing it with you in mind and if you want it, I'd love for it to be yours." So, fortunately, the network in studio were already in love with Tyler, so that was easy. Then everybody else had to be casted. I didn't necessarily have someone in mind, and I also thought there was this opportunity for new talent.
I think the other thing that makes sitcoms, specifically workplace sitcoms, work is new people for audiences to fall all in love with. Janelle James who is kind of a newcomer to TV, she's a standup. She blew me away. Janelle told me that she had gotten the script and she DM me and she was like, "I just got your script and it's funny. And I want to audition." I knew Janelle as a standup, I didn't even know she acted. I was like, "Hell yeah. Please audition. The more the merrier." And she was it. It was this specific character. She got it. She got all of it. And having her was just like this dream. And the studio and the network saw her, and were like, 'Whoa, where did she come from?' And I'm like, I don't know, but this is who it has to be. The discussion is over.
Then Sheryl Lee Ralph was our last get. We were so fortunate. She had just come off of a show. We were having trouble casting Barbara's character because I just needed a certain oomph, and Sheryl brought it. I think Sheryl had never been on a show like this before. Sheryl just came off a multicam, and Sheryl hadn't even seen The Office. She had the essence and everything else was an on-the-job learning experience. Like, oh, okay. I'm on at all times? I'm always in scene because the camera's catching things at all times? But she mastered it and now has developed what I think is a brand new, beautiful character to this format of show.
So, that's how casting went. And then my character, Janine, was brought about because I originally pitched this show based on Sheryl's character, Barbara. It had no Janine in it. And the studio kind of said, you're crazy if you think we didn't buy the show because of you. I was like, all right. So, I developed Janine based off of good friends of mine who are pure optimists who get on my nerves, but without them, nothing would get done. There in how beautiful the world can be is what motivates us to create a better place. And I think that that was a beautiful character to have in a school like Abbott.
I also grabbed your book, She Memes Well: Essays. And so I've been reading through the book, really, really enjoying it. And I want to talk in particular about how it has to do with Abbott Elementary. A lot of people, especially in comedy, they talk about how they hated high school, it was miserable. You were prom queen. I mean, you went to Charter High School of Art and Design (CHAD), you went to sort of a tech, science architecture school. But how did your experiences in what appears to be a pretty functional, good high school experience, how does that inform Abbott Elementary? Because most people say that high school was terrible and you're not that person.
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I'm so happy you brought that up. My schooling experiences period, I had the most amazing teachers from kindergarten to high school. I had these teachers who cared so deeply. I had a teacher in sixth grade who actually the show was named after, Miss Abbott. She came to my house and picked me up because we were doing a pretzel sale, and my parents were like, "We can't get her there." And Miss Abbott was like, "Well, I'll come get her. This is important. We're going to make the dough. I'm teaching a lesson about food, and learning, and selling."
Those are the kind of teachers I had in my life from beginning to end. High school teachers that I can't even go down the list of the way those people just cared about us. And so having a good experience informed what kind of show I would create. A lot of people I think have created school shows with the idea that no one wants to be there…the students, the teachers. Not me. People are doing this job or they care that much. They're being paid pennies. This is just what they do. So, I was able to show that.
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Scott Weiland Made an Uncredited Cameo on Deftones' 'White Pony' Album
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While many fans are aware of Tool's Maynard James Keenan appearing on Deftones' White Pony album, there was also a lesser known contribution from longtime Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland.
While speaking with Philadelphia's WMMR 93.3 with Jaxon and Sara, Deftones frontman Chino Moreno revealed the circumstances of how Weiland came to guest on the record. The singer can be heard in an uncredited cameo on the song "Rx Queen" from the White Pony album.
"It was one of those things that really wasn't announced," says Moreno. "The way it happened was pretty organic toward the end of the record making process. I met up with him at a studio in Burbank and I was playing him some of the rough music and he pulled out a microphone and started doing his Scott Weiland scatting stuff over it. Then he start of kind of harmonizing with me on the chorus, with this lower register melody."
The singer recalls, "I was like, 'Wow, that sounds pretty cool,' and he was like, 'Yeah, you can re-sing it if you want,' and I was like, 'Okay, whatever.' But then we mixed the record, I thought that that sounded kind of good on there. It was what it was. It was pretty neat. I don't know, but you can totally hear his timbre and the way that he sings and it's totally him. So it was kind of cool the way that it happened and it wasn't anything that we promoted, but it's a little Easter egg in a way."
While their new Ohms album, which drops Sept. 25, is at the top of the band's promotional efforts at the moment, they also are celebrating the 20th anniversary of White Pony. During the chat, Moreno also revealed that the band is eyeing a probable November release for the 20th anniversary edition of the record, that will include the previously announced guest remixer version of the album titled Black Stallion. "I think it really stands on its own, so I'm excited for people to hear that," said Moreno.
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Founded in 1897, the Vevey History Museum occupies the rooms of Vevey Castle. Previously called "la Belle-Maison", this 16th century residence was the home of the Bernese bailiffs. In this historical setting, the museum's collections bring the region's past alive, from Celtic times to present day.
The permanent exhibition features posters, archaeological objects, silverware, crafts, objects and manuscripts from the Middle Ages, as well as paintings and prints by Swiss craftsmen. There are two remarkable collections that must not be missed: a collection of keys, locks and old cases, which is the only one of its kind in Switzerland, as well as the astonishing work by the Vevey painter F. A. L. Dumoulin (1753-1834) depicting the battles between the French and English in the West Indies during the American War of Independence.


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Strange discoveries of objects that should not exist have often placed a huge question mark against what we know of the world. Particularly compelling is the evidence that suggests that deep in antiquity Mankind was considerably more advanced than we have ever dared to imagine.
At the very least these finds encourage us to ask deeper questions concerning the world that once was. For only through a spirit of true inquiry can we ever hope to acquaint ourselves with these forgotten pages of our planets history.
Let us then examine a few of these finds, and see what conclusions can be drawn.
The Coso Artifact.
In 1961 a strange stone was found in the Coso Mountains of California. Strange, because when it was sawed open it was found to contain a bizarre mechanical device. This comprised of an hexagonal layer of some unknown substance, which surrounded an inch thick porcelain cylinder, which in turn contained a shaft of bright metal around 2 mm in length. Around the porcelain cylinder were rings of copper, which remarkably showed no signs of corrosion.
Later examination at the Charles Ford Society confirmed the device as some kind of mechanical instrument. Photographs taken of the object showed the metallic shaft fixed to a tiny spring. This led to it being labelled as some form of electrical device. Experts who examined it compared it to a spark plug. Critics maintained that this is exactly what it was – a Champion spark plug that offered little mystery
When however certain geologists insisted that the rock in which it was encased was over half a million years old, the mystery sky rocketed. What was it doing there? How had it got there? On the face of it there was no plausible answer. Just the unthinkable – that this was a relic from a past era of high technological advancement – one that existed over half a million years ago.
To this day the Coso Artifact continues to excite considerable speculation with widely differing views. Some insisting this is just an elaborate hoax and others who see the Coso Artifact as evidence of an advanced civilisation at an unimaginably early age.
The Morrisonville Enigma.
In 1891 there was an even more remarkable find. A woman in Morrisonville Illinois was shovelling coal when a piece broke open in front of her. To her astonishment she found it contained a beautiful gold chain of elaborate workmanship.
The local newspaper gave the following account:
" Mrs Culp thought the chain had been dropped accidentally in the coal, but as she undertook to lift the chain up, the idea of its having been recently dropped was shown to be fallacious, for as the lump of coal broke, it separated almost in the middle, and the circular position of the chain placed the two ends near to each other; and as the lumps separated, the middle of the chain became loosened while each end remained fastened to the coal….."
Nor was the Morrisonville incident the only one of its kind. In 1844 an unidentified gold artifact was discovered in a quarry in England.
Workmen blasting granite, came across the discovery of an item of gold thread about eight feet below the surface. It was embedded in rock thought to be over 60 million years old. Experts sent at the behest of the Times newspaper concluded that the object had been artificially manufactured, but ventured no opinion as to how it could have found itself embedded in rock so unimaginably old.
The Salzburg Cube.
In 1885 a block of coal was found to have a strange steel cube embedded inside of it. Later tests confirmed it to be artificially manufactured and experts were astonished. The edges were sharp and straight, and there was little doubt that this was a machine made instrument that seemed part of a much larger instrument.
The Rhodesia Man Mystery.
In 1921 the discovery of a Neanderthal skull in Rhodesia revealed an astonishing mystery. The skull had been pierced by a high velocity projectile, similar to a bullet. Mysterious, because it was disclosed that this injury must have occurred at the moment of death, and not afterwards. It meant that whoever fired the fatal bullet must have fired it many thousands of years ago. In his book Secrets of the Lost Races, author Rene Noorbergen had the following to say: "A German forensic authority from Berlin has positively stated that the cranial damage to Rhodesian man's skull could not have been caused by anything but a bullet."
The fact that the skull was found fully 60 feet below the surface of the ground attested to the fact that this was no recent injury, and experts were baffled. Even so certain conclusions seemed obvious: The most apparent of these was that in times considered too remote for intelligent life, this creature had been gunned down by a high velocity weapon. The neat entry point of the wound testified to the great speed of the projectile, which had created a perfectly rounded hole.
Ancient computer.
One of the most significant finds that gives undisputed evidence of hitherto unsuspected ancient knowledge is the so called Antikythira device ! This mysterious mechanism comprising of a series of interlocking cogs and wheels was found at the site of an ancient shipwreck just off the Greek island of Antikythira.
Straight away it became apparent that this was something extraordinary, and although heavily corroded, radiograph examination revealed the existence of a precision instrument of great complexity. A differential turn table with interlocking cogs testified to its high degree of craftsmanship. But what was it ?
At first experts dubbed it a navigational instrument, but detailed investigation revealed it to be something a good deal more complex. Certain similarities with later astronomical instruments led to it being labelled a planisphere – a calendrical device that gives the year round positions of stars and planets. Other inscriptions, unfortunately damaged, seemed to refer to zodiacal positions with a degree of accuracy that involved considerable expertise.
Important Questions.
Incredibly the wreck from which the device was salvaged dates back to nearly one hundred BC. This created an immediate stir. Such refined craftsmanship was at that time unknown, and was to remain so until the 16 th century. Now suddenly this fortuitous find raised important questions. For this kind of precision instrument to exist there must equally have existed a sophisticated method of production. But up until that moment no hint of such capability had ever been found .
Awesome achievement.
So what can we make of the Antikythira device ? Is it just an archaeological oddity – a simple aberration to the established order, or does it represent the tip of a vast treasure of unexplained ancient technology ?
In our opinion this strange instrument categorically places the technology of it's era in a completely different light. We are seeing something that should not have existed for over 1500 years, and once again we are left in awe at achievements that leap out across the void that separates our understanding of these distant ages.
But whatever the meaning and function of the Antikythira device, we must not forget that it's importance represents no more than a small gem in a large crown of strange and magnificent finds.
Global Catalogue.
No corner of the globe is without some strange enigma of things that seem impossible to explain. Indeed the catalogue of these finds is highly impressive. Ancient lenses polished as finely as any we have today – pieces of an ancient battery, magnificent astronomical observatories, sophisticated toys resembling heavy earth moving equipment – these are only a small element of a rich vein of finds that is slowly extending our perception of ancient times. There is even evidence that ancient man may have flown in aircraft.
It is a known fact that ancient druidic legends speak of frequent flights using the power inherent in ley-lines. By some unknown means these ley-lines were capable of raising flying machines that according to author Rene Noorbergen regularly flew backwards and forwards between England and Greece. He writes: " Druidic tradition tells of such heroes as Mog Ruith, Bladud and the magician Abiris, who possessed flying vehicles activated by the ley-line energies and were able to travel in them as far as Greece."
Ancient electrical supply.
Particularly compelling is evidence of an ancient electrical supply. This seems to have been utilised much as we use electric current today.
One area especially rich in evidence of this sort is ancient Babylonia and Persia. A discovery of several clay pots excavated in Iraq revealed an amazing discovery. Each of the pots appeared to have been soldered with a lead/tin alloy, topped with copper discs, sealed with bitumen. Far sighted investigators discovered that when a mixture of copper sulphate and acetic acid was added to the pots it produced around 2 volts of electricity.
Over the years many more electric cells were discovered, almost as if this was part of a mass-produced industry. Also of amazing importance is the discovery of electroplated gold jewelry using a technique only recently discovered in this modern age.
Strange Lamps.
Written evidence in mystical Hebrew literature speaks of strange energy sources and of lamps that 'lit themselves'!
Also strange, are seafaring stories from the last century. More than one sea-man described strange orb like lamps hung by natives in the jungles of South America. These lamps were apparently self-sustainable utilising a source of energy that seemed impossible to explain.
In 1601 a Spanish writer and explorer who followed the Conquistadores to South America wrote of a strange pillar on which was a brilliant white object that illuminated the whole of the surrounding area to quite some distance.
The ancient historian and travel writer Pausanias, once wrote of a temple with a light that burnt continuously for at least a year. Even more amazing is the account of the discovery of the sepulchre of Pallas near Rome. This was said to have been lit by a light source that had kept the interior of the chamber illuminated for over two thousand years.
Medical Knowledge.
Unusual early knowledge of medical procedure is another strange aspect of the ancient world. Perhaps the most bizarre evidence of this sort concerns the discovery of numerous skulls from the Neolithic age that appear to have been trepanned.
In his book Colony Earth, author Richard Mooney explains the process in the following terms. "Trepanning today is an operation in which a section of bone in the skull is removed, either to ease pressure caused by a tumour or blood clot, or to remove splinters of bone caused by a skull fracture, and the cavity closed by a plate. The operation is hardly minor and requires great skill and care to perform. It is difficult to believe that Neolithic man – if he was, as has been thought, extremely primitive – could have carried out such operations with the crudest techniques, a flint knife, and no anesthetics or notions of hygiene."
Apparently survivors of this treatment later went on to live for years afterwards. This in itself was remarkable, as even in relatively recent times patients undergoing surgery had a high mortality rate from infection or blood poisioning.
Soviet Finds.
Particularly well documented evidence of ancient cranial surgery comes to us from research in the former Soviet Union.
Examination of several skulls found at the site of Ishtikunuy near Lake Sevan in Armenia, revealed a highly developed technique of skull surgery employed over 4000 years ago. One patient had suffered a serious head injury, presumably leaving sensitive brain tissue exposed. Despite these difficulties the surgeons of the day had neatly plugged the fracture using a carefully shaped wedge of animal bone. From the way the patients bone tissue had enveloped the plug, it was possible to deduce that the woman had survived the operation and went on to live for quite some time afterwards.
Ancient brain surgery.
Soviet scientists uncovered even more starling evidence, this time involving surgery directly on the brain. It was found that one woman had been successfully operated upon to remove an inch wide object that smashed through her skull. This had penetrated directly to the brain. Sensationally the surgeons of the day were able to cut around the object to remove the splinters, before closing up the wound using animal bone. Once more the patient was able to live on for many years afterwards.
Admiring the great skill of these early surgeons one scientist, Professor Jagharian remarked: "Considering the ancient tools the doctors had to work with, I would say they were technically superior to modern-day surgeons."
Ancient X-ray machine.
In Peru a rock drawing from Toro Muerto appears to a show a figure with raised arms, with what appears to be an X-ray plate of the thorax. Fully visible are the ribs of the chest cavity, and a central column resembling the spine. Little information is available on the circumstances of this find, which if genuine represents yet another amazing insight into the astonishing complexity of the ancient world.
Far reaching conclusions.
In detailing the sheer wealth of these strange and bizarre finds we could go on and on. All we have done here is to just barely scratch the surface of the many enigmas that surround us. In so doing we have seen the image of a world that once was. We see it slowly take shape in front of us. A world completely at variance with the established view of things. It means that sooner or later, the pieces of this gathering jigsaw will force even the most hardened skeptic to accept the full majesty of the world that once was.
Did Atlantis really exist?
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Investment manager GAM has launched GAM Star Emerging Equity, an actively managed, long emerging markets equity fund in a daily-dealing UCITS format. The fund aims to profit from the inherent growth potential in global emerging market economies and the mispricings that frequently occur in these markets as they mature.
The GAM Star Emerging Equity fund invests in a diversified portfolio of 100–150 stocks. The co-managers use a fundamental valuation-based approach that blends proprietary bottom-up tools with top-down thematic overlay and timing strategies. The fund is managed by Tim Love and Joaquim Nogueira, who have more than 40 years' combined investment experience and over 15 years' experience working together. They have a 20+ year track-record of identifying and harnessing mispricing opportunities in emerging markets. To date, the fund is authorised for sale in Ireland, the UK and Luxembourg with authorisation in other jurisdictions expected in the coming weeks.
The co-managers believe that the cyclical and structural characteristics inherent in emerging markets globally create a long-term risk/return profile that is superior to developed markets. Moreover, the timing for investing in emerging markets equities is ideal due to the deep discounts that many companies are currently trading at versus their historical highs and versus their developed market counterparts. The co-managers use a combination of intensive, repeated proprietary screening on valuation and earnings factors, complemented by in-depth fundamental stock analysis to fully understand the operating data and management mindset of every company. They then build portfolios by setting these companies against the backdrop of a top-down overlay to identify those that are mispriced.
Why GAM Star Emerging Equity?
Tim Love (26 years' investment experience) is the Investment Director responsible for GAM's emerging market equity strategies. Prior to joining GAM in February 2012, Tim was a senior portfolio manager at CQS/Oceanwood where he managed long/short emerging markets equities. Prior to this, he managed a global long/short equity fund at Cazenove Capital Management. Previously, Tim held sell-side positions as head of global equity strategy at Deutsche Bank, head of strategy for global emerging markets at SG Securities Ltd, and head of emerging markets strategy and research at ING Baring Securities Ltd. Before that, he managed emerging market equities portfolios at BlackRock (formerly Merrill Lynch Investment Managers) and at HSBC Asset Management. Tim holds a BA in Accountancy and Politics and trained as a chartered accountant. He is based in London.
Joaquim Nogueira (15 years' investment experience) is an Investment Manager in GAM's emerging markets equity team. Prior to joining GAM in January 2012, Joaquim was a portfolio manager at CQS/Oceanwood where he co-managed long/short emerging market equities with Tim Love. Prior to this, he and Tim co-managed a global long/short equity fund at Cazenove Capital Management. Previously, Joaquim worked on the sell-side as director of global equity strategy in the global emerging markets equity strategy team at Deutsche Bank, and as vice-president of global emerging markets strategy at SG Securities Ltd. He began his career on the sell-side as a senior analyst at ING Baring Securities Ltd in 1996, working with Tim Love on the global sector and Latin American strategy and research team. Joaquim holds an MBA from Cass Business School, and an MSc in Mathematics with a specialisation in probabilities and statistics from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon. He is based in London.


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Welcome to IEPTrain.co.uk
Hi. My name's Steve. I'm the owner and author of IEPtrain.co.uk
Great domain name for a website about the new Hitachi built Intercity Express train sn't it? You could say it's the perfect domain for presenting information on the replacement for the ageing InterCity 125 fleets which have graced British railways for around 40 years.
The new trains are expected to be a well received replacement for that workhorse.
So how did IEPtrain.co.uk start?
Back in 2015 I read about the IEP train programme – the new government initiative to find a version of express which would give comfortable, reliable, and fast travel on UK tracks.
At the time, I already had another HST related site running at JavelinTrain.com – a site dedicated to the HS1 train which was used to ferry passengers to the Olymoic Games venues for the UK Olympics, and still provides fast train services to south east region commuters into London.
Within a year the first version of an IEP train informational website was created at IEPtrain.uk, and subsequently here at IEPtrain.co.uk.
I'm hoping it will come to be seen as one of the leading resources on the new intercity trains, certainly one which has as much or more useful info as any other leading train travel websites.
My credentials? What puts me in a good position to pull together the site?
Well, there are a few reasons…..
1. As noted a minute ago – I already have had JavelinTrain.com running for a good few years. It's a successful website which has high organic rankings in search engines even though it's never seen any form of paid advertising. In fact the 'Olympic Javelin Train' page has been archived as a page of importance about those Games.
2. I'm a regular rail traveller on the Great Western routes
3. I'm an experienced website builder with about 12 years experience.
All that said, I'm always happy to hear of any views that suggest either we're successfully providing the info you want or need to improve it in any way. So if you're reading down this far and do have something to comment on or suggest, then please send something in. I'll always respond.
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Q: stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset to fill a progress I have 2 svg's that I'm trying to create a progress bar out of. The first one is a curved path, however, I've managed to make it work using stroke-dasharray="400 400" and stroke-dashoffset="-110" (which is used on a mask to fill the progress. It works very well.
The issue I'm having is the straight line, I would like to create a similar progress bar where it fills in the progress, but it's not working and I've been trying to figure out why for maybe 3 hours now... Changing the stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset I couldn't get the mask to fill in the dots.. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Here is a reference for the effect I'm trying to achieve

I've attached my code:

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Any ideas? Thank you!

A: In the second to last instance of stroke="rgba(255,255,255,0.2)", change the opacity from 0.2 to 0.8.

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A: So I figured out the problem. I found the solution from another stackoverflow question..

So you can't mask a shape like a horizontal or vertical line (zero-height/zero-width bounding box) using default mask parameters. Just add "maskUnits="userSpaceOnUse" to your mask element to fix.

For more information:
SVG: Mask not working as expected
So I just ended up having to add maskUnits="userSpaceOnUse" to my mask

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...consider the cost of sending lawyers and consultants – you could call them spies – to hang around Brussels and Frankfurt to assess the risk of a Greek default.
Yet simply by looking "on internet", you could find out that Greece has already started to restructure its state debts. Look at the site for the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (www.sfee.gr), and you will find a link to a joint press release by the Greek Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Finance. On June 9, unnoticed by most in the financial world, they stated: "The [Greek state hospital system] debts of 2007, 2008, 2009 amounting to €5.36bn [£4.4bn, $6.7bn] will be settled with zero coupon bonds." The hospital debts lingering from 2007 will be paid with two-year zeros, 2008 with three-year zeros, and 2009 with four-year zeros.
Get that? That 19 per cent haircut is based on the Greek state's own calculation of the present value of these obligations of its hospital system. Others would probably use a higher discount rate. This kind of reduction in principal value, which paid for a critical import, is not, I believe, incorporated in the much touted "stress test" for European banks. The bank regulators and the European Central Bank seem to think any more than a small haircut in euro area state debt would be just too politically sensitive to consider. Yet here is the Greek state telling you their old paper isn't worth what it was when they incurred the obligation.
Even before the new bonds are issued, some of the hospital debts are already said to be trading around Athens, supposedly at much lower prices than the release suggests would be appropriate.
As you see, we are deep into emerging market frontier-land, even though EU citizens can walk through the fast track at Greek customs and immigration. Before emerging market trade claims would wind up at that London dealer, they would be presented to an even edgier specialist, the sort who is familiar with central African landing strips and Cypriot "spare parts" traders. The one I spoke to a few days ago isn't interested . . . yet.
In order to derive more meaningful conclusions about the risk emanating from the cross border exposures, it is essential to closely scrutinize the geographical break down of the total exposure as well as the level of risk surrounding each component. We have therefore developed a Sovereign Contagion model which aims to quantify the amount of risk weighted foreign claims and contingent exposure for major developed countries including major European countries, the US, Japan and Asia major.
We have followed a bottom-up approach wherein we have first identified the countries/regions with high financial risk either owing to rising sovereign risk (ballooning government debt and fiscal deficit) or structural issues including remnants from the asset bubble collapse, declining GDP, rising unemployment, current account deficits, etc. For the purpose of our analysis, we have selected PIIGS, CEE, Middle East (UAE and Kuwait), China and closely related countries (Korea and Malaysia), the US and UK as the trigger points of the financial risk dissemination across the analysed developed countries.
In order to quantify the financial risk emanating in the selected regions (trigger points), we looked into the probability of the risk event happening due to three factors – a) government default b) private sector default c) social unrest. The probabilities for each factor were arrived on the basis of a number of variables determining the relative weakness of the country. The aggregate risk event probability for each country (trigger point) is the average of the risk event probability due to the three factors.
Foreign claims of the developed countries against the trigger point countries were taken as the relevant exposure. The exposures of each developed country were expressed as % of its respective GDP in order to build a relative scale for inter-country comparison.
The risk event probability of the trigger point countries was multiplied by the respective exposure of the developed countries to arrive at the total risk weighted exposure of each developed country.


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^^ I was too tired for a real swim when we finally got to Mayaguana, I settled for floating behind the boat in our life ring.
^^ It would be boring if it were always sunny, right?
^^ Attwood Harbor, Lady Slipper Cay. Might be my new favorite anchorage.
We are where we are supposed to be.
^^ Pulled into Mayaguana and found a long time friend from home in the anchorage and we get a chance to sail with them for a little while. Love it!!!
^^ Enjoying catch-up time with Happy Healer crew.
Our recent U-turn brought us face-to-face with a reality that we have only taken fleeting glances at in a rear-view mirror the past few years. That reality being we have to work again. We are not retired and our current lifestyle is one that is not self-sustaining. While we haven't been in denial and we are in no more urgent need to figure out our next steps than we were a month ago when we were still sailing East, as soon as our bow (not our stern) was pointed in the direction from where we started the feeling of needing a real plan for the future sort of whomped us both in the face. If not careful, we would, by default, end up exactly where we started from. While not a bad thing, and we even considered it a possibility, we want what we do in the next few years to be a conscious choice.
Although we've been unwavering in wanting to find a way to work and live in the Bahamas for years, we haven't been able to figure it out once we remove Nassau from the equation. And Nassau is most definitely removed from the equation. Our second long-standing desire has been to work 6 months and spend 6 months sailing. We haven't been able to crack the code on that one either. What secret do the Canadians know that we can't figure out? With those two plans not blooming any viable solutions, it was time to start considering all options and we had 13 hours of undisrupted sailing time to begin working it out. Let the conversation begin. Where did we want to live, where did we want to go, what did we want to do? What is important? How? When? Is that even possible? We started throwing out every idea we've ever had-anything that flitted through our brains- no matter how outlandish or improbable. We only gave each other a funny look a few times. Sometimes the lines blurred between whether we were talking about where to travel vs. where to live. Same between what we wanted to do for fun and potential for future incomes. We just threw it all at the wall hoping something would stick.
A couple hours into this exercise, we were feeling out a new idea of me working with a medical travel/temp agency (think: travel nurse…except I am not a nurse). We didn't know much about how that worked but in one of the most rare sails ever we actually had internet between islands and a quick Google revealed that Alaska seems to have a boatload of seasonal Med Tech positions available for the summer. Alaska? Keith's eyebrows went up and he said "I want to go to Alaska." Alaska is on my bucket list too. However I was thinking more of a 5-day summer cruise or something. We've never considered living anywhere cold. Ever. We moved along and kept up the brainstorming. We also kept coming back to Alaska. Each time we came back a tiny detail added to the little nugget of a plan. By the end of the day it was clear, Alaska was the thing that stuck.
Nothing changes for this Spring/Summer/Fall- we keep cruising as planned. We are feeling good about that. Sometime next winter we will take the boat to Florida and buy a Toyota Highlander and one of those adorable teeny-tiny 13-foot travel trailers that look like an egg. Have you seen them? They even come with a shower in them! Ours will certainly have a little heater too. We then hit the road and do a road-trip from Florida to Alaska. I don't even know how many miles that is yet. Alaska seems pretty far from Puerto Rico right now. We are assuming that there are a lot of nifty things to see between here and there. Every single one of our vacations for the last 20+ years had been a boat-based destination so this idea is really something totally new and different to us! There are so many places neither of us have seen yet so we might as well do all we can do in one fell swoop. In Alaska we still get mountains, volcanoes, clear water, big wildlife, and lots of fishing. And lots of space. We just wont be doing all of this in our bathing suits anymore! I will, hopefully, have arranged a 26 week long position in a medical laboratory for the summer, thus, checking the required box for "income". Housing will be provided or at minimum supplemented by the agency which is good because we are not planning on living in the wee travel trailer for the whole summer. Thirteen feet is not much bigger than our dinghy, we are aware of that fact. Keith is an A&P with experience with small planes and running maintenance of a small airport. There seems to be a lot of those up there so hopefully he too will find a summer gig. The final important detail is to bolt before winter arrives, besides, I am sure we will be ready to see a palm tree or two by then.
Oh, and somewhere in there I buy a mountain of long underwear and a collection of fur-lined boots because my definition of cold is anything under 75 degrees.
See, ALL the details figured out! Wait….Did we finally figure out how to do the 6 months on/6 months off thing?!? Maybe???
Now, with that all figured out we can get back to enjoying the islands in front of us. This cruise is far from over.


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