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About Raspberries
There are four sorts of "raspberries", distinguished by their colors. (The quotation marks are because not all "raspberries" are of the same species.)
Red raspberries are the most familiar kind and are the "standard" type.
Yellow raspberries are just variants of the red species. While they are said to have good to excellent fresh-eating taste, they are considered poor for use in cooking. They tend to be lower-yielding than most other kinds of raspberries.
Purple raspberries are hybrids of red and black. They are said to be very vigorous and famously yield notably more than either red or black cultivars. Their berries, however, are somewhat "seedier" than red types. Also, the purple fruits have a white bloom that can make the fruit wrongly appear moldy to the uninitiated.
Black raspberries are a different species from red. They typically sucker little and grow in distinct hills or clumps. Their fruit is smaller and seedier than that of red raspberries, though their taste is at least as good. They are slightly more cold-susceptible than the reds and purples.
Regardless of color, raspberry cultivars are classified as either summer-bearing or fall-bearing (often misleadingly called "everbearing"). Red and yellow raspberries can be either summer-bearing or fall-bearing, whereas black and purple cultivars are all strictly summer-bearing—producing single crops of fruit that ripen in early to middle summer.
Summer-bearing types have biennial canes—in their first year of growth, when they appear, the canes are called "primocanes", and in their second year, when they actually produce fruit, are called "floricanes" (which die after fruiting). Fall-bearing cultivars actually produce two crops each year: their primocanes develop flowers in middle summer, then bear fruit at their tops in late summer or early fall of the same year (after which the tops of the canes die and are pruned off). But if the rest of the primocane (the portion that did not die back) is left in place, fruit will develop on it in the following summer, at about the same time summer-bearing cultivars are fruiting. (In short: fruit first year, at the top of the cane; fruit in the second year in the middle part of the cane, the former fruit-bearing part having died off and been excised).
Because the yield at each fruiting of a fall-bearing type is less than the one-time yield of a summer-bearing type, it is not uncommon for gardeners to cut back fall-bearing types about an inch above the ground in early spring, before new growth starts; that causes the canes to bear only a single crop, in the fall, but a sizeable one. One can then plant both summer-bearing and fall-only-bearing types (fall types treated as described) to get a good harvest twice a year.
Climate is important for raspberries. Reds (and, presumably, their kin yellows and purples) prefer cooler summers, but can take winter lows down to -20°; blacks can better stand summer heat, but start to get hurt when lows go below about -5° (though some say 10°). We average about two days a year of -5° or below, and so are more or less safe, but it only takes one wicked cold snap to do the damage, and that can happen any old year. So, the low end of the scale suggests avoiding black raspberries; but how do the other sorts do in heat?
We can get pretty warm in our summers—even our average highest high is 90°, and we can get bursts of days a lot hotter. Optimal growing temperatures are around 65° or 70° to 75° F., and if the plant experiences material heat stress, photosynthesis—the process by which plants produce their energy and food—tends to shut down, which of course can result in reduced plant and fruit size, plus possibly a reduction in the amount of food that the plant stores to get through the winter. In particular, most types of primocane-fruiting (fall-bearing) raspberries do not perform well under high temperatures.
Whether our temperatures are high enough often enough to be a problem is not clear from the literature we have seen; our best guess is that since it is not much discussed in regional articles on the fruit, that absence signals that it is probably not a major problem (which it certainly is in more southerly climes), though one Washington State University bulletin notes that blackberries and other close cousins of raspberries are not recommended for our region owing to the summer heat, though raspberries proper are OK.)
Raspberry Cultivars
Despite the myriad of types and varieties within those types, it seems, to us at least, that there is an obvious choice: the purple type Royalty. What are its virtues? Let us count the ways:
It is widely reported as delicious—moreover, delicious in two ways: picked while still red, it tastes like a fine specimen of the classic red raspberry, but picked later, when it turns purple, it acquires a deeper, richer, fuller (and apparently distinctive) flavor.
It is extremely hardy: at the cold end, survival unscathed through -24° for two consecutive nights; at the hot end, "[didn't] mind constant 90s with upwards of a week at 100 with 50 +- percent humidity."
It is very productive, with quite large individual berries (technically, they aren't "berries", but only a botanist will know or care).
It is strongly resistant to most or all of the diseases and pests that can aflict raspberries.
It does only minimal and easily controlled suckering.
You can read about home gardeners' experiences with it at various gardening forums on line (here is one such thread).
Raspberry Culture
The growing of raspberries is suficiently complicated that we, as nonexperts, recommend that you look to other resources: some good ones appear in the list of links below. But do keep two things in mind: one, raspberry canes tend to have thorns or, worse, spines: wear thick gloves and long sleeves when picking or working on the plants! And two, they make good containewr plants if you have a little space in your home with south window exposure.
(For container growing, different issues guide cultivar selection. For that use, there are a few good choices, but we'd recommend the type Joan J: thornless, a big deal for container plants; very productive; and good flavor.)
Besides any links presented above on this page, the following ought to be especially helpful:
Raspberry Cultivars for the Inland Northwest and Intermountain West - University of Idaho
Raspberry Cultivars for the Pacific Northwest - Oregon State University
Growing Raspberries - planting, growing, and harvesting
How to Grow Raspberries - pretty complete.
Health and Healing Fact Sheets - for red raspberries
Raspberries & More - from the University of Illinois
Enjoy Homegrown Raspberries for Decades to Come - how to plant, grow, and harvest them
Everbearing Red Raspberry Bush: Planting, Care, Pruning and Harvesting Instructions - what it says
(And don't forget that we have listings of nurseries on our suppliers page.)
Raspberries are, like such tree fruit as apples, another member of the bountiful Rosaceae family.
The classic red raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is, properly speaking, not a berry at all; it is an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. In raspberry and other species of the subgenus Idaeobatus, the drupelets separate from the core when picked, leaving a hollow fruit (whereas with, for example, blackberries, the drupelets stay attached to the core).
Raspberries have also been crossed with other members of the Rubus genus, resulting in a number of hybrids, such as boysenberry and loganberry. Also, a "gold" raspberry (really pale yellow) has been developed by horticulturists. The black raspberry, also called a blackcap, is not the same species as the red raspberry, being a variety (usually) of R. occidentalis, a North American species. Other Rubus species also called "raspberries" include:
Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus)
Flowering raspberry (Rubus odoratus)
Wine raspberry (Rubus phoenicolasius)
Whitebark raspberry or Western Raspberry (Rubus leucodermis)
Fresh raspberries have a very limited period of usefulness, but the fruit freezes very well.
Raspberries apparently originated in eastern Asia, where they have been a foodstuff since prehistoric times (though there are also varieties native to the Western Hemisphere, probably carried across the Bering Straight during ancient times). It is said that the raspberry was one of the Eastern foods first noticed by Europeans during the Crusades, when Crusaders even wrote poems about this delightful and—to them—novel fruit. Regular European cultivation begain in the 17th century, and by the 19th century there were almost four dozen named cultivars. In North America, raspberries were an expensive luxury food till about the middle of the 19th century, when they became more commonly grown (and thus less expensive).
For a while in the middle twentieth century, raspberries from Scotland—a major grower—were daily transported to London's famed Covent Garden vegetable mart by a steam train known as the Raspberry Special.
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by Will Corry on November 19, 2012 in Apps, FaceBook, Google, iPhone, Lead story, LinkedIn, Metrics, Mobile Marketing, Research, Retail
Ci Research – the full service market research agency – has completed a major overhaul of its brand identity and unveiled a new corporate image. It will now be known as Mustard (www.mustard-research.com), as it looks to build on over 21 years of successful business with a new, high-impact brand identity.
The Wilmslow-based company specialises in the delivery of customer insight for clients across the private and public sectors. As part of the change, it will continue to focus on providing key consultancy services, including a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research tools.
In addition, the company is now perfectly positioned to capitalise on industry developments, with a range of groundbreaking methods and hybrid techniques, including online research communities, social media monitoring and research, insight films and commercial ethnography.
Colin Auton, managing director of Mustard, commented: "The re-brand is a bold and positive step forward for the business. Our customer feedback told us that we've been delivering high quality and high impact research for our clients, but that the service experience didn't mirror our brand perceptions in terms of how we behave and what we deliver. It was imperative that the branding reflected the level of creative thinking and innovation that flows through the business."
He added: "The new brand perfectly reflects the personality of the business – a team of passionate, commercially pragmatic and grounded market research and customer insight consultants. The launch of Mustard marks our rebirth as a modern agency that really packs a punch and makes a significant difference. The new name is more reflective of the services we offer and the sectors we operate in, and, having tested it with our clients, the response has been terrific."
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Colin added: "Our industry is evolving faster than ever and, as a result of this rebrand, we will be better placed to make use of all the emerging trends and technologies. We are gearing up for an ambitious growth strategy over the next 12 months and digital channels will play a pivotal role in these plans."
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Former workers, whistleblowers shed light on nuclear site safety setbacks via Aljazeera America
RICHLAND, Wash. – On the banks of the Columbia River, miles of open land sit undeveloped behind barbed wire fences. A handful of mysterious structures dot the landscape, remnants from the early days of the Cold War. Passing by the old Hanford nuclear production complex can feel like a journey into the past.
Known simply as Hanford, workers here produced plutonium for the world's first atomic bomb and for many of the nation's current nuclear warheads. The site was first developed in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project and ceased plutonium production nearly 50 years later, leaving behind 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste. Spanning 586 square miles, it is now ground zero for the largest cleanup project in America.
For 27 years, Mike Geffre was part of that effort, working in an area known as the tank farms: 177 massive underground storage tanks, which hold up to 1 million gallons each of the country's most toxic nuclear waste.
In October 2011, Geffre found the first leak in a double-shell tank, something that wasn't supposed to happen. Dangerous radioactive waste in a tank called AY-102 had leaked into a space between the tank's inner and outer shell, called the annulus. No waste had reached the environment yet, but the discovery proved that earlier assumptions about the safety of double-shell tanks were wrong. By law, the leak required immediate action.
"I expected something immediately to happen," Geffre said. "I expected that there was this process in place, above my level, that once I give this information that there would be [an] immediate process for getting the equipment in place and start getting ready to pump it out."
Mike Geffre is still feeling the effects of working on the cleanup effort at Hanford.
But Geffre said his employer, the government contractor Washington River Protection Solutions, refused to investigate further, claiming that the leaking material was likely rainwater, even though it registered as radioactive. WRPS was in the first couple years of a 10-year, $7.1-billion contract to manage the aging tank farms.
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A child dies every 5 minutes as a result of violence
20 November 2014. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that children´s rights have not been fulfilled when millions of children die of preventable causes, hundreds of millions are engaged in child labour and 11% of girls are married before the age of 15.
His Special Representative on violence against children, points out that a child dies as a result of violence every five minutes.
Today on the Universal Children´s Day, the world celebrates the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990. In his message on the Universal Children´s day, Mr. Ban uges innovative solutions, increase in resources and political will to invest in children and put their wellbeing at the centre of the political, economic and social agenda.
"We cannot say that the rights of all children are fulfilled when, despite our progress, some 6.3 million children under 5 years of age died in 2013, mostly from preventable causes; when 168 million children aged 5 to 17 were engaged in child labour in 2012; when 11 per cent of girls are married before they turn 15, says the UN Secretary-General on his message on the Universal Day of Children.
In 1954, the UN General Assembly recommended that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children. The date 20 November, marks the day on which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
There is much to celebrate as we mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention, from declining infant mortality to rising school enrolment, but this historic milestone must also serve as an urgent reminder that much remains to be done. Too many children still do not enjoy their full rights on par with their peers.
Every five minutes a child dies as a result of violence.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais points out in a statement today that while many pressing challenges still remain, children's rights are no longer peripheral to the development debate.
"While we rejoice in these achievements we also know humankind is failing many of its children, amongst whom are countless girls and boys exposed to violence, often in a pervasive, hidden and concealed manner," says the Special Representative in a statement on the Universal Children´s Day.
"They are the children intentionally targeted in politically driven processes, drawn into organized crime, exploited for economic gains, groomed on line, disciplined through violent means, sexually abused in the privacy of their homes, neglected in care institutions, bullied in schools, stigmatized and ill-treated as a result of superstition or harmful practices."
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President Obama's Parting Gift to Boeing: $31.2 Billion in Defense Contracts
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When Kuwait announced in April that it will be buying $9.1 billion worth of fighter jets from Airbus (NASDAQOTH: EADSY), that sounded like bad news for Boeing (NYSE: BA). For months, the Obama administration had been dragging its feet on approving a sale of Boeing's competing F/A-18 fighter jet to Kuwait. Ultimately, Kuwait chose to buy fighters from Airbus, which was quicker to approve the deal.
Could Boeing's F/A-18 regain air supremacy? Image source: Getty Images.
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Kuwait is a nation of just 3.4 million people. At a cost of roughly $2,700 per citizen, the purchase of 28 Eurofighter Typhoons from Airbus represents a huge investment for the country. (Note: Airbus is the largest shareholder of the Eurofighter consortium that makes the Typhoon. BAE Systemsowns a 33% stake in the consortium.) And yet, it seems Kuwait has not yet run out of money to spend.
Two weeks ago, in a rather surprising announcement, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notifiedCongress of Kuwait's continued interest in buying F/A-18s from Boeing (apparently in addition to the Typhoons from Airbus). As explained in DSCA's notification, Kuwait intends to purchase 32 F/A-18E fighter jets and eight more advanced F/A-18F fighters from Boeing. Total cost: $10.1 billion.
Nor was this the only good news Boeing shareholders got last week.
Cast your eyes south
Simultaneous with the announcement of the Kuwait fighter deal, DSCA notified Congress of a second -- even bigger -- sale of Boeing fighter jets to the Middle East. Just a few hundred miles to the south of Kuwait likes the peninsular nation of Qatar, and the Qataris seem even more infatuated with Boeing planes.
According to DSCA, Qatar is seeking permission to purchase 72 F-15QA fighter jets from Boeing for the princely sum of $21.1 billion. That makes the total value of Boeing contracts being sought here $31.2 billion.
What it means for Boeing -- and its investors
It's hard to overestimate the importance of these defense deals to Boeing, now that the Obama administration has permitted them to proceed. (Congress has literally never rejected a foreign arms dealonce the DSCA has given official notification).
From a sheer dollars-and-cents perspective, Boeing's military aircraft division earns 9.8% pre-tax profit margins on the planes it sells -- the second-highest profit margin of any Boeing division. Ultimately, the $31.2 billion in revenue flowing from the two deals named above should earn Boeing pre-tax profits well in excess of $3 billion, worth nearly 43% of all the profits that Boeing generated from all its businesses last year.
But the significance of these deals is even greater than that.
With demand for its fourth-generation fighter jets waning, Boeing had been planning to shut down production of its F-15s by 2019. F/A-18 production was likely to cease in 2017. Boeing Defense head Leanne Carethas been heard talking about how Boeing needed to "evolve" beyond fighter jets entirely, and refocus its efforts on building planes it can actually sell -- KC-46 Pegasi, C-17 Globemasters, and P-8A Poseidons.
Thanks to these last-minute sales, though, Boeing's fighter jets business has a new lease on life.
Consider: Last year, Boeing produced and delivered 35 F/A-18 model aircraft to its customers around the world. At that build rate, the Kuwaiti deal will extend F/A-18 production by more than a year. Indeed, if Boeing can slow its production rate just a bit, the production line could operate even longer -- giving Boeing more time to find even more buyers, to extend its lifeline even further.
Meanwhile, Boeing's F/15 was already producing at the much slower rate of just 12 planes per year. Qatar's order for 72 new F-15s extends the lifespan of that model aircraft by six more years!
Turns out, thanks to these two last-minute contract wins, Boeing may not have to quit the defense business after all.
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If it is strike cover, then no you shouldn't do it, so long as you're in a union.
One sneaky plan might be for the SMT to ask "moderates" to cover strikers while "militants" cover genuine absences. Could /should we do anything about that?
You shouldn't do it , even if you are NOT in a union. Have you in the past / would you in the future accept the pay rise gained by strike action ?
I would have thought that most LA advice to schools (certainly ours) is not to look for staff to cover classes otherwise taken by strikers.
This is also ASCL and NAHT advice to headteachers.
It is illegal for agencies to provide cover for striking teachers.
Thanks. That's what I thought too. I do supply as well as my normal PPA job, and wondered where I stood.
I will refuse them. I am a bit shocked that I was even asked!
can the head (in a union) cover for a striking teacher? We have just one teacher in NUT and he is striking. The rest are in other unions but supportive of the NUT teacher. The head thinks that he can cover the class. He's in the headteacher union (not sure what the acronym is!). Should he be doing this?
i believe senior management can make provision for these classes by 'covering' though of course there will be no cover work set.
The heads unions I think have said no covering.
End of the day, people can do what they want, as long as they accept the consequences. Any head covering for a striking colleague is breaking the strike, and I'm sure the NAHT (the acronym which escaped you) would agree.
"It is illegal for agencies to provide cover for striking teachers."
Employment Agency Regulations 2003 Part 11 Section 7 1(a) and 7(1)(b) makes it unlawful for agencies to knowingly supply staff to a hirer to break a strike.
I seem to recall a protocol from the TUC to protect members across unions when action is taken by one although I don't think this has any weight legally.
If you choose to cover a striking colleague the main issue you need to consider is whether or not you want to undermine a professional colleague who is making a financial sacrifice in an attempt to benefit all of us - would you like to be known as a 'scab' in the staffroom?
Of course you have the right to go to work, but you should seek written assurance from the HT that if you are covering classes, they are not the classes of striking colleagues.
I am a TA in a primary school. We were told that 5 of the 7 teachers in school would be taking action on Thursday. We have been told that we will not be doing our normal roles but taking smaller groups of children for the day to cover striking teachers.
Our Head is also trying to get agency cover. It is a diffcult position as we have been told that is what is happening, we will not be given work so I guess we are just expected to be babysitters so the school stays open as a matter of principal.
worzel, are you in a union? if so i'd imagine they would fully support you if you refused to babysit these students as it is not what you are employed to do and the head is putting unreasonable demands on you.
worzel, the advice given to your HT by his union (if he is in one) would be not to undertake the action he is proposing. Further, I would think your Local Authority would not advise this either.
My Head (NASUWT member) plans to cover my class.
I'm striking, and my class is being covered by a non-NUT/ATL member. I'm disgusted that he was asked to cover for me, and that he agreed to do it. He's an NQT and has 40+ years of teaching ahead of him. If the strike actions are successful, he will benefit from this, despite his undermining my choice of action.
Much of the respect I had for him, and for my non-striking NUT colleagues, has gone. Please, don't agree to cover for strking colleagues, especially if you are a member of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.


"Thanks for organising the event on Saturday... I thought it was excellent and gave us an ideal opportunity to promote the Be Proud campaign. It was a great turn out. Once again many thanks for an absolute cracking event".


I heard it from a friend and when I tried it myself, it rocked my world. We stopped messing around with one fad after another and found "the one", the answer. What was the question? How to get our groove back.
"I was trying to live a healthy, authentic life" says Mark "but I was finding myself with less energy and less motivation, I couldn't sleep through the night. I tried to eat well and exercise regularly but I just felt like I was doing less with more".
"I had many days that I just couldn't get myself out of bed, and I couldn't figure out why. I loved my work, had a great network of friends but I had zero energy." explains Louise.
"My stomach ached and my skin erupted. I had contracted strep throat twice in 2 months and then walking pneumonia. In the midst of this my acne – which had been under control for a couple of years – became so bad I didn't want to leave the house." shares Andrea.
They'd all tried the "Top 20 Foods For insert problem here " along with a host of other advice from the experts to cure what ailed them. And then Louise discovered ph360.me: "I heard about it from a friend, of course" says Louise. I went straight to their website and read everything I could about it. Here is what Louise found.
How does this work? First, you collect extensive body profile, family history and lifestyle information and enter it into the online platform (all you need is a soft tape measure and a computer to do this). Next, ph360 runs that data through the series of algorithms that Matt and his team of scientists developed. Then, in 30 minutes from start to finish, you have the tools you need to transform your life. Notably, there is an extensive list of food recommendations – the absolute best "fuel" for your body, along with foods you would do best to avoid. There is also a comprehensive list, complete with how to guides, for the best exercises and sports for your particular body and even insights into your mind, talents, social style and the best environment for you.
Just like when you go shopping for that new pair of jeans and you rediscover that your body is unique because you can't find a pair that fits, ph360 knows you are unique and they've customized their recommendations specifically for you. Maybe you don't have to eat kale after all, and running is possibly not the best thing for your body. Mark's recommendations are different to Louise's and hers are different to Andrea's. One thing they do have in common… they all look and feel amazing because they've discovered personalized health.
"Actually, its food, fitness and environment as medicine" says Andrea, a nursing student. "And the side effects are health, vitality and even happiness".
Full disclosure – they each admit that there are a few things on their foods to avoid list that they really miss. Mark misses the coffee, Louise the chocolate and Andrea actually had a lot of foods to avoid initially but is now able to add a significant number of them back in. That's another feature of this program that you don't find anywhere else, you can re-do your body measurements as often as you like and get updated results. Because those measurements show things like inflammation and hormone levels, when things are more in balance for you, recommended foods expand. As with any program, 100% adherence results in optimal benefit but even 80 to 90 % adherence will transform you. Many people start off by committing to eating as much as possible from their highly recommended list and as little as possible from the avoid list, thus taking a small step in the right direction and reaping the benefits of that.
The talents, mind and social sections offer insights that may confirm that your lifestyle, career and habits are aligned with your true self and if not, provide recommendations to help you achieve this. "ph360 is a truly holistic program, focusing on the health of your mind and spirit as well as your body" explains Matt.
"I started feeling a lot better within two weeks of starting ph360, I haven't been ill since and now I can go out without caking on makeup." states Andrea.
Others following ph360 are also having remarkable results with their health – from extreme weight loss to the end of migraines, insomnia, skin problems, digestive issues, control of autoimmune disorders and even help to minimize the effects of treatment of serious illnesses like cancer.
30 minutes to the blueprint to rock your work and get your groove back. Not bad. And like all the best technology, the next generation is in the works.
Integrate with wearable devices, compare it with other data and recommend activity, foods and rest.
Integrate Geomedicine through GPS, making recommendations for foods, activities, transportation and more based on where you are in the world.
Provide real time updates based on current data, recognizing the tendencies of your specific body and alerting to preventative advice.
Provide a schedule optimizer based on a your own body rhythm to help you minimize stress, increase productivity and just be happy.
If engagement and enthusiasm are signs, we can take it from ph360 users that this is a program that works. In an act of unpaid, authentic endorsement, beyond the fact that they are telling their friends about it – hundreds of ph360 users have volunteered to be part of the Global ChangeMakers, donating their time to a campaign to mobilize like-minded personalized health enthusiasts to help support the development of Shae™. Together we can make this revolutionary technology a reality.


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Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker in the Romantic Comedy "Failure to Launch".
Plot Summary: Tripp (Matthew McConaughey) has never been able to leave the nest. He's always had some reason or other, but now, his desperate parents have had enough. They hire the gorgeous and talented girl of his dreams (Sarah Jessica Parker) to get him to move out of the house.


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Q: Iterate through an array of nested objects and create a new array from the objects values in the same order and length the values were positioned I'm trying to create a new array from the obj values that follow the same length and order as the nested array of objects. I've tried creating nested for loops that would automate the process to do so but haven't had any luck. I have a hardcoded example at the bottom that breaks down what I'm trying to achieve.
The value newArr needs to be
[
    [
      [0,1],
      [2]
    ],

    [
      [3],
      [4]
    ],

     [
      [5],
      [6,7,8]
    ],

    [
      [9,10,11],
      [12,13,14]
    ],

    [
       [15,16,17],
    ]
]

The array of objects newArr will be modeled from
var obj = [
    [
      [{foo:0},{foo:1}],
      [{foo:2}]
    ],

    [
      [{foo:3}],
      [{foo:4}]
    ],

     [
      [{foo:5}],
      [{foo:6},{foo:7},{foo:8}]
    ],

    [
      [{foo:9},{foo:10},{foo:11}],
      [{foo:12},{foo:13},{foo:14}]
    ],

    [
       [{foo:15},{foo:16},{foo:17}],
    ]
]

The array of numbers keeping track of the nested array of objects position
var nums = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]

Stores nums in the order and length of each array of objects
var newArr = []

Creates nth amount of secondary parent arrays equivalent to obj length
for(var i=0;i<obj.length;i++) {

  newArr.push([])

}

Hardcoded example of newArr pushing numbers from the nums array
Here I'm splicing num with 0 as the first parameter and the lengths of the first two nested arrays from obj
The main goal is not to hardcode the values to create the new array but to create some kind of for loop that would handle it
newArr[0].push([nums.splice(0,2)])
newArr[0].push([nums.splice(0,1)])

A: Create a recursive function that maps the array. If an item is an array call the function on it, if not take the value of foo:

const fn = arr => arr.map(o =>
  Array.isArray(o) ? // if the item is an array
    fn(o) // run the item through the function
    :
    o.foo) // get the value of foo

const arr = [[[{"foo":0},{"foo":1}],[{"foo":2}]],[[{"foo":3}],[{"foo":4}]],[[{"foo":5}],[{"foo":6},{"foo":7},{"foo":8}]],[[{"foo":9},{"foo":10},{"foo":11}],[{"foo":12},{"foo":13},{"foo":14}]],[[{"foo":15},{"foo":16},{"foo":17}]]]

const result = fn(arr)

console.log(result)

You can make the recursive function more generic by supplying accepting a predicate that will handle non array values:

const fn = (pred, arr) =>
  arr.map(o =>
    Array.isArray(o) ? // if the value is an array
      fn(pred, o) // call the function on the item and pass the predicate
      :
      pred(o) // run the predicate on the item
    )

const arr = [[[{"foo":0},{"foo":1}],[{"foo":2}]],[[{"foo":3}],[{"foo":4}]],[[{"foo":5}],[{"foo":6},{"foo":7},{"foo":8}]],[[{"foo":9},{"foo":10},{"foo":11}],[{"foo":12},{"foo":13},{"foo":14}]],[[{"foo":15},{"foo":16},{"foo":17}]]]

const result = fn(o => o.foo, arr) // run the function with the predicate an the array

console.log(result)

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Hilderinc FC On The Brink!
Any fears of their season derailing after their unanticipated glitch against Graduate Soccer Team two weeks ago was laid to rest when Hilderinc Football Club took a huge stride towards the ESPZEN Saturday League Division 3 title when they triumphed 3-0 over Super Aviators in the top of the table clash.
Having prevailed by the same scoreline in their earlier meeting, the Blacks were mindful of any enthused response from the Hawks and altered their midfield to counter any possible escapade, especially with several regulars missing.
And as anticipated, the Aviators were quick off the blocks and the Blacks had keeper Gopal Peethambaran to thank when his quick reflects kept them from going behind to an early goal, setting the inspiration for the rest.
Reversing the initial trend, the Hilderincs came close to the lead when goal-machine, Cristian Peligros headed Ian Morris' corner across the face of the goal, and within seconds the Spaniard returned the compliments to the skipper but saw his header glance past the post.
And the duo were in the thick of the action once again after Ian Morris sent Cristian Peligros through on goal, and the latter's deft touch over the keeper fell agonisingly close onto the roof of the net.
With the Blacks in constant movement, both with and without the ball, youngster Aamri Fikri send a weighted ball to Cristian Peligros, and with the forward drawing a foul just outside the box, set himself for the only recurrent outcome, sending a non stoppable shot past the goalkeeper to take the lead.
Indicative of a top of the table title clash, the Aviators replied with a good contest in their efforts to draw parity but with the Blacks' defensive quartet of Nicholas Ledenmark, Dionisis Kolokotsas, Sergey Darovskikh and Adi Ravikumar in formidable form, the untested midfield of former Malaysian professional player, Varanthan Arumugan, Basil Al Barr, who highly impressed in his first competitive role in the middle of the park, and an imperious Sunny Tharidu, who was having a game of his life, were in complete control of the proceedings.
Despite making his bow, Varanthan Arumugan was a constant livewire and he duly made his mark by providing a measured assist to Cristian Peligros for a typical calm finish to extend the Hilderincs' lead past the midway point.
With just seconds left on the clock before the break, the Blacks' previously watertight backline was finally breached with the Aviators finding a rare route behind the defenders, and with the ball sent across the face of the goal, but a last ditch intervention by Adi Ravikumar ensured that the planned half-time team talk remained unchanged.
Following the high tempo endeavours of the first period and with a two goal lead, the Hilderincs scaled back some of the pace, willing to take more attention in half while working on the break.
With a centreback pairing with almost 90 years in combined age, veterans Dionisis Kolokotsas and Kavin Singh were inspirational, winning everything between themselves.
However, inviting pressure was always going to come with nervous moments and though most were well dealt with, it needed a Sergey Darovskikh clearance in front of the goalmouth to maintain poise.
Progressively and appropriately, the Blacks reverted to their more accustomed tune of pressing from the attacking third, though a more direct approach nearly paid dividends when Varanthan Arumugan's sortie behind the Aviator backline and subsequent shot clipped off the crossbar.
With under 6 minutes left on the clock, Aamir Fikri who had an exceptional game, responding well after being left out in the previous game, capped his performance with a wonder strike, only for the goalkeeper to somehow deny the teenage a quality goal.
But the Blacks sealed all three points and extinguished any lingering Aviators resolve from the resultant corner as Cristian Peligros bullet headed Ian Morris' set-piece for his hat-trick and 18th league goal in an astonishing season where he has bagged 32 goals in 10 games, inclusive of friendlies, and that with one game still remaining.
The gritty display was personified by another Gopal Peethamabaran save and by heroic defending by Kavin Singh and Sergey Darovskikh who both threw themselves to deny a late goal in the dying minutes, especially when goal difference might come into consideration in the larger scheme of things.
Notwithstanding official confirmation on latest developments, the Hilderincs are not expected to take their feet off the gas going into their remaining game against Hiadis FC as they set their sights on the prize.


In a new blog Oliver Bakewell and Agnieszka Kubal provide some reflections on the THEMIS conference 'Examining Migration Dynamics: Networks and Beyond' that took place in Oxford from 24-26 September 2013.
The THEMIS conference will be remembered as an excellent combination of a beautiful venue, smooth organisation, and, most importantly of all, a wide range of scholars from around the world. 139 participants from 28 countries presented their ideas and engaged in vibrant, critical and constructive dialogue. The conference was an open and stimulating environment for the free exchange of ideas, and robust but friendly debate over two and half days.


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Q: Setting WCF InstanceContextMode (Per Call, Single) in web.confg Haven't come across this one with quite a bit of Googling.
I know I can set the instance by decorating the class name thus:
[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerCall,
                 ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode.Multiple)]

but can I specify this in the web.config file?
I know I can specify throttling (max concurrent users etc) in the web.config  / app.config and that the numbers here have a context depending on the instance mode - but how to specify the mode (in most likely the behaviours section of the app.config / web.config)?
Originally we were going for Windows services. Now we are using WAS. Does WAS make any difference - eg. each 'per call' request will still get's it own 'server' as a pipeline operation?
Thanks

A: You can't change InstanceContextMode and ConcurrencyMode in web.config with out of the box functionality but you can write your custom extension (behavior or custom ServiceHost + ServiceHostFactory + config section) to do that. Here is the example how to change InstanceContextMode without defining it in attribute on the service class.
Processing in WAS is the same - each service type still have its own service host and each request is processed in its own thread.

A: You can not configure InstanceContextMode and ConcurrencyMode in config files, build in limitation in the WCF, i am sure MS has their reasons.
About hosting in WAS, if you have a web server with IIS 7/7.5 it is recommended to host your service with WAS because you can manage your services with the IIS management and get a lot of built in capabilities from it.

A: As per the previous answers, you cannot do this without a bit of work. I had to do this for a customer recently and I have documented it here. I have also provided a validator to not allow the service to start if it is not configured how you would like it. The details are here changing-wcf-concurrency-programatically.


It seemed like any other Tuesday lunch, as we ate casually with our friends. All of a sudden came a roar from all sides of camp as Spirit Day 2010 was kicked off by our incredible CIT group. For a day-and-a-half, Blue Ice and Green Fire challenged each other in friendly competition which culminated in Wednesday night's cheers and songs. In the end, both sides won as we reunited as one camp family again. Thursday we were back in programming and inter-camp games and tournaments were held all over camp. From Fishing to Ropes to Riding to Fitness and Ceramics…we're in high gear. Our 8th graders departed Thursday morning for their awesome trip to Six Flags New England and our 6th grade girls took off on their overnight camping trip. Tomorrow will be another amazing "S" Day as we will, for the first time ever, combine Movie Morning with Carnival Afternoon. Every day is packed with excitement and adventure at Laurel South…What a beautiful day in the state of Maine!!!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged camp activities, Laurel South News, life at summer camp, Summer Camps 2010 on July 9, 2010 by Camp Laurel South.
Fireworks…Baseball….Canobie Lake Park….Non Stop Fun!
First Session at Laurel South is flying by. The weather has been terrific and everywhere you look around camp, there are smilin' kids and happy counselors. From the ballfields to the riding rings to the waterfront, climbing towers and theatre…the action never stops. Instruction is in full swing in every activity area. The new Tennis Center is buzzing. Intercamps and tournaments are raging. Fishing is out-of-sight and 4th of July Fireworks were unbelievable! Everyone donned their red, white and blue for an exciting day which culminated with the most amazing fireworks show in the county. It has truly been a magical first couple weeks of camp. Today we are off to Canobie Lake for our first amazing out-of-camp "S" Day. As always, it's another great day in the state of Maine!
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First Week: A Smashing Success….
It's been an amazing week at Camp Laurel South! After completing our first week of program, yesterday was our first "S" day. Our 8th Graders are at Acadia National park having an amazing time. The 9th Graders just returned from their whitewater rafting trip as part of their Adventure Bound Experience. The rest of camp had a later wake up followed by our incredible "S" day breakfast of chocolate chip, M&M or blueberry pancakes, scones and cheese omelets…our Saco and Kino campers had the best time at Splashtown Water Park while our Allagash and Baxter campers enjoyed a cool beach party on Crescent Lake and our 7th graders headed off to Sparetime for an afternoon of bowling. Today we are back into regular program (baseball, basketball, tennis, waterskiing, archery, ceramics, horseback riding and so much more!) and, by tonight, our 8th and 9th graders will be back with their summer family. The schedule is packed full of fun. We can't wait for the fireworks this Sunday! The weekend calls for magnificent Maine weather. The fun is non-stop in Casco!!
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Summer 2010 is finally here and it's hard to believe we've been in Casco for nearly a week!!! We had an amazing opening day as the staff enthusiastically welcomed our First Session campers. Old friendships were rekindled and new ones began as the Laurel South family finally gathered as one. Friday was our annual Moose Stomp Day…schedules were created…s'mores were devoured…we bumper tubed on Crescent Lake…and we concluded our day with our Council Fire celebrating fun and friendship. On Saturday, full activity and program began. The ballfields, courts, waterfront, theater and Challenge Course were alive with activity. Our 7th grade girls just returned from an amazing camping trip and our 8th graders and CIT's head out tomorrow on their Acadia and White Water Rafting trips. Intercamps and Tournaments began today and tomorrow is our first "S" day of the summer. The action never ends at Laurel South!
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Staff Orientation is in Full Swing!
What a great Orientation were having! The fields, waterfront, facilities and especially our brand new Tennis Center look amazing. As all the camper luggage is unpacked and the program areas are prepared, the anticipation grows for another incredible Laurel South summer. We can't wait to meet all meet the campers on Thursday for First Session! Safe travels to Casco. What a beautiful day in the state of Maine!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Laurel South News, prepare for summer camp, staff, summer camp, Summer Camps 2010 on June 22, 2010 by Camp Laurel South.


After an easy development of trading robots for MetaTrader 4, you may be unpleasantly surprised about the challenges one will face with developing bots for the stock market in Russia. QUIK is one of the most popular programs among Russian brokers. The program has a built-in programming language QPILE, which allows making simple scripts, but doesn't have enough capacity to develop full-fledged trading robots, let alone provide testing facilities. Therefore, we have to find an alternative way.


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Q: Lock free read only List in Python? I've done some basic performance and memory consumption benchmarks and I was wondering if there is any way to make things even faster...

*

*I have a giant 70,000 element list with a numpy ndarray, and the file path in a tuple in the said list.

*My first version passed a sliced up copy of the list to each of the processes in python multiprocess module, but it would explode ram usage to over 20+ Gigabytes

*The second version I moved it into the global space and access it via index such as foo[i] in a loop in each of my processes which seems to put it into a shared memory area/CoW semantics with the processes thus it does not explode the memory usage (Stays at ~3 Gigabytes)

*However according to the performance benchmarks/tracing, it seems like the large majority of the application time is now spent in "acquire" mode...
So I was wondering if there is any way i can somehow turn this list into some sort of lockfree/read only so that I can do away with part of the acquire step to help speed up access even more.
Edit 1: Here's the top few line output of the profiling of the app
ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
   65 2450.903   37.706 2450.903   37.706 {built-in method acquire}
39320    0.481    0.000    0.481    0.000 {method 'read' of 'file' objects}
  600    0.298    0.000    0.298    0.000 {posix.waitpid}
   48    0.271    0.006    0.271    0.006 {posix.fork}

Edit 2: Here's a example of the list structure:
# Sample code for a rough idea of how the list is constructed
sim = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(rootdir):
    path = os.path.join(root, filename)
    image= Image.open(path)
    np_array = np.asarray(image)
    sim.append( (np_array, path) )

# Roughly it would look something like say this below
sim = List( (np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]], np.int32), "/foobar/com/what.something") )

Then henceforth the SIM list is to be read only.

A: The multiprocessing module provides exactly what you need:  a shared array with optional locking, namely the multiprocessing.Array class.  Pass lock=False to the constructor to disable locking.
Edit (taking into account your update):  Things are actually considerably more involved than I initially expected. The data of all elements in your list needs to be created in shared memory.  Whether you put the list itself (i.e. the pointers to the actual data) in shared memory, does not matter too much because this should be a small compared to the data of all files.  To store the file data in shared memory, use
shared_data = multiprocessing.sharedctypes.RawArray("c", data)

where data is the data you read from the file.  To use this as a NumPy array in one of the processes, use
numpy.frombuffer(shared_data, dtype="c")

which will create a NumPy array view for the shared data.  Similarly, to put the path name into shared memory, use
shared_path = multiprocessing.sharedctypes.RawArray("c", path)

where path is an ordinary Python string.  In your processes, you can access this as a Python string by using shared_path.raw.  Now append (shared_data, shared_path) to your list.  The list will get copied to the other processes, but the actual data won't.
I initially meant to use an multiprocessing.Array for the actual list.  This would be perfectly possible and would ensure that also the list itself (i.e. the pointers to the data) is in shared memory.  Now I think this is not that important at all, as long as the actual data is shared.


I wanna go back to.. EGYPT!
It's March again, and it is the height of my stressful and demanding time for my business managing sports officials. Too little time + too much to do + my too little brain puts me in a 'can't see the trees from the forest' mode. It's crazy busy even without trying to do any Back Pew cartooning.
So easy for me to forget the blessings of this life and focus on the stress of the moment feeling like it will last forever even though in reality it is just a couple bad weeks. My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.. Remember the stories from the book of Exodus where the children of Israel after God miraculously delivered his people from slavery in Egypt concluding with them crossing the Red Sea on dry land.
Their 'exodus' from Egypt filled with miracles, signs, and wonders by the very hand of God was lost on them as they wind up whining in the wilderness. Their faces were long, and their memories were short. Oh sure God parted the Red Sea so we would not be killed, BUT what has he done for them lately? I WANNA GO BACK TO EGYPT! was the cry throughout the land.
When I was younger reading this story of God's deliverance I sometimes shook my head thinking how sad they had such little faith, and such short memories. I would NEVER be so ungrateful..BUT.. upon further review.. I think I would fit right in. While I would like to say I would be Moses right hand man, I more likely would have been the guy crossing the Red Sea wearing water wings, and a floatation device nabbed back at the Nile YMCA.
I can't do it.. I don't want to do it. Where is God? Can't he see I am unhappy? Can't he see my pouty face? Those are my complaints even though my plight is very mild and short when compared to fleeing from men chasing me in chariots wanting to kill me.
WRITE IT ON A ROCK..
Again, by comparison my temporary March Madness pales with the Exodus story, but the same promise of God holds true both in the day of Moses and today. His providence in grand and small ways are equally significant. I pray that we do not lose sight of this truth when the going gets tough and we want to get going.


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L'Equipe: Milan discover €10m asking price for France U21 international after scouting mission
By Oliver Fisher - 15 November 2021, 15:51
AC Milan's scouts are monitoring the development of Angers winger Mohamed-Ali Cho and have learned his asking price, according to a report.
Today's edition of L'Equipe (via MilanNews) writes that Milan are continuing to scour the French market for young talent just as they have done in the past few windows with the likes of Rafael Leao, Mike Maignan and Pierre Kalulu arriving from across the Alps.
The Rossoneri have already sent one of their scouts in recent days to see him in person during France U21's game against Armenia when he came on as a substitute with 30 minutes to play in what was a very one-sided 7-0 victory for Les Bleus.
Next summer Angers could be forced to sell as they need to raise funds to boost their accounts and that is why they should not oppose the sale of the 17-year-old. Cho will still have a one-year contract as his currently deal expires in June 2023, and it would take €10m to land him.
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Do Anglo countries still form a values cluster? Evidence of the complexity of value change
Egri, Carolyn P. and Khilji, Shaista E. and Ralston, David A. and Palmer, Ian and Girson, Ilya and Milton, Laurie and Richards, Malika and Ramburuth, Prem and Mockaitis, Audra (2012) Do Anglo countries still form a values cluster? Evidence of the complexity of value change. Journal of World Business, 47 (2). pp. 267-276. ISSN 1090-9516
To what extent does the Anglo Cluster remains a cultural cluster in today's managerial and professional workforce? Across six Anglo countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, U.K., and U.S.), we found significant differences in values orientations (openness to change, conservation, self-enhancement, and self-transcendence values) that challenge the concept of a cohesive Anglo cluster. We also explored the influence of micro-level factors on values orientations and found consistent life-stage and gender differences across countries. We conclude that, even within a group of countries perceived as similar, multi-level analyses are needed to fully capture the essence of values differences across and within countries.
Age; Anglo cluster; Cultural values; Gender; Life stage;
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2011.04.014
Audra Mockaitis
Journal of World Business


I'm still a bit bummed about my running situation, but I thought of something fun to do that will cheer me up. I LOVE fall. I love watching the leaves change color, the crisp weather, and pumpkin-flavored everything.
How do people do this??? Mine always end up looking deformed haha. Source.
Last year's very cold Turkey Trot with the whole Brown-Pinkerton gang.
Ok so I cheated a little because we've already done a few things on the list, but they are definitely fall bucket list material. Do you have anything different on your fall bucket list?