Ancient and beautiful, Rome has been at the heart of western culture for thousands of years. While it is no longer the seat of mighty empires, it is still home to the center of the Catholic church in the Vatican City, a site to explore for people of all beliefs. Rome is also a jewel of the Mediterranean, where many of the best Italy & Mediterranean cruises depart, from the port of Civitavecchia, just north of the Italian capital. Renaissance and Baroque architecture, sculptures, churches, and art adorn this city, making it a wonderful place for guided walking tours or simply exploring it on your own. There's no better place to start your journey into the Mediterranean's ancient history than Rome, so let us know when you're ready to start planning your adventure!
Board the Royal Clipper on this unforgettable 8-day tall ship sailing cruise of the Mediterranean. Admire the perfect architecture and magical landscapes that this region is famous for, visiting Ponza, Palmarola, Sorrento, Amalfi, Taormina, and more! Explore the Sistine Chapel, the ancient ruins of Pompeii, and even snorkel in the Pontine Islands.
Cruise from Civitavecchia, Rome to Athens, Greece aboard luxurious Le Lyrial on this classic 10-day cruise of the Mediterranean. History, mythology, and literature come alive on this family-oriented cruise, with stops in the charming ports and ancient ruins along Italy's coast and in Sicily, Crete, and the Greek Islands, including iconic Santorini.
This region of Europe has much to offer the adventurous soul or one who prefers just the perfect get-away in warm coastal waters, simply letting the world go by. Experience the vibrant ports of call of the Western Mediterranean on this 15-day cruise from Malaga to Cannes aboard the Royal Clipper.
Join the SeaDream I on this unique 5-day sailing adventure. Cruise across the Mediterranean on your way from Nice, France to the charming Italian Rivera, finally disembarking in the enchanting city of Rome. Some highlights include the Grotto Sdragonatu, wine tasting, a drive along the Capoliveri mountainside village, & explorations of Florence.
Perhaps no country captures the relaxing classical atmosphere of the Mediterranean better than Italy. Ever since it was the seat of the powerful Roman Empire, its influence has been felt throughout the world, in art, architecture, and even language. As you tour this ancient country, you will have the chance to visit the cities and sites that make Italy what it is today.
Venice - the city of bridges and canals that takes you back to Italy's yesteryear, where you'll see the Byzantine Doge's Palace and maybe enjoy a classic gondola tour.
Sicily - the Mediterranean's largest island is the off the southern coast of Italy, and home to its own unique culture, cuisine and wines.
Sardinia - is a picturesque island with a rugged coastline in the middle of the Mediterranean with almost 2,000km of coastline, sandy beaches and a mountainous interior with ample hiking opportunities. Thousands of nuraghi, mysterious Bronze Age stone ruins shaped like beehives dot the countryside.
Naples - here, you can visit the harrowing sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum, where artifacts from the violent eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius are well preserved.
Portofino - A tranquil seaside village home to unforgettable cafes, restaurants, and shopping.
Why should I choose an Italy cruise?
On an Adventure Life cruise around Italy, you will have the opportunity to see the Mediterranean from a unique perspective – aboard a comfortable sea-going ship. These tours are gaining popularity against the alternative land-based tours, because of the many advantages, like not having to pack & unpack at every new city, saving time traveling between various destinations since your hotel literally floats along with you and takes advantage of evenings & nights to travel long distances, and offering all-inclusive prices that cover lodging, transportation, tours, and all meals.
What should I look for on a small ship cruise?
Whether you are cruising on a long style river vessel or a classic yacht, we guarantee you comfort and a touch of the luxurious on your Italian cruise. All vessels feature ample cabins, a dining area where you will enjoy exquisite meals and a full service bar, and a sun deck from which to enjoy the sea breeze and fantastic views. Very few vessels offer amenities like pools, hot tubs, or exercise rooms, but since most of the time will be spent exploring on land, you likely won't even notice.
Are there 5-star river vessels in Europe?
While we don't feature any boats that are considered five stars due to their smaller size and fewer amenities, we are confident that the hand-picked itineraries aboard these comfortable vessles will not disappoint. From gourmet cuisine to expert local guides, this is sure to be a vacation that you consider a five star experience.
Not really. If having a private balcony in your room is important to you, then go for it. But be aware that this often takes the price up much higher than the other rooms and the balconies can actually cut into the cabin space. A good alternative would be to get a room with panoramic floor to ceiling windows. Remember, all of our featured boats have a sundeck from which you can enjoy the fresh sea air of the Italian coast.
Fine dining and savory flavors are one of Italy's most famous exports, so you know that on a cruise around the coastal regions of this Mediterranean country you will enjoy some of the old country's most exquisite dishes prepared by expert local chefs.
Do Italian cruises ever visit destinations that aren't on the coast?
Yep! In fact, many Italian destinations are further inland. Your boat will dock at one of the port cities and you will take a short ride on a luxury coach towards your final destination.
Your vessel might have WiFi, but it's not standard on all boats. Plus, if you are cruising the open Mediterranean, you might be far out of range of a signal.
European power operates on 220v electricity, as opposed to the 110v in North America. You will not need power converters since most devices accept both power levels, however you will need either three pronged British style plug adapters or two round prong European style plug adapters. It might be a good hack to tape your plugs to the adapters so as not to forget them when packing up.
DON'T sacrifice comfort and space in your cabin selection just to save a bit of money – instead, consult our Deals page for more information on promotions or let us know where you want to go and we will find the best offers for you.
Are cruises in Italy a good family vacation?
Italy cruises can be a fun way to spend a family vacation in Europe. Wine tasting tours are generally for families with children over 18 years of age, of course, so for families traveling with teens and children, the featured active tours are the best option.
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Share Your Moments with Lahzenegar
Lahzenegar is a live broadcasting service for smartphones. Users can register for a free account on the app and live stream their moments with others. Currently more than 200 events have been live streamed by Lahzenegar.
Statistics show that today, the media consumption is moving towards mobile phones. Periscope is known as the most famous video streaming app in the market right now. In 2014 the company that is now called Periscope was named Bounty and had raised $1.4 million. Later the company got acquired by Twitter and released the initial version of Periscope in March 2015. Periscope is co-founded by an Iranian named Kayvon Beykpour.
Lahzenegar is an Iranian startup which has made it into the first wave of live streaming apps. The MVP version of Lahzenegar was released in October 2014 and the first public version was released recently. Until now the app has been downloaded 10,000 times and has attracted 80,000 viewers. Though Lahzenegar is free to use with some limited features, it's already making revenue by selling audio and video streaming packages to their clients.
Currently Lahzenegar's team consists of 3 programmers, a Product Manager, a UI/UX designer and a Marketing Manager. We spoke with Amir Hossein Faghihi, the 25 year old Co-founder and Product Manager of the startup.
Amir Hossein told us that he started his first company in 2008, just when he had just started college. Back then at their company, they designed a CMS for Iranian users so that they can manage their online content.
Until last year the company was focused only on web. "The country was going through changes in the technology field. The growth of the startup scene, the increase of the Internet speed and the widespread use of smartphones impelled us to enter new fields." For weeks they were having brainstorming sessions until they came up with Lahzenegar.
Amir Hossein Faghihi, co-founder of Lahzenegar pitching at Seedstars Tehran event.
Share Your Moments
"Lahzenegar started with a need," says Amir Hossein. "Around October 2014 one of our clients contacted us and asked for a solution to live stream their events. The client told us the current solutions are expensive and needs high speed Internet, so it was not suitable for him".
That's when the idea initiated and Amir Hossein's team brought up the problem to their brainstorming sessions. "We came to this conclusion that live streaming should happen with the easiest-to-reach tool which is a smartphone and the most-widespread kind of Internet which is mobile data."
The team's main challenge was to first see if such idea is possible on mobile platform. They started doing R&D and sat down with a couple of prominent programmers and tested some open source tools and found out such thing is possible.
"This process took a long time. For 5 months we were working on an infrastructure that was scalable and stable," says Amir Hossein. "Though we were taking a path that not many had walked before, the outcome was satisfying," he added.
Amir Hossein told us that since the data plans on wireless carriers is quite expensive, they've managed to implement some compression algorithms for both audio and video so that users don't have to pay much for the data transfer.
Screenshot from the interface of Lahzenegar while initiating the live streaming process.
When the Competitors Enter
A few months after starting Lahzenegar the team found out live streaming on cellphones is becoming a worldwide trend. "In March 2015 Meerkat started making some noises and Twitter bought Persicope. Before that there was no buzz around". Faghihi says the wave of new apps focusing on live streaming made them hopeful of the future since they were one of the first in this sector. "We work fully agile and we care about User Experience and Customer Segment in a precise way".
"Since the release of the public version two months ago, our application has been downloaded 10,000 times only from our website," said Amir Hoseein. Lahzenegar has had more than 200 live streams with over 80,000 viewers. Amir hossein told us that Lahzenegar's first revenue was made before the public release of the app.
Lahzenegar was one of the few teams invited to attend iBridge conference in Berlin to pitch their startup. They were also one of the 10 teams which got a chance to pitch in front of investors at Seedstars Tehran pitch competition in September.
Currently Lahzenegar is in fundraising stage and is in talks with a couple of investors. Lahzenegar will soon launch its iOS app. For now the android version could be downloaded from here.
The team visions that in 2018, Lahzenegar would become so popular that people would say: "Watch my Lahzenegar @myname!"
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The second day of our weekend DC-Baltimore trip, we stopped by the National Aquarium (Website, Yelp) in Baltimore, which I had been wanting to visit for a few years. The aquarium here is actually very, very good. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Here are a few of the many pictures I took!
This reminded me of the Progressive "rate suckers" ads!
The shark exhibit was particularly excellent. If you enjoy aquariums, I would definitely recommend checking it out.


If ever a state park was made to be photographed, it is Kodachrome Basin State Park. In fact, in 1948, members of the National Geographic Society visited the scenic park to photograph a feature for the magazine, and gave it the nickname "Kodachrome" after the popular Kodak film of the day. When the area became a state park in 1962, it was named Chimney Rock State Park instead because of legal concerns, but later, Kodak granted permission and Kodachrome stuck.
The first official name, "Chimney Rock" is also poignant, however, because it is one of the most popular and unique features within the park, along with the area's 67 monolithic stone spires, called sedimentary pipes. Their multicolored sandstone layers are beautiful and seem to glow in juxtaposition to any sky, be it a cloudy day or the bold blue hues on a clear day.
Some geologists believe that these spires were formed because the area was once filled with hot springs and geysers. These eventually filled and solidified, while over time, the surrounding Entrada sandstone eroded. The pipes range from six feet tall to 160.
Kodachrome Basin covers 2,240 acres of canyon country and is surrounded by Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument on three sides. With its close proximity to other popular destinations down Cottonwood Road, it makes for a spectacular basecamp or a stop on an event-filled day in the desert with friends.
Pillars shaded red, pink, white, yellow, and gray are only the start to the greatness of Kodachrome Basin State Park. There are also natural arches, views for days, and a stunningly stark landscape.
Many of the gorgeous rock columns in the park can be seen while driving, but it's worth your time to get out and explore each attraction. Some of the popular sites include Chimney Rock, Shakespeare Arch, and Ballerina Geyser.
Take your pick at any number of the exceptional hikes in the park, or do several. For starters, the Nature Loop Trail is an easy half-mile hike on a hard surface that is ADA accessible – the trailhead is near the Basin Campground on the north end of the park.
If you can handle a 3.5-mile easy to moderate trail, the Panorama Loop Trail is a must. There are slight slopes, so be sure to pay attention around them when hiking with children. This hike climbs up high, so you can see views in all directions of the park; the scenery is simply outstanding. An added bonus, like most parks, once you venture a mile off the road, you will be well away from the crowds. From the Panorama Loop, you can also tack on an additional 2.5-mile jaunt with the Big Bear Geyser Cool Cave Loop Spur.
Rounding out the activities in the park, a concessionaire offers horseback rides and other activities and services. Because of the lack of light pollution in the area, it is a stunning place to stargaze should you decide to camp here.
Trying to count all of the pillars you see (we lost track at 19, but we're writers, not math people); the way the variegated rock shimmers at dawn and dusk; the view from the top of the overlook on Panorama Loop Trail.
The notion that National Geographic Society named the park after color film should be a hint that this natural space will appeal to photographers. But there are interpretive trails that are handicap-accessible and hiking trails for all levels.
Visitors can stay in one of the two campgrounds, which offer access restrooms, electric hookups and group facilities. Check in at the Visitor Center to register for a site and get other helpful travel information and tips for getting the most out of the park.
The day-use fee is $8 per vehicle, while Utah residents 62 and older get in for $4 per vehicle.
This park is open year-round, 6 a.m. - 10 p.m., and is popular during spring and fall, when temperatures are the most comfortable. If you'd like to see an abundance of stars in juxtaposition with the Milky Way, plan your trip around a new moon—you will not be disappointed. Dogs are allowed in the park, but must be kept on leash at all times.
Taste Zagat-rated farm-to-table cuisine amid vast and rugged natural beauty.


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How Norway Can Help Russia Build Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
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Cooperation with the Norwegian company Kvaerner is a major achievement in the implementation of Nord Stream 2, a project which since its beginning has faced politically-biased obstacles in the West.
Nord Stream 2 AG, the company operating the construction of Nord Stream 2, and Norwegian engineering and construction company Kvaerner, 30 percent of which is owned by the Norwegian government, signed a deal in December for the delivery of onshore facilities for the new pipeline.
The company will build onshore facilities in the St. Petersburg region in Russia.
The Nord Stream 2 project envisages the construction of two gas pipelines from the Russian coast, through the Baltic Sea and on to a hub in Germany. The pipelines are expected have a combined annual gas capacity of 55 billion cubic meters.
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The planned Nord Stream 2 project
Analysts pointed out that the cooperation with Kvaerner is both economically and political important.
Gazprom Needs Technology
During the construction of Nord Stream 2, Gazprom has faced a number of technological difficulties that the Russian company is unable to overcome without assistance from foreign partners.
"Many Soviet-era technologies have been lost. Not long ago, many drilling platforms were sold. At present, Russia is 90 percent dependent on foreign technology when it comes to constructing a pipeline in the shelf area," oil and gas expert Valeriy Nesterov told RIA Novosti.
He also pointed out that the contract with Kvaerner is a big success in terms of business, as the company said it could involve some Russian subcontractors for the project.
Not Afraid of Sanctions
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Nord Stream 2 Project Terms, Cost Unaffected by Amendments to EU Gas Directive - Operator
In terms of politics, the contract between Nord Stream 2 AG and Kvaerner is giving a fresh impetus to the project.
"Kvaerner is a renowned company and has an undisputable reputation in shelf construction. The company has worked on several platforms in the Baltic Sea," Nesterov said.
What is also important is the fact that by signing a deal with Gazprom, Kvaerner indicated that the company was not afraid of the risk of American sanctions.
In August, US President Donald Trump signed into law a new batch of sanctions against Russia, which in particular included restrictions for companies participating in the construction of Nord Stream 2. Washington has opposed the project, citing its alleged adverse impact on the energy security of the European Union.
'Business Comes First'
"As we can see, business comes first and politics has to adjust to it," economist Sergei Pikin said, adding that the construction of a trans-European pipeline would not be possible without the involvement of foreign partners.
"The construction is taking place in the EU and it should be no surprise that it involves foreign companies, because Russian specialists simply don't have a license to work there. In this situation, partnership with Western companies is natural," the economist said.
READ MORE: Nord Stream 2: Gas Has 'Bright Potential' Amid Rising EU Demand – Energy Analyst
Nord Stream 2 AG is a joint venture of Gazprom with France's Engie, Austria's OMV AG, Royal Dutch Shell and Germany's Uniper and Wintershall. After US sanctions were imposed, this also threatened the billions that those companies had invested in the project.
There is no surprise that German officials and businessmen have sided with Russia in this geopolitical standoff. Last summer, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and then-Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern issued a joint statement, calling on Washington to stop interfering with the EU's energy security.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the analysts and do not necessarily reflect the position of Sputnik.
Nord Stream 2 Should Get Green Light if It Is Environment-Friendly – Danish MP
New EU Legal Norms for Nord Stream 2 Could be Political Discrimination - Lavrov
Washington's 'Unfair Competition' Unlikely to Derail Nord Stream 2 Project
US Plans to 'Bury' Nord Stream 2 to Weaken Russia on European Market - Medvedev
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DETROIT — More than 850 construction contractors and material suppliers from Detroit and across Michigan gathered together Tuesday at MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit to learn first-hand about construction and supply opportunities in the Detroit Sports and Entertainment District and its new Red Wings arena.
Michigan-wide contractors and suppliers met with representatives from Olympia Development and its partners to gain a better understanding of anticipated construction needs and other important requirements to participate in the project. At the event, Olympia Development also detailed the organization's plan for working with its partners to achieve 30 percent Detroit business participation and 51 percent Detroit worker participation in the construction of the new arena and district.
Tuesday's event was the second outreach event hosted by Olympia Development in last three weeks. In total, more than 1,100 Detroit and Michigan businesses have participated in these events for the district.
Launch for the District will occur this fall. Office, retail and residential buildings — as well as the new arena — are scheduled to be complete by the summer of 2017. Construction of the arena and surrounding District is expected to generate at least $1.8 billion in total economic impact, 8,300 construction and construction-related jobs and 1,100 permanent jobs. More than $100 million in income from the arena project alone is expected for Detroit residents, with significant additional income to be created through future private development.
Olympia Development and its partners will host additional outreach events in the coming months as construction bid packages are announced. An event for Detroit residents interested in construction job opportunities is planned for Oct. 28.


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Nonlinear Velocity and Shape Control of a Rotating Smart Flexible Beam-Like Structure
Vol. 1 (2022), Original Research Articles
https://doi.org/10.55085/aas.2022.669
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Rotating Flexible Structures
Nonlinear Systems
Piezoelectric Actuators
Smart Structures
Shape Control
Nonlinear Control
SDRE Control
Fenili, A. . (2022). Nonlinear Velocity and Shape Control of a Rotating Smart Flexible Beam-Like Structure . Annals of Applied Sciences, 1. https://doi.org/10.55085/aas.2022.669
Smart materials and structures have a great appeal within the aerospace and automotive communities because they promise to enable better performance and functionality over existing structural and functional materials. The idea proposed in this work is part of this challenging and current scenario and can be applied to the study of morphing wings, helicopter blades, etc. Moreover, the mathematical modeling and velocity and shape control of a rotating flexible beam-like structure are investigated. The nonlinear partial differential governing equations of motion are derived using the extended Hamilton's Principle and numerically integrated using a combination of finite difference and the fourth-order Runge–Kutta methods. In order to force the flexible structure to assume the desired shape and simultaneously control the velocity of the rotating axis, the optimal nonlinear control method named state-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) is considered. This control technique is applied to piezoelectric actuators along the beam and an external torque coming from a DC motor and acting in the rotating axis. The numerical simulation results show that the proposed control technique is efficient when acting along the rotating beam to deform it into the desired shape while also acting on the motor axis to keep the rotation speed constant.
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Tension has taken a grip on an Umuahia community in Abia State as gunmen attacked and killed a pastor in the area.
Pastor Nnaemeka Ukenye, a 48-year-old leader of one of the popular Pentecostal churches in Umuahia, Behold He Commeth Pentecostal Church, Umudike branch, in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, has been shot dead.
He was shot dead by a six-man gang, who butchered his body, near his poultry and piggery farm/office, in Umuobia Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia State capital.
Daily Sun reports that Pastor Ukenye was killed when he went to his farm last Saturday, to feed his birds and pigs with 12 of his workers.


Very convenient to shopping, sighseeing and food. Hotel is on the spot of George Square the legendary landmark of Glasgow, short walk to all main shopping streets like Buchanan, sauchiehall & Argyle street and Glasgow Central train station. You dont need a cab service . Staff are resonably friendly depending on attitude & behaviour of individual especially towards an Asian.
Disappointing that there was no parking facilities in the hotel and the nearest NCP car park was extortionate; average 10.70 pence per day after discount. The site claims car parking but did not mention the car parking charges are extra.
This hotel is within a 5 minute walk to the Buchanan Shopping Street, the bus station, a Sainsbury grocer and post office. The location is superb and the room was huge! I got an executive room and you could almost have a 4 people yoga class in it and still have space to walk around. The rate I got included breakfast, which was alright. For the price I paid, I expected more breakfast selections and food of a higher quality. However, they had the breakfast norms: scramble eggs, tomatoes, black pudding, bacon, pastry, yoghurt, cereal. They didn't have other stuff like smoked salmon, waffles, bottled jams etc. I would stay here again though, because the location and the room-size was better than expected.
We stayed for one night on a visit and it really is in the perfect spot. Just off George Square in the centre of Glasgow and right next to queen street station. Staff were very helpful with bags and check in. You will not find cheaper with this standard of room and in the centre.
From the minute we arrived we were made to feel more than welcome by the friendly staff. Our room was clean and spacious with a great view of George Square. Prime location we were here for 4 day and didn't have to get one bus or taxi, although the train station was next door and the bus station 5 minutes walk away. Great variety of shops an bars right on your doorstep with the Royal Concert Hall round the corner as well which was one of our main reasons for visiting Glasgow this time. Would definatley stay here again highly recommended.
Prime location, friendly staff and spacious clean bedroom.
The hotel is so central you can walk to everything, including buses and trains. Staff are very polite and willing to help with any information you require. Unfortunate that you are charged to use the internet.
The first room I was given had a window facing the ventilation system that made a low buzz all night. I was switched to a room at the east end of the hotel that was quieter. On Monday July 15 I tried to drop my laundry off for washing and drying at two different laundrettes but neither was open. It turned out that day was a local bank holiday in Glasgow. I was leaving the country the next morning and really needed to get clothes washed. The hotel staff were very resourceful in finding another laundrette near the city center that was open that day.
At check the staff said I would have to pay for all nights apart from the first one. They argued about this, then said okay,Agoda would pay. At check-out exactly the same thing happened. That's unacceptable. Otherwise,my stay was fine. The staff were rather bland and one house keeper just couldn't manage a smile.
right on george square, and right next to the queen st raqilway station (which is the one that has trains going to points north in scotland). we got in from edinburgh, and didn't have to take our bags far, which is always good. upgraded our room to a huge one, overlooking the square, but the windows were sufficiently soundproofed that it wasn't a problem. convenient to shopping areas and sightseeing tours leave from right outside.
I would definately stay here again.The only thing I would change is better on 2nd floor or above as we didnt get a view from our windows as they were clouded out as we were on 1st floor.Otherwise no complaints.
It was very convenient as it is right beside the main train station. Very good breakfast.
room was nice and cosy. was overall in great condition except for the toilet which didi not flush very effectively. friendly staff and excellent location in glasgow cbd right beside the train station.
สถานีรถไฟ Glasgow Queen Street - ระยะ 0.11 กม.


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How Fiji became British
Friday, March 14, 2014 in Fiji, Ovalau | 11 comments
The Cession Monument where Fiji was given to England. See the sloop in the background? Photo by David Lansing.
Since there's not much to do in Levuka, I spend a fair amount of time just walking about. This morning, after my usual stroll down Beach Street, I continued south of town past the wharf and tuna plant to the Cession Monument, where the Deed of Cession, making Fiji a British colony, was signed by Chief Cakobau in 1874. This wasn't a pround moment in Fijian history.
Ratu (the name for chief in Fijian) Seru Epenisa Cakobau was born in 1815 and was known as one of the great Fijian warlords. Like his father before him (the name "Cakobau" means "destroyer of Bau"), the Ratu killed this chief and that chief until, around 1865, he had pretty much become the defacto King of Fiji. In 1871, he finally succeeded in creating a united Fijian kingdom and established Levuka as the capital.
The sad eyes of Chief Cakabou, once the King of Fiji.
But things quickly went south. The U.S. decided that since Ratu Cakobau was the king of Fiji, he was financially responsible for an arson attack against the home of the American consul, John Brown William, on the island of Nukulau and demanded $44,000 in compensation. And just where did the Americans think a Fijian Ratu was going to come up with $44,000 in the 1870s?
Of course, this was just a ruse and a way for the U.S. to assert more power in Fiji. Fearing an American invasion and annexation (just think—Fiji could have become the 50th state instead of Hawaii), Cakobau decided the best thing he could do was cede the islands to the United Kingdom. Which is how Fiji became a British colony for almost 100 years.
Three stones in a grassy little park near the water's edge mark the signing ceremony that took place on October 10, 1874, as well as Fiji's independence exactly 96 years later and the 1974 centennial celebration of the Deed of Cession.
You'll notice in the photo of these stones that in the background is the British sloop I've talked about—the one Meli swears is haunted. Strangely enough, I've seen the boat anchored at a couple of different spots along the coast while I've been here. But I've still never seen anyone on board. And no one in town has any idea who actually owns the sloop. Perhaps it's just another sad reminder of British colonialism on the islands. Like the stones in the park.
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david on Friday, February 5, 2010 at 11:33 am
From Gretchen Williams: "Dear David, I am Cindy Fletcher's mother, who you have recently added to your list. I want to tell you that I have been enjoying your notes very much ( and the pictures) Thank you for bringing a fresh breeze from the South Pacific ."
Sonia on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 11:23 am
Ola…History pretty cool. The haunted boat more interesting. Rent a boat and go aboard…do do do do. Im intriqued about the boat now.
STM on Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 10:15 pm
David writes: "Perhaps it's just another sad reminder of British colonialism on the islands."
Sad?? I assume that you might be American, David, and therefore given to contempt prior to investigation when it comes to this. If so, don't fall for the myth of American exceptionalism. It's a delusion that blinds too many and leads to a lot of distrortiopns of history.
The thing is, just on Fiji, Fijians were quite happy being a British colony (ask them!). There are worse things than getting an education system, railways, roads, nice public buildings and open and transparent rule of law – and the protection of the Royal Navy – and in truth, British colonialism was mostly a very different and far more benign kettle of fish to the brands of colonialism exercised by the other European powers (France, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Germany, even Belgium). Not always, of course, but mostly compared to then others, and everything needs to be seen in the context of the times. While they'd been beneficiaries of the trade, their democracy led the British to begin outlawing slavery in an act of parliament as far back as 1808. It was banned across the empire by the 1830s.
The Fijians have remained proud members of the British Commonwealth since full independence in the 1970s until their recent problems, and you'll find pictures of the Queen in many Fijian homes. The only sadness for Fijians is that they are currently suspended from the Commonwealth because of the coup and the undemocratic military government that plans not to hold elections until 2014.
Don't buy into the idea that American domination brought only democracy while the British brought exploitation. Both things apply to both countries. Both Hawaii and the Philippines were American colonies, and the Filipinos fought a bloody war around the turn of the 20th century in an unsuccessful attempt to free themselves from American military rule (I call it a colony because it was run entirely by a US military governor). The death toll from that conflict was in the region of 100,000 (not counting US losses).
On my travels around the Asia-Pacific region, I look at the former British colonies (all of whom are still happily linked to Britain) and see how well they are doing as flourishing democracies: Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, for a start. No surprise that they have the highest standards of living in Asia. British democracy might be slightly different to the US brand, but it's still open and transparent and centred, like that of the US, on rule of law.
The Philippines, however, has become corrupt. I had a Filipino historian express to me on my last visit there that, accepting the premise that colonisation was inevitable, it might have been better to have been colonised by Britain rather than Spain and the US, because the Spanish brought the autocratic, absolutist rule they were known for, and the Americans brought corruption.
He based his view – and they weren't only his, he says – on the evidence of how well Malaysia, Singapore and HK had done compared to his country.
I think in the end, he thought Filipinos might have preferred the US to have excercised a more benign British style of colonialism and for a longer period, thus leaving more soundly grounded institutions and infrastructure. His view (given that the real reason the US was there was a strategic one): "When the Amercans realised it was cheaper just to run a navy base than a whole country, they decided to leave. That left us with little infrastructure, and we are still suffering from it today". You certainly do notice the difference when you compare.
It's also worth noting in any of these discussions that despite the myth of exceptionalism many Americans like to subscribe to, the US also owes its democracy to the British. The Bill of Rights is a classic example: Only the 9th amendment to the US constitution was not based on the laws of England that already existed in the 13 colonies prior to the revolution. Even the criminal law and the function of many other laws are still virtually identical in both form and function in both countries, and one important cornerstone, the writ of habas corpus, remains identical. These should be clues for the doubters.
Which is why, if you head on down to Australia, say, you are not going to find a nation that's in any real way different to the US, even if it's a smaller version, particulary now that its standard of living has outsripped that of the US overall.
It's possibly an example of the US that might have been without a revolution and in truth, different roads led to the same place.
And when it comes to colonialism and the new imperialistic adventures (in this century, the previous one or then one before) of the English-speaking nations, the myth of exceptionailism is just that: a myth.
Nevertheless, you are right in one respect. Colonialism would have been a better thingt if it never existed at all.
Justin on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 11:41 pm
There are a lot of things, however, that Fijians won't tell the typical outsider as most foreigners would not comprehend certain things. As a Fijian, I grew up hearing things that the British did in Fiji that were deplorable such as outlawing the public use of the Fijian language and beating Fijian children in schools for speaking our mother tongue, killing members of tribes that never acknowledged British control of Fiji, making only ethnic Fijians carry passes with them so they could travel within cities as Fijians were outlawed from being in towns, needing licenses to perform certain cultural dances and performances, etc. Also, cession to Britain was also not something that was done willingly by Cakobau himself. I know members of the Cakobau family and I was told that Cakobau had muskets and bayonets put to his head and told that if he didn't sign papers to allow Britain to take over Fiji, that many Fijian people would be killed without any hesitation.
The Brits also did something that was equally as despicable, which included the privatization of many Fijian lands before and after cession by illegal means such as kicking people off lands or entire islands and threatening them with death if they ever returned. About 10% of Fijian lands today are owned by non-Fijians because of this, including Wakaya Island and Maqo Island.
This is a Fijian perspective rarely heard and in this instance, I think certain things needed to be said. Thank you.
Epenisa Seru Cakobau on Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 6:51 pm
To set the record straight, the burning in Nukulau was done by an American caretaker who resided there. Typical of the prejudice whites they accused my Great Great Grand Father for the arson.
As a Fijian, I am proud for what Tui Viti (Cakobau) did in ceding Fiji to Great Britain. Can you imagine otherwise if the Americans had their way, we would be another Hawaii, a fijian foreign in his own land.
As for you Justin, I am not sure where your information on the musket to the head came from. I assure you that your information is false. I am not sure where you plucked that from.
Sesenieli Grace on Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Overall, the countries that were once colonized by the British are much better off today, in comparison to the ones colonized by the US.
david on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 11:43 am
Let's see, Sesenieli, would that list of successful British colonies include Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, Kenya, and Guyana? Might want to check with them first.
Josh on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 7:34 am
This is intresting stuff. Thank you for helping us write our presentation pon Chief Cakobau. We love you.
Meghan, Thomas, Joshua and Alice
Lania Sakiusa on Friday, March 29, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Epenisa, part of what you say is partly true, and is also partly false. You are being a little prejudiced yourself, Tau. What Justin wrote of was a bit exaggerated, but such things did happen. I speak as a Fijian, and Ratu Cakobau was not just a saint; he also did things that brought Fiji downwards.
Eleanor Turaga on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 7:01 pm
this help me find more info about were i come from


But thanks, FBI, for coming out. Much appreciated.
By Bryanna Cappadona·	 6/4/2015, 5:23 p.m.
Today, a riveting case of art theft has indeed been solved. After an extensive, high-profile, eight week-long search for its two missing pieces of artwork, the Boston Public Library announced Thursday afternoon that the two prints have, in fact, been found within the walls of the Boston Public Library.
The disappearance of the two prints has been under investigation since the end of May. One of the pieces was an Albrecht Dürer engraving valued at about $600,000, the other was an etching by Rembrandt van Rijn valued at up to $30,000.
The missing artwork resulted in both the suspension with pay of the BPL's keeper of special collections Susan Glover (featured in Boston Home Winter 2015) and then the resignation, just days ago, of the BPL's president Amy Ryan, who today announced the find.
The artworks were "simply misfiled," Ryan explained. They were located at the library approximately 80 feet from where they should have been filed. How fascinating.
"We're thrilled to have found these treasures right here at home," said Library President Amy Ryan in a press release. "I want to thank the FBI, Boston Police Department, and US Attorney's Office for their work throughout this period." Thanks for coming out, FBI!
Along with law enforcement and city officials, fourteen staff members searched 180,000 if the print stack's 320,000 items. Nine offices, work rooms, and reading rooms had been searched. "Today is a day of celebration for the entire team at BPL. The staff couldn't be happier after hundreds of hours of searching," Ryan also said.
Fellow citizens of this fair city, you may rest easy tonight.


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The Rapscallion's Romance
Tabetha Waite
Fallon O'Malley is hoping to make a fresh start in Southampton following the recent death of her grandmother. She's never had any love for the British, but when she has the chance to make a fresh start in England and reconnect with estranged family, she decides to leave her beloved homeland of Ireland. It isn't until she arrives that she realizes that she might have just made a grave mistake. In a desperate attempt to return where things are familiar, she seeks out the assistance of a known rapscallion…
Atticus Clare is a wealthy merchant by day, but by night he dons the guise of the Raven, an Irish sympathizer who assists the rebellion against England. Everything is working for his favor until he meets Fallon. He's instantly drawn to her, even though he knows it would be dangerous in the extreme to form an attachment. But when unforeseen circumstances draw them closer, he realizes how foolish he'd been to think he could ever resist her allure.
As things culminate, Atticus has to make a difficult choice, but nothing he does might save him from certain demise if all his secrets are revealed. Can his love for Fallon truly conquer the forces against them?
mia's allie , 04/04/2022
Great Read!
Loved everything about this book. Can't wait to read more by this new-to-me author.
More Books by Tabetha Waite
A Jolly Little Scandal
How It All Began For the Baron
Why the Earl is After the Girl
Wicked Widows' Guide
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An Innocent Little Scandal


Why I Don't Drink & Drive | Jamie-Leigh T.O.
Posted on July 5, 2011, in Personal and tagged 1995, Alcohol, casey anthony, Driving under the influence, Drunk Driving, MADD, Peterborough, Rice Lake, Toronto. Bookmark the permalink.	2 Comments.
A very sad story, too many people have stories about how drunk driving has affected them. Heard of a year-round program recently in one of the Atlantic provinces that will come to the bar you're at, drive you and your car home for you, and only charge you as much as it would cost you to take a cab. I think it's ridiculous that we don't have that in Ontario, especially in the GTA.
This is a great post. I really agree. Karma will always come back.


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Image, Myth and Metaphor in Post-Industrial Landscaping: Edric Mesmer in Conversation
By Jared Schickling | 1 November 2015
Image courtesy of Ami Lake
Edric Mesmer's of monodies & homophony won the 2014 Outriders Selection, selected by Jerry McGuire, and was published in 2015 by the Outriders Poetry Project. The following interview took place over email and across neighbouring counties during the summer and fall of that year.
Jared Schickling: I am wondering, at this early stage, what materials or ideas you were developing to write of monodies & homophony? There is an erudition about these poems that, I think, speaks to your work as an archivist. Its encyclopedic lexicon and concrete sound-play suggest a Language inheritance, but there is also a deep and constant attention cast toward physical nature, particularly water, which seeps in everywhere. As the sensations of this non-human world arrive at the reader refracted through the prism of your language formations, the visual glimpses or traces that remain seem stereoscopic, especially across pages. There is a third element tying the room together, mythopoesis, which also litters your work.
Edric Mesmer: of monodies & homophony is very much a 'so far' book, collecting what I'd been at work on that didn't seem it should be thrown away at that time (though already I'd make different choices). Imagery of water comes by way of memory, as well as by readerly acquisition. Like many who grew up in coastal areas (for me, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, the Erie Canal), water imagery feels immediate. Then there is – pointed out to me by a friend – the Homeric, handed down by way of modernism. (Reading H.D. early on helped inform this.) Let's see what else I can say, being unused to talking about my own writing.
I don't work as an archivist but as a cataloger for a poetry archive, so collecting and description become concerns: What gets remembered? How and by what framework is what's saved made discoverable? And how do we possibly account for – ingest, digest, condense – the multifarious cadences currently emitting? I don't think that is an answer to anything more than what keeps me writing.
Questions like the above are also inflected by gender, and I think this fits, stereoscopically, with myth. Mythopoesis is a means by which we get at archetypes, by which we play with shared and competing notions. It interests me even more now it's become ruinous – myth itself is fragmentary as far as currency. I don't know if you find this in teaching, but while I was adjuncting I was very often explaining any mythic allusion that cropped up, which seemed interestingly circular. It's no longer a given vocab or set of symbols; not even the Freudian.
I guess I would ultimately like to think of these poems as sonar, a means to outline the shape of matters otherwise hard to get at; and that may speak to what you say of a stereoscopic quality too: how only the outline, shape, volume of our deepest submergences may be known to us. Datum is cumulative from intake to intake, sample to sample. It seems to me watery imagery is one potential vocabulary for new ways of knowing – of saying – to continuously seep in while reworking a given set of images, an idea, a moment.
JS: Can you say more about myth becoming 'ruinous?' I get its lack of currency, that it no longer taps a 'given' worldview or language (especially in the undergraduate classroom). But why ruinous? I am curious as it bears on another question I want to ask, about possible symbols and significations in your book.
EM: During work this week, on break from cataloging, I walked down to sit near LaSalle, the manmade drainage lake that keeps the university less marsh-like; there are your ruins, in Hellenic columns! – talk about appropriation: The building once serving as downtown Buffalo's Federal Reserve Bank at Main and Swan Streets had been constructed to resemble an ancient Greek temple. After the bank building was demolished, the pillars were transported to the university, where they were reconfigured into an amphitheater. They continue to allude to cultural capital (an inadvertent pun) while serving a new if fragmentary purpose, as ruins.
Myths may work like metaphor; Tzvetan Todorov puts it that 'mythology is at once general and particular, it is and it signifies' (quoted in See; italics in original).1 In this fashion, it has what I think of as a cultural materiality, a symbolic value in conjunction with its metaphorical function – and the mytho-metaphor is able to function even if only partially. The reader encountering a poem like 'Cascadence' doesn't have to know the references for the poem to work, but certainly the knowing of these enhances the pleasure of the poem. By that I mean: any shared set of signs acting as a parameter thrown open to designate a space for reference to be at play. For example, people who don't speak the same language certainly share in humor together in other (nonlinguistic) ways, but it isn't perhaps as frequent or as nuanced as those within the same language, where a different kind of referencing takes place. One's not better than the other; I am merely offering mythopoesis as one such parameter. (As is 'the canon,' as are episodes of Seinfeld, and so on.) Even as each parametric space opens, one may desire to exceed that limit.
Why I came to use myth is probably more related to my reading, likely fostered by the interests of those teachers who taught me Greek mythology. I have come to see this ruinous mythic referent as another tool (vocabulary; lexicon; parameter) by which to communicate. Thoughts, feelings, complexes can be reached through the use of mythopoesis as it can through pathos, also through politics or landscape; in most cases of an image-complex, these possibilities are overlapping and intersecting.2 And perhaps it is leaving us…'As we leave now the shore of the textual' ('After Monica Angle's Division of Water').
(A visit to the MoMA a few winters back offers another answer: my friend Judy and I were looking at modernist collages, full of aging newsprint; I said how odd it seemed to look at these and think of the newspaper as something we are drifting away from. Judy said: this might also signify the moment when newsprint becomes interesting again … and so with myth.)
Sam See. 'Making Modernism New: Queer Mythology in The Young and Evil' ELH 76.4 (2009): 1073-1105. Project MUSE. Web. 4 Aug. 2015. ↩
Fiona Sampson, where she writes of how Alice Oswald 'refuses to accept conventional boundaries, both between the human and non-human and more specifically between the individual thinking self and the place in which that finds itself. It's not just that there's no category difference between the human, animal and vegetable worlds: something which means human psychodrama can be staged in those worlds. It is that the human psyche forms part of each of them. For Oswald, distinction between these worlds is the superstition, not the old traditions that treat them as coterminous' (Sampson, Fiona. Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry. London: Chatto & Windus, 2012: 157). ↩
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Jared Schickling is the author recently of the BlazeVOX books Two Books on the Gas: Above the Shale and Achieved by Kissing (2014) and ATBOALGFPOPASASBIFL (2013), as well as The Paranoid Reader: Essays, 2006-2012 (Furniture Press, 2014) and the chapbook Prospectus for a Stage (LRL Textile Series, 2013). He co-runs Delete Press and lives in Western New York.
More by Jared Schickling on Cordite Poetry Review →
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Little Magazines Exemplars: A Companion Piece to 'To Anthologise the Now Perpetually'
To Anthologise the Now Perpetually: The Literary Situation of the Small Press and the Archive


November 2011 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Enthronement of His All Holiness, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
Two Wednesday afternoon lectures 23 and 30 November, 6.30 – 9.00.
Two afternoon lectures, Wednesday 2 and 9 November (6.30-9.00) Speaker: Nikos Belavilas, assistant professor at the National Technical University of Athens.
A very special part of the Germanic world, Bavaria played a significant role in the process of German unification as well as in the formation of Neo-Hellenism. Two lectures designed to familiarize us with this distinctive region. Two Wednesday afternoon lectures, 12 and 19 October (6.30-9.00).
Two Thursday morning repeat lectures, 13 and 20 October (11.00-1.30).
The last of the four morning sessions for Turkish lessons for beginners.
Two two-hour Wednesday afternoon lectures on 11 and 18 May.
First afternoon lecture, Wednesday, 16 February. First repeat morning lecture, Thursday, 17 February. Lecturers: Kostas Karamalis, architect, Marianna Koromila, historian and Assistant Professor Tudor Dinu. The First Cycle is composed of five lectures on the eastern and western Balkans, and the region's geopolitical context from the spread of Ottoman power into southeast Europe to the Balkan Wars (14th c. to 1913).


April-May 2019: Translating and conducting research at the Kadimah Library and Cultural Center in Melbourne, Australia. This trip is made possible by the Yiddish Book Center.
December-March 2019-2020: Writing and conducting research in Spain on a Fulbright scholar award. I will be giving readings of my poems and translations at the Mozaika and Casa Adret Jewish Cultural Platform in Barcelona (precise dates to be announced).
April-June 2020: Writing and conducting research in Greece, also as part of my Fulbright scholar award. I will be giving readings at the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania, Crete (precise dates to be announced).


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Grace Lord, Brendan Miralles, and Aalia Sellar, all aged 14, from Loughborough Schools Foundation have been awarded the GSK UK Young Engineers of the Year title at The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition, for their project entitled "Music Splash". The students' project is an app that uses machine learning to analyse music performance and provides feedback to help you improve and work towards grading. The students say it "guides you to instant perfection and is like a music teacher in an app".
Grace Lord, Brendan Miralles, Aalia Sellar: Winning this award feels amazing. We know there are hundreds of students that apply for this and so to win is just a dream come true. We never thought that'd be the case so it's brilliant and we're excited to see what's to come. Our goal for the future is to get our app on the app store so watch this space!


Every step, every decision, every moment, we are designing our lives. What influences us, or the way we view things can be enriched or limited by our mindset, our attitude, our life experience. Some moments are bigger than others. They change your life.
For me there was one of these moments, almost 12 months ago, as I sat in a mid-morning meeting surrounded by 4 or 5 gentleman in their late 40's and 50's. It was no reflection of any of them personally, they were faceless to me. But it represented an image of where my life could be very rapidly. I was on the same path. Corporate was my working life. I would be one of them. And I wasn't ready to be.
This image drove an overwhelming urge to try something else in my life, and for new reasons. I was not unhappy in my job, in fact I was loving it. I was working with great people, doing something that challenged me and I believed in. The new reason was personal fulfilment, and what that meant to me.
I pondered on the image in my mind for a few weeks before telling my wife that we were moving to Canada, something that we'd spoken about so often, but never committed to. It's not easy to turn your life upside down. Often as humans we always find a reason not to do something. If it were a run, we would say it's too hot, it's raining, it's too windy, my legs hurt today, the kids are sick… seriously, is running really that good for you anyway?
It was this moment in my life that motivated me. It started a change in me and how I was viewing life. It changed my priorities, and I suddenly felt heightened and free.
So this is it. We are packing up our life. We have a three bedroom house, 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, an office, kids playroom, kitchen, and 3 sheds… 4 big feet, 4 little feet… and we are leaving with 6 suitcases.
We are moving to Canada. We have less than 3 weeks to go. We have a lot to do. We have a lot of stuff to make disappear. We have to work out a way to entertain an 18 month old on a 14 hour flight. Three minutes at a time. Maybe two minutes. Might still be optimistic. Not planning on getting much rest. We will layover in LA for four days. We will live Saturday twice. On to Toronto. It may be a 50 degree difference in temperature compared to Sydney. Two hour drive North West. We arrive at our new home. With family. And soon there after we hit the road.


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Q: Remove empty dataframe from pandas.core.groupby.generic.DataFrameGroupBy How can delete empty dataframes from pandas.core.groupby.generic.DataFrameGroupBy?
my aggregation code:
cols = ["col1", "col2","col3","col4"]
joined = pd.concat(df.reset_index() for df in collectData)
joined = joined.replace({np.nan:1, 0:1})
joined[cols] = joined[cols].mask(joined[cols] < 0, 1)

df = joined.set_index('sensor').groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='D'))

data after grouping:
list(df)

[(Timestamp('2020-02-04 00:00:00+0000', tz='UTC', freq='D'),
                                 col1       col2      col3    col4
  sensor
  2020-02-04 00:00:00+00:00    2.586569   0.015321  0.000149    0.884470
  2020-02-04 00:00:00+00:00    4.429571   4.049798  1.820845    2.882445
  2020-02-04 00:00:00+00:00   12.883314   6.900607  1.002138    3.613021
  ...                               ...        ...       ...         ...
  2020-02-04 23:45:00+00:00    3.798017   1.605979  0.176515    2.400820
  2020-02-04 23:45:00+00:00    5.546771   2.232437  0.233292    3.750547
  2020-02-04 23:45:00+00:00    4.910360   3.730932  0.985459    1.238469

  [48945 rows x 4 columns]),
 (Timestamp('2020-02-05 00:00:00+0000', tz='UTC', freq='D'),
  Empty DataFrame
  Columns: [col1, col2, col3, col4]
  Index: []),
 (Timestamp('2020-02-06 00:00:00+0000', tz='UTC', freq='D'),
  Empty DataFrame
  Columns: [col1, col2, col3, col4]]
  Index: []),
 (Timestamp('2020-02-07 00:00:00+0000', tz='UTC', freq='D'),
                                 col1       col2      col3    col4
  sensor
  2020-02-07 00:00:00+00:00   17.065174   3.065422  0.171053    9.048574
  2020-02-07 00:00:00+00:00   30.181997  20.651204  4.413567   15.200674
  2020-02-07 00:00:00+00:00    1.864378   1.726365  0.819459    1.441588
  ...                               ...        ...       ...         ...
  2020-02-07 23:45:00+00:00   39.644320   0.234830  0.002289   13.642480
  2020-02-07 23:45:00+00:00   30.778517  10.540318  0.944788   13.165241
  2020-02-07 23:45:00+00:00   34.610439  25.342142  6.184292   22.725937

  [50112 rows x 4 columns]),]

size of df df.size():
sensor
2020-02-02 00:00:00+00:00    47574
2020-02-03 00:00:00+00:00    49353
2020-02-04 00:00:00+00:00    48945
2020-02-05 00:00:00+00:00        0
2020-02-06 00:00:00+00:00        0
                             ...
2020-09-26 00:00:00+00:00    83680
2020-09-27 00:00:00+00:00    84293
2020-09-28 00:00:00+00:00    84873
2020-09-29 00:00:00+00:00    84306
2020-09-30 00:00:00+00:00    84875
Freq: D, Length: 242, dtype: int64

I need to remove the empty dataframes before applying std = df.apply(gstd). I don't know the location of empty dataframe.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/51052536/14338086 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/16916611/14338086 return error. Also using df.filter(lambda x: x.size() != 0) returns TypeError: 'numpy.int64' object is not callable. dropna() is not available.

A: I solved the question by the following code, maybe it helps someone.
cols = [" col1", "col2", "col3", "col4"]

joined = pd.concat(df.reset_index() for df in collectData)
joined = joined.replace({np.nan:1, 0:1})
joined[cols] = joined[cols].mask(joined[cols] < 0, 1)

df = joined.set_index('sensor').groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='D'))
dff = pd.concat(map(lambda x: x[1], df))
means = dff.groupby(dff.index.floor('d')).agg(gmean)
std = dff.groupby(dff.index.floor('d')).agg(gstd)

df_result = pd.merge (left=means, right=std, how='left', on='sensor')


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Q: Rerun computation after throwing error I would like to combine the Error Monad and the IO Monad in Haskell. Here is an excerpt from my code:
type AskMonad = ErrorT String IO

askSomething :: AskMonad Direction
askSomething = do
  liftIO $ putStrLn "Choose an element from the list [1,2,3,4]"
  input <- liftIO getLine
  let entry = read input :: Int
  if entry `elem` [1,2,3,4]
  then return $ toEnum entry -- from Int to Direction
  else throwError "Invalid input!"

selectMove :: [Player] -> Board -> IO (Direction, Position)
selectMove players board = do
  direction <- runErrorT (askSomething) `catchError` --What to put here???
  -- Other IO stuff...

I would like to achieve the following behavior:

*

*if askSomething succeeds, get the Direction.

*if askSomething fails, show the error and run askSomething again.

However, I don't know what to put as the second argument of catchError in order to get this behavior. I think it should be of the following type signature: Either String Direction -> AskMonad Direction, but how can I access the computation that needs to be rerun (askSomething in this case).

A: The code as you have it now seems like it would be trying to catch exceptions not represented in the ErrorT String result. My thought is that you are actually looking to retry if runErrorT results in a Left value (an "expected" exception). In that case, something like this retryForever may work:
retryForever :: AskMonad a -> IO a
retryForever action =
  runErrorT action >>= either (\ex -> putStrLn ex >> retryForever action) return

which could be used like:
direction <- retryForever askSomething

P.S. I believe ErrorT was deprecated in favor of ExceptT, and that ExceptT is only more general so the transition should be trivial if you decide to switch.


ASHLEY YOUNG has signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United at the age of 33.
The English ace is the sixth Old Trafford star to pen a new deal this season after Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling, Scott McTominay, Anthony Martial and Phil Jones.
United announced the news by posting a photograph of Young alongside interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
A statement on the club website read: "Manchester United is pleased to announce that Ashley Young has signed one-year contract extension with the club.
"The deal will keep our no.18 at Old Trafford until the end of the 2019/20 season."
Young has scored 17 goals in 227 appearances for United since he completed his switch from Aston Villa in 2011.
During his time with the Reds, he has win five trophies – the Community Shield, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and the Europa League.
He has scored one goal and made three assists for United in 25 games in all competitions this season.
The 39-cap England international had been linked with Inter Milan – who were hoping to sign him on a free transfer at the end of the season.
But Young, who pockets around £130,000-a-week with United, did not seem interested in a move away from Old Trafford.
United were keen to tie him down with fresh terms, but the club are unwilling to offer players over 30 deals that are longer than one year.
Ander Herrera, Juan Mata, Matteo Darmian, Andreas Pereira and Antonio Valencia could be the next stars to receive a new deal as they are all out of contract at the end of the season.


A 19th century painted wood Swedish clock. This Swedish clock from the 1820's features a round face, subtle crest and raindrop shaped body. There are trim accents about the neck and waist with the sweetly carved bead work along the edges of the lower body, starting just below the waist. The clock has a dry scraped finish with various shades of burnished sunset, yam and beige. This clock would be wonderful as a decorative object and is not currently in working condition, but can be quartzed to keep perfect time, for an additional cost. A quartz battery would then be added behind the face. The original hands are too heavy to carry the quartz movement, so they would be changed to black hands, similar in style. The clock would then chime (the chime can be turned off even though the sound is quite delightful). A pendulum selected to work with the quartz movement would be added behind the glass opening. This 19th century Swedish clock would look great in an entryway, bedroom, living room or office.


A scooter is an assistive device that allows many people more mobility freedom. A mobility scooter has a seat over three, four or now five wheels, a flat area or foot plates for the feet, and handlebars in front to turn steerable wheels. While a mobility scooter eliminates much of the manual strength problems of an manual wheelchair, its tiller steering mechanism still requires upright posture, shoulder and hand strength, and some upper-body mobility and strength.
The seat of a scooter may also swivel to allow access when the front is blocked by the handlebars. Mobility scooters are battery powered. Two more batteries are stored on board the scooter and are charged via an onboard or separate battery charger from standard electrical outlet.
Scooters provide important advantages to people with mobility problems. According to Ian Jarvis, a Rehab Specialist with Family 1st Medical, scooters are useful for people without walking or standing stamina. "A mobility scooter is very helpful for persons with systemic or whole-body disabling conditions (coronary or lung issues, some forms of arthritis, obesity, etc.) who are still able to stand and walk a few steps, sit upright without torso support, and control the steering tiller," confirms Mr. Jarvis.
What the scooter is going to be used for (and how often it is going to be used) will help to determine which model will be best. Mr. Jarvis says someone purchasing a mobility scooter which will be used daily to replace a car has different needs to someone purchasing a mobility scooter that needs be carried in the car and used primarily on weekends or for traveling short distances.
Different scooters with different battery sizes produce different range distances. As an experienced Rehab Specialist Mr. Jarvis says when a person is shopping for a scooter, he will discuss where they wish to use the scooter to help determine what range distance would be achieved from each scooter considered. In some scooters (but not all) batteries can be upgraded to provide better range performance.
The speed of the mobility scooter is determined by the amount of pressure put on the forward / reverse lever. The overall speed of the scooter is governed by the speed dial on the control panel. When getting used to the scooter, it may be best to use a lower speed setting. In order to slow down, the user just needs to release the forward or reverse lever, which then brings the scooter to a stop. Scooters have brakes fitted in such a way that the scooter can be left on a slope without fear of it rolling away.
Scooters are very easy to use and shouldn't be intimidating. Despite all the various models and types to choose from, they all work in similar ways. The main differences are the number of wheels (three, four or five), the maximum speed, the range and the size of the scooter.