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Expert profile - Dr Mandy Banton
Dr Mandy Banton
Position/Fellowship type:
Fellowship term:
01-Sep-2009 to 30-Sep-2018
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
mandy.banton@sas.ac.uk
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=153
Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Contemporary History, Modern History
Africa, Caribbean, England, United Kingdom
Dr Banton is former Principal Records Specialist (Diplomatic and Colonial) at The National Archives of the UK (TNA), and an historian with a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in February 2017.
Dr Banton is an expert on the records of the British Colonial Office and author of the standard research guide, Administering the Empire, 1801-1968; A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in The National Archives of the UK, a revised edition of which was commissioned by the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and published in 2015. This new edition, as well as providing a general update, highlights the so-called 'migrated archives' removed from 37 UK dependencies at independence, concealed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) until 2011, and released to The National Archives in 2012/13. Dr Banton's recent research, publications and speaking engagements have focused on policy and practice with respect to such removals, and the continuing disagreements and inconclusive discussions regarding the legal status and appropriate disposal of the documentation between TNA and the FCO over many decades. She is contributing to a global debate in her practical work with the International Records Management Trust, the Kenya National Archives and other archivists, historians and lawyers to explore means of securing the return of documentation to the independent successor states, or the provision by the UK Government of free digital copies. She is author of a position paper on the subject adopted by the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers in 2017, and has been appointed to the Expert Group on Shared Archival Heritage set up by the International Council on Archives in 2016.
More generally Dr Banton has research interests in the administrative history of the Colonial Office, record-keeping there and within the former colonial governments, and the Office's supervision of the developing legal regulation of 'free' labour after the 19th century abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
Project summary relevant to Fellowship:
Dr Banton has presented her work on migrated archives to the Institute conference 'The Secret Archive: What is the significance of FCO's "Migrated Archives" and "Special Collections"?' (May 2014), organised with Dr Susan Williams, also a senior research fellow; to the Institute workshop 'The Hidden History of Decolonization: What do the "migrated archives" reveal about British withdrawal from Empire?' (February 2015); to annual conferences of SCOLMA: the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa (July 2013) and the Society for Caribbean Studies (July 2014); to conferences at the University of East Anglia (May 2013) and the University of Bristol (July 2013); and most recently to the seminar series 'Archives and Society' at the Institute of Historical Research (March 2016), and the launch at Liverpool University in March 2017 of the book Displaced Archives (James Lowry, ed., Routledge, 2017) in which she has a chapter. In June 2015 Dr Banton was a member of a committee convened at Leiden University to examine a PhD thesis proposing an archival model for work on the British migrated archives and a parallel Dutch collection. She has been consulted and interviewed by journalists from The Guardian, VICE News, Radiolab and other media.
Dr Banton's other contributions to the life of the Institute include the organisation of a conference on Freedom of Information in the Commonwealth (with Dr Susan Williams) which led to publication in December 2015 of a special issue of The Round Table, 'Freedom of Information in the Commonwealth', edited by them with Professor Elizabeth Shepherd of University College London, and launched by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi (December 2015) and at Senate House, London (January 2016). The most recent of a number of conferences and other events organised with Dr Williams, and in collaboration with the United Nations Association Westminster, was the international conference '"Sowing the Whirlwind": nuclear politics and the historical record' (July 2015).
Dr Banton is a member of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Senate House Library advisory board. During the course of her fellowship she has also served on a number of committees and advisory bodies of external organisations, most recently the Advisory Council of the Institute of Latin American Studies, also part of the School of Advanced Study, (2012-15) and the Advisory Board of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project at University College London (2013-15).
01-Nov-2019 Shared Archival Heritage: an exploration of problems and solutions: report of the EGSAH panel at the Yaoundé Conference
Report of the Round Table presented by the Expert Group on Shared Archival Heritage at the annual conference of the International Council on Archives, Yaoundé, Cameroon, November 2018. Comma (journal of the ICA) forthcoming 2019.
01-Jul-2018 Precious artefacts versus 'dusty files'
Opinion piece for The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.
01-Jul-2017 Review of The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation by Ian Cobain
Review published in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Issue 3, 2017
20-Jun-2017 Review of The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation by Ian Cobain
Archives and Manuscripts, Vol. 45, issue 2
01-Mar-2017 Displaced Archives in The National Archives of the United Kingdom
in James Lowry (ed.) Displaced Archives (Routledge, 2017)
01-Dec-2015 Freedom of Information and the Commonwealth
Special issue of The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs edited by Mandy Banton, Susan Williams and Elizabeth Shepherd (December 2015).
31-Jul-2015 Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in The National Archives of the UK
01-Nov-2014 'Record-keeping for good governance and accountability in the Colonial Office: an historical sketch',
Essay for festschrift for Dr Anne Thurston, Director of the International Records Management Trust.
01-Oct-2014 The Records of Empire
in the Black history month supplement of New African, October 2014
01-Apr-2014 Review of Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain by Catherine Hall
In Family and Community History, volume 17/1, April 2014
01-Mar-2014 'Obscured if not hidden: records relating to Africa in the National Archives of the UK (TNA)
In African Research and Documentation, No. 123, 2013
01-Dec-2013 'Lost' and 'Found': The concealment and release of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 'migrated archives'
Comma: International Journal on Archives.
01-Jun-2012 'Destroy? 'Migrate'? Conceal? British Strategies for the Disposal of Sensitive Records of Colonial Administrations at Independence'
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History,
Volume 40, Issue 2, pp. 321-335
01-Oct-2011 review of The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950–2003 by Elaine Bauer. Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
in Family & Community History, Vol. 14/2, October 2011
01-Apr-2011 review of Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century by Sarah M S Pearsall (Oxford University Press, 2008)
in Family and Community History, vol. 14/1, April 2011
01-Jan-2011 Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: a guide to the records of the Colonial Office in The National Archives of the UK
revised and reprinted 2011
01-Nov-2010 review of Untold Histories: Black people in England and Wales during the period of the British slave trade, c. 1660-1807, by Kathleen Chater (Manchester University Press, 2009)
in Family and Community History, vol. 13/2, November 2010
01-May-2010 review of the Oxford Companion to Black British History, edited by David Dabydeen, John Gilmore and Cecily Jones (Oxford University Press, 2007)
in Family and Community History, 13/1, May 2010
01-Mar-2010 The Commonwealth at 60: a note on its history and some UK records
in Newsletter of the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers, issue 46, Spring 2010
01-Oct-2009 'Expatriate' or 'Migrated' Archives: the role of the UK Archivist
in Archives [the journal of the British Records Association], vol. xxxiv, no. 121, October 2009
2009 The 'Taint of Slavery': The Colonial Office and the Regulation of Free Labour
in Keith Hamilton and Patrick Salmon (eds), Slavery, Diplomacy and Empire: Britain and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1807-1975 (Sussex Academic Press, 2009)
2008 Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in The National Archives of the UK
London: Institute of Historical Research (2008, revised and reprinted 2011)
Relevant Events
Related events:
27-Nov-2018 Shared Archival Heritage: an exploration of problems and solutions
Organiser of a panel presented by the Expert Group on Shared Archival Heritage (EGSAH) of the International Council on Archives at the ICA annual conference, Yaoundé, Cameroon, November 2018
04-Jun-2018 'Displaced Archives/Shared Heritage: new approaches to old problems'
Paper presented to the seminar series organised by SCOLMA (the Library and Archives Group on Africa)
27-Mar-2018 'A culture of secrecy? - the management of records of Britain's imperial past'
Paper presented to the conference 'Looted, Lost or Hidden: Archives and Politics', Oslo. The conference was a collaboration between Preus Museum (the National Museum of Photography); The National Archives of Norway; Department of Archives, Library and Information Sciences/Faculty of Social Sciences/OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, the e-journal www.tidsskriftetarkiv.no and the Publisher ABM-media.
Presentation at the launch of Displaced Archives (ed. James Lowry, Routledge, 2017) at the University of Liverpool.
15-Mar-2016 Displaced Archives
Contribution to a seminar in the series 'Archives and Society', Institute of Historical Research, with James Lowry, University of Liverpool, and Vincent Hiribarren, Kings College London.
16-Jul-2015 Sowing the Whirlwind': Nuclear Politics and the Historical Record
(with Dr Susan Williams and in collaboration with the United Nations Association Westminster Branch) Speakers included Dr. Akiko Mikamo, author of Rising from the Ashes: A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima; Professor Peter Kuznick, director, Nuclear Studies Institute, American University, Washington DC; Bruce Kent, Vice-President, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; and Joe Lauria, Wall Street Journal. The first four videos from the conference were posted on the SAS website on 3 September 2015, others to follow.
03-Jul-2015 Mau Mau
Recorded interview to Radiolab (broadcaster on the New York radio station WNYC)
20-Feb-2015 The hidden history of decolonization: What do the 'migrated archives' reveal about British withdrawal from Empire?
Paper on the 'migrated archives' presented to workshop held at ICWS
29-Jan-2015 Book launch: Henning Melber, Understanding Namibia
(with Dr Susan Williams) Book launch: Henning Melber, Understanding Namibia (C. Hurst & Co., 2014)
08-Sep-2014 The United Nations and the End of Empire: Revisiting the Role of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld
Organiser with Dr Susan Williams, ICWS, of a colloquium revisiting themes emerging from a conference held three years earlier on 'Dag Hammarskjold, the UN and the End of Empire'. Speakers were John Y Jones (Voksenasen, Oslo), Henning Melber (Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala), and Edward Mortimer (All Souls College, Oxford).
01-Sep-2014 Here's What the British Government Has Been Hiding from You
Vice News, 1 September 2014
10-Jul-2014 'Why Join the Commonwealth'
Organiser, with Dr Susan Williams, of a colloquium to address the question 'Why join the Commonwealth'
03-Jul-2014 'Secrecy and Disclosure: FCO 'migrated archives' and 'special collections'
Presentation to the 38th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, University of Glasgow, 2-4 July 2014.
29-May-2014 The Secret Archive: What is the significance of FCO's 'Migrated Archives' and 'Special Collections'?
Organiser, with Dr Susan Williams, of one-day conference, and presenter of paper 'History concealed; justice denied? - (mis)management of the records of Britain's colonial dependencies'
28-Feb-2014 Using The National Archives Colonial Records
Presentation to a one-day conference 'Experiences of World War One: strangers, differences and locality' organised by the British Association for Local History in conjunction with the Institute for Commonwealth Studies'.
16-Jul-2013 'Migrated archives': an overview
Presentation to conference 'Connected Histories of Empire', University of Bristol
09-Jul-2013 Obscured if not hidden: records relating to Africa in the National Archives of the UK
Paper presented to the annual conference of SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa)
16-May-2013 The British Colonial Office Archives
Presentation to 2-day 'Utopian Archives Workshop: Past and Futures', University of East Anglia, 16-17 May 2013
14-Jun-2012 'Secrecy and Disclosure: Freedom of Information and the Commonwealth'.
Organiser, with Dr Susan Williams
21-Feb-2012 Records relating to the Commonwealth in the UK National Archives
Presentation to the Bristol Commonwealth Society
14-Sep-2011 The Colonial Office and the regulation of labour in the British Empire, 1838-1919
International Conference, 'Governing Empires: Central Administration and the Making of Colonial Policies in the late 19th Century', Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, 14-16 September 2011.
02-Sep-2011 Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the End of Empire
Organiser, with Dr Susan Williams and in collaboration with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and the Westminster branch of the United Nations Association and with the support of the Swedish Ambassador, of a one-day international conference held on 2 September 2001 to mark the 50th anniversary of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld's death.
08-Jul-2010 Sources for Caribbean studies in The National Archives of the UK
paper given at Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, University of Southampton, 7-9 July 2010
26-Mar-2010 Free or unfree? Labour regulation in the 19th century Caribbean
talk as part of a one-day workshop on researching the Caribbean, organised by Dr Gemma Romain, University of Newcastle, and held at The National Archives, 26 March 2010
09-Dec-2009 'Constantly the subject of small struggles': the development of labour legislation in the British Empire during the 19th and 20th centuries
paper given to Institute of Commonwealth Studies Research Seminar, 9 December 2009


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Canada bans conversion therapy, joining a handful of other nations
Several other countries, including Germany and Brazil — and 20 U.S. states — have banned the debunked practice.
Supporters of LGBTQ rights gather at Pride Corner in Edmonton, Alberta, on Sept. 24, to counter protesting street preachers. Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images
Dec. 9, 2021, 9:14 PM UTC / Updated Dec. 12, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC
By Matt Lavietes
Canada this week banned conversion therapy, a debunked treatment that aims to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
A bill making it a crime to subject Canadians of any age to the discredited practice became law Wednesday after Canada's Parliament passed the measure this month.
"It's official: Our government's legislation banning the despicable and degrading practice of conversion therapy has received Royal Assent — meaning it is now law. LGBTQ2 Canadians, we'll always stand up for you and your rights," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on Twitter.
The Canadian law is the latest instance of a growing global effort to eradicate conversion therapy, a practice that ranges from religious counseling to electric shock therapy and has been associated with "severe psychological distress."
Canada's ban follows that of Germany, Malta, Ecuador, Brazil and Taiwan. Some of the nations, such as Germany, have passed bans exclusively for minors, whereas others, like Malta, have passed bans for all citizens.
In the United States, 20 states and the District of Columbia have restrictions in place for minors, according to the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank. Three states — Florida, Alabama and Georgia — are in a federal judicial circuit with an injunction that blocks conversion therapy bans.
In addition to Canada, France's Senate voted in favor of legislation this week that would also criminalize the practice, with prison sentences of two to three years and fines up to $50,000.
In 2019, the American Medical Association voiced its support for state and federal efforts to ban conversion therapy, saying that it "has no foundation as scientifically valid medical care and lacks credible evidence to support its efficacy or safety."
And last year, the United Nations called for the practice to be banned internationally and released a detailed report on the practice's global implications.
"The attempts to pathologize and erase the identity of individuals, negate their existence as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or gender diverse and provoke self-loathing have profound consequences on their physical and psychological integrity and well-being," the report stated.
LGBTQ advocates hailed the Canadian law's passage.
"To the survivors who have fought for years for a safer, more equal future: thank you and congratulations. This is your moment," No Conversion Canada, a Canadian nonprofit coalition to end conversion therapy, wrote on Twitter this week.
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Pennant Hills is a suburb in the Northern Sydney region, or Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Pennant Hills is located 18 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. West Pennant Hills is a separate suburb to the west of Pennant Hills and is part of the Hills District with a separate postcode.

History
The area was first explored by Governor Arthur Phillip shortly after 15 April 1788. It was noted that the party saw 'fine views of the mountains inland' (the Blue Mountains). Governor Phillip 'did not doubt that a large river would be found' nearby.

The first white settlement occurred in the area with the establishment of convict timber camps in the time of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Permanent white settlement of Pennant Hills began only in the 1840s and took off with the arrival of the Northern railway line in the 1880s. In August 1912 the federal government opened a Wireless Telegraphy Station, the first of its kind on a national level. The suburb has grown considerably since the 1950s, when the motor car became commonplace.

There are two distinct theories about the origin of the name Pennant Hills.  One suggests the area was used as a site for raising flags, or pennants, for signalling purposes.  However, the only recorded evidence of such a signalling system in the vicinity was one operating from 1824 to 1829 in the present suburb of Ermington and the use of the term 'Pennant Hills' is found in much earlier documents.  In an 1801 muster list, 'Pennant Hills' is recorded as the place of residence of Ann Fay, wife of William Bellamy.  In 1802 correspondence from Governor King to Joseph Banks, King refers to "the range of Pennant Hills".  In 1920 the historian James Jervis suggested that the locality had been named after the naturalist Thomas Pennant, a prominent British ornithologist and zoologist and prolific author of the eighteenth century.  Although Pennant never visited Australia his friends and acquaintances included Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook and Francis Grose (whose son Francis administered the colony of New South Wales when Arthur Phillip returned to England in 1792).  Under the patronage system of the time, colonial administrators and explorers often acknowledged their English supporters by naming geographical features in their honour.

The name Pennant Hills originally applied to the area now known as West Pennant Hills, located in the Hills District. However, when the northern railway line was built it passed through what is now Pennant Hills, so a suburb grew around the station and took on the name. The area around Thompsons Corner was renamed West Pennant Hills. Pennant Hills is hilly and the highest altitude is at Observatory Park on Pennant Hills Road, which once was the site of the old astronomical observatory.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Pennant Hills was the site of Chelmsford Private Hospital, where the unorthodox psychiatric Deep Sleep Therapy conducted by Dr Harry Bailey resulted in the deaths of dozens of patients.

Commercial areas
Pennant Hills is one of the major commercial centres of Hornsby Shire. Several dozen shops are located at the north-west of the railway line, along with the local Pennant Hills Library. Several restaurants and cafes are located around Yarrara Road. Pennant Hills Marketplace, a local shopping centre, is located along Hillcrest Road.
Residential houses are found in all areas in Pennant Hills, with recent modern apartments and office towers found along Pennant Hills Road. A significant commercial/industrial area can be found along Pennant Hills Road.

Pennant Hills is home to several entertainment venues including the Pennant Hills Hotel.

Transport

Pennant Hills railway station is on the Northern Line of the Sydney Trains network.

Pennant Hills Road is one of Sydney's major thoroughfares. Bus services by Transdev NSW and Hillsbus have their terminus in Pennant Hills and run to West Pennant Hills, Castle Hill and Cherrybrook.

Churches
 Pennant Hills was established as a Catholic parish in 1928 and a number of Catholic churches have been built since then. The parish's current church, St. Agatha's, was built in 1979.

 St Mark's Anglican Church,

 Pennant Hills Baptist Church

 Pennant Hills Uniting Church

 Thornleigh Seventh-day Adventist Church is located in Pennant Hills.

 Pennant Hills is also home to the first Danish Church in Australia. Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark made an official visit there on 6 March 2005.

Schools
Pennant Hills has two public schools: Pennant Hills Public School established in 1925 and Pennant Hills High School established in 1966, and two Catholic schools, Mount St Benedict College a girls secondary school and St. Agatha's Catholic Primary School.

Sport and recreation

Parks and reserves

Pennant Hills is surrounded on two sides by large swathes of bushland. To the east, the suburb is bordered by the upper reaches of the Lane Cove River and its associated national park, whilst in the north-west, Pennant Hills borders Berowra Valley National Park. Both of these reserves contain extensive walking tracks within the boundaries of the suburb, with some linking to the Great North Walk.

Pennant Hills also contains many public parks, the largest being the Pennant Hills Park sportsground. This complex hosts many sporting facilities consisting of the Ern Holmes Oval for Australian Football and cricket, tennis and netball courts, a rugby union field, a football pitch, two hockey fields and an archery range. The Ern Holmes Oval was the home ground of the Pennant Hills Demons Australian Football Club until 2011.

Lilian Fraser Garden is also located in Pennant Hills. Originally maintained for many years by the noted government biologist Dr Lilian Fraser, after her death in 1987 her collection of rare and exotic plants was passed on to Hornsby Shire Council. Open free of charge to the public for viewing, the garden can also be hired for special events for a fee.

Sport and leisure
Pennant Hills, due to its wide array of sporting facilities, plays home to a large number of sporting organisations. These organisations include the Pennant Hills Football Club, which was established in 1957, and the Pennant Hills Demons AFC, which has seen nine players go on to compete in the AFL. Although the Ern Holmes Oval is no longer the home ground of the Demons premiership team due to its size, many of the club's junior teams still compete in Pennant Hills.

Pennant Hills is also home to the Baden Powell Scout Centre, which borders the Lane Cove National Park. Opened in 1929, it initially served as a permanent camp for the unemployed during the Great Depression, and was visited by the Lord Baden-Powell himself in 1931. Situated on 36 acres of bushland, the centre is now home to the John Hill training centre and provides accommodation, catering and conference facilities for large groups, as well as activities such as high-ropes and rock climbing for camps.

The Pennant Hills area is home to the Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Rugby League Club affectionately known as the Stags. Whilst originally based at Pennant Hills Park the club now plays out of Greenway Oval at Cherrybrook. The club competes with distinction in the North Sydney District Junior Rugby League competition.

Population

Demographics
The population according to the 2016 census was 7,287. Of these:
 The median age was 40 years, compared to the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0–14 years made up 18.0% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.5% of the population.
 59.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 6.6%, India 4.0%, England 3.4%, Hong Kong 2.9% and South Korea 2.5%.
 64.7% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 7.4%, Cantonese 5.5%, Korean 3.0%, Hindi 2.0% and Arabic 1.5%.
 The most common responses for religion were No Religion 28.5%, Catholic 21.9% and Anglican 14.4%.

Notable residents
 Early North Shore settler James Milson.
 Former Attorney General of Australia Philip Ruddock.
 Former St Kilda midfielder and 2010 Norm Smith Medallist Lenny Hayes, who played for the Pennant Hills Demons in the NSW Football League.
 Former  tagger and current  caretaker senior coach Mark McVeigh, who also played for the Demons in the NSW Football League.
 Former Sydney Swans premiership co-captain Jarrad McVeigh, who also played for Pennant Hills Demons in the NSW Football League.
 John and Ilsa Konrads, siblings and world record-breaking swimmers.
 Michaela Baranov, a contestant on the seventh season of The X Factor Australia
 Geraint F. Lewis, astrophysicist at the University of Sydney

Climate
Because of its elevation, Pennant Hills has a mean of  in the warmest month, which is just below the subtropical isotherm of . As such, Pennant Hills has an Oceanic climate (Cfb). Its highs are around two degrees warmer than Sydney CBD in the summer, and a degree cooler in the winter. Whilst the rainfall is evenly distributed, the wettest month is March and the driest is September.

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Suburbs of Sydney
Hornsby Shire

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Last month, reports circulated that Prince Harry would leave the armed forces later this year. According to Royal Central, Kensington Palace announced today that Harry will indeed leave in order to focus more on his charities, among them Sentebale and Walking With The Wounded. He'll spend a month of training in Australia in April and May, after which he will step down from his duties.
Today marks Mother's Day in the United Kingdom, with flashback photos of royal babies and their mothers splashed across social media.
Yesterday, the community of "Peeps Who Love A Good Kate Challenge" (hello!) were on the hunt for the makers of a new tanzanite teardrop set worn by the Duchess of Cambridge to the service commemorating combat in Afghanistan.
The royal family attended a Service of Commemoration for troops who were stationed in Afghanistan at St Paul's Cathedral today in London. The men and Princess Anne were in full military regalia as they made their way into the service, while the Queen and Prince Philip arrived last, as tradition dictates.
453 British troops were killed in Afghanistan since combat started 13 years ago.
While I'm disappointed not to see a fallopian-tube-toilet-seat hat, I have to hand it to Princess Beatrice for bringing her A-Game to the exhibit opening of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Victoria & Albert museum tonight.
Hark! Do you see that? It's the hair of Catherine the Great, she who has set a new standard for fabulous locks. Greys? Yes, they pop up every now and then, but one has to show one's subjects that one is a woman of the people and that greys do exist, even for the great and the good.
Catherine made famous the "Chelsea blowdry," described as a "big, bouncy, glossy hairstyle" that looks expensive (Think shine! Think Volume!), and now everyone wants what she's having.


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I am a carrier mom and have two sons with Beckers. My oldest(20) is more affected than my youngest(14). Im curious if their symptoms will get worse the older they get. Anyone know the answer??
Devan(20) gets sore and tight muscles much more in cold weather. He had to be taken our of track meets several times as his muscles tightened so bad, he was unable to run anymore. Please share your info with me. I don't know anyone in my area who deals with this.
Thanks a lot. Yes, I understand in same way as you explain to me.
I sent e-mail to Ann and am waiting for her.
You're so kind and brave.
Dear Trinh, please check with Ann Martin-genetic counselor, and Kathy Kinnet at the emails Kathy gave you below, as they are the professionals and can guide you better than I ever could. What I understand is that if your mother is not a carrier, then her sisters and their girls (your aunts and female cousins) do not need to be tested. However, as Gicela said, your mom might not test as a carrier in her blood, but only carry the mutation in her eggs. So it could be possible in that case (defective eggs) that your sisters may also be carriers like you, but just got lucky and by chance had healthy boys. Your sisters should be tested regardless of your mom's genetic result. Yes, your niece needs the test, but if she is young, then perhaps she doesn't need to get tested right away and they will rely on her mother's carrier status (if her mother is not a carrier, then the girl cannot be and does not need the test herself). It might depend on where (country, health region) you have the testing done how they will proceed, if every one all at the same time gets tested or if they use a step by step manner (mothers first, then daughters based on the results of their mothers). And as you say, if your mom is a carrier, then everyone, her sisters and their daughters should be tested also. It is important for carriers to know as their own health can be affected (such as we need to see a cardiologist regularly). Lets keep our fingers crossed for your sweet Thuy who sent me the most lovely of birthday cards.I've read that for family testing they will only check for the known mutation that you and Thuc have vs. checking every one of the 79 exons, but I am not sure if this is the true in every case and all over the world.Of course in an ideal world, to be 100% safe, every single person would be tested to catch the 1/3 of cases of new, spontaneous mutations ( and that can be a DMD boy with no family history, or it can be a carrier like me with no family history) I'm sure Ann and Kathy will know. Ask them to see a pedigree chart, it will be easier to visualize. I hope I did not confuse you with my explanation, I'm tired :) Ann and Kathy will help you or find someone else who can. It's information overload right now which is hard to process when you've just had the shock of finding out.Remember to be kind to yourself Trinh. Hugs.
We are going to test for our mom. If she is, yes all her other daughters, her sister and her sister's daughters need to test for carrier. So far, non of them have Duchenne boy except me. I just want to make sure, if she is not carrier then all will not need to test for carrier ? Or still we should test ?
Andrea, I have two more sisters who have healthy boys , but one sister has girl and I need to make sure she needs a test or not.
And one more question, just test for the same mutation which my boy got, right ? No need to test all exon ?
Much thanks for guiding me.
Trinh, was your mother actually have the genetic test with a negative result, or are you assuming that she is not a carrier because there is no one else in the family with DMD? The answer to your question depends on these questions. If you say she is not a carrier simply because there is no family history before you and Thuc, it might just be by chance (if your mom is a carrier). Each boy from a carrier has a 50% chance of having DMD, and each girl from a carrier has a 50% chance of being a carrier. It could happen that just by luck each pregnancy resulted in the "good" 50%. But if your mom actually had the molecular testing and it came back that she is not a carrier, then her sister's and their daughters do not need to get tested. If you have sisters Trinh, they should get tested, even if you mom is not a true carrier, her eggs may have been affected (like Gicela's case). But I think if I remember correctly you only have a brother.
Can't say if female's on your Mom's side should be tested. I do know that none of my Sister's sons have DMD. Although my test results showed that I was not a carrier, I was told that I produced eggs that had the deletion in the gene.
If my mom is not carrier, but I am, do her other daughters, her sister and her sister's daughters need Gene test ?
I had talked to HIM over and over praying for my little children then I blamed HIM over and over. I am so sorry that I had such feeling. We are now praying together, and I can find the connection inner my family to struggle in the journey. Wish I could reach the peace which strengthens your soul. Thanks.
Your pain is understandable and it's something we all felt when learning of our child's diagnosis. My daughter Kelly is a "manifesting" carrier who periodically deals with stiffness and cramping. What's so strange about her diagnosis is that when I was later tested, the results showed that I wasn't a carrier. Even knowing this, I still believed that there was something I did either when I was pregnant or when she was an infant that caused her condition. In short, my thoughts took over logic and I tortured myself for a long time adamantly believing that I was at fault. This went on until I found a Spirit filled church that helped me to discover that God is in control and that He will deliver us from pain and suffering if we trust in Him. Since then, I've been in peace and my 11 year old is flourishing. Kelly loves life and understands so much more than I ever did at her age. What I'm saying is that God's plans are perfect and if we trust in Him and know that He is in control, we will begin to see His hand in our children's lives. I no longer fear for Kelly or blame myself or anything for her condition. Know that she is in God's loving hands, I'm at peace. I hope and pray that you and your family find beautiful peace and be blessed with the gifts God has for you.


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(1857-1935) UK writer, son of Sir Edwin Arnold. He derived from his father a strong interest in the ideas of Reincarnation and karma; his fantasies are "karmic romances" modelled on the work of H Rider Haggard. The hero of The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician (1891; vt Phra the Phoenician 1910) recalls a series of past "awakenings" in different eras of British history – the withdrawal of the Romans, the Norman invasion of 1066, the Battle of Crécy, and Elizabethan intrigues – and continually meets women reminiscent of the Witch-wife whose Magic was the source of his problematic Immortality and with whom he yearns to secure a more permanent reunion beyond the Earth. "Rutherford the Twice-Born" (1892), the only fantasy in The Story of Ulla, and Other Tales (coll 1895), makes more formal use of the notion of karma, recounting the tribulations of a man who comes into a tainted inheritance but is absolved from guilt by a convenient Vision. Lepidus the Centurion: A Roman of To-day (1901) is a psychological melodrama in which a young Victorian and a virile Roman brought back from the dead are fragmentary aspects of a single Soul and inevitably come into conflict over a woman.
Arnold's last fantasy novel, Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905; vt Gulliver of Mars 1964 US), has similarities with the Martian fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs, although this is more likely due to the common influence of Haggard's She (1887) than to any direct imitation. Jones, an impoverished US Naval officer, is whisked away by magic carpet to Mars, where decadent inheritors of an ancient civilization are trying to defend the remnants of their culture against marauding barbarians.


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Last September 27 and 28, 2012 at 8:00am to 5:00pm with the support of the Provincial Government of Laguna under Governor Jeorge "ER" Estregan Ejercito, the FIRST Laguna Social Media and Blogging Summit (1LaBS) was held at the Cultural Center of Laguna.
Delegates from Manila, students from LSPU, STI, AMA crowded the venue and exceeded the expected number of attendees by 300%. Andami nun!
Nakaka-star struck ang beauty ni Mayor Girlie Javier Ejercito. Kumanta siya ng "Bangkero", yung song na nagpo-promote ng Pagsanjan. Very memorable talaga ang performance niya.
Engr. Grace Bondad Nicolas, the Lead Organizer and a blogger herself, gave the opening remarks. Sobrang bait ni Grace. I am part of her team at parati niya kinukumusta ang station ko sa registration kung ok lang ako. Di niya ata alam na sanay ako sa mga ganitong events. Lagueno din kaya ako.
(Benjamin Vergel De Dios) Executive Director- Knowledge Community.
Trending topic ang #1LaBS for the whole event.
Special mention sa Gardenia na ang factory ay nasa Binan, Laguna. Dito ko napatunayan na walang himala sa Multiplication of Bread na nangyari sa Bibliya.
Salamat din pala sa Asia Blooms Hotel na nag-provide ng accomodation sa amin #1LaBS team.
Thank you kay Governor Jeorge "ER" Ejercito para sa venue, catering, bus transport at hotel accommodation.
The objective of the summit is to bring to Laguna the best speakers and writers from social media to share to Lagueno the benefits of technology today. The speakers are well known at blogosphere plus with writers and media as participants who are there not only to learn but to cover the whole summit, the event will give mileage to the province in terms of tourism.
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A: #N/A means "Not Available". Excel formulas usually return this in situations where a requested value could not be found for some reason.
A common cause of this error code is the VLOOKUP function,
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How to use the Excel IFERROR function.

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Deadly turn: Left turns cause 40% of traffic deaths in San Francisco
One specific kind of turn is being blamed to have caused the death of many, a road safety policy in San Francisco, Vision Zero, which aims to stop the city's traffic casualties, said in a report.
"40% of traffic deaths in San Francisco in 2019 were caused when drivers made left turns and didn't see the person in the crosswalk… until it was too late," its new report, which used the San Francisco Department of Public Health data, said, as reported by SFGATE.
Thirty-one percent of the pedestrians of old age are killed in left-turn circumstances, the report added.
Each year, more than 300 people using the crosswalks sustain injuries because of drivers making a left turn at intersections.
"Left turn collisions are an intersection design problem, but they are also a driver decision-making problem. So solutions will also need to be multifaceted," according to the report.
The Safer Intersections Project was unveiled by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) in a bid to use new ways to the city's intersection design. The said project was done following a five-year analysis of data that cited the problem on the left turn in 2018.
"Drivers need to judge many factors simultaneously when making a left turn. Given the complex decisions that have to be quickly made in a stressful environment, we can't assume drivers will always make rational decisions when making a left turn," part of the report from Vision Zero said. "Some may drive too fast and cut corners too closely."
Last fall, vertical delineator posts that are waist-high were installed at seven intersections as part of the left turn traffic-calming engineering project.
Added to this, the center of the roadway close to the crosswalks was equipped with small rubber speed bumps for enhancement. The paint was also applied to prevent sharp left turns that can push the cars early into the crosswalks.
The approach became effective as there was a 17 percent drop in average car speed and a 71 percent decrease in the chances of vehicles making a left turn at over 15 mph. Similar methods are being planned by the SFMTA to be done in 35 more intersections in the city.


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Chair/Distinguished/Full Professor in the Centre for Chinese History and Culture
(Reference No.: FAH/CCHC/CDF/06/2019)
The University of Macau (UM) is the only public comprehensive university in Macao. Leveraging this unique advantage, UM aims to establish itself as a world-class university with regional characteristics. English is its working language. In recent years, UM has seen a significant development in and a rising international recognition for its teaching, research, and community service. It has implemented a unique '4-in-1' education model that integrates discipline-specific education, general education, research and internship education, and community and peer education. Combining this model with the largest residential college system in Asia, UM provides all-round education to students. In addition, it recruits outstanding scholars from around the world to create a multilingual and multicultural learning environment for students. With the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the new initiatives of the university to boost cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary programmes, UM embraces unprecedented opportunities for development, and offers bright career prospect to professionals in different areas.
The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for the position of Chair/Distinguished/Full Professor in the following two disciplines:
CCHC is affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of UM. By integrating resources and expertise available from multiple departments across the campus, CCHC strives to strengthen teaching and research on Chinese history and culture, disseminate the knowledge of Chinese history and culture in Portuguese-speaking countries, bolster the influence of Chinese civilization, and improve the understanding of and identification with Chinese civilization among the residents of Macao. More details about the Centre are available from https://cchc.fah.um.edu.mo/.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Chinese history, Chinese culture, and/or related subjects. The ideal applicant will have corresponding university teaching experience, research output, academic leadership experience, and international scholarly influence appropriate to the specific rank and position; possess excellent communication and organizational skills; and be committed to the study of Chinese history and culture, as well as its promotion and development. Knowledge of spoken and written English will be an advantage. The applicant may focus variously on ideological, cultural, social or artistic research.
The selected candidate is expected to assume duty not later than January 2020.
A taxable annual remuneration starting from MOP1,170,400 (approximately USD144,490) and appointment rank offered will be competitive and commensurate with the successful applicants' academic qualification, current position and professional experience of the corresponding position. The current local maximum income tax rate is 12% but is effectively around 5%-7% after various discretionary exemptions. Apart from competitive remuneration, UM offers a wide range of benefits, such as medical insurance, provident fund, on campus accommodation/housing allowance and other subsidies. Further details on our package are available at: https://www.um.edu.mo/admo/vacancy_faq/. For the very distinguished candidates, the university can appoint the endowed professorship for the related positions.
Applicants should visit https://career.admo.um.edu.mo/ for more details, and apply ONLINE. Review of applications will commence upon submission and continue until the position is filled. Applicants may consider their applications not successful if they are not invited for an interview within 3 months of application.
Office of the Vice Rector (Academic Affairs)
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Zito LLC Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Two of Cal Ripken, Jr.'s Companies, CRJ, Inc., and Ripken Baseball Camps and Clinics LLC
Swampscott, MA, June 26, 2017 –(PR.com)– Zito LLC announced that it filed suit for patent infringement in the District of Maryland against two of Cal Ripken, Jr.'s companies, CRJ, Inc. and Ripken Baseball Camps and Clinics LLC, case No. 1:17-cv-1733.
Plaintiff Zito LLC is the owner and assignee of all substantial rights, title and interest to U.S. Patent No. 7,398,921 ("the 921 Patent") and U.S. Patent No. 9,443,369 ("the 369 Patent"), and patents pending, which derive from the 921 Patent issued to Arthur Zito Jr. by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on July 15, 2008.
Arthur Zito, owner and CEO of Zito LLC, explains: "Each of these patents, titled 'User-Specific Dispensing System,' I would describe in a non-limiting way to be the first customized dispensing system based on user characteristics such as age, gender, demographics, legal authority or role that a user has within a group. The patents cover customized vending machines and sports ball dispensers such as baseball pitching machines that adjust the dispensation based on the user, among other applications."
The lawsuit alleges CRJ, Inc. and Ripken Baseball Camps and Clinics LLC used a Fungoman® FM-250 Automated Baseball Practice Machine as part of its business in its baseball camps, clinics, and skills training seminars in a way that infringes one or more claims of the Zito patents.
Zito alleges in its Complaint that CRJ, Inc. and Ripken Baseball Camps and Clinics LLC derive millions of dollars in annual revenue from participants and sponsorships with its baseball camps, clinics, and skills training seminars by using the Fungoman® machine that directly infringes Zito's patents.
The complaint alleges that the Defendants have known of the Zito patents since at least March 10, 2014, when Arthur J. Zito, Jr., managing member of Plaintiff Zito LLC, provided his signed employment agreement to Defendants, listing the 921 patent and the published application for the 369 patent.
Mr. Zito alleges CRJ, Inc. and Ripken Baseball Camps and Clinics LLC have no license rights to the 921 and 369 Patents.
Mr. Zito filed his application for the 921 Patent in 2004, and has several additional patents that cover similar innovative technology. He says: "My patents for a User-Specific Dispensing System represent the first technology for customized vending that dispense items, services, or more, including how an item is dispensed based on user characteristics, such as demographics and other user-specific information. Mr. Ripken's two companies are willfully infringing my patents. I have tried everything possible to invite Mr. Ripken's two companies to do the right thing and develop a business relationship associated with my intellectual property. Unfortunately, those efforts have not worked, and they have left my company little choice but to protect its patent rights and file suit against Mr. Ripken's two companies."
Zito LLC is represented by Peter Corcoran of Corcoran IP Law PLLC and Jan Berlage of Gohn Hankey Stichel & Berlage LLP.
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Plant a Tree for Terry
Terry Riggs
Terry Riggs, 67, of Dyersburg, Tennessee died on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee.
Born Saturday, December 18, 1954 in Dyersburg, Tennessee, he was the son of the late John Franklin Riggs and the late Margie Douglas Riggs. Mr. Riggs was the maintenance supervisor for Tucker Properties, LLC. He loved old tractors and being a "Shade Tree Mechanic."
Visitation for Mr. Riggs will be held from 12:00 until 2:00 on Monday, December 27, 2021 at Johnson-Williams Funeral Home.
He leaves to cherish his memory, one daughter, Kim Goff of Dyersburg, Tennessee: one step-daughter, Brittany Putman (Zack) of Dyersburg, Tennessee; two brothers, Bo Riggs (Carol) of Newbern, Tennessee and Pete Riggs (Sonja) of Dyersburg, Tennessee; three sisters, Lou Criswell (Billy) of Newbern, Tennessee, Carliss DeLosh (Ronnie) of Dyersburg, Tennessee and Lisa Collier (Latham) of Newbern, Tennessee; he was "Grand-Daddy" to his two grandsons, Matthew Goff (Emily) and Nathanial Goff(Katrina) of Dyersburg, Tennessee; two step-grandchildren, Oliva and Mya; one great-granddaughter, Clover Goff.
In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his companion of many years, Betty Adkins: half-sister, Gloria Myers; half-brother, Gilbert Douglas and his son-in-law, Robert Goff.
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The Thought Dial
By Paul Vitols
When sixteen-year-old John Pulkis loses the concert tickets that were to give him the courage he needs to ask Sue Nielsen for a date, he considers desperate remedies.
Loosely based on real-life events in Vancouver in 1975 and dedicated to the memory of an inspiring high-school teacher, The Thought Dial is a reminder that teenage life can be passionate—and the stakes can be high. More
Sixteen-year-old John Pulkis faces disaster: he's got two tickets to the Doobie Brothers concert at the Vancouver Coliseum in eight days—and he's lost them! It's not about the money, although that was plenty—fourteen dollars, a month's allowance. No, he needs those tickets, for only they will give him the courage to do what he otherwise cannot: ask Sue Nielsen for a date.
As a would-be astronomer, he decides to apply the scientific method: a systematic search, complete with graph paper. But as the tickets continue to elude him, his thoughts turn dark. He starts to wonder what the options are for cowards like himself, and remembers his socials teacher talking to the class about suicide. . . .
Loosely based on real-life events in Vancouver in 1975 and dedicated to the memory of an inspiring high-school teacher, The Thought Dial is a reminder that teenage life can be passionate—and the stakes can be high.
Available ebook formats: epub
Category: Fiction » Coming of age
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About Paul Vitols
Paul Vitols ("Vee-tolls"--Latvian for "willow") was born in 1959 in Vancouver, Canada, to two refugees who met at an encyclopedia salesmen's Christmas dinner.
He showed an early obsession with letters and words, which manifested in, among other things, the defacing of some of his father's books. In school he turned to filmmaking, and competed in provincial and national student film festivals. Nonetheless, the career he imagined for himself was in space science. But by age 20 he realized that, for better or worse, he was a writer, and he dropped out of university.
Paul's love of film led him into script-writing, and in 1992 he, with writing partner Warren Easton, broke through with a children's TV series called "The Odyssey," about a comatose 11-year-old boy trapped in an alternative world run by children as a police state. The show, known for its edge and humor, received many international awards and was broadcast in more than 50 countries.
At the same time, Paul was also at work on a novel, a literary thriller called "Truth of the Python," in which a hypnotherapist inadvertently regresses a neurotic young client to a past life as the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. Paul, after some close calls in the world of print publishing, finally brought it out as an e-book in 2011.
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For the first quarter of 2013, comScore's MobiLens service found Apple's iPhone to have kept its spot at the top of America's smartphone user market, which now stands at 136.7 million people.
Apple's handset grew its share of the market by 2.7 percent, moving from 36.3 percent to 39 percent over the three month period ending in March. The jump was the largest seen of the top five OEMs, and represented the only growth in brand marketshare besides Samsung.
The Korean company posted market growth of 0.7 percent, from 21 percent to 21.7 percent, to retain its position behind Apple. Samsung's share of the market is over two times that of number three HTC, which lost ground during the first quarter, falling from a 10.2 percent share to 9 percent, a drop of 1.2 points.
The fairly large hit to HTC's U.S. marketshare allowed fourth and fifth place Motorola and LG to slowly sneak up on the faltering Taiwanese phone maker. While still putting up losses, Motorola managed to keep an 8.5 percent share of the market, falling 0.6 percent. LG's piece of the pie went from 7.1 percent to 6.8 percent during the quarter.
As Apple's line of iPhones only run iOS, the mobile operating system also enjoyed a 2.7 bump and was the only OS to see growth in the March quarter. Google's Android platform was still on over half of all UY.S. smartphones, but its share dipped 1.4 percent over the three month period, going from 53.4 percent to 52 percent.
Number three BlackBerry shed 1.2 percent to move from 6.4 percent to 5.2 percent, while Microsoft's Windows Phone put up slight growth of 0.1 percent to end the quarter with 3 percent of the market. Symbian rounded out the top five and dropped its marketshare from 0.6 percent to 0.5 percent.
American smartphone users now make up 58 percent of the entire mobile market, a figure up 9 percent since December. With carriers offering deep subsidies and aggressive pricing, that number will most likely continue to grow for the foreseeable future as Internet-connected handsets quickly take over so-called feature phones.
lol, no. They can't have their marketshare increasing! The Android Horde will never die! Just look at all the numbers we type out every quarter! They're big numbers! Since they're bigger than Apple's sales, that means winning!
It's no wonder these bozos don't report their volumes shipped: the ASP must be too embarrassing to reveal. And no wonder that the iPhone outperforms these low-ends on just about every other metric that is measured out there.
"The Korean company posted market growth of 0.7 percent, from 21 percent to 20.7 percent"
They need to run a spellchecker on their numbers.
Ha Ha Ha... This poll says Apple is winning and the next one will say Apple is DOOMED!!
We need to do a poll of the polls and see that Apple is winning more than it's doomed.
you guys are so retarded (sometimes).
Would you be that surprise if samsung sells more S4 in the next quarter than Apple sells iphone 5? That's samsung alone.
People want and like bigger screens.
I know you have an agenda, but how telling a bald-faced lie is a bit much.
That 0.1% represents about half a million US citizens. Seems there is some numeracy problems here.
I hate to bust your nuts dude, but the column header mentions « Point change »... So you're reading it wrong.
But I made the same mistake myself, so we must be confused with all those different charts coming from different market research firms, reporters and analyst.
People want a smaller phone so it's lighter and more comfortable to carry, yet they want a bigger screen when they actually use it, right?
I wonder what happens to Android as manufacturers become more comfortable with customizing a platform on their own? As Samsung, Blackberry, and Microsoft are starting to demonstrate. Google is losing any advantage they initially had in Android being associated with their brand and the concept of "freedom of choice".
Apple maybe knows what they're talking about when they talk about controlling both the software hardware experience?
Watch the analysts downgrade AAPL as they will rationalize AAPL has peaked (yet again).
"The most successful by far is Firefox. Chrome is a rounding error to date. Safari is a rounding error to date." - Steve Ballmer.
That's a stupid article, as shown in some posts.
Every new OEM flagship is bigger than 4.5. It's somewhat recent, and already accounts for more than 10%.
If Apple really wants iOS dominance (if), they must release another iPhone line with a bigger screen.
Heck, I am on your side with this one.
The latest iPhone size seems good to me - both "on the hand and at the ear".
An iPad mini with phone capabilities is a middle ground for those who want more screen size & telecoms.
Full iPad and telecoms (with speakerphone for conference capabilities).
One your wife can actually hold in her hand.
Something in between for those who are still unsure.
There's enough waste already without producing every "0.01" screen size variation that everyone might conceivable desire.
From a usability perspective, a phone is a device that "by definition" you can easily hold in one hand to talk. Sure you may also be able to do more (surf, read etc), but as the interaction requirements between human and device expand, you are probably going to need more screen/interaction estate.
As I say above - a phone is a phone - and it makes UX sense to keep it so as far as possible. As interaction requirements increase, so does the screen size - the less it becomes a phone, the more it becomes a pad/laptop.
Yes, it will pre pretty funny when the iPhone is reduced to a rounding error also as it has been in places like Spain. With iOS's plunging market share I would not be so glib about other operating systems with small market shares.
Don't be stupid. iOS still is the strongest platform, by far. Even if it loses the title of "strongest", it doesn't mean that Android will be better. See Mac vs PC, as an example.
Is Apple capable of going from "better" to "dominant"? They need a bigger screen for that. They need to be more aggressive for that, even on marketing. As Samsung shows, more than half of smartphone buyers are as dumb as rocks. Ads work on them.
March 2013 - Microsoft has 3% of 136.7 million or 4.1 million.
3 months prior Microsoft has 2.9% of 125.9 millions users or 3.651 million users.
In the last 3 months - there has been an addition of 10.8 million new smartphone users and 3% of this new group is 324,000.


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package collector

import (
	"context"
	"database/sql"
	"regexp"
	"strconv"
	"strings"

	"github.com/go-kit/log"
	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
)

const (
	// Scrape query.
	globalStatusQuery = `SHOW GLOBAL STATUS`
	// Subsystem.
	globalStatus = "global_status"
)

// Regexp to match various groups of status vars.
var globalStatusRE = regexp.MustCompile(`^(com|handler|connection_errors|innodb_buffer_pool_pages|innodb_rows|performance_schema)_(.*)$`)

// Metric descriptors.
var (
	globalCommandsDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "commands_total"),
		"Total number of executed MySQL commands.",
		[]string{"command"}, nil,
	)
	globalHandlerDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "handlers_total"),
		"Total number of executed MySQL handlers.",
		[]string{"handler"}, nil,
	)
	globalConnectionErrorsDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "connection_errors_total"),
		"Total number of MySQL connection errors.",
		[]string{"error"}, nil,
	)
	globalBufferPoolPagesDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "buffer_pool_pages"),
		"Innodb buffer pool pages by state.",
		[]string{"state"}, nil,
	)
	globalBufferPoolDirtyPagesDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "buffer_pool_dirty_pages"),
		"Innodb buffer pool dirty pages.",
		[]string{}, nil,
	)
	globalBufferPoolPageChangesDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "buffer_pool_page_changes_total"),
		"Innodb buffer pool page state changes.",
		[]string{"operation"}, nil,
	)
	globalInnoDBRowOpsDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "innodb_row_ops_total"),
		"Total number of MySQL InnoDB row operations.",
		[]string{"operation"}, nil,
	)
	globalPerformanceSchemaLostDesc = prometheus.NewDesc(
		prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, globalStatus, "performance_schema_lost_total"),
		"Total number of MySQL instrumentations that could not be loaded or created due to memory constraints.",
		[]string{"instrumentation"}, nil,
	)
)

// ScrapeGlobalStatus collects from `SHOW GLOBAL STATUS`.
type ScrapeGlobalStatus struct{}

// Name of the Scraper. Should be unique.
func (ScrapeGlobalStatus) Name() string {
	return globalStatus
}

// Help describes the role of the Scraper.
func (ScrapeGlobalStatus) Help() string {
	return "Collect from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS"
}

// Version of MySQL from which scraper is available.
func (ScrapeGlobalStatus) Version() float64 {
	return 5.1
}

// Scrape collects data from database connection and sends it over channel as prometheus metric.
func (ScrapeGlobalStatus) Scrape(ctx context.Context, db *sql.DB, ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, logger log.Logger) error {
	globalStatusRows, err := db.QueryContext(ctx, globalStatusQuery)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer globalStatusRows.Close()

	var key string
	var val sql.RawBytes
	var textItems = map[string]string{
		"wsrep_local_state_uuid":   "",
		"wsrep_cluster_state_uuid": "",
		"wsrep_provider_version":   "",
		"wsrep_evs_repl_latency":   "",
	}

	for globalStatusRows.Next() {
		if err := globalStatusRows.Scan(&key, &val); err != nil {
			return err
		}
		if floatVal, ok := parseStatus(val); ok { // Unparsable values are silently skipped.
			key = validPrometheusName(key)
			match := globalStatusRE.FindStringSubmatch(key)
			if match == nil {
				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
					newDesc(globalStatus, key, "Generic metric from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS."),
					prometheus.UntypedValue,
					floatVal,
				)
				continue
			}
			switch match[1] {
			case "com":
				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
					globalCommandsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, floatVal, match[2],
				)
			case "handler":
				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
					globalHandlerDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, floatVal, match[2],
				)
			case "connection_errors":
				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
					globalConnectionErrorsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, floatVal, match[2],
				)
			case "innodb_buffer_pool_pages":
				switch match[2] {
				case "data", "free", "misc", "old":
					ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
						globalBufferPoolPagesDesc, prometheus.GaugeValue, floatVal, match[2],
					)
				case "dirty":
					ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
						globalBufferPoolDirtyPagesDesc, prometheus.GaugeValue, floatVal,
					)
				case "total":
					continue
				default:
					ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
						globalBufferPoolPageChangesDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, floatVal, match[2],
					)
				}
			case "innodb_rows":
				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
					globalInnoDBRowOpsDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, floatVal, match[2],
				)
			case "performance_schema":
				ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
					globalPerformanceSchemaLostDesc, prometheus.CounterValue, floatVal, match[2],
				)
			}
		} else if _, ok := textItems[key]; ok {
			textItems[key] = string(val)
		}
	}

	// mysql_galera_variables_info metric.
	if textItems["wsrep_local_state_uuid"] != "" {
		ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(
			prometheus.NewDesc(prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, "galera", "status_info"), "PXC/Galera status information.",
				[]string{"wsrep_local_state_uuid", "wsrep_cluster_state_uuid", "wsrep_provider_version"}, nil),
			prometheus.GaugeValue, 1, textItems["wsrep_local_state_uuid"], textItems["wsrep_cluster_state_uuid"], textItems["wsrep_provider_version"],
		)
	}

	// mysql_galera_evs_repl_latency
	if textItems["wsrep_evs_repl_latency"] != "" {

		type evsValue struct {
			name  string
			value float64
			index int
			help  string
		}

		evsMap := []evsValue{
			evsValue{name: "min_seconds", value: 0, index: 0, help: "PXC/Galera group communication latency. Min value."},
			evsValue{name: "avg_seconds", value: 0, index: 1, help: "PXC/Galera group communication latency. Avg value."},
			evsValue{name: "max_seconds", value: 0, index: 2, help: "PXC/Galera group communication latency. Max value."},
			evsValue{name: "stdev", value: 0, index: 3, help: "PXC/Galera group communication latency. Standard Deviation."},
			evsValue{name: "sample_size", value: 0, index: 4, help: "PXC/Galera group communication latency. Sample Size."},
		}

		evsParsingSuccess := true
		values := strings.Split(textItems["wsrep_evs_repl_latency"], "/")

		if len(evsMap) == len(values) {
			for i, v := range evsMap {
				evsMap[i].value, err = strconv.ParseFloat(values[v.index], 64)
				if err != nil {
					evsParsingSuccess = false
				}
			}

			if evsParsingSuccess {
				for _, v := range evsMap {
					key := prometheus.BuildFQName(namespace, "galera_evs_repl_latency", v.name)
					desc := prometheus.NewDesc(key, v.help, []string{}, nil)
					ch <- prometheus.MustNewConstMetric(desc, prometheus.GaugeValue, v.value)
				}
			}
		}
	}

	return nil
}

// check interface
var _ Scraper = ScrapeGlobalStatus{}


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5 Melancholic Books to Read on Rainy Days
Geeky AdventuresLIFESTYLE onAugust 15, 2016 146Views 0Likes 1Comment
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Rainy days are just the perfect time to cuddle up and read. The best reads that suit this gloomy atmosphere are melancholic books. Maybe its the combination of the cold, lazy weather and the dark, hazy sky. But those books always give this weird heavy satisfaction after closing it on weathers just like now. Get your comforter and hot chocolate ready, unveiling the melancholic books to read on rainy days.
By Jay Asher
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.
Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.
I love how you try to see both Clay's and Hannah's emotions with this book. Through Clay, we find ourselves wishing for more insight about Hannah's decisions. Not only is this one of my most melancholic books, it's also a heavy read. Be warned for a lot of triggers present in this novel. Thirteen Reasons Why contains in depth talk about suicide, depression, along with other heavier issues.
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister
By Gregory Maguire
We have all heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty … and what curses accompanied Cinderella's looks?
Set against the backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland,Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household — and the treacherous truth of her former life.
A fantastical novel, for sure. We see the world in the eyes of one of Cinderella's ugly step-sister, and do we see it differently. Not only part of the melancholic books, it's also a fantasy read I'd definitely recommend. Gregory Maguire paces his stories slowly. Prepare to be dragged along the read a bit, but with the words and plot so worth it.
By John Green
Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
My favorite book of John Green. It's the type of book that you can't put down because you need to know what happened. I love how his characters here interacted with each other because it felt real. They have thoughts that aren't necessarily relevant nor good, but thoughts that would cross your mind if you were in their position.
As Simple As Snow
By Gregory Galloway
A mesmerizing labyrinth of art, magic, cryptic codes, and young love that sparks the imagination and teases the mind-an arresting first novel about a young man's quest to unravel the puzzle his missing girlfriend may (or may not) have left behind.
Anastasia (Anna) Cayne is a complicated high school girl with a penchant for riddles and affectionate mind games, who spends much of her time writing obituaries for every living person in town. She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known, and her energy and enthusiasm explode his quiet universe, revealing a world of Houdini tricks, strange art, covert messages, and ghost stories-although her past remains an even bigger enigma. Even so, he couldn't be happier.
But a week before Valentine's Day, Anna disappears, leaving behind nothing except a dress placed neatly near a hole in the frozen river, and a string of unanswered questions.
Determined to find Anna-to comprehend what happened, and why-he begins to retrace their past five months together. Soon the fragments of events, conversations, and letters (and new messages that continue to arrive) coalesce into haunting and surprising revelations about friends, about family, and especially, about Anna Cayne. And perhaps these revelations will solve the puzzle of Anna's disappearance, whether it was her own invention, or is simply another of life's great mysteries.
Amazingly, I recently found out that this book is John Green's inspiration for Looking for Alaska. How amazing is that? I read this years and years ago and I absolutely love it. One of my favorite books, not just melancholic books favorite, but actually, all the books I've read and this is still on top favorite. Considering how many books I've read, its pretty amazing.
Veronika Decides to Die
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.
Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.
The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.
Another heavy read, but this has a lighter side, come to think of it. The first parts are unbearably heavy but it gets a bit lighter as you go along. A great read and I love the end. One of those that makes you rethink your mindset and life.
I love reading and rainy days just makes me want to curl up with a good book. Add tea or coffee with that and I'm set for the whole day. My absolute fave and would love for you guys to read is As Simple As Snow. I do hope you like this book list!
All synopsis and book photos from Goodreads.com
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