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Q: Group bar plot together Pandas plot I am new with Python plotting, and I am trying to group bars together using a pandas dataframe.
my input csv looks like this-- (test.csv)
noc,matrix,perf
jump4,dw,7.5
jump4,t2d,7.7
mesh,dw,2
mesh,t2d,4

and python plotting script is--
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
import numpy as np

df = pd.read_csv("test.csv", sep=",")
pp = PdfPages('rtl_sim_perf.pdf')

# gca stands for 'get current axis'
rc = {"axes.spines.top"    : False,
      "axes.spines.right"  : False,
      "axes.edgecolor"     : "black"}
plt.style.use(("ggplot", rc))
ax = plt.gca()

df.plot(x='matrix', y=['perf','noc'], ax=ax,kind='bar', edgecolor='k')
plt.xticks(fontsize=5,rotation=0)
plt.yticks(fontsize=5)
plt.legend(fontsize=7)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig(pp, format='pdf')
pp.close()

and I get this result

What I want is to group bars based on matrix column, so that dw are together for different noc and t2d together for different noc. And the legend shows me noc type. I am not sure how to do this.

A: IIUC, do you want?
df.set_index(['matrix','noc'])['perf'].unstack().plot.bar()

Output:

You can achieve this by reshaping your dataframe such that you have 'noc' as columns in your dataframe and using pandas plot.

Another way is using seaborn and you don't have to reshape the dataframe and use the 'hue' parameter.
import seaborn as sns
sns.barplot(x='matrix', y='perf', hue='noc', data=df)

Output:


As a late bloomer as a metalsmith, I'm always searching for classes to attend that will allow me to become better at my chosen craft.
This summer I was very fortunate to attend a hammer making class put on by Gary Hill at his home on Raspberry Island near McGregor Minnesota.
Being new to this blacksmithing world, I didn't know that I had just hit the lottery and was going to a class taught by a Rock-Star in the blacksmith community.
I arrived the night before the class with my friend Douglas Swenson. Doug is a very accomplished smith with 50 years experience. Doug and I discussed what type of hammer we were going to make in the class. Since the hammer class was about forging a wrought iron hammer, Doug and I decided to make a Mastermyr hammer.
I patterned my wrought iron hammer after one of the hammers found in the Mastermyr Tool Chest found in Gotland Sweden. The chest contained the tools of a Viking craftsman from approximately 1100 years ago.
Tom Latane's hammer making class was incredible. I was overwhelmed and humbled by what I didn't know and surprised of what I was capable of accomplishing using the same techniques and processes of Viking age smiths. It took me three attempts to get the 1075 steel forge welded onto both striking faces of the hammer.
Before heat treating the hammer, you can clearly see the difference between the wrought iron and the darker 1075 steel that has been forge welded together.
I have a much greater appreciation for how valuable iron tools had to have been during the Viking era.
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Ivory Coast Calm After Peace Appeal
AUSTIN MERRILL
Ivory Coast's rebels, who threatened to resume fighting Monday, answered a personal appeal by West African leaders to keep their guns silent and give negotiations a chance to end the five-month civil war, a mediator said.
Rebels had given Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo until midnight Sunday to implement a Jan. 24 power-sharing accord _ or face new attacks.
Insurgent leaders, who toured West African capitals seeking support, agreed Sunday to let the midnight deadline expire with no new attacks.
On Monday, they assured Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja that "the message had indeed been passed on to their military commanders back in Ivory Coast," said Ralph Uwechue, envoy for the regional Economic Community of West African States.
Obasanjo, in talks Sunday and Monday, had asked rebels "to utilize dialogue and negotiations to return the country to peace and stability," Uwechue said.
Rebels could not be reached for comment, but no fighting was reported Monday.
As the Sunday deadline approached, rebel fighters were ordered back to their bases to prepare for more of the hostilities that have crippled the once-stable Ivory Coast, the region's economic powerhouse and the world's largest cocoa producer.
Threats of resumed fighting came after the peace accord, which called for a coalition government, fell apart over rebel claims they were promised control of the country's key interior and defense ministries.
Gbagbo later said he respected the "spirit" of the accord but insisted he would have final say over Cabinet choices.
About 1,000 protesters _ mostly youths _ gathered in the center of Bouake, Ivory Coast's second-largest city and a rebel stronghold, to denounce Gbagbo and offer support for the rebels.
A letter also was presented to French forces asking them to withdraw from cease-fire lines "to permit the advance of the liberating (rebel) forces," protest organizer Morel Kome said.
France has more than 3,000 troops in its former colony to protect foreigners and uphold cease-fires.
Rebels seek to oust Gbagbo, whom they accuse of stoking ethnic and regional divisions in the nation of 16 million people. Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 1 million have been displaced by the war, which erupted Sept. 19 after a failed coup attempt.
Rebel leaders were headed for Burkina Faso later Monday.

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With just under two weeks left in 2017, there is still enough time to reflect on the year, evaluate your financial situation, and be sure that you are off to a good start in 2018.
Let's take a look at 10 smart financial moves you can still do in 2017 that will reduce your tax liability and save you money.
The contribution limit for 2017 is $18,000, plus an additional $6,000 for individuals older than age 50. All contributions to your traditional 401(k) plan are tax deductible, meaning a lower tax bill. In addition to that, be sure to get the maximum match from your employer. You don't want to leave that money on the table.
As with a 401 (k) plan, contributions to a Traditional IRA are tax deductible. The maximum contribution limit for 2017 is $5,500, plus an additional $1,000 for individuals age 50 or older.
A 529 account has an annual contribution limit of either $14,000 per year or $70,000 for a lump-sum contribution that will cover a 5-year period (technically, there is no contribution limit for a 529 account, but if you contribute above $14,000, it will trigger a negative gift tax consequences). There are no deductions on your federal tax income for contributions to a 529 plan. However, depending on which state sponsors the plan, you may be able to deduct contributions to a 529 plan on your state tax income.
To be able to contribute to an HSA, you must be enrolled in a High Deductible Health Plan. All contributions to an HSA are tax deductible and have relatively high limits. For example, in 2017, contribution limits are $3,400 per individual, plus an additional $1,000 for individuals age 55 or older. In some cases, you can even contribute to both an FSA and an HSA in one year.
By law, mutual funds are required to pass profits from its operation back to investors. All distributions usually happen at the end of fourth quarter and as a result, bad timing can generate an unwanted tax liability. Before you purchase shares of a mutual fund, make sure that all of the profits have already been paid out. Another thing that could help you decide which mutual fund to purchase is the turnover ratio. The higher the turnover ratio, the more transactions a mutual fund does (buys and sells stocks or bonds) which passes more profits on to you. In general, you are better off with a mutual fund that has a low turnover ratio.
If you have a taxable brokerage account and some of your stocks' or bonds' positions are under water, it may be smart to realize losses on those positions and minimize your capital gains tax base. Up to $3,000 of realized capital losses can be used to decrease your ordinary income. If you incur more than $3,000 in losses, the excess can be used to offset capital gains in future years.
At the end of the year you may be tempted to pocket some of the profit you have and spend it on your family. While the desire is great, the tax consequences of such actions can frustrate your efforts. To minimize your tax liability, make sure that you can offset your gains with your losses. This can only be done if your losses exceed your gains. If so, there won't be any tax base. However, if your gains exceed your losses you need to understand the classification of your gains. Are they short-term (holding period of less than one year) or long-term (holding period of longer than one year)? Short-term gains are taxed at your ordinary income rates (up to 39.6% tax rate). Long-term gains are taxed at either 0%, 15%, or 20% (depending on your income). If possible, postpone taking profits on short-term positions into next year when the tax classification changes to long-term.
If you haven't done so, now is the best time. Support a cause you care about by making a gift before year end and get a tax break. However, be smart with how you do it. For example, if you want to donate cash by selling appreciated stocks, don't do that. You will have to pay capital gain taxes. A better way is to donate stocks directly.
Whether you are a small business owner who expects to be paid for a job done at the end of the year or an employee expecting a year-end bonus, defer this income into next year if possible. This would reduce your 2017 tax base and can even prevent you from being pushed into a higher tax bracket.
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This was an assignment from Racer X magazine to cover Stefan Everts' record 10th motocross world championship and to collaborate with writer Matt Allard. Shot over two days in 2006 at the famous Namur circuit in Wallonie, Belgium where Everts successfully won the championship by going 1-1. Huge crowds followed him everywhere and he was under great pressure to wrap up the title in his home country. The printed story was 8 pages.


Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course of his career, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (technically, the prize was awarded for the Institut du Monde Arabe which Nouvel designed), the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2005 and the Pritzker Prize in 2008. A number of museums and architectural centres have presented retrospectives of his work.
Nouvel was born August 12, 1945, in Fumel , Lot-et-Garonne , France , the son of Renée and Roger Nouvel who were teachers. His family moved often when his father became the county's chief school superintendent. His parents encouraged Nouvel to study mathematics and language, but when he was 16 years old he was captivated by art when a teacher taught him drawing. Although he later said he thought that his parents were guiding him to pursue a career in education or engineering, the family reached a compromise that he could study architecture which they thought was less risky than art.
When Nouvel failed an entrance examination at the École des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux , he moved to Paris where he won first prize in a national competition to attend the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts . From 1967 to 1970, Nouvel earned his income as an assistant to architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, who after only one year, made him a project manager in charge of building a large apartment complex.
Nouvel and filmmaker Odile Fillion married and have two sons, Bertrand, who is a post-doctorate computer scientist working at the University of Chiba in Japan, and Pierre, who is a theater producer and designer at his company, Factoid. With his second wife Catherine Richard, Nouvel has a daughter, Sarah. He lives now with Mia Hägg, who is a Swedish architect working at her practice Habiter Autrement (HA) in Paris.
By age 25, Nouvel completed school and entered into his own partnership with François Seigneur. Parent sent them work, and gave Nouvel a valuable recommendation to the directorship of the seventh edition of the Biennale de Paris where for fifteen years, Nouvel designed exhibits and made contacts in the arts and theater. Soon into his career, Nouvel became a key participant in intellectual debates about architecture in France: he co-founded the Mars 1976 movement in 1976 and, a year later, the Syndicat de l'Architecture. Nouvel was one of the organizers of the competition for the rejuvenation of the Les Halles district (1977) and he founded the first Paris architecture biennale in 1980.
In 1981, Nouvel won the design competition for the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) building in Paris, whose construction was completed in 1987 and brought Nouvel international fame. Mechanical lenses reminiscent of Arabic latticework in its south wall open and shut automatically, controlling interior lighting as the lenses' photoelectric cells respond to exterior light levels.
Nouvel had three different partners between 1972 and 1984: Gilbert Lezenes, Jean-François Guyot, and Pierre Soria. In 1985 with his junior architects Emmanuel Blamont, Jean-Marc Ibos and Mirto Vitart, he founded Jean Nouvel et Associés. Then, with Emmanuel Gattani, he formed JNEC in 1988. Ateliers Jean Nouvel, his present practice, was formed in 1994 with Michel Pélissié and is one of the largest in France, with 140 people in the main office in Paris. Ateliers Jean Nouvel site offices are in London, Copenhagen, New York, Rome, Madrid and Barcelona. As of 2008, they are working on 40 active projects in 13 countries. Nouvel designed a flacon for L'Homme, an Yves Saint Laurent fragrance, in a limited edition launched in 2008.
Nouvel was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2008, for his work on more than 200 projects, among them, in the words of The New York Times, the "exotically louvered" Arab World Institute , the bullet-shaped and "candy-colored" Torre Agbar in Barcelona, the "muscular" Guthrie Theater with its cantilevered bridge in Minneapolis, and in Paris, the "defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric" Musée du quai Branly (2006) and the Philharmonie de Paris (a "trip into the unknown" c. 2012).
Of the many phrases that might be used to describe the career of architect Jean Nouvel, foremost are those that emphasize his courageous pursuit of new ideas and his challenge of accepted norms in order to stretch the boundaries of the field.
[...] The jury acknowledged the 'persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation' as qualities abundant in Nouvel's work.
Nouvel has designed a number of notable buildings across the world, the most significant of which are listed below. As part of the announcement of Nouvel's Pritzker Prize, the Hyatt Foundation, which awards the prize, published a full illustrated list of Nouvel's architectural work, including projects which were never built, projects in construction and designs for which construction has yet to start. In 2001 director Beat Kuert filmed a documentary about five of Nouvel's projects titled Jean Nouvel.
Jean Nouvel is one of the architects involved in the designing of the new Slussen in Stockholm .
On Tuesday 05/27/2008 Nouvel's design won the contest for the upcoming Tour Signal in La Défense .
In February 2008, Nouvel agreed to design a 45-story luxury condo tower in upscale Century City section of Los Angeles, California. The tower will be of modern design -- it is designed to maximize views of the Los Angeles Country Club from the units and is opposed by both homeowners associations in Beverly Hills for the shadows it will cast on many small homes and its next door neighbor, Beverly Hills High School.
In November 2006, Hines commissioned Nouvel to build a new 75-story tower, named the Tour de Verre, next to the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan. The tower will house a hotel, luxury apartments and three floors (2nd, 4th, and 5th) will be used by MoMA to expand its exhibition space. The tower has ignited a controversy in New York City, with many objecting to the tower, and Community Board 5 has rejected the project.
The Centre for Sustainable Development in Le Havre , France. The project includes the construction of a 120 m high tower on a former seaport area. The project is currently on hold because of an important increase in projected costs.
In March 2007, the Louvre announced it would build a Louvre branch in the emirate of Abu Dhabi , on Saadiyat Island. Jean Nouvel was chosen as architect. The museum is expected to be completed by 2012.
In Montpellier the new Hôtel de Ville designed in partnership with François Fontès is under construction and scheduled for completion in 2011.
1989 - The Tour Sans Fins (Office/High-Rise) at La Défense , France , was never realized. Nouvel's winning design, proposed as Europe's tallest building in 1989, was to change ground up from granite, followed by aluminum, stainless steel and finally glass—"increasingly diaphanous before disappearing into the sky".
Nouvel and the buildings which he designed have received a number of distinctions during his career, the most prestigious of which are listed below.
Honorary degrees from the University of Buenos Aires (1983), the Royal College of Art, London (2002) and the University of Naples (2002).
Honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects (1993) and of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1995).
In 1997, Nouvel was named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He first joined the order in 1983. He is also Chevalier de la légion d'honneur.
1989 - Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Institut du Monde Arabe . In 1987, the building also won the Équerre d'Argent awarded yearly to the best building in France.
Brad Pitt (an architecture aficionado) and Angelina Jolie named their first-born child Shiloh Nouvel in homage to Jean Nouvel's work.


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The Security of Illusion is the ninth studio album by Saga, originally released in 1993. The album marks the return of keyboardist Jim Gilmour and drummer Steve Negus, both of whom left the band in 1986 due to management concerns.

Track listing
All lyrics and music written by Saga

Personnel

 Michael Sadler – vocals
 Ian Crichton – guitar
 Jim Gilmour – keyboards, vocals
 Jim Crichton – bass
 Steve Negus –  drums, percussion

Production

 Produced by Saga
 Mixed by Shay Baby
 Recording Engineer (Keyboards) – Steve Negus
 Recording Engineer (Guitars) – Ian Crichton
 Recording Engineer (All other instruments) – Jim Crichton

References

1993 albums
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A subtropical suburban oasis in Wandsworth, south-west London designed to defy the depredations of global warming, garden pests and kids without recourse to carbon emissions, chemicals or cranial damage.
It's really rather rude of me not to have introduced you to my cat. He's a Russian Blue, a breed characterised by their grey fur and green eyes, so naturally we thought it was a frightfully witty, original idea to give him a Russian name. He is called Pushkin, after the great Russian writer and poet, Alexandr Sergeyevich Pushkin. Pushkin, pusskin, geddit? A quick trawl on the internet will show you that practically every other Russian Blue in the world is called Pushkin. So much for witty and original.
The children came up with suggestions of their own. Elvis was one, I seem to recall. However, I thought I might feel a bit of a prat going out into the garden of an evening and shouting: "Elvis!" One has to consider these things.
He has only two bad habits: he likes hiding under cars (as in automobiles) and he has a very loud yowl, like a Siamese. His favourite trick is to run out of the house and disappear under the car just as you're about to drive somewhere. This is nothing to do with not wanting us to go away. He just seems to like winding us up.
Meet Mario and Luigi, our two Abyssinians. You can read all about them here.
This is our last cat, Pushkin, who was a gorgeous Russian Blue.


All our coffee is supplied to us by HasBean, a Staffordshire based roaster. They pride themselves on cutting out the middle man and dealing directly with the coffee farmers, offering them a higher price for their beans and a contract as a dependable buyer.
HasBean offer blended and single estate coffees. Single estate means that the individual farms' beans and varietals are roasted separately and not used as a blend. This creates an exciting and vibrant experience as you drink the coffee and allows the true flavours behind the particular coffee bean to come through.
Working with HasBean we try to offer different coffee selections each month. Our aim is to truly embrace the seasonality of growing coffee, it's more fun for us as we get to taste a lot more and also it gets rid of the commercial consistency that makes life dull.
But people matter too! As much as the coffee is important, you need to know how and what to do with it. We are very passionate about training our baristas properly on brewing, dosing and tasting the coffee to get the maximum pleasure out of drinking it.
And so to tea. We use a range of teas from Jing – in loose leaf and biodegradeable teabags. Jing source whole leaf teas from some of the world's finest producers in bright and vivid flavours. From Assam Breakfast to Whole Peppermint, each tea is an authentic and definitive example of its type and guaranteed to make your day just that little bit better.
For further information, please call in to our Woodstock bakery shop & café where you will find a relaxed atmosphere and a friendly team who will be happy to share more of their knowledge over a cup of whatever you choose.


Whenever the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) lists a school you can be sure these institutes offer medical assistant programs that are needed in order to take the CMA Certification test; the National American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) Exam. Below you can see the eight schools in Oregon that offer accredited medical assistant programs. Click on a school name to find more information on the medical assistant training offered.
While you bring these medical assistant school factors into consideration, it's usually useful to talk with current college students as well as graduates of the CMA schools of curiosity. Also, questioning employers whom have actually employed these students might supply you further information to every program's strong points & weaknesses.


Check the guide to see what's on in the city of Stirling, events and things to do around the area, theatre, cinema, concerts, courses, classes, events.
Days out, family outings, guided tours, places to visit and things to do around Stirling.
One of the most popular visitor attractions in the country, Stirling Castle is the grandest of Scotland's castles. 250 feet above the plain on an extinct volcano, Stirling became the strategic military key to the kingdom during the 13th and 14th century Wars of Independence and was the favourite royal residence of many of the Stuart Monarchs.
The Wallace Monument is on the Abbey Craig, a rocky crag from which William Wallace watched the English army gather before the battle of Stirling Bridge. 220 feet (67m) high, this Victorian Gothic tower was opened in 1869 to commemorate Scotland's greatest freedom fighter.
Commemorating Robert the Bruce's victory at The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Building work is now finished on the brand new state-of-the-art visitor centre with interactive battle centre which can be accessed online.


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Ramaphosa In Charge As Zuma Recovers
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Pretoria, June 10, 2014-South Africa's minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe says President Jacob Zuma has been in regular contact with his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa ahead of the state of a cabinet Lekgotla in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Ramaphosa is chairing the three-day gathering as President Zuma recovers at home after a busy election period. Zuma was discharged after spending the night in hospital over the weekend and he's missing the Lekgotla.
Radebe says the absence of Zuma at the cabinet Lekgotla will not impact on deliberations about key issues that need to be reflected in his State of the Nation Address on Tuesday next week. The Lekgotla will discuss government's plans for the fifth democratic Parliament and Zuma's second term.
Radebe says: "Well the Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is in constant touch with our President. They've met yesterday (Monday). He is improving; the Deputy President was with him last night and this morning. He is resting so that he is ready for the State of the Nation Address on Tuesday the 17th."
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Patriots of Las Vegas MOPH Chapter 711. At our October meeting we discussed many upcoming events and below is a recap. Some are just days away and we may need your RSVP to assist the event planners. If an RSVP is requested – please let us know ASAP whether or not you plan on attending. This is a courtesy for those putting on the events to know how many persons will be attending so they can order food, beverages, tables, chairs, and know who will be assisting, etc. etc.
Nov 10, Thu, 2 pm Atria Seville Senior Living, 2000 N Rampart at Lake Mead Bl.
Ongoing – Spend a few minutes a week or month visiting veterans in Hospice Care.
Oct 14 Veterans Olympics. MOPH Chapter 730 has asked us for help in conducting a fishing tournament on Friday at 9am at Veterans Memorial Park, Boulder City. Please be at the Veterans Home at 7:45 am to get assignments and begin setting up. Please RSVP to Dan Peterson, Commander MOPH Chapter 730, 702-449-4491, dpeterson6525@gmail.com Please also advise Len Yelinek if you will be volunteering.
Oct 15 10am is Opening Ceremony for field events, then award presentations and BBQ. Please be at the Veterans Home by 8 am to set up. Should end around 3 pm. Please RSVP to Dan Peterson, Commander MOPH Chapter 730, 702-449-4491,dpeterson6525@gmail.com Please also advise Len Yelinek if you will be volunteering.
Oct 19 Veterans Health & Wellness Fair (5-6 pm) … and Town Hall (6-7 pm). Representatives from VA Benefits, Enrollment, non-VA care, and patient advocacy will be on hand at Health & Wellness Fair to attend to your individual concerns and needs. The Town Hall will include updates from local VA leadership on improvements and advancements in the delivery of health care and benefits in So NV.
Oct 25 You'll visit and dine with 18 veterans (7 Navy, 3 Air Force & 8 Army) who reside at Heritage Springs Senior Living. No cost for the meal. This is an opportunity to swap stories with these veterans and they will be most appreciative of your spending some time with them. Chapter 730 patriots will also be dining with these veterans so I'll give you an opportunity to meet fellow Purple Heart recipients in So Nevada.
Please RSVP ASAP to Len.
You can receive up to two complimentary tickets for each day of the tournament. Tickets can be claimed from www.ShrinersHospitalsOpen.com or at the admissions trailer the day of the event. The Birdies for the Brave Patriots' Outpost is located on the 9th green and offers complimentary food and beverages Nov 3-6. Great camaraderie opportunity with other MOPH patriots and veterans of all services.
Nov 5 Chapter 711 November meeting. We'll have a presentation on Veteran Suicide Prevention by Richard Egan, Senior Master Sergeant USAF Ret. Richard is the State of Nevada's Suicide Prevention Training and Outreach Facilitator, and will be introduced by Craig Mandeville, our chapter's Suicide Prevention Chairman. We have many items on the agenda, so please attend.
Nov 9 UNLV Bands Musical Tribute to Las Vegas Diabetes Heroes. This is a fundraising event sponsored by the LEAP Alliance and the Lions Club Task Force Against Diabetes. They are inviting MOPH members and families to attend FREE of charge for a marvelous community band (90+ instruments) concert .
Nov 10, Atria Seville is paying Tribute to Purple Heart members and the 23 veterans who reside at the Atria Seville Senior Living Center. Following the tribute ceremony there will be entertainment and Happy Hour beverages from approx. 3 pm to 4 pm. Should be a festive occasion and I encourage everyone to attend and fraternize with the veterans residing at Atria Seville and our fellow patriots from Chapter 730.
Please RSVP ASAP to Len. Atria needs a count ASAP.
Nov 11 Veterans Day Parade, Downtown Las Vegas. Meet up at the Summerlin I-HOP at 7:30 am and we'll carpool to the Parade. Haven't been assigned our spot yet, but we'll form up on Fourth St just west of W. Charleston Blvd. This year patriots from Chapter 730 will join us as we parade town Fourth Street to the old City Hall (now Zappos Hq). Friendly Ford will be providing us some Mustang convertibles thanks to Bill Veal and John Waid, and Bill Olds has arranged to have several JROTC cadets carry our chapter's banners. We'll have final details at our November meeting.
Nov 11 After the parade you might want to head over to the VAMC for a Veterans Day Car Show and free BBQ. There will be entertainment, a Health and Science Fair, Kids Zone and more. Last year more than 2,000 veterans attended this annual event.
Dec 8 and 9 Chapter 711 Fundraiser at Smith's Food King. Thanks to Bill Veal (with assistance by John Waid) in setting up this Viola fundraiser. You'll hear more at our November meeting.
Dec 17 Wreaths Across America at So Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Boulder City. You'll hear more about this at our November meeting.
Ongoing – Janine McDonough Gompers of the Sapphire Foundation for Prostate cancer spoke at our October meeting about prostate cancer and financial assistance available from the Sapphire Foundation. Janine is also an executive with Compassionate Care Hospice and spoke about the loneliness of many veterans in hospice care who will be perked up by visits of veterans. Please, Please call Janine at 702 577-3800-w or 626 552-2283-c if you can spare a few minutes a week or month cheering up hospice veterans. You'll truly feel much better after your visits to these fellas and gals who are confined to 10'x10' drab rooms and rarely get visitors.


A friend of mine, who's an architect involved into sustainable living, once told me about this innovative home: the hobbit house.
Simon Dale built this house using simple tools and natural local sources/material from the land. He built it entirely with the assistance of friends and family. For the cost of £3 000 ($4 650), he now has a lovely, heart-warming home, very low on energy.
Due to climate change and our dependance on fossil fuels, we live in a system only efficient on a short time laps. We cannot turn our backs to this near future where we'll face an ecology crisis. People like Simon Dale bring up realistic solutions, based on our human history while offering a new perspective from our vision in the 21st century.
"I think access to land for people is a key to surviving the threat and the challenges of climate change", says Simon Dale.
"The simplest, sustainable solutions involve small-scale permaculture type land management systems centered around individual or small groups of dwellings" (excerpt from article here).
New projects are flourishing, part of the Lammas project, new houses are being built on Wales' first authorized ecovillage. Photos of their new house.
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Finland participating in key study of greenhouse gases from maritime transport
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The Finnish Meteorological Institute, which falls under the administrative sector of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, is in a consortium which has taken on the task of updating the greenhouse gas emission report of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The aim of the update is to get information that is as detailed and up to date as possible on the real emissions from maritime transport.
The work involves ascertaining the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2007 and 2012 and examining the amounts of emissions of greenhouse gases involving other parts of the structure, such as methane. In addition, emissions of other harmful substances, such as oxides of nitrogen and sulphur, fine particles, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons will also be evaluated in the study.
"Getting into the updating work of the IMO greenhouse gas report is an indication of Finland's high standard of knowledge in the field, of which we can be proud", says Minister of Transport Merja Kyllönen. "Those who were chosen for producing the report all have considerable scientific experience."
In addition to Finland, the consortium working on the report includes research institutes in Canada, China, Great Britain, Japan, The Netherlands and The United States. At the Finnish Meteorological Institute Finland's portion of the work is being directed by Senior Researcher, Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen, PhD.
Related links to this site:
Press release 25.10.2013:Finland participating in key study of greenhouse gases from maritime transport
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Chichoki Hydel Power Station is situated on Upper Chenab Canal (UCC) near Village Joyanwala District Sheikhupura about 20 km both from Sheikhupura and Muridke in Punjab.
The aim of this project was to control the water logging and salinity problems in the area. After commissioning of the Powerhouse a number of tube wells were installed both by Government and locals which has resulted in reclamation of saline portion of the land in District Sheikhupura.


So you made a New Year's resolution to workout more and it's already gone down the drain. The excitement of the New Year has faded and you are finding that the motivation to get into shape is gone. Now what? Don't give up yet! Here are 5 ways to make working out a habit.
Before you starting trying to add exercise into your daily life, ask yourself WHY you are doing this. What is it that is pushing you to work out every day? Is it because you want to be healthy for your children? Do you want to be more confident? Or do you simply want to fit into that old pair of jeans you used to rock? Whatever the reason may be, set your intentions beforehand and keep them in the back of your mind during each and every workout. This will be the fuel that will power you through even the hardest days.
Working out doesn't have to be something you dread everyday. If you are someone who hates running, then don't do it! Find something that YOU enjoy and that you get excited about doing every day. If you love yoga, then sign up for all the yoga classes your heart desires. If you prefer biking, take a spin class or invest in a road or mountain bike of your own. The point is, there are plenty of ways to get exercise while having fun at the same time. Working out will never become a habit if you are trying to force yourself to do something that you hate every day. So, find what makes you sweat and smile at the same time and go for it!
If you work out one day and don't eat any junk food, don't expect to wake up the next day and see amazing results. Becoming a healthier version of yourself is a marathon, not a sprint. Results take time, but if you have patience and trust the process, the results WILL come. Do not lose motivation if after one week of diet and exercise you don't see any major changes in the mirror. Often times, we will notice positive changes in our mental health before we start seeing any physical results. The mirror does not accurately reflect this. Setting unrealistic expectations for yourself will only cause you to lose motivation and give up. So, focus on how you FEEL rather than how you look.
Being strong and independent is great. But sometimes relying solely on ourselves isn't enough. It is important to have at least one person in your life who understands what you are trying to accomplish and will push you to finish even when you want to quit. Find someone who has similar goals as you do and make them your gym buddy. Check in with each other when you complete a workout and keep each other on track with healthy meals. Having someone by your side who can remind you why you started when you want to quit is one of the most important tools to making working out a habit.
Sometimes there is no motivation like a brand-new pair of tennis shoes or a cute new pair of leggings. Treat yourself to new workout clothes that you feel comfortable and confident in. New workout clothes are not only something that will motivate you to go to the gym, but they will also make you feel more confident when you get there.


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Prison…in Space! Mars War Logs Review
By kelseyr713 August 15, 2013 focus home interactive mars war logs Review spiders studio
Mars War Logs is an indie action-RPG from Spiders Studio, which also brought us Of Orcs and Men, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, Faery: Legends of Avalon, Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper, and Gray Matter.
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Mars War Logs takes place on the planet Mars, almost a century after the huge catastrophe that plunged the Red Planet and its colonies into chaos. Water is the most precious resource on the planet, and different corporations are fighting to gain control of it. In the midst of this ruthless struggle, you play Roy Temperance, an adventurer with many talents, and immerse yourself in an intense cyberpunk RPG set on the Red Planet.
This game feels like Mass Effect, even down to a codex, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Gameplay is more Fable-style though, especially in combat. The plot is engaging, especially if you enjoy science fiction (and maybe even a B-movie or two). It does have some surprising elements to it, especially the technomancers (they manipulate electricity using mechanical devices that are attached to them). The opening cutscene drags, and sometimes it feels like you're being told the story instead of playing it. At first, the game leads you to believe that you'll be playing Innocence (a small, skinny character who never wanted to be a soldier), but you're quickly saved by Roy, who you'll play for the rest of the game. Innocence is the narrator of the game and accompanies Roy on his quest. He's also the reason for the title, because he keeps logs of everything that happens to them.
Graphics and Sound
At first, I thought all the character models were going to be the same, but everyone looks similar because it's a prison camp. Models are repetitive, but it's understandable for an indie game of this ambitious scope to cut back somewhere, and it's not terribly distracting. There are enough unique ones for the background guys to not matter. A really annoying choice was to make a cutscene for every time you open a door or climb over/down a barrier – you can skip it with the B button, but I still have no idea how playtesters were not annoyed with this feature.
Voice acting is good – nothing to write home about, but nothing to complain about besides an off delivery here or there (and what game doesn't have that?). Everyone is competent. I do question the casting for Mary, because she sounds much younger than she looks. Subtitles are available, albiet in a strange font (it looks a little childish for an adult game). Dialogue is skippable if you want to.
There are four difficulty levels – easy, medium, hard, and extreme. I played on easy, because combat is pretty much the last reason I play games, but easy was still a challenge even with regenerating health. I don't think easy should have been as difficult as it was – there were far too many battles that I had to replay because of getting beaten up by four enemies at a time. While one battle could be a cakewalk, the next might bring you down. I think there should be a gradual progression of enemy toughness, not random bouts of impossibility. Innocence is basically worthless. He does no damage to enemies that I could see, and he gets in your way sometimes. The camera also makes it difficult to see what you're doing at times, especially for enemies that you have to be behind to fight. My best advice for surviving combat in the game is to not let yourself get surrounded – lure enemies away from the pack.
You can save whenever you want, and there are ten save slots available. The game also autosaves for you, and the checkpoints are in good places. Quests mainly consist of fetching something or collecting something, but there are some fun ones (like figuring out a way for a friendly guard to get sent back home). You can't talk to everyone – some characters are literally only there for set decoration. The map is useful and will be your best friend, because a lot of the scenery looks the same (justified because, hey, you're on Mars, which isn't exactly known for its diverse climate). Without the map, the game would be really, really difficult. It also points out your goals – no compass or golden trail to follow in this game.
Character progression is done well, and you level up fairly quickly. You get both skill and feat points when you level up. The crafting interface is also very nice, and I spent a lot of time honing my weapons and armor to get the best benefits from each. You find crafting items by digging through well-indicated scavenge piles and by looting bodies after you knock enemies out.
Something I didn't like was the morality/reputation system. Some dialogue is not represented well – there were a few times that I said something that I really did not want to say. Another thing that irked me was that the game introduced finishing off enemies (otherwise they will just be unconscious on the ground), but did not warn that there was a negative reputation consequence for this (they are bad guys, after all…so I'm not sure why you get a bad reputation for killing them outright). I don't mind that there is a consequence; I'd just like to know that there is one before I try something that the game tells me to do.
This ambitious indie sci-fi RPG is worth a look if you love the genre, but can be frustrating at times. Be prepared to fight some battles over again, even while playing on easy, and deal with ambiguous situations.
Score: B-
You can get Mars War Logs on Steam, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network. Visit the official site, like the game on Facebook, and follow Focus Home Interactive on Twitter. You can also snag the soundtrack – for FREE – here.
[Disclaimer: A review code was provided for me to review this game.]
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Q: C# folderbrowser dialog problem I have a button that once clicked uses a stremReader to read a text file, and a folderbrowser dialog to save a file. Once I save the file and and click on the button again I get an error saying it cannot find the text file, and it tries to read the the text file from the path where the previous document was saved.
Is there any way I can resolve this problem?
Here is a part of the code:
private void Invoice_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"../../DatabasePath");
        dataBase = sr.ReadLine();

        if (dataBase == null)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Please use this to choose the location of the database.");
            Process.Start(@"..\..\DatabaseChooser.exe");
            ready = false;
        }

        if (!ready)
        {
            while (IsProcessOpen("DatabaseChooser"))
            {
                ready = false;
            }
            ready = true;

            if (ready)
            {
                doIfReady();
            }
        }

        else if (ready)
        {
            doIfReady();
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

private void btnCreateInvoice_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    int SelectColumnIndex = 5;

    foreach (DataGridViewRow row in dataGridViewInvoice.Rows)
    {
        if (row.Cells[SelectColumnIndex].Value != null &&
               Convert.ToBoolean(row.Cells[SelectColumnIndex].Value) == true)
        {
            foreach (DataGridViewCell cell in row.Cells)
            {
                if (cell.OwningColumn.Index != SelectColumnIndex)
                {
                    data += (cell.Value + "          "); // do some thing
                }
            }
            data += System.Environment.NewLine;
            total += (int)row.Cells["TotPrice"].Value;
        }
    }

    MessageBox.Show("Please choose your invoice template", "Template");
    OpenFileDialog op = new OpenFileDialog();
    op.ShowHelp = true;
    op.Filter = "Microsoft Word Documents 97-2003 (*.doc)|*.doc|Microsoft Word 2007 (*.docx)|*.docx";
    if (op.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.Cancel)
    {
        this.Hide();
    }

    MessageBox.Show("Please choose where you want to save the invoice", "Save");
    FolderBrowserDialog fd = new FolderBrowserDialog();
    fd.Description = "Please choose";
    if (fd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.Cancel)
    {
        this.Hide();
    }

    string path = fd.SelectedPath + "\\" + txtFileName.Text + ".doc";

    CreateWordDoc(op.FileName, path);
}

A: First of all you might want to post some code.  Second of all, you should use the SaveFileDialog to save files instead of FolderBrowser.

A: I think you should change this part
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"../../DatabasePath");

using an absolute path.
For example:
string dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

Here dir is main exe dir.
When you use OpenDialog current path could be changed, so you won't find your path again with ../../.
Just another thing: when you use Process.Start(@"..\..\DatabaseChooser.exe"); you wait for your process to be finished: I think you could do better if you create a Process ps and use ps.WaitForExit().

A: I'm assuming you are having trouble with:
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"../../DatabasePath");

Change it to:
File f = new File(@"../../DatabasePath");

Then do a f.GetAbsolutePath to find out where it is actually getting the file.
A few more comments:
if (op.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.Cancel)
{
  this.Hide();
}

If the user hits cancel the code is still going to attempt to run. And try to CreateWordDoc.

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There has been an upsurge of violence in the Palestine-Israel region since October 1st. Settler attacks on Palestinians, which had been running at between 50 and 80 per month, have surged to over 120 attacks in the first week of October. These attacks include firebombings, shootings, burning crops and stoning houses – often under the protection of the army. Israeli army and police have brutally attacked West Bank Palestinian demonstrators, with over 1,300 people injured by live and rubber-coated bullets.
Against this background of widespread colonial violence against Palestinians, condemned by human rights groups like Amnesty International, there have been some especially horrific attacks – the female student, Hadeel al-Hashlamon gunned down at a checkpoint in Hebron for no reason in late September, the 13 year old Abed al-Rahman Obeidallah shot 'by mistake' in a refugee camp, 7 protesters shot dead in Gaza, a mother and child killed in an airstrike. Human rights organisations have said many of the deaths to 'unlawful killings' or 'extrajudicial assassinations'. Palestinians in turn have launched individual attacks on Israelis, mostly in stabbing attacks. To date, at least thirty Palestinians and six Israelis have been killed in October.
The Irish media has barely reported the violence, and when it has, this has largely focused on Israeli deaths and perspectives. Palestinians are blamed for the upsurge in violence. We are told that somehow, for some reason, Palestinians are worried that their access to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound (the religious site in Jerusalem housing known as the 'Noble Sanctuary' to Muslims and 'Temple Mount' to Jews) may be threatened. This is despite Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu being regularly quoted as saying that he is committed to maintaining the status quo. Seen like this, it appears that Palestinians are initiating violence because they are in the grip of mindless religious fears and frenzies. Nothing could be further from the truth.
How RTE has covered the issue.
When you live in Jerusalem, the Noble Sanctuary is exactly that. It is a shield from the daily humiliations of occupation, it is the center of traditional life in the city, it is the psycho-social heart. It is the one place that Israel does not own.
And so it is under attack. Every day groups of settlers are given armed escorts through its gardens, Israeli soldiers loll on the grass and receive lectures from officers while access to Palestinian residents and worshipers is regularly restricted. At the entrance used for the settlers, the police have dozens of riot shields lined up in preparation for the next clash.
The long-term aim of this provocation is clear – to restrict or perhaps even ban Muslims from the site while allowing Israeli Jews free access. Influential Israeli groups – like the government funded Temple Institute – also want to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. This is a familiar pattern to Palestinians, who have had hundreds of mosques destroyed by Israel since its inception, and have suffered restricted access to important religious sites such as the al-Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron.
Israel's assault on Al Aqsa is part of its wider plan to Judaise Jerusalem – something which involves expelling the native Palestinian population, which it has been doing since 1948. Besides evicting Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem, Israel's policy is to force them to leave by making life unbearable. For Palestinian Jerusalemites, the lack of basic services, the curfews and restrictions, the difficulty in retaining residency and daily humiliations at the hands of an occupying army has made their life in the city a Kafkaesque nightmare, a series of nooses tightening around their necks.
But it's not just Jerusalem. Throughout the West Bank, life for Palestinians is becoming harder as Israel's network of illegal settlements expands. The settlers act like every colonial elite has ever done, visiting acts of mindless random cruelty against the local population, seeking to drive them out. An example of this was the firebombing of the Dawabshe family home in July which killed one-year old Ali Dawabshe, his mother Riham and father Sa'ad. The killers, who have been identified by the Israeli police, remain at large – a microcosm of how Israelis can murder Palestinians with impunity.
Trapped within this circle of despair, Palestinians are fighting back as colonised people have always done, with whatever weapons are close to hand. The Israeli public have gleefully thrown themselves into this fight – the Israeli journalist, Amira Hass is right when she says that 'Israelis are fighting for the occupation, while Palestinians are fighting for their lives.' But Israelis, and in particular the recently elected government, are committed to the occupation. Since the elections, government ministers have delighted in dismissing the possibility of a two-state solution, of negotiating with Palestinians and of ever ending the occupation.
The Israeli government is full of messianic Zionists who see the occupation as something glorious, a means of 'redeeming' the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria (which is how they refer to the occupied West Bank). The upsurge of violence offers them a means of expanding the military occupation, with Benjamin Netanyahu calling for an 'all-out war' against Palestinians. The mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat who was elected on a platform of further Israeli colonisation of East Jerusalem, has gone further. He has supported vigilante actions by urging Jerusalem residents (that is, Jewish Jerusalem residents) to carry guns. With fascist mobs in Israeli cities attacking isolated Palestinians and calling for 'Death to the Arabs' , with rabbis demanding that all 'terrorists' be instantly killed, war fever is being stoked once again in Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli occupation troops are shooting down protestors, attacking medics, bombing the Gaza strip and arresting countless people.
It is interesting that protests have spread inside Israel as well, with young Palestinian citizens of Israel taking to the streets and being repressed by police in cities like Haifa, Jaffa, Nazarteth and elsewhere. This reflects the marginalisation of this community within Israel, which faces over 50 discriminatory laws directed at it. A one-day general strike of amongst Palestinian citizens has been called. Meanwhile Nethanyahu has asked the Attorney General to lay charges of incitement against Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament Haneen Zoabi for calling for a 'real intifada', and attempts are afoot to outlaw the Islamic Movement in Israel.
There has been talk that this violence is leading to a 'third intifada'. Some Palestinian leaders have called for this and many Israeli pundits are eagerly predicting a third intifada. They believe that in a situation of increased violence, the world will permit the Israeli government to commit more atrocities against the Palestinians in the West Bank, and perhaps even allow them to achieve their dream – and the Palestinian nightmare – of an ethnically purified Jerusalem.
This is not a war between two equal sides, nor is it about competing but equally valid territorial claims – it is a struggle between oppressor and oppressed, the coloniser and the colonised. It is a struggle against a brutal occupation that is almost fifty years old, and colonial injustices that date back at least seven decades.
This generation feels completely deprived from their rights; they suffer from poverty, unemployment and an utter lack of opportunity…the people in the streets feel they've crossed into a whole different stage. After 22 years of completely useless negotiations, they are taking things into their own hands.
Young Palestinians do not go out to murder Jews because they are Jews, but because we are their occupiers, their torturers, their jailers, the thieves of their land and water, their exilers, the demolishers of their homes, the blockers of their horizon.
The settler population has become a well-armed, well-organised and ideologically driven militia. They maraud in Palestinian villages and attack Palestinians in the streets and even in their homes…settlers have carried out a string of terror attacks on Palestinians. Israel maintains and supports this fanatic militia to carry out the dirtiest parts of Israeli aggression and repression in the West Bank.
Is it thus any great wonder that illegal settlers would become targets of desperate Palestinians who view them as land thieves and colonial enforcers?
We don't predict where the current uprising will lead, whether it will lead to a more generalised popular resistance or will subside over the coming days and weeks. However, we salute the bravery of those who struggle for their rights in the face of discrimination and repression, and against systemised army and settler violence.
No people on the globe would accept to coexist with oppression. By nature, humans yearn for freedom, struggle for freedom, sacrifice for freedom, and the freedom of the Palestinian people is long overdue… the last day of occupation will be the first day of peace. Those who seek the latter need to act, and act now, to precipitate the former.
Of course, we cannot simply wait for politicians to act to end Israel's impunity – if we don't pressure them we will be waiting forever! Palestinian academic and journalist Mouin Rabanni recounted a recent meeting he had with a European diplomat.
When I asked her to name a single form of Palestinian non-violent resistance her government would be prepared to support, I received nothing more than a bemused stare.
Is it any wonder Palestinians feel such desperation and frustration? Western political elites are, at best, indifferent to their suffering and unwilling to assist their fightback. At worst – as when the British government announces it is going to make it illegal for local councils to support the global boycott of Israel (BDS), or when the French courts prosecute human rights activists for supporting BDS – they actively undermine effective non-violent opposition to the occupation and all its associated human rights abuses, international law violations, vicious oppression and ongoing killings perpetrated by Apartheid Israel.
We, citizens and civil society groups, must act to bring pressure to bear on Israel and our own political representatives. That is why we support, and encourage you, to get involved with the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement for Palestinian rights – one way to do this is to get active with the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and help us in our campaign to assist Palestinians in their struggle for freedom, justice, equality and peace!
We also ask you to take action to End The Irish Arms Trade With Israel, to ask supermarkets to stop stocking Israeli goods, and to come to the Emergency Demonstration in Dublin on Thursday 15th October.
Palestinians symbolically smash the Apartheid Wall with sledgehammers.
 For instance the violence has not appeared on RTE evening news over the past week, and it has carried few reports on its website.


The AWASH group consists of heads of adult services from all local authorities and meets on a bi-monthly basis to discuss those issues that contribute to the effective delivery of services for adults, and in particular older people.
These all-Wales discussions allow senior staff to share best practice and to consider how services for adults are changing across Wales. AWASH is focusing on a range of strategic issues over the next few years, including the embedding of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, examining the changes needed in the provision of domiciliary and residential care, and responding to the challenges in providing care and support to an increasing number of the older population with dementia.


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Twitch Streamers: How Much Do They Make?
How Much Do Twitch Streamers Make
In the land of live streaming, Twitch is its undisputed king. With a high volume of viewership, the website has served as the springboard to fame for many Twitch streamers.
Names like Ninja, xQc, and Pokimane have all risen to stardom through Twitch. Combined, they house an approximate total of 34.2 million followers as of August 2021. That is higher than the populations of Romania, Belgium, and Albania combined.
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As such, it's not hard for fans to imagine they also earn considerable revenue from their streams. But unlike grasping one's fame, knowing how much money they earn through gaming online becomes a harder question to tackle.
Such curiosity around a streamer's wealth peaks when they allow fans a peek into their finances. When Ninja revealed he made half a million dollars a month during his peak Fortnite days, fans wondered if other streamers earned a similar amount.
Though it's against Twitch's policy for streamers to publicly reveal their earnings, that hasn't stopped fans from speculating. With various analyses on how streamers generate their revenue, these four are the major sources.
Sources of Revenue
A Twitch streamer's source of revenue divides itself into four parts: subscriptions, donations, brand partnerships, and advertisements.
Fans wanting to support their favorite streamer, they can pay for a monthly subscription. With a minimum of $4.99, fans receive numerous perks like customized emotes, badges, and more. The degree of rewards fans earns increases through tier subscriptions, with monthly prices ranging from $9.99 to $24.99.
A donation in Twitch works the same as it is elsewhere. It's a source of revenue solely provided by the kindness of a streamer's fans. Usually given by a varied sum, fans can donate from $1 to $1,000 at a time.
Additionally, viewers can purchase "Bits," a website currency used to "Cheer" on their favorite streamer. Through its bundle list, 100 Bits equate to $1.40, and people can buy up to 500,000 per day. As for how Bits will affect the streamer's revenue, for every Bit they receive, they also earn $0.01.
Unlike other revenue sources, brand partnerships help streamers generate attention towards them beyond their Twitch profile. Brands like esports organizations, food chains, equipment companies, and non-gaming corporations can affiliate with streamers under the right circumstances.
Finding the perfect example of a fruitful brand partnership is not a hard task to complete. Countless streamers are enjoying their wealth thanks to their vast network of brand partnerships.
Advertisements can affect a Twitch streamer's revenue by being used regularly during broadcasts. Depending on how much and how often they run ads, streamers can earn more than their peers.
Using the CPM (cost per 1,000 viewers) metric, streamers can earn a sizeable amount of revenue entirely through ads.
Although certain obstacles arise for streamers, such as anti-ad extensions, they can adjust by offering an ad-free stream for subscribers. They can hit two birds with one stone, motivating the purchase of subscriptions while assimilating ads into their stream.
All of these revenue sources combine to make a plentiful streaming career on Twitch. With the correct management, people can eventually grow their broadcast to the same level as today's stars.
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I went camping last weekend – a bit cold in November you might think, but I wanted to practice the bushcraft knowledge I've been learning at Natural Pathways.
The wind picked up a little today and my walk through the woods had a very pleasing crunch. It was difficult to NOT kick my feet through the leaves (so I did!). Even harder to imagine that some people wouldn't realise just how wonderful this can be.


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Carson City remembers, honors those who gave their lives serving
Local | May 29, 2017
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Community members of all ages attend the annual Memorial Day service at Lone Mountain Cemetery on Monday
Jim Grant | Nevada Appeal
The Sons of the American Revolution attended the Memorial Day service for the first time on Monday.
Denise Berumen, a 2-time Blue Star Mother speaks at the Memorial Day service on Monday.
Nevada Army National Guard Tech. Sgt. Katherine Dew addresses community members at the Memorial Day service on Monday.
William Martinez plays "Taps" at the Memorial Day service on Monday.
Members of the Sea Cadet Corps present the Colors at the Memorial Day service on Monday at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
Mike Creager of the 1st Nevada Calvary participated in the Memorial Day service on Monday.
Carson City commemorated America's fallen servicemen and women in a Memorial Day ceremony at Lone Mountain Cemetery.
"Today we remember and honor the men and women who gave their lives serving this country," said Lt. Cdr. Robert Bledsaw, U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps, who officiated the midday event on Monday.
The ceremony included the presentation of colors by the Carson City Division and Training Ship UDD Carson City, PF50, U.S. Sea Cadet Corps, a rendition of "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes by Bledsaw, and a riderless horse.
"His boots are reversed in the stirrups representing a departed a soldier looking back on those he leaves behind," said Bledsaw.
Denise Berumen led the gathering in singing the National Anthem.
Berumen, whose two sons are in the service and are both currently stationed in Hawaii, was one of four speakers.
She told the story of when both of her sons first shipped out in 2012.
"That first Christmas without your boys is rough," she said. "The box of decorations just sat next to the tree. I couldn't decorate."
And she remembered later watching her son Brett reenlist in the U.S. Army for five years and son Alex reenlist for four years in the U.S. Navy on the same day.
"I'm very, very proud of my boys," Berumen said.
Berumen pointed out the dozens of flags adorning nearby graves.
"Every flag represents someone who gave their life for their country," said Berumen.
Technical Sgt. Katherine Dew, Nevada Air National Guard, recounted her time in Europe commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day and Operation Neptune, the naval portion of the Normandy invasion operation known as Overlord.
"It was 20 days that will stick with me the rest of my life," said Dew.
Staff Sgt. Elexia Hertel, Nevada Army National Guard, said that since 1775, 1.3 million American service members have died serving their country.
"Each one was a loved one, a loss in their community," said Hertel. "We owe them an innumerable debt. We can start to repay that debt by never forgetting."
Lt. Cdr. Dave Treinan, U.S. Navy, recognized veterans and their spouses at the ceremony.
"You're great Nevadans and great Americans," he said to everyone there.
Afterward, those in attendance said it was the best way to spend Memorial Day.
"I'm a very patriotic person," said Sandra Miller, whose father, first and second husbands, and son all served in the military. "I can't tell them how much I appreciate what they went through."
Bill Brazil, a U.S. Navy veteran who served during the Vietnam War, said he attended to feel closer to those servicemen and women who sacrificed their lives.
"I come every year to honor the ones who fell before us. For friends and for ones I didn't know," said Brazil. "We had each others' backs. I'm here to pay them homage."


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Comedian Pooja Vijay Uses Her Stutter As An Ice-breaker
by Nikita Sawant | August 27, 2017, 0:00 IST
An energy policy analyst by profession, Pooja Vijay took to comedy like a fish to water. Born in Mumbai, Vijay lived in many cities before she made her home in New Delhi, where she discovered her talent for stand-up—which is not to say she didn't love her day job. The 27-year-old says, "I consult for the central and state governments, and help them make policies on renewable energy, rural electricity, etc. It's a pretty exciting job, and I'm lucky that I get to do two things that I absolutely love."
Comedy happened quite by chance. It was all thanks to a colleague from Vijay's old office in Bangalore, who dragged her to an open mic event. "I figured, why not give it a shot. My first time on stage went really well. People liked it, I enjoyed it, but I still didn't take it too seriously. Then I moved to Delhi in 2015, and felt so homesick and bored that I started actively pursuing comedy."
Once Vijay got a taste of stand-up, the speech defect she'd lived with all her life, a stutter, faded into the background. With this newfound confidence, she started hosting open mics for other women. She says, "It's kind of sad that in Indian cities for every 100 people performing at open mics, only two to three are women. Women don't find comedy to be a safe space, because it's still so male-dominated. So, I decided to host open mics for them and see how many actually turned up." Vijay has hosted four such events so far, and she says it's helped her build a good network of comic talent.
About the stutter, Vijay says, "It was worse in school, but speech therapy has helped a lot. I'm not completely stutter-free even today and I embrace it—this is who I am. We live in a society where if we see an overweight person, we know it's inappropriate to point that out to them. But if we meet someone with a stammer, (we think) it's quite okay to ask them if they're going to do anything about it," she smiles.
But does her stutter make her nervous on stage? She laughs, "When I get up on stage, my stutter gets more pronounced because I'm already nervous. But so far I've had a very supportive audience. I recently opened for stand-up comedian Papa CJ at Kamani auditorium, Delhi, and that was my first big show. There were around 600-700 people, but the thing is, once you get on stage and start doing your act, and people start laughing, your anxiety fades away."
'India's first stuttering comic' knows how to work the crowd too. In 2016, she was voted best stand-up act at the Piano Man open mic competition in Delhi. She admits, "It was probably only the fourth or fifth time that I went on stage, and I didn't even know it was a competition. And the audience just went wild after my performance." Vijay's comedy usually centres around her dating experiences, being a south Indian in Delhi, and, of course, her stutter, which she says makes for the best kind of ice-breaker. Like when she points out that people probably laugh at her jokes because it would be rude not to considering her speech impediment! Truth is, this policy analyst doesn't have to count on pity laughs and she's not giving up the mic anytime soon. "Many people who have a stutter have shown their support. I've received so many sweet messages from people around the world, telling me that I've inspired them and that despite my stutter I do a great job on stage, and that feeling is something out of this world."
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A highlight of a fun-filled week of vacation in New Mexico came when I wasn't expecting it. I got to meet someone who could be called a legend of his sport.
The legend in this case is Al Unser, who has won the Indianapolis 500 four different times. That ties the record set by A.J. Foyt and Rick Mears. As the saying goes, Unser isn't in a class by himself, but it doesn't take long to call the roll. Then add brother Bobby and son Al Jr. , and you have the first family of Indycar racing.
The main branch of the family is from Albuquerque, and the members have accumulated all sorts of stuff over the years. Heck, Bobby won three Indy trophies and Al Jr. won two more. That doesn't include wins in many other events over the years – more than 200 by everyone . So it's nice to have some place to show it all off, rather than keep it hidden in boxes or closets.
Therefore, the Unser Racing Museum is a must stop for auto racing fans when visiting New Mexico's largest city.
The main building features an outside entryway formed by part of the wall from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from a while back. Once inside, visitors are greeted by the main display – the winning car from the 1987 Indy 500, nicely shined. It was Al's fourth win, and it came only a few days before his 48th birthday.
The rest of building consists of a few rooms that come off the center display like spokes in a wheel. One is a tribute to the Pikes Peak race, one dominated by the Unser name over the years. I think Bobby won nine of them. There's a room for Indianapolis, an area of old cars that's something of a tribute to Al and Bobby's dad, and a spot for technical details and kids' activities. Children of all ages can ride in a computer simulation of what it's like to drive at Indy. I went for a five-lap ride in it, secure in the knowledge that I only had to hit the accelerator and steer the car. In other words, no shifting. Those straightaways end pretty quickly when the speedometer reads 180 mph. After completing the circle of room, a gift shop will let you stock up on all things Unser.
In the back, there is another area that holds even more cars – some of which have nothing to do with the Unsers. The day we went, we saw race cars belonging to Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart, as well as a couple of classic vehicles.
There are a variety of videos and kiosks throughout both buildings. You really could spend a few hours there in order to see and read everything. It's very nicely done.
But the highlight of our visit was having the chance to meet Al. One member of the museum staff knew he was around the building, and asked if my wife and I would like to meet him. Of course we would. A call went out, and Al came into the museum in a couple of minutes for a little small talk and a photo by a 1931 Duesenberg, which is worth millions. I would guess he has an office in the building. Al seemed very comfortable with interacting with the public. After all, how tough is it to listen to people say how much they enjoyed your career?
By the way, Al Jr. is still in Albuquerque; we apparently just missed him while we were visiting. Bobby also lives in the area. He has some severe back problems and doesn't appear in public much. There are a couple of family trees on the walls of the museum, in case you need to sort out how the various generations of the Unser family line up.
Admission is $10 – a bargain price for the chance to meet an all-time great.


"Be fair." That's what The New Normal creator Ryan Murphy said 20th Century Fox TV and NBC execs told him about doing an episode of the NBC sitcom from a Republican perspective. The episode, "Obama's Mama", airs tonight. "You have two gay clearly liberal guys at the heart of the show. We all collectively thought it would be great to do an episode where you presented Ellen's point of view, the conservative point of view, the Republican point of view that hopefully was eloquent and was given equal time," Murphy said today during a conference call about the show, about a gay couple having a baby through a surrogate. Ellen Barkin plays June, the conservative 58-year-old grandmother of the surrogate (played by Georgia King).
"I didn't want to do a 100% pro-Obama episode, even though that's where my political interests lie," said Murphy, who back in June held a $40,000-per-couple dinner for President Obama's re-election campaign at his Beverly Hills home. Tonight's show "was influenced and inspired by my love of Norman Lear and the stuff I grew up watching," he noted, adding that the episode is "the sweet spot of where I'd like the show to go." Like Lear's All In The Family, the show not only is trying to show differing political points of view but touch on hot-topic issues — in this case, race, abortion and Muslims. "I think it is a brave, honest examination of the world," Murphy said.
Murphy also said today that Marlo Thomas is joining The New Normal in its 10th episode playing a real estate agent and June's mentor. "We're also doing a really great Halloween episode, which I think is really interesting and wonderful, which pays homage to Honey Boo Boo," Murphy said, teasing another upcoming episode.


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Mead has made pursuing reforms to the act a priority of his yearlong term as chairman of the Western Governors' Association. The workshop Thursday and Friday will examine how states can share wildlife management ideas and promote their role in conserving species.
Discussions will involve the energy and mining industries, sportsmen and environmentalists, farmers and ranchers, and the timber industry.
The Endangered Species Act dates to 1973. Proponents of changing the act include many Republicans from Western states.
They complain about regulatory uncertainty as some species face listing while others remain listed as threatened or endangered despite increasing in number.
Such uncertainty makes the act difficult to live with, Mead told a subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in September.
High-profile species protected under the act in the West include grizzly bears, which remain listed as threatened even though many say their numbers have recovered.
The workshop at the Buffalo Bill Center for the West will be the first of several around the region.


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Stocks will be open for fishing on Saturdays and Sundays throughout November with exception on the weekend of the 4th &5th. It still well worth a visit, was teaching on there yesturday and caught quite quickly on a susdpender buzzer, another angler had two in a short session on a Minkie and a cormorant. He was fishing in Hollins Bay and I was near the jetty.
Bank House Fly Fishery is open everyday throughout the winter except for Christmas day. Its currently fishing well to dries and damsel patterns. There are some huge brownies to be had at Bank House at the moment. Try fishing minkies tight to the islands.
Congratulations to Bob Fitzpatrick he has won the doubles club fish off on Stocks with a rainbow trout of 2lbs 13oz. Bob has won a season ticket for next season.
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Obituary for David Bray Porter
December 13, 1926 - July 18, 2019
Concord, Massachusetts | Age 92
Dave Bray Porter known as "the man who brought Bluebirds back to Concord" passed away peacefully at home on July 18, 2019 at the age of 92. Born to Arthur and Madeleine and later step mother Adelaide. Dave is pre-deceased by his wife Phyllis "Sandy" of 55 years.
Raised in Salem MA and summered in Alton Bay NH, he loved the outdoors. An Eagle Scout, Dave enjoyed exploring, tinkering with hobbies, and building model airplanes. He attended Stony Brook School and Tufts University where he graduated in 1947 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and received his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve and spent 2 years in active duty at the Special Devices Center in Sands Point, Long Island during the Korean War. Dave attended Harvard Business School with an MBA under the ROTC in 1951. Dave actively continued in both Tufts and HBS alumni leadership roles.
Dave's career included roles with Factory Mutual, CBS-Hytron, and Millipore Corporation. Dave and his business partner bought Gothic House, Inc. in 1973. As a manufacturer of pharmaceutical labels and medical packaging materials, they grew the business to include operations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Republic of Ireland.
Dave and his wife Sandy married in April of 1959 and shared a love of dance, the outdoors, travel, and building community for 55 years. Dave was a passionate and truly beautiful skier until the age of 85, tennis player, golfer, sailor, and an avid fan of the Patriots and Red Sox. They bought the first condominium built in Waterville Valley NH in 1967 and passed on the love of skiing to their children Sue and John and surrounded by a wonderful group of friends.
Dave was very active in his retirement years; Concord Country Club where he and Sandy co-chaired the club's Centennial Celebration, gardening, travel around the globe, volunteering at Emerson Hospital where he won The Outstanding Volunteer Award for 15 years and 2,900 hours of service in 2015. Dave's proudest achievement has been bringing the blue birds back to Concord. Starting in 1995 he built a box in the backyard, progressing to over 55 homebuilt boxes that he maintained across the town of Concord. Dave built both a community of bluebirds, and bluebird lovers.
Most of all Dave was known to all as a friendly, kind, thoughtful, loyal, caring, detailed and principled man. He could tell in detail a story, a joke, a memory, or a "how to guide" on just about anything. He loved his life, was grateful for his family and friends, and hoped he left us as an example of a life well led.
Dave is survived by his daughter Susan P. Williamson, son-in-law Todd G. Williamson of Wellesley and grandchildren (who called him Simba) John A. Williamson and Sarah A. Williamson, and son John H. Porter of Bailey CO; Porter and Dole nieces and nephews and grand dogs Lola, Holley, and Duke.
Family and friends will gather to honor and remember Dave on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 from 3:30-5:30 pm at the Concord Country Club, 245 Old Road to Nine Acre Corner, Concord, MA.
Interment with U.S. Navy rendering full military honors will be private at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord.
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The graphs that show the search for love has changed
By Paul Kerley
BBC News Magazine
duration 13 February 2016
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image captionEpic romance - Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, 1939
From marrying a neighbour or someone at church, to swiping through dozens of faces on a smartphone screen, the journey to find love is changing fast.
It was easier in the olden days. Future spouses could be found living around the corner. Or at least in your part of town.
In 1932 James Brossard, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, looked through 5,000 consecutive marriage licences issued to people living in the city of Philadelphia.
He found that while one in eight people shared the same address as their spouses when they got married - presumably because they were cohabiting - nearly 40% lived no more than 20 blocks from their future husband or wife.
Less than 20% found love with someone living out of town.
The details of this snapshot - from one US city more than 80 years ago - feature in Modern Romance, a book co-written by comedian and actor Aziz Ansari (of sitcom Parks and Recreation fame) and sociology professor Eric Klinenberg.
For Ansari - a child of the 1980s and 90s - the Philadelphia model is not for him. "Think about where you grew up as a kid, your apartment building or your neighbourhood," he writes, "could you imagine being married to one of those clowns?"
Klinenberg says the way technology has changed how people date and find love was their starting point.
"Does having so many options make it harder or easier to find the right person and commit? Can we make ourselves seem more desirable by delaying our text response times? Why is everyone sexting?"
The trend on both sides of the Atlantic seems to be that people are leaving it later to get married.
In England and Wales in the late 1960s, 76% of brides were under 25. In 2012, the figure was 14%.
Over the past 35 years the average (mean) age for marriage across the UK has risen from mid-20s to mid-30s.
The graph data includes people getting hitched later in life for a second, third or fourth time. But even so - since 2006 in Scotland, 2010 in England and Wales, and 2014 in Northern Ireland - the average age for a first marriage passed the 30 mark for both men and women.
These changes are, explains Klinenberg, not just about technology - they are also linked to deeper cultural shifts.
"A few generations ago, most people married young because marriage was the way to gain independence from parents - especially for women. And they married locally, because they were basically looking for a 'good enough' partner, and that didn't require much of a search.
"Got a job? A decent family? A full set of teeth? Once that checked out, the wedding was on."
His theory is borne out in these figures for first marriages in the US.
The average age for a woman to tie the knot there in the 1950s and early 60s was a little over 20.
For Modern Romance, Ansari and Klinenberg were given access to data from online dating sites around the world - but they also gleaned information from hundreds of people through interviews and focus groups.
"[It was from] big cities like New York, Paris, Tokyo and Buenos Aires - and in small towns where the dating pool is, well, shallow," says Klinenberg.
There is no doubt that online dating and smartphones are dramatically changing the way people hook up.
According to a September 2015 report from the Online Dating Association (ODA) - a UK industry group - 27% of new relationships in the UK begin with a meeting facilitated by a dating website or a mobile dating app.
It also says the UK's online dating market - valued at £165m in 2013 - is predicted to grow to £225m by 2019.
In the US in 1940, family connections and church were common ways to find a romantic partner.
By 1990, nearly 40% of couples met through friends.
But, by the turn of the Millennium, the internet was revolutionising the way people got together.
In particular, online connections are growing for those interested in same-sex relationships - but increasingly older and middle-aged straight people too, says sociologist Michael Rosenfeld from Stanford University, who provided data for the book.
Ansari and Klinenberg think the reasons are obvious. It's down to a smaller pool of potential romantic partners and lower odds of finding romance face-to face - whether through friends, in schools or in public places.
"If you're single, and you carry a mobile phone, you basically have a 24/7 singles bar in your pocket," says Klinenberg, "and that can be as exhausting as it is exhilarating."
He says that in the interviews they carried out, people described it as akin to having a second job. "That's why swipe apps like Tinder are flourishing. They gamify dating."
He also suggests that many singles spend too much time flirting online - and not enough time actually dating face-to-face.
Klinenberg and Ansari cite social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on what he describes as the "prototypical courses" of the two kinds of love - passionate and companionate.
In less than six months the passion may fade, Haidt suggests - while the companionate nature of a relationship may not have grown sufficiently in strength.
Klinenberg says since the social changes of the 1960s, romantic ideals have evolved and options have expanded.
"Today, people are looking for soul mates, and they're in no particular rush to find one."
In the developed world, singletons in their 20s and early 30s are described by sociologists as being in "emerging adulthood" or "extended adolescence".
What is certainly true is that the search for romance is taking those looking for love further than their own neighbourhood.
"A soul mate, after all," says Klinenberg, "is a hard thing to find."
Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg is published in the UK by Penguin Press.
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