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Sora Ma's Husband Was Stuck Outside The Asia Contents Award...
Sora Ma's Husband Was Stuck Outside The Asia Contents Awards Venue While She Was Accepting Her Best Supporting Actress Award
The actress, who won for her role in Mediacorp drama This Land Is Mine, tells us all about her "surreal" and "dramatic" experience in Busan.
Ainslyn Lim
12 Oct 2022 at 15:00
Sora Ma Hong Huifang This Land is mine
By now you would've heard about Malaysian-born actress Sora Ma's Best Supporting Actress win at the Asia Contents Awards in Busan last Saturday (Oct 8).
The 38-year-old bagged the award for her performance as a nightclub hostess in Mediacorp period drama This Land Is Mine.
Here's her trophy in all its glory
When Sora, who is still in Busan, spoke to 8days.sg over the phone late on Monday night (Oct 10), it was clear that she was still ecstatic about her surprise win.
So much so, that she didn't realise that it has been two days since the awards show.
"Yesterday seems so long ago… Eh actually it was the day before right? Wah, I'm still dreaming leh," she chuckles.
She describes the whole experience as "surreal" and that it was only after she reposted image after image of her win on social media the next day did the feeling of happiness finally kick in.
The actress had a triumphant night at the Asia Contents Awards
She never expected to get nominated for her role in the drama, let alone win. And so she treated her trip to Busan as "a holiday".
"It was my first time in an English drama and I always felt that my English is really "private limited kind", so I didn't think about it… because it's not a language I'm proficient in," she says.
She adds that she has "no confidence" speaking English, and that she spoke less than a hundred sentences in English while on the set of This Land Is Mine.
"Everybody would communicate in English and sometimes I felt like I couldn't figure out what to say at that moment. There were also some jokes that I was unable to catch, so I was a bit more quiet," she reveals.
When she received a call from the show's producer informing her of her nom, she refused to believe it and asked for "some kind of proof that [it was] real".
Sora played nightclub hostess Helen in This Land Is Mine
With her in Busan is "Mr R", her businessman husband of one year, whom Sora says has been a strong pillar of support for her.
Planning for the Busan trip came with its share of complications.
"Everything was so last minute. I got my air ticket less than a week before and I applied for my K-ETA (Korea Electronic Travel Authorisation) three days before departure. Everyone's had theirs approved [in advance] except for me. I was so nervous 'cos there was still no news after two days," recalls Sora.
While applying for the K-ETA for her and Mr R, Sora also noticed that she was required to fill in more information than her Singapore husband, and realised it was because she is still holding a Malaysia passport.
Thankfully, she received the approval 24 hours before she was set to depart.
Sora is still in Busan enjoying the rest of her trip
8DAYS.SG: What did your husband say to you after you won the award?
SORA MA: Um… (chuckles) What did he say to me ah? There were so many people and we were a bit shy lah, so after we finished everything and went back to the hotel room that night, he said "You made it, you proved to people that actually you are so talented". It was what he always told me.
During the pandemic, there weren't many things to do so I was thinking of starting a small business or something. But he discouraged me. He said "No, you are meant to be an actor, you should just pursue your dreams and do whatever you like. You don't have to worry so much because I will be there to support you". And I was like, are you sure? I got no job leh (chuckles).
I always doubt myself, but he just believes in me so much.
It's adorable that he's so supportive of you.
Yah. You know, it was very chaotic that day. He actually has a ticket to enter [the event venue] but the backstage was very messy so he didn't get in and he was left outside together with a bunch of Korean fans! He didn't manage to see [me get the award at all]! He missed out on the whole thing, he didn't even watch me on screen.
He was the only person [from our entourage] that was left outside. It was like we were in a Korean drama, everybody was inside except for him. Luckily someone from TCA texted him to tell him that I won and immediately after, he could hear me giving my speech and he said he almost teared up.
Talking about it now and I'm tearing up too. I don't know what to say… It was just very dramatic.
Also, I didn't have my phone and coat with me 'cos he was holding them. I had told him to pass me my coat and bag when I'm seated so I could take some behind-the-scenes pics and selfies. So throughout the whole ceremony I had no phone, no jacket and I was freezing. Dramatic (laughs).
So he stood outside for the whole ceremony?
Yes and in the cold! We only saw each other when we were going back to the hotel. He said it didn't matter that he got left behind 'cos it means nothing compared to [me winning the award].
Huifang snapped this photo of Sora in Busan
Your pal Hong Huifang was in Busan at the same time for the Busan International Film Festival.
Yah! I met her so many times (laughs). I met her the night I received the award. I left the afterparty early to look for her. She stays quite near to my hotel, like a 10-minute walk. Then we celebrated in her room.
The next day, she called and we met after lunch. I was actually so tired and I wanted to go back to the hotel to sleep, but she said "No no no, you should go to the place where the ceremony was held". She said there were lots of exhibitions there, so she told me to go and take photos and videos and relive the feeling of that night.
We can tell she's super happy for you.
Yes. We have been close for more than 10 years. Back then, we were filming in Malaysia and we really depended on each other 'cos it was just a few of us Singapore actors and we often met up for supper. She's more than a friend to me, she's like family to me in Singapore.
A lot of stars were in Busan recently, did you have any interesting encounters?
I was having dinner just now in the VIP room of a restaurant. Before we started eating, the director of This Land is Mine, TJ (Thean-jeen Lee) mentioned Hong Kong director Peter Chan and it just happened that we later shared the same room as him and Sandra Ng!
They were sitting behind me and I thought it was so amazing 'cos they were talking about things in the entertainment industry.
We took pics with them (chuckles). We waited until we were about to finish eating then we went to say hello. TJ actually met Peter Chan before and he recently attended one of his talks. And of course I wanted to take a pic with Sandra.
Did you tell her you're an actress too?
TJ introduced me to her (laughs). He told her I had just received the award the day before and they congratulated me.
Sora with Sandra Ng
Photos: Sora Ma/ Instagram, Hong Huifang/ Instagram
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Online shopping in Bangladesh has been a part of Bangladeshi commerce for years. A recent survey shows that Bangladesh is an emerging market for the online sectors and it has a growing market of around 2 billion BDT. The introduction of 3G mobile internet boosted the online retail industry significantly. The main items sold are clothing, electronics, toiletries and gifts.

Classified and online shopping websites
There are a number of free classified websites and online shopping marketplaces in Bangladesh. According to Prothom Alo in 2014, about 1.5 to 2 million people shopped online every year, and the market was growing by 15% to 20%. According to MetrixLab, in 2014, internet users in Bangladesh had 1 billion used goods in their stocks worth BDT 14,700 crore (US$1.9 billion as of 2014). According to the Bangladesh Bank, around 1 million clients accessed mobile banking, and over 100 crore transactions were made through mobile banking accounts by 2014. According to The Independent, transactions worth about BDT 1,000 crore (US$123 million as of 2017) have been made annually through e-commerce.

References

Further reading

E-commerce in Bangladesh
Economy of Bangladesh
Internet in Bangladesh

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Q: Make my own FIFO Queue class for my own class object to fill it? I am trying to make a FIFO Queue that is filled with my own class object.
I found this example but if I replace < E > with < PCB > it does not work:
import java.util.LinkedList;

public class SimpleQueue<E> {

private LinkedList<E> list = new LinkedList<E>();

 public void put(E o) {
    list.addLast(o);
     }

  public E get() {
     if (list.isEmpty()) {
          return null;
      }
   return list.removeFirst();
   }

   public Object[] getAll() {
     Object[] res = new Object[list.size()];
    for (int i = 0; i < res.length; i++) {
      res[i] = list.get(i);
      }
   list.clear();
    return res;
 }

    public E peek() {
      return list.getFirst();
      }

  public boolean isEmpty() {
     return list.isEmpty();
    }

  public int size() {
    return list.size();
    }
  }

A: E is a type parameter. In simple terms, you can consider it as a 'template' which can be used to create a queue that can hold instances of one particular class.
You can create a queue of your PCB objects as follows:
SimpleQueue<PCB> queue = new SimpleQueue<PCB>();

Java Generics FAQs is a good resource if you want to learn more about Java generics.

A: public class MyQueue{

    int arr[]=new int[10];
    int i=0;
    int j=0;
    public void inn(int a)
    {
        System.out.println("You hava entered :"+a);
        arr[i]=a;
        i=i+1;
    }
    public int out()
    {
        return arr[j++];

    }
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        MyQueue q=new MyQueue();
        q.inn(4);
        q.inn(3);
        q.inn(46);
        q.inn(44);
        q.inn(43);
        System.out.println(q.out());
        System.out.println(q.out());
        System.out.println(q.out());
        System.out.println(q.out());
    }
}

A: The sun's generic tutorial says following:

We recommend that you use pithy
  (single character if possible) yet
  evocative names for formal type
  parameters. It's best to avoid lower 3
  case characters in those names, making
  it easy to distinguish formal type
  parameters from ordinary classes and
  interfaces. Many container types use
  E, for element, as in the examples
  above.

So, it can't be the problem that you changed it to PCB.
But if PCB is the only class of which you want to store objects, you don't have to create a generic class. Just remove <PCB> from your class definition line and replace all E's with PCB:
public class SimpleQueue
{
    LinkedList<PCB> list = new LinkedList<PCB>();

    ....

    public PCB peek()
    {
        return list.getFist();
    }
}

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package org.neo4j.driver.internal;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.neo4j.driver.Record;
import org.neo4j.driver.Result;
import org.neo4j.driver.ReusableResult;
import org.neo4j.driver.Value;
import org.neo4j.driver.exceptions.ClientException;

public class SimpleResult implements Result
{
    private final Iterable<String> fieldNames;
    private final List<Record> body;
    private final Iterator<Record> iter;
    private Record current;

    public SimpleResult( Iterable<String> fieldNames, List<Record> body )
    {
        this.fieldNames = fieldNames;
        this.body = body;
        this.iter = body.iterator();
    }

    @Override
    public ReusableResult retain()
    {
        return new StandardReusableResult( body );
    }

    @Override
    public Record single()
    {
        return iter.next();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean next()
    {
        if ( iter.hasNext() )
        {
            current = iter.next();
            return true;
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Value get( int fieldIndex )
    {
        return current.get( fieldIndex );
    }

    @Override
    public Value get( String fieldName )
    {
        if( current == null )
        {
            throw new ClientException(
                    "In order to access fields of a record in a result, " +
                    "you must first call next() to point the result to the next record in the result stream." );
        }
        return current.get( fieldName );
    }

    @Override
    public Iterable<String> fieldNames()
    {
        return fieldNames;
    }

    private static class StandardReusableResult implements ReusableResult
    {
        private final List<Record> body;

        private StandardReusableResult( List<Record> body )
        {
            this.body = body;
        }

        @Override
        public long size()
        {
            return body.size();
        }

        @Override
        public Record get( long index )
        {
            if ( index < 0 || index >= body.size() )
            {
                throw new ClientException( "Value " + index + " does not exist" );
            }
            return body.get( (int) index );
        }

        @Override
        public Iterator<Record> iterator()
        {
            return body.iterator();
        }
    }
}

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Longitarsus obliteratus is a species of beetle from Chrysomelidae family.

Description
The species is green coloured, and has orange legs and antennae. The males are smaller than the females.

Distribution
The species can be found in Europe, including Southern England and North Poland. It can also be found in Asia, including Asia Minor, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iran.

References

Beetles described in 1847
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Dogs are resilient creatures. Dog walking & pet sitting around PDX town, I see it all the time. Still, it's hard to remember that fact when something happens to your own furry baby. With a body full of surprise-relief-delight (in that order), today I very proudly watched & helped Periwinkle hobble her way out of Aumsville Animal Clinic on 4 paws (sort-of on 4 paws) after major double knee surgery. I feel like I finally let out a deep breath I've been holding for months.
NOM NOM NOM NOM. Peri only needs 4 NOMS for such a pathetic bone. Even on drugs.
Periwinkle tore both her CCLs (cranial cruciate ligament – canine version of the human ACL) all the way back in…oh..maybe January of this year..? Lots of people who've been through what we're going through understand why we don't know exactly when – often a CCL tear happens over time. I'd bet a dollar they'd understand the stress & fear we've felt, too!
It took us a while to get where we are now, but the Winks finally had her knees did. And it's done. And it's over. Phew. I'm super excited about it even though today she's a sleepy-stitch-seepy-drug-happy-drool-machine.
You can see Peri's knees here a bit. Still looking pretty.
I plan to share many more details about our story, which basically runs the gamut because we did it all: vet visits, research, conservative management, financial decisions, choosing a surgeon, preparing your home for pet surgery, the surgery itself, & the recovery period in due time. For now, I'm going to get back to my girl & continue satisfying my Breaking Bad addiction. Can you believe they only put the first half of the last season up? Torture but not as torturous as the CCL thing. Glad I have my priorities straight.
Cornbread checking in. Winks actually got a bit protective of her food when he came around but let him sit in her crate with her.
Lots of fluff in Peri's Doggy Den Recovery Room.


Discussion in 'Map Factory' started by lana, Nov 27, 2009.
Somewhere in the American Southwest, a once thriving oil field has been divvied up and sold to two separate holding companies. Though the oil supply is gone, the chance of competition never left the area. Thus, in a flash of fury, the old rail system used for moving oil has been converted into a hellish deathmatch.
Rattlesnake is a Payload Tag map. Two carts race around a single track in the same direction. The first team to smash their payload into the enemy's goes home the winner.
Quite an interesting concept. I want to see the gameplay though, hopefully this makes it to gameday.
I'm loving the idea, but there's a high possibility that this will never end. I hope the map has lots of shortcuts across. Just a note on the 5th screenshot, the really long staircase looks kind of awkward. Maybe adding a platform in the middle could fix that?
Hah, that sounds like a crazyily fun idea.
Ah, ok. I really want to try this one out.
Surely having an objective for both teams on other sides of the map is a bad idea?
The map looks pretty cool, although I'm not really sure what the huge spawn room space is for, but if it works it works .
I can't tell if you're brilliant or a madman.
Either way. This is awesome.
The spawn space is a buffer between the trainstation and the actual spawn, so that the teams have a chance of making it through eventually. There are planned speed boosts, but at fixed locations. That and rollback will make it easier to catch up to the enemy cart. The HUD will be the typical PLR HUD, but synced around the same track. Thanks for your feedback!
Well, Pipeline IS sort of a bad map...I hope this map does well though.
Then tell it to Hydro and all the PLR maps made for the contest.
You ever going to finish this map?
I foresee Custom Oil Drill Carts. This is an awesome Idea, and I really hope it works. Can't wait to playtest!
Is it similar, in concept, to this?
I didn't know that existed when I was making this.


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Evidence for Water in the Rocky Debris of a Disrupted Extrasolar Minor Planet
J. Farihi1,*,
B. T. Gänsicke2,
D. Koester3
1Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK.
2Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV5 7AL, UK.
3Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, University of Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: jfarihi{at}ast.cam.ac.uk
J. Farihi
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK.
For correspondence: jfarihi@ast.cam.ac.uk
B. T. Gänsicke
Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV5 7AL, UK.
D. Koester
Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, University of Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
Remnants of a Water-Bearing World
Stars like the Sun end their lives as white dwarfs. Farihi et al. (p. 218) used detailed spectroscopic analysis of a debris-accreting white dwarf, along with knowledge that such systems accrete this debris from remnants of rocky planetary bodies, to derive the water content in a disrupted extrasolar body. The findings suggest that the white dwarf contains the signature of a rocky minor planet composed of 26% water by mass.
The existence of water in extrasolar planetary systems is of great interest because it constrains the potential for habitable planets and life. We have identified a circumstellar disk that resulted from the destruction of a water-rich and rocky extrasolar minor planet. The parent body formed and evolved around a star somewhat more massive than the Sun, and the debris now closely orbits the white dwarf remnant of the star. The stellar atmosphere is polluted with metals accreted from the disk, including oxygen in excess of that expected for oxide minerals, indicating that the parent body was originally composed of 26% water by mass. This finding demonstrates that water-bearing planetesimals exist around A- and F-type stars that end their lives as white dwarfs.
The enormous recent progress in the discovery of exoplanetary systems provides a growing understanding of their frequency and nature, but our knowledge is still limited in many respects. There is now observational evidence of rocky exoplanets (1, 2), and the mass and radius (and hence density) of these planets can be calculated from transit depth and radial velocity amplitude; however, estimates of their bulk composition remain degenerate and model-dependent. Transit spectroscopy offers some information on giant exoplanet atmospheres (3), and planetesimal debris disks often reveal the signature of emitting dust and gas species (4), yet both techniques only scratch the surface of planets, asteroids, and comets. Interestingly, white dwarfs—the Earth-sized embers of stars like the Sun—offer a unique window onto terrestrial exoplanetary systems: These stellar remnants can distill entire planetesimals into their constituent elements, thus providing the bulk chemical composition for the building blocks of solid exoplanets.
Owing to high surface gravities, any atmospheric heavy elements sink rapidly as white dwarfs cool below 25,000 K (5), leaving behind only hydrogen and helium in their outermost layers—a prediction that is corroborated by observation (6). Those white dwarfs with rocky planetary system remnants can become contaminated by the accretion of small, but spectroscopically detectable, amounts of metals (7). Heavy element absorption lines in cool white dwarfs are a telltale of external pollution, often implying either ongoing mass accretion rates above 108 g s−1 (8) or large asteroid-sized masses of metals within the convection zone of the star (9).
In recent years, metal-rich dust (10, 11) and gas (12) disks, likely produced by the tidal disruption of a large asteroid (13), have been observed to be closely orbiting 30 cool white dwarfs [e.g., (14–19)] and provide a ready explanation for the metal absorption features seen in their atmospheres (20). The circumstellar material being gradually accreted by the white dwarf can be directly observed in the stellar photosphere to reveal its elemental abundances (21). These planetary system remnants offer empirical insight into the assembly and chemistry of terrestrial exoplanets that is unavailable for any exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star.
Until now, no white dwarf has shown reliable evidence for the accretion of water-rich, rocky planetary material. Unambiguous signatures of icy asteroids at white dwarfs should include (i) atmospheric metal pollution rich in refractory elements; (ii) trace oxygen in excess of that expected for metal oxides; (iii) circumstellar debris from which these elements are accreted; and, where applicable, (iv) trace hydrogen (in a helium-dominated atmosphere) sufficient to account for the excess oxygen as H2O. The presence of a circumstellar disk signals that accretion is ongoing, identifies the source material, and enables a confident quantitative assessment of the accreted elemental abundances, which in turn allows a calculation of the water fraction of the disrupted parent body.
The metal-enriched white dwarfs GD 362 and GD 16 both have circumstellar disks and relatively large trace hydrogen abundances in helium-dominated atmospheres (22), but as yet no assessment of photospheric oxygen is available (21, 23). These two stars have effective temperatures below 12,000 K, and their trace hydrogen could potentially be the result of helium dredge-up in a previously hydrogen-rich atmosphere (24). The warmer, metal-lined white dwarfs GD 61 and GD 378 have photospheric oxygen (25), but the accretion history of GD 378 is unconstrained (i.e., it does not have a detectable disk), and without this information, the atmospheric oxygen could be consistent with that contained in dry minerals common in the inner solar system (26). In the case of GD 61, elemental abundance uncertainties have previously prevented a formally significant detection of oxygen excess (27).
We used the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain ultraviolet spectroscopy of the white dwarf GD 61, and, together with supporting ground-based observations, we derived detections or limits for all the major rock-forming elements (O, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Fe). These data permit a confident evaluation of the total oxygen fraction present in common silicates within the parent body of the infalling material, and we identified excess oxygen attributable to H2O as follows. (i) The observed carbon deficiency indicates that this element has no impact on the total oxygen budget, even if every atom is delivered as CO2. (ii) The elements Mg, Al, Si, and Ca are assumed to be carried as MgO, Al2O3, SiO2, and CaO at the measured or upper-limit abundance. (iii) The remaining oxygen exceeds that which can be bound in FeO, and the debris is interpreted to be water-rich. By this reasoning, we found oxygen in excess of that expected for anhydrous minerals in the material at an H2O mass fraction of 0.26 (Table 1 and Fig. 1).
Table 1 Oxide and water mass fractions in the planetary debris at GD 61.
We adopt the steady-state values, which assume accretion-diffusion equilibrium.
Fig. 1 Oxygen budget in GD 61 and terrestrial bodies.
The first two columns are the early phase (EP) and steady-state (SS) fractions of oxygen carried by all the major rock-forming elements in GD 61, assuming that all iron is carried as FeO. Additional columns show the oxide compositions of the bulk silicate (crust plus mantle) Earth, Moon, Mars, and Vesta (35). Their totals do not reach 1.0 because trace oxides have been omitted. The overall chemistry of GD 61 is consistent with a body composed almost entirely of silicates, and thus appears relatively mantle-like but with substantial water. In contrast, Earth is relatively water-poor and contains approximately 0.023% H2O (1.4 × 1024 g).
Because we have assumed the maximum allowed FeO, and because some fraction of metallic iron is possible, the inferred water fraction of the debris is actually bound between 0.26 and 0.28. Although this makes little difference in the case of GD 61, where the parent body material appears distinctly mantle-like (27), there are at least two cases where metallic iron is a major (and even dominant) mass carrier within the parent bodies of circumstellar debris observed at white dwarfs (28). Overall, these data strongly suggest that the material observed in and around polluted white dwarfs had an origin in relatively massive and differentiated planetary bodies.
We have assumed a steady state between accretion and diffusion in GD 61. However, a typical metal sinking time scale for this star is 105 years, and thus the infalling disk material could potentially be in an early phase of accretion where material accumulates in the outer layers, prior to appreciable sinking (27). In this early-phase scenario, the oxygen excess and water fraction would increase relative to those derived from the steady-state assumption, and hence we confidently conclude that the debris around GD 61 originated in a water-rich parent body. Although the lifetimes of disks at white dwarfs are not robustly constrained, the best estimates imply that the chance of catching GD 61 in an early phase is less than 1% (17, 29–31).
The helium-rich nature of GD 61 permits an assessment of its trace hydrogen content and total asteroid mass for a single parent body. The total metal mass within the stellar convection zone is 1.3 × 1021 g, roughly equivalent to that of an asteroid 90 km in diameter. However, because metals continuously sink, it is expected that the destroyed parent body was substantially more massive, unless the star is being observed shortly after the disruption event. In contrast, hydrogen floats and accumulates, and thus places an upper limit on the total mass of accreted water-rich debris. If all the trace hydrogen were delivered as H2O from a single planetesimal, the total accreted water mass would be 5.2 × 1022 g, and a 26% H2O mass fraction would imply a parent body mass of 2 × 1023 g, which is similar to that of the main-belt asteroid 4 Vesta (32).
These data imply that water in planetesimals can survive post–main sequence evolution. One possibility is that solid or liquid water is retained beneath the surface of a sufficiently large (diameter >100 km) parent body (26), and is thus protected from heating and vaporization by the outermost layers. Upon shattering during a close approach with a white dwarf, any exposed water ice (and volatiles) should rapidly sublimate but will eventually fall onto the star; the feeble luminosities of white dwarfs are incapable of removing even light gases by radiation pressure (31). Another possibility is that a substantial mass of water is contained in hydrated minerals (e.g., phyllosilicates), as observed in main-belt asteroids via spectroscopy and inferred from the analysis of meteorites (33). In this case, the H2O equivalent is not removed until much higher temperatures are attained, and such water-bearing asteroids may remain essentially unaffected by the giant phases of the host star.
The white dwarf GD 61 contains the unmistakable signature of a rocky minor planet analogous to the asteroid 1 Ceres in water content (34) and probably analogous to Vesta in mass. The absence of detectable carbon indicates that the parent body of the circumstellar debris was not an icy planetesimal analogous to comets, but was instead similar in overall composition to asteroids in the outer main belt. This exoplanetary system originated around an early A-type star that formed large planetesimals similar to those in the inner solar system that were the building blocks for Earth and other terrestrial planets.
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Men Crochet 2: Meet My Cockatiels.
After a few weeks they inspired me to put pen to paper and yarn to hook to come up with this little guy.
He is adorable... Angel and Sunny are beautiful too..
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Q: Substituting found regex based on rank In python how could we replace all matched cases of a pattern say '(AB)(.*?)(CD)' in text based on rank? for example reach from
bla bla blab ABftrCD bla bla ABgtCD bla blab ABnyhCD

to
bla bla blab ABftrCDn1 bla bla ABgtCDnn2 bla blab ABnyhCDnnn3

A: Using function in re.sub for replacement with a variable to keep track of replacement occurrence number

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*used function attribute for variable but using a global variable is another option.

Code
import re

def func_replace(m):
    '''
        Replacement function used with re.sub
    '''
    func_replace.cnt += 1    # increment occurence count

    return f"{m.group(0)}n{func_replace.cnt}"

s = "bla bla blab ABftrCD bla bla ABgtCD bla blab ABnyhCD"

func_replace.cnt = 0   # initialize function cnt attribute (each time before calling re.sub)
print(re.sub(r'(AB)(.*?)(CD)', func_replace, s))

# Output: 'bla bla blab ABftrCDn1 bla bla ABgtCDn2 bla blab ABnyhCDn3'

A: Also you can use traditional loop for it:
def regex_number(string):

    finding = True
    l = 0
    k = 0
    while finding:

        i = string[l:].find('AB')

        if (i >= 0):

            j = string[l+i+2:].find('CD')

            if (j >= 0):

                k += 1
                sk = str(k)
                string = string[:l+i+j+4] + 'n'*k + sk + string[l+i+j+4:]
                l += i + j + k + len(sk) + 4

            if (j == -1):
                finding = False

        if (i == -1):
            finding = False

    return string


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What a beautiful piece of art, it is immensely colourful and so eye-catching!!
I fancy your art! The charm and whimsy and colors!
Many thanks La Table de Nana...appreciate your comment muchly!


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Rohan Mehra Wiki, Age, Bio, Height, Girlfriends, Affairs, Worth, Assets
Rohan Mehra is an Indian Television actor who has appeared in many TV shows and commercials. He was born on 8 April 1989 in Amritsar, Punjab. He is currently in a relationship with Kanchi Singh who is also an actor and the couple will appear in Nach Baliye Season 8.
Rohan Mehra started his acting as a commercial model and made his debut on the TV from Channel V's Show –Gumrah. He then appeared in bade acche lagte hain, ye hai Aashiqui, webbed, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai and Bigg Boss Season 10. Rohan will now appear in Nach Baliye Season 8 along with his partner Kanchi Singh. None other than Saroj Khan, Terence Lewis, and the Gorgeous Sonakshi Sinha will judge the show.
Net Worth: Not known
Name: Rohan Mehra
Nickname: Rohan
Date of Birth: 8 April 1989
Place of Birth: Amritsar, Punjab, India
Schools: St. George's College, Uttarakhand
College: Hansraj College, New Delhi, India
Father: Not Known
Mother: Rashmi Mehra
Brother: Siddharth Mehra
Sister: Not Known
Marital Status: Unmarried
Affair: Kanchi Singh
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Eye Colour: Black
Profession: Actor
Languages Known: Hindi and English
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The Transportation Revolution is a story of passion, determination & evolution. After a trip to Rome, Italy in 1999, owners Gayle and Stephen Materne, and their sons Zachary and Maxwell, fell in love with Vespas. After watching the city of Rome run on two wheels, they decided to bring this European efficiency to the Crescent City. Upon returning home and researching the scooter market, the Maternes discovered that Piaggio, the manufacturer of the Vespa, was returning to the U.S. market and seeking dealers to perpetuate the Italian scooter lifestyle. In July 2002 the doors of Vespa New Orleans were opened in Mid City.
Between the destruction of the Mid City store and the Downtown location completion date as unknown as the repopulation timetable of New Orleans, the Maternes were back in business within two weeks running out of a rented house near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. As the city of New Orleans slowly repopulated in the fall of 2005, daily trips to New Orleans to pick up and drop off service and sale bikes in New Orleans was the norm. By November 2005 Vespa Baton Rouge opened its doors on Airline Hwy, and by February 2006 Vespa New Orleans reopened in their new downtown location. The opening of the new store was one more highlight in the rebuilding of New Orleans. The Baton Rouge store was closed in December of 2006.
With a need to grow, and the opportunity to acquire two premier European brands, Vespa New Orleans started to make the transition into The Transportation Revolution. In May of 2007 Triumph Motorcycles joined the lineup, in August of 2008 Ducati was added.
In the summer of 2017 the Materne family added the BMW Motorcycles to our product line-up. The added brand also required infrastructure upgrades needed to become one of the nation's leaded European motorcycle dealership. Over the last year we have expanded our showroom, invested in the best products and technology, and developed a staff of the best in the industry.
TTRNO has been named a Powersports Business Power 50 Dealer for 6 consecutive years and were within the top 10 for 2017 & 2018. The program recognizes the best powersports dealers in North America.


This summer has been a whole heap of crazy fun already, so much so that my feet haven't really touched the ground and I've been a little tardy in sharing everything I've been doing with you, dear readers.
I endeavour to post a YouTube video every Friday, update Bikes n' Stuff a couple of times a week, stay on top of my sponsorship commitments and stick to my freelance deadlines but juggling work, training, racing, family and travel takes a lot of stamina. Sometimes I fail to keep all the balls in the air, one of them gets dropped and I have to take a bit of time to get everything in order again. So that's what I'm doing now – going a little easy on myself by racing slightly fewer events, easing off on the travel and spending more time at home with Dave and the wee cutie.
That being said, when I'm away I make sure to pack in as much as I can and it seems ŠKODA have cottoned on to this fact, ensuring that each and every adventure we go on together is a non-stop whirlwind of excitement. It actually makes the cycling the least tiring bit! My latest trip with them was to the Tour de France, where as you know I spent a glorious day riding 175km the foot of Les Deux Alpes to Valence with a group of thirteen women. Catch up on that part of the story here.
After the ride, once in Valence – a really lovely city on the edge of the Ardeche – I bid my friends farewell, rode to my new hotel, checked in and then strolled out along the boulevard in search of sushi and Vichy water (yes, I am a total ponce). I slept soundly that night and dreamt of mountains, my legs pleasantly heavy between the crisp, cool sheets – if only my sheets felt like that at home instead of being eternally dotted with toast crumbs.
The following afternoon I rode out down from the centre and crossed the Rhone to the Ardeche with no itinerary in mind – the luxury of an smartphone is that you're unlikely ever to get truly lost. The route I chose rose mirrored the west bank of the river up to Tournons sur Rhone, where I crossed once again. Continuing deeper into wine country I passed trees festooned with apricots and numerous stalls selling the golden fruit in overfilled crates. I'm mad for the kind of fruit you in find in Europe in the summer months, it's so luscious, scented and juicy; a million miles from the hard, frigid stuff we get in the UK.
After a couple of pleasant hours it was time to meet the winner of the ŠKODA Vip Experience package, whom I'd picked myself out of the many entries to the competition. We all headed to dinner for an overview of the day's events in the Tour and an outline of what we could expect the next day. Over a glass of Cotes du Rhone (which I'd been craving since riding through those vineyards) we met our hosts and drivers for the next 24 hours, all of whom turned out to be ex-professional bike racers – Andy Schlek, Tim Harris and Johan Vansummeran amongst them.
The following morning we kicked things off with an early bird ride with some of the guests and drivers, all of whom relish the chance to spin their legs before the day's driving. Unfortunately, I lost everyone except Johan when I got a puncture as despite coming prepared with a fresh tube I had the world's worst pump so it took about 2o minutes to get the tyre pumped up to 20 PSI. I really must get on the case with C02 cartridges – it's about time I modernised and gave them a go.
Showered, changed and full of breakfast – oh, how I love hotel breakfasts! – Darren (competition winner), Peter (ŠKODA) and I hopped in Tim's car and drove to the Departure Village where I tried my hardest to find Peter Sagan. I would have killed for a peek inside a bus but of course, such an intrusion would be massively annoying for the team about to race the most important event of the year. Unsurprisingly, Sagan was hiding but it was such a thrill to see all the team buses and bikes as well as the mechanics and support staff busy preparing for the day's stage.
After what seemed like the shortest amount of time, we hot-footed it back to the car to get out on the road before the riders departed, Tim putting the pedal to the metal as we flew down the closed roads ahead of the race. We passed crowds of exuberant fans, Tim playing comedy jingles through the car horn system to their great delight. The day's stage was hilly rather than mountainous, but it sure seemed tough as we sped up the road clinging to the edge of the Gorge du Verdon, a place I remember with fondness thanks to many happy childhood holidays.
Back down at the bottom, we waited for the riders to come through and they seemed to be with us in under ten minutes – this despite the fact we had hurtled through the course before them. It seemed incredible that they could catch us so quickly when they were on bicycles. I was particularly excited to jump in a helicopter as I've never been in one before and we enjoyed the next part of the race from above. I only wish I'd put my camera down for a bit longer – sometimes I'm so busy filming and photographing everything that it's over before I've had a chance to take it all in.
After a wonderful picnic at the side of the road we continued to along to Mende, where after nearly 200km the rider would tackle the Col de la Creux, a 3km long climb at an average of 10.2%, with spikes of 18%! As we headed up the climb, the road emblazoned with words of encouragement, fans in fancy dress whooped and hollered knowing the riders weren't far behind. In the nick of time we entered the VIP finishing area to watch Omar Fraile of Astana escape the bunch and stay away. It was thrilling end to a fantastic day, one that deserved a champagne toast.
Thanks to ŠKODA for the invite. Please can I come again next year?


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Are Coho Salmon the "NEW SALMON" for LAKE HURON?
Posted on February 28, 2020 March 6, 2020 by Mike Schoonveld
Kings, Cohos, Atlantic Salmon, Steelhead, Lake Trout…and their forage base
Atlantic Salmon and Steelhead have more extended lives and thrive on different forage
The Michigan DNR has an essential decision to make, in 2020: is the King dead?
Will cohos put the bend in the fishing rods of Lake Huron anglers in 2020?
By Mike Schoonveld
After the results of the coho salmon stocking experiment in Lake Michigan a few years back, the test was a success. Control of the overabundant alewife population had been established in Lake Michigan, so cohos were stocked in Lake Huron next. There, the experiment was also a success, but two things worked to keep the Lake Huron success in the background.
First, they were second. Who placed second at the Daytona 500 last year? Who earned a silver medal in Olympic ski jumping? Few people remember runners-up.
More importantly, after the resounding success of coho stocking in the Great Lakes, next came the stocking of chinook salmon. There's a cute maxim about Great Lakes salmon: "A coho is a silver, a chinook is the king!" Coho and chinook are the names given these species by the indigenous people, explorers, and settlers to the Pacific Northwest who called them silvers and kings.
The emphasis in this aphorism is on kings, since king salmon are usually two or three times larger than cohos and two or three times harder to bring to net, even at equivalent sizes. Once kings entered the picture, few anglers put much effort into trying to catch cohos.
In Lake Michigan, cohos gained a loyal following – especially in the southern end of the lake – near Benton Harbor and New Buffalo in Michigan, and again in Platte Bay in October, when Michigan's cohos show up for their spawning run. Lake Huron coho fans were much smaller in number, and far fewer cohos were fished for and caught. Add to this the expense of stocking cohos is roughly triple the cost per fish of stocking king salmon. It was an easy decision, 30 years ago, for the Michigan DNR to discontinue the coho program in Lake Huron.
The Michigan DNR reintroduced coho salmon in Lake Huron and they will be ready to catch this season, in 2020.
Things changed in 30 years, most notable was the collapse of the alewife/chinook salmon dominated ecosystem in Lake Huron. Sure there were lake trout, steelhead, walleye, bass, perch, even pike, muskies and smallmouth in certain areas, but the primary forage fish was alewife, and the central predator feeding on the alewives was king salmon.
The demise of the alewife/chinook ecosystem in Lake Huron is well documented. There were many moving parts in the collapse, but basically, king salmon numbers went up due to natural reproduction, and the resulting kings ate all the alewives.
Chinook catches crashed to near zero despite continued MDNR stocking in select locations. Biologists learned that most of the stocked fish that would hopefully provide a minimal background chinook fishery for Huron anglers had migrated to Lake Michigan, where alewives were available by the time they were big enough to catch.
The chinook/alewife connection proved to be unbreakable. When alewives were eliminated, native forage species (which had been suppressed by the abundant ales) flourished. Sticklebacks, sculpin, herring, and others increased, as did non-native smelt and invasive round gobies. Kings turned their nose up at eating these alternatives.
Not so with Lake Huron's other predator fish. Walleyes, lakers, and others quickly responded by foraging on these alternate, often more nutritious prey fish.
Fishermen, by and large, weren't as interested in fishing for lake trout, walleyes, and other species. It was king salmon that attracted the crowds and provided customers for charter captains, restaurants, hotels, and other businesses. Fishing license sales attributed to Lake Huron anglers dropped dramatically.
Can anything be done? That's the new question the MDNR hopes to answer.
One potential answer is to stock more steelhead.
Steelhead are more opportunistic feeders, seemingly as content to slurp beetles and moths off the lake surface as they are chasing shiners or other small prey fish.
Another potential answer is to stock Atlantic salmon. The Atlantic salmon program run by Lake Superior State at Sault Saint Marie in the St. Marys River, which flows into Lake Huron, seems to be vibrant. Perhaps the Atlantics could fill the void left by the shortage of Huron kings.
Perhaps an idea based on the concept "everything old is new again" could entice anglers back to Lake Huron. The MDNR recently stocked almost 50,000 coho salmon at Port Sanilac and another 50,000 at Alpena.
Food studies have shown cohos aren't nearly as picky eaters as king salmon. They spend their first year of life, or longer, in the hatchery. When stocked at only seven or eight inches in length, they feed more on bugs than prey fish for much of their second year of life, and even in their third and final year (they spawn and die at age three), they will eat insects as well as smelt, gobies or most any other fish they can find.
The angling results of this experiment will be known this year. By spring, these cohos should be two or three times as large (16 to 22 inches), and many will be four to six pounds by mid-summer.
When it comes to Lake Huron salmon, a take-off on another familiar dictum may be appropriate, "The king is dead…long live the coho!"
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MONSTER CATCH puts spotlight on Illinois Lake Trout COMEBACK
Posted on August 12, 2018 August 19, 2018 by Mike Pehanich
Capt. Shawn Keulen's monster lake trout, held here by Jordan Keulen, was within short reach of the Illinois state record. It also drew attention to the remarkable restoration of successful lake trout spawning on the reefs off the Illinois shoreline.
By Mike Pehanich
Shawn Keulen's 36-pound laker reported as 2nd largest fish taken from Lake Michigan so far this season
Lake trout reproduction on Illinois reefs best on all Lake Michigan
Goby addition to diet touted as key to natural laker reproduction
Capt. Shawn Keulen's 36-pound lake trout was a big fish that shed light on an even bigger story — that lake trout are spawning successfully off Illinois shore and creating another world-class fishery.
On Sunday, July 29, Lake Michigan guide Capt. Shawn Keulen brought a giant lake trout to boat. The head looked menacing and atavistic, a throwback to some species of prehistory. Its weight registered over 36 pounds on at least one scale, according to local reports.
But to long-time followers of the Lake Michigan fishery saga, the catch was big beyond its physical dimensions.
Keulen's laker is believed to be the second largest salmonid caught by hook and line this season, and it came within short reach of the Illinois state record lake trout of 38 pounds, 4 ounces, caught by Theodore Rullman in August of 1999.
More significantly, the catch highlights the revival of successful lake trout reproduction in Lake Michigan following decades of failure and disappointment.
"Illinois waters are loaded with lake trout," said Rob Wendel, manager of the Lake Michigan Angler bait and tackle shop in Winthrop Harbor (www.lakemichiganangler.com ; phone 224-789-7627). "You can catch as many as you wish. It's that good."
First mate Jordan Keulen holds Capt. Shawn Keulen's monster lake trout. The 36-pounder is believed to be the second largest salmonid taken from Lake Michigan this season.
Laker comeback
The monster laker, the largest reported from Lake Michigan this season, stirred recollections of the bold efforts of Great Lakes biologists, anglers and volunteers to establish or reestablish viable populations of salmon and trout to Lake Michigan 60 years ago. The lake trout was the species impacted most heavily by a devastating sea lamprey invasion and locust-like alewife propagation in the middle of the 20th century.
Angler conservation with catch and release can help populations survive.
The resultant program brought exciting Coho and Chinook salmon populations to the lake and buttressed fading steelhead numbers. But extensive efforts by Great Lakes states to bring back a self-sustaining population of the lake trout, a native predator, showed little success for almost half a century despite substantial annual stockings by the four Lake Michigan border states and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
That story line has changed dramatically in recent years, and, to the amazement of most, Illinois waters have staged the greatest lake trout comeback on the entire lake.
Careful release and life continues for a once endangered Lake Michigan population.
"We're seeing high rates of non-stocked fish, wild lake trout, in our samples," explained Vic Santucci, a Lake Michigan biologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. "Anglers are also seeing more wild fish showing up in their catch due to our mass marking project in which we mark stocked fish with adipose clips and coated wire tags. We are seeing probably on average over 40 percent wild fish in our population since 2012."
Reef madness
Lake trout are spawning successfully on reefs located off Illinois shores, most notably Julian's Reef and Waukegan Reef. In fact, reefs from Chicago to the Wisconsin state line may host the most active and successful lake trout spawning grounds on the entire lake.
"As far as we know from annual samples, our percentage of wild fish is highest here in the southern basin," continued Santucci. "We are seeing the highest percentage of wild trout in our samples. There are a lot of trout on the Midlake Reef in Wisconsin…but the last numbers I saw were in the high teens and 20- to 25-percent range (for wild fish). They go lower than that as you survey waters farther north."
Light tackle lake trout angling is becoming popular sport throughout the Great Lakes. That's Jeff Slater of Seaguar showing off a handsome specimen.
For bedding lakers, the cobble composition of the reefs is part of their charm. The chunk rock and small boulders comprise a lake bottom "where eggs can get into interstitial spaces and be protected from predators yet still get oxygen," according to Santucci. Ironically, shells of dead quagga mussels, an invasive mollusc, may also factor to lake trout favor in the evolving structure of the reefs.
Going goby!
Forage mix also seems to be working to lake trout favor. And the lowly round goby, long viewed as an ecological nemesis, may be the unheralded hero of the wild lake trout revival.
"The prevailing theory is that our lake trout suffered from a dietary deficiency when they were eating alewives almost exclusively," noted Wendel. "Now their diet has switched over to goby and other forage species as well. The diverse diet is healthier for the lakers, and the results are evident in lake trout catches today."
Santucci acknowledges the theory and finds it credible. He noted that gobies are rich in thiamine, believed to be the long-missing yet critical nutrient for successful lake trout reproduction.
"Lake trout feed on just about anything they can catch," he said. "In past decades, their diet consisted primarily of smelt and alewives, especially alewives. The gobies they consume today are quite possibly adding more vitamin B, thiamine, to their diet."
Wendel reports fabulous and consistent lake trout fishing off Illinois shores, though anglers often need to plumb triple-digit depths to catch them in late summer. But ballooning lake trout numbers in Illinois waters have reinvigorated angler interest in the species. Spring shore fishing along the Chicago lakefront is now popular sport, and light tackle techniques have brought out the fighting best in a species often berated for its performance at the end of a lead core line in 100-foot depths. Many are finding the fish can fight!
So, welcome to Illinois, lake trout mecca!
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Travel Destination: NIAGARA USA
Posted on June 9, 2017 June 9, 2017 by Bill Hilts
Water Temp Rising Now, Salmon Hitting with Fish to 22 Pounds
Smallmouth Bass Fishing is Good on Upper and Lower Niagara River
Southtowns Lake Erie Walleye Contest runs June 10-18
Niagara County, NY; June 9, 2017. Despite record high water levels in Lake Ontario, salmon and trout fishing continues to be good in the lake, although it did slow down a bit with the recent east winds. Some good fishing was being reported over the weekend from Tanner Niezgoda, of Newfane, while fishing out of Olcott.
Jason Krebs with a pretty Lake Trout taken in the Lower Niagara River on a drift.
Best depths were 60 to 80 feet down over 150 to 300 feet of water with spoons and flasher-fly combos. Salmon up to 22 pounds were caught by Tanner and his sister.
Many of the captains have been tight-lipped on information with the Orleans County Open happening this weekend. Be forewarned about the Niagara Bar with a report that moss is starting to come down through the river system.
In the Lower Niagara River, the fishing has been good to very good the past week. Steelhead and lake trout are still holding on, but they probably won't be around for long as the water nears the 60 degree mark. Minnows, Kwikfish and MagLips were all working on trout from boats up in Devil's Hole; shore casters in the gorge have been using tubes, swim baits and marabou jigs.
That same hardware will also work on smallmouth bass downriver, but Chuck Booker of Amherst proved that his signature in-line spinners can also catch bass by going 17 for 20 on his last outing this week north of the sand docks in Lewiston.
Yes, some moss is starting to show up, but you can still catch fish just fine. It will continue to get worse, though, as the month progresses. Outdoor Writer Mike Brown of Ohio came into town over the weekend and his crew of family and friends managed to catch about 40 fish while fishing with Capt. Joe Marra of Lewiston. Tip of the week: Don't set your rod down to take a picture for your story in the Niagara River without reeling in a little line first. Anyone who hooks into a nice spinning outfit in the river with a brand new reel on it could be returned to Capt. Joe.
Tanner Niezgoda, of Newfane, New York, Caught a beautiful lake Trout fishing Lake Ontario out of Olcott Harbor.
Upper Niagara River bass fishing also continues to be good. Remember that the regular season doesn't open until the third Saturday in June (June 17 this year) and if you are targeting bass, you must use artificial baits. Speaking of bass, the Annual Opening Day Bass Contest sponsored each year by Kelly's Korners will NOT be held this year. Organizers for the tournament didn't want to see the big bass end up in a fish fry and they decided to retire the event to help protect the resource. Some walleye are being caught at the head of the river and at the head of Strawberry Island on worm harnesses and jigs. This could be a sleeper area for the Southtowns Walleye Association's tournament that kicks off on Saturday, June 10. www.southtownswalleye.org
To help Celebrate National Fishing and Boating Week, there will be a Free Fishing Clinic at Ellicott Creek Park on Saturday, June 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call Mike Todd at 851-7010 to pre-register – although it's not required.
Just a quick reminder on water levels: There is still a state of emergency along the Lake Ontario shoreline for high water levels. This isn't really going to affect the fishing that much, but the Niagara County Sheriff is asking that boats creating a wake stay at least 600 feet from shore. This doesn't include trolling. Caution is advised for floating debris when you are out in the lake moving around. The problem seems to be launching. The best spot to be right now is the Town of Newfane Marina in Olcott. Fort Niagara has an open launch, but you need boots up to your knees or above. Golden Hill State Park launch is closed and Wilson-Tuscarora Park is day to day (but you need hip boots there, too). It's worth the effort for the good fishing!!
Posted in New York, State Reports, TravelTagged #BIll Hilts, #Lake Trout, #Olcott, #Salmon, Niagara River


Thank you Lyft for featuring our very own Sherilyn Adams in your Women's History Month series. In March, Lyft offered discounted rides to places honoring women's contributions to our history as well as to select women-owned businesses. Sherilyn chose The Tenderloin Museum as one of the places to celebrate for Women's History Month.
For more, read the full piece from Lyft Blog.


"What has the Internet ever done for us?" it is tempting to ask on occasion, given the overwhelming amount of vacuous junk we see online. Not to mention the black hole of time that the likes of Facebook can be for its high volume users.
But there is a lot of really useful information out there also. Take reference websites. Wikipedia is interesting in its breadth of topics (9.25m articles in 250 languages), but its user-generated nature makes it notoriously unreliable at times, particularly for topical issues.
Three great reference websites are Snopes.com, Thesaurus.com and The Economist Style Guide.
Urban myth buster Snopes.com, as well as endlessly entertaining, is a good site for checking chain emails before forwarding them 'to everyone you care about' or whatever. Melodramatic warnings about computer viruses or exhortations to boycott this or that designer for unconscionable behaviour are examined and categorised as true or false, with external sources cited for verification.
Thesaurus.com offers myriad suggestions for the elusive mot juste and its sister dictionary.com provides definitions as well as the opportunity to expand your vocabulary by signing up for their word-a-day in English or in Spanish.
The style book given to all journalists at The Economist is available online, and is an excellent resource for pedants and perfectionists keen to avoid solecisms, ensure correct usage of capitals, abbreviations or punctuation, or to pit their wits against the Economist in the style guide quiz.