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Marketing mechanics: first day at phpList
Today I start a new job writing Open Source marketing tools for phpList – the email newsletter sending app. Like MailChimp and SendGrid, phpList lets users design, write, send, and track emails to large numbers of people from a simple web interface.
Specifically, I'll be working on a new API to allow other apps to connect to phpList securely and handle subscribers and newsletters, and send mails. Once that's done, I'll be implementing the API in new software, but we're saving those details for later. Suffice to say that managing newsletters using phpList should become increasingly convenient and accessible over the next two months. Stay tuned.
"What is email / newsletter marketing anyway?" you may be asking yourself. "What does Open Source have to do with it?". Email marketing remains the most effective form of digital marketing, and is a central component of any promotional campaign. That makes it critical to all forms of business, especially when users have actively sought newletter membership. When campaigning for digital rights at FSFE, GnuPG, LibreOffice, and others, I've used such tools to spread the word about political developments and engagement opportunities. Hundreds signed up to receive news about the GPG crowdfunding campaign in winter 2013, for example, allowing me to notify them of new rewards and opportunities as the campaign progressed.
The software that performs these functions must be reliable and effective. Furthermore it must be trustworthy, which makes the availability of strong Open Source contenders in this field particularly important. Mailing list managers, as the apps are sometimes called, typically manage hundreds of thousands of email addresses, sometimes with other identifying information as well. This data is valuable – first and foremost to the people it identifies. Information must be stored securely, yet remain transparent and accessible to newsletter subscribers (allowing them to update details or opt-out, for example).
Kicking off
For more than a decade phpList has provided a competitive solution in an Open Source package, allowing organisations to host their own email campaigns and keep their user's data local. I've used it since 2008, and trained companies I've worked for to use it too. Having dipped into the codebase in June last year at the API sprint event, I'm grateful to finally have the opportunity to work more consistently on the project and functionality. Let's say it's an itch I've had for quite some time.
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Aden Derek Ridgeway (born 18 September 1962) is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for New South Wales from 1999 to 2005, representing the Australian Democrats. During his term he was the only Aboriginal member of the Australian Parliament. He is currently a spokesperson for Recognise, the movement to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples in the Australian Constitution.

Personal life
Ridgeway was born on the Bellwood Aboriginal Reserve near Nambucca Heads (close to Macksville, New South Wales), as one of the Gumbaynggirr people.

He was educated at Bellwood and St John's College, Woodlawn in Lismore.

Early career
After leaving school in Year 11, he worked as a boilermaker. He then became involved in the public service, engaging in a number of careers, including being a park ranger, and working in several New South Wales government departments.

In 1990, Ridgeway was elected onto the first ATSIC Sydney Regional Council, a position in which he served two terms of office.

In 1994, he became the Executive Director of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council. He continued in this position until 1998. Also in 1994, he became a Member of the Australian Museum Trust.

He became a Member of the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales from 1995.

He was the Director of the Public Service Board Staff Credit Union from 1996 to 1998.

Political career
Ridgeway joined the Australian Democrats in 1990.

During 1997–98 Ridgeway served as the state policy convener for the New South Wales Branch of the Democrats. He was subsequently selected in the first position on the Democrats' Senate ticket at the 1998 election.

Ridgeway has served on a number of parliamentary and senate committees. In March 2001, he addressed the United Nations Special Session on Racism. He also attended the World Conference Against Racism in South Africa in the same year.

In April 2001, Ridgeway was elected deputy leader of the Democrats, after Natasha Stott Despoja toppled Meg Lees in a leadership spill.

Ridgeway continued as deputy leader until August 2002, when along with fellow senators John Cherry, Lyn Allison and Andrew Murray, he succeeded in forcing Stott Despoja to resign. It was widely tipped that he would succeed her as leader. However, the media did not portray the spill kindly, labelling them the 'Gang of Four'.

Ridgeway was expected to be appointed interim leader however, in a surprise decision, the party's National Executive installed Brian Greig as interim leader due to the role Ridgeway played in forcing the resignation of Stott Despoja. Ridgeway did not contest the subsequent leadership ballot, at which Andrew Bartlett defeated Brian Greig. Ridgeway was technically leader between Natasha Stott Despoja's resignation and the appointment of Brian Greig as interim leader.

Ridgeway also stood down as deputy leader and was replaced by Lyn Allison.
Ridgeway did not contest the leadership and stood down as deputy leader as he felt the National Executive's decision not to appoint him as interim leader was a reflection on him in a leadership position.

He remained in the Senate, being particularly active on issues of indigenous affairs and reconciliation. He lost his seat in the 2004 election, along with Cherry, Lees (who had since left the party), and Greig. His term expired on 30 June 2005.

Post-political career
Ridgeway received the NAIDOC Person of the Year award in 2005 and was made chair of the National NAIDOC Committee, a role that he occupied until 2008.

In May 2006, Ridgeway was selected as the new host of ABC Television's Message Stick program. He was the inaugural chairman of Indigenous Tourism Australia.

In 2007, Ridgeway partnered with Tim Powell of Cox Inall Communications to establish Cox Inall Ridgeway, a social change agency that seeks to disrupt disadvantage in Indigenous communities. The agency is based on the lands of the Eora Nation (Walsh Bay, New South Wales), and Ridgeway is currently a partner in the business.

Ridgeway was Chairman of Bangarra Dance Theatre from 1998 to 2010.

Ridgeway was an Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation in 2013.

In February 2013, Ridgeway was announced as a spokesperson for the Recognise campaign, a movement to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution. In May 2013, he was one of a number of Aboriginal leaders to start the "Journey to Recognition", a relay across Australia to raise awareness of the issue.

On 4 March 2020, it was announced that Ridgeway would be a member of the Local and Regional Co-Design Group for the Indigenous voice to government, set up in late 2019.

References

External links

 Home page for Cox Inall Ridgeway

1962 births
Living people
Australian Democrats members of the Parliament of Australia
Indigenous Australian politicians
Members of the Australian Senate
Members of the Australian Senate for New South Wales
Australian boilermakers
21st-century Australian politicians
20th-century Australian politicians

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LikelyBin is an unsupervised metagenomic binner. The binner application is written in Perl and C and is tested to run on Linux distributions. The releases are available below.
Andrey Kislyuk, Srijak Bhatnagar, Jonathan Dushoff and Joshua S. Weitz. Unsupervised Statistical Clustering of Environmental Shotgun Sequences. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:316.


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Fascism is a system of government that gives the state full control over the population.Free men—the ruling men—own all the land and control all the workers.
Often, they are hidden behind sodalities—other front secret societies: And we have it on good authority that the Jesuits have been active in forming other holy orders (or sodalities), such as the Knights of Peter Claver and the Knights of Columbus, over which they retain immense control.
For it is an old trick on the part of the sons of Loyola, that whenever their Order is under threat or suspicion they swell their numbers by means of the sodalities of 'new' orders.
The Vatican's Intelligence Service and its field resources are second to none.
There is considerable analogy between Masonic and Jesuitic degrees; and the Jesuits also tread down the shoe and bare the knee, because Ignatius Loyola thus presented himself at Rome and asked for the confirmation of the order.
Fascism appeals to the Roman Catholic Church because it is the perfect vehicle through with it can gain full control. Just like the feudal lords in the Middle Ages, today's big industry is working with the government to suppress the common workers and control their movements. Read more about fascism in our world today Many Americans believe that they live in a democratic country.


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Stéphanie Polack est écrivaine et éditrice française. Elle est directrice littéraire pour la littérature française aux éditions Fayard depuis Décembre 2014.

Biographie

Formation
Après une classe préparatoire au lycée Henri-IV, Stéphanie Polack soutient en 1999 un DEA de lettres sur  à travers les œuvres de Primo Levi et Robert Antelme.

Carrière éditoriale et littéraire
Elle entre au service de presse des éditions Grasset en novembre 2001.

Parallèlement à son travail chez Grasset, elle publie chez Stock en 2007 son  premier roman, Route royale, repris en édition poche en 2009.

Son deuxième roman, Comme un frère, est finaliste du prix France Inter 2012 et, la même année, lauréat du prix Gironde des Nouvelles Écritures.

Devenue directrice littéraire chez Fayard, elle y réactive la littérature française ainsi que chez Pauvert en devenant l'éditrice, entre autres, de Blandine Rinkel,  Aurélie Filippetti, Maria Pourchet, Jean-Marc Parisis, Nesrine Slaoui,  Marien Defalvard et Dorothée Janin. Elle publie aussi avec succès François Bégaudeau et Léonora Miano.

Elle intervient ponctuellement depuis 2013 dans divers journaux et médias : La Vie des idées (),  AOC ,  France Culture, Libération ou la Revue des Deux Mondes. Sa tribune dans Libération sur les phallocrates démissionnaires a suscité beaucoup de réactions.

En 2020, elle dirige et préface un livre collectif sur le désir et ses désordres auquel participent notamment Aurélien Bellanger, Camille Laurens, Eric Reinhardt, Laurent Binet. Ce livre remarqué figurera notamment en une de L'Obs.

Fin octobre 2022, Manuel Carcassonne, P-DG de Stock, annonce à Livres Hebdo que Stéphanie Polack va rejoindre sa maison d'édition à partir de la mi-novembre.

Œuvres

 Route Royale, Paris, Éditions Stock, coll. « La Bleue », 2007, 116 p.
 11 Femmes : 11 Nouvelles inédites, Collectif, Paris, Éditions J'ai lu, 2008, 192 p.
 Comme un frère, Paris, Éditions Stock, coll. « La Bleue », 2012, 224 p.
 - Prix Gironde-Nouvelles-Ecritures 2012

Notes et références

Liens externes

Romancière française du XXIe siècle
Naissance à Saint-Germain-en-Laye


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Q: Is there a way in Excel to sort cells based on cell style? I'm trying to create a simple workout tracker using Excel. I want to track the amount of repetitions I do with modified versions of the workout. For example I have the data set of:
12, 16, 14, 20, 18
Those would be the amount of push ups I did each day. The bold days I did diamond pushups. By the end I wanted to compute the amount of repetitions I did of diamond push ups. Would it be possible to add them together based on their cell style?

A: Ideally, you'd want a second column and call it Type(?) then put next to it, Diamond Push up, then just filter that.
If not you can do it the harder way by this:
Select your entire Data (Entire Column),
Control+H (To bring up Replace Window),
Options,
Format,
Under Find what, Choose Format from Cell (Select a cell which has the Bold text in it),
Under Replace with, Choose Format, chuck on a pretty background color,
Then Filter with background color.

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Ubisoft Forums > Might and Magic > Might & Magic X Legacy > Might & Magic X - Legacy | Early Access Discussion > Will the early access got patches
View Full Version : Will the early access got patches
IvanKerensky
Will you update the early access version or not before the release ?
LE-Larissa
Hi IvanKerensky,
Yes as stated in our sticky (http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/787104-Give-us-feedback-and-help-to-improve-the-game-experience), we do plan to patch before release :)
...the time between Early Access and the full game release will be used to integrate your feedback and produce content for Act 2, 3 and 4, to work on the modding possibilities for the community as well as to polish and fix game bugs.
....During the time between Pre-Release (Act 1) and official game release we'll do our best to release several patches including new content and community feedback (i.e. balancing, bug fixes), of course.
Anna (LE-Larissa)


An outstanding recruiting video is essential for high school athletes hoping to earn college swimming scholarships.
College coaches don't have the time to see hundreds of swimming recruits in person. That's why a highlight video is one of the most important parts of your online resume. Good recruiting videos can show what a high school recruit has to offer in just a couple of minutes.
In order for your clips to be effective, you need to know what swimming coaches are looking for in highlight videos. Realize that all sports aren't the same when it comes to recruiting videos. NCSA knows specifically what highlights and videos college swim coaches want to see. For example, swimmers should highlight their technique using actual race footage.
If you follow the guidelines provided by NCSA and create a standout swimming video, you're taking the first step toward snagging a swimming scholarship.
IF possible, zoom in on the start of the race to see individual, then, as the race develops, pan out to a wider view to include other swimmers in the picture.
Span the entire pool from end to end, and from the end of your lane, focusing on only you.
Show one race from the side and another from the front for butterfly and breaststroke.
For IM coaches will want to see races that include every stroke.


Our bandanas are approximately 22x22 inches. You'll want to use this for everything! It can hold back your hair, wrap around your neck or wrist, tie it on your bag handle, eat on it, use it as a dinner napkin, wipe your nose or mouth with it, tie it around your baby for a bib, or accessorize your pet.


We at Elachee have been fielding phone calls and emails from individuals posing questions about the upcoming Solar Eclipse, and we thought it would be helpful to share these tips from Robert Webb, Elachee senior naturalist and astronomer.
Do not put on eclipse glasses and then try to view the Sun through binoculars or a telescope. The concentrated sunlight will BURN a hole right through your eclipse glasses and into your eye.
Before the eclipse, check your eclipse glasses for any pinholes in the coating. In a dark room use a flashlight to shine through the lenses, toward you, to reveal any defects. IMPORTANT: Do Not Use scratched or defective eclipse glasses to view the Solar Eclipse.
If you try to project the image of the partially eclipsed Sun onto a white wall or board using binoculars or a telescope, be warned. The heat from the Sun may ruin this equipment by melting the glue or plastic spacers between the glass elements of their lens.
During the eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017, being outdoors will be as safe as any other normal day. Just as on a normal day you would not look directly at the Sun, don't look at the Sun on eclipse day unless you put on special eclipse glasses.
An indirect way to view the Solar eclipse is to look at shadows under trees for images of the eclipsed Sun as the event occurs.
In north Georgia during the eclipse, the Moon will block more than 95-percent of the Sun's light. However, because the Sun is so bright, only those paying attention it will notice it is a little dimmer outside. Most may not even notice something special is happening.
The total Solar Eclipse will only be seen in the very northeastern corner of Georgia, on Monday, August 21, 2017. This region will be the only place you will be able to see the vivid, red chromosphere and the glorious corona. Of course, there are 13 other states in which you can view the eclipse, as well.
From start to finish, the complete Solar Eclipse is expected to last three hours: from 1:06 p.m. to 4:01 p.m. The special time of "totality" occurs only during a 2.5-minute window, starting at 2:35 p.m.
From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., look for colors to be richer and shadows to be sharper outside. It will even be cooler than your average August afternoon.
On eclipse day, if you're traveling to a viewing destination, leave early and take plenty of water, snacks, sunscreen, patience, and of course, your eclipse glasses.
Elachee Has Sold Out of Solar Eclipse Glasses.


The replacement cycle for new racquets has gone from 3.7 years to 7.1 years.
58% of tennis players are happy with the racket they currently have.
Lower income households are left in the red by $2,300 each year, leaving less income for leisure activities (Bureau of Labour statistics).
Inactivity in lower income households has increased the most. Higher income households are getting more active.


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Aradus breviatus är en insektsart som beskrevs av Ernst Evald Bergroth 1887. Aradus breviatus ingår i släktet Aradus och familjen barkskinnbaggar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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ISIS MILFs* want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a noose or a bullet if they had the misfortune to fall back into the hands of their own.
All the Soviet citizens who fought alongside Nazis against the Red Army at best ended up in gulags. Female non-combatant collaborators were lucky to escape with their heads shaved and being tarred and feathered (the post-liberation French were particularly keen on that, probably because they had the most to be ashamed of of all the occupied countries).
Now we are of course much more civilised and so we merely debate whether or not to allow jihadis to come back after their bloody gap years in Syria and Iraq (and by "we" I mean mostly the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, because Canada under Justin Castro Jr simply rolls out the welcoming carpet for the returning rapists and beheaders).
Case one in the news:
Islamic State bride Shamima Begum has been stripped of her British citizenship after showing no remorse for joining up with the terror group.
An official Home Office letter breaking the shock news was delivered to the teen's "disappointed" family earlier today, The Sun reported.
"Please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the Home Secretary, to deprive your daughter, Shamima Begum, of her British citizenship," the letter read.
"In light of the circumstances of your daughter, the notice of the Home Secretary's decision has been served of file today (19th February), and the order removing her British citizenship has subsequently been made."
The letter — obtained by ITV News — went on to urge the Begum family to make their daughter aware of the decision while adding she had the right to appeal.
The schoolgirl's family have said they are "disappointed" by the Home Office's decision, said their lawyer Tasnime Akunjee.
"We are considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision," he tweeted.
The Home Office has declined to comment further on the letter.
Begum's dual nationality — as both her parents are of Bangladeshi — reportedly cleared the way for today's decision.
If she didn't have any other nationality than British she would have been left "stateless".
Shamina of course would not have been stateless, since she choose to be a citizen of the Islamic State. It's not exactly our problem that the Islamic State is now reduced to a single village in Syria, which is surrounded by anti-ISIS forces and being pounded with artillery.
The former British schoolgirl fled from her home in Bethnal Green, East London, as a 15-year-old to join Islamic State in 2015.
She has this week pleaded to be allowed to return home after giving birth to a baby boy.
"I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff," Ms Begum said in a BBC interview.
She actually does support some British values, you know (Which ones?) and she is willing to settle back and rehabilitate and shit, you know what I mean? Honestly, the Millennial jihadis are the worst. You want a pumpkin spice latte with your rehabilitation, darl?
Not that Shamina is particularly repentant or regretful about her three-year magical mystery tour of Syrian shitholes.
However she also said the murder of 22 music fans in the Manchester Arena suicide bombing was "fair justification" for air raids on IS in Syria.
Showing no remorse, the 19-year-old dismissed the atrocity at the 2017 Ariana Grande concert as "retaliation"…
She said she feared she will never see her husband, the Dutch jihadist Yago Riedijk again, whom she still loved "very much".
Riedijk, 26, a convert to Islam who grew up in a middle-class family home in Arnhem, is suspected by police of being involved in a terrorist plot in the Netherlands.
He was convicted in his absence last year of membership of a terrorist group.
She also still doesn't particularly mind the beheadings, which were one of the things that made her join in the first place. But yeah, she wants back in with her progeny. Death to the infidel!* (*except for their welfare system and the health system and the council housing and free education and all that) Alas, the British authorities clearly don't share the enthusiasm anymore to be a refuge to every radical, ex-radical and maybe-ex-radical-maybe-not.
Case number two:
As you can see, ABC is getting absolutely "ratioed" for their "Alabama mother" take and the viewers aren't feeling particularly compassionate at the moment, despite the fact that Hoda Muthana is pretty photogenic (her son less so):
With U.S.-backed forces closing in on ISIS in Syria, young mother Hoda Muthana is pleading for a second chance and the opportunity to return home to her family in Alabama.
"I realized I've made a big mistake and I know I've ruined my future and my son's future and I deeply, deeply regret it," she said in an interview with The Guardian newspaper.
Muthana is one of 1,500 foreign women and children living in a Kurdish-run refugee camp in northern Syria.
Muthana's family lawyer, Hassan Shibly, told ABC News the young mother was "brainwashed" by ISIS and now feels "tremendous remorse."
"This is a young, vulnerable woman who was brainwashed and manipulated by monsters who took advantage of her," Shibly said in an interview that airs on "Good Morning America" on Tuesday morning. "Hooda is absolutely disgusted by the person she became while under the spell."
In case your heart doesn't melt, here is another cute photo that ABC provided:
No one can peer inside the hearts and minds of the Real Housewives of Raqqa to see how sincere their narratives of brainwashing and regret really are. Sure, they were young and impressionable. But as my favourite cleric, Imam Tawhidi tweets, "Making a mistake when you're 15 is getting caught smoking by your dad, not joining bloody ISIS." Aren't people entitled to second chances, however? Isn't the whole justice and penal system based on the idea of paying your debt to society and being able to start afresh?
Well, yes, but the Brides of Satan just expect to come back and resume their lives as if nothing has happened, as if they merely stayed with their grandma back in the old country for a few years as opposed to traveling half way across the world to a war zone to shack up with one of the most repulsive and violent groups around.
Would there be as much sympathy for Girls Gone Wild of the Caliphate in some sections of our society if instead we were talking about white supremacist teens seduced by dreams of a brutal Aryan superstate?
These questions don't necessarily have easy answers, but if the public sentiment is anything to go by, the average Joneses out there have little patience left with fellow citizens who can't make up their mind if they prefer Indianapolis or ISIS.
P.S. Gets better:
The campaign by Begum's family to have her returned to Britain sparked fresh controversy on Monday when the lawyer representing them, Tasnime Akunjee, compared the radicalised youngster to a 'traumatised' First World War soldier in a TV interview.
When Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley insisted she doesn't look very traumatised, Mr Akunjee replied: 'You might have said the same thing about a First World War soldier in the middle of shell-shock… they are both [in] warzones.'
Madeley branded the lawyer's comments 'foolish', saying his war veteran grandfather found it very difficult to talk about what he went through.
It came after Mr Akunjee claimed Nazi war criminals were given a fairer hearing than Begum, and blamed her local council, the police and even her school for letting her go to Syria in the first place.
I guess Britain in 1918 wasn't any happier about taking back shell-shocked Bethnal Green boys who chose to fight for the Kaiser
*MILFs: Moms I'd Like to Forbid (from re-entering the country).
Arthur Chrenkoff blogs at The Daily Chrenk, where this piece also appears.
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Q: How to merge two SQLite tables in python using UNION statement (currently getting "ValueError: parameters are of unsupported type" error message) I am quite new to both python and sqlite, so please bear with me, as my approach is certainly quite bootstrapped! I am trying to append multiple csv files to an existing table within an sqlite3 database using python 3.6. The code I have written combines the individual csv files into a single pandas data frame, which I then clean up by adding/combining/deleting columns to make it match the columns within the sqlite data frame. It then exports the new data frame as a csv file. I have managed to add this new csv file to the existing database, creating a new table in the database. What I want to do is add the data from the new table to an existing table within the database, so I tried to use a UNION statement, but it returns the following error "ValueError: parameters are of unsupported type". I know that when I look at the new table I created in the database, some of the columns are type "REAL" instead of text (despite converting them all to 'str' before exporting the csv), while all the columns in the table I want to join together using UNION are type "TEXT", so I suspect either this or the UNION statement itself is the problem, but I am not sure which and not sure how to fix either. Any help is greatly appreciated!!
import sqlite3
import os
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
def add_CO2_files_to_database (files=None):
# If a list of filepaths isn't specified, use every csv file in the same
# directory as the script
if files is None:

    # Get the current directory
    cwd = os.getcwd()

    #Add every csv file that starts with 'FD_' to a list
    files = [cwd+'\\'+f for f in os.listdir(cwd) if f.startswith('FD_')]

#Merge the csv files above into single pandas data frame and add a column
for file in files:

    df = pd.concat([pd.read_csv(fp).assign(file_name=os.path.basename(fp).split('.')[0]) for fp in files])

    #Create a new column called 'FD_serial' from the 'file_name' column
    #that consists of just the FD serial number
    df['FD_serial'] = df['file_name'].str[0:11]

    #Create another column that combines the 'Day', 'Month', and 'Year'
    #columns into 1 column called 'date'
    df['date'] = df['Month'].map(str)+'-'+df['Day'].map(str)+'-'+df['Year'].map(str)

    #Combine columns 'date' and 'Time' into a column called 'date_time'
    #then convert column to datetime format
    df['date_time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'] + ' '+ df['Time'])

    #Create new column called 'id' that combines the FD serial number
    #'FD_serial' and the timestamp 'date_time' so each line of data has a
    #unique identifier in the database
    df['id'] = df['FD_serial'].map(str) + '_' + df['date'].map(str) + '_' + df['Time'].map(str)

    #Add column 'location' and populate with 'NaN'
    df['location'] = np.nan

    #Delete unneccesary columns: 'Month', 'Day', 'Year', 'Time', 'date', 'file_name'
    df = df.drop(["Month", "Day", "Year", "Time", "date", "file_name", "Mode"], axis=1)

    #Rename columns to match the SQLite database conventions
    df = df.rename({'Flux':'CO2_flux', 'Temperature (C)':'temp', 'CO2 Soil (ppm) ':'soil_CO2', 'CO2 Soil STD (ppm)':'soil_STD',
               'CO2 ATM (ppm)':'atm_CO2', 'CO2 ATM STD (ppm)':'atm_std'}, axis='columns')

    #Change data types of all columns to 'str' so it matches the data type in the database
    df = df.astype(str)

    #Save the merged data frame in a csv file called 'FD_CO2_data.csv'
    df.to_csv("FD_CO2_data.csv", index=False)

THE SECTION OF CODE BELOW ADDS THE CSV FILE CREATED ABOVE TO THE DATABASE
#Connect to the SQLite Database and create a cursor
conn = sqlite3.connect("email_TEST.db")
cur = conn.cursor()

#Read in the csv file 'FD_CO2_data.csv' that was created above
df = pd.read_csv('FD_CO2_data.csv')

#Add the csv file to the database as a new table
df.to_sql('FD_CO2', conn, if_exists='append', index=False)

#df_db = pd.read_sql_query("select * from FD_CO2 limit 5;", conn)
cur.execute("SELECT id, FD_serial, date_time, CO2_flux, temp, Soil_CO2, soil_STD, atm_CO2, atm_STD, location  FROM CO2 UNION SELECT id, FD_serial, date_time, CO2_flux, temp, Soil_CO2, soil_STD, atm_CO2, atm_STD, location FROM FD_CO2", conn)

print(df_db)
add_CO2_files_to_database()

A: Inserting the rows from the new table into the existing table should be as easy as
cur.execute("INSERT into CO2 select * from FD_CO2")
This assumes that the columns in FD_CO2 map directly to the columns in CO2 and there will not be an insert conflicts, eg duplicate key. You will need a cur.commit() to commit the rows to the database
A UNION in sqlite is a compound query, it is essentially the same as a union in mathematics; it returns the UNION of two "sets" i.e. selects.
The error "ValueError: parameters are of unsupported type" is because of the conn argument to the execute. An execute takes arguments when the sql statement is parametrized, ie takes arguments. Here's the python doc on the subject.


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Q: Append sysdate to a table name in Oracle I need to append SYSDATE while creating a table in Oracle. Please let me know if there is a direct way of doing it (Using only SQL) or I have to use PL/SQL for the same.
E.g. If table name is ABC, I need to create table as ABC_20130416.
Let me know if more info is needed.

A: If SQL*Plus will always be available, you can do this using variables, something like (untested):
SQL>col yyyymmdd for a8 new_value v
SQL>select to_char(sysdate, 'YYYYMMDD') as yyyymmdd from dual;
SQL>create table ABC_&v (col1 integer);

On the other hand, if you want to able to do it anywhere you will need PL/SQL and dynamic SQL:
declare
  l_tablename varchar2(30) := 'ABC_' || to_char(sysdate, 'YYYYMMDD')
begin
  execute immediate 'create table ' || l_tablename || ' (col1 integer)';
end;
/

Or just create the table normally first and then rename:
create table xyz (
  ... many columns ...
);

declare
  l_tablename varchar2(30) := 'ABC_' || to_char(sysdate, 'YYYYMMDD')
begin
  execute immediate 'rename xyz to ' || l_tablename;
end;
/

A: With PL/SQL only:
begin
  execute immediate 'create table foo_' || your_timestamp_here ;
end;

A: PL/SQL CODE:
declare
  tabname varchar(32);
begin
  tabname := 'abc'|| TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'YYYYMMDD');
  execute immediate 'create table '|| tabname ||' ( f1 number, f2 number, f3 number)';
end;


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Right Facts, Wrong Conclusion
Byawa
When an article contains the following:
The new measure, containing 21 pages of carefully drafted verbiage, provides for pre-licensing background checks, mental health, social media screening and training in the use of a firearm, all of which will probably pass muster.
But the act also designates much of the state as a "sensitive location" where legally permitted guns will be legally prohibited. Sensitive locations must be "clearly and conspicuously identified with signage." What makes a sign "clearly and conspicuously identified" will keep lawyers and judges busy for a decade.
You know you are in for a roller coaster ride of twisted logic.
The author is obviously looking at the new bill through the lens of a pre-Bruen decision. There is nothing in the text or tradition of the second amendment to allow for the sort of screening put into this bill. Nothing to allow for training requirements. The only place they have any hope is in the "sensitive locations", but since they went overboard and made NYC a sensitive place, it is highly unlikely it will survive a judicial review.
He laments that there are so many different sensitive places it will be difficult to move through the city:
The six conservative justices have not thought it through. The court's decision is virtually impossible to administer. The practical problems are enormous. If I can legally carry a revolver in my pocket and capriciously decide to approach a "sensitive location," what do I do with the gun before entering?
And, if I can legally keep a gun in my apartment, and legally carry it on the street, how do I legally carry the weapon through the halls and public areas of the building without violating the law? The law says no guns on private property unless the landlord says OK
Finally we get to his real concern, his concern for the police.
And what of the burden on the police? It used to be that an officer, seeing someone with a bulge in his pocket in a high-crime area late at night, could "stop and frisk" the suspect for unlicensed weapons. But how does the cop distinguish between a licensed bulge in the pocket and an unlicensed one? Erased is the requisite "reasonable suspicion" that a crime is being committed.
The author is studiously ignoring the reality of the new law. The new law is not concerned about the burden on the police because their is no burden. If a gun owner manages to get a permission slip to exercise his right of self-defense there is no way to safely navigate through the waters of NYC. Everywhere he turns there is another mark on the map "Here be a felony".
The law isn't a burden on the police because it is a slap in the face of the Supreme court and every gun owner in the country. Having been told they must issue permits the state of New York has made it impossible to exercise the right to carry.
Is it any wonder that gun rights organizations are filling lawsuits left and right? How does somebody look at the fact pattern and decide that this is a burden for the police and not citizens?
— The Hill Is New York about to become the Wild West?
Miguel's Hit and Run: It was bound to happen.
376 useless assholes
By awa
3 thoughts on "Right Facts, Wrong Conclusion"
SYABM says:
The "wild west" comparison they love (drink a sip) is ironic when the West was actually pretty peaceful, and the idea of it of a lawless frontier is almost entirely fiction.
pkoning says:
I think it was Halbrook, in "That every man be armed" who compared 19th century crime stats for two working class tows, one in the "wild west" and one in the northeast. I think they were Leadville (CO) and New Bedford (MA).
It turned out the "wild west" town was far safer and more law abiding. The only obvious difference between the two was that in the western town, law abiding citizens habitually went about armed, while in the eastern town they did not.
And of course, quite apart from that, the "we'll have the Wild West here" trope has been shown, in every instance, to be a delusional fiction. (Or is that a malicious fiction?)
Very little will pass muster. They've made every public place in the entire state a gun free zone unless explicitly marked otherwise with a sign. The social media provisions are completely unenforceable and unconstitutional. The training will likely be found illegal as well when the state makes it impossible to complete and/or prohibitively expensive. This wasn't carefully crafted verbiage, this was compulsive liberal excrement put to paper and signed by a governor who is dumber than a bag of hammers. Sounds like the quoted author isn't much smarter.


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Psalms 34:18 "the Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."
Norman Carl Thomas was born on August 15th, 1962, to parents Carl and Claire. He was the youngest of 6 children. He attended Ms. Effie's Basic School, then Oracabessa Primary School. He then moved on to Oracabessa Junior Secondary School. After graduating, Norman started learning auto mechanics with Mr. Campbell in Oracabessa. He also started doing spear fishing. He migrated to the United States at age 24, where he did all sorts of odd jobs while attending school. Norman landed his dream job at UPS as a computer technician in 1997, where he worked for 25 years until his passing.
Norman always wanted a family and was the proud father of 3 boys: Isaiah, Andrew and Michael. He spent quality time with his boys and taught them to swim, signed them up for piano lessons, football and basketball. He also took them to Jamaica on several vacations. Norman and his childhood crush, Velores reconnected and got married on November 12, 2011. He also became stepfather to Astley and Kevin.
Norman was passionate about music, in his earlier years he made several demos in his room and named himself DJ Jah T. He also created a little band with his sons. He loved fishing and he could name just about all the fish in the ocean. During his many vacations to Jamaica, he often went swimming. He also was an amateur farmer, he planted many fruit trees on his land in Mango Valley and in Stewart Town, he would even plant tomatoes and peppers in the parking lot of his building in New Jersey. He often concocted his own menus, of which Ver would part take. Norman leaves behind his wife Velores, sons Isaiah, Andrew and Michael, stepsons Astley and Kevin, sisters: Claudette, Janice and Adula, brother Gladstone, nephews Chris, Craig, Othniel and Vaughn and niece Yanique and a host of other relatives and friends.
Norman, we all miss you dearly, your passing was sudden, but the good Lord did not make you suffer, you are absent in body, but you are present in spirit. We love you well, but Jesus loves you best, sleep on Norman and take your rest. Rest in peace Norman.


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The importance of reaching that goal of finishing in the top four is not lost on our number 10, as he feels the Champions League is the rightful home of a club like Chelsea, even if the increasingly competitive nature of the Premier League's upper reaches means qualification for Europe's top club competition is getting more difficult all the time.
'We have to qualify – that's it, that simple,' continued Hazard. 'We want to play in the Champions League next season so the only solution is to be in the top four or win the Europa League.
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'Every year is different, every year is hard, but I think the Premier League is getting harder every year. But at the end the target is always the same, to win something and then play Champions League next season.


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Get to Know Atria, and More Music News and Gossip
By Gordon Lamb	@gordonlamb
Photo Credit: Craig Coleman
READY FOR THE HOUSE: Athens/Macon group Atria just released its newest EP, Familiars. While Atria can definitely be referred to as a band, all the songs are written by guitarist and vocalist SaVana Cameron. Further, they each function as vehicles for her vocals, which often fluctuate between mid-timbre throatiness and what I want to call falsetto, but I'm certain there's a more technically correct term for what I mean. At any rate, anyone who's dug deeply into, say, Mothers' songbook over the past few years would do well to give this a fighting chance. This is deeper than it appears at first blush, too, as the tremeloed guitar on "Softly," pixie jazz of "Ambition" and semi-operatic arrangement of "Chanson" make clear. Check this out thoroughly at atriamusic.bandcamp.com.
DIGITAL DOLLARS: Athens label Arrowhawk Records has spearheaded two fundraising initiatives this month. First, all proceeds from digital sales until May 23 were donated to the Yellowhammer Fund, which provides financial help to those seeking services at, or needing help traveling to, any of the three abortion clinics in Alabama. Second, all digital sales until May 30 are being donated to the American Civil Liberties Union. Started a handful of years ago, Arrowhawk has steadily proven itself to be a fine arbiter of taste, and has a great catalog to show for it. Available releases include titles from Juan De Fuca, Arbor Labor Union, Chris Crofton, Cinemechanica, Bambara, Hand Sand Hands and more. All digital purchases are available via arrowhawkrecords.bandcamp.com, and if you need more information, see arrowhawkrecords.com.
STORYBOOK: Somehow—and you can read more about it in the liner notes—singer-songwriter Brad Gerke finally completed his new album, Burden, and released it a couple of weeks ago. He reports that this was recorded between two studios and four different houses, which, along with the length of time spent working on it, might explain the sometimes-jarring changes in styles and mood. For instance, it's a pretty steep drop between dark and slow opening track "A Bridge" into the somber but relatively sunny "Casting Lots." That's no slag, though—just a comment. Gerke's songwriting does slide around the admittedly broad plane of folk, Americana, blues and the like. High points on this release include "Ready to Leave," "Pillar of Salt" and "One Thing at a Time." Grab this at bradgerke.bandcamp.com.
NOW READ THIS: The UGA Performing Arts Center, under the direction of Jeffrey Martin, just announced its 2019–2020 season, and, hoo boy, go ahead and start rolling your coins. Although ticketing for the PAC always features a dizzying array of options, they are never inexpensive. Nor should they be! All told, the upcoming run has 35 separate events spread across seven distinct series. A few highlights are Kronos Quartet, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Che Malambo, Aaron Diehl Trio, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, The Second City, Wynton Marsalis and Patti LuPone. Head over to pac.uga.edu to explore your options, which might include taking out another student loan, selling a kidney or making friends with that nice older couple you know who are both rich and patrons of the arts.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS, INDEED: Newish Athens punk band Broken Windows dove straight into the deep end on its album Bleak House. While these dudes most definitely have a handle on melody and rhythm and can put a tune together in supremely crisp ways, there are a hell of a lot of nods to history that come across as hero worship. For instance, the positively Iggy/Richard Hell styling of "Crisis (Existential)" is a total bummer. Then, there's the downbeat Jonathan Richman-isms of "Salten Sea," which are pretty lifeless. Thing is, Broken Windows are totally fine when they sound like themselves. To wit, the screams through the chorus of "Windows" are chill-inducing and shocking in context. Similarly, "Fallen" rocks through its paces with total strength. Honestly, the best thing they could do at this point is not listen to anything I just said and vaya con dios. I mean, what punk band worth its salt listens to a critic, anyway? Cop this at broken-windows.bandcamp.com.
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Karim Abokahla (born 11 November 1996) is an Egyptian weightlifter. He won the gold medal in the men's 89kg event at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco. He also won two silver medals at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.

Career

He represented Egypt at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and he won the gold medal in the men's 89kg event.

In 2021, he competed in the men's 89kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He won the silver medals in the men's 89kg Snatch and Clean & Jerk events at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria.

Achievements

References

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Living people
1996 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Egyptian male weightlifters
African Games medalists in weightlifting
African Games gold medalists for Egypt
Competitors at the 2019 African Games
Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Egypt
Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting
21st-century Egyptian people


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Q: VBA For loop through named range error I'm trying to use a for-loop to pick up data from multiple files, but somehow either the single cell range or the named range are not working:
Sub GetTTData()
   ' Original from:
   ' http://ccm.net/faq/24666-excel-vba-copy-data-to-another-workbook

   ' CopyOpenItems Macro
   ' Copy open items to sheet.
   '
   ' Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+O
   '
   Dim wbReport             As Workbook 'workbook where the data is to be pasted
   Dim wbTTData             As Workbook 'workbook from where the data is to copied
   Dim strName              As String   'name of the source sheet/ target workbook
   Dim fileName             As String
   Dim RAWDataSheet         As Worksheet
   Dim SourceDataSheet      As Worksheet
   Dim RAWData              As Range
   Dim SourceData           As Range
   Dim portName             As String
   Dim rCell                As Range
   Dim files                As Range

   'set to the current active workbook (the source book)
   Set wbReport = ThisWorkbook
   'select Departure Airport
   portName = Worksheets("Control").Range("Dep_Airport")
   Set files = Worksheets("Control").Range("All_Files")

   'select cell A2 on the target book
   Set RAWDataSheet = wbReport.Worksheets("RAW TT Data")
   RAWDataSheet.Activate
   Set RAWData = RAWDataSheet.Range(Range("A2"), ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell))

   'clear existing values form target book
   RAWData.ClearContents

   For Each rCell In Range("files")

       'take source of TT Data from workbook and open file
       fileName = Worksheets("Control").Range("File_Path") + Worksheets("Control").Range("rCell")
       Set wbTTData = Workbooks.Open(fileName)

       'activate the source book
       wbTTData.Activate

       'clear any thing on clipboard to maximize available memory
       Application.CutCopyMode = False

       'copy the range from source book
       Set SourceDataSheet = wbTTData.Sheets("Sheet1")

       'filter RAW TT Data for Departure Airport
       Set RAWData = SourceDataSheet.Range(Range("A1"), ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell))
       RAWData.AutoFilter Field:=3, Criteria1:=Array(portName), Operator:=xlFilterValues

       Set SourceData = SourceDataSheet.Range(Range("A2"), ActiveCell.SpecialCells(xlLastCell))
       SourceData.Copy

       'paste the data on the target book
       RAWDataSheet.Range("A2").PasteSpecial

       'clear any thing on clipboard to maximize available memory
       Application.CutCopyMode = False

       'save the target book
       wbReport.Save

       'close the workbook
       wbTTData.Close savechanges:=False

   Next rCell

   'activate the source book again
   wbReport.Activate

   'clear memory
   Set wbReport = Nothing
   Set wbTTData = Nothing
   Set SourceDataSheet = Nothing
   Set SourceData = Nothing

End Sub

A: You have this variable:
Dim files As Range

And then you set it here:
Set files = Worksheets("Control").Range("All_Files")

Then when you begin your loop your code is:
For Each rCell In Range("files")

I think you mean for your code to read:
For Each rCell In files


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Free will has vanished in America . It was surrendered to something that is insidious, invidious, and very pervasive today: slavery. This nefarious interloper usurped the God-given rights of sovereign individuals and replaced them with the Welfare/Warfare State, the politically correct religion of the 21st century.
Statism has looted millions of Americans and has slowly reduced them to mere slaves. These slaves have only one function: to produce tax revenue. They also have only one right: the right to remain silent on their way to jail, but the Supreme Court just eroded Miranda, with even more erosion expected to follow later this summer.
Some readers are saying, 'You must be joking, right?' If only that were the case, but it's not. This nation is inhabited by slaves, yet the majority of them will vehemently deny being one, for many reasons, all of them specious. They prefer to believe something else. They prefer to ignore what they see happening around them on a daily basis. They prefer the illusion of freedom to the reality of their own indentured servitude to the State. They prefer the illusion of safety and security to the shock of seeing (or being) the next victim of crime or terror.
They will tell you how good they have it compared to the starving masses in Africa . They will tell you all about the great private school that their children are attending while they also fork over their 'fair share' of the annual $8000 per-child cost to send everyone else's children to failing public schools. They will brag about their income tax 'refund' while rationalizing that they got a good deal by surrendering only 40% of their gross income to the State. They will oppose income tax cuts 'for the children' while dooming their grandchildren to slavery for life to pay off the huge and growing federal debt.
These slaves are deluded and unconcerned and they just can't wait to vote again to guarantee even more of the same in the future. Just like punch-drunk boxers, they continue to crawl back into the ring, oblivious to the fact that their tenacity only ensures more abuse by the State.
They not only watch 'The Simpsons,' they agree with Homer when he says, 'Marge, the reason we have elected officials is so that we don't have to think.' To them it's not a joke; it's what they believe. Some might say that is their choice, that these slaves are exercising their free will, but they are wrong because these slaves are ignorant of the truth: surrendering their free will is what made them slaves in the first place.
These slaves are no different than any others throughout history; they have no free will because slavery and free will are mutually exclusive. Yet they claim free will and vehemently deny being slaves. They will tell you that they are proud to pay their income taxes, that they would never consider cheating the State out of 'its money,' and that they would gladly report anyone who isn't paying their 'fair share' to the IRS.
These slaves are not only dangerous, they are dooming this nation. They will gladly support any candidate who campaigns on a platform of safety, homeland security, a large standing army, global interventionism, nation building, saving the world for democracy, leaving no child behind, looting the wealthy, rewarding the poor for being poor, or locking up 'criminals' who ignore the State's insane drug laws.
A corollary is, 'Denying that you are a slave doesn't mean that you are free.' It's a matter of education. The Statists successfully used public education to indoctrinate students into believing that they are inferior to the State, despite the Founder's declarations of the supremacy of sovereign individuals.
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