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Q: Funnel Legacy SQL Filter problems - BigQuery we're trying to use script for a funnel for google BigQuery that Doug Mackenzie created linked here:http://online-behavior.com/analytics/funnel-analysis
We have run into some problems with our SQL call.
We're trying to use a filter from a hits.customDimensions.index = 20 where the value is 1. These values are always present so a simple filter such as the ones used as examples in his introduction is unfortunately not adequate.
A filter such as:
WHERE hits.customDimensions.index = '20' Does not filter what we need to have filtered.
Rather we need (we imagine) something like this:
WHERE MAX(IF(hits.customDimensions.index=20,hits.customDimensions.value,NULL)) WITHIN hits as locked= '1'
This is how we've tried doing it:
FROM (
    SELECT
      fullVisitorId,
      visitId,
      MIN(hits.hitNumber) AS firstHit,
      MAX(IF(hits.isExit, 1, 0)) AS exit
    FROM(
      SELECT
      *,
      MAX(IF(hits.customDimensions.index=20,hits.customDimensions.value,NULL)) WITHIN hits as locked,
      FROM
      TABLE_DATE_RANGE([[dataset.ga_sessions_], TIMESTAMP('2017-06-01'), TIMESTAMP('2017-06-04'))
      )
    WHERE
      REGEXP_MATCH(hits.page.pagePath, '^/plus/.*/[0-9]')
      AND totals.visits = 1
      AND locked= '1'
    GROUP BY
      fullVisitorId,
      visitId) s0

This returns the error:
Error: Cannot query the cross product of repeated fields customDimensions.index and hits.kunde. ; Cannot query the cross product of repeated fields customDimensions.value and hits.kunde.
We have seen that there are some suggestions to use FLATTEN on problems with the above mentioned error. However this did seem to give syntax errors:
  FROM (
    SELECT
      fullVisitorId,
      visitId,
      MIN(hits.hitNumber) AS firstHit,
      MAX(IF(hits.isExit, 1, 0)) AS exit,
      MAX(IF(hits.customDimensions.index=20,hits.customDimensions.value,NULL)) WITHIN hits AS locked
    FROM
      FLATTEN(TABLE_DATE_RANGE([[dataset.ga_sessions_], TIMESTAMP('2017-06-01'), TIMESTAMP('2017-06-04')),hits.customDimension)
    WHERE
      REGEXP_MATCH(hits.page.pagePath, '^/plus/.*/[0-9]')
      AND totals.visits = 1
      AND locked = '1'
    GROUP BY
      fullVisitorId,
      visitId) s0

Just gives the error: Error: Not found: Table eb-bigquery:3917183.ga_sessions_
So any suggestions to how we can get the filter to work would be much appreciated.

A: BigQuery has evolved a lot since this blog was written and now we have more advanced techniques to process data.
That's the main reason why I asked if you could use the Standard Version of BigQuery as solving this would be easier there. For instance:
SELECT
  fullvisitorid,
  visitid,
  (select min(hitNumber) from unnest(hits) where regexp_contains(page.pagePath, r'^/plus/.*/[0-9]')) firstHit,
  (select max(isExit) from UNNEST(hits) where regexp_contains(page.pagePath, r'^/plus/.*/[0-9]')) exitFlag
FROM `table`
WHERE 1 = 1
  AND EXISTS(select 1 from unnest(hits) where regexp_contains(page.pagePath, r'^/plus/.*/[0-9]'))
AND EXISTS(select 1 from unnest(hits) hits where (select count(value) from unnest(hits.customDimensions) custd where index=20) > 0)
AND totals.visits = 1

This query does the same thing and runs faster than the Legacy ones as it avoids first unnesting all repeated fields and then processing the data.


Virtual reality isn't all fun and games. It's also helping with flood mitigation.
"We've built this tool that can characterize the risks around flooding and the influence that good management practices within the agricultural landscape can have on flood resiliency downstream," said Steven Frey, a senior scientist at Aquanty Inc.
The company, a research spinoff from the University of Waterloo specializing in computer simulations, has been conducting a computer modelling project on Manitoba's Assiniboine River Basin.
Like Alberta, Manitoba — and in particular, the Assiniboine River Basin — has experienced catastrophic flooding in the past decade. In 2011, the area experienced a one-in-300-year flood that stretched from late April to the end of June, costing more than $1 billion in property damage. Just three years later, heavy rainfall in June sparked a second flood that was just as devastating.
This study aims to assess the impact of climate change on water resources in a large watershed within the Laurentian Great Lakes region, using the fully‐integrated surface‐subsurface model HydroGeoSphere. The hydrologic model is forced with an ensemble of high‐resolution climate projections from the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF). The latter has been extended with an interactive lake model (FLake) to capture the effect of the Great Lakes on the regional climate. The WRF ensemble encompasses two different moist physics configurations at resolutions of 90km, 30km, and 10km, as well as four different initial and boundary conditions, so as to control for natural climate variability. The integrated hydrologic model is run with a representative seasonal cycle, which effectively controls natural climate variability, while remaining computationally tractable with a large integrated model. However, the range of natural variability is also investigated, as are the impact of climate model resolution and bias correction. The two WRF configurations show opposite climate change responses in summer precipitation, but similar responses otherwise. The hydrologic simulations generally follow the climate forcing; however, due to the memory of the subsurface, the differences in summer propagate throughout the entire seasonal cycle. This results in a set of dry scenarios with reduced streamflow and water availability year‐round; and a set of wet scenarios with increased streamflow for all times excluding the spring peak, which does not increase. Most of the analysis focusses on streamflow, but changes in the seasonal cycle of baseflow and groundwater recharge are also analyzed.
The interaction between surface water and groundwater during flood events is a complex process that has traditionally been described using simplified analytical solutions, or abstracted numerical models. To make the problem tractable, it is common to idealize the flood event, simplify river channel geometry, and ignore bank soil heterogeneity, often resulting in a model that only loosely represents the site, thus limiting its applicability to any specific river cross-section. In this study, we calibrate a site-specific fully-integrated surface and subsurface HydroGeoSphere model using flood events for a cross-section along the South River near Waynesboro, VA. The calibration approach presented in this study demonstrates the incorporation of fining direction regularization with a highly parameterized inversion driven by natural stimuli, to develop several realistic realizations of hydraulic conductivity fields that reflect the depositional history of the system. Specifically, we calibrate a model with 365 unique material zones to multiple flood events recorded in a dense well network while incorporating possible fining sequences consistent with the depositional history of the riverbank. Over 25,000 individual simulations were completed using calibration software and a cloud platform specifically designed for highly parallelized computing environments. The results of this study demonstrate the use of fining direction regularization during model calibration to generate multiple calibrated model realizations that account for the depositional environment of the system.
Figure 5. a) Finite element mesh including boundary conditions and material zonation based on the hydrostratigraphic interpretation of the site; b) 365 material zones for calibration of hydraulic conductivity (colouration indicates zone location and not material properties); and c) quadrants to which different fining preferences (shown by arrow directions) for model calibration were assigned.
"We have an exciting and inspiring the 45th Congress of IAH 2018 on September 9-14, 2018 in Daejeon, South Korea. The IAH 2018 Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts from worldwide experts in the fields of hydrogeology.
In order to make IAH 2018 successful, please submit abstract through the website http://iah2018.org. The deadline of abstract submission is March 31, 2018. Don't let your science and technology be left out due to late submission!
We look forward to seeing you all this coming September in Daejeon, South Korea."


In Windows 7 Built-in functionality in Disk Management to expand or Shrink the partitons to each disk. To do this utility, you have to follow the steps below.
Step 1: Right Click on My Computer then click on Manage.
Step 2: Click on Storage and then Double click on Disk Management.
Step 3: Right Click Select "Shrink Volume" on Disk which you want to Shrink or Resize it.
Step 4: Put some which you like to put and click on Shrink.
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Sun Hung Kai Properties : releases 2020/21 Sustainability Report on ESG performance and new environmental targets
Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP) has set new 10-year environmental targets, as outlined in the 2020/21 Sustainability Report released today.
The new 10-year environmental targets cover its management of greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water use and construction waste diversion. These include a pledge to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of the Group's major properties by 25% by 2029/30. The Group also commits to obtaining Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for all its new investment properties. The initiatives represent an advancement of the Group's green efforts after it met its five-year energy reduction target in the last financial year, in keeping with the Group's spirit of Building Homes with Heart.
SHKP's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies are in tune with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and the Group fully supports the government's sustainability initiatives in environmental protection, talent development, housing supply and more.
Highlights of SHKP's sustainability initiatives and the value they created for stakeholders and the community are as follows:
ICC became the first building in Hong Kong to receive the Health - Safety Rating for Facility Operations and Management certificate from International WELL Building Institute. Moreover, the Group's core commercial projects under construction are all designed to obtain LEED Gold or Platinum ratings. And to help combat climate change, SHKP promotes the use of electric vehicles and renewable energy.
SHKP took the largest number of recruits from the first batch of candidates of the government's Greater Bay Area (GBA) Youth Employment Scheme, enabling fresh university graduates to explore career opportunities in GBA cities. Apart from supporting career development of its staff, the company took extra care of their health during the pandemic. It was one of the first property developers to support the government's vaccination outreach scheme.
Smart technologies, especially those enabled by its 5G network, are leveraged to promote smart living and maximize satisfaction of customers and property users. As at the end of June 2021, The Point by SHKP, a customer loyalty programme under the SHKP Malls App, had more than 1.2 million members.
The Group's procurement takes into account environmental factors. Close to 100% of its suppliers are locally based companies, which are preferred whenever possible to reduce carbon emissions from transportation and to support the local economy. In addition, the company integrates smart technologies into traditional construction practices to enhance health and safety features at its construction sites.
SHKP continues to promote reading among youth, sports for charity and care for the underprivileged. Embracing the cross-generational living concept, the company will develop its first multigenerational housing project in Tung Shing Lei, Yuen Long. Some of the units will be configured specifically for the elderly, and the project will include a wellness centre, kindergarten and nursery to create a harmonious living environment. The construction of United Court, SHKP's transitional social housing project, is expected to be completed in 2022, and will offer 1,800 units, benefitting 5,000 underprivileged families.
To view the full Sustainability Report, please visit https://www.shkp.com/Html/CSR/SHKP_SR_2021_EN.pdf
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'use strict';
import fetch from 'node-fetch';

/**
 * NOTE: This file is duplicated on some services. Be sure to update all of them
 * - ram-analysis
 * - ram-vt
 * - ram-backend
 */

/**
 * Cache for the credentials.
 */
let AWSInstanceCredentialsCache = {
  accessKey: null,
  secretKey: null,
  sessionToken: null,
  expireTime: null
};

/**
 * Fetches the instance credentials for a given role name.
 * The instance needs to belong to the given role.
 *
 * @param {string} roleName The role name to use when fetching the credentials
 *
 * @throws Error if any of the requests fail.
 */
export async function fetchAWSInstanceCredentials (roleName) {
  // When inside a container in a ec2 instance (or when using fargate), the ecs
  // client adds a varible with the credentials url. If is is available use that.
  // Docs at: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task-iam-roles.html
  const relUrl = process.env.AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_RELATIVE_URI;
  let accessCredUrl = '';
  if (relUrl) {
    accessCredUrl = `http://169.254.170.2${relUrl}`;
  } else {
    // If we're inside an ec2 machine just use the regular url and fetch the
    // role if it was not provided.
    const awsIAMUrl = 'http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/';
    if (!roleName) {
      const roleRes = await fetch(awsIAMUrl, { timeout: 2000 });
      if (roleRes.status >= 400) throw new Error('Unable to fetch role name');
      roleName = await roleRes.text();
    }
    accessCredUrl = `${awsIAMUrl}${roleName}`;
  }

  const accessRes = await fetch(accessCredUrl, { timeout: 2000 });
  if (accessRes.status >= 400) throw new Error('Unable to fetch access credentials');
  const accessCredentials = await accessRes.json();

  return {
    accessKey: accessCredentials.AccessKeyId,
    secretKey: accessCredentials.SecretAccessKey,
    sessionToken: accessCredentials.Token,
    // Set the expiration back 30min to give some margin.
    expireTime: (new Date(accessCredentials.Expiration)).getTime() - 1800 * 1000
  };
}

/**
 * Gets the credentials from cache unless they are expired.
 *
 * @see fetchAWSInstanceCredentials()
 *
 * @param {string} roleName The role name to use when fetching the credentials.
 * @param {bool} force Force fetching new credentials. Defaults to false.
 */
export async function getAWSInstanceCredentials (roleName, force = false) {
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    // Fetch new credentials.
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}

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Got a client looking for stand alone AD&D with $50 - $100k face. Carrier suggestions and details?
MoO goes up to 70 but it's AD only. No dismemberment benefits. Face goes up to 500K.
He can probably get by with death alone. Issue up to age 70, but how long after 70 does it stay in effect? Does it automatically term at a specified future age?
Gerber's A D & D is issued to age 69, stops at 80 except in Massachusetss, Colorado and florida, where it does not terminate.
Yes, it is renewable to age 80.


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The Universe is Ours
Categories: Libertarianism
Topics: globalization, jobs
This guest post is by John Deangelo of antiwarwarvet.com
Fellow Americans, we live in a magnificent country. 3.8 million square miles smack in the middle of North America spangled in steadfast colors. So grand, in fact, that a hegemonic hands-on-the-waist global posture simply isn't enough. Consider all of the children not under our care. After all, the only problem with the remaining 196 countries on earth is that they aren't these glorious United States. They merely require purification.
As our mission of unrefined altruism continues here on earth, there remains a final frontier worthy of our benevolent bootprints: the universe.
In February of this year, internet memedom exploded with Starship Trooper Space Marine's stamped in Ol' Glory trouncing potential foes in the great beyond. Trump had issued the order to stand up a new, tremendous branch of freedom's honor guard; the Space Force.
Much to our collective chagrin, neither the duo of Bugs and M.J. nor Johnny Rico was tapped to command the sweeping legions of dusky, iron-clad U.S. Space Marine's. As a consolation, we got some insights into their mission statement.
"The United States Space Force will ensure that our nation is prepared to defend our people, defend our interests, and to defend our values in the vast expanse of space and here on Earth with the technologies that will support our common defense for the vast reaches of outer space," Pence said at the National Space Council meeting Tuesday.
If you thought eradicating terror from the face of the earth was ambitious, Trump and company have got news for you. As the blue planets last bastion of ethereal freedoms, and having revolutionized its ability to plant outposts anywhere, the United States government now has the means and charge to make the skies safe for democracy.
Four times in a single sentence, Vice President Pence reiterates the defensive nature of this move by the executive. As if a bloated and burgeoning defense budget, a global network of missile defense systems, allied military support, and far-flung strategic positions weren't enough, Pence seems to be trying to convince us, and maybe himself, that we need the Space Force.
If the Global War on Terror has taught us anything, it's that this century-old wisdom rings true: "war is the health of the state." Since its beginning, the U.S. federal government's budget, width, and breadth have all expanded like the edges of the universe itself. With the new advent of a space-specific military branch, the last legal framework for American universal domination is taking shape. Don't doubt the lawyer-alchemist's abilities to conjure links between alien-life and al-Qaeda, extending an already tenuous AUMF to the very stars above.
While hawkish eyes gaze upward, warheads continue pointing outward. It's not space Muslims or alien life this Space Force functionally guards against, rather the perennial enemies of Russia and China. "The Air Force's actual concerns center on China and Russia's ambitions, including current attempts at interfering with communications between satellites and other military machinery, like ships in the Pacific or planes flying over Syria," says Paul Shinkman of U.S. News' National Security. Since 2007, U.S. concerns over China's capabilities to disrupt satellite operations escalated with the launch of their anti-satellite missile. This poses a potential threat to Pentagon satellite-warfare progress. "Our competitors out there have been watching the way we fight over the last 26 years. And they see our asymmetric advantage that very often comes from capabilities in space. They're looking for ways to deny that to us," says Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein. Evidently, endless conflict has one downside to these cretins.
Overt military action towards the U.S., even if outside the atmosphere, would mean all-out war; and not with cosmonauts. "There's no such thing as a space war," Navy Rear Admiral Brian Brown of Joint Functional Component Command of Space admits. "There would not be a war that just stays in space. The minute a conflict extends to space … it starts to affect all domains." This imparts the Space Force, as a stand-alone military branch, the inimitable strategic purpose of absorbing attacks for subsequent "real battle" in kinetic, conventional environments.
The American military apparatus, backed by some of the world's most powerful nations, outmatch any potential belligerent to 'democratic' dominion. Practically speaking then, "space superiority" in the current climate is a jobs program disguised as muscle for tech protection. "Defense" is the military contractor equivalent of a mafia front and the government's convenient justification for further military expansion and anticipatory legalese before technological advance requires action.
U.S. intelligence assets in space have and will continue to be protected in virtually the same way. Space Force serves to draw battle lines over the vacuum-sealed space corpse of once-globally cooperative efforts, further militarizing an already fetishized fascistic model of war-corporatism.
Star Wars: The Founders Promise will undoubtedly be the harbinger for further domestic nationalization, too. Without exception, U.S. military action always swells the state's scope. In an increasingly digitalized world, imagine the implications of fully nationalizing and "securing" satellite and space infrastructure while in its infancy.
Only one ardent liberty stronghold stands between the threat of Martian terrorism and common sense; "Establishment of the Space Force still requires congressional funding and authority, a step Pence said Tuesday would happen soon," per USA Today.
A chorus of snickering and chaffed elbows ensues. Such hubristic assurance for the passing of military boondoggles through bipartisan channels is Pence's signal to the world that we're all missing the joke. From both banks of the Potomac, the quiet refrain of a tragic comedy resounds: "The universe is ours."
This article originally appeared on antiwarwarvet.com
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Data shows that Canadians continue to embrace low-cost ETFs. That said, more monies continues to flow into high-fee mutual funds. As you likely know, Canadians pay the highest mutual fund fees in the developed world. Of course those high fees are wealth destroyers and they can eat up 50% of your investment returns over the decades.
But here's the good news, more Canadians are moving more monies to low-cost ETF portfolios by the way of self-directing or through Canadian Robo Advisors or by way of those One Ticket Asset Allocation Portfolios.
Here's a look at the flow comparisons for Mutual Funds and ETFs courtesy of the IFIC site.
Here's the sales figures for mutual funds in what we would typically call the usually robust RRSP season, January and February.
And here's the sales figures for the ETF industry for RRSP season.
If we want to be optimists, that is more than promising. While 2019 was a soft RRSP season for money flows into mutual funds and ETFs (compared to 2018 figures) there was an acceleration of flows to ETFs compared to mutual funds, year over year.
In 2019 35% of new monies went to ETFs.
That is certainly something to celebrate. While the total mutual fund industry is almost 10 times the size of the ETF industry, they did not even double the size of inflows for January and February of 2019. That aligns with the findings of Nest Wealth who conducted a poll in RRSP season. Respondents suggested that one-third of all new account openings would be by way of one of the Canadian Robo Advisors – also known as digital wealth managers. For more on that please have a read of There will be a tipping point for 'Robo Advisors' suggests Randy Cass of Nest Wealth. Keep in mind the poll was reading account openings not the move of assets or amounts of assets.
Here's another way to frame that more than 'good news'.
In what year will more monies goes to ETFs over mutual funds?
I don't even want to guess. I don't mind being wrong (which I would be), but I also don't want to get my hopes up. The simple projections based on current trends might suggest several years. But if we get more acceptance and awareness we might get a nice surprise and see more monies flow into ETFs within 5 years or so. And in the self-serving attempt to not get left behind, many of the bigger banks might make the move to providing lower cost options that includes ETFs and ETF One Ticket Solutions and perhaps more low-cost index-based funds. We've seen RBC team up with iShares, the world's largest ETF provider by assets under management. And of course the number 2 ETF provider in Canada is BMO. RBC is a profit monster and many in the industry will suggest that RBC is Canada's best-run bank. They might be the smartest bankers in the room. They know that 'something is up'. The high fee cat is out of the bag.
What will cause the tipping point?
Put it this way, the big banks and mutual fund companies did not get out in front and do what's right for investors. They will have it thrust upon them. When more monies starts to flow to ETFs it's likely all over but the crying. Canadian investors, en masse, will likely wake up to the new reality that there is a better way to invest. RBC likely knows that if you're not already in the game in a meaningful way, the train will leave without you. There are some banks and well-known wealth managers who are about to get left behind.
TD might have to pull their e-series funds out of the closet, ha. But that will be too little, too late. Many of the high-fee dinosaurs are scrambling already.
For Globe and Mail subscribers, here's a link to that surprising article and take on mutual fund industry trends and the attempt to adapt to the new realities.
And keep in mind that not all mutual fund providers are bad (just most). I am a big fan of Steadyhand, Mawer Investments, Leith Wheeler and of course, Tangerine Investments' index-based portfolios are mutual funds.
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Boomer and Echo on Women, Wealth and Retirement.
And I really like the parallels between healthy living and financial health. You Cut The Crap. The Dividend Guy suggests that you can have a beach body and asks How's Your Beach Money?
I wrote on annuities with my review of Pensionize Your Nest Egg. Mark Seed asks the right questions in this interview with author Alexandra Macqueen.
Jonathan Chevreau suggests Women need to focus on financial independence, with or without a spouse.
In The Financial Post, Tom Bradley of Steadyhand offers up on the Canadian fee story and on those seeking advice and lower fees.
And here's Jason Heath with The ins and outs of tax and estate planning for RRIFs. That is an area that is often misunderstood and is the source of many financial planning 'mistakes'.
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Thanks Brett, not sure why the previous link did not stick. I appreciate the heads up.


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Steaming Through Snowdonia is Poetry in Motion and one man wants everyone to experience it!
Gordon Rushton
The marvel of human invention is never more wondrous than when it harmoniously blends with nature and when technology enables you to view the beauty of this landscape at first hand it is a marriage made in heaven. Gordon Rushton describes how a Welsh national park, two preserved railways and a special steam train are the perfect paradigm of nature, man and machine working together.
It is well known in England and Wales how beautiful Snowdonia is. People flock to see it each year in their thousands as it is so easy to get to. It is not so well known in the rest of the world, as few can imagine how majestic a 1000m mountain actually looks when it rises almost out of the sea! For those that think it cannot be grand - they are in for a pleasurable surprise.
Snowdonia contains the North Wales mountain ranges that after millions of years have created an Ice Age story on old volcanic rocks. The slopes are massive and smooth: not too high; not too flat. The tops are rounded and bare; the hillsides are wooded or grassed, populated with sheep; cool forests clothe the slopes. You can drive through it, dodging the traffic on narrow roads, and enjoy trying to find places to park in among the other cars, or you can do something totally different.
A wonderful railway has been lovingly reconstructed for over 25 miles (40km) from coast to coast, across the Lleyn Peninsula. This is no ordinary train ride: the gauge is only 2ft (597mm); the carriages are small yet comfortable enough to feel snug; you can look out of opened windows; there is even an open car for those who love the outdoors, a buffet car for a snack, a loo for comfort stops, and even a luxurious observation car to look out of the back. This is not a high speed train - it prides itself in gliding along at a heady 20mph (35kmh), and everyone enjoys the view, and the unhurried ride this offers. The big little train, of 10 red and cream cars, is pulled by a little giant of the steam age, a Beyer-Garratt locomotive, built in Britain for Africa, and returned home to do more service after a lifetime in Natal.
In its own right this new railway - finished in 2011, and last used before that in 1937 - carries a big summer load. Nearly 100,000 people booked on it in 2013, most of them starting at the mediaeval fortress of Caernarfon, and travelling right through the mountains to Porthmadog on the coast of Cardigan Bay. The Welsh Highland Railway, as it is known, makes an end-on junction with the world famous Ffestiniog Railway at this point. Even more people travel on this 13 mile (20km) line into the mountains to the old slate town of Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The Ffestiniog Railway is a true main line railway in miniature. It began in 1832, and is the oldest railway company in the world still operating on its original line. An engineering marvel in its day, it had steam locomotives in 1863, some 150 years ago. It is the only place in the world where you can see one of steam's true dinosaurs, the double-Fairlie articulated locomotive that sends steam fans into raptures. The scenery is rapturous too, the view of the mountains on leaving Porthmadog is barely equalled elsewhere in the world. From there on the climb offers great variety: there are meadows, sheep pastures, valley look-downs, rhododendrons in season, a spiral, tunnels, great views, mountain scenery, a waterfall, tunnels, and a station shared with the larger mainline railway under massive slate tips. It is a great ride.
On 12th April 2014 a very special train, aptly named the Snowdonian, will return to travel the complete line and back in its third year of operation. It has become a very special, sought-after occasion, as it takes the full tour of both of these incomparable railways, and all profits raised from it is ploughed back into preserving and improving the WHR and FR. The Snowdonian was devised to offer a full day out, with meal and refreshments, so that the superb scenic experience of the full 40m (60km) route can be enjoyed in one go. It provides a unique opportunity for supporters of the two railways to experience the full journey in one go on what has become a fabulous day out. Since its inaugural trip in 2011 it has become an unqualified success, and a serious generator of funds to help finance the job of restoration. In 2014 Snowdonian will be powered in full steam along the WHR by the first of the revolutionary Garratt locomotives and the last, both built in Britain for service overseas. On the Ffestiniog Railway leg the world's oldest working narrow gauge locomotive Prince, and the FR's newest locomotive Lyd will be providing the power - a major draw for the railway buffs.
The Snowdonian leaves Porthmadog Harbour Station before 09.00, to chuff through the streets of the town and clatter across the unique level crossing shared with the national Cambrian Coast Line. As it progresses along the flat coastal scenery of the Traeth Mawr, passengers can enjoy coffee and a Danish whilst enjoying the unfolding views. The mountains lie ahead as the train follows the Glaslyn River crossing this fine salmon river at Pont Croesor on a viaduct. The sides of the valley of the Afon Glaslyn deepen as we cross two tributaries, and then suddenly the train begins to climb steeply. Up and up, round sharp curves with the two engines now working hard, the train plunges into a long tunnel. When it emerges, the train is on a rock ledge, and the white water of the river can be seen in a gorge below. More little rock tunnels follow and the train crosses a bridge and sweeps around curves for a majestic arrival into Beddgelert. The locomotives are refreshed, and the train leaves to continue its climb up long, sweeping sharp curves, with the engines straining at maximum effort to lift the train to the edge of the forest. The climb never eases for four miles, until the summit, directly below majestic Mount Snowdon which rises 3560ft (1085m) high. We stop to refresh the thirsty locomotives again, at the mid-point of the line, Rhyd Ddu. For the next 12 miles is a gentle descent. At first with spectacular look-downs into the cool black waters of Llyn Cwellyn, and then by the roadside across the top of the poor beetling cars. From the end of the lake, the beautiful Afon Gwyrfai runs alongside the train, sometimes foaming, sometimes placid, and after Dinas station the train runs through farmland to descend the hill into Caernarfon, to come to rest with the huge castle fortress in front and the wharves of the Afon Seiont alongside.
There's just time for a stroll to see the river, and then with the Beyer-Garratt locomotives filled with water and steam, we climb out of the town, back to the heights of Rhyd-Ddu under Snowdon, ready to reverse the train for a run past, so the photographers can get a picture of real working steam engines in dramatic mountain scenery. Afterwards the train ascends to the summit once again and runs down through cool forests over twisting tracks, to glide in to Beddgelert for a splendid Buffet lunch at the Goat Hotel, right by the station.
After a satisfying lunch and a hospitable drink, the train returns leisurely to Porthmadog, to run non-stop through the new station and across the spectacular Cob Embankment and to where Prince and Lyd take over. From here we climb again on a railway of quite a different character. The pace quickens as the train runs steadily uphill, past the backs of houses, Welsh Chapels, the baker's, a hand-worked level crossing, and then through fields. There are glimpses of far off Harlech Castle, bright twinkling blue water and yellow sand can be seen on the Afon Dwyryd below, and everywhere old oak trees line the route. The track twists and turns until Tan y Bwlch, where the engines refresh, and after a short tunnel the line rises out of the trees and onto the mountain moorland with bleating sheep. A full circle is described on the climbing loop at Ddualt, offering a full panorama from the comfort of the train. At this point a big jam scone with cream is offered with refreshing tea, for those whose courageous appetite continues to be stimulated by all the world class scenery.
The train shrieks into a tunnel, and pops out in a mountain amphitheatre, with a scintillating lake as a stage. This is the Tanygrisiau Pump Storage scheme, with immaculate green credentials, and we slide unobtrusively behind the power station to cross a bridge beneath a roaring waterfall. Then the backs of houses are below, as we skirt the valley on a rock ledge, clatter across beeping level crossings, under enveloping bridges, and find the big railway appearing alongside. The sombre town of Blaenau Ffestiniog has been reached, nearly 40 miles from Caernarfon.
The train returns its delighted revellers to Porthmadog, to complete nearly 80 miles of comfortable land cruising on the 2ft gauge. This is a place unique in the world. It is a railway journey that ranks in the top seed. The delightful scenery of Snowdonia is unlocked by this little train, and the passengers on the Snowdonian have the key for the day.
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He'd finally managed to scare off the other shrubbery
I feel the need, the need, for speed! And Hang On has plenty of it, in fact too much. I can't imagine Casey Stoner skidding halfway across the track on a gentle bend and exploding after grazing a bush, yet this is the frustrating world of Hang On. From the basic start-up screen you instantly know what to expect.
Your task is to navigate five stages, each a minute long that comprise one course. The stages and courses get progressively more difficult and as with all coin-op conversions of this sort seem to go on forever. The acceleration of the bike is incredible and the three frames of animation serve the purpose well.
Needless to say, Halfords would be hearing about this…
Manual transmission which you work by pressing Up and Down also works well. But there's a problem, and that's the handling of the bike. You've built up a nice steady speed, you lean into a gentle curve, suddenly you start to skid, brush a roadside cactus and explode into flames. OK, you try something different, the brake button perhaps, slowing down you're clipped from behind by a passing bike and explode into flames. Excessive use of the brake doesn't seem to work as the sharp learning curve means you don't have enough time, even on the first couple of courses.
His mate beat him to the cactus juice, he was parched
The only way to beat the game is to go hell for leather and intermittently tap the accelerator button to avoid skidding all over the place. This obviously means exploding a lot, yet you're only penalised a couple of seconds plus the time to accelerate.
For a budget game available on the Sega Card and also built-in to certain Power Base Master Systems, Hang On is exactly that. Enjoy the pretty scenery and excessive speed for five minutes then turn it off and have a cuppa.
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Please note: this commentary, recovered on 9-Jan-2017, was originally published in Science Dialogues on 16-May-2015.
Mathematics, they say, is the language of science. When it comes to what is happening—or has happened—down here on earth, it is beginning to look like the right dialect of mathematics to learn is what is now being called (somewhat confusingly) network science.
When the goal is integrating research discoveries across disciplines as diverse as archaeology, primatology, neurobiology, and geochemistry, the mathematics of networks is the Esperanto of choice.
Field Museum in Chicago is one of the world's largest natural history and anthropology museums. Scientists working there study the world and its human inhabitants from scores of different research directions, both pure and applied. Integrating these often seemingly disparate specialities so that the results of so much scholarship can be communicated to the public through exhibits and publications has always been a problem.
Under the leadership of Thorsten Lumbsch, Ph.D., the Director of Integrative Research at the Museum, "The Field" as it is affectionately known in Chicago is pushing back against research specialization using network science. Here is one example.
A social network is a set of actors defined by their ties, links, or relationships with one another (e.g., friendship networks, ecological networks, global trade networks, and protein interaction networks) rather than by their individual characteristics (attributes) as actors. Since the research focus is on relationships rather than on characteristics, statistical methods in network science are being developed that do not need to assume—unlike in traditional statistical analyses—that the observations being studied are independent of one another.
Dr. Termeh Shafie, who is currently a Visiting Bass Scholar at the Field, arrived in mid April from the Algorithimics Department at the University of Konstanz in Germany to help the Field's scientists apply the statistical methods and models of network science to their research datasets which are as seemingly dissimilar as gorilla social interactions, sharks swimming in the ocean, the genetics of lichens, and the decorations on prehistoric American potshards.
When asked about her work at the Field Museum in Chicago, Termeh Shafie explains:
"The first step will be to learn more about the empirical data at hand, the hypotheses about these data being considered, and how to embed a network approach to them. The second step will be to develop network models based on these hypotheses. This requires the mathematical formulation of models, programming these models using statistical software, and then running simulations. Goodness-of-fit tests can be used to test the fit of the models to the data. Once suitable models are identified, statistics can be used to measure different properties of the networks under study and unlock information in them using the models as predictive tools. Within a level of certainty, we can then predict trends and behavior patterns even for parts of the networks we don't yet have data for."
On Wednesday, May 13th, Dr. John P. Hart (Director, Research & Collections Division, New York State Museum), Dr. Mark Golitko (Regenstein Research Scientist), and James Zimmer-Dauphinee (2015 Regenstein Intern) participated with Shafie in a small-group Network Science Workshop at the Museum exploring ways to apply network analysis to a large database of information about pottery designs on ancient vessels from 102 archaeological sites to help unravel how communities across southern Ontario coalesced between ca. A.D. 1350 and 1650 into the larger regional populations that ultimately became the historically documented Huron confederacy.
Left to right: John Hart, Termeh Shafie, James Zimmer-Dauphinee, Mark Golitko
Shafie will be at the Field until August 15th, but even after she returns to Germany, she will continue to be the "networks link" between scientists at the Museum and the Algorithmics Unit under the direction of Professor Ulrik Brandes in the Department of Computer & Information Science at the University of Konstanz.
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I've started The iPod Chronicles as a companion to my Posts At Eventide blog. The Apple iPad is the most immersive digital device I have ever owned. I'm convinced it will transform the way we use digital devices to access information and communicate with the world and one another.
The focus of this Web presence is the use of the Apple iPad at work, at home and when away from both work and home.I am testing the Apple iPad's uses in a variety of settings and everyday situations and I will chronicle my experiences on these pages.
I currently own an Apple iPad Wi-Fi + 3G. Though purchased in mid-July, it has quickly become my preferred device for information gathering and personal productivity. I look forward to sharing my iPad experiences on these pages as I chronicle the many uses of this device and explore several of the iOS apps specifically designed for Apple's latest hardware product.


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Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and his wife, Blanche d'Alpuget, arrive at the Australian Labor Party's campaign launch in Brisbane, Australia, ,in 2013. Hawke, Australia's 23rd prime minister, has died in Sydney at age 89. | AP
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Australian 'larrikin' ex-Prime Minister Bob Hawke dies at 89
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SYDNEY - Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a "larrikin' streak who served as Australian prime minister from 1983 to 1991, died on Thursday aged 89, his family said.
"Today we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian — many would say the greatest Australian of the postwar era," his wife and former biographer, Blanche d'Alpuget, said in a statement.
While others may have struggled to dismiss a reputation for boisterous, if well-meaning, behavior, silver-haired Hawke said it helped him win favor with working-class voters.
Prime Minster Scott Morrison hailed Hawke's ability to speak to all Australians.
"Bob Hawke was a great Australian who led and served our country with passion, courage, and an intellectual horsepower that made our country stronger," he said on social media.
Hawke's death comes ahead of a Saturday general election, with his opposition Labor party narrowly ahead in the polls.
"The Australian people loved Bob Hawke because they knew Bob loved them, this was true to the very end," Labor party leader Bill Shorten said in a statement.
Hawke earned his reputation as a "larrikin," or loveable rogue, in part due to his world record for drinking a "yard," or 1.4 liters, of beer in 11 seconds while at Oxford University.
Robert James Lee Hawke, a former trade union leader, was first elected to Parliament in 1980 and was named leader of the center-left Labor Party less than a month before a snap general election in 1983.
Voters embraced Hawke and Labor won an unlikely landslide against a conservative government led by Malcolm Fraser, who had been in power for nearly a decade. Hawke became Australia's 23rd prime minister.
"I regard Bob Hawke as the best Labor prime minister this country has ever had," former conservative leader John Howard, who served as Fraser's treasurer, said this year.
Inheriting an economy languishing in recession and with double-digit unemployment and inflation, Hawke embraced economic deregulation that belied his connections with Australia's largest trade unions.
Hawke won support from the political left to float the Australian dollar, remove controls on foreign exchange and interest rates and lower tariffs on imports within months of his inauguration.
The reforms triggered a wave of economic growth, allowing Hawke to introduce universal health care, strengthen social security for poor families and enact stronger environmental legislation.
Within months of Hawke becoming prime minister, Australia won sailing's America's Cup in 1983, ending 132 years of U.S. dominance over the oldest trophy in world sport.
Hawke led the celebrations, famously sticking up of anyone who might over-do the revelry, declaring on television: "Any boss that sacks a worker for not turning up is a bum."
Australia also made its mark on the international stage under Hawke, who shifted diplomatic priorities away from Britain, fostering closer ties with the United States, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
He also spearheaded international efforts to impose economic sanctions on South Africa over apartheid.
Hawke was riding high in opinion polls by the mid-1980s and won re-election in 1987 despite an economic downturn.
He won a fourth election in 1990 to become Australia's longest-serving Labor prime minister, but his popularity began to wane amid a recession.
Paul Keating, Hawke's treasurer and the architect of Labor's economic policies, pressured him to step aside as his position weakened.
However, with no sign that Hawke would retire, Keating challenged him for the leadership in 1991. Hawke saw off the first challenge but eventually lost to Keating a few months later in a party-room coup.
He quit politics three months later.
Hawke divorced his wife of nearly 40 years, Hazel Masterson, after leaving politics and public life and married his biographer, Blanche d'Alpuget. He appeared as a media commentator and was in demand as a public speaker.
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Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers (KAHC) Coast branch executive officer Sam Ikwaye lauded the government for ongoing infrastructure projects.
Hoteliers at the Coast are upbeat ahead of improved tourist arrivals as the July high season begins, thanks to enhanced security and infrastructural development.
"We are expecting a lot of investment in coastal towns due to the improvement in infrastructure. Many roads leading to tourist destinations have been built. The completion of Dongo Kundu bypass has opened up Diani for investment and also reduced traffic jams in Likoni," Mr Ikwaye said.
He also cited the expansion of Malindi Airport to enable charter flights to land as a welcome move to boost tourism in Kilifi County.
The standard gauge railway will also boost the sector, he said. Mr Ikwaye said the planned railway line from Lamu through Malindi, Mtwapa and eventually Mariakani will open up Diani, Ukunda, Kilifi and Malindi to more investment.
He also noted that there has been improvement in security even during the low season.
"We have seen a lot of improvement in security compared to the past when the tourism sector was shaken a great deal (by terrorism)," Mr Ikwaye said.
Conferences held in Mombasa in May and June — mostly by the national and county government officials — saw many hotels enjoy a boom.
Most of the hotels were 100 per cent booked during the period, night-life spots were full while beach operations benefited from the high number of both local and international visitors. Kenya Tourism Federation Chairman Mohammed Hersi said that tourism stakeholders were hopeful that the peace prevailing in the country will be maintained during the high season.
"We are optimistic that the sector will flourish during the high season. We also want to thank the security sector for maintaining peace and we urge the same to prevail so that we have more visitors coming to our country," Mr Hersi said.
He noted that tourists had started arriving and the safari sector, especially to the Maasai Mara, was picking up.
He said that improvement of transport and communication infrastructure was impacting the sector in a positive way.
"We acknowledge the licensing of direct flights to the US. America is a big country and this means more foreign exchange for our country," Mr Hersi said.
Diani Reef Beach Resort and Spa managing director Bobby Kamani said improvement of ferry services will boost tourism in the coast and other destinations across the country.
"Improvement of the service will ease congestion and accessibility of key locations such as Diani, Malindi, Lamu and later Lake Victoria and Lake Turkana," Mr Kamani said.
Last year, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that any African visiting Kenya would get a free visa on arrival. Mr Kamani said the move has started bearing fruits.
"Visa-free travel for Africans is a great move and a strategic one for the tourism industry. This will definitely increase regional and continental travel. We have started seeing a positive change in this respect,"Mr Kamani said.
He added that tourists from Africa to Kenya represent 30 per cent of arrivals and urged hoteliers to utilise the season well.
"This is largely untapped potential that hoteliers need to consider when drawing up their strategic plans for business development," he said.
Mr Kamani said that the recent handshake between Mr Kenyatta and ODM party leader Raila Odinga brought about political stability which has led to improvement in the tourism sector.
"The handshake was seen as a truce. Kenya has achieved political stability which is necessary for tourism growth and economic progress," Mr Kamani said.


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When's the last time you talked through a puzzle with your friends? There are plenty of games where communication exists and can help you succeed, but when's the last time you played a game that absolutely required it? We're talking about the kind of game that required engagement, input and participation for all parts in order to beat a level – a game where everyone can feel like part of the solution. This is certainly how we felt in our time at PAX South with SMG Studios and their upcoming multiplayer puzzler, Death Squared, in which the only way your cute little robots can gain their sweet freedom is to cooperate or die.
Death Squared is deceptively simple with an astronomically high ceiling for complexity and difficulty. It offers one mode that features single-player and two-player co-op and another mode for four players. In the first mode there are a red and blue box to control and in the four-player mode, there are red, blue, yellow, and green boxes that must be maneuvered. In single-player, each box is controlled by the same player where in two-player mode and four-player mode, each player controls one of the boxes. There are specially-colored platforms on each level and all you have to do to move to the next level is move each box-bot onto its appropriately colored platform.
Simple, right? Well it starts out that way, but each level offers up new obstacles and puzzles that will ramp up the difficulty from fairly easy to almost mind-numbing. Death Squared guides you into these mechanics little by little until you're navigating puzzles of such complexity that the slightest misstep could send one of your boxy comrades to their death. This might sound a little unforgiving, but while the puzzles get complex, none of them are ridiculously long and restart is instantaneous. The longest puzzle we saw probably only took around five minutes at most to complete with some careful maneuvering among our fellow players once we knew what the solution was.
The level of variation in Death Squared, even for the handful of puzzles we saw, was quite refreshing. Early puzzles introduced us to buttons that would move blocks around either making paths for our fellow box-bot or pushing them off their small platform into oblivion if they were in the wrong space. Other mechanics introduced colored blocks that could be moved through by the bot of the same color while they acted as a barrier to others. The more you get into Death Squared, the more it throws at you to test your puzzle-solving and communication skills.
The folks at SMG Studios described Portal as a strong influence in the way they designed various aspects of Death Squared and it's certainly something we saw while we were playing. Each of the robots has quirky little noises and features that reminded us of our time with Atlas and P-Body in Portal 2's cooperative campaign and the levels have that sort of testing vibe similar to the context of Portal levels. It doesn't just stop at artistic and mechanical design though. SMG teased that Death Squared will be featuring a fully-voiced story campaign for the two-player mode. While we didn't get the opportunity to see this in the demo, the extra context for what we're doing with these cute little robots and why sounds cool.
Those worried that the fun will run out too soon have little to fear. The two-player mode of Death Squared is slated to contain around 80 levels arranged randomly in specific categories of difficulty that will keep you guessing as you traverse the laboratory. Meanwhile the 4-player mode will be featuring around 40 of its own challenges arranged in a similar manner. If that wasn't enough, there are also special "Vault" levels deemed too tough for the main two-player experience that will feature even more unique and mind-bending levels for players to conquer. We played a Vault level that had one of our bots controlling a rolling, spiky cylinder of death while our bot was forced to navigate a maze with beams of electricity blocking our path. The only way to get through was by pushing the cylinder close enough to deactivate certain beams. The curious challenge of these maps is sure to please well past the core experience. More levels are planned post-release as well to ensure the fun won't stop anytime soon.
Death Squared presents a kind of dynamic you don't often see these days in cooperative play. It's the kind of experience where talking it out with your fellow players isn't just a good idea --- It's mandatory to your survival. During our time with the demo, we found ourselves making camaraderie with strangers as we all gathered together in both the two and four-player mode to figure out what works in each level and make it to the goal. The arrival at each goal was a celebration of our cooperative efforts and an optimistic jump into what challenge came next. When such a thing can be attained among strangers, we look forward to seeing what we can do with our friends on any given get-together with Death Squared.
Death Squared is set for release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Mac on March 14, 2017.


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Steve Grand Makes Gay People Feel Less Lonely
By Jeremy Kinser February 27, 2015 at 9:02am · 14 comments
If it seems like years since out musician Steve Grand first landed on your radar, you're not alone. "I swear I feel like I've been working on this album for 12 years," the country singer says with a laugh in a new EPK video to promote All-American Boy, his debut album due March 24. For the record, it's been just over a year and a half since his perfect pecs handsome face uplifting video for the single "All-American Boy" made him an internet sensation.
'What really made a difference for me was the people that would write in and some of these people would tell me their life stories or stories of their All-American boys that got away. That made me realize this is why I did this — to connect people and to connect with people." Grand recalls receiving thousands of letters from gay people who thanked him for them feel less alone in the world.
While some cynics think it's no longer a big deal to come out as gay at the start of a burgeoning music career, Grand disagrees.
"You know who cares are the kids that are really struggling with this," he says in the video, adding "Or the kids who feel like they would still rather be dead than live life as a gay person. I'm thinking about them all the time while I'm doing these things."
Watch Steve discuss his career thus far below.
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I will never understand why queers have such a hard-on for this guy. His voice isn't all that great and is average looking.
MacAdvisor
@FD: Seriously? I wish my voice was as not that great and my looks were so average. The man has a solid performance voice and is very handsome. He also comes across as a rather sweet guy.
Giancarlo85
Lol I didn't even know who he was.
I had to look him up… he's average looking not really my type…his voice is good though.
sportyguy1983
His "singing career" is based on his well above average looks and not his average (at best) singing voice.
@MacAdvisor: I can't say about your voice but you look great, very handsome! 😉
D P
If *I* had a chance to rest my head on Steve Grand, it wouldn't be his shoulder!
February 27, 2015 at 2:02pm
TomMc
I feel less alone already, knowing there're other rancorous gay commentators.
Mmmm, well, until those young lonely gay people start going to gay venues or online where they will find they will mostly get ignored by the pretty A-list boys who look like Steve Grand.
Saint Law
He's no Willie Nelson.
Yeah, can you imagine Willie Nelson filling out those speedos in a photo shoot?
Nah, give me Steve Grand!
@D P: Vapid gay is vapid.
March 1, 2015 at 8:03am
Hlywd2nc
@FD:
Let me guess you have 6 pak abs and have and signed to a major record label. Kinda sounds like ENVY!
March 1, 2015 at 6:03pm
How many of you who say his voice is average has raised over $300,000 from prefect strangers on Kickstarter for your upcoming CD. I supported Steve Grand on Kickstarter and have already preordered 2 copies of his CD. I do not like Country Music but I like Steve Grands Misic. Plus he is a Great role Model for Gay Kids!
JonahM01
Why are there so many damn negative nancys on here? What's not to absolutely love and adore about this kid a.) pursuing his dreams, and b.) hoping he's doing a little bit of good in the world while simultaneously pursuing his dreams? Do you all hate yourselves so much that you can't stand happiness or joy in this world? Sorry your mama didn't hug you enough as a child. Take it somewhere else, please.
March 2, 2015 at 12:03am


A range of local organisations including Galway City Community Network, Galway City Partnership, Galway Traveller Movement, Amach LGBTI+, Cope Galway, the Bridge Project, the Disability Federation of Ireland, Access for All and the Galway Anti-racism Network are working collaboratively to ensure that equality is at the heart of local representation.
This includes progressing decent work, decent accommodation, decent transportation, and decent services for all in a healthy environment. Local government workplaces should be inclusive and reflective of the wider communities they serve.


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Well, folks, the breeding season has come to a close and our little Bluebirds are getting ready for winter. Like every year, we had successes and failures. Most of our failures are due to nature's fury and there isn't much we can do about it. Our job is to provide appropriate nest boxes for the birds and monitor them regularly to get data and we seem to be doing a good job at that.
Our annual end of the year meeting is scheduled for 10 AM on September 28 at Zion Lutheran Church, 9535 Clarence Center Rd, Clarence Center, NY 14032. We will highlight our stats and practices used during the year. I took some time to check our data and create some graphs for the meeting. Since this is the Clarence Bluebird Trail's 5th year of monitoring, I decided to create some graphs to show trends over time. If you're interested in seeing all of the data, please feel free to join us at the meeting.
Year-end totals from The Clarence Bluebird Trail nest boxes. A nest attempt is any nest with at least one egg present.
We did quite well this year. We had 44 Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) fledge from our nest boxes. That is a 46% increase over last year. We received a good amount of rain during the breeding season but only found Blowfly larva on a couple occasions. These parasites are more prevalent in hot, humid conditions and can kill adults and young in the nest.
Although we had multiple unhatched eggs this year, we only lost one Bluebird nestling. We also found a dead adult Bluebird in one of our boxes, cause unknown. Besides parasites, there are other causes of Bluebird mortality, including predators, disease, habitat destruction (nests destroyed by nature or human activity), extreme weather, pesticides, and invasive species.
Our boxes are prime nesting for other species of birds. We fledged 31 Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) and 10 House Wrens (Troglodytes aedon). We didn't have any Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) nesting this year and not a single House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) fledged from our boxes. House Sparrows are an invasive and destructive species. We use every method at our disposal to humanely reduce their reproduction.
Our nesting success has increased every year since the inception of The Clarence Bluebird Trail in 2013. As stewards for the Eastern Bluebird, our group should be proud of the work we have accomplished. We have increased the numbers of diverse avian wildlife and continue to improve the Eastern Bluebird's conservation status. We have also improved our community by providing an opportunity for people to give something back to nature.


We humans have a tendency to present our species as being the most sophisticated, smartest and superior. But when it comes down to it, there are several things animals can do a lot greater than we can.
is there a possiability that they would bite a human? I was checking on my other fish in the tank and felt like a pinch or a shock on my arm and when I pulled my arm up I observed some thing move off my arm I looked on the floor and it was my puffer so I put him back in the tank and he is just fine but I have a tiny red dot at the site of the discomfort. Just asking yourself.
The sensible harness is being developed for guide dogs, police dogs, and other service dogs. But David Roberts, a laptop scientist functioning on the project, hopes a version will be accessible to the common public within five years. He says the harness could send owners alerts from their pets—a text message, probably, telling them that their dog is anxious or excited or scared. In a decade or two, the harness may well be capable to sync with a intelligent residence, where sensors could triangulate data from inside the property (a lamp falling more than in the living room, for instance) with information from the dog's vest (say, a spike in heart price) to tell owners why their dogs are feeling the way they really feel.
The pet decree was undoubtedly a sturdy hint of factors to come. As was evident till its introduction, the query of Jewish owned pets could effortlessly be solved by enabling the animals to be put into foster homes. The inclusion of intermarried households in the decree also strongly suggests that this was an intentional act of agonizing Jews and those related with them. Many survivors, youngsters most typically, remembered this decree as 1 of the cruelest. Very couple of pets had been recovered after the war. Cats in particular lingered about their former homes, even ruins, probably simply because of their significantly less dependent nature. In Denmark, several neighbors tended Jewish pets following the mass escape to Sweden.
We adopted a 1 yr. old male from the shelter who was named Midnight. It did not fit him. We narrowed the names to Nero, Puck (hockey) or Rook. We went with Rook. Just like the bird (a black one particular at that) he's clever and quite inventive. It is a violation of the federal Endangered Species Act to kill a gray wolf in the western two-thirds of Oregon, punishable by a fine up to $one hundred,000, one particular year in jail or both. Exercising, really like and play, creating sure they go to the bathroom. No off leash walking. Add or cancel as you need to have. No penalty for final minute scheduling or cancellations.


text: I would like to welcome to the stage Chris McNulty, senior product marketing manager for Microsoft over SharePoint and Office 365. Kris. [APPLAUSE] Thanks. I don't need that, no. Good morning. It is great to be back here at Tec. So my name is Chris McNulty. I'm a senior product manager on the Microsoft 365 team. And as some of you may know in another life, I was general manager at Quest prior to the Dell days and prior to my joining Microsoft. So I think we can probably all agree that the team that's putting this Tec together is so much better than the guy who is responsible for these tracks seven years ago in San Diego. How many-- that was me. [LAUGHTER] How many of you were at Tec San Diego? So I'd like to see returning folks. Great to have you back. It is wonderful to have Tec back as part of the ecosystem. At Microsoft, Quest is one of our most longstanding and best-regarded partners. We really appreciate each of you for making the trip here. Not only is it great learning, but we at Microsoft want to be able to help you transform your data, transform the way team work gets done your organizations. And Quest has been with us just about every step of the journey. So I wanted to start by talking a little bit about some of the trends that we talk about inside of the M 365 product teams. Some of the data that I have up here on the slide is not all that new, but the expansion of the way that people get work done, moving to twice as many teams as they were on just five years ago we think is really transformative, and it's one of the things that really guides us in how we figure things out. Mobile apps have really changed the way people get work done and not just folks in the first line who are working in mobile devices, but the expectations of ease of use and ease of deployment trickle back into that room aspect of how web and desktop deployments are expected to work these days. Information overload, this is something that we are focused an awful lot on. Information overload is wasting nearly a trillion dollars. Related stats, each year in the US, about 3/4 of a trillion dollars is spent looking for information that already exists, and about $667 billion with a b is spent recreating information that already exists because it can't be found in the first place. Data privacy, security, and compliance is something that has moved and advanced quickly to being a C-suite level issue, to being a board level issue. The number of customer records that get leaked explodes every year. I like to say that you actually don't need to do marketing for security and compliance anymore. You just need the Wall Street Journal reporting on what the latest data attack is. And it seems that there are two people, people who know that they've been attacked and people who don't know that they've been attacked. And along with that, this stat has moved down a little bit in the last few years, but it's still considerable, somewhere between 200 and 300 days, depending on what the year is, between the start of a data infiltration and when it's detected. So these things really matter to us about the way work gets done, the importance of improving the efficiency of it and making sure that information is kept secure and private throughout. All of this is part of digital transformation. And if you have digital transformation in buzzword bingo for Microsoft, congratulations. This is yet another keynote that's going to talk about it. But I want to put it in a little bit of context about how we see some of these things shaping. One thing we spend an awful lot of time analyzing, working on some of the product research for some things we're hoping to release over the next two years, relate to the rise of voice technologies. If you think about how we consume information, 40 years ago, it was very common to be able to pick up The News & Observer or The New York Times and find out what's going on in the world. And we didn't realize it quite as much then, but there was an awful lot of authority that we got from contextual information that came around. We could see what the date was, we could see what the authority was, we could see related information all happening on the same page. You roll those same trends forward and people start receiving information through television, and they receive them on the web. And we still get an awful lot of contextual clues when we look on the web. If I go to a site like CNN, I expect a certain level of information coming from that or if I'm looking at, for example, The Wall Street Journal online. If I see a random article from BobsCrazyTheories.com, I know not to give it probably the same weight that I would see from authorities that I know that I can trust. What does this have to do with voice? When we look at what's happening generationally, the generation that's entering the workforce tends to regard video as the highest and best and most authoritative way to communicate. YouTube is a highly trusted authority in their world. The generation that's coming behind them sees voice systems as being the most authoritative way of getting a question answered. And when you think about that, when you're talking to a Google Assistant or an Alexa or a Siri and trying to find out what's the answer to a question, what kind of laundry detergent do I need to buy, you're getting a disembodied voice. One of the things that this means for us, we're looking at this problem from an AI angl


If Beyoncé's taught us anything, it's the answer to the age old question, 'Who runs the world?' The answer? Girls. Artist, stylist and feminist, Jess de Wahls, brings this concept well and truly to life with her 11-day #BigSwingingOvaries exhibition. Kicking off on International Women's Day, the exhibition will be displaying hand-sewn relief portraits which use a mixture of recycled clothing (donated from friends and family) and plywood to create 3D depictions of inspirational women from across the globe; expect to see everyone from Angelina Jolie to Jo Brand. Creating something valuable from something seemingly worthless, the message of this exhibition is to outline the importance of female role models within our society, to challenge people to overcome preconceptions about feminism and to raise money for #techmums, a charity which empowers women through technology.


James was rather surprised when he came down from his office at home to find me out of my maternity leggings stained with milk spit-up and dressed to the nines for our trip to the West End and the theatre.
He hasn't seen me wearing full make-up, a dress (with my hair pinned up in a sort of 1940s homage, complete with a peacock feather for good measure) and heels since July so he was rather taken aback. Ok, I might have overdone it a bit, but I haven't been out for months so I was going to make the most of it.
Mum and dad are in charge and although Mum says I can call as many times as I like I have decided that I'll try and only call once – during the interval – to check to see how things are going. Here's hoping Minnie will sleep like a baby.
Tracey, have a fantastic time and a very happy Christmas to you all.
I hope you a great evening out.
Enjoy your evening out and relax - Mum will do just fine, and she'll love every minute of it too!! Have a lovely Christmas with your family and all the best for 2010.
im sure you'll have a great time..enjoy !!


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Q: Regex to match if...else statements? I need to make a regex that matches "if" structures. EG:
if(whatever) {  } else { adsffdsa } else if() { }

It doesn't matter if the code blocks and expressions are valid, only that the structure is correct. I got to this point:
/^if\s*\((.*?)\)\s*{(.*?)}\s*//

However when I try to continue to match else and else if the regex stops working. I tried these two things:
/^if\s*\((.*?)\)\s*{(.*?)}\s*else?/
/^if\s*\((.*?)\)\s*{(.*?)}\s*(else|else\s*if(\s*))?/

How can I make my regex match the else statements if there are any?

A: Here you go, this should get you pointed in the right direction but it's going to get ugly the more sophisticated you make it.
/^if\s*\((.*?)\)\s*{(.*?)}(\s*(else|else\s+if\s*\((.*?)\))\s*{(.*?)})*/

Hope it helps
It matched this for me so it should match most cases (as long as it doesn't have comments anywhere around the block):
if(whatever) {  } else { adsffdsa } else if() { }
else if() {}

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NBN protester's problem solved by police called to remove him from Telstra store
By William McInnes and Kate Aubusson
Updated January 1, 2018 — 10.55am first published at 12.45am
When Matt Dooley refused to leave a Telstra store after months of battling with the telco, the last people he might have expected to fix his problem were the police called to remove him from the store.
Having spent hours on the phone to Telstra trying to get his NBN connection properly installed, he had had enough and staged an impromptu sit-in at the Marrickville Metro store.
When the store called security, and then police, to have him removed from the store, he was surprised by what happened next.
The three officers – Probationary Constable Christopher Williams, Senior Constable Scott McCarthy and Detective Cameron Thomas – started negotiating with Telstra staff on Mr Dooley's behalf.
Matt Dooley managed to get internet connected to his house after police stepped in.
"The cops kind of took our side," Mr Dooley said. "They understood. They used their excellent negotiating skills to negotiate what I hadn't been able to in the last four months.
"One was very technically minded and got it. He knew what we needed.
"This cop was running back and forth between us to negotiate so we didn't have to talk to each other, talking about cables and routers and modems."
Mr Dooley said he and his girlfriend sat by the front door as the police moved back and forth, negotiating between the two parties before eventually solving the issue.
"Lo and behold the next day there was a Star Track Express delivered to our house with all the things we needed and just all sorted out," he said.
"As a result of police coming to the store we had internet that afternoon and cable the next day."
The successful negotiating of the police ended a months-long saga for Mr Dooley, who had been trying to get internet at his new house since September.
Working from home in the film and television industry, he needed good and reliable upload capacity so chose an NBN plan through Telstra.
"It was horribly mishandled," he said. "A handful of technicians came and didn't install it properly. Everyone just didn't know what they were doing."
He tried calling their support line, making over 80 calls to the telco in a bid to rectify the issue. He said he was often passed between four or five people who were all unable to help.
"The aim has got to be for Telstra to get rid of you. They just don't care. If you call and ask to speak to sales you'll get through to someone right away."
He took his complaints to the industry ombudsman but was found that he was just one of many putting in complaints about their telco provider.
"They were so overwhelmed by complaints they couldn't do anything effectively. They told me they were backlogged by a month of cases they can't get through."
"I was temporarily disabled at the time. I had broken my leg and I was losing thousands of dollars in money not being able to do work because had no internet from home.
"I'm convinced it affected my mental health. I got so angry and frustrated. It sounds really whingey but internet is so essential but also my lifeline for work and being laid up for months," he said.
"What really got frustrating and got me down was in the end there was no one accountable."
After $3000, 100 hours on the phone and a temporary ADSL connection, Mr Dooley had had enough.
With a still-healing leg, Mr Dooley went with his girlfriend to the Telstra Marrickville Metro store on Wednesday.
Although he had managed to get the NBN cable installed, he still needed a modem, router and cable.
"I said just give me that stuff at least and I'll run it out the window. They said they couldn't help and I said we're not leaving so they called security."
While he was lucky to have three cops step in to assist, Mr Dooley said that there were others not so fortunate.
"I think about people who don't know about tech who are elderly or don't speak the language properly. They would never be able to deal with this. What really got frustrating and got me down was in the end there was no one accountable.
"[While we were in the store], an elderly man came and congratulated us saying 'I think it's great what we're doing'," Mr Dooley said.
"A whole lot of people came up and told us their horror stories of telstra problems."
Telstra is investigating the incident.


Popularly Doctor Bugatti, Obi Okeke who came to the US as a 5-year-old refugee during the Nigerian 1967 Civil War is an experienced car dealer that services top clients like Floyd Mayweather.
After the end of the Civil war, Okeke returned to Nigeria with his family.
They later relocated to Switzerland where he finished his Secondary Education.
He discovered his passion for cars in Switzerland before returning to the US to start the business full time.
must you people put Igbo, its a Nigeria simple and not disclosing his tribe.