I spent last week in Bangkok taking part in a UN entry test. By which I mean almost inevitably failing a UN entry test. It was a grueling exam for their Young Professional Program that lasted 4.5 hours in total and to make matters worse, the whole thing was a written exam. Which bearing in mind I haven't physically written anything longer than my signature since 2004 was a test in it's own right. Luckily I soon realised I wasn't the only one suffering though as I looked around the room at all the other candidates grimacing as they opened and closed their writing hands in a vain attempt to shake off cramps which they hadn't experienced since they left high-school.
After the marathon exam, which lasted until 20:15 in the evening, I was so exhausted that all I wanted to do was curl up in my enormous bed at the Siam@Siam Design Hotel & Spa. The bed was so comfy and the design and soft lighting of my room had such a calming effect on me that I slept for 10 hours straight.
When it comes to choosing hotels for my trips I usually go for quirkiness rather than cost, location or facilities. I like hotels, guest houses or hostels with a twist, so when I got invited by AsiaRooms to review the Siam@Siam Design Hotel & Spa I wasn't disappointed. The entire hotel had a very arty and industrial touch to it, which growing up in Germany I particularly appreciated. Everywhere you looked there was something unique or unusual, whether it was giant iron sculpture, painted elevator doors, exposed ceiling cables, or gorgeous designer furniture.
The Siam@Siam Hotel has an array of dining and drinking options. It has three restaurants and three bars. All are very different, but equally stunning in terms of design, service and ambience. My favourite bar has got to be the rooftop bar though with it's 360 degree view of Bangkok. I could have sat there soaking up Bangkok's glitzy lights all night long.
The day after my exam I spent some time relaxing by the gorgeous infinity pool which boasts a stunning view over Bangkok and the National Stadium. It was the prefect place to wind down after a very draining day.
The hotel offers all kinds of spa treatments and also has a tour desk with various day tours. I personally didn't make use of any of these services because to be honest I was too occupied eating my way through the gorgeous food menu. Oh the foooood! It was so good! The breakfast buffet had everything you could wish for. Everything! Although the breakfast room was at full capacity, I never had to wait to get any food as there was just so much choice.
I have a bit of a sweet tooth, so when I discovered that the breakfast buffet got turned into a cake buffet straight after breakfast I just stayed on and continued eating, being the porker that I am. Oh my god, the cakes were absolutely stunning and I could have spent all day there stuffing my face with all the different desserts and pastries. Well, actually that's exactly what I did.
If there was one thing I'd have to critique then it is that the airport pick up was 30 minutes late. The driver was extremely apologetic though and he was only late due to the protests which had broken out across Bangkok. So in these extremely unpredictable circumstances I can't complain too much. Once in the car I got a complimentary bottle of water which was a really nice touch, as I am always really thirsty after a flight. The car was a London cab, so I had plenty of legroom and air-conditioning, plus a very friendly and welcoming driver. My pick-up for the way back left the hotel bang on time.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed my stay at Siam@Siam Design Hotel & Spa and highly recommend a visit if you would like to experience some quirky design, gorgeous food, and stunning views of Bangkok.
Many thanks to AsiaRooms for organising my stay here in Bangkok and to Siam@Siam Design Hotel & Spa for allowing me to be their guest. All opinions, as always, remain my own – particularly in regard to cakes about which I am very, very fussy.
Wow, that place looks great! Let us know what happens with your exam!
Yes, these pictures are really amazing. Thank you for sharing a good variant for staying at.
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I am so jealous! This place looks amazing!!
Nice! The room looks classy. Bangkok is such a beautiful place.
The room was stunning! Bangkok is a great city for tourists. There is do much to do!
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Really lovely Tammy. Bangkok is such a cool city and with this quirky hotel: what more could one want?
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That's exactly what I thought Victoria. There was something intersting to discover around every corner in this hotel. I love places like that!
Love those elevator doors! Looks like a fun hotel, will have to check them out when we are back in Bangkok.
There is something quirky like the elevator doors everywhere in this hotel. I love it.


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Q: Proof that the power set of $\mathbb{N}$ is uncountable, and that the composition of two bijections is a bijection  How do I prove the power set of natural numbers, $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})$, the collection of subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ (natural number set) is uncountable? I am thinking the approach is to contradict an initial assumption that there is a function $f$ that maps $\mathbb{N} \to \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N})$.
How do I prove that the composition of 2 bijections is a bijection? So, if $f: A \to B$ and $g: B \to C$ are bijections, then $(g \circ f): A \to C$ is also a bijection.
Help appreciated! Thank you.

A: This is a corollary of the classic Cantor's theorem. Not necessary, but it is not hard to show that, in fact, $\#(2^\mathbb{N})=\#(\mathbb{R})$.
For your second question merely note that $(f\circ g)^{-1}$ exists, namely because $g^{-1}\circ f^{-1}$ "works". Try it and you'll see what I mean.

A: If you know that $[0,1]$ is uncountable, this isn't to hard:
For your first question, consider the set $B$ of all numbers in $[0,1]$ written in binary notation. There is a natural way to define an onto map from   $\cal P(\Bbb N)$  to $B$
(for $A$ in $\cal P(\Bbb N)$ set the $n$th digit of its image equal to 1 if $n\in A$ and 0 otherwise) . $B$ is uncountable. So $\cal P(\Bbb N)$ is uncountable.
A bijection from $\cal P(\Bbb N)$  to $B$ can be constructed with a bit more care.

Let $f:B\rightarrow D$ and $g:A\rightarrow B$ be bijections.

Let $d\in D$. There is a $b\in B$ with $f(b)=d$ and there is a $a\in A$ with $g(a)=b$.
Then $(f\circ g)(a)=d$,. So, $f\circ g$ is onto.
Now $(f\circ g)(x)=(f\circ g)(y)\ \Rightarrow\ g(x)=g(y)\ \Rightarrow\ x=y$;
which shows $f\circ g$ is 1-1.

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[Pictures (1.) Sitting from Left to Right – Amar Singh, Kalyan Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav; (2.) Scene of Babri Masjid demolition, (inset) Kalyan Singh; (3.) Standing from Left to Right – Azam Khan, Amar Singh, Kalyan Singh, Mulayam Singh Yadav and a SP leader.]
By Danish Ahmad Khan
Come elections – parliamentary or assembly, Muslims and Congress Party are back at their old game in Uttar Pradesh (UP) yet again. This time bonhomie between Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and erstwhile 'Maulana' Mulayam Singh Yadav and Babri Masjid demolition hero Kalyan Singh is raising the hackles of so-called secular Congress Party and poor, always-power-hungry Muslims. Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Mohammed Azam Khan obliquely attacked powerful SP national general secretary Amar Singh on 20 February 2009 for hurting Muslim sentiments by ganging up with former UP chief minister and Babri Masjid demolition hero Kalyan Singh. Amar Singh is currently a Rajya Sabha MP while Kalyan Singh earlier led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state, which spearheaded the Babri Masjid demolition campaign. However, Kalyan Singh resigned from chief ministership after the mosque was demolished in December 1992 and the Congress Party-led Central government under P.V. Narasimha Rao's leadership imposed President's Rule in the state.
Khan, who is national general secretary of SP, held a press conference to vent out his anger at Amar Singh without taking his name, which was obvious though. Khan said, "Some people who obtained Rajya Sabha membership with our support are busy tarnishing my image and harming the party organization. Such people, without having popular contact with the electorate, have been conspiring by framing false charges against me. But I shall defeat the designs of such conspirators who want to harm me and the Samajwadi Party ideology." Khan is also currently the deputy leader of the opposition in the Uttar Pradesh assembly.
"The Rajya Sabha member has hurt the feelings of the Muslim community by projecting Kalyan Singh as a great leader, extending open invitation to Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and BJP leader L.K. Advani to join the Samajwadi Party, and promoting actress Jayaprada in the political arena," Khan said, and asked how the Rajya Sabha member can dare to project Kalyan Singh as pro-Muslim. It may be recalled that Amar Singh had last month defended the party's move to join hands with Kalyan Singh.
Despite SP chief's advice not to air his grievances in public, Azam Khan chose to do so again within weeks when he burst out against his party for joining hands with Kalyan Singh. It seems that now Khan has ultimately made up his mind to give a jolt to his party during this election year by ultimately resigning from it in near future. Khan is apparently more peeved with Amar Singh. His anger against Kalyan Singh though is seemingly misdirected and just an excuse to get at Amar Singh at all costs.
Azam Khan and other Muslim leaders' 'genuine' love for Indian Muslims
How much love does Azam Khan has for Muslims in his state as well as for those in his country can only be gauged from several of his past actions. Khan, who was the leader of Samajwadi Party in the state legislature, along with Amar Singh was instrumental in garnering support for the largest ever 98-member ministry led by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in October 2003. The ministry was installed after dethroning the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state. To show his gratitude, Mulayam Singh Yadav rewarded 30 of the 40 BSP defectors with ministerial berths. Even the 14-member Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Kalyan Singh led 4-member Rashtriya Kranti Party (RKP) managed to secure berths for half of their legislators. Kalyan Singh's son Rajveer Singh alias Raju Bhaiya was also part of the ministry, which included Azam Khan who held an important portfolio. While staking claim to form an alternative government and urging state governor Vishnukant Shastri to dismiss the Mayawati government, Khan had then confidently claimed before mediapersons, "We have the support of 204 members in the 403-member state assembly. We have enlisted the support of 37 BJP legislators, who are fed up with the party and the government. We also have support of 14 independents and the Left parties. Congress Party is also giving us outside support." Kalyan Singh after deserting the BJP during 2003 assembly elections formed his own political party RKP and extended support to SP and helped Mulayam become the chief minister. However, after a year he broke ties with Mulayam and rejoined the BJP in 2004. It was quite obvious that Azam Khan chose to disregard morality and the pangs of his Muslim conscience then in order to ally with Babri Masjid demolition hero Kalyan Singh to gain power anyhow after ouster of Mayawati-led government. Where was Azam Khan's professed love for Muslims then particularly when the wounds of Babri Masjid demolition were quite fresh for the Indian Muslims? Why is Azam Khan opposing Kalyan Singh's alliance with the Samajwadi Party now? It may be recalled that Kalyan Singh's son Rajveer Singh has again rejoined the Samajwadi Party recently when parliamentary polls are round the corner. He has also been made general secretary of the party. Kalyan Singh, who was BJP vice-president, has also resigned from all party posts on 20 January 2009. He has also expressed his desire to campaign for the Samajwadi Party and independently contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections.
Besides Azam Khan, there are other Muslim Samajwadi Party leaders who have vehemently opposed the current Mulayam Yadav-Kalyan Singh deal. Prominent among those are 5-time Lok Sabha member Saleem Sherwani, Rajya Sabha member Shafiqur Rehman Burke and sitting SP MP Haji Akhlaq from Meerut. Khan has already gone on record denouncing Mulayam's deal with Kalyan Singh. "Kalyan Singh is a hardcore Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) man who was directly responsible for the demolition of the Babri Masjid. How can I brush shoulders with a man like him? What has led Mulayam Singhji to go for such an alignment," Khan said.
Even Saleem Sherwani has made up his mind to quit Smajawadi Party and would be contesting Lok Sabha polls from Budaun constituency in the state as an independent. Sherwani has won from this constituency for five times. However, now Mulayam Singh Yadav has ignored Sherwani's claim to the seat yet again and has decided to field his own nephew Dharmendra Yadav from here this time. Earlier, Dharmendra Yadav won the last election from Mainpuri where he earned notoriety for allegedly furthering his personal interests and neglecting the constituency. Budaun constituency weighed heavily on Mulayam Yadav's mind since it has about 316,000 Yadav votes and 290,000 Muslim votes. Considering the majority Yadav votes here Mulayam thought of gifting this constituency to his nephew on a platter. Sherwani now sees Mulayam's move as yet another example of extending family rule and ignoring his interests. This has apparently angered Sherwani greatly, and thus became the sole reason for him to question alliance with Babri demolition hero Kalyan Singh. This is also for the first time that Sherwani has raised Kalyan issue, which he ignored on umpteen occasions. This simply shows he doesn't have any genuine love for Muslims but for his own interests only.
Azam Khan's other misdemeanors; likens Rahul Gandhi to a "Pig"
Several of Azam Khan's actions can be cited that would expose him for what he really stands for. Khan, who was then Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and a prominent Muslim face of Samajwadi Party, had raised the demand for a separate 'Muslim Pradesh' in Western UP on 16 July 2006 during a public meeting at Ghaziabad. This was done keeping assembly elections in view in order to counter the influence of coalition partner Rashtriya Lok Dal and to subvert RLD chief Ajit Singh's demand for 'Harit Pradesh' in the region. Azam Khan very well knows the current fate of Muslims that has befallen them ever since the partition of India and the creation of a separate Islamic nation of Pakistan. As such, instead of ameliorating the sufferings of Muslims in his state and the country, Azam Khan chose to raise a separatist demand, which would have certainly done no good to his Muslim brethren.
On 1 July 2007, one Zulfiqar Khan lodged a police complaint against Azam Khan for constantly issuing life threats and encroaching his agricultural land for construction of the new Tehsil building in Madar Kohna area of Rampur district. Besides Khan, the police FIR was lodged against the then District Magistrate Mohd. Mustafa, Tehsildar Shamshad Hussain, and a Public Works Department executive engineer under section 109, 119, 120 (b), 226, 174, 177, 341, 192, 217, 431, 442, 447, 506, 383, 384, 389, 430 and 432 of IPC. In another case, Azam Khan was booked for illegally constructing a boundary wall and blocking way to the Mohd. Ali Jauhar University on 29 June 2007. Yet another case was registered against Khan for assaulting villagers near the Mohd. Ali Jauhar University in Rampur on 23 June 2007. Khan is the Chancellor for Life of Mohd. Ali Jauhar University, which was created by Mulayam Singh Yadav during his chief ministership. Further, Khan was booked under another case on 14 June 2007. The case related to the seizure of 500 sewing machines and 400 blankets from Samajwadi Party office in Rampur that was allegedly purchased from the District Urban Development Agency funds when Khan was Urban Development Minister. The purchase was done keeping in view of the elections. Thus, at least four cases were registered against Azam Khan within a period of 17 days.
Azam Khan's misdemeanor doesn't stop here only. It seems Khan needs to get some lessons in propriety and public decency. Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Azam Khan likened Rahul Gandhi to a "Pig" at a public rally in Ghazipur in eastern UP. On 26 April 2007 Khan had told his audience in Ghazipur that if Rahul Gandhi referred to the Babri Masjid as a mere structure, he would look worse than a pig to him. Khan's crass comment was telecast by a TV channel much to the chagrin of Samajwadi Party.
What lies in store for likes of Azam Khan and Congress Party?
It is obvious now that Muslim leaders like Azam Khan, Saleem Sherwani, Shafiqur Rahman Burke and Haji Akhlaq are serving their own interests rather than those of Muslims. And, without any tinge of shame whatsoever they find it suitable to oppose Mulayam Yadav-Kalyan Singh deal whenever they find the goings becoming tough for them. Their present opposition should therefore be seen in this backdrop only and not out of any genuine love for Muslims. Azam Khan has been finding himself marginalized ever since Amar Singh entered into Samajwadi Party and gradually became powerful. Earlier, Mulayam Singh-Azam Khan duo used to hog limelight more on the political horizon of Uttar Pradesh. But things admittedly are now different for Azam Khan with Amar Singh capturing his prized space alongside 'Netaji' Mulayam Singh Yadav. For Azam Khan, the climax has now reached as far as his political career with Samajwadi Party is concerned. It's 'Now or Never' for him to save his flagging political career, and end uncertainty or becoming irrelevant rather sooner than later in state politics. With Amar Singh at the helm in the party even Saleem Sherwani, Shafiqur Rahman Burke and Haji Akhlaq are facing the same fate of Azam Khan.
When seen in a perspective, Azam Khan however finds the going tougher when compared to other Muslim leaders. With his voices of rebellion being raised against the party at intervals, it looks imminent that Khan is going to quit the Samajwadi Party and jump on to the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party's bandwagon as the general elections approaches near. Given his "Pig" remarks against Rahul Gandhi, it rather looks highly improbable that Azam Khan would even dare to approach the party to gain entry at least for now. It is also unlikely that Congress Party would admit Khan so soon in the party fold. Other Muslim leaders, being political weathercocks that they are, may join Bahujan Samaj Party or even Congress Party, depending on their own circumstances.
However, why should it matter for any one of them, whether they earlier backed the alliance between Babri Masjid demolition hero Kalyan Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav, or they now join Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party or Congress Party. Muslims across the country have still not forgiven Congress Party for its role in the demolition of Babri Masjid during the prime ministership of Narasimha Rao. Mayawati's actions are also suspect in the eyes of Muslims. They simply refuse to forget Chief Minister Mayawati's campaign for Chief Minister Narendra Modi during 2002 Gujarat assembly elections after the worst ever massacre took place in the state against Muslims. Not a single Muslim minister resigned from the Mayawati cabinet after she returned having campaigned for Narendra Modi. Mayawati is also famous for joining hands with Bharatiya Janata Party whenever need be. After all, it shouldn't be of any concern to Muslim leaders or Congress Party as such to support Kalyan Singh or Mayawati as long as it suits their interests. The ultimate sufferers remain none else than Indian Muslims because they have genuine love for their leaders who prove to be rude betrayers instead leaving the community forlorn, uncared for, hapless morons as ever.
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CANTON -- The Ohio Department of Natural Resources wants the public to know while they want to see the gas and oil industry succeed in Ohio, they don't want it to be at the expense of the environment or the citizens of the state. "That is our mission," said James Zehringer, director of ODNR. Zehringer and Rick Simmer, chief of the ODNR's Division of Oil and Gas Resources, presented information on Ohio's gas and oil exploration and production during a talk recently held at Malone University, in Stark County. The event was organized by the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Zehringer was brought on board by Governor John Kasich a little more than two years ago, after previously serving as the director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. "Ohio is blessed with natural resources. Along with gas and oil, we have coal, water and public lands," said Zehringer. "Our goals, as the division of the ODNR in charge of resources are 1) to safeguard the water quality; 2) clean up our 74 state parks; and 3) to regulate oil and gas responsibly, which is pretty important, because we have to do this right. We have nine divisions in the ODNR, and Oil and Gas Resource Management is one."
Zehringer pointed out there has been a shift to Southern Ohio recently, in Noble and Belmont counties, in particular, in terms of oil and gas exploration and production, and he said there has been some pretty staggering results. Also, a new well in Monroe County is breaking records for oil and gas production, grossing $1 million per week. "That is just one well, and most wells don't gross anywhere near that amount," said Zehringer.
Zehringer said the ODNR projects the wells to be drilled in Ohio will take a large jump next year, with 1,180 predicted to be drilled in 2014, compared to 625 in 2013, and 215 in 2012. As he pointed out with this prediction, the activity is expected to go through the roof. In anticipation, the ODNR has beefed up its staff. In 2010, the ODNR had only 37 full-time people to regulate the oil and gas activity. "We have talked to other states to discuss lessons learned, and we've learned we have to have our regulatory staff in place," Zehringer said. "So, we've tripled our staff in the last two years. That includes 50 on-the-ground inspectors."
Zehringer said regulation is the key to keeping the industry a safe one for Ohioans. He said there is a proposed severance tax, but no amount has yet been set, and as far as the impact of that on the industry is concerned, he said, "I don't know what that will be, but, I can tell you our severance taxes are pretty low." He also pointed out Governor Kasich's intent with the severance tax is to lower income tax.
Simmers also spoke to say it is the ODNR's intent to regulate well construction, which is "largely unregulated now." New rules will be put in place in draft form as of Jan. 1, and once they are finalized, the gas and oil companies will be required to submit an engineering plan for ODNR approval. "We'll review their plan and make sure they follow the proper processes during construction," said Simmers.
Simmers also told those present during the talk the ODNR has residency requirements for its staff. "We live and work in the areas where we inspect, and in the counties where we regulate," he said.
"Utica is developing faster than any play in the U.S.," Zehringer concluded, "and, we're expecting to see a lot of positive results continuing."


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Q: Using Android Loader while retrieving data from Firebase I am retrieving data from Firebase and use this data to present some information. Since retrieving data takes time I put a CountDownTimer to make the app wait but it is not a nice solution and it does not look good. I found that Android Loader can do this job but I could not make it work. Can anyone solve this?
Here is the code I use to get data from Firebase.
infoReference.addChildEventListener(new ChildEventListener() { //inforeference is DatabaseReference
    @Override
    public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
        for (DataSnapshot postSnapshot : dataSnapshot.getChildren()) {
            try {
                Info info = postSnapshot.getValue(Info.class);
                    infoList.add(info); //Just an arraylist
            }catch(Exception e){
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onChildChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onChildRemoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onChildMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
    }

    @Override
    public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
    }
});

A: I use
    new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            doSomething();
        }
    },2000);

right after retrieving data from firebase,yet not a very good idea. looking for solution too.


Over two and a half years ago, two people ... one called Christina, the other, Dave Shaw ... came on one of my first ever Saturday walks. Last Saturday they returned for their fourth weekend walk with me, joining an incredibly elite group of people who have achieved or perhaps managed to complete such a feat, like a strange test of endurance. The group they have joined is so elite that I think it previously consisted of one, a lady called Denise Rhodes. It was a walk of what I call 'repeat offenders', as Christina's brother Tim and his wife Sarah were back for their second walk, and John from Boston was also returning for the second time, bringing with him this time, his wife Kathy. We also had some first timers in the form of Anne (AKA Petal) and the Guarino family from the States.
You may wonder why I chose to take the photo of the group next to a lamp post, but it is the only surviving gas destructor lamp left in London. I think someone reversed their lorry in to the original one a few years ago, but never-the-less, it is still on 24 hours a day, burning off the sewage (methane) that runs beneath it, which is why the street it can be found on, Carting Lane, is sometimes known as 'Farting Lane'.
Sunday's walk around east London saw a couple more people, Mandi and Owen back for their second walk. They brought with them their friend Barbara and the ensemble was completed by a family from Warrington. Here they are at Columbia Road flower market.
Also, as I didn't do my 'weekend roundup' from the previous week, or indeed, the week before that ... and maybe even the weekend before that. Here they are.
June was my busiest month yet, and was lucky enough to meet people from all over the world and show them around London during the week ... and even some born and bred Londoners. Just to reiterate, as well as the regular 'pay what you want' walks that I do each weekend, I do 'private walks' during the week, whereby I put together itineraries for people based on their interests, what they'd like to see and stuff like that. Most of the walks I did are pictured below, and as you can see, we managed to include quite a bit of London ... one way or another.
So, first up, at the beginning of the month, I was delighted to see Gurudhan and Jennie again, who I met last summer whilst they were visiting from Austin, Texas. They were back in London for a flying visit and brought with them, Jennie's daughter Ella. They're outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Bankside. Courtney and Emily joined me for a walk around Westminster, and you can see them outside the side entrance of Westminster Abbey. Julia & Michael were visiting from Denmark, and brought with them their respective parents / parents-in-law. You can see them in front of the iconic Big Ben which presides over one side of the Houses of Parliament. I met Kent and his crew of Chemistry Professors outside the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, where they'd spent the afternoon pouring over the journals and diaries of Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton and co. I took their photo outside Buckingham Palace.
I did a walk with Angelise & Caroline around Bankside and Southwark and took the above photo of them outside the George Tavern, just off Borough High Street. Joselito and his family were visiting from the States, and we stopped off at Borough Market for a quick pre-lunch snack. I met Matt & Gin from Australia on the first day of their honeymoon and did a bit of a London Extravaganza all day tour, and bumped in to one of the Queen's Guards along the way. Lastly, you can see Lyn and her daughter outside St James's Palace.
John & Leonie were visiting from Australia, so took the liberty of taking their photo alongside the statue of Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales and founder of the settlement which became Sydney. Kevin & Ellen brought a load of their friends over from Texas and as they were all pretty much of a medical persuasion, we ended the walk at the Hunterian Museum. Just before we finished, I took the photo of them in the rather beautiful Lincoln's Inn. Some more guards, this time with Sundar and his family outside St James's Palace, and lastly I did a sort of orientation for a group of American exchange students. We ended up in Trafalgar Square, where I took their photo.
Lorne is the first Canadian Mounty I've ever met, and had a great day showing him and various members of his family around London for the day. You can see them (top left) with St Paul's cathedral in the background. I spent the day with Lynda and Peter from Australia and their friends, and it was them that brought to my attention, the Australian War Memorial on Hyde Park Corner. It commemorates Australians who died fighting alongside the British in both World wars and is made from 200 tons of granite from Western Australia. We also have Debbie and her two kids outside Buckingham Palace and Gisella and her family visiting from Australia, with Nelson's Column behind them.
So ... the last four photos show Kristen and her extended family striding down from Leicester Square, having spent the morning around Westminster. Jeanne and co. stopped for a sandwich in Shoreditch, so that's where I took the photo of them. On the wall behind them, you can see some work by French street artist Thierry Noir. I spent the morning with Carrie and her family and left them just by the Millennium Bridge, as they were going to head over to Bankside for lunch. Lastly we have Jeanine and her family outside Berry Bros & Rudd ... the Queen's wine shop. They were from Texas and just behind them on the wall of Pickering Place which runs down the side of the shop is a plaque stating that the Republic of Texas once had an Embassy there between 1842-45.
So ... there we have it. If you're going to be visiting London in the coming months and would like me to show you around, please feel free to get in touch.
It's been a busy month, or at least June was a busy month and I've been a bit poor at adding my weekend walks roundups, so here are the two I did last weekend and also the weekend before that. All in one post.
Above, you can see the group that joined me on the walk from Trafalgar Square to St Paul's cathedral last Saturday. They're standing next to the only surviving City gate, called Temple bar, although it's not in it's original position. I had spotted one of street artist Ben Wilson's bits of chewing gum art and had drawn it to the group's attention, when Bruce ... one of the group members discovered another one, which is a great depiction of the gate itself. It looks like this.
For Sundays walk around east London, it was such a massive group that I had to climb on a wall to take the photo and make sure I could fit them all in. Although it was a mix of people from India, the States and Spain we also had Gareth who both lives and works in the area. Bruce, Kelly and Kelsey who had done the Saturday one even came back and did another. Dedication indeed.
Here are the groups from the previous weekend. I was delighted to see Supro (from India) back for another walk. He'd been on one last year and brought some friends with him this time. Oh yes, and Sean (from Australia) was back for his second walk too.


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Das Sortino-Verhältnis () ist ein Maß für den risikobereinigten Gewinn einer Geldanlage. Es ist eine Modifikation des Sharpe-Verhältnisses. Während das Sharpe-Verhältnis die übliche Volatilität der Geldanlage berücksichtigt, berücksichtigt das Sortino-Verhältnis nur den Teil der Volatilität, der von abwärtsgerichteten Bewegungen erzeugt wird. Die aufwärts gerichteten Bewegungen gelten als günstig und werden mit dem Wert Null in die Berechnung einbezogen. Dadurch reagiert die Volatilitätskomponente auf die Häufigkeit der abwärtsgerichteten Bewegungen, das heißt, sie berücksichtigt eine mögliche asymmetrische Renditeverteilung.

Berechnung
Das Sortino-Verhältnis wird wie folgt berechnet:

Dabei ist  die erwartete Rendite,  die durchschnittliche Rendite einer als Vergleichsmaßstab dienenden Geldanlage, zum Beispiel der risikolose Zins aus Staatsanleihen, und  die sogenannte Downside-Deviation oder Downside-Volatilität.

Für historische Renditen  lässt sich das Sortino-Verhältnis berechnen aus

Bei der Berechnung der Volatilitätskomponente  werden nur die Renditen berücksichtigt, die die kleinste akzeptierte Rendite (englisch )  nicht übersteigen. Trotzdem wird durch , also die Anzahl aller Renditen des Betrachtungszeitraums geteilt. Da es sich bei der Downside-Deviation nicht um eine statistische Kennzahl im eigentlichen Sinne handelt, wird anders als bei der Standardabweichung einer Stichprobe durch  anstelle von  dividiert.

In diesem Fall ist  die gemittelte geometrische Rendite.

Teilweise wird auch mit der mittleren arithmetischen Rendite gerechnet. Dann ist

Üblicherweise wird das Sortino-Verhältnis aus monatlichen Renditen ermittelt und durch Multiplikation mit  annualisiert.

Bedeutung
Das Sortino-Verhältnis wurde von Frank A. Sortino entwickelt. Es wird insbesondere als Kennzahl für die Beurteilung von Hedgefonds-Investments verwendet, die möglichst in allen Marktphasen einen Absolute Return erwirtschaften wollen.

Siehe auch
 Moderne Portfoliotheorie

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Ahmet Ertuğ (born 1949) is a fine art photographer and publisher based in Istanbul, Turkey.
He was trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, from where he graduated in 1974. He specializes in large format photography of architectural and archaeological edifices of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods in the history of Turkey. With Ahmet Kocabıyık he founded Ertuğ & Kocabıyık: Publishers of Fine Art Books. Ahmet Ertuğ's photographs were published in a series of 25 volumes. In 2009 Ahmet Ertuğ photographed 30 historical libraries in Europe. He developed the volume Temples of Knowledge: Libraries of the Western World from these photographs. His latest photographic project documenting the architecture of grand opera houses has been published under the title Palaces of Music: Opera Houses of Europe in December 2010, text written by Michael Forsyth.
In 2012 the tome Gods of Nemrud: The Royal Sanctuary of Antiochos & the Kingdom of Commagene followed. It deals with the archaeological material from Commagene of the first century BC connected to the local kingdom of Antiochus I. Text contributed by R.R.R. Smith.
He uses large format camera equipment and 20 x 25 cm film material, also high resolution digital camera backs in specific locations. All limited edition volumes are printed and bound manually in Italy and Switzerland. All books of Ahmet Ertuğ have been published in Folio and larger formats.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said in a Facebook posting Friday that "fellow Christians" should consider getting a handgun carry permit after the mass shooting in Oregon.
Survivors told authorities the gunman demanded at least some of the victims state their religion before shooting them at a community college.
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This was the 14th (and final) broadcast of Myoujin WiFi Radio.
The broadcast date was 12/31, so Sawako and Haruka talked about the New Year holidays. Sawako usually doesn't go home (to Osaka). Sawako and her friend went to Meiji Jinguu once, just to see what it's like. They waited in a very crowded line for midnight. So they celebrated the New Year while waiting in line with lots of other people. Then they ran in, tossed the money, and ran out. But she said it was fun.
Sawako said 2018 was a year where she made many friends (seiyuu friends).
Haruka said her goal for 2018 was to get a driver's license and go to a cooking school. But she couldn't do either of them. So her goal for 2019 was to do at least one of them. She wants a driver's license so she has an id other than her passport.
For the commercial skit, Haruka did the role of the boy, and Sawako did the role of the girl (his girlfriend).
This was the final broadcast of this show, but there will be a new program by Sawako and Haruka starting next week, at the same time.
In the foreign otaku event corner, Yuri said she didn't go abroad this year, but she went to many places in Japan. Then she introduced the Comic Fiesta event held in Malaysia. Yuri said cosplayed as female Ranma before, and she would like to try cosplay again.


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Q: nServiceBus with large XML messages I have read about the true messaging and that instead of sending payload on the bus, it sends an identifier. In our case, we have a lot of legacy apps/services and those were designed to receive the payload of messages (xml) that is close to 4MB (close MSMQ limit). Is there a way for nService bus to handle large payload and persist messages automatically or another work-around, so that the publisher/subscriber services don't have to worry neither about the payload size, nor about how to de/re-hydrate the payload?
Thank you in advance.

A: You could use the Message Sequence pattern. In NServiceBus, you would split the payload in the sender, wrap the chunks in a custom 'Sequence' IMessage, and then implement a saga at the other end to extract the chunks & reassemble. You would need to put some effort into error handling & timeouts.

A: You can always use the quick "fix" of compressing the messages.
A POCO serialized with the binary serializer can be compressed down by a large margin.  We saw our messages that were 20mb compressed down to 3.1mb.
So if your messages are hovering around 4mb it might be simple to just write an IMessageSerializer that automatically compresses the message while it is on the wire.

A: I'm not aware of any internal NServiceBus capability to associate extra data with a message out of band.
I think you're right on the mark - if the entire payload can't fit within the limit, then it's better to persist it elsewhere on your own and then passing an ID.
However, it may be possible for you to design a message structure such that a message could implement an IHasPayload interface (which would perhaps incorporate an ID and a Type?), and then your application logic could have a common method for getting the payload given an IHasPayload message.


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Q: How is the inequality $\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\ \Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil \leq i-2+k$ acquired? Edited: The RHS should be $i-2+k$, not $i-2-k$, I made a typo. Probably needed more sleep.

While reading some paper about sorting algorithms, I ran through this:
$$\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\ \Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil \leq i-2+k$$
Under the circumstances that $i=n-2^k-1$, while $2^{k}\lt n\leq 2^{k+1}-1, k\in\mathbb{N}$.
Now, I understand how geometric series are calculated, but adding the ceiling function here is totally over my capacity.
By simply calculating by hand from $i=1$ and upward, I was able to get that for
$i\geq2$, the result of the LHS being $\Big\lfloor\frac{i-2}{2}+k\Big\rfloor$, looking alike but not the one provided. It seems like was using the properties of ceiling functions but nothing useful comes to my mind.
It really would help if some instructions are given in the right direction or a very simple step-by-step explanation.
Thanks in advance.

A: I am sorry but either the source is wrong or this was transcribed here incorrectly. Put $k=20$ and $n=2^k+3$ so $i=3$ and $i-1=2$ [allowed by the OP]. Then
$$\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\ \Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil \ = \
\sum_{r=1}^k \Big\lceil\frac{2}{2^r}\Big\rceil \ \ge k \ $$
$$> i-2-k, \ \text{for $i=4$ and $k=20$}.$$
Now one does have
$$\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\ \Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil \quad \le \quad \displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\ \Big(1+\Big(\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big)\Big)$$
$$= \ \displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k 1 \  +  \displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\Big(\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big) \quad = \quad  k \ + \ (i-1) -\frac{i-1}{2^k}.$$
To get your desired bound you would need $\frac{i-1}{2^k} > 2k+1$, which is impossible if $n-2^{k}$ is allowed to be so small.

A: if you substitute in:
$$\frac{i-1}{2^r}=\frac{n-2^k-2}{2^r}$$
then you can say:
$$-\frac{1}{2^{r-1}}=\frac{2^k-2^k-2}{2^r}\le\frac{n-2^k-2}{2^r}\le\frac{2^{k+1}-2^k-3}{2^r}=\frac{2^k-3}{2^r}$$
the ceiling of the left hand side is fairly easy. for the right hand side I would say:
$$\frac{2^k-3}{2^r}=\frac{2^k-2^a}{2^r}$$
where $a=\frac{\ln3}{\ln 2}\approx1.585$
Now you could say:
$$\frac{2^k-2^a}{2^r}=2^{k-r}-2^{a-r}$$
noticing that for $r\ge2$ we have:
$$\lceil2^{k-r}-2^{a-r}\rceil=\lceil2^{k-r}-1\rceil=2^{k-r}-1$$

I'm going to go back and have a look at where to go from here but it feels like the right direction

A: Thanks to the comments, after a few days of struggling I finally was able to find the way to get the upper bound. To calculate the following formula,
$$\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\ \Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil$$
What we do first is to separate it into 2 parts, the integer part and the fractal part (which would be affected by the ceiling function), getting:
$$\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\frac{i-1}{2^r}+\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\Big(\Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil-\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big)$$

*

*The first term is easy to deal with. Eliminating the constant term, we get:
$$(i-1)\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\frac{1}{2^r}$$ which can be easily evaulated into $$(i-1)\cdot\Big(1-\frac{1}{2^k}\Big)$$

*As for the second term, we use the property that
$$\begin{align} \\ \displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\Big(\Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil-\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big) &\leq \overbrace{\Big[\Big(1-\frac{1}{2}\Big)+\Big(1-\frac{1}{2^2}\Big)+\dots+\Big(1-\frac{1}{2^k}\Big)\Big]}^{\text{k terms}} \\ &= k-\Big[\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2^2}+\dots+\frac{1}{2^k}\Big] \\ &=k-\Big[1-\frac{1}{2^k}\Big]\end{align}$$
Adding the two terms up results in
$$\begin{align}
\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\frac{i-1}{2^r}+\displaystyle\sum_{r=1}^k\Big(\Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil-\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big)&\leq (i-1)\cdot\Big(1-\frac{1}{2^k}\Big)+k-\Big[1-\frac{1}{2^k}\Big] \\
&= i-1-\frac{i-1}{2^k}+k-1+\frac{1}{2^k} \\ &= i+k-2+\frac{2-i}{2^k} \\
\end{align}$$
Since $i\geq 2$, we are able to elimate the last term, thus obtaining the inequality stated in the question: $$\Big\lceil\frac{i-1}{2^r}\Big\rceil \leq i-2+k$$


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Q: Need to remove legacy shortcodes w/ variable content from WordPress pages using MySQL I have many pages (posts) in a WP site with legacy short code that needs to be removed and cannot accomplish what I need using WordPress find/replace plug-ins - so I'm turning to MySQL queries.
The shortcodes to be removed all follow the same pattern: "[nivo... (variable content) .../nivo]
I need to remove the entire nivo shortcode and ONLY the nivo shortcode because other shortcodes exist on some pages.
I found something very close to what I think I need, and modified the obvious parameters for this particular application as follows...
UPDATE `post_content`
REPLACE(txt, SUBSTRING(txt, LOCATE('[nivo', txt), LENGTH(txt) - LOCATE('nivo]', REVERSE(txt)) - LOCATE('nivo]', txt) + 10), '')
WHERE  txt LIKE '%(%)%'

That ^^^ is accepted in the SQL query window (no stop signs) but returns a #1064 error when executed.
Ideally I would like to TEST this first on a specific post ID just to be sure it's really catching everything but I couldn't figure out how to write that into the query.
I know VERY little about MySQL (I'm a designer) but I have DB backups ready for rollback just in case.
Help would be greatly appreciated.

A: The key is that you want to use a plugin or tool that allows you to use regex (regular expressions). I have used this Php tool, you just put it in your public_html and then access the path via a web browser: https://interconnectit.com/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Just use a little regex in the Php tool or find a find and replace plugin that allows you to use regex. It would look something like this:
\[nivo.*?/nivo\]

\ means escaping a character, since the bracket has a special meaning in regex.
. means any character
* means any number of characters
? means 0 or more
.*? together means anything or nothing
For reference (and probably a better answer):
PHP - Remove Shortcodes and Content in between with Regex Pattern


We're fast approaching January, the month where we make resolutions to change our lives for the better. Every year the majority of us will make a whole host of resolutions, scratching around for ideas as we sing Auld Lang Syne as the clock strikes midnight, taking us into 2018. Is it really all that surprising that each and every year the majority of us will fail or forget our resolutions before January is through? If you pick any old area without much thought, chances are that you're not truly invested in your choice. Instead, start thinking now. Sure, it might not even be Christmas yet. But the more time and effort you put into your decision, the more stubborn and resolute you're going to be in regards to upholding it. So, where to start? Well, why do things by halves? Focus on your career. This, after all, is where you will focus most of your attention and efforts throughout the coming year, so you might as well pour your energy and creativity into something worthwhile! Here are a few different ways that you can take the wheel of your career and steer things in the right direction throughout 2018.
Not many of us can say that we're in the role of our dreams. But we also have to be realistic and work out whether what we have is actually pretty good. It's important that when you review your job, and the level of satisfaction that it brings you, that you are honest with yourself. Whether we are optimists or pessimists, most of us have the bad habit of exaggerating the things that we like or dislike, depending on what suits us. Also, avoid focusing on specific areas and try to look at the overall picture. There are several steps that you can take to determine whether you are in the right job role. Is the pay sufficient for your wants and needs? How often do you find yourself unhappy or stressed in the workplace? Do you get on with your colleagues? Are you invested in your individual role? The list goes on. In fact, make lists! Tally up all of the pros and cons of your career and if one side seriously outweighs the other, you'll know what you have to do!
If you're unhappy with your current role, or simply think that you may be happier elsewhere, it's time to start considering your alternatives. There's no use throwing the towel in with no idea of where you intend to go after all, is there? If you already have something in mind, you're pretty set to go. You have your goal, you just have to follow the next steps to get there. If you're undecided or unsure, however, things can become a little more difficult. But don't worry. All hope isn't lost! Things might just take a little more time. Take a look at different roles online and see whether any tickle your fancy. Talk to friends and family members about their positions. It might spark an idea. If you are still struggling, sit down and note down all of your strengths. These can be purely professional (such as an ability to operate particular equipment or software), or general (such a personality or character traits). You can then hand this list over to a careers advisor who will be able to come up with some ideas of positions that match you on paper.
If you're opting for a new role, it's time to start planning the path you intend to take to achieve your desired position. You can find out what qualifications are generally required for any given job with a quick Google search. Simply type your intended career followed by "qualifications" in the search bar and press enter! Note down all of the given qualifications listed and start looking into how to acquire them. Most qualifications can be achieved through courses at higher education institutes such as colleges or universities. Others can be taken on a more casual basis through evening classes or short courses. Many are flexible, meaning that you can take them on around your current job. This means that you don't lose out on any wages and won't fall into debt while you study. You can then transition smoothly from one career to another without financial problems arising. Say you're interested in project management. You can Study Project Management online with a flexible timetable and deadlines. Online courses are also generally more flexible than courses where you have to attend lectures or seminars. Because you study alone, you can pick modules specific to your interests and needs. With the example project management course, you can pick between accounting, engineering management, health services management, information and knowledge management, and managing and leading people. This means that you will leave with all of the essential knowledge that is directly applicable to your intended job role.
You may not be able to walk straight into your new career with your new qualifications. Sometimes you will have to gain experience in the field. This is often unpaid, or you will be in receipt of low pay. Sure, this is frustrating. But often it gives you invaluable insight into what you'll be doing and can connect you with contacts who may give you a more permanent role following your voluntary or trial period. So be patient. Remember that good things come to those who wait.
Once you have all of the qualifications and experience required for your chosen career, it's time to start putting your resume together. This can be a make or break part of the process. It's likely to be the first time that you're putting yourself out there on the job market, and it's bound to be a daunting experience. It is also essential that you bear in mind that this piece of paper or online document may well be the only information that your potential employer will have about you. So you need to make it memorable in order for your own application to stand out from the crowd. After all, there's pretty tough competition for near enough any role nowadays! The job market is saturated with candidates, many of whom may have similar qualifications and experience to you. This is the stage where your character and personality come into play. You need to show confidence and enthusiasm. Remember to include all of the relevant information as well as creating an inspiring cover letter.
Once you've completed all of the above steps, it's time to start handing out your resume. It's tempting to become complacent, sending your details out and assuming that your application has been rejected if you don't hear anything back. The truth is that resumes can often become lost in the post, or accidentally filtered into junk boxes or read boxes. It's absolutely essential that you actively follow up any application. Especially if it's a role that you really want. Don't let things slip easily! You've put in too much hard work already to give up now. Often applicants will worry that they're hassling the employer. However, as long as you're not checking in every five minutes, it's absolutely acceptable to inquire as to the progress of your application. It also shows a positive sense of diligence and dedication! So, don't delay. Start this process as soon as possible to see faster results. Your entire life really could change for the better.


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Seattle Seahawks at Washington Football Team Predictions & Tips – WFT To Win Monday MNF Game
Seattle Seahawks at Washington Football Team tips for Monday, November 29
Matchup gets underway at 01:15 GMT (Tuesday) at FedExField
Preview, stats & head-to-head
FedExField, the home of Washington Football Team (Getty Images)
Leigh Copson
Seattle Seahawks at Washington Football Team Predictions & Tips
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Washington are tipped to win on Monday Night Football.
Seattle may have Russell Wilson back from injury but he is struggling behind a bad offensive line.
WFT's defense has improved lately and QB Taylor Heinicke is good form, so we backing the hosts.
Washington Football Team have won back-to-back games
Seattle Seahawks have lost 5 of their last 6 games
Seattle Seahawks have scored just 13 points in their last 2 games
The Under has hit in 4 of Washington's last 5 games
The Under has hit in 8 of Seattle's 10 games this season
Washington Football team leads the all-time series 12-9
Seattle Seahawks won 20-15 when the teams met last season
Seattle were able to welcome back Russell Wilson after the bye but their form has not improved.
The Seahawks were shutout in a 17-0 defeat at Green Bay and last weekend they lost 23-13 at home to Arizona.
That loss to the Cardinals was their fifth defeat in six games and they have not won since the 31-7 win over Jacksonville on October 31.
That victory over the Jaguars is the only time they have scored more than 13 points in their last four games.
QB Russell Wilson is 124/191 for 1,564 yards, 10 touchdowns and three interceptions.
Alex Collins is the team's leading rusher with just 381 yards and two touchdowns.
Tyler Lockett is the leading receiver with 717 yards and three TDs, while DK Metcalf has 637 yards and eight scores.
Washington have kept their postseason hopes alive with back-to-back wins since their bye week.
WFT went into their weekend off in rough shape after suffered a run of four straight defeats.
They stopped the rot in sensational fashion though, upsetting defending champions Tampa Bay 29-19 two weeks ago.
Washington then followed that up with a 27-21 victory over Carolina last time out.
QB Taylor Heinicke is 217/328 for 2,390 yards, 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also has 276 yards rushing and a score.
Terry McLaurin has been his favourite target, with the WR hauling in 54 of his 91 targets for 735 yards and five TDs.
RBs Antonio Hibson and JD McKissic have combined for 1,312 yards from scrimmage and eight touchdowns.
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SEA Seahawks @ WAS Football Team
Washington knocked off the champs two weeks ago and go into this on the back of a couple of wins.
Seattle are struggling massively on offense, so WFT are tipped to come out on top on Monday Night Football.
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Jaeda Grosjean, 13, (center) and her grandfather Clyde Baker shovel snow from a relative's driveway in Bangor, Jan. 21, 2019.
This latest storm will drop another 4 to 6 inches over Greater Bangor, according to the National Weather Service office in Caribou. Similar snowfall is anticipated for most of central, eastern and northern Maine.
Snowfall will start by 3 a.m. Thursday over Greater Bangor, a 4 a.m. start time for Millinocket and central Penobscot, according to the weather service. Snow will start to fly Down East by 5 a.m., and snow will begin coming down in Aroostook County by 7 a.m.
The storm comes on the heels of two batches of snow last week, including a Wednesday storm that left 9.5 inches of snow over Bangor and north of 10 inches over northern Penobscot and Aroostook counties. Friday's storm left a dusting by comparison, with only 1 inch dumped over Bangor. The highest reported snowfall from that storm was 4 inches in Houlton, according to the weather service.


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Coming Soon Dabbler Depot A Liquor Store With Benefits
Coming Soon: Dabbler Depot, a Liquor Store with Benefits
I know what you're thinking, probably the same thing I was thinking when I pulled up to the address on West Seventh that Matt Kenevan sent me: really?
But if there's one thing I've learned, it's to never underestimate Matt Kenevan. The founder of The Growler Magazine and Beer Dabbler has had just as rough a pandemic as any of us. Ceasing publication on his beerist magazine and having to relaunch his beer fests in a Covid world has not been easy.
DEED Announces Small Business Partnership Grant Awardees
St. Paul – Today, the Department of Employment and Economic Development is announcing recipients of the Small Business Partnership Grant Program: non-profits and public entities who will provide and facilitate business development and technical assistance to entrepreneurs and small businesses. This program was increased by $7M to $9.8M by th...Continue Reading
Record Number of Job Vacancies Top 205,000 in Q2 2021
The Labor Market Information Office at DEED recently released Q2 2021 job vacancy data. The report found that job openings in Minnesota soared to a record high in the second quarter of 2021 as demand for workers greatly outpaced hiring. As the state's economy continues to recover from the pandemi...Continue Reading
Insurance For Sneakers? St. Paul Startup May Have Answer For High-End Collections
SoleSafe is one of 10 startups from across North America — one of two from the Twin Cities — chosen for a joint 13-week accelerator program sponsored by the Minnesota Twins and Techstars. While scrounging through a house he and his wife had purchased, St. Paul native Phil Terrill found abou...Continue Reading


More than five years after winning viral fame for its gimmicky YouTube video of their five-players-one-guitar run through Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know, Burlington, Ont., band Walk off the Earth continue to be one of the country's most popular live acts.
Six albums later, the band's concerts still mix teamwork-heavy instrumental prowess with original tunes and drastically retooled takes on popular songs, such as Madonna's Material Girl, Pharrell's Happy and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
They play the Coca-Cola Stage at 9 p.m. Calgary's Jocelyn Alice opens things up at 8 p.m.


Upgrades a Service Fabric application to specified ApplicationTypeVersion.
The Start-ServiceFabricApplicationUpgrade cmdlet upgrades a Service Fabric application. Before using this cmdlet you need to copy the updated application package to the image store and register the updated application type. Use the Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage to copy the application package to image store. Use the Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType cmdlet to register the updated application type.
This cmdlet starts the upgrade on the cluster.
For more information on Service Fabric application upgrades, see the conceptual documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-application-upgrade-tutorial-powershell).
Before you perform any operation on a Service Fabric cluster, establish a connection to the cluster by using the Connect-ServiceFabricCluster cmdlet.
PS C:\> Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage -ApplicationPackagePath "C:\PersistentToDoListServiceV2" -ImageStoreConnectionString "file:C:\ProgramData\ServiceFabric\ImageStore"
PS C:\> Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType -ApplicationPathInImageStore "PersistentToDoListServiceV2"
The first command uses the Copy-ServiceFabricApplicationPackage cmdlet to copy the updated application package to the image store.
The second command uses the Register-ServiceFabricApplicationType cmdlet to register the updated application type.
The third command upgrades the application. The command performs an unmonitored manual upgrade, which includes a restart of the server that hosts the application.
Specifies the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of a Service Fabric application. The cmdlet upgrades the application that has the URI that you specify.
Specifies the version of a Service Fabric application type. The cmdlet upgrades the application to the version that you specify.
Indicates that the upgrade mode is monitored. After the cmdlet finishes an upgrade for an upgrade domain, if the health of the upgrade domain and the cluster meet the health policies that you define, Service Fabric upgrades the next upgrade domain. If the upgrade domain or cluster fails to meet health policies, the upgrade fails and Service Fabric rolls back the upgrade for the upgrade domain or reverts to manual mode per the policy specified. This is the recommended mode for application upgrades in a production environment.
Indicates that the upgrade mode is unmonitored automatic. After Service Fabric upgrades an upgrade domain, Service Fabric upgrades the next upgrade domain irrespective of the application health state. This mode is not recommended for production, and is only useful during development of an application.
Indicates that the upgrade mode is unmonitored manual. After Service Fabric upgrades an upgrade domain, it waits for you to upgrade the next upgrade domain by using the Resume-ServiceFabricApplicationUpgrade cmdlet.
Specifies the overrides for application parameters as name/value pairs.
Indicates whether to treat a warning health event as an error event during health evaluation.
Indicates that this cmdlet skips the warning message and forces the upgrade.
Indicates that the service host restarts even if the upgrade is a configuration-only change.
Specifies the duration, in seconds, after which Service Fabric retries the health check if the previous health check fails.
Specifies the duration, in seconds, that Service Fabric waits in order to verify that the application is stable before moving to the next upgrade domain or completing the upgrade. This wait duration prevents undetected changes of health right after the health check is performed.
Specifies the duration, in seconds, that Service Fabric waits before it performs the initial health check after it finishes the upgrade on the upgrade domain.
Specifies the maximum percentage of the application instances deployed on the nodes in the cluster that have a health state of error before the application health state for the cluster is error.
Specifies the time-out period, in seconds, to check whether the replica set has quorum. After the time-out period, the upgrade proceeds.
This parameter has been deprecated. Specify the UpgradeReplicaSetCheckTimeoutSec parameter instead.
Indicates that the service host restarts as part of the upgrade.
This parameter has been deprecated. Specify the ForceRestart parameter instead.
Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, that Service Fabric takes to upgrade a single upgrade domain. After this period, the upgrade fails.
Specifies the maximum time that Service Fabric waits for a service to reconfigure into a safe state, if not already in a safe state, before Service Fabric proceeds with the upgrade.
Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, that Service Fabric takes for the entire upgrade. After this period, the upgrade fails.
This cmdlet returns a System.Fabric.Description.ApplicationUpgradeDescription for a Service Fabric application upgrade.


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Raining Embers
Curator Olivia Poloni interviews Ruth Maddison, Aletheia Casey, Gideon Mendel and Rachel Mounsey
Raining Embers, presented as part of the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, examines the global climate crisis through the lens of four photojournalists that captured the 2020 Australian Bushfires. These fires, coined the Black Summer, devastated vegetation, animal life and communities on the east coast of Australia.
Featuring Aletheia Casey (AUS), Gideon Mendel (ZAF), Ruth Maddison (AUS) and Rachel Mounsey (AUS), these photographers take us through the devastation and despair of communities that were taken by the wildfires. Intimate and broken portraits of people, the ravage that was done to human made objects and the devastation of the land stand for a heart-breaking time in recent history.
Ruth Maddison
What part of Australia features in your work? What is your connection to that land?
My work was made in Eden, far-south coast of NSW on the Princes Highway, 48 kms from the Victorian border. I've lived in Eden since 1996.
Why were you compelled to make these images?
I've been documenting Eden's street life, working, domestic and recreational life, as well as the architecture & surrounding landscape, since I moved here. It was natural that I would go out on the street and document what was happening when the fires started to approach the town. And as scary as the situation was, I somehow felt less panicky being outside photographing than being in my house.
How do you approach taking images of vulnerability?
In relation to the fires, the people who had been holidaying north and south of Eden and came to Eden as fire evacuees on the 31st December 2019 and set up camp on the sports field were fine about me photographing & I talked to quite a few of those people. And let them know I live in Eden.
With the locals during the approaching fires and the aftermath, we were all experiencing the same situation, feeling the same vulnerability and fear. And I'm known in the community. Locals appreciate my documentation of the town and want me to continue.
I evacuated to Canberra on the 3rd January 2020 & didn't return until the 14th. Annette Evelyn asked me to come to her property & photograph the result of the fire and continue with her through her process of clearing and ultimately rebuilding.
The other similar extreme situation I photographed was in the street in St. Kilda I was living in when we were flooded in 1988. We all had a metre of water in our houses. It was a similar situation. I'd been photographing in the street & in our houses for 8 years.
Apart from those two situations it would be emotionally vulnerable people that I know, that I have a relationship with. I don't ever go to an unknown place to photograph a disaster. That's not me.
Do you feel that through your art you can help the community heal?
Interesting question. I don't know. If I think about all my post fire images, maybe it helps us all see how as a community we support each other through such a time. Reinforces that strong sense of/love of community that there is in small towns.
There's an Eden FB page for locals only where I post heaps of my Eden photos and they do get a huge response with comments.
Do you have a new body of work you are working on?
No. Still recovering from major survey show Feb-April at CCP.
Doing some abstract images at the moment and continuing to do bits around Eden, which has suddenly hit the point of change over from small, quiet working class town to a building site (the whole town) on its way to the next gentrified upmarket seaside resort.
Aletheia Casey
In this series I used images from the area around where my parents live on the South Coast of New South Wales, which I feel incredibly connected to, as I feel I belong here. Now, as I live in London, home in Australia has become a kind of dreamland for me, a land which is full of memories, family history, and is flooded with light, birdsong, smells and sounds which fill all of my senses, and make me feel that I'm home.
I felt so anxious when the fires were burning in late 2019 and 2020 that I felt I had to do something to ease my fear and anxiety about what was happening. Years ago, I was trapped in a bushfire in the Hunter Valley, NSW. There were flames on either side of the highway and I only very narrowly made it through them safely. It was one of the most terrifying moments of my life, and so I understood all too well how it feels to have your life threatened by a fire. Although the fire I had been stuck in was nothing compared to these bushfires, the memory of this fuelled my imagination and provided a basis for this work. I watched the news of the fires from my flat in cool and rainy London, feeling sick with anxiety as the flames came close to the homes of people that I love. The only way I could combat the fear and the horror of watching the country I love so dearly burning was to produce photographic work.
By putting focused energy into the making of this work I was able to ease my own anxiety, as whenever I make work I am completely in the present, and by being wholly present, fears of the future are diminished.
I don't make work with a specific audience in mind, as I think the most authentic expression of artistic creativity is when an artist makes work purely to satisfy their own desire to create, rather than to satisfy any particular audience. Having said that, however, I do believe that through the sharing of an experience, healing can occur, and so if this was one of the outcomes of this work, I would feel honoured, and would feel that the work had served a valuable purpose.
Yes, I actually have several that I'm currently working on. One body of work is the next chapter in my series The Dark Forgetting, which address the trauma of Australia's colonial history, and the repercussions of this violent history. The other body of work is also based around Australia's colonisation and the colonisation and robbery of land. Landscape is almost always at the heart of my work, as my attachment to the land is a fundamental component of who I am.
Gideon Mendel
Most of the work was shot in the Bega Valley in South East Australia. The area around the small town of Cobargo was my focus. I have no particular connection to this land as I grew up in South Africa and my home now is London. I was drawn to this area because it was one of the communities hardest hit by these fires and came to feel a strong connection to many of the individuals I photographed.
For the last fifteen years I have attempted to make work that on some level documents the climate emergency I believe that our planet is facing. Most of the work done so far has focused on flooding, but I began to see that the synergy between fire and flood could make my statement more powerful. So when I saw the fires happening in Australia, and the clear link between climate change and this occurrence, it felt like something I had to do. Responding to fire was more me challenging as I had no desire the chase the drama of the burning flames and possibly endanger myself and others. I chose to seek out the traces left behind by the flames, physically and psychologically.
It is crucial for me to not portray my subjects as helpless victims. In my photographic engagement with them for the portrait I try to establish a deep moment of connection. This is much more than a technical or aesthetic photographic task; a huge part of it is the emotional labour. I spend a lot of time with my subjects and hear their narrative, so besides the image their words are an important part of what is displayed. The assistant/collaborator that I work with is always a hugely important part of this. In Australia I worked with Annette Widitz who helped establish and maintain these relationships.
Community healing is a long, slow process and I am not sure to what extent photography can play a role in this. I am aware of both the individual and community trauma that I am documenting and I have little to offer in any practical sense when my subjects have lost so much. All that I can offer is a deep witnessing of what has happened to them.
I continue to make work on climate issues and have recently returned from documenting the floods in Germany. Now I am in the midst of trying to organise a trip to Greece in response to their recent fires. But along with this I have a long-term family archive project that I am working on with my son. We have become the repository of a huge collection of family documents, photographs and letters relating to my parent's history in Germany, the impact of the Holocaust on my family, and escape to South Africa. So in my ongoing work I find myself torn between the climate traumas of the moment and the social/political traumas of the historical past.
Rachel Mounsey
I live and work as a freelance photographer in Far East Gippsland, Victoria. My home is at Mallacoota on the coastal tip of the Victorian/ NSW border. The area of East Gippsland is vast and covers a large land mass featuring the high country, old growth forests, wetlands, lakes and rugged coastal wilderness.
Living in such wonderfully diverse landscape gives me opportunity to explore a wide range of stories. You could say I've always had a connection to Gippsland. I grew up in the Latrobe Valley in central Gippsland but did the usual growing up and leaving, heading off to Melbourne as a teenager and then overseas. But before heading overseas, I was involved in the Far East Gippsland forest blockades and a deep connection to Gippsland's land and forests grew from there.
I've lived the majority of my adult life in the Pyrenees Mountains near Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain) I returned to Australia with a desire of wanting to try life in Far East Gippsland and so we set up home in Mallacoota where we have the forest and the sea.
These images were taken while bushfires were bearing down on our town. I took these images responding to what was happening around us. As an emerging photojournalist, at the time I was working as a journalist to for the regional newspapers, I'd never experienced shooting anything of this scale, it was really like a baptism by fire (literally). I never imagined I'd be shooting a major environmental disaster while being part of it. These images are a record of our experience.
Respectfully.
I've found through documenting the aftermath, part of the healing process has been through working slowly with people. Not just shoot and run, but spending time talking and listening. It's been very healing for me also.
I am currently working on a series exploring the youth of my father in the Latrobe Valley. I also continue to document the town's bushfire recovery.
See Raining Embers at the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale which runs until 9 January 2022. Purchase your Festival Pass here.