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Several unlikely comebacks dominated the news over the weekend, but be honest with me. LSU basketball coach Will Wade's comeback receives points for the sheer unlikelihood amid a seemingly incriminating FBI wiretap. But he's back. And you have to give the Pelicans a nod that their comeback to relevance might have begun with the news that the respected David Griffin has agreed to become their head of basketball operations. And a few days ago, weren't you thinking that the biggest comeback of the weekend would be renewal of the Game of Thrones franchise after two years? That would have been my choice until Tiger Woods got hot.
It's been almost a full day since Woods did the seemingly impossible, returning from a decade of injuries, scandal and personal purgatory to win the most coveted trophy in golf, the Masters green jacket. It was Tiger's fifth jacket, his first in 14 years, and his first major victory in 11 years, but if you watched Sunday's final round you know all that. People who are paid to comment on the flow of sports are oozing hosannas on the achievement of perhaps the greatest comeback in sports history. Honest, some have called it that!
I don't know if I'd go that far, but in trying to put a different spin from my little corner of the universe, I can't think of another that tops it. The term "comeback" requires high achievement, which we saw when Woods came from three strokes off the lead with six holes to grab a two-stroke lead with two holes to play and ultimate victory. But the term also implies failure of some sort, something ill-fitting and just plain bad that he had to come back from. That occurred when marital infidelity toppled him from his admirable perch in which he had spent 683 weeks (more than 13 years) as the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world. That is 352 more weeks that the No. 2 man on the list, Greg Norman.
We remember with equal doses of revulsion or regret the images of Woods' decline. The press conference admitting his infidelity, the police mug shots taken after the accident that he says was caused by medication, the pathetic attempts to compete that forced him to pack up his clubs and go home in the middle of tournaments. Physical deterioration likely brought on by the tremendous torque of his swing prompted back surgeries that turned Woods into a recluse who seldom went outside. For years, his physical recovery received less attention than the back page snippets such as his three-year relationship with world class skier Lindsey Vonn.
The buzzle now turns to the question that seemed so assured when Woods was 32: Can he beat Jack Nicklaus' record of winning 18 majors? The Masters was No. 15, but Woods has won 81 tournaments, eight more than Jack, and only one behind all-time leader Sam Snead. At 43, how many more good years does Woods have to give both records a shot? Nicklaus' last Masters was in 1986 when he was 46. Does anybody remember the 1998 Masters when Jack was two strokes off the lead on Sunday only to fade at the end? After Woods sealed his comeback on Sunday, I would not count him out.
Yes, it's Masters week and whenever somebody mentions "Jack," the first reference goes to Mr. Nicklaus. But my thoughts this week go to another Jack, a guy who Masters Jack would have appreciated. I met Jack Hensley on the golf course. He was the ringleader of a regular group of rollicking retirees who played every day but never bet on their games, mainly because their games weren't worth losing money over.
When Jack invited me to join his group, I soon learned that the difference between me and Jack's group was that, unlike me, some of them had been very good golfers in their day. The trouble was that their day was during the Nixon administration. A hundred years later, their swings still showed rhythm and grace but that doesn't guarantee distance when you're playing in your eighth or ninth decade. Jack's group was not one that played cut-throat golf. It was civilized golf, kind of like happy hour at a favorite watering hole.
After I started playing with Jack's group, I realized that some of the regulars were better than others but none were head and shoulders above the rest, unless you count the 65-year-old "kid" who still showed flashes of his years on the Southern Miss golf team. The majority of the members were from somewhere else. The Count was from Cleveland, Gout was from Canada, and Dugout was retired military and from everywhere. Another former soldier, KP, played on a prosthetic limb that replaced the leg he lost in Vietnam. He's a little wobbly on a sidehill lie, but I wish I could drive the ball as far. Other members of the group had special powers. The Doorman's tip to keep my back shoulder low through the ball magically added 20 yards to my drive. Charlie O. not only could smell if a snake was slithering nearby but could tell if it was poisonous or harmless simply by the odor.
That was Jack's group. Unique, fun and good guys, and all of us were there Monday at Jack's final 19th hole to wish him farewell on his final journey to another course where the grass is emerald, the greens roll true and the sun shines every day forever.
When I started playing with the group and Jack learned of my background, he would call frequently with questions about his beloved Saints. He was a fan but an educated one. I'd see his name on caller ID, and I knew his mind was going a mile a minute. "I have a question," he would announce. "Why in the world…." and I would be put on another spot as a guy who should know the answer. "Well, okay," Jack would respond, letting me think I had given him an answer that satisfied him, although it probably didn't.
Another time after I appeared on WWL-TV talking about the Saints, Jack told me that he was a huge fan of WWL anchor Karen Swensen. "She has such a great smile, always seems to be happy and enjoys what she's doing," Jack said. Having gotten to know Karen through my appearances, I confirmed that she was a very nice person.
So when Jack's health started to decline last fall, I sent Karen an e-mail asking if she would write him a note or send him an autographed photo. She countered with an idea that confirmed Jack's opinion of her. "Give me his phone number, and I'll give him a call," she offered, and I did and she did. Jack called me right away, sounding like I had sent Publishers Clearing House to his door with the big prize. He could not stop smiling for days after, and I wrote Karen another note thanking her for her kindness. I did not know that at the time she was going through her own personal tragedy of her husband's illness and eventual death.
The last few times Jack played with us his body had declined to the point he had to tee off from the "super senior" tees that are placed about 20 yards forward of the women's tees. He would play three or four holes, take his cuts and generally send the ball out to the vicinity of where the rest of us had hit. It will be different next time Jack plays. We all agreed Monday that the next time Jack Hensley tees it up, he'll be hitting from the back tees with no pain and a new group of players who will come to know and love him as much as his last group did.
In sports, there are hopes and then there are expectations. Fans of Auburn's basketball team has hopes, while fans of the team they beat on Sunday to earn their first trip to the Final Four live - and die - with expectations.
And while the War Eagle's overtime defeat of Kentucky showed a team that played ferocious defense and clutch shooting, Big Blue Nation's latest nightmare revealed a team that could not hit shots, missed too many free throws and suffered too many defensive lapses. Auburn fans are probably still dancing around the Toomer oaks today because their hopes of going to the first Final Four in history have been realized. Meanwhile, in Lexington, couches that lined State Street in preparation for the ritual bonfire that celebrates a Wildcat triumph, have been returned to the houses to await another day.
The failed expectation of Kentucky basketball reaching its annual goal is harder to take than mere lost hopes. Auburn wasn't expected to be the last SEC school standing while Kentucky, Tennessee and LSU sit at home. But their fans had hopes that Coach Bruce Pearl's team of over-achievers might overcome the hint of scandal after two assistant coaches were fired for recruiting improprieties. They had hopes after they lost to Kentucky in Lexington 80-53 that they would correct their mistakes and turn around their season. They had hopes that they would get hot at the right time and blow past their SEC rivals to win the conference tournament. Once those hopes were realized, they had hopes that a No. 5 seed could play above its ranking and win a national championship.
If it doesn't happen, there is still the victory that your team wasn't expected to do much but outperformed the prognosticators, keeping hope alive. Even failure comes with the satisfaction of a good effort, e.g. Wofford, Buffalo or even Houston. Yes, the mood on the Plains today shows clearly that hopes are are a positive thing, whether they are fully realized or not.
Now, let me tell you about unfulfilled expectations. Kentucky fans expect their Wildcats to win every game by 20 points. Unrealistic maybe, but that's what is expected. They look at their previous eight national champions and expect every team that wears the royal blue will do the same thing. At worst, they look at the 2015 team that came into the Final Four at 38-0 and expected them to roll to 40 wins and bring another title back to the Bluegrass. Even this year's team that was a pre-season co-favorite with Duke was expected to bounce back from the opening-game pummeling by the Blue Devils and exact their revenge in the Final Four.
But when the reality falls short of the expectations, it's painful. Expectations are not blown away with time like lost hopes. Expectations gnaw at you and you don't forget them. Big Blue Nation carries the burden of many unfulfilled expectations: A 3-for-33 second half shooting in a 1984 Final Four loss; Nazr Mohammed hitting 1 of 6 free throws in a 1997 Final Four overtime loss; the 2010 Cold 'Cats of John Wall-DeMarcus Cousins who hit only 4 of 32 from behind the line in a seven-point Elite Eight loss; Terrence Jones going 1 for 5 in a two-point 2011 Final Four loss; even warrior P.J. Washington's missed free throws both last year and against Auburn linger.
A team that is expected to contend for a championship but fails, falls with a thud. That is Big Blue Nation today. Fans are upset at the loss, second-guessing the plan and some are even calling for Coach John Calipari's head because in his ten years at Kentucky he has only taken his team to four Final Fours and won only one national championship.
So good luck to Auburn whose fans hope that they can win two more games, while Kentucky's fans live in the sweet agony of expectations, watching Calipari's recruiting to see which new players will come in and again set the bar at nothing less than another national championship.
Sports is a wonderful thing, but it's not perfect, and two reasons why it's not perfect are injuries and officiating that we think hurts our team's chance of winning. I thought about that this week in the context of two prominent events: The NFL convened its annual owners' meeting, and the NCAA men's basketball championship is down to the Sweet 16. Two topics among both colleges and the NFL have been injuries and bad calls, and we can wail and moan and huss and fuss, but there's not a darned thing we can do about either!
Let's talk about injuries first. College and pro teams hire the best medical and training professionals, refine conditioning methods and spend millions for the best equipment available to make their athletes better able to endure the rigors of their individual sport. Still, we as fans are left holding our breath and crossing our fingers that the "injury bug" doesn't bite important players on our favorite teams.
That topic is close to my heart at the moment, because Kentucky's chances in the next round of NCAA tournament play will depend largely on the status of their leader, forward P.J. Washington. The team's top scorer and rebounder during the season, Washington sprained his foot with two minutes to go in their SEC tournament loss to Tennessee and has been idle ever since. The Wildcats have survived the first two NCAA tournament games through good defense and contributions from the rest of the lineup, but their chances of going much further diminish without Washington.
Friday night against Houston will be a major test with Washington or without him, and if they pass that one, they will face either North Carolina or Auburn. Kentucky beat both of them during the season, but with Washington. Big Blue Nation cardholders are wringing their hands and still have nightmares of past injuries to players such as Mike Casey, Derek Anderson, Keith Bogans and Nerlens Noel that might have cost them national championships.
So you're a Duke fan and don't care? That's a good segue to a subject you do care about: controversial officiating. That is a hot topic this morning in the NCAA tournament, especially if you saw the final seconds of the Duke – Central Florida game Sunday. UCF ahead by three and poised to spring an upset of the kind UMBC and Loyola of Chicago pulled last year. But it appeared to some that Duke's star Zion Williamson, driving to the basket, steamrolled UCF big man Tacko Fall. Not so, said the refs, who called a blocking foul and Fall fouled out.
Zion missed the FT that would have tied the game, but teammate R.J. Barrett leaped over a UCF player for the rebound and the winning putback. Did Barrett push off to get position? Some would argue he did. But he didn't, at least according to the officials. Those calls could have gone either way, but didn't. And we sure know about no-calls down here in Who Dat Nation, don't we?
Since we are talking about injuries and officiating, I think it is ironic that the no-call controversy in the Rams game was not over a helmet to helmet hit so much as pass interference. As much as the NFL harped on the injury issue all last season, to have them miss a major injury-related offense is what really blew my skirts up.
At some point this week, the NFL Competition Committee will discuss changes that could reverse poor calls. Under one proposal, replay would be expanded for one year during which time the list of reviewable plays would be expanded to include fouls for pass interference. The rule proposal would also expand automatic replay reviews to include scoring plays and turnovers negated by a foul and any point-after attempt following a touchdown. It might make us as fans feel better when a league tries to remedy bad calls or no-calls that hurt our favorite team, but it won't stop them. Even worse, the new interpretation might just work against our favorite team the first time it is implemented in live action.
To review, the two worst things in our little sporting worlds are injuries and officiating calls that go the other way. They affect our dreams, they dash our hopes, they curb our enthusiasm for the events we love. You can love sports, but just understand that love of sports doesn't mean sports loves you back.
In the thrilling days of my yesteryear - January, 1981, to be exact - I was sent to New Orleans by the Baltimore Evening Sun to cover Super Bowl XV between the Raiders and Eagles. I did not know it at the time, but it would be the last Super Bowl I covered as a reporter before fleeing journalism for the NFL office a few months later. I had become friendly with a Pittsburgh writer named John Clayton, and a few days before the game we went researching Bourbon Street and looking for a place to eat.
We walked into a couple of restaurants, which were expectedly full, and then we walked into a nice-looking place that featured more empty tables than customers. We asked if they were open, and the maitre'd apologetically told us that the restaurant had just opened that week, hopefully to take advantage of the Super Bowl crowds. And, by the way, sit anywhere you like, which we did. The meal was delightful, and I think I wrote a story about the best unknown restaurant in New Orleans. Word obviously spread quickly because the restaurant, named "Mr. B's," likely has not been that empty since.
This is the long version of how I began a long friendship with NFL expert John Clayton, who started out covering the Pittsburgh Steelers as understudy to the legendary Vito Stellino, and then rose quickly to become ESPN's go-to guy on NFL machinations. After the network trimmed its on-air staff last year, Clayton joined the Washington Post where he continues giving his readers probably the best coverage and historic NFL insight in the country.
And how does this apply to our subject of the day, you ask? Saturday Clayton wrote a story about the conundrum within NFL free agency, which has been a favored recent subject of Who Dat Nation. Clayton's message: Don't confuse price vs. value. It is easy to read his story and think about the Saints' history at letting go veterans and replacing them with free agents. Mark Ingram had value, both on the field and in the locker room. But the price he wanted was out of the Saints comfort range so they let him walk and signed a cheaper version, ex-Viking Latavius Murray. Hopefully, his value will rise to Ingram proportions and it will be a logical swap.
It hasn't always been that way. Think Jairus Byrd over Malcolm Jenkins or T.J. Spiller over Darren Sproles? How about Brandon Browner over the moths in your closet? Coby Fleener, James Laurinaitis, and others you can name cost money but added little to no value. Clayton also cautioned teams that pay big bucks to become the "winners" of NFL free agency. "It's rare that the cost actually pays off," Clayton wrote.
Some evidence he presented included these facts: (1) Of the 49 highest paid players in 2016 free agency, only 14 remain on the teams that signed them. (2) Of the 60 highest paid players in 2017 free agency, only 22 remain. (3) Of players from the 2018 free-agent class who received $5 million per year or more, 14 are already no longer with the teams that signed them. Did you know that only two unrestricted free agents from 2018 made the Pro Bowl? The casualty list is much higher. The Panthers cut left tackle Matt Kalil, who signed a five-year, $55 million contract in 2017. The Bucs traded WR DeSean Jackson, who signed a three-year, $35 million contract in 2017. The Giants and Browns swapped the second highest paid free agency of 2016 (Oliver Vernon) for the sixth highest paid free agent in 2017 (Kevin Zeitler).
Thankfully, the Saints haven't tried to "win" free agency in recent years as much as replacing starters or bolstering depth. This year, our local heroes have been active in free agency, but the prices they have paid haven't been huge. That makes the expectations of value a bit more realistic. And if that value helps them get back to the Super Bowl, I will invite John Clayton back to Mr. B's.
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LSU athletic director Joe Alleva recommended that head basketball coach Will Wade be reinstated, stating "Coach Wade's explanations and clarifications offered during the meeting, absent actual evidence of misconduct, satisfy his contractural obligation to LSU ... (LSU) President Alexander has accepted this recommendation."


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UK Government Select Altitude Angel to Represent 'Team GB' at World of Drones & Robotics Congress
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London, UK: Altitude Angel, the world's most trusted unified traffic management (UTM) technology provider, has been selected to represent the UK at the upcoming World of Drones & Robotics Congress
Taking place 18-19 August 2021 in Brisbane, Australia, the World of Drones & Robotics Congress (WoDaRC) is in its fifth year and will be the largest drone and robotics applications congress in the Asia Pacific region. Previously The World Drone Congress, this year organisers of the event have expanded its purview to include the exciting field of robotics.
Altitude Angel, as one of ten businesses to represent the UK, will have a reserved position in the Department for International Trade's virtual pavilion. Here, attendees of the Congress, both physical and virtual, will have the opportunity to speak with the team at Altitude Angel and learn more about its award-winning technology, real-world deployments and its work and partnerships with ANSPs, enterprise customers and development platforms.
Richard Parker, Altitude Angel, CEO and founder, said: "It's an honour for Altitude Angel to represent the UK at the World of Drones & Robotics Congress. The Congress will provide us with a superb platform on which we're able to showcase our market-leading platform to key stakeholders in the Asia Pacific region, an area which has traditionally been early to trial, adopt and deploy cutting edge technology."
Anyone wanting to arrange a virtual meeting with the team at Altitude Angel can do so via hello@altitudeangel.com
WoDaRC brings together domestic and international drones, robotics, and autonomous systems' business representatives, pilots, manufacturers, developers, and academics to connect, collaborate and co-create.

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"Bad and Boujee" es una canción del grupo estadounidense Migos con la colaboración del rapero estadounidense Lil Uzi Vert. Fue lanzado el 28 de octubre de 2016 como el sencillo principal de su segundo álbum de estudio Culture. Fue lanzado por Quality Control Music, 300 Entertainment y Atlantic Records. La canción fue producida por Metro Boomin, con coproducción de G Koop.

A finales de diciembre de 2016, "Bad and Boujee" se convirtió en un fenómeno de Internet, generando muchos memes con la letra "gota de lluvia, gota superior". Esta tendencia viral, combinada con el grito de Donald Glover en los Globos de Oro de 2017, ayudaría a su desempeño comercial y haría que la canción se ubicara entre los diez primeros y luego alcanzara el número uno en el Billboard Hot 100 de EE. UU. para la semana del 21 de enero de 2017, lo que lo convierte en el primer sencillo número uno tanto para Migos como para Lil Uzi Vert. El sencillo recibió una nominación a Mejor Interpretación de Rap en la 60 Entrega Anual de los Premios Grammy,

Composición
La canción está escrita en la clave de Mi ♭ menor y se realiza a 127 bpm.

Recepción de la crítica
Complex lo colocó en el número 24 en su lista de Las 50 mejores canciones de 2016, diciendo; "La pista es tambaleante y confiada, el tipo de canción que está segura de su propio atractivo pero sabe que no debe salirse del bolsillo. Parece un éxito poco probable, pero intente escuchar solo una vez". Pigeons & Planes lo clasificó en el puesto 43 en su lista de Mejores Canciones de 2016, diciendo que "la pista realmente trata sobre Offset". The Fader clasificó la canción en el número 25 en su lista de Las 115 mejores canciones de 2016. Fact la nombró como una de las 20 mejores pistas de rap y R&B de 2016. Vulture comparó favorablemente "Bad and Boujee" con la canción de James Brown "".

Redimiento comercial
La canción alcanzó el número uno en el Billboard Hot 100, convirtiéndose en el primer sencillo que encabeza las listas de éxitos tanto para Migos como para Lil Uzi Vert. Una semana después de su apogeo, fue destronado por "Shape of You" de Ed Sheeran, pero recuperó su posición máxima la semana siguiente y permaneció allí durante dos semanas más antes de ser reemplazado por "Shape of You" nuevamente. Permaneció entre los diez primeros de la lista durante 14 semanas consecutivas y luego se clasificó como la sexta canción más grande de 2017.

"Bad and Boujee" también alcanzó el puesto número cinco en Canadá, convirtiéndolo en el primer sencillo de Migos y Lil Uzi Vert en las listas de ese país. Al 20 de junio de 2017, la canción ha vendido 4.000.000 de unidades en los Estados Unidos. La canción fue certificada 4 × Platino por la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Video musical
El video musical fue dirigido por Daps, se estrenó a través del canal de YouTube de Migos el 31 de octubre de 2016. Presenta apariciones especiales de los raperos Travis Scott y OG Maco.

En una entrevista con Kiss FM Kenia, el director Daps reveló la inspiración detrás del concepto del video musical viral: "El concepto surgió del título realmente. 'Bad' es atractivo, así que necesitábamos mujeres bonitas y 'boujee' está atascado así que las necesitábamos para interpretar ese papel. Me gusta tener yuxtaposiciones en mis videos, ya que hace que el arte se destaque. El contraste entre estas mujeres vestidas de alta costura pero tenerlas en ambientes regulares me atrapó. Luego se trataba de agregar pequeños elementos después de eso, las palomas, los fideos, As de espadas, camisas de seda en una moto de cross ". La rapera y celebridad de las redes sociales, Rubi Rose, también hizo su aparición debut como modelo principal durante el video.
El video en YouTube tiene más de mil millones de visitas.

Actuaciones en vivo
El 17 de enero de 2017, Migos interpretó la canción en Jimmy Kimmel Live! . El 20 de febrero, la presentaron en The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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President Muammar Gadafy yesterday embarrassed his latest high-profile western visitor, the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, by demanding compensation for thousands of landmines left in the Libyan desert during the second world war.
During talks in Tripoli, Mr Gadafy complained that dozens of Libyans were still being injured and killed by the anti-tank mines, which were buried by Erwin Rommel and his retreating army more than 60 years ago.
Maybe they should take the case to the UN Human Rights Commission.
We've come across some very good news for millions and millions of people around the world, especially in Africa. It seems that researchers have made a tremendous break-through in developing a vaccine against malaria, historically perhaps the most debilitating and destructive disease to afflict mankind. Those of us Diplomads who have served in the tropics can testify to the ravages of malaria, especially among children. The L.A. Times, not normally one of our favorite papers, covers this remarkable and encouraging development well. You can also go to the informative press release of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative for more details.
What we find particularly interesting is that given the negative spin being put on "big pharmaceuticals" in the US election campaign and wherever else political correctness thrives, e.g., the UN, we note that this vaccine has been developed by Western capitalist pigs such as the huge drug multinational SmithKlineGlaxo with support from the ultimate capitalist pig, Bill Gates and his foundation. In addition, not mentioned in the articles we have seen is the ground-breaking and expensive research done on malaria and distributed freely to researchers all over the world by the ultimate tool of greedy imperialist capitalist pigs, the US military.
So it seems that just as the B-52 has liberated more people, especially women, than any NGO or UN pronouncement, greedy Western capitalists and their tool of oppression, i.e., the US military, will now save the lives of more men, women, and children than . . . well, let's just say that Bill Gates has improved and now saved the lives of more people in more countries than Mother Teresa and whomever that forgettable person is that just got the latest Nobel Peace Prize.
Long Live Capitalist Greed and the Oppressive Imperialist US Military!
Do you think that will catch on as a slogan in European leftist circles? We can dream, can't we?
It just reminds of a post in the comments of which someone claims that capitalism has killed more people than the slaughter in Darfur. Think of all of those children, no longer subject to malaria, who will now die of other causes. Will this kind of horror never end?
Immigrant students who pass New York's Regents exam in English still can't get out of segregated English as a Second Language classes, writes Samuel Freedman in the NY Times. They need 96 percent on the exit exam, which seems designed to keep students out of the mainstream forever. In theory, they get extra help in English as a Second Language classes. In practice, they get a slower, lower-level curriculum.
And the ESL teachers get jobs and the school district gets extra money. But we daren't change public schools or it might hurt The Children™.
At U-Mass Amherst, a candidate for student government president was called a racist for opposing a plan to set aside seats in the Student Senate for ALANA, a group claiming to represent non-white students. Throwing around accusations of racism was OK. Parodying the charge — by drawing a caricature of a Klan Grand Wizard endorsing the minority group — may get nine students suspended or expelled. They were photographed standing in front of the caricature. FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) is on the case.
In a letter to university officials, FIRE observed that the UMass president defended the free speech rights of Rene Gonzalez, a graduate student who wrote a Daily Collegian article last spring that called Army Ranger Pat Tillman an "idiot" and "a 'G.I. Joe' guy who got what was coming to him" after the former pro football star was killed fighting in Afghanistan.
It's doubly bogus because the students didn't distrubute the picture, others did. Apparently at U-Mass, if you say something politically incorrect which another student records and plays later, you are guilty of "harrassment". So much for open and honest dialogue involving divergent opinions at U-Mass.


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Q: Get data inside html tags using Simple HTML DOM Parser: I want to get all the information inside the html tags and display them in a table. I'm using Simple HTML DOM Parser. I tried the following code but I'm only getting the LAST COLUMN (Column:Total). How do I get the data from the other columns?
foreach($html->find('tr[class="tblRowShade"]') as $div) {
    $key = '';
    $val = '';

    foreach($div->find('*') as $node) {
        if ($node->tag=='td'){
            $key = $node->plaintext;
        }
    }

    $ret[$key] = $val;
}

Here's my code for the table

      Project

      Recipient
      Municipality/City
      Implementing Unit
      Release Date
      Total

      Livelihood Programs
      Basic Espresso and Latte

      DOLE - TESDA Regional Office IV-A
      2013-06-11
      1,500,000

A: Why do you have $div->find('*')? you can try $div->find('td') instead.  This should produce correct result.  Otherwise you can also try to iterate over children: foreach($div->children as $node)
Assuming you are trying to use the first row as $key and the rest for the data, you might want to alter your HTML code by simply add th in the first row, which is your header:
…
.  This way you can get the keys by $div->find('th').  I suppose using the first row is okay as well.

A: As alamin.ahmed said, it would be better to search for td instead...
Here's a working example :
$text = '

      Project

      Recipient
      Municipality/City
      Implementing Unit
      Release Date
      Total

      Livelihood Programs
      Basic Espresso and Latte

      DOLE - TESDA Regional Office IV-A
      2013-06-11
      1,500,000

';

echo  "
Original Text: <xmp>$text</xmp>
";

//Create a DOM object
$html = new simple_html_dom();
// Load HTML from a string
$html->load($text);

// Find all elements
$rows = $html->find('tr[class="tblRowShade"]');

// Find succeeded
if ($rows) {

    echo count($rows) . " \$rows found !
";

    foreach ($rows as $key => $row) {

        echo "
";

        $columns = $row->find('td');

        // Find succeeded
        if ($rows) {

            echo count($columns) . " \$columns found  in \$rows[$key]!
";

            foreach ($columns as $col) {

                    echo $col->plaintext . " | ";
                }
        }
        else
            echo " /!\ Find() \$columns failed /!\ ";
    }
}
else
    echo " /!\ Find() \$rows failed /!\ ";

here's the output of the above code:

You must be aware that the two rows doesnt contain the same number of columns... then you must handle that in your program.

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Show details: Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec Cumming
I'm a child of the early sixties who grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, a scrappy town that reminds me in many ways of Bridgeport, which has been my home base since 2015. With the help of my two older and beloved sisters, as we grew up together in the 1960s, the most exciting and adventurous decade for music in our lifetimes, I developed a sweet tooth for "snappy" (think: crisp new wave), "crackly" (think: old-vinyl-friendly) and "poppy" music (think: music that combines melodic hooks, art, and unabashed catchiness mixed sometimes with adventure, curiosity, angst and abrasiveness, and maybe more than a little nostalgia and melancholy). The Beatles were and still are a "ground zero" of sorts, my alpha and omega. Their melodic gifts and restless experimentation are at my very core. In 1979, when punk and new wave was really thriving in the U.K. and slowly starting to take hold in the U.S, I started to attend Syracuse University for TV and Radio, and that moment in music still resonates deeply with me.
I would best describe my life's journey since then an uneasy balancing of two obsessions: broadcasting and music. I caught the "broadcasting bug" in the mid-70s, craftily sneaking into any TV and radio studios I could, hopelessly in love with the art, production and "glamor" of all the blinking lights on the gadgets, and on all those behind the mike and camera. (I was too shy and full of self-doubt to actually think I could be the guy BEHIND the microphone. When my daughter Julia hears me on WPKN now, she says "dad, you obviously should have been doing radio ALL YOUR LIFE." She's right. But thankfully, I have decided it's never too late to start; ergo, I did my first on-air shift here in 2016.)
Meanwhile, as I started my career in television post-production in the 1980s – writing and producing TV promos, at this point living in New York City – I also spent years in bands as a bassist and songwriter. (You can check out my Soundcloud page if that intrigues you in the slightest: https://bit.ly/3cFDR69) I still play bass and guitar now, mainly for fun, but would like to return to serious songwriting again, maybe even release an album; we'll see. Meanwhile, as all this was happening, I acquired a relentlessly curious mind about the historical details for the makings of both broadcasting and music. My mind works that way, for some reason! I am something of a broadcast historian, having extensively helped out NBC as an archivist and researcher, and I compiled and wrote a book in 2013 for Arcadia Publishing called "New York City Radio". And I've also written liner notes for Rhino Records, most notably for their acclaimed 1998 Burt Bacharach box set, which I served as the associate producer for. (The "three Bs" for me are The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Burt Bacharach. Or is that 5 Bs?)
If you get around to checking out my show on WPKN, you may note I have an enthusiastic if imperfect ability to remember anecdotes about when and how certain songs were written, recorded and released. (Again, my mind works in mysterious ways.) That's a BIG part of the Snap Crackle POP! ethos; I go DEEP into the backstory of how and when the music I play got made. Sometimes I worry I overdo that part. My hero of heroes, in term of radio deejays, is the now-mainly-retired Vin Scelsa, who was (a) also a talkative chap who (b) for many years was a freeform DJ at WFMU, WABC-FM, WNEW-FM and later WFUV. As I play my mixture of oldies, newies and obscurities, I feel I am aiming at what Vin was doing, although I am nowhere near him in terms of grace, humanity and radio expertise. Anyway, I cannot begin to express my gratitude to WPKN for giving me a wonderful platform that allows me to develop such a skill – a meeting ground of music, broadcasting, and human-to-human communication with a dollop of hippie-punk idealism and unpredictability. Finding this station, and being welcomed and encouraged by its wonderful community of programmers and fans, has been an absolute blessing in my life.
I currently work as a freelance television writer and producer for CBS News… mainly I do on-air promotion for them, but more recently I have done newswriting at CBS Evening News, which I'm very grateful for. I would like to do more "straight" newswriting as opposed to promo writing/producing, but at the end of the day I'm grateful to stay employed in a rapidly changing (and shrinking) business. Broadcasting, creating and writing are still in my blood, for better and worse. I have more broadcast history-related projects underway, I have more music and writing in me, and now I have my beloved WPKN shows as well. I seriously want to become a better, "tighter" and more entertaining programmer, especially as I believe broadcasting is an honor and a privilege. I am currently the station's Music Director.
Thanks for reading this far!! I should also mention that I am the extremely proud father to Julia Cumming. She is the lead singer and bassist for the band Sunflower Bean, and she's also a model and political activist. She is an AMAZING young woman and an inspiration for me to do better – to be a good Dad, a good citizen, and to keep on living and breathing music.
Lastly, I do not consider "pop music" a pejorative term. It is art, it is often beautiful, and it tells us much about ourselves. It is a story, often joyous, unfolding. THAT's what Snap Crackle POP! is about.
Alec Cumming
Snap, Crackle, POP! with Alec Cumming
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It's not just formal programming that makes Oak Hills the best Christian College in Minnesota. A great on campus college experience must include fun.
Sports on campus are not just for those who can play volleyball, basketball, or run cross-country. We have some intramural teams as well, for those who love to be active and compete but need a more relaxed atmosphere and something less time-consuming than a full-season team that travels.


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Energy & Infrastructure >
Jul 16, 2020 - 04:37 pm
VW adds charging stations to Transparent Factory site
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Volkswagen's so-called Transparent Factory in Dresden has expanded its car park charging infrastructure with 32 additional charging stations. The facility and showcase visitor centre now has 64 charging stations in operation, 36 of which are open to the public.
The new charging stations each offer five AC and DC charge points with 22 kW. There are also 22 AC charge points with 11 kW each and two DC chargers with 50 kW available. For the two rapid charging stations, VW generates the electricity locally utilizing six photovoltaic panels with a 25-kW-output each.
Volkswagen describes the charging park at the Dresden production facility as one of the largest in Saxony. Reinhard de Vries, Managing Director of Volkswagen Saxony, hopes that other companies in Saxony will follow their example.
The car company has long converted the showcase factory in Dresden into an electric powerhouse. The e-Golf has been rolling off the assembly line there since 2017 with the ID.3 to come in 2021. The first charge of VW's first MEB electric car is currently being made in Zwickau, about a 120 kilometres away from Dresden. To secure jobs outside production, Dresden is to become a critical delivery hub for electric vehicles, especially as the Dresden location forms the border tripoint of Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. Currently, about 380 employees hand over 1,300 cars per year. This number is to be "significantly increased," according to VW. Only recently, They also launched its first ID. Store in Saxony's picturesque city.
Besides, Volkswagen now wants to transform the Transparent Factory into the 'Centre of Future Mobility'. In other words: VW wants to develop and test innovative technologies there together with partners from industry and start-ups as reported.
volkswagen-newsroom.com (in German)
Author: Nora Manthey
Enel X and has·to·be agree European roaming deal
Extreme E and AFC Energy push off-road charging
https://www.electrive.com/2020/07/16/vw-adds-charging-stations-to-transparent-factory-site/


Ex-Black Stars goalkeeper, Abubakar Damba says Asante Kotoko's shot-stopper Danlad Ibrahim should have been chosen as first choice for the Satellites ahead of Manaf Nuredeen in the African Youth Championship.
Ghana failed to advance from the group stage following their abysmal performance at the ongoing Africa Youth Championship in Niger, having accumulated just three points in three games.
Damba believes Kotoko prodigy should have been a starter, having made a mark with the national U-17 team where he clinched silver medal during the 2017 Africa Junior Championship in Gabon and later inspired the lads to a quarterfinals spot of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.
"Where was his starting point, is it not from Kotoko? He built on and you saw him, then took him to U-17 and he performed marvelously well".
"What again makes him young! What again! He has the exposure and what has then left?," he quizzed in an interview with Otec FM.
"I said we should help him by making sure that we raise him systematically but very, very cautiously. They should not rush in his progression from U17 to U20 and then to U23. But then we will see progressively what we are supposed to do," he stated.


I'm trying to set up a website for an online radio station and one thing i want to implement is the ability to see the current playlist from the front page.
I have an html file that is constantly updated with such information, however, i would like to put the updated contents of this html file on the main page of this site - but the catch is that i don't want to do it without using frames because of the design.
If you definately don't care about netscape 4.x users (heard of 7 yet, tried it ?) you're perfectly fine using iframes.
It's very simple, they're inline elements so they can be treated much the same as image tags. They're not like normal frames so they're very handy for this kind of thing.
here's the code add a 100 x 100 pixel iFrame to a page, just change yourpage.htm to whatever you call the second htm file containing the playlist. You should give the iFrame a name just incase you want to link other documents to it from the page it's contained in.
I've had a similar situation when I was working on a major Sony site.
You can impliment static HTML way to embed another file's content, but you'd experience a lot of imcompatibility issues with old browser.
If your server allows you to run PHP scripts, do it with PHP. You can embed anything with PHP real easily. And, of course, if you don't want to make your file's extension to be PHP, you can configure Apache to read .html files as PHP dynamic file (although this depends on what your ISP allows you to do).


Does NOAA Corps decide where I will be stationed or will I have input?
Cmdr. Ryan Kidder at the controls of NOAA's King Air 350 CER on Oct. 11, 2018, during an overflight of the Florida panhandle following Hurricane Michael.
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Large explosion rocks Texas chemical plant
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An explosion at a chemical plant in Texas early Wednesday sent a large fireball into the sky, reports and witnesses said, triggering a mandatory evacuation.
Dramatic videos and photos shared on social media showed a large blast, with one resident describing waking up to a huge boom and "glass all over us".
Ryan Mathewson, who lives roughly two minutes from the plant in Port Neches, near Houston, told AFP: "We woke up to glass all over us and parts of the ceiling caved in, (and) doors blown in."
The 25-year-old said he and his family were "shook up and scared" following the blast.
County Judge Jeff Branick told local news site KFDM News that there were no fatalities reported and only three people with minor injuries. He called it "a miracle".
At least two people have been taken to hospital, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office told the New York Times.
"Please be aware that there is a mandatory evacuation for everyone within a 1/2 mile of the TPC plant in Port Neches," local fire officials said in a post on the Nederland Volunteer Fire Department's Facebook page.
TPC Group, which operates the plant, said the explosion happened in what it said was a "processing unit" at around 1am local time (0700 GMT).
"TPC Group has activated its Emergency Response Plan and requested assistance from Port Neches Fire Department and Huntsman.
"The event is ongoing, but will be brought under control as quickly and safely as possible.
"At this time, personnel at the site have been evacuated. We have accounted for all site personnel and three personnel have sustained injuries and are being treated.
"Right now our focus is on protecting the safety of responders and the public, and minimizing any impact to the environment."
The Port Neches plant is around 85 miles (135 kilometers) from Houston.
More than 200 people work at the facility, according to TPC Group's company website.
The facility produces butadiene, a flammable gas used in the production of synthetic rubber, and other petrochemicals such as butane.
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Who are Game 7's potential "no-name" heroes?
By Joe YerdonJun 14, 2011, 9:14 PM EDT
Stanley Cup finals Game 7s through NHL history have often provided us with big performances from players that one wouldn't immediately think of when it came to their teams winning the Stanley Cup. Think back to 2009 when Maxime Talbot scored the Penguins only two goals of the game to help them beat the Red Wings to win the Cup in Detroit. Talbot scored just 13 goals that season but had the two biggest of the year to help them clinch the Cup. Other names from the past like Aaron Ward in 2006 with Carolina and Ruslan Fedotenko in 2004 with Tampa Bay stand out as others who seized the day and became legends in their home town. NHL.com took a look at the recent Game 7 heroes since 2000 and while some of those names will be a blast from the past for you, most of them at the time were a who's-who of "who's that?" players.
With Game 7 set to drop the puck at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Vancouver (live on NBC) the Canucks and Boston Bruins will be hoping to see their stars try and shoulder the load. If they can't do that, just who else can get it done for them? We've circled a few guys from each team preemptively.
Three guys to watch for Boston: Rich Peverley, Dennis Seidenberg, and Chris Kelly
Peverley hadn't been heard from too much through the playoffs until he ascended to the top line to take over for the injured Nathan Horton. There he saw immediate success in Game 4 and has had the special offensive spark the team has needed with Horton out with a concussion. In this series he's got two goals and two assists and while Vancouver is likely more than aware of him now, when you've got a line with Peverley, Milan Lucic, and David Krejci he's probably the guy you're least worried about. That's what makes him most dangerous now.
Dennis Seidenberg has been Boston's double-secret weapon on defense in helping Zdeno Chara shut down opponents but his shot from the point can be dangerous when he opts to use it. He's got a generally low, heavy shot that's ideal for deflections in front and if it finds its way through can hit the back of the net. Finding a defensive hero to score goals or set others up can be huge in a Game 7 and Seidenberg fits the bill since most everyone will be worried about Chara.
Chris Kelly is an ideal sleeper candidate. He plays on the third line with Tyler Seguin and Michael Ryder and while those two guys have the offensive punch necessary to make things happen, Kelly's the quiet man. He's got a goal and an assist in the series and he's the center on that line. If the Bruins get the depth scoring they'll need to be successful, Kelly could figure into the mix ideally. He'll have his hands full chasing down the Sedin line through the night but the B's can counter well themselves.
Three guys to watch for Vancouver: Jannik Hansen, Alexander Edler, and Manny Malhotra
Jannik Hansen has had his opportunities during the finals to score. A handful of breakaway opportunities and a few dekes too many have resulted in just one virtually meaningless goal for Hansen in the series (a goal coming in Boston's 8-1 Game 3 win). With Mason Raymond out for Game 7 with a broken vertebra, Hansen figures to get promoted to the second line to play alongside Chris Higgins and Ryan Kesler. If Hansen can find a scoring touch, he could become Vancouver's favorite great Dane.
Alexander Edler is a curious guy on the Vancouver blue line. He plays alongside Kevin Bieksa and while Bieksa gets most of the attention and the workload of the pair, Edler sees time on the power play and plenty of ice time aside from that. Much like everyone else on Vancouver, Edler's shots haven't found the back of the net but he's played strong and his shots on the power play can be tricky. With two assists in the series, that means Edler has helped out on 25% of the Canucks goals. Yeah… The offense is hurting a little bit.
You didn't think we'd not pick Manny Malhotra would you? It's not just a sentimental choice here given that Malhotra seemed unlikely to even play again this year after injuring his eye in March, but he's played strong fourth line minutes and now with Raymond out, perhaps he gets a couple more minutes on the ice in five-on-five situations. Just picture the drama if Malhotra turned into the Game 7 hero for Vancouver. In a series devoid of feel good stories, that would be pretty tough to beat.


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With a stay at Eco-Hotel El Rey del Caribe, you'll be centrally located in Cancun, within a 10-minute drive of Market 28 and Dubai Palace Casino. Featured amenities include a computer station and luggage storage. Free self parking is available onsite.
With a stay at Hostel Inn Cancun, you'll be centrally located in Cancun, within a 10-minute drive of Market 28 and Turtle Beach. Featured amenities include a computer station, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. A shuttle from the hotel to the airport is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours).
Located in Cancun (Downtown Cancun), Selina Cancun Downtown is a 5-minute walk from Las Palapas Park and 9 minutes by foot from Ceviche Square. Featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Limited parking is available onsite.
Cons: Worst value for money in 10 countries and 100+ hostels.
With a stay at Hotel del Sol, you'll be centrally located in Cancun, within a 15-minute drive of Turtle Beach and Market 28. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Free self parking is available onsite.
A stay at Kukulcan Hostel & Friends places you in the heart of Cancun, within a 10-minute drive of Las Palapas Park and Jardín del Arte. Featured amenities include express check-in, express check-out, and luggage storage. A shuttle from the hotel to the airport is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
Pros: We were grateful for its proximity to the bus station, wifi and breakfast. No curfew was helpful as we reached Cancun very late.
Cons: Our large party booked 3 rooms. We arrived at midnight to find only two rooms. They said they'd look into reimbursing us in the morning, as we had paid for three rooms. Despite the contract agreement, Kukulcan Hostel & Friends would not reimburse. They thought it was fine to give us fewer rooms than we had reserved.
With a stay at Hotel Batab, you'll be centrally located in Cancun, within a 10-minute drive of Market 28 and Turtle Beach. Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Planning an event in Cancun? This hotel has 646 square feet (60 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and a meeting room. A shuttle from the hotel to the airport is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
Pros: The waterpark is a huge hit with kids up to about 10. The entertainment team led fun soccer & volleyball games. We went at low season, so didn't have any problem with waiting for anything. The fancy Mexican restaurant had delicious food. The buffet was average. The breakfasts were delicious.
Cons: Would have liked a fridge in room. Kids wanted apple juice for breakfast.
A stay at Terracaribe Hotel places you in the heart of Cancun, a 1-minute drive from Gran Puerto Pier and 13 minutes from Malecon Americas Shopping Mall. Featured amenities include express check-in, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and a 24-hour front desk. Planning an event in Cancun? This hotel has 129 square feet (12 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
Pros: * Front Desk Staff spoke great English * Room was comfortable and clean * Lots of TV channels to choose from * Location was easy for our taxi driver to find * Not bad for a short stay.
Cons: * Location right off of a major roadway made for traffic noise all night. * Wi-Fi was spotty, only worked for about 5 minutes before dropping. * Although I reserved a double room (with 2 beds) the Front Desk was confused about the number of beds actually in the room, claiming that there was only 1. Since I was sharing a room with my Dad, I was a little concerned but, was relieved to discover there were, in fact, 2 beds.
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Pros: Nearby to restaurants- La Parilla and Sanborn's. A Scotiabank is also nearby.
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With a stay at Hotel Parador in Cancun (Downtown Cancun), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Market 28 and Turtle Beach. Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk and luggage storage.
Cons: Wifi doesnt work in rooms. Noise from nightclub near lobby will make it difficult to sleep. Bathrooms are smelly.
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With a stay at Hotel Marytere in Cancun (Downtown Cancun), you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Cancun Interactive Aquarium and Turtle Beach. Free self parking is available onsite.


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Privilege, but make it pretty
Photo by: @averieclaire | Unsplash
"I think people treat you differently on initial meetings if you're more attractive. They kinda focus their attention and give more benefit of the doubt to a prettier girl."
This was my friend's reply when I asked her whether pretty privilege was a thing.
If you haven't heard of pretty privilege, Urban Dictionary describes it as "someone who gets more clout (a sense of power or influence), opportunities, and becomes more successful in life because of how attractive they are."
I wanted to see if it was just me, or whether other people thought that more attractive people had an advantage in life – as a result, I created a Twitter poll.
Of the 138 people who voted on the poll, 96.4% of them thought that pretty privilege was present in society, while only 3.6% of them thought not.
Is pretty privilege a thing?
— 𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚒 𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 ❤ (@kenya_best) November 9, 2020
I wanted to see whether my friends' thoughts were coherent with the results of the poll, so I gathered them in a focus group-like setting and let them discuss amongst themselves.
"Yes, attractive people get discounts or are often given things free, but this privilege is usually beneficial for companies. For example, night clubs – women get in either for free or at reduced prices, because more women in the club will attract more men. Most of these clubs rely on men to spend money, either on themselves or on the woman they want to attract. Either way, it's a trade."
While listening to them, I started to realise that this privilege is more in favour of women compared to men. Men almost seem like they are being exploited.
"This privilege exists because men make it exist. It doesn't take much to make them excited. Blink your eyes twice and then smile and you have them wrapped around your finger."
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At that statement, everyone started to talk above each other. It was a woman who made that statement and the men took great offence.
"Men have this privilege too. This guy I knew, before he got his license, girls would drive him wherever he wanted to go for free, just because he was good looking. If it was an ugly man, he would have to walk."
Yet still, the majority still agreed that pretty privilege works best with women. One friend even pointed out that the pretty privilege for men only works if the girl likes the guy.
"Unless the woman likes the guy, no matter how attractive he is, he's seen as a creep if he tries to use his looks for his advantage."
Social media has really enhanced the notion of pretty privilege and this privilege can set you on the path of success.
An example of this can be seen in Bella Poarch, who has approximately 40 million followers on TikTok after posting a video of her lip-syncing.
This video has drawn in half a billion likes, making it the most liked video on TikTok. However, many still question what exactly her talents are and why she became so famous in such a short span of time.
People says why is she famous theres only one answer she's cute
— MindofEd (@mind_of_ed) September 16, 2020
why is bella poarch famous for doing the bare minimum and why can't that be me
— shirley (@shirleyumami) October 16, 2020
"Beauty ideals are very much influenced by the media and advertising industries." Many companies rely on influence marketing to generate revenue – and of course, they are usually influencers who are revered online for being attractive.
A study by Haenlein et al titled "Navigating the new era of influencer marketing" published 13 October 2020, has said that "few firms in the fashion, beauty, travel, food, or beverage industries are running marketing campaigns these days that do not include, at least to some share, a collaboration with popular users on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok."
While there is no universal measure of beauty, different regions still have a level in which people fall into for them to receive pretty privilege.
Pretty privilege is a construct of this social media era that both companies and individuals have taken advantage of to ensure their success.
Words: Kenya Best | Subbing: Monika Groening


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Janeway diverts the ship to follow Star Fleet's highest priority.
This episode could have pretty comfortably been an episode of The Original Series. That's both good and bad – the pace is pretty slow, and there's far too much talking, and not a clear enough reason why this thing is so bad. The threat isn't sold.
Still, there are some nice moments along the way. And Seven of Nine's complex relationship with the Omega particles was managed quite deftly. But no one else really got much of a story to tell this week.
520 down, 217 to go.
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The Adidas NMD R1 PK's original colors show up on an upcoming group of releases.
The original colorway of the Adidas NMD is making a comeback with a slight twist.
The Primeknit-based version of the popular sneaker is set to return with red and blue accents reminiscent of the colored EVA inserts seen on the debut style from December.
The popular Adidas NMD R1 PK gets a red, white, and blue makeover on its Three Stripes branding.
However, instead of filling in the supportive EVA midsole inserts, the red and blue shades on the new makeups have been transferred to the Three Stripes branding seen at the shoe's lateral and medial sides.
Offered in both black- and white-based Primeknit colorways, these styles use the "glitch camo" pattern seen on previous limited-edition NMDs. The black pair is accented with red, white, and blue stripes, while the white colorway uses red, black, and blue.
This white-based Adidas NMD R1 PK features red, black and blue Three Stripes branding.
Each pair in this group also features a striped ankle collar, full-length Boost cushioning and matching EVA midsole inserts.
The Adidas NMD R1 PK is set to release in a black-based Primeknit with red, white, and blue Three Stripes branding.
The official images of these new NMDs have been uploaded to the Adidas website, and that often indicates a launch is imminent. Both pairs pictured here are expected to drop this fall/winter.
The Primeknit version of the Adidas NMD R1 is returning in two new colorways.
Red, white, and blue Three Stripes branding appears on these new Adidas NMD R1 PKs.


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Oh, the promise! For just a minute there, they tease us with the prospect of something sophisticated and witty. Sure, it's only the opening credits that ignite that spark of hope — images that pulse with the heat and the vitality of New York City — but a smart city gal has to take her hope where she can, when she's had enough of women behaving like little girls (hello, 13 Going on 30!) or gay men (hello, Sex and the City!) and wants to just see something resembling her own complicated, messy, grown-up life frothed up into a silly romantic comedy. Could it be? With a duo like lovely continental Pierce Brosnan and classy dame Julianne Moore, and now this urbane opening, could it be that we're in for something luscious and screwball and scrumptiously old-fashioned, Cary Grant meets Katharine Hepburn in the 21st century?
Of course not. That would require a script that aspires to more than awkward running gags that start out as illuminating snatches of characterization and don't know where to stop, more than the gal taking ungraceful pratfalls serving as the height of wit: She's thrown off balance by the guy! Get it?
I clung to the hope for a little while, for Brosnan (Die Another Day, Evelyn) is, as always, effortlessly, devastatingly charming as famous divorce lawyer Daniel Rafferty, and Moore (The Hours, Far from Heaven) is all delicious icy cool as another famous divorce lawyer, Audrey Miller, and they individually rise above the petty rom-com crap they're dealt: Audrey's a secret eater, sugar her "crutch," and Moore must handle the indignity of hiding in a bathroom stall surreptitiously snarfing down a pink Sno Ball like she's snorting coke. Brosnan fares a little better as an actor, but only because the worst affront Daniel must face is an illogical shift from being a bit of a disaster in the neatness arena — his clothes and his office are a mess — to suddenly being quite a bit neater (once the sloppiness has been played for as much humor as is possible, at least in this humor-bereft scenario). Apart from this sartorial inconsistency, Daniel is perfect: intelligent, clever, funny, magnetic, gorgeous, irresistible.
Irresistible except to Audrey, who has no trouble resisting him, thank you very much. Or at least no trouble telling herself she doesn't find him irresistible. And that's where it starts to grate. That's where a smart gal who's been pretending to ignore the cartoonish oppositeness of Audrey and Daniel — she's anal, he's a slob; pretending to ignore that faint whiff of Odd Couple that's clinging to the edges — can two divorce attorneys who're primally sexually attracted to each other share a courtroom without driving each other crazy?; pretending to ignore the sheer dearth of whipsmart banter she so desperately was looking for… that's where she gets the overwhelming urge to leap to her feet and smack some sense into that Audrey girl. My God, woman, can you not see what a catch he is?
And then, for no discernible reason, we're in Ireland. Oh, there's an explanation, about having to take depositions in a divorce case they're working opposite sides of, the breakup of a rock star (Michael Sheen: Timeline, Underworld) and his fashion designer wife (Parker Posey: A Mighty Wind, The Event); ownership of a castle is disputed. But if there is only shaky legal footing for the trip across the pond, the story footing is even more dubious, and involves throwing Audrey and Daniel into a rushed marriage. Yes. Marriage.
Yeah, the shift in tone is that abrupt, from failing pseudoscrewball to some sort of newfangled on-the-road, aren't-the-locals-charming, let's-do-it, let's-fall-in-love movie. Sensibility really goes out the window now — everything from "How does Audrey get stranded in some tiny rural Irish town and why didn't her assistant book her a rental car at Dublin Airport?" to "Why can't she just admit, after sleeping with yummy Daniel for the second time, that she at least thinks he's kinda cute?"
But no: Everything ends up forced into an clumsy corner, where Audrey finally submits to Daniel by eating her own words: "80 percent of women," she says sweetly to him, "who say they're too busy for a relationship are just lonely." Which she's been denying vehemently all along as having noting to do with her busy life or her rejection of Daniel (except for those two lovely nights in his bed). Of course, she never said this to Daniel — the poor guy's probably never heard such claptrap before, and he's probably starting to wonder just what sort of lunatic he's hitched his wagon to.
At that point, we exit. She's his problem now.
MPAA: rated PG-13 for sexual content and language


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Q: Progress Drawable in a Fragment I'm a newbie to android development and am working on a project. I'm trying to add a circulaprogressdrawable in my fragment when the image is getting loaded. But its not loading at all. It used to work when I was not using Fragment and had the code inside an activity. Can someone please advise what am I doing incorrect? any suggestions are welcome.  Thanks. Following is the code for reference
package com.example.demoauthfirebase

import android.content.Context
import android.graphics.Color
import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
import android.view.LayoutInflater
import android.view.View
import android.view.ViewGroup
import android.widget.ImageView
import androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.CircularProgressDrawable
import com.bumptech.glide.Glide
import com.bumptech.glide.request.RequestOptions

/**
 * A simple [Fragment] subclass.
 */
class FragmentImage : Fragment() {

    companion object {
        const val ARG_NAME = "urlVal"

        fun newInstance(urlVal: String): FragmentImage {
            val fragment = FragmentImage()

            val bundle = Bundle().apply {
                putString(ARG_NAME, urlVal)
            }

            fragment.arguments = bundle
            return fragment
        }
    }

    override fun onCreateView(
        inflater: LayoutInflater, container: ViewGroup?,
        savedInstanceState: Bundle?
    ): View? {
        val activity = activity as Context

        var circularProgressDrawable = CircularProgressDrawable(activity)
        circularProgressDrawable.strokeWidth = 10f
        circularProgressDrawable.centerRadius = 50f
        circularProgressDrawable.setColorSchemeColors(Color.GREEN)
        circularProgressDrawable.start()

        val view: View = inflater.inflate(
            R.layout.fragment_fragment_image, container,
            false
        )

        val imgView = view.findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.imgView1)

        val urlVal = arguments?.getString(ARG_NAME)
        val options = RequestOptions().placeholder(circularProgressDrawable)
        options.fitCenter()

        Glide.with(activity)
            .load(urlVal)
            .apply(options)
            .override(1200, 3000)
            .into(imgView)
        // Inflate the layout for this fragment

        return view
    }

}

A: this one got fixed by myself. The imageview I was using did not have a width and height mentioned explicitly. When I added that, it started to show up. Don't know if thats the best answer but it seems to be working. Below is the code of the fragment.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".FragmentImage">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:paddingLeft="10dp"
        android:paddingTop="100dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:paddingBottom="200dp">

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imgView1"
            android:layout_width="338dp"
            android:layout_height="255dp"
            android:scaleType="center"
            android:visibility="visible"
            tools:visibility="visible"></ImageView>
    </LinearLayout>

</FrameLayout>


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This article originally appeared in Butterfly Gardener Magazine, Vol 26, Issue 3, Fall 2021
What happens when you convert plain turf to a wildflower meadow? A lot actually.
Our home sits on the bottom of a downward sloping cul-de-sac near the outer edge of the Sourland Mountain region of New Jersey. We are one of eight members of a homeowner's association whose sole purpose is to maintain two stormwater detention basins. One of those basins is located directly behind our home, visible only to us, and occupies more than an acre.
After ten years of tolerating this sterile patch of land, we yearned for a more beautiful view. That desire is what inspired the idea of turning the detention basin into a wildflower meadow. We later learned that this conversion would attract an abundance of butterflies, bees, and birds that we never previously saw here.
The detention basin as lawn grass, before the meadow was planted.
Before we could begin, some "due diligence" was required. First, we needed to get the permission of our homeowners' association, since they own the property and are responsible for its maintenance. Persuading the association to approve the transformation was easy, since we offered to pay the cost of conversion ourselves. In addition, the association's maintenance costs would drop dramatically because instead of having to be mowed every two weeks during the growing season the basin needed mowing only once a year in late winter. If we hadn't paid the up-front cost, we estimate that the association would have broken even in five to eight years.
We also needed approval from the township, which has stormwater-basin maintenance standards, and requires that all stormwater landscaping be designed by a licensed landscape architect.
The detention basin has two concrete low-flow channels and one concrete riser. Before the conversion, grass grew in the low-flow channels, which is not supposed to happen. In our design, we chose to leave the channels in place in order to minimize our costs. This simplified the approval process. Since we were not modifying the stormwater management system itself, all that was required was proof that the party performing the work was a licensed landscape architect.
The plan was to use a seed mix appropriate to the growing conditions in the detention basin. Most of the area receives full sun, with one corner in partial shade. The soil was compacted and dry, except when inundated with stormwater. We chose a seed mix of deer-resistant plants suitable for a floodplain—species that are great at tolerating both dry and wet spells. A little drought doesn't make the flowers any less showy, nor does the foliage turn brown.
Two applications of herbicide were used to kill the existing lawn before we did the seeding in spring. In a matter of months, the transformation began. While the plants' top growth may seem slow in the beginning, it's the growth you can't see underground that is really taking shape. Unlike lawn grass, the roots of native wildflowers and grasses go deep, enabling the soil to absorb large amounts of rainwater, and making the operation of the detention basin more efficient than before the transformation. Since the conversion to a meadow, the low-flow channels require less maintenance because they remain clear of silt, plant growth, and other debris.
The detention basin low-flow channel stays clear with little maintenance.
By the second summer, we were no longer looking at a monotonous scene lacking any seasonal choreography, but instead at a beautiful flowering meadow. As you can imagine, a meadow is an evolution. From year to year, different plants mature and begin to bloom, while others may become less prominent. We are considering adding plants to give the basin even more color and texture.
Not only are the new meadow plants more visually appealing than lawn, but now we never look out our windows without seeing something flying about—from butterflies to Bald Eagles, as well as numerous songbirds and woodpeckers. Countless butterflies include Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Red-spotted Purple, Monarch, Spicebush Swallowtail, Pearl Crescent, Red Admiral, Clouded Sulphur, Common Buckeye, and many skippers, to name a few.
Smooth Oxeye with nectaring Orange Sulphur.
Wondering what happens to the meadow in fall and winter? Well—it turns lovely shades of auburn, mahogany, hazel, amber, and sorrel that slowly morph into winter tans, browns and grays. The winter meadow provides food and shelter for birds and other animals. We see Juncos, Field Sparrows, and White-throated Sparrows bobbing up and down on long stems of grass.
Just after the last remnants of snow have melted, the meadow gets mowed. Each year, we alternate leaving different areas of the basin uncut to provide "habitat islands" where overwintering insects are left undisturbed. When the Tree Swallows reappear in late March from their southern wintering grounds, the whole cycle begins anew and we look forward to another year of growth and beauty unfolding.
After the success we had with the detention basin turned meadow, we decided to install a second meadow in front of our home. While significantly smaller, it is no less a biodiversity haven that we affectionately call the Mini Meadow.
In addition to wildflowers, we've planted evergreens and small trees throughout this space. The birds especially love the trees! Butterflies are a welcome sight as we pull in our driveway. Additionally, we planted a micro-meadow to hide the cover of our septic tank, and another meadow on the side of our property.
Our daughter was about five years old when we transformed the detention basin to a meadow. Now nearly 10, she has grown up with a very strong affinity for the natural world.
She sees the pollinators and birds that call our place home as very special creatures. I can't imagine our home without meadows, and I don't think she will ever lose her strong connection with nature.
The meadow in mid-summer hosts Wild Bergamot and Monarchs.
We realized that our transformed home needed a name. And so, Flutter By Meadows was born, as was my blog of the same name. Inspiration for my blog is almost entirely based on what I encounter on our property. Having spent countless hours in my yard photographing what I see, sometimes I feel like I am living in a storybook, with the changes in colors, the breezes across the meadow, and the biodiversity all providing new chapters. The butterflies and birds at Flutter By Meadows are wonderful story tellers.
Seeing a migratory bird in her yard, or an opportunist native plant that chooses to grow, Samantha finds joy in the unexpected. A Garden Club of America member, she is an amateur bird and butterfly photographer who spreads the word about the new NIMBY, or "Natives In My Back Yard", through her blog: www.flutterbymeadows.com.


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import os

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
README = open(os.path.join(here, "README.md")).read()
CHANGES = open(os.path.join(here, "CHANGES.md")).read()

install_requires = [
    'requests',
    'click'
]

classifiers = [
    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
    "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
    "Programming Language :: Python",
    "Topic :: Software Development :: Interpreters"
]

setup(name='esqy',
      version='0.0.2',
      description='elasticsearch dsl query file runner',
      long_description="\n{0}\n\n{1}".format(README, CHANGES),
      author='Bruce Yang',
      author_email='ayang23@gmail.com',
      license='Apache-2.0',
      download_url='https://github.com/ayang/esqy/tarball/master',
      url='https://github.com/ayang/esqy',
      include_package_data=True,
      zip_safe=False,
      classifiers=classifiers,
      install_requires=install_requires,
      scripts=['esqy']
      )

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


to climb other than the couch!!
But we actually have little interest in playing on it, we just play around it and try to eat stuff on the ground.
Always time to stop and smell the flowers with my boys!!! This is Ashton and me at the park, we had lots of fun with brothers, and grandma and grandpa. I even braved the big slide with the boys weeeeeeeeeeeeee it was a fast one.
Soccer time is here!!! Dad and Ethan warming up before the game.
First time holding a worm!
Both boys are up on their feet and walking and running around. Also they have learned to climb, I am not so sure this is a good thing. The new trick is to climb on the couch and run up and down in, and climb onto the back of it and take a dive off the side of it to the floor YIKES boys you are scaring you mom!!!
Dylan and Ashton are the best of buddies, and this is the best part of being a mom of twins. It is such an amazing and beautiful thing to see the way the play with each other, and they communicate with each other without saying a word, I swear they have their own language. They chase each other around and laugh and giggle, and they wrestle and dive on each other too.
Enough time in the house, now that it is nice out we go!!!
Soon the twins will be 1, and we went to the park to get some pictures of them for the invites. Big brother Ethan came along to help with baby brothers, but then he saw a friend at the park, so things got a bit hurried. We did get a few cute ones, but not exactly what mom had in mind.
It is amazing to think that it has been a year since our world has been turned upside down by this twinsanity!!! It has went so fast and it has been crazy, but things are getting a bit easier and no matter how hard it is and will be we are so lucky to have these two additions to our family. So why not have a HUGE party to celebrate the boys 1st birthday!!! We are planning a party and hoping that we have many friends and family there to celebrate this day with us.
We had to get a new stroller that was more suitable for our family camping, fishing and other fun outdoor adventures. The plan this day was to get out do a little walking by the lake and then sit and watch daddy and mommy fish a little, well can you guess what really happen??? We walked a bit, then nobody got to fish without the help of lil' Dylan and Ashton. Ashton wouldn't sit still, and Dylan wouldn't stop reeling the line in. So needless to say nothing was caught this day, oh well maybe next time.
Silly boys crawled around then discovered the picnic table to play and climb on.
Spring is here and we have been enjoying our time at the park and walking. We got a noe jogging stroller, and have been getting some great use out of it. Every nice day we are out walking and going to the park. The swings are their favorite part of the park. After the swings the twins get down and explore. The have learned to pull the weeds and grass and pick up dirt balls and try to eat them, what silly boys!!!
The twins had their first Easter!!! They weren't to much into hunting but loved to play with the plastic eggs, and the walk to and from the park.
Spring is here and we are enjoying our time outside. The boys and I have been gong outside on the nice days and they have been enjoying the time at the park, and exploring the backyard!!!


Fixed rate demand has hit its lowest level in 22 months, new data has revealed.
According to the latest national home loan approval data from Mortgage Choice, fixed rate home loans accounted for just 22.29% of all loans written in December – down significantly from the 26.98% recorded the month before.
Mortgage Choice spokesperson Jessica Darnbrough said with speculation mounting that the Reserve Bank of Australia could potentially cut the cash rate again in the coming months, it is not surprising to see an increasing number of borrowers opting for a variable rate home loan.
"At the beginning of December last year, speculation was rife that the Reserve Bank of Australia could cut the cash rate throughout 2015," Ms Darnbrough said.
"Ongoing weakness in the Australian and global economy has encouraged some analysts to change their cash rate forecasts to include up to two further rate cuts.
Ms Darnbrough said if rates were cut again, borrowers with a variable rate mortgage may benefit.
Across the country, variable rate home loans were most popular in Victoria, with this type of product accounting for 85.79% of all home loans written last month. South Australia and Western Australia were not far behind, with variable rate products accounting for 82.81% and 82.11% respectively.
Variable rate products were least popular in New South Wales, with this type of mortgage accounting for 70.61% of all loans written. By comparison, fixed rates remained very popular in the state, accounting for almost 30% of all loans written.
Looking ahead, Ms Darnbrough said regardless of whether borrowers opt for a fixed rate mortgage or a variable rate home loan, they will definitely be able to secure a competitive rate.
"Australia's lenders are offering some very sharply priced products at the moment, so regardless of what type of home loan product you eventually decide upon, now is a good time to be a home buyer," she said.
For archived copies of the Homeloan Choices bulletin, please refer to choices-newsletter.


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Changelog
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0.2.1 (21-08-2016)
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* **Revert** - Initial ticket is reverted back to ``get_hatched_eggs`` as Niantic may detect someone constantly accepting TOS whereas this is only possible once in game. Accepting TOS is out of bounds for the API client (however it is possible to add the request for TOS before logging in as per usual methods)

0.2.0 (21-08-2016)
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* **Fix** - Fixed an issue whereby ``to_h`` was called causing Ruby 2.0.0 to not work.
* **Change** - The initial ticket will always request to mark tutorial as complete (this supports new PTC accounts out of the box without accepting TOS)
* **Feature** - You can now provide the following optional information in the client constructor: ``:android_gps_info``, ``:sensor_info``, ``:device_info``,``:activity_status`` and ``:location_fix``

0.1.7 (10-08-2016)
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* **Feature** - You can now provide a ``HTTPClient`` instantation for proxy purposes
* **Feature** - A Google refresh token can now be set using ``refresh_token`` setter method (i.e. ``client.refresh_token = 'my_refresh_token'``). The refresh token will always be used first (you can leave out the username and password as empty strings)

0.1.5 (09-08-2016)
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* **Feature** - Access tokens and authentication tickets will automatically refresh upon expiry
* **Feature** - S2 Geometry cell has been added to the helper method ``Poke::API::Helpers.get_cells(...)``
* **New Protobufs** - Protocol Buffers have been updated to the latest version and minified as possible

0.1.1 (08-08-2016)
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* **Fix** - Fixed an issue whereby path was incorrectly referenced as a variable
* **Change** - FFI is no longer required, built-in Ruby's Fiddle is used instead (and appears more reliable)

0.1.0 (07-08-2016)
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* **Fix** - Include the new signature generation, requires your own encrypt file (dll/so)
* **Feature** - Classes have been added to generate S2 Cell Ids in native Ruby (no external libraries), this covers the base S2 features and may not include advanced methods yet.

0.0.8 (03-08-2016)
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* **Fix** - Ensure the endpoint is constantly updated if a new one is provided

0.0.7 (01-08-2016)
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* **Fix** - Fix an issue whereby the @endpoint address was overwritten to an empty string on a failed login attempt
* **Feature** - A new function ``store_lat_lng`` is provided to store a latitude and longitude directly (without requiring Geocoder to look up)

0.0.6 (31-07-2016)
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* **Fix** - Merged [PR](https://github.com/nabeelamjad/poke-api/pull/19) to fix upcase! and added additional error handling for Google

0.0.5 (30-07-2016)
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* **Fix** - An issue with upcase! was resolved as described by [this PR](https://github.com/nabeelamjad/poke-api/pull/18)

0.0.4 (27-07-2016)
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* **Fix** - GPSOAuth has been updated so that older versions of Ruby do not break when using Google login
* **Feature** - Response now returns two additional messages for ``status_code`` and ``error`
  * *status_code*: indicates the response status code
  * *error*: returns the error or an empty string

0.0.3 (27-07-2016)
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* **New Protobufs** - Protobufs have been updated to commit [`b2c48b17b`](https://github.com/AeonLucid/POGOProtos/tree/b2c48b17b560dc3d259d50a8afa1ef4199170bc4)

0.0.2 (25-07-2016)
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* **Feature** - Google Login is now supported
* **GetMapObjects** - A workaround has been added to README on how to obtain these using Ruby and Python together and it also documented in [**`example.rb`**](example.rb).

0.0.1 (22-07-2016)
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* Initial release of an API library gem for Pokémon GO.


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The longest all boat multi route rowing event on the Wild Atlantic Way is coming to Kenmare. WAC Kenmare, the Wild Atlantic Challenge are currently about to launch this great rowing event.
Enjoy a fatastic range of Festivals & Events that the Kenmare area has to offer. All types of rowing boats or boards from paddle boards and canoes to sculls and 14 person dragon boats are invited to take part and will have 5 different routes to choose from.
All Rowing clubs all over Ireland, England Wales and Scotland as well as clubs in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium & The Netherlands, will be invited to take part this rowing challenge which will have a choice of distances, 5,10,20 & 30 Kms routes inside the Kenmare Bay.
Even though this is a one day event, for crews local, travelling within Ireland and from abroad with families, the actual build up & fun as well as the aftermath stories is what it's really all about, some competitive, some even heroic but more purely celebrating to finish their chosen course while enjoying a weekend in Kenmare and receiving that well deserved medal and pictures to carry home!
Rowing is without a doubt a growing sport but to be able to enjoy this at your own pace in a most picturesque setting right on the Wild Atlantic Way is just tops.
WAC (Wild Atlantic Challenge) Kenmare is a new rowing event taking place on Kenmare Bay, Co.Kerry (Ireland).
It is a multi craft rowing event for competitors of all abilities, with a distance to suit your crew and boat.
Whether you are a 30km Titan or a 5km fledgling, we invite you to come and experience the challenge of the bay and the beauty of the Kenmare coastline, encompassing both the Beara and Iveragh peninsulas.
There are 5 courses and multiple categories to choose from, so take a look and see which route your crew will WAC!
Kenmare is a beautiful small tourist town on the Wild Atlantic Way and is a great place to locate yourself for a short break, so if you are coming from further away be assured you can make this a memorable weekend for friends and family.