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Costco Competitors and Alternatives – Whos Up Against This Retail...
Costco Competitors and Alternatives – Whos Up Against This Retail Giant?
Costco is a popular American wholesale retail chain that was founded in 1983.
1 Costco's Biggest Competitors
2 Costco Competitors: Walmart
3 Costco Competitors: Kroger
4 Costco Competitors: Schwarz Group
5 Costco's Advantage
6 Costco Competitors and Alternatives: Final Thoughts
The company has its headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and is listed on the Fortune 500.
Costco is the 5th largest retailer in the world and operates as a membership-only store.
There are over 800 locations throughout the world.
The company has stores in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Oceania.
They also have a popular online store that competes with other eCommerce retailers.
Costco is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol Cost.
It is included on the stock market index the S and P 100 component.
In 2019, the company reported revenue of $152.7 billion.
The operating income for the same period was $4.74 billion so its no wonder why there are multiple Costco competitors.
Over 250,000 people are working for Costco and its membership boasts over 105 million people.
The membership is sold as an annual subscription which allows customers to shop in any of its stores.
Customers are then able to shop at significant discounts thanks to Costcos nature as a wholesaler.
Costco's Biggest Competitors
Costco brings in most of its revenue through the sale of goods in its store and online.
The stores have a wide range of stock including Costco-owned brands such as Kirkland Signature.
Costco aims to give consumers access to quality products at a cheaper price than its competitors.
The range of products Costco offers includes pharmaceuticals, clothes, appliances, food, sundries, fresh produce, and gasoline.
Most Costco locations have a gas station attached and gasoline sales make up around 11% of revenue for the business.
Costco also draws in a portion of its income through the fees raised through the membership.
Everyone has to purchase a membership to be able to shop at Costco.
The decision to introduce this membership was as a way to better control stock levels and avoid waste.
The membership is charged annually and has an over 90% renewal rate in North America.
This membership brings in a small, but guaranteed, additional stream of revenue for the business.
Now let's take a look at some of Costco's competitors and alternatives:
Walmart – The largest retailer in the world.
Kroger – The third-largest retailer in the world
Schwarz Group – German-owned supermarkets and the fourth-largest retailer in the world.
Costco Competitors: Walmart
Walmart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton and continues to be owned by the Walton Family.
They grew the business from one discount store in Rogers, Arkansas to the largest retailer in the world.
Around 265 million customers pass through Walmart stores every week thanks to its discount pricing and great locations.
The company has over 11,000 stores around the world but its flagship Walmart business only operates in North America.
The company offers a wide range of products which makes it a great place for all of your shopping needs.
Walmart is the largest company in the world in terms of revenue. In 2021, the company posted total revenue of $559.2 billion.
This also gave them an operating revenue of $22.55 billion, up from the previous year.
The company has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1972. You can find it under the ticker symbol WMT.
In recent years the company has expanded its online offerings.
Through its service Walmart Pickup, customers can shop online and pick up their shopping at a Walmart store.
Costco Competitors: Kroger
Kroger is a much older business than Costco and Walmart.
It was founded by Bernard Kroger back in 1883 and currently has its headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The company has around 3,000 locations in the United States.
It is the third-largest retailer in the world, behind only Costco and Walmart.
Unlike its competition, Kroger doesn't have international stores. Its physical stores are responsible for around 97% of total revenue.
Many of Kroger's physical locations contain pharmacies and gas stations. Like Walmart, Kroger offers a pickup service.
The company also has its own brands that it sells in-store, these include Heritage Farms, The Kroger Brand, and Private Selection.
The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol KR.
They are included in the stock market index the S and P 500 component.
In 2019, the revenue for the company was $121.16 billion and operating income was $2.67 billion.
Costco Competitors: Schwarz Group
Schwarz Group is a German-owned company that operates the stores Kaufland and Lidl.
The company is one of the most popular supermarkets in Europe and also has a footprint in the U.S.
Its stores can be located in 30 countries around the world and they have around 12,000 stores in Germany alone.
The group has hypermarkets, supermarkets, discount stores, and food businesses as part of its portfolio.
The company has its headquarters in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
It is the fourth-largest retailer in the world in terms of revenue.
The company is privately held so is not obligated to share its financial information.
In 2019, the reported revenue for the company was € 113.3 billion. Over 450,000 people are working for the Schwarz Group.
Costco's Advantage
Costco has an advantage over its competitors through its membership. It is a requirement that everyone who wants to shop at Costco apply for membership.
This helps the company to scale its business and avoid wasting products.
The membership also provides the business with an additional stream of revenue that its competitors don't have.
The company is able to offer discounts due to its wholesale nature.
With around a 90% retention rate the membership is the perfect way to gauge customer interest.
Costco Competitors and Alternatives: Final Thoughts
Costco has to compete with the world's most successful businesses.
On the retail storefront, Walmart and Kroger have a large portion of the market share between them.
Online, Costco has to compete with eCommerce giants like Amazon.
The company has done well to establish itself among these competitors.
By offering a membership, Costco feels more exclusive.
The discounts the company offers are hard to compete with so Costco will remain a popular destination for consumers.
Home Depot Competitors and Alternatives: Who Stacks Up Against this Home Improvement Retailer?


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Fairtrade progress on farmer payment offers hope amid ongoing challenges
Related topics: agriculture, chocolate, collaboration, confectionery, fairtrade, farming, sustainability
Related organisations: Fairtrade, Ghana government, Ivory Coast government
Related people: neill barston
The latest analysis from Fairtrade on its achievements on the ground in Ivory Coast offers some potential light at the end of an especially long tunnel.
As the international organisation revealed, earnings for the critically important farming communities using its systems at the heart of the sector have risen by 85% in the space of several years to $4,937 in 2020/21, which can only be a welcome development.
It is also serves as a tangible response to those who have perhaps traditionally questioned how much impact Fairtrade can actually have on such complex markets – the answer, according to these latest figures, is a very definite yes – but there's still some significant way to go on continuing to address wider issues of poverty, child labour and environmental concerns over deforestation that are all heavily interlinked.
As Fairtrade, which operates as a global certification non-profit organisation is all too aware, there is clearly no room for complacency, with significant levels of poverty existing within the region, which have been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic placing pressures on smallholder farmers as they continue to battle deflated prices of cocoa this year that threaten to derail some of the key gains of recent years.
The organisation noted recently in an interview with Confectionery Production that it is very much a question of additional collaborative work being required at government and industry level in order to bring about long-term sustainability for the sector, which remains in an extremely delicate condition.
Rightly, industry has responded with a number of major initiatives which we have previously addressed, including the Cocoa and Forests Initiative, a multi stakeholder drive to support farming communities while actively working towards preservation of the key lands that the sector is heavily reliant upon. Then there is the ongoing issue of the Living Income Differential created by the region's governments last October, but this too has encountered problems as the wider price of cocoa continues to fall in the region.
It was encouraging to note a recent sustainability conference between Ghana and Ivory Coast concluding that fair renumeration of farmers was at the core of creating a stable industry for the future – with Ghana's Cocobod organisation stating that fair global pricing of cocoa would be vital to achieving this goal, which seems some way off as the commodity remains vulnerable to market fluctuations.
But the very fact that dialogue is happening between these two pivotal players for the world's cocoa supplies (making up around two thirds of the industry), as they seek to build further consensus on a way forward for the sector – which remains a core element of their respective economies, and a central cog in the chocolate confectionery world.
Neill Barston,editor, Confectionery Production
Keep in touch at [email protected] or via social media: @confectionprod
Final countdown begins for returning ISM and ProSweets events
Cargill's move to vegan chocolate reveals sustained shift towards category growth
Looking forward to a successful and memorable 2022

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MSS 334 - Sybil Kein Creole History Collection: Inventory
SYBIL KEIN CREOLE HISTORY COLLECTION
(Mss 334)
Approximately 9 linear feet (18 boxes), plus 1 box of oversize material.
Louisiana, especially New Orleans; Detroit and Flint, Michigan; as well as some material relating to Kein's travels.
Nineteenth-century (photocopies of undated nineteenth-
century archival material) to 2005
Bulk Dates:
Personal, literary, and research papers of Sybil Kein. The
material pertains to Kein's career as a poet, playwright,
musician, and academic. In addition to charting the course
of Kein's career, the central subject matter of the collection
is the history and culture of Louisiana's Creoles of color.
Marcus Christian Collection (Mss 11); Evelyn Soulé Kennedy (Mss 223)
Gift, 2005.
No Restrictions.
Physical rights are retained by the Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.
Sybil Kein Collection (MSS 334), Louisiana and Special Collections Department, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans
Sybil Kein is a New Orleans-born poet, playwright, musician, educator, and scholar who has dedicated her life's work to preserving the Louisiana Creole language and culture.
Sybil Kein was born Consuela Marie Moore on September 29, 1939, in New Orleans. Her father was Frank P. Moore, a bricklayer, and her mother was Augustine Boudreaux, a homemaker and musician. She comes from a family of Louisiana Creole and Cajun descent, with a musical inclination that stretched back generations. Her mother's family, the Boudreauxs, came from Pointe Coupee Parish; her maternal grandfather, John Boudreaux played banjo with the New Orleans "Creole Serenaders Jazz Band." Both her mother, Augustine Boudreaux, and her grandmother, Viola Borsky Boudreaux, were accomplished pianists and singers. Her brother, Deacon John, is a well-known New Orleans jazz, blues, and rock musician. Her mother's family is also related to the descendents of voodoo priestess Marie Laveaux.
Sybil Kein grew up speaking Creole French in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, a neighborhood long known as a center for Creole culture. She began studying music at Corpus Christi Elementary and Xavier Preperatory School, both schools that were historically associated with New Orleans Creoles of color. She received a bachelor's degree in viola and violin performance from Xavier University in 1964. She auditioned for a position in the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, but was turned down because in the pre-Civil Rights era, the orchestra was still open to whites only. Shocked by this reaction, Kein experimented with dance, painting, and sculpture before choosing a career as a writer, beginning with poetry and plays as her artistic media of choice. Around this time she chose the pen name Sybil Kein, which means "prophetess, I am not." After playing folk music for public school students and raising three children through the 1960s, Kein went to Louisiana State University at New Orleans (now UNO), receiving a masters degree in theater arts and communications in 1972. From there, she moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan to study under renowned African-American poet Robert Hayden, receiving a Ph.D in American ethnic literature from the University of Michigan in 1975.
Already an instructor at the University of Michigan since 1972, her connection with the university led to a position as professor of English and theatre at UM's Flint campus in 1975. She remained in Flint for over twenty-five years, retiring from her faculty position in 2000. Despite remaining in Flint for much of her life, Kein's writing has always concerned New Orleans and Louisiana as her main subject matter. In particular, her work has been instrumental in bringing the cultural contributions of Louisiana Creoles to a broader audience. Her poetry and plays deal with themes of slavery, miscegenation, the color line, the dilemmas of mixed-race Creoles, and breaking down stereotypes between blacks and whites.
Her written works include over 1000 poems and 28 plays. Her first volume of published poetry, Gombo People (1981), was the first book ever written in the Louisiana Creole language. An expanded version of Gombo People was reprinted in 1998. Other volumes of her poetry include Delta Dancer (1984), and An American South (1996).
Sybil Kein has also made important contributions to Creole culture as a musician. She has recorded several albums of original songs, and has also recovered and recorder little-known traditional Creole songs. Her recordings include Serenade Creole (1987), Creole Ballads and Zydeco (1996), Maw-Maw's Creole Lullaby and Other Songs for Children (1997), and Creole Classique (2000), which preserves the work of nineteenth century Creole composers. She often performs with her brother, guitarist Charles Moore.
In addition to her artistic and literary contributions, Kein has been a major originator of the newly-resurgent interest in scholarship on Creole history and culture. She edited Creole: The History and Legacy of Lousiana's Free People of Color, a major book of essays on Louisiana Creoles published in 2000. She has also written scholarly articles and given presentations on a number of topics, including New Orleans jazz funerals, Mardi Gras Indians, Creole music and food culture, the use of Creole language, and African and Afro-Caribbean religions.
After retiring from her faculty position at the University of Michigan, Sybil Kein returned to live in New Orleans in January 2000. Kein's New Orleans home was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005. As of late 2006, she now lives in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Bibliographical Sources:
Artist profile in Artist Grant Exhibition Recipients booklet, Pontiac Art Center, 1982.
"Biography and Achievements" section for Sybil Kein, Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. (New York: Praeger, 1990) (Folder 190)
Biographical profile in Contemporary Authors, Volume 163, 1998. (Folder 245)
Lane, Cassandra "Sybil Kein: Writing the Creole Renaissance" New Orleans Tribune, February/March 2001. (Folder 190)
Diettinger, Cristina. "In Search of Creole" Lousiana Life Spring 2002 (Folder 190)
More biographical information on Sybil Kein can be found in folders 244 through 249.
List of Series and Subseries
Series I:
Manuscripts and Published Works [10.5 boxes].
Subseries I.1 Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color.
Subseries I.2 Articles and Prose by Sybil Kein.
Subseries I.3 Plays by Sybil Kein.
Subseries I.4 Poetry Volumes by Sybil Kein.
Subseries I.5 Journals and Anthologies in which Sybil Kein's poetry appears.
Subseries I.6 Individual Poems and Songs by Sybil Kein.
Subseries I.7 Manuscript material by authors other than Sybil Kein.
Series II:
Correspondence [1.5 boxes].
Series III:
Newspaper Clippings [1 box].
Series IV:
Research Materials [2 boxes].
Series V:
Creole Periodicals [1 box].
Series VI:
Performance-Related Memorabilia [0.5 boxes].
Series VII:
Biographical Material on Sybil Kein [0.5 boxes].
Series VIII:
Miscellaneous [1 regular box, 1 oversized box].
Series Descriptions
Manuscripts and Published Works
This series consists of manuscripts and published volumes of Sybil Kein's writings. It is further subdivided into sub-series according to genre: prose, poetry, plays, etc. The series also contains editorial notes and some correspondence directly related to the publication of her work.
This series consists of letters, postcards, and greeting cards received by Sybil Kein between 1958 and 2004. The letters are from fellow poets and musicians, editors and publishers, fellow academics and Creole historians, friends, and family members. Included in this series is correspondence with prominent African American poets Dudley Randall and Robert Hayden.
This series consists of clippings of articles from various newspapers and magazines, collected by Sybil Kein in the course of her career. The clippings are arranged by subject, then by date within each subject. Subjects include the artistic and academic career of Sybil Kein, Creole history and culture, New Orleans and Louisiana history and culture, Haitian and Caribbean culture, race relations and the nature of race, African-American literature, and voodoo.
Note that this series does not include book excerpts or copies of scholarly journal articles; these materials are to be found in the Research Materials series.
This series contains materials assembled by Sybil Kein during the course of her research. It includes numerous photocopied book excerpts and articles from academic journals, photocopies of archival materials, poetry, sheet music and song lyrics, bibliographies, Creole language vocabularies, and handwritten research notes. Most of the material is related to Creole history and culture, though some other subjects are represented as well.
Creole Periodicals
This series contains issues of periodicals related to Creole history and culture. They are arranged alphabetically. While none of the titles collected here have a complete run, the collection includes numerous issues of Bayou Talk, Le FAROG Forum, and Louisiane. Other titles are less well represented, with only a scattering of issues of each publication.
Performance-Related Memorabilia
This series contains material related to cultural, artistic, musical, and academic events that Sybil Kein either performed at or attended. Materials include: programs, playbills, posters and flyers, event schedules, conference schedules, ticket stubs, contracts, press releases, album liner notes, song playlists, etc. The series also contains miscellaneous Creole-related ephemera, some of which is related to performances, some of which is not.
Biographical Material on Sybil Kein
This series contains biographical material on Sybil Kein. It includes biographical profiles written by herself and others, resumes, evaluations, photographs, etc. Biographical material can also be found in the Newspaper Clippings series (Series III).
This series contains materials whose volume or nature did not warrant giving them a series of their own.
Series I: Manuscripts and Published Works
Subseries I.1: Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color
Box 1: Creole – 'Version A' Manuscript
This version consists of the complete text of the book, with a single double-spaced typescript for the whole manuscript. There are no editorial comments or corrections.
Title Page, Preface, Acknowledgements
"Introduction" by Sybil Kein
Chapter 1: "People of Color in Louisiana" by Alice Dunbar Nelson
Chapter 2: "Marcus Christian's Treatment of Les Gens de Couleur Libre" by Violet Harrington Bryan
Chapter 3: "Placage and the Louisiana Gens de Couleur Libre" by Joan M. Martin
Chapter 4: "Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans" by Lester Sullivan
Chapter 5: "The Yankee Hugging the Creole: Reading Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon." By Jennifer DeVere Brody
Chapter 6: "The Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern Literature" by Sybil Kein
Chapter 7: "Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Repossessed" by Barbara Rosendale Duggal
Chapter 8: "New Orleans Creole Expatriates in France: Romance and Reality" by Michel Fabre
Chapter 9: "Visible Means of Support: Businesses, Professions and Trades of Free People of Color." by Mary Gehman
Chapter 10: "The Origin of Louisiana Creole" by Fehintola Mosadomi
Chapter 11: "Louisiana Creole Food Culture: Afro-Caribbean Links" by Sybil Kein
Chapter 12: "Light, Bright, Damn Near White: Race, the Politics of Genealogy, and the Strange Case of Susie Guillory" by Anthony G. Barthelemy
Chapter 13: "Creole Poets on the Verge of a Nation." By Caroline Senter
Chapter 14: "Lost Boundaries: Racial Passing and Poverty in Segregated New Orleans" by Arthe A. Anthony
Chapter 15: "Creole Culture in the Poetry of Sybil Kein and Brenda Osbey" by Mary L. Morton
Accompanying Correspondence for 'Version A'
Box 2: Creole – 'Version B' Manuscript
This version consists of the complete text of the book. The various chapters appear in a variety of typescripts and formates, and some of them have handwritten editorial comments, corrections, or insertions.
Cover photograph, Table of Contents, Acknowledgements
"Introduction" by Sybil Kein (several versions with handwritten editorial changes)
Chapter 6: "The Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern Literature" by Sybil Kein (several versions with handwritten editorial changes)
Accompanying Correspondence and Editorial Notes for 'Version B'
Box 3: Creole – 'Version C' Manuscript
This version consists of a partial text of the book, with heavy editorial comments, corrections, and additions by Sybil Kein throughout. Four of the fifteen chapters are missing.
"Introduction" by Sybil Kein (part); Title Page and Acknowledgements
Chapter 2: "Marcus Christian's Treatment of Les Gens de Couleur Libre" by Violet Harrington Bryan (2 versions)
Chapter 4: "Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans" by Lester Sullivan (typed manuscript, plus notes and faxes concerning revisions)
Chapter 6: "The Use of Louisiana Creole in Southern Literature" by Sybil Kein (part)
Chapter 7: "Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Repossessed" by Barbara Rosendale Duggal (extensive revisions and accompanying notes and correspondence)
Chapter 10: "The Origin of Louisiana Creole" by Fehintola Mosadomi (with Mosadomi's notes)
Chapter 11: "Louisiana Creole Food Culture: Afro-Caribbean Links" by Sybil Kein (part)
Correspondence related to the Editing of 'Version C'
Additional Sybil Kein editorial notes for 'Version C'
Box 4: Creole – 'Version D' Manuscript
This version consists of a partial text of the book, with a page proof format. Editorial corrections are collected in a separate folder at the end of the text. Chapter 13 is missing.
Title Page, Table of Contents, Acknowledgements
Chapter 15: "Creole Culture in the Poetry of Sybil Kein" by Mary L. Morton
Center Photographs
Related Correspondence and Notes on Editorial Changes for 'Version D'
Selected Pages from Proofs, with Editorial Corrections, for 'Version D'
Box 4, (Continued): Creole – Individual Chapters and Fragments
These are a number of versions of some of the chapters from Creole; some are reognizable as early versions of the chapters, while others are from one or more undetermined versions of the book.
Dedication, Forward, "Introduction" by Sybil Kein
An Early Introduction by Thadious M. Davis
Chapter 1: "People of Color in Louisiana" by Alice Dunbar Nelson (with editorial notes)
Chapter 4: "Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans" by Lester Sullivan (part)
Chapter 6: "The Use of Louisiana Creole in the Literature of the South" by Sybil Kein (early version)
Chapter 6: "The Use of Louisiana Creole in the Southern Literature" by Sybil Kein (part)
Box 5:
Chapter 7: "Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Repossessed" by Barbara Rosendale Duggal (with editorial notes)
Chapter 12: "Light, Bright, Damn Near White: Race, the Politics of Genealogy, and the Strange Case of Susie Guillory" by Anthony G. Barthelemy (two versions, one with substantial editorial changes)
Chapter 15: "Two New Orleans Poets: Sybil Kein and Brenda Osbey" by Mary L. Morton (early version)
Chapter 15: "Creole Culture in the Poetry of Sybil Kein and Brenda Osbey" by Mary L. Morton (part)
Potential Photographs and Illustrations for the Book
Correspondence and Book Proposal
Subseries I.2: Articles and Prose by Sybil Kein
Box 5, (Continued):
"The Influence of Types of Religion as Found in Selected Works of Afro-American Writers."
"Teaching Afro-American Literature to Undergraduates: A Humanistic Approach," 1977 or 1978
"Between the World and Me: The Lost Black Artist," 1978
"Teaching Creative Writing to the Undergraduate Ethnic Student: Dreams Deferred, Dreams Denied," 1978
"Comme ye dit: The Use of the Creole Language in 19th and 20th Century Literature," 1988
"Contributions of the Gens de Couleur and their Descendants to an American South," 1992
"Louisiana Creole Food Culture: Afro-Caribbean Links," 1993
"The Celebration of Life in New Orleans Jazz Funerals," 1995
"A Quick Guide to Good Papers."
Miscellaneous Article Fragments and Prose Pieces by Sybil Kein
Subseries I.3: Plays by Sybil Kein
Fragments of Early Plays, 1960s and 1970s
"What's Its Name," 1969
"The Reverend," 1971
"Somethin' Pretty," 1972
"Satchmo!" (1977 version)
"Satchmo!" (1977 and 2000)
"Satchmo!" (2000 version, some edits and notes)
Subseries I.4: Poetry Volumes by Sybil Kein
Selected Poems, no date
Blood Rivers: Selected Poems, 1968 (two complete copies and loose poems)
Blood Rivers: Selected Poems, 1968 (loose, not in order)
Blood Rivers: Selected Poems, 1968
Bessie, Bojangles, and Me, 1975
Delta Dancer, 1984 (manuscript)
Delta Dancer, 1984 (published book)
Des Gardenias et Roses: Les Chansons Creoles, no date
Des Gardenias et Roses: Les Chansons Creoles
Des Gardenias et Roses: Les Chansons Creoles, 1986
Des Gardenias et Roses: Les Chansons Creoles, 1986 (manuscript)
An American South, 1990-1991 (manuscript)
An American South, 1990,1991 (manuscript)
An American South, 1990,1991 (edited fragments, some handwritten)
An American South, 1990,1991 (fragments and partial manuscripts)
An American South, 1990,1991 (spiral bound, with certain poems marked)
An American South, 1990,1991 (spiral bound)
An American South, 1996 (published book)
Gombo People, 1981 (first draft of manuscript)
Gombo People, 1981 (excerpts)
Gumbo People, 1999 (Complete manuscript – Section One)
Gumbo People, 1999 (Complete manuscript – Section Two)
Gumbo People, 1999 (Complete manuscript – Section Three)
Gumbo People, 1999 (Complete manuscript – Section Four)
Gumbo People, 1999 (list of corrections to manuscript)
Gumbo People (Illustrations and promotional material from 1981 and 1999 versions)
Subseries I.5: Journals and Anthologies in which Sybil Kein's poetry appears
Ellipsis, Winter 1971 – 2 poems: "The Girl from Voodoo Town" and "The Ballad of Nigger Rose"
Ellipsis, March 1972 – several poems
American Dream, 1973 – 1 poem: "You Mentioned That as Black Men"
World Order, Summer 1975 – 1 poem: "House-wise"
The Beloit Poetry Journal, Winter 1978-79 – 2 poems: "Mo Oule Mourri Dan Lac La" and "Water Poems"
New Orleans Review, Spring 1988 – 1 poem: "Soulangai"
Immortelles: Poems of Life and Death by New Southern Writers, 1995 – 1 poem: "Zelime"
A Rock Against the Wind: African-American Poems and Letters of Love and Passion, 1996 – 1 poem: "Flowers"
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry, 1997 – 4 poems; table of contents only
Subseries I.6: Individual Poems and Songs by Sybil Kein
This subseries contains indvidual poems and songs by Kein, arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 10:
"Anjelik-Ezili" to "Lovers and the Space Between"
"Mala" to "When Two From Now"
Poems and songs Sybil Kein treated as a unit
Miscellaneous correspondence, contracts, and editorial comments associated with Sybil Kein's published work
Subseries I.7: Manuscript material by authors other than Sybil Kein
This subseries contains the manuscripts of two books which were not written by Sybil Kein, but were presumably sent to her either for editing or for her general interest. The first manuscript is Charles Suhor's Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970. (Scarecrow Press, Latham, MD: 2001) The second is an unidentified anthology of poetry. The subseries also contains two loose poems by Maxine Cassin.
Box 10, (Continued):
Jazz in New Orleans – Title Page, Table of Contents, Introduction
Jazz in New Orleans – Section One: "Jazz and the Establishment – From Flouting to Flaunting"
Jazz in New Orleans – Section Two: "Revivals Beaucoup – Traditional, Dixieland, and Revivalist Jazz."
Jazz in New Orleans – Section Three: "An Invisible Generation – Early Modern Jazz Artists"
Jazz in New Orleans – Appendices and References
Unidentified Anthology of Poetry – Index of Authors, Table of Contents
Unidentified Anthology of Poetry – Pages 1-49
Unidentified Anthology of Poetry – Pages 50-99
Unidentified Anthology of Poetry – Pages 100-149
Two Poems by Maxine Cassin – 'Autumnal' and 'August 6, 1985'
Series II: Correspondence
Undated – Letters
Undated – Greeting Cards and Postcards
Series III: Newspaper Clippings
Articles relating to Sybil Kein – 1950s and 1960s
Articles relating to Sybil Kein – 1970s
(see also oversized folder 261)
Articles relating to Sybil Kein – 2000-2004
Articles relating to Sybil Kein – Undated
Articles on Creole History and Culture – 1960s and 1970s
Articles on Creole History and Culture – 1980s
Articles on Creole History and Culture – 2000-2005
Articles on Creole History and Culture – Undated
Articles on New Orleans/Louisiana Culture – 1970s and 1980s
Articles on New Orleans/Louisiana Culture – 1990s
Articles on New Orleans/Louisiana Culture – 2000-2003
Articles on New Orleans/Louisiana Culture – Undated
Articles on Haiti and Haitian Creole
Articles on Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, or General African-American Literature
"Together Apart: The Myth of Race." (Times-Picayune Special Report, 1993)
Articles on Race Relations and on African American Culture
Articles on Voodoo and Brazilian Carnival
Series IV: Research Materials
Sybil Kein's papers included photocopies of two complete books which were removed from this series of the collection: James Haskins' The Creoles of Color of New Orleans and Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes' Our People and Our History. These two books are available in the Louisiana Collection.
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – African/Caribbean Religion and Culture
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – Creole History and Culture (Folder 1 of 3)
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – Creole-Related Fiction, Satire, and Plays
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – Creole Writer Jean Toomer's Essentials (unpublished manuscript)
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – French and French Creole Languages
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – New Orleans/Louisiana History and Culture
Journal Articles and Book Excerpts – Miscellaneous
Handwritten Notes, Bibliographies, Vocabularies, etc.
Photocopies of Newspaper Articles Related to Creoles – Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Photocopies of Unidentified Nineteenth Century Manuscript Material – List of Names
Poetry – Photocopied Excerpts
Sheet Music and Song Lyrics
Series V: Creole Periodicals
Bayou Talk, 1990-1994
The Creole Center News (5 scattered issues, 2000-2004) [for a more complete run of this publication, please ask for Louisiana State Documents Collection, call number ES 137.7: CC]
Creole Experience (1 issue, 1995)
Creole Magazine (5 scattered issues, 1990-1994)
Creole Times (2 issues, 1999-2000)
The Chicory Review (1 issue, 1988)
Eh Toi! (2 issues, 2001-2002)
Le FAROG Forum, 1982-1983
Louisiane, 1981-July 1982
Louisiane, August-December 1982
Louisiane, 1983-1984
La Nouvelle Abeille (1 issue, 1984)
Souvenirs (1 issue, 1980)
Series VI: Performance-Related Memorabilia
Liner Notes and Album Covers for Sybil Kein's Recordings
Sybil Kein's Events – 1954-1979
Sybil Kein's Events – 1980s
Sybil Kein's Events – Undated
Events inside Louisiana at which Sybil Kein did not Perform
Events outside Louisiana at which Sybil Kein did not Perform
Series VII: Biographical Material on Sybil Kein
Academic Papers on Sybil Kein
Biographical Profiles
Resumes and Vitae
Self-Evaluations and Letters of Recommendation
Photographs of Sybil Kein
Miscellaneous Items Related to Sybil Kein's Life and Career (certificates and awards, business cards, etc.)
Series VIII: Miscellaneous
Academic and Alumni Materials
Creole-Related Miscellany – Programs, Playbills, Conference Schedules, other Ephemera
Deacon John (Sybil Kein's musician brother) (see also oversized folder 262)
Music-Related Material
Photographs of Subjects other than Sybil Kein (see also oversized folder 264)
Poetry-Related Material
Religious Materials/Sybil Kein's Family
Travel and Tourism-Related Ephemera inside Louisiana
Travel and Tourism Related Ephemera outside Louisiana
Box 19: Oversized Material
Plaque reproducing a newspaper article on Sybil Kein, dated September 11, 1975.
Show poster for Deacon John's Jump Blues performance
Oversized promotional material for Sybil Kein's concerts
Boxed set of photographs of New Orleans scenes by Leo Touchet
African Americans—Louisiana—History
Creole Culture
Creole History
Kein, Sybil


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WhatsApp discovers spyware that used app's voice calling feature to infect devices
Posted: May 14, 2019 / 01:02 PM UTC / Updated: May 14, 2019 / 01:02 PM UTC
WhatsApp is seen with other mobile apps on a smartphone in Beijing, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Users of WhatsApp in China and security researchers reported Tuesday widespread service disruptions amid fears that the popular messaging service may be at least partially blocked by authorities in the world's most populous country. The app was partly inaccessible […]
Spyware crafted by a group of hackers-for-hire used a flaw in the popular WhatsApp communications program to remotely hijack dozens of phones, the company said late Monday.
The Financial Times identified the actor as Israel's NSO Group, and WhatsApp all but confirmed the identification, describing hackers as "a private company that has been known to work with governments to deliver spyware." A spokesman for the Facebook subsidiary later said: "We're certainly not refuting any of the coverage you've seen."
The malware was able to penetrate phones through missed calls alone via the app's voice calling function, the spokesman said. An unknown number of people — an amount in the dozens at least would not be inaccurate — were infected with the malware, which the company discovered in early May, said the spokesman, who was not authorized to be quoted by name.
John Scott-Railton, a researcher with the internet watchdog Citizen Lab, called the hack "a very scary vulnerability."
"There's nothing a user could have done here, short of not having the app," he said.
The spokesman said the flaw was discovered while "our team was putting some additional security enhancements to our voice calls" and that engineers found that people targeted for infection "might get one or two calls from a number that is not familiar to them. In the process of calling, this code gets shipped."
WhatsApp, which has more than 1.5 billion users, immediately contacted Citizen Lab and human rights groups, quickly fixed the issue and pushed out a patch. He said WhatsApp also provided information to U.S. law enforcement officials to assist in their investigations.
"We are deeply concerned about the abuse of such capabilities," WhatsApp said in a statement.
NSO said in a statement that its technology is used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to fight "crime and terror."
"We investigate any credible allegations of misuse and if necessary, we take action, including shutting down the system," the statement said. A spokesman for Stephen Peel, whose private equity firm Novalpina recently announced the purchase of part of NSO, did not return an email seeking comment.
The revelation adds to the questions over the reach of the Israeli company's powerful spyware, which takes advantage of digital flaws to hijack smartphones, control their cameras and effectively turn them into pocket-sized surveillance devices.
NSO's spyware has repeatedly been found deployed to hack journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and dissidents. Most notably, the spyware was implicated in the gruesome killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year and whose body has never been found.
Several alleged targets of the spyware, including a close friend of Khashoggi and several Mexican civil society figures, are currently suing NSO in an Israeli court over the hacking.
Monday, Amnesty International — which said last year that one its staffers was also targeted with the spyware — said it would join in a legal bid to force Israel's Ministry of Defense to suspend NSO's export license.
That makes the discovery of the vulnerability particularly disturbing because one of the targets was a U.K.-based human rights lawyer, the attorney told the AP.
The lawyer, who spoke on condition of anonymity for professional reasons, said he received several suspicious missed calls over the past few months, the most recent one on Sunday, only hours before WhatsApp issued the update to users fixing the flaw.
In its statement, NSO said it "would not or could not" use its own technology to target "any person or organization, including this individual."
More National Stories
WASHINGTON (AP) — L. Bruce Laingen, the top American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when it was overrun by Iranian protesters in 1979 and one of 52 Americans held hostage for more than a year, has died. He was 96.
His son Chip Laingen told The Associated Press that his father died Monday of complications from Parkinson's disease at an assisted-living facility in Bethesda, Maryland, a Washington suburb.
Jury deliberates death penalty in Chinese scholar's slaying
by MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press / Jul 18, 2019
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Jurors began deliberating but didn't reach a decision Wednesday on whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should be put to death for the brutal slaying of a scholar from China he abducted at a bus stop.
Brent Christensen's attorney, Elisabeth Pollock, teared up earlier in the day during closing arguments in the penalty phase in U.S. District Court in Peoria, at one point walking behind her 30-year-old client and putting her hands on his shoulders.


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Helicopter rescue on East Lothian coastline after man falls on rocks and injures leg
The injured man was airlifted to hospital after he was found on the rocks
Neil PooranDigital Journalist
A man had to be airlifted to hospital by helicopter after falling and injuring his leg on the coast in East Lothian.
The man fell on rocks near Eyemouth caravan park on Tuesday evening, prompting a wide-ranging response from emergency services.
Coastguard teams worked with paramedics to find and stabilise the injured man before helping him on to a stretcher. Lifeboats from Eyemouth were also called out for the search.
A rescue helicopter was sent from Prestwick and the teams helped the aircrew to load the casualty on board.
Dunbar Coastguard said: "This was another fine example of inter-agency working. All services debriefed together and coastguards were stood down at 8.43pm.
"If you see someone in difficulty or something you are concerned about on the shoreline, beaches, cliffs, mud or water, call 999 immediately and ask for the coastguard. "
Top stories from East Lothian
Road blocked following car fire
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Can you take over beloved pub?
Basement Jaxx to headline event
The City of Edinburgh CouncilEdinburgh Council chiefs set for multi-million pound pay off in staff shake up50 senior managers are set to be laid off from the council as part of a multi-million pound voluntary redundancy scheme
Edinburgh Council set to grant £655K in tram contract extensions to consultants
The City of Edinburgh CouncilCouncillors are being asked to approve the contract extensions for two consultancy firms working on the construction phase of the Trams to Newhaven extension project, which is due to be completed in 2023
When is Burns Night 2021 and how you can toast Robert Burns in lockdown
Stay InCurrent restrictions mean people won't be able to gather for a traditional Burns supper, but you can still mark the special occasion at home


For too sweet is the sound of "autumn"
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I really enjoyed both reflections. That's what a reflection is n'est pas? Looking at something, then wondering if its reflection is closer to the truth.
thanks gill. i love that picture and thanks for the kind words.
Such true words I am glad someone had the grace to write them and share them.
I believe there is a reason for everything.


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MakerPlane is an open source aviation organization, started by a group of Canadian plane building enthusiasts. Its members are designing the first open source airplane, which they estimate could cost about US$15,000 to build.

Many do-it-yourself aircraft projects are abandoned before they are completed.  Some of the causes are complex and vague plans and assembly instructions, lack of builder support, the thousands of hours needed to create a complete plane and manufacturers of parts and plans going out of business.  The MakerPlane members participate in networking, share information and work together on a simple and economical plane design, and make some of their own parts, in order to overcome these obstacles.

Aircraft designs
In 2011 the MakerPlane community began designing their aircraft from the ground up to be built using modern and affordable personal manufacturing equipment, such as CNC mills and 3D Printers.  The first design is a 2-seat Light Sport Aircraft, currently under the working name of "MakerPlane v1.0 LSA".  The designs are to be released under a Creative Commons license. The first prototype was expected to be flown in 2015 and shown at the AirVenture OshKosh shows in 2014 and 2015

Events
In 2013, MakerPlane initiated a Kickstarter campaign and an Indiegogo campaign to fund development of its plane.  During the first few months, these campaigns did not succeed in raising a significant amount of money.

In January, 2014, MakerPlane successfully flew its first scale model.

In June 2019, after 5 years with no news, the project exhibited at AirVenture.

See also
 Electric airplane

References

External links
MakerPlane website

Open-source hardware
Aviation in Canada
Aviation organizations based in Canada
Organizations based in Toronto

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> Musiikki>Vinyylit>Malditos: Le Réve (LP)
Malditos: Le Réve (LP)
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Malditos: La Réve
SVART147, Svart Records, 2018
Limited edition of 300 copies
Mal-dí-tos: the collective singular, from the Spanish word maldito, or androgynous, plural, Malditus.
Oakland, Ca., Malditos is a quartet embarked on a concept of sound they refer to as "dark-zone desert psych", featuring pulsating rhythms, melodic vocal phrasings, sonic guitar passages and heavy atmospheric textures conjured via analog synthesizers, tapes and percussion.
Formed in late 2011 for a performance in the Dismal Swamp, the group recorded material for a full length S/T album which was released on the band's own Alchemy Coffin label in 2012. These songs feature lyrics in French and English as well as a cover of Serge Gainsbourg's classic composition, "Requiem Pour Un Con", which ends up running the gamut at over eight minutes in length, sounding more like Faust processing Gainsbourg than its funky predecessor.
Two digital releases followed, Ruins/Black Shirt Flag (slated for release as a seven-inch single) and Suivez Nous, the digital single to the cassette release, Suivez Nous Vol. 1.
Malditos sophomore LP, Le Rêve, as the title suggests, takes the listener further into the desert-psyche mind frame. The result is a richer tapestry of Eastern inspired melody and dramatic vocal expression while maintaining the Malditos sound. From the bombastic and demanding opening track, Azadeh, through the ritual trance state of Momen and title track Le Rêve, this album will take you to new musical regions.
Mixing the scenes in support of friends and bands such as Alaric, Pere Ubu, Loto Ball Show, Indian Jewelry, and Noothgrush, Malditos performs almost as sporadically as their recorded output, though the members remain active in many forms throughout the Bay Area.
A1 Azadeh 6:31
A2 Le Passage 5:03
A3 Disparu 6:16
B1 Momen 7:53
B2 Le Reve 9:56


Getting a new living room every year may turn out to be an expensive affair, not to mention the time and effort involved. By changing a few accessories you can get a new feel to the old living room. Here are 10 ways you can use accessories to reinvent your living room and transform it into new.
Decorating your living room with seasonal elements is a great idea. Things like white pottery and blooms from the garden bring the spring season into your home. The trick is to display them at different levels so that each arrangement is seen distinctly.
Fire place is an ideal place to display your decorative pieces. So it is only apt to include a stool next to the table. Make sure that it grabs attention. It could be an antique wooden piece with intricate carvings on it or just a wrought iron stool adorned with a fancy cushion for seating. Either which way, a stool will add utility to the décor.
Place a rug in the center of the living room and see the magic unfold. You can design a whole room with the rug as the centre piece. So lay the foundation right and accessorize accordingly.
Use different sized pillows and cushions to enhance the look of your seating arrangements. Choose from a variety of sizes, shapes and textures to create gradient. The results will be striking and can give an instant makeover to your living room.
When decorating your living room it is important to not stuff all your interior decoration ideas at once. Have different layouts and schemes and use them from time to time. This will prevent boredom from creeping into the lively space of your house.
Sometimes more is better. Try including more of the same décor item. For instance, make it two candles instead of one. Two mirrors or and two cushions in place of one. This will give a grander look to the whole set up.
Organize the accessories of your living room to complement each other. Keep in mind that similar colors, patterns and categories of items are grouped together. This will keep the décor from getting mismatched and more appealing to the eye.
Living rooms are the right places to display your art collection. It need not be an expensive work by a renowned designer. A work of art brings in an element of intrigue and also shows your taste for art forms.
Many a time we use the living room to entertain our guests with a snack. In such times it would make sense to include napkin holders as well. It will do you good to choose something from the decorative cutlery range so that it serves utility and at the same time does not disturb the aesthetics of the room.
Decoration does not mean hefty spending. It is about good sense of color, coordination and arrangement. Even simple things such as fresh fruits and flowers from your garden can be utilized tactfully to decorate your living room. Affordable acccessories challenge your creativity and have a feel good factor as well.


Authoritative naturalists and men of culture support the idea of creating a natural park in Trentino to protect the territory between the Adamello-Presanella massif and the Brenta Dolomites Group. The proposals identify three main elements of protection: the Val Genova, the Brenta Group and Lake Tovel, and the last native brown bear population of the Alps.
The protected area "Adamello Brenta Nature Park" is identified. The Autonomous Province of Trento includes it in the first Provincial Urban Plan (PUP) together with the Paneveggio Pale di San Martino Natural Park. These were the first two provincial natural parks in Italy. However, the management of the Park remains with the Province which, through the Parks Service, has been implementing a policy of bland naturalistic enhancement for years. Nevertheless, the building constraint that safeguards the territory from the building speculations that, in those years, affect the rest of the provincial territory, holds well.
The new Pup considerably expands the boundaries of the protected area. The protected area thus passes from the original 504 square kilometers to 618 square kilometers.
After the first very difficult years in terms of social acceptance, in which the Park must defend its principles, in 1999 the Adamello Brenta introduces a fundamental management tool: the Park Plan. Its approval marks the end of the phase of social opposition, thus allowing the protected area to release its energies in a finally proactive action.
With the revision of the Provincial urban plan, the boundaries of the Park are again extended. Now the protected area covers 620.50 sq. Km.
EMAS community environmental registration with registration number IT-000576 and adherence to the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism.
Provincial Law on forests and nature protection (L.P. May 23, 2007, n. 11) "Government of the forest and mountain territory, of watercourses and protected areas" which replaces and integrates the L.P. 18/88.
The Park receives the recognition as Adamello Brenta Geopark. Geopark. It thus becomes part of the European and Global Geoparks Network. This network of protected areas works to enhance the geological Earth heritage with UNESCO.
The Brenta Dolomite Group with its stone castles, towers, bell towers, bold spiers and huge walls becomes part of the World Natural Heritage of Humanity.
The EMAS Italy section in the Ecolabel and Ecoaudit Committee meeting resolves the renewal of the Park's EMAS registration for the 2012-2016 period. First CETS revalidation.
Inauguration of the ancient Segheria Veneziana (Venetian Sawmill) of Dimaro and new Info Point of the Park.
Starting the procedure for the adoption of the new Territorial Plan.
The new Visitor Centre AcquaLife situated in the municipality of Spiazzo along the Sarca river.
Adamello Brenta Nature Park opens in Carisolo the new Geopark and Geology Visitor centre.
– Adamello Brenta Nature Park become one of 120 geoparks in UNESCO Global Geoparks.
The Legambiente Ecotourism Oscar goes to Adamello Brenta Nature Park.


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Q: Merge Pandas DataFrames in Python I have two pandas dataframes. The first one contains 3401 row 1 column, the second one is 4 row with 3 column.
But what I got is (exemple output of my script):
 DataFrame1      |     DataFrame2

 - email1        |     -Id1  -Project1 -Descr1
 - email2        |     -Id2  -Project2 -Descr2
 - email3        |     -Id3  -Project3 -Descr3
 - email4        |     -Id4  -Project4 -Descr4
 - email5        |     -None -None     -None
  ... ....       |      ... ...
 - email3401     |     -None -None     -None

What I want to do is for every mail, I want to get something like that :
 - mail1, Id1, Project1, Descr1, Id2, Project2, ... , Id4, Project4, Descr4
 - mail2, Id1, Project1, Descr1, Id2, Project2, ... , Id4, Project4, Descr4
 ... ...
 - mail3401, Id1, Project1, Descr1, Id2, Project2, ... , Id4, Project4, Descr4

Thanks for Advices !
Here is my code :
     path = r"/Users/kd/path"
     allFiles = glob.glob(path + "/*.csv")
     frame = pd.DataFrame()
     file_names = []
     j=0
     for file_ in allFiles:
         name = os.path.splitext(file_)[0]
         i = int(name[-1])
         file_names.append(name)
         df = pd.read_csv(file_, index_col = None, header = 0)
         if j>0:
            globals()["self.dfInternautes%s"%i] =   pd.concat([globals(["self.dfInternautes%s"%i], df], axis=1)
         else:
            globals()["self.dfInternautes%s"%i] = df
         j += 1

A: To make one row from a DataFrame use stack. Then iterate over it creating new column in first DataFrame.
>>> df1
        0
0  email1
1  email2
2  email3
3  email4
4  email5
5  email6
>>> df2
     0         1       2
0  Id1  Project1  Descr1
1  Id2  Project2  Descr2
2  Id3  Project3  Descr3
3  Id4  Project4  Descr4
>>> st = df2.stack()
>>> st
0  0         Id1
   1    Project1
   2      Descr1
1  0         Id2
   1    Project2
   2      Descr2
2  0         Id3
   1    Project3
   2      Descr3
3  0         Id4
   1    Project4
   2      Descr4
dtype: object
>>> df = df1.copy()
>>> for i in st.index: df[i] = st[i]
...
>>> df
        0 (0, 0)    (0, 1)  (0, 2) (1, 0)    (1, 1)  (1, 2) (2, 0)    (2, 1)  \
0  email1    Id1  Project1  Descr1    Id2  Project2  Descr2    Id3  Project3
1  email2    Id1  Project1  Descr1    Id2  Project2  Descr2    Id3  Project3
2  email3    Id1  Project1  Descr1    Id2  Project2  Descr2    Id3  Project3
3  email4    Id1  Project1  Descr1    Id2  Project2  Descr2    Id3  Project3
4  email5    Id1  Project1  Descr1    Id2  Project2  Descr2    Id3  Project3
5  email6    Id1  Project1  Descr1    Id2  Project2  Descr2    Id3  Project3

   (2, 2) (3, 0)    (3, 1)  (3, 2)
0  Descr3    Id4  Project4  Descr4
1  Descr3    Id4  Project4  Descr4
2  Descr3    Id4  Project4  Descr4
3  Descr3    Id4  Project4  Descr4
4  Descr3    Id4  Project4  Descr4
5  Descr3    Id4  Project4  Descr4

Optionally change column names
df.columns = ['email', 'Id1', 'Project1', 'Descr1', 'Id2', 'Project2', 'Descr2', 'Id3', 'Project3', 'Descr3', 'Id4', 'Project4', 'Descr4']

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United led 3-0 at the interval through goals from Miguel Palanca was made to work with a heavy pass,superbly controlling the ball before shooting low and hard inside the right hand post for a 1-0 lead after 11 minutes of play.
Sanchez Alberto doubled the score with a 20th minute goal as the 20 year old Kamau continued to be a threat down the left flank.
Tarek Elrich weaved a path after a stunning run through the City defence from the halfway line and his finish was just as good, beating the keeper for one of the goals of the season - United ahead 3-0 at half time.
Kamau would go for goal with an ambitious shot from just inside the box watches on as his kick landed into the crowd seven minutes into the second half.
Cameron Watson made it 4-0 for the home side with a 58th minute penalty.
Kamau would concede a penalty seven minutes later,fouling Aaron Mooy in the box. Mooy slotted home the penalty for City's consolation goal.
The result sees Adelaide United qualify for the elimination finals where they shall face the Brisbane Roar.


Maintaining your residence, and most importantly your family, risk-free begins with choosing the best exterior protection doors and also safety fencings. A solid, well-crafted door and/or fencing will certainly maintain trespassers out – and also provide you satisfaction. But before you choose a door, there are 6 points you must understand.
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ON MAY 27, 1985, LA SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA TRABAJADORES DE PASCUAL S. C. L.
He started his activities with the «Aguascalientes Project». Eight trucks went to that state to stock the product (in that city Boing was still produced!) And return to the Federal District in order to reopen its doors and conquer the market. Organized, they went out to sell their products and began to write the successful story of a 100% Mexican Cooperative.
Cooperativa Pascual produces and sells natural, healthy and nutritious beverages in the range of juices, nectars, fruit pulp, purified water and soft drinks, with the commitment to delight and satisfy consumers of all ages.
Since its inception, Cooperativa Pascual has been at the forefront in the production of soft drinks, such as: Pato Pascual, Lulú and Mexicola which are carbonated beverages; Boing, Boing plus fruit, Pato Pascual Citrus, Néctasis, Purified Pascual Water, Flavored water, which do not contain gas and Pascual milk.
In a pre-hearing Assembly, they agreed to annex one more alternative for the solution of their conflict: that the assets of Refrescos Pascual S.A. in favor of the workers who were committed to work under the Cooperative system.
March 18, 1982 – IN MARCH 1982 THE GOVERNMENT DECREED AN INCREASE IN WAGES OF 10, 20 AND 30%
Most of the companies complied with this presidential order, but not the owner of Refrescos Pascual, who refused to grant them the increase. Faced with this refusal, a group of Pascual workers went to the offices of the Mexican Workers Party (PMT).
For this reason, the workers decided to go on strike, stopping the two plants on May 18, 1982. In response to this action, on May 31, the owner showed up at the facilities of Planta Sur giving orders to his people to shoot for break the strike, killing two workers and wounding others 17. C. Demetrio Vallejo, leader of the PMT, planned the actions to follow, guided the advisors and the Fight Committee. There were key moments during the strike movement: the seizure of the offices of the seventh floor of the Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration; Obtaining the ownership of the Collective Labor Contract, removing from the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM) the legal recognition of the strike of May 24, 1983 and, finally, the triumph of the strike movement.
January 1, 1960 – At the beginning of the 60's
The company already had great recognition within the soft drink industry. Acquired facilities in the interior of the Republic, as well as in the United States and Japan. It was at that time when the Boing fruit drink was launched! that, unlike Pascual and Lulú, does not contain gas.
To measures of this time, Rafael Jiménez came into contact with the Swedish company Tetra Pak, achieving exclusivity for the packaging of Boing !.
At the end of the same decade the North Plant was acquired, whose facilities belonged to the Canada Dry soft drink company, as well as the franchise for the elaboration and commercialization of its products. Both the exclusivity of the Tetra Pak packaging and the Canada Dry franchise were lost in 1982, as the strike movement began.
January 1, 1950 – The first installations of the company
They were located in the Anáhuac colony, later in the San Rafael colony and finally in the Tránsito neighborhood, at the beginning of the 50's. It is at this time that the company Pascual began to advertise the Pato Pascual soft drink with the slogan «Fruit in your soda». In the same decade the Lulú soft drink was launched, representing a flirtatious and innocent doll that marked a whole generation.
January 1, 1940 – THE PASCUAL COMPANY S. A.
It was founded in the late 30's and early 40's by Mr. Rafael Víctor Jiménez Zamudio. The first products that he launched to the market were pallets, then bottled water in jug and finally The Pascual Soft Drinks.
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As demand for executive condominiums (ECs) soars, the Government is trying to moderate price growth by releasing three EC sites on the same day next week. Will this experiment work or are EC prices inevitably headed towards breaching the "glass ceiling" that has reigned so far?
TENDERS for three executive condominium (EC) sites will close on the same day - July 30. This unprecedented timeline has been designed by the Government to moderate tender bids and rein in private property price growth.
The previous practice of staggering deadlines allowed developers to wait and see if they won one tender before submitting a bid for the next. But they will now likely choose only one or two sites to bid for rather than risk winning all three at the same time.
It will be a keenly watched event as observers track if the new move will bring down the number of bids per site and affect the quantum of the winning bids, given the bullish offers for recent state tenders and the strong take-up rate for ECs.
Private residential land prices have risen quite significantly over the last two years, with the average rate of increase in hot spots such as Queenstown, Sengkang and Pasir Ris ranging between 33 and 40 per cent.
Some sites are more desirable than others and so worth paying more for. But sometimes, even two adjacent sites with almost the same attributes sold one year apart can fetch prices that differ by more than 30 per cent.
Just last week, the top bid for a Tampines Avenue 10 site was a jaw-dropping $562 per square foot (psf) per plot ratio (ppr). This is 34 per cent higher than that for an adjacent site sold in May last year, where Far East Organization's Q Bay Residences is now being built.
The estimated selling price for the new condominium could start from $1,200 psf, about 20 per cent higher than the median price of $1,022 psf for Q Bay.
Land prices for EC sites, however, seem unaffected by the upward spiral of private residential sites. Compared to private residential sites, they have risen by a much smaller margin.
Over the past year or so, bids have largely been range-bound at between $300 and $340 psf ppr. Almost all 12 EC projects launched since October 2011 are selling at between $700 and $799 psf. Not once has any EC project's average selling price crossed the $800 psf mark.
SO, IS there a glass ceiling for ECs, resulting in a range-bound land price? And if there is, could it soon be smashed?
There are a few reasons for a ceiling to exist. As recently as 2011, the Housing Board was still launching the Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) to cater to the "sandwiched" middle-income buyers.
The locations of DBSS flats were better than many ECs'. As a result, many "sandwiched-class" buyers opted for DBSS flats, which are often cheaper than ECs.
DBSS flats - essentially HDB flats with better designs - cannot be resold to foreigners, unlike ECs, which become fully privatised after 10 years. Also, DBSS buyers' monthly household incomes cannot exceed $10,000, against $12,000 for EC buyers.
Faced with a slow take-up rate in 2011 and last year, when some ECs were only 30 per cent sold two months after their launch, developers had to offer better value for money to attract the same group of buyers. This has kept EC prices in check.
In addition, being a hybrid of public and private housing, ECs still come under the purview of the Government.
As such, they have to strike a balance between profit-making and providing affordable housing for the "sandwiched class". At the same time, developers have to be mindful of the income ceiling of EC buyers and their affordability.
Permanent residents and foreigners can buy private properties, but not ECs. These buyers make up about one-fifth of the mass market demand.
But with land and construction costs for private residential properties rising, how long can EC prices stay at the current level? Will they breach the $800 psf level soon?
The average construction cost for EC sites sold in 2011 and before was around $210 psf, but it has increased to about $250 psf.
If the land price for ECs breaches $356 psf ppr, the average selling price for the finished units will have to go above $800 psf, assuming another 20 per cent for marketing and other costs, and a 10 per cent profit margin for the developer.
The gap between new mass market homes and ECs has widened to a new record. In the second quarter, the median price of new mass market homes was $436 psf, or 58 per cent higher than that of ECs.
The difference is much wider than in the same period a year ago, when the gap between mass market homes and ECs stood at $237 psf, or 32 per cent.
One reason for this gap is that private condominium units are shrinking in size, resulting in higher psf prices. In contrast, EC units are typically bigger, selling for a lower psf price.
Even so, the gap is too big to be ignored. Data from the resale market shows that once ECs are fully privatised, the price gap between mass market homes and ECs narrows to as little as 5 per cent.
This makes the current ECs in the market even more attractive, as there is potentially higher capital appreciation.
Buyers are more inclined to purchase EC projects because they are deemed a "sure-win" bet as investments.
ECs BECAME even more attractive to both developers and buyers because of their partial exemptions from the new total debt servicing ratio (TDSR) framework.
Under the new rules, financial institutions may exclude the monthly repayment of the EC buyers' existing home loans in computing the TDSR, provided these buyers sell their existing properties within six months of taking possession of the EC.
It is no wonder that more developers, including foreign players, are eyeing the segment. Given that mid- to high-end properties are slow-moving, some developers which did not consider ECs in the past are now joining the fray.
The easy availability of cheap credit - from domestic sources and abroad - is also fuelling the demand for land. All these indicators point towards a more aggressive bidding scene for upcoming EC tenders.
If the bids turn out to be more bullish than market expectations, the possibility of EC selling prices remaining at the current level is quite slim.
EC construction costs have also gone up as Singapore's labour market continues to feel the squeeze from the tightening of foreign worker inflows.
Also, new rules requiring developers to pay charges for outdoor spaces open to the sky are likely to raise the average selling prices of units with private enclosed spaces, such as roof gardens.
Developers used to get this space for free, allowing them to bundle roof gardens with certain units and charge a lower overall price psf compared with units without private outdoor spaces.
Lastly, the 15-month waiting period could result in some pent-up demand from EC buyers. If Singapore's economic fundamentals stay intact or show improvement when developers are ready to launch ECs next year, there could well be new benchmark prices.
With ECs likely to face upward pressure on prices from higher construction and land costs, now may be the right time to look for alternative ways to ensure ECs remain affordable to meet the needs of the "sandwiched class".
The last thing the general public wants to see is even ECs that are out of the reach of many aspiring Singaporean first-time home buyers and upgraders.
The writer is the head of research and consultancy at property firm OrangeTee.


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Herbst: Ensuring reality lives up to the promise
Sharon Cappetta
Four years ago when I sought this office, I pledged that my administration would work toward ensuring that the reality of Trumbull lived up to the promise of Trumbull. These last four years have presented challenges I could not foresee and would not expect. Through these challenges I firmly believe the Town of Trumbull is in a better position now than it was four years ago.
Before I took office, the average annual tax increase in Trumbull was 6% and our pension fund was grossly underfunded. Excessive borrowing compromised our bond rating and fiscal health.
Four years later, the average annual tax increase has been 1.88%, below the current level of inflation. We have increased pension contributions 91.63% in the last four years and for the first time we have achieved adequate levels of funding for the Town pension plan. Our efforts to reduce and refinance existing debt, while shoring up our pension fund has earned positive accolades from Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poors (S&P), which have lauded the Town's financial management. Our management assessment was recently upgraded from "stable" to "good." We have been able to stabilize the tax rate while providing additional funding for our infrastructure, our educational system and needed investments in public safety.
With the implementation of full day kindergarten, a commitment to low class size and a comprehensive technology initiative in each of our schools, our graduation rate is now 99.4%, with 94% of our graduates pursuing higher education. Our students are consistently outperforming students in other Fairfield County communities that spend more per pupil and our middle schools were recently cited as schools of distinction by the Connecticut Department of Education.
The reforms we have made to our Emergency Medical Service, the investments in more police officers and life-saving equipment and the security reforms at each of our schools has made Trumbull safer and improved the quality of life for each of our residents. Despite a teetering national economy, in Trumbull, our Grand List has shown positive growth for each of the last three years. For the first time in 25 years, we have opened a new shopping plaza on Route 111. We will break ground on a new medical facility on Park Avenue and recently opened a new medical facility on Quarry Road.
I believe a community is made strong by a commitment to what I have come to describe as the three pillars: Strong finances, outstanding schools and a superb quality of life. This is why Trumbull has been ranked the number 1 booming suburb in Connecticut by Coldwell Banker and this is why our Town has earned the distinction by Family Circle Magazine as the 7th best Town in the nation to raise a family. Yes, I believe that Trumbull is better off now than it was four years ago. I want to keep Trumbull moving in a positive direction. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, I ask you to vote for my entire team, so we may continue to ensure that the reality of Trumbull lives up to the promise of Trumbull.


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Chennai Port in pollution promise
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Chennai Port Trust to reduce emissions at coal plant
Port authorities take action in response to damning media report
The Chennai Port Trust have announced that they are to implement a series of measures that will help to reduce pollution levels at its port's coal handling yard.
The port authorities are taking action in response to a damning report published by the Times of India that highlighted concerns regarding the levels of pollution stemming from the coal facility.
The news was released via a statement from the Port Trust who detailed the procedures to help combat the worrying levels of pollution.
This includes the construction of wind barriers around the iron ore and coal stack yards and a bubble structure attached to the coal conveyor system.
Trees will also be planted around the yard area and water will be sprinkled on the surrounding roads and the yard area at regular intervals. Authorities also maintain that they will ensure tarpaulin covers all the lorries carrying coal material in and out of the site.
"We are following the pollution standards insisted by Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, and frequent monitoring of air proves that the particulate pollution is not beyond the limits in the coal handling area", the statement obtained by The Times of India reads.
"All the employees and workers exposed to the coal handling operations are being thoroughly examined by the medical wing of Chennai Port Trust. It has not found any case of respiratory disease or any other possible health impact among workers due to coal pollution," the statement continues.
The statement added that reports from the medical department of Chennai port shows that no increase in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) has been identified on account of coal dust.
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Brother Manuel Martinez Gonzalez died March 15 at the St. John Neumann Residence at Stella Maris in Timonium, MD. He was 82.
Brother Manuel was a beloved member of the Redemptorist community at the now-closed St. Boniface Parish in Philadelphia. He was born July 22, 1928, and professed vows as a Redemptorist August 2, 1959.
Two funeral services are planned.
A viewing will be held Monday, March 21 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the main chapel at Stella Maris, 2300 Dulaney Valley Rd., Timonium, MD. A funeral Mass will follow at 11 a.m.
A viewing will be held Tuesday, March 22 from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. at St. Peter the Apostle Church, 1019 North Fifth St., Philadelphia, PA. A funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow at Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Please pray for Brother Manuel, for his family, friends, and his Redemptorist confreres who mourn his loss.


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Pssst! What's Your Favorite Kind of Pizza?
'...Kyle wore an apron and hairnet. "Hey." He aimed an elbow at Elizabeth. "Green pepper and mushroom. I'll go get one started right now."
Andrew glanced back and someone tossed money into her guitar case, a scant amount of coins, but still a hell of a lot more than he'd ever given her to play. Between that and the piece she played now, one he didn't recognize, he felt disconnected. Out of her loop.
Hell, who was he kidding? He was out of her realm. "She won't eat with me, little Fawn."
"You don't know that. Jeez, Andrew. Don't you know anything about dating?"...'
I love when food makes an appearance in novels, and as a writer, I enjoy creating the unique bond that occurs when people break bread together. Eating is both universal necessity and pleasure, yet every palate is as unique as a person's personality, and it's cool to discover what my characters like, and don't like. (In Divinity & The Python, Cameron Weste hates coffee. Say whaaattt? What is wrong with him?!)
In Within The Summit's Shadow, Andrew and Elizabeth have never - despite having once had a deep, intense friendship - ate together. Once upon a time, a teenage Elizabeth was way too self-conscious about her weight to ever eat in front of Andrew, and Andrew, stoic, self-absorbed, and clueless, never lowered himself to actually ask her for a date.
Nonetheless, Kyle King, determined to play cupid, shares 'insider information' with Andrew: Elizabeth likes green pepper & mushroom pizza.
Except...now an adult, Andrew isn't cringey about being seen with Elizabeth. He's more concerned that she would cringe at having to be out with him. Still, as they reluctantly join forces to unspool a mystery, they land at a local pizzeria, where Andrew orders a pizza to share - then is surprised when Elizabeth (apparently no longer reticent when she's famished) requests Thousand Island dip with the wings that precede their pizza ("Who knew that was good?" he wonders, yet never gets to find out; Elizabeth unapologetically devours the platter of wings).
Now, the fictional Kodiak Andrew and Elizabeth visit for pizza doubtlessly uses a commercial recipe for their crust. I, on the other hand, have used the same, homemade recipe throughout my entire marriage (Silver Anniversary this year!), a thick, bread-like crust. Friday night homemade pizza is one of my family's favorite traditions. Here's my recipe. Enjoy!
1/4 cup olive oil (oil infused with garlic is a nice touch)
1 tbsp yeast
In a small bowl, combine warm water, yeast & sugar. Let rise 10 minutes.
In a larger bowl, combine flour & salt. Add yeast mix and oil to flour. Knead well and let rise 15 minutes. Spread out on a greased pizza pan spinkled with cornmeal. Add your favorite toppings, bake for 35-45 minutes, broiling for the last 3 min. YUM!
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