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'Concern' over sharp rise in rent prices with renters now paying average of €1,352 per month
Average rents in Dublin now stand at €1,848 per month, which means it costs €22,176 per year on average to rent in the capital
Ruairi Scott ByrneDeputy editor
A couple walks by an estate agency in Ranelagh, Dublin, during Level 5 Covid-19 lockdown. On Sunday, February 14, 2021, in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)
Rents have risen on average by 7 per cent across the state this year, with the average rent price in Ireland now standing at €1,352 per month.
The figures were revealed in the latest report from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), which looked at the quarterly Rent Index for the April to June period (Q2) of 2021.
The report is based on actual rents paid on 13,884 private tenancies registered with the RTB in the quarter, compared to 16,085 in Q1 2021.
RTB, the state body that regulates the rental sector, has expressed concern over the level of increase in rent prices and stated that it may be a result of non-compliance from landlords with rent-setting regulations.
On an annualised basis, rents grew by 7 per cent in the second quarter of 2021. This growth rate is higher than that of the previous quarter (4.4 per cent) and the highest since Q1 2019 (which recorded growth of 7.4 per cent).
A view of a '2 Bed To Rent Short Term' sign seen in Dublin City Centre (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The national standardised average rent stood at €1,352 in Q2 2021 – an increase of €32 compared to the previous quarter.
When it comes to the differences in rent price in terms of houses versus apartments, the standardised average rent for houses now stands at €1,347 per month, which is an increase of 3.4 per cent on the previous quarter and a rise of 9.1 per cent year-on-year.
Meanwhile, the standardised average rent for apartments for Q2 2021 stood at €1,379 per month this quarter, which is an increase of 1.9 per cent on Q1 2021 and 5.5 per cent year-on-year.
Rent prices in Dublin
As of Q2 2021, standardised average rent in Dublin (€1,848 per month) was higher than outside Dublin (€1,058 per month), according to the report. To put that figure into perspective, that means a person is paying €22,176 per year on average to rent in the capital.
The standardised average rent in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) stood at €1,397 as of Q2 2021 while it was €1,007 outside the GDA. Year-on-year price inflation was lowest at 4.4 per cent in the Dublin area and 10.8 per cent outside the GDA.
Taking a typical two-bedroom house, the report found that the standardised average rent in Dublin stood at €1,817 per month in Q2 2021. This is €841 more than the level for a two-bedroom house outside Dublin for which the most recent standardised average rent was €976 per month.
A lady looks at property To Let outside a Estate Agent on Lower Camden Street, in Dublin (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The standardised average rent for a two-bedroom house in the GDA was €1,354 in Q2 2021. As the report points out, the difference in the level of rents between Dublin and elsewhere is noticeable as the rent for a one-bedroom house in Dublin (€1,414 per month) costs €203 per month more than a house with four or more bedrooms outside Dublin (€1,211 per month).
The report also highlighted the fierce demand for properties in the capital, with Dublin and the GDA accounting for 58 per cent of all tenancy agreements registered in Q2 2021.
Rent price changes county by county
Dublin represented the highest standardised average rent for Q2 2021 at €1,848 per month while the lowest monthly rents were in Donegal, where the standardised average stood at €677 per month.
10 counties now have standardised average rents above €1,000 per month - Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Louth, Meath and Wicklow.
On a quarterly basis, rents rose in all but three counties in Q2 2021. Rents in Leitrim increased the most with a quarterly growth rate of 17.6 per cent. On the other hand, rents in Louth experienced the largest quarterly decrease, falling by 0.5 per cent.
A giant billboard calls for lower rents in Grafton Street on December 2, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
On an annualised basis, the lowest growth in the standardised average rent in Q2 2021 was in Dublin at 4.4 per cent. The county with the fastest growing rents in Q2 2021, meanwhile, was Leitrim at 17.3 per cent year-on-year growth.
The report shows that Laois, Sligo, Wicklow, Mayo, Offaly, Kilkenny, Longford and Clare all had annualised growth above 10 per cent in Q2 2021 as well.
'Level of increase a source of concern'
Commenting on the latest RTB Index findings, Padraig McGoldrick, Interim Director of the RTB, said that the level of increase in rent prices in Q2 2021 is 'a source of concern' and may suggest that landlords are pushing up rents beyond limits imposed under regulations already in place.
In July, the Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021 was signed into law by President Michael D. Higgins. The Bill states that landlords can no longer apply a 4 per cent rent hike and must instead link any rent increases on properties in Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs) to inflation.
"While the latest rent levels will not yet have been impacted by the change in rules for rent setting introduced in July, the level of increase in Q2 2021 is a source of concern and, while there may be legitimate reasons reflecting the rate of increase, it may also indicate an unacceptable level of non-compliance by landlords with rent-setting regulations restricting rent increases in Rent Pressure Zone areas (RPZ)," Mr McGoldrick said.
"The impact of not complying with these measures can be very severe, and the RTB is committed to ensuring increased compliance with these requirements."
A group of young people during a symbolic housing protest outside the GPO in Dublin's city centre on Saturday, 29 May 2020, in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Where landlords circumvent the legislation in relation to RPZ rent caps, the RTB has the power to investigate and apply sanctions, with fines of up to €15,000 and/or costs up to €15,000.
As of Q2 2021, the RTB has commenced almost 400 investigations into improper conducts and to date almost €260,000 has been refunded to current and former tenants as a direct result of breach of rent setting rules.
"On the basis of a request from Minister Darragh O' Brien, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the RTB will escalate its response and introduce an accelerated and focused campaign to identify and, where necessary, pursue those who abuse or ignore their rent setting responsibilities," Mr McGoldrick added.
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The Weekender: DahkaBrahka, Maple Syrup, Beer Tour and More!
ST. CLOUD — Enjoy the great weather this weekend with several fun events happening around central Minnesota. Check out DahkaBraka out at Collegeville, do some hula hooping at the Great River Regional Library, tour a maple syrup operation in St. Joseph, enjoy a beer for a great cause around St. Cloud and take your kids to a movie. Read more in The Weekender!
Enjoy a great show out at Collegeville this weekend. The Ukrainian folk-rock group DakhaBrakha will be performing their blend of unique, transnational sound, driving by several astonishing vocal ranges. Their striking costumes, and phenomenon performances will have you amazed. Tickets for the show are $27 for general admission, $24 for seniors and $15 for students. Show time is Saturday at 7:30 p.m. inside the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater.
- Saturday, April 6th, 7:30 p.m.
Get up and move around at the St. Cloud Library this weekend. Hoop O Rama is a fun Hula hooping experience for kids, teens and adults! There will be advice for beginners and even a few tricks taught to anyone willing to learn. No experience is needed and all ages and abilities are welcomed. Children under 16-years-old must be accompanied by an adult. The event runs from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Meet in the Mississippi Room at the St. Cloud Library.
- Saturday, April 6th, 10:30 a.m.
Take the kids out for a sweet treat in St. Joseph this weekend. Wildwood Ranch at Kraemer Lake-Wildwood County Park is holding and interactive open house on how maple syrup is made. Tour the grounds and see the whole process from start to finish. The event runs from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. A lot of the activities will be outdoors so dress appropriately. Wildwood Ranch is located two miles west of St. Joseph at 29709 Kipper Road.
- Saturday, April 6th, 1:00 p.m.
Grab a friend and drink for a great cause this weekend around St. Cloud. Grey Face Rescue has partnered with some of the best breweries in town to raise money for senior dogs. Check-in starts at Beaver Island Brewery at 1:00 p.m. and the tour will start at 2:00 p.m. and take you to Third Street Brewhouse, Milk & Honey Ciders, Bad Habit Brewing, Pantown Brewing and finish at Beaver Island Brewery. A portion of the beer sales will go to Grey Face Rescue. There will even be prizes to win. The tour cost $50 per person and includes a free pint at each stop. You must be 21-years-old to attend.
- Saturday, April 6th, 2:00 p.m.
Take the kids for a movie this weekend at Marcus Theaters. Saturday and Sunday starting at 10:00 a.m. you can see a family flick for just $3. This weekends featured movie is SING. There will also be specials on popcorn and fountain drinks. The movies run 10:00 a.m. until noon.
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The latest album from Soothsayers is a glorious fusion of dub, jazz and electronica, shot through with the sounds of Africa and South America. And when you stop dancing, you can reflect on those intelligent social commentaries contained within. Dance and revolt. Gordon Rutherford reviews for Louder Than War.
Fela Kuti – that musical colossus and one of the primary influences of Soothsayers' unique fusion – once said that music was not for enjoyment, but for revolution. Well, sorry Fela, you may well be the God of Afro-beat, but you got that one wrong. It is possible for great music to do both and We Are Many, the ninth album from South London-based Soothsayers, categorically proves that. In this collection, we have an album that gives pure sonic pleasure, all underpinned by a simmering polemic against the state of the world today. Dance and revolt.
At its heart, We Are Many sticks to the knitting. That fusion of reggae, jazz and Afro-beat that has been the foundation of the Soothsayers sound, helping them to build a solid following since their first album in 2000, remains. But listen more deeply you will uncover evidence that Soothsayers have evolved. This progression is undoubtedly a consequence of the process the band's founding members, Idris Rahman and Robin Hopcraft, went through in creating this superb body of work. It all starts almost six thousand miles away from their London base, in that sprawling Brazilian metropolis, Sao Paulo.
Brazilian fashion designer Francisco Costa describes his homeland as "not what you see, but what you feel. Once you spend time here, you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating". Last year, when you could do such things, Rahman and Hopcraft were fortunate enough to spend a chunk of time in that vibrant, football and music loving, South American jewel and they absolutely got into the vibe. The evolution of the Soothsayers sound started here.
Robin Hopcraft & Idris Rahman in the studio in Sao Paulo
Those tapes from the Brazilian sessions, recorded with a host of outstanding local musicians, were transported back to Soothsayers' South London studio. Enter Wu-Lu and Kwake Bass to add another layer with their elements of nu-jazz and electronica. Then just as things were progressing as planned, the pandemic hit. To their credit, Rahman and Hopcraft didn't allow lockdown to derail them. They simply changed their methodology by finishing the album the only way they could – remotely and with contributions from the core Soothsayers collective. The finished version effectively paints all of these constituent parts onto one technicolour canvas. Still Afro, dubby and jazzy, but with that electronic element and subtle Latin American vibes.
We Are Many is an album that is driven by horns from the heavens, heavy basslines and a groove that is more on time than the Swiss rail network. You will find it impossible to resist the urge to dance and sway to those fluid rhythms that will be absolutely at home in a sweaty venue on a Friday night. These are the ingredients that bring the pleasure. The revolution comes from the socially and politically charged lyrics, with almost all of the tracks here having something to say. All of that creates an album of intriguing contradictions.
Of course, one of the trademarks of Soothsayers are those lush three-part vocal harmonies involving Rahman, Hopcraft and Julia Biel. Therefore, followers of the band will be enthralled the minute the needle drops onto the groove and the first thing to delight our ears is that divine sound. It's a shrewd move to introduce the album's opener Rat Race with those voices perfectly in sync; so much so that they repeat the trick at the beginning of the second song, Love In Unity. Those special harmonies recur throughout the album, most notably on Move In Silence and Slave.
Soothsayers have always delivered thoughtful, socially observant lyrics and their time in Brazil has opened Rahman and Hopcraft to new issues to write about. Those opening two tracks – Rat Race and Love In Unity – directly address the plight of the Brazilian people, with Rat Race critically observing the regime of Brazilian right-wing president, Bolsanaro, whilst Love And Unity speaks out against increasing levels of violence by the Brazilian government towards its native and indigenous people. (Coincidentally, I write this on the day when protest marches are taking place across Brazil following the alleged killing of a Black man by White security guards.) It's a no-holds-barred introduction. Both tracks come straight out of those Sao Paulo sessions and the inflections of Brazilian musicians Victor Rice (Bass), Bruno Buarque (Drums) and Joao Erbetta (Guitar) are prominent.
The uplifting Afro-beat of Slave champions the rights of workers. One Step Away, nailed down by Andrew Gibson's understated guitar working in tandem with Emmanuel Afram's bass, subtly observes how close each of us are, literally one step away, to falling through the cracks into homelessness. The white noise of social media and 24/7 news is addressed in Move In Silence. Those heavenly harmonies floating over Kishon Khan's funky keyboard do not make the message any less pithy.
Ironically, despite all of the brilliantly uncompromising and aphoristic words and those perfect harmonies, the two stand out tracks for me are (practically) instrumentals. Firstly, we have the magnificent, Rolling. It's a song that, I assume, came entirely out of the Brazilian sessions and the breathy vocal sounds of Ligia Kamada, Bruno Buarque and Joao Erbetta, lying deeper in the mix, perfectly complement Kamada and Buarque's dubby percussion. Over it all glide the sumptuous horns of Hopcraft and Rahman. The sound and feel reminded me very much of Donny McCaslin's band's performance on Bowie's brilliant and poignant farewell, Blackstar.
The other instrumental, Hands In The Ground, is equally special. Unlike Rolling, this electrifying jazz-funk number with its infectious hook is unquestionably born in London. Wu-Lu's bass swims with Kwake's drums, pinning the groove perfectly. Rahman's soaring sax flies off to celestial heights before swooping back to duel ferociously with Hopcraft's trumpet. It is joy unconfined and unlimited.
Album closer We Won't Lose Hope is a defiant proclamation against the impending horror of Brexit. It's an ugly prospect that is exquisitely presented by Julia Biel's sublime vocal over Gibson's choppy rhythm guitar, bringing this excellent collection to a quite beautiful conclusion.
It is evident that, despite the eminently danceable, sunny grooves, We Are Many is a protest album. But it makes its protest in a most powerful way. In much the same way as Sault's two epic works earlier in the year, We Are Many puts its points across thoughtfully, saliently and eloquently; in a mature way that forces you to reflect, rather than merely ranting and spitting aggressively. The music and the messages are powerful and positive and challenge us to believe that the world can be a better place. Moreover, it also disproves Fela Kuti's assertion around the role and purpose of music.
It is an album that feels like it could only arrive in 2020. It is of the times and for the times. I'm going to give the last word over to Idris Rahman and Robin Hopcraft. Louder Than War is a believer in, and champion of, the power and influence of music. This belief cannot be summed up any better than by the founders of Soothsayers. "Whilst heavy questions of life and death and the future of our species surround us all, music is a guide that can help us perceive the challenges in a different way – a guide that can help us towards a deep inner peace. If we listen, music can help light the way. We hope you will experience the joy, meditative power and beauty in the connection of different musical cultures that was experienced in the creation of this album." (Idris Rahman and Robin Hopcraft).
Soothsayers photo in Brazil by David Katz.
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2019-20 AHL schedule unveiled
by AHL PR
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today released the complete schedule of games for the 2019-20 regular season, the league's 84th year of operation.
The season, with 31 teams playing a total of 1,150 games, begins on Friday, October 4 and concludes on Saturday, April 11.
Some highlights of the 2019-20 schedule:
• The 2019-20 regular season opens with eight games on Oct. 4, highlighted by a 2019 postseason rematch between the Bakersfield Condors and the San Diego Gulls.
• On Oct. 5, the Charlotte Checkers begin defense of their 2019 Calder Cup championship with a visit to Hartford. The Checkers' home opener at Bojangles' Coliseum is scheduled for Oct. 11 vs. Bridgeport.
• The Western Conference champion Chicago Wolves also open their season on Oct. 5 as Grand Rapids visits Allstate Arena.
• The Hershey Bears, members of the AHL since 1938, will skate in their 6,000th regular-season game on Nov. 27 when they host Providence.
• The Syracuse Crunch play their 2,000th regular-season game on Dec. 28 when they visit Belleville, and the Cleveland Monsters (Apr. 2 vs. Hershey) and Rockford IceHogs (Apr. 3 vs. Chicago) both play their 1,000th regular-season game as members of the AHL this season.
• The Ontario Reign host the 2020 AHL All-Star Classic presented by Ontario International Airport, Jan. 26 and 27 at Toyota Arena in Ontario, Calif.
• There are 12 days this season on which 30 of the league's 31 teams are in action: Sat., Oct. 19; Sat., Oct. 26; Sat., Nov. 23; Sat., Nov. 30; Sat., Dec. 7; Sat., Dec. 14; Fri., Jan. 24; Sat., Jan. 25; Fri., Jan. 31; Sat., Mar. 7; Sat., Mar. 28; and Sat., Apr. 11.
• The 2020 Calder Cup Playoffs will get underway the week of Apr. 13, featuring the top four teams in each of the AHL's four divisions.
Every game this season will be streamed live on AHLTV (theahl.com/AHLTV). Details on subscription packages for the 2019-20 season will be available later this summer.
The American Hockey League was officially born in 1936 when the Canadian-American Hockey League and the International Hockey League merged to form the International-American Hockey League (the "International" would be dropped from the league's name in 1940). The AHL continues to serve as the top development league for all 31 National Hockey League teams; nearly 90 percent of today's NHL players are American Hockey League graduates, and more than 100 honored members of the Hockey Hall of Fame spent time in the AHL in their careers.
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Well, it's the last day of DDW. I'm already here, so I'm actually creating this blogpost during one of the esophageal motility sessions. I posted my video blog about yesterday's sessions here.
The one study that I forgot to include on my video blog was a study out of Dan Sifrim's group. They investigated the effect of baclofen 10 mg TID x 1 week on rumination, aerophagia and supragastric belching. In this small open-label trial, 75% of patients showed a reduction in symptoms and reflux/belching events. There were several comments from the audience suggesting that the mechanism of baclofen was probably distinct from the effects on the lower esophageal sphincter, but overall this investigation revealed the potential for a new therapy in this group of patients.
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Key Requirements - The post holder must have good general education to at least A-level standard or equivalent professional experience. In addition, the post holder will be expected to have good interpersonal skills which enable them to communicate tactfully and sensitively with others, both orally and in writing and knowledge of fire safety, health and safety regulations and facilities management issues.
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The role of social medicine in the COVID-19 pandemic era
Luciano Bubbico, Saverio Bellizzi, Salvatore Ferlito, and Luca Cegolon
COVID-19 has proved to be a social disease due to its widespread diffusion in the general population, the serious harm it causes on affected patients and its impact on the economy and social life of burdened countries. While socialization is a risk factor for the spread of the SARS-C0V-2, health protection measures such as isolation and lockdown further aggravated the "social" burden of COVID-19. Diseases with social impact require a management approach based on social medicine, integrating health, social and economic responses.
There is evidence that a low socio-economic status (SES) is strongly associated with higher rates of both incidence and mortality attributable to COVID-19 [1]. In particular, housing conditions, over-crowding and other aspects that hinder social distancing can greatly influence the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Furthermore, individuals of lower SES are more likely to rely on public transport to reach their respective workplace, thereby increasing the risk of COVID-19 through inter-personal contact.
SES also affects the living environment, the eating habits, the occupational status and the access to health care services, ultimately influencing health [2]. Most determinants of health are social by nature and the most effective public health interventions to tackle them frequently require a social component in their design and implementation [3].
Given the current scenario caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, interventions to tackle socio-economic disparities should be considered as priorities like the search for effective curative and preventative treatments (eg, antivirals and vaccines). Indeed, existing inequities worsened during the pandemic and aspects like access to food, education, and psycho-social support must be carefully weighed in a holistic approach.
The application of social medicine in the current COVID-19 pandemic requires the recall of a long standing medical tradition. The history of recent epidemics, plagueing Italy in the early twentieth century, has shown that the ravages of war, movement of armies, migration of entire populations, poverty, overcrowding and poor hygienic housing conditions contributed to increase the spread of deadly communicable diseases. Social medicine, established in Italy in 1922 to contain the massive spread of tuberculosis and malaria, assumed a key role to promote the first European policies of capillary health education across Europe, contributing to prevent and control relevant infectious threats [4].
As clarified by John A. Ryle, "social medicine extends the interest and alters the emphasis of the older public health, just as social pathology extends the interest and alters the emphasis of earlier epidemiological study" [5]. Specifically, social medicine unites the clinical with the public and embraces the organisation of aftercare, and the readjustment of the lives of individuals and families disturbed or broken by illness.
When confronted with public health, which is primarily intended to focus on the environment (housing, safe water, and sanitation), social medicine differs by encompassing "the whole of the economic, nutritional, occupational, educational, and psychological opportunity or experience of the individual or the community" [5]. Basically, social medicine is concerned over the relation between the individual and his environment.
People are simultaneously biological and social organisms, and thus human health and disease are affected by social factors as well as by biological factors. Included in the basic idea and concept of social medicine is that the interdisciplinary program between medicine and social science would provide the former with knowledge and skills needed to analyze the social causes of health and illness in the same way as the alliance between medicine and laboratory sciences had provided new insights into the biological, chemical and physical bases of disease [6].
. Photo: The Health Alphabet (Historical Manifesto of the Italian Institute of Social Medicie, year 1930). Prevention of epidemic diseases by health and behavioural education: each alphabetic letter corresponds to a hygiene and preventative rule. "A" like fresh and pure outdoor air (courtesy of Mrs. Arianna Cessari, used with permission).
Social medicine explicitly investigates social determinants of health and disease, rather than treating such determinants as mere background to biomedical phenomena.
The proposition of social medicine deserves emphasis, and especially so today – its intellectual breadth, its political and economic depth, its essential humanism.
Contemporary social medicine is critical to understand and prevent diseases, improving healthy life conditions in the general population and the efficiency of health systems.
Today's health challenges require novel approaches involving the implementation of new technologies and advanced methodologies such as tele-medicine, tele-rehabilitation, tele-consultation and new digital infrastructures for modern data communication 5G technology, Big Data and their management through artificial intelligence algorithms will define an epochal change in health care delivery, processing huge amounts of health data in real time [7].
These technologies will allow clinical research to identify new models of diagnostic, therapeutic and preventative interventions, optimizing health care expenditures yet supporting the most fragile population. Recent studies suggest that countries implementing an integrated health, social and economic public policy response will be able to overtake the current pandemic not only healthier, but also economically and socially stronger [8].
Authors thank Dr Giorgio Paciotti for critical comments and suggestions.
[1] Funding: No funds were used for this report.
[2] Authorship contributions: All authors contributed to conceptualizing and writing the manuscript.
[3] Competing interests: All authors completed the ICMJE conflict of interest forms, available upon request from the corresponding author, and declare no conflict of interest.
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"Belgian Christmas Ale aged in oak barrels."
11-16-2012, Blend 15. Thanks to Chico1985 for sharing this.
A- Actually much darker than I imagined, deep brown to almost black in spots even when held up to light. A cream colored head rises up to a finger with a thick foamy consistency. Mostly spotty lace with some webs.
S- Dark fruits and lactic are the overall theme to the aroma for me. Flemish feel throughout with slight acetic hints and a somewhat Oud Bruin characters. Cranberry tartness, cherry, lemon juice, wet oak and toasted nuts.
T- Tartness builds up to being relatively sour over time here, both lactic and acetic. Cranberry is one of the strongest flavors for me with spicy raisin, fig, wet oak and red wine grapes, lemon sours and a slight nuttiness. Complexities are a bit tough to pick up because the sours and red fruit and wine notes really start to dominate.
MF- Lighter end body with a bit of a slickness I often find in beers that have acetic character to them. Carbonation is at a medium-low level and it ends quite sour.
Red wine grapes and cranberries and a general dark tart fruitiness opens up sip by sip. The sourness gains even more strength than those. It isn't harshly sour but it seems to block flavors that might exist otherwise. Winey and Flanders Oud Bruin feel.
Batch 892 - Bottled 09-23-2011.
A: The bottle says it's a deep mahogany color, and I reckon that fits the bill. Billowy, taupe head pours out to at least two fingers, and lacing is ample.
S: Brettanomyces and oak. Mostly brett. I guess almost 3.5 years of aging will do that.
T: Starts out with some fairly ripe plum, but by mid-sip the brett has the spotlight. The plum, which is not particularly ripe, nor too tart, hangs around though, and I get it on the end in most sips. I get a bit of spicy oak every so often, but it's not a strong contributor. Not much of an aftertaste to speak of.
M: Purdy carbonated. Maybe just a smidge too much, but it keeps the beer going down easy, which I like for a wild ale, which is really what I consider this to be, especially after aging.
O: Tasty indeed. After trying many of the Jolly Pumpkin beers several years ago, I decided this was the only one I particularly enjoyed, at least for the price. I wouldn't say this is better than younger versions, just different.
Jolly Pumpkin's newest release is Noel de Calabaza, their Christmas release. It pours a murky rusty copper with a moderate haze as it rises up the glass. The head grew to a creamy three fingers as I poured then settled down to a thick one finger beige crown. Each sip leaves very respectable drink lines.
The smell of Noel de Calabaza is as refreshing as a winter styled brew could be. The nose is so robust it's hard to put your finger on exactly what's there. Some dark fruits are present along the lines of prunes, figs, and although not a fruit, plum pudding. There's that fresh, juicy, fruity aroma found in so many of JP's beers from the fermentation. It makes your mouth water.
Flavor is very similar to the aroma just not quite as robust. The juicy dark fruits are there and create a great complexity. I'm even picking up some candi sugar, whether it's there or not, it sure tastes like it. There's a bit of sourness on the finish but only enough to make you pucker before the tartness leaves you wanting another drink immediately. As the mouthful disappears a touch of tobacco leaf comes into play.
The mouthfeel is the only thing lacking on this beer. The bacteria ate up a little too much of the sugar leaving the body a little on the light side. The lively carbonation and light body usually work great on these sour ales but this one could use a touch more body to go with the darker fruits present.
Although the mouthfeel is a little thinner than I would have liked it actually boosts the drinkability. The slightly dry finish and tartness on the swallow leave you wanting another drink right away.
Noel de Calabaza is yet another good beer from Jolly Pumpkin. It's refreshing to find all these great barrel aged sours so easily and affordable. Jolly Pumpkin does the beer drinking public a great service by offering these normally expensive hard to find styles in many locations and at an affordable price for such great beers. That's one of many reasons you will always find at least a couple Jolly Pumpkin offerings in my fridge at a time.
Bottled September 25th, 2015, bought at Liquor Shed.
I popped the cap and saw a slow rise of foam that had to be stopped. I poured some into my glass but the slow rising continued. I spent the next few minutes sucking on the bottle to lower the foam. It finally stopped.
It looks dark brown, semi clear, impressive head of off white foam.
The smell is of dark fruits, tartness in a tannins like/venous way. I get some woody notes from the oak.
The taste matches the smell with an additional vanilla flavour that seems to come and go. I reckon that there are some spices in the taste but they're rather subdued.
Medium body, with the carbonation surprisingly moderate considering what I had to go through.
With the alcohol being hidden well, I will enjoy sipping this for quite the while. Good stuff.
750 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 10/20/2011. Pours slightly hazy deep ruby red color with a 2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with some light streaming carbonation. Aromas of strawberry, cherry, green apple, raisin, orange zest, caramel, toast, oak, clove, nutmeg, pepper, hay, grass, herbal, light funk, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, oak, and spice notes; with good strength. Taste of strawberry, tart cherry, green apple, orange zest, raisin, caramel, toast, nutmeg, clove, oak, pepper, hay, grass, light funk, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Light fruity tartness/spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of strawberry, cherry, green apple, orange zest, raisin, caramel, toast, nutmeg, clove, pepper, hay, grass, herbal, light funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast, oak, and spice flavors; with a nice balance of fruit/spiciness and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth, crisp, and lightly prickly mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice Belgian dark ale. All around nice balance and complexity of yeast, oak, and spice flavors; and very smooth to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Batch 4. Overcarbonated (hello Brett!), but glorious for Christmas Eve! Brett beautifully blended with the dark ale flavours and oak. I could drink this forever!
Dark, murky brown with a huge pillowy head that fades quickly into a foamy film that leaves thin creamy walls of lace.
The smell has dark fruit notes of wild cherry, plum and berry with mild spice notes, toffee and dark bread. Oak hints throughout with a touch of vanilla. Complex but subtle.
Taste starts out with a sweet toffee malt that fades quickly into herbal, medicinal finish. Dark fruits are there, but tart notes and band-aid like. Plenty of funk. Big metallic aftertaste that lingers.
A bit thin and overcarbonated. Almost fizzy.
High carbonation carries medicinal/herbal flavors with oaky finish and tart notes. Not very tasty to me.
Poured from a capped 750ml bottle into a cervoise. Sticker on the back of the bottle says "Blend 2,2009".
Appearance: Huge tan head when first poured. Dark reddish brown body.
Smell: Funky brett sourness. Faint oak and spice.
Taste: Sweet dark fruits and sourness upfront. Finishes kinda dry but still has an acidic sweet tanginess in the aftertaste.
One of the best sour ales I've ever had. Really great stuff.
Who says that all Christmas ales have to be rich, heavy, and overly spiced? Not the artisans of Jolly Pumpkin- their holiday ale is sour, spice, and everything nice.
Dark brown in color, the beer shares rusty orange and red hues. Hazy to the point of nearly opaqueness, the beer is adorned with a dainty skirt of foam that clings to the edges and laces lightly- a far cry from most Belgian influenced ales.
Funky fresh aromas rise from the glass with the scent of caramel, grape candy, and acute red wine. Early spices of pepper, peat, and light medicine balance the nose just as stronger cidery notes latch hold. Delicate cinnamon spice keeps the complexities revealing themselves with each return to the glass.
Tart berries, green apples, and sour grapes are the prominant features of the beer in taste. With just enough toasty malt sweetness to support the acidity, the beer balances out beautifully with simple musty wood notes and saddle leather wafting about. Peppercorn and cinnamon add a spicy complement to the beer in absence of any meaninful hop flavor. Finishing with a tinge of red wine vinegar, the beer has the tendency to make you pucker up.
At first the beer is sharp on the tongue, but then smooth and lightly creamy at middle palate. But a late dryness of alcohol, tannin, and acidity attacks the mouth once more to close the session. Its light carbonation gives a pang to the mouthfeel but keeps the beer dry and lightly creamy.
Where I often feel that Jolly Pumpkin ales are tilted too much toward the phenolic peppery and medicinal side, Noel De Calabaza balances out wonderfull and does so in the vein of stronger Belgian oude bruins.
Pours a lighter cola color with light highlights visible around the edges. There is a thin white head which recedes to skim with some lacing present. The aroma is of dark fruits and sour up front with a slight hint of oak at the back. The taste starts with a sour lactic taste green apples red grapes and present. The middle has a dark fruit taste and then the back end has an oak slightly off putting taste. It was just there kinda unblended. The mouthfeel is moderatley carbonated. Overall it was an okay beer, i am usually a fan of jolly pumpkin but this one left me wanting more out of it.
A- poured into a chalice. Murky maroon and brown with a very thin sudsy looking head that's gone before it forms. The liquid is actually a clear dark reddish-brown.
S- heavy on the Belgian earthy character. Seems to be a lot of fruit, like cherry maybe in there, given off as pretty tart. Very interesting smell because it's not just tart and fruity, there's some other stuff going on other than the funk that I can't really figure out.
T- I get a lot of alcohol and slightly sour fruit, but there is also right up front a pretty funky taste. The whole taste rushes to the back of the throat really fast, and then just lingers, going from tart to a dry bitterness.
M- pretty thin. Not so terrible for a sour beer in my opinion... I like them on the lighter side.
D- This beer really grew on me. I wasn't too sure about it at first. I could tell it was ok, but as I got through it really made a great impression on me.
Thank you TCGoalie for getting me this bottle. I had been saving it for Christmas day.
Pours a very dark walnut brown that gives up some garnet hues when held up to a light. This bottle had some major carbonation and even a gentle pour yielded a towering medium tan head. The head sticks around forever and leaves very nice lace.
The aroma is tart and fruity with some definite mustiness and lactic character. It also has notes of sour apple and pear, and a bit of oaky spice. All of this lays on top of a brown sugar malt base.
The flavor is also quite sour with some cranberry like tartness mixed with earthy brown malts. The sour seems a bit more in control of the flavor than it was in the aroma. Other flavors include slightly tart apples, pear, under-ripe raspberries, spicy oak and a bit of an alcohol hit.
The mouthfeel is medium and quite nice with plenty of carbonation, yet a nice smoothness. The beer finishes very well and is quite dry without being too dry.
I thought this was a very drinkable and a nice sour ale. The wild yeast seemed less in control than in some of the other beers, a quality that I very much appreciated.


HOUSTON and NEW YORK, March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Baylor College of Medicine and Medscape, the leading source of medical news and information for physicians, today announced a partnership that will connect Baylor College of Medicine pediatricians with physicians using Medscape Consult™ -- a global peer-to-peer, point-of-care digital platform for sharing cases, asking questions and engaging with each other about clinical observations and discoveries.
Baylor College of Medicine's pediatric experts will serve as Medscape Consult editors, providing insight, responses, and replies to physicians' questions about complex clinical concerns related to infancy, childhood and adolescence, unusual or difficult de-identified patient cases, as well as emerging pandemics that affect children, such as Zika. Ricardo Quiñonez, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and section head and service chief of pediatric hospital medicine at Texas Children's Hospital, will serve as editor-in-chief and oversee a team of senior faculty, junior faculty and fellows from across pediatric specialties.
Texas Children's Hospital is Baylor College of Medicine's primary teaching hospital for pediatrics. It is the largest pediatric hospital in the U.S., providing medical care in more than 40 pediatric subspecialties. Physicians treating children in the U.S. and worldwide refer some of their most challenging cases to the hospital.
"Physicians everywhere are confronting a host of new clinical challenges in a rapidly changing environment," said Dr. Quiñonez. "They need to connect with colleagues and get advice and answers quickly. At Baylor and Texas Children's, we have the perspective of seeing some of the most difficult pediatric cases from around the world. Through our Medscape Consult partnership, we can offer our colleagues the knowledge and insights gained through that experience."
Hundreds of thousands of physicians have used Medscape's crowdsourcing platform since its 2015 launch, and pediatricians are among its most active users. In November 2015, a Consult pediatrician from Brazil was among the first to voice concern about a spike in infants born with microcephaly and a possible link to the Zika virus. This early alert to an emerging worldwide health issue (announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weeks later) demonstrates the remarkable power of the global Consult physician community.
"It is a privilege to partner with the physicians at Baylor College of Medicine," said Steve Zatz, MD, CEO of WebMD/Medscape. "Physicians are increasingly relying on digital platforms to get the information they need to keep up with the pace of practice. This new partnership strengthens our commitment to ensuring that Medscape Consult provides clinical information that is evidence-based and clinically useful within an engaged and growing global community of physicians."
Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in Houston is recognized as a premier academic health sciences center and is known for excellence in education, research, and patient care. It is the only private medical school in the greater Southwest and is ranked 20th among medical schools for research and ninth for primary care by U.S. News & World Report. Baylor is listed 20th among all U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding and No. 1 in Texas. Located in the Texas Medical Center, Baylor has affiliations with eight teaching hospitals and jointly owns and operates Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, part of CHI St. Luke's Health. Currently, Baylor trains more than 3,000 medical, graduate, nurse anesthesia, physician assistant, and orthotics students, as well as residents and postdoctoral fellows. Baylor also is home to the National School of Tropical Medicine, the first in the Western Hemisphere devoted to neglected tropical disease.


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Q: How to use numpy.busday_offset to calculate the date n business days ago I am trying to write a program that will calculate n-business days before the current date. For example, if I pass in 7/18/2021, and want to calculate 9 business days before, then the program should return 7/6/2021. I did some research and found that the numpy.busday_offset() can do this, but I am a bit unclear on how it works for calculating differences in dates. Could someone please clarify how to use this?

A: Do you really need numpy for this? Why not do something like:
import datetime as dt

business_days = 9  # or whatever your input is
calendar_days = business_days + (business_days // 5) * 2 + 1 # Add 2 calendar days for each 5 business days

new_date = dt.datetime.today() - dt.timedelta(days=calendar_days)

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Home › Comics › British Comics › British Comics - Books › In Review: XIII – The Trial
In Review: XIII – The Trial
By Jeremy Briggs on July 27, 2012
Who is XIII?
For the last two years of these reviews I have listed the current pseudonyms that XIII the man was using over the course of the many books in this series – a list that has grown rather long. However over the last couple of books writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance have revealed the man and his family background so that readers have a much better understanding of who he is and what had happened to him prior to his amnesia shown in the first book. XIII – The Trial, while furthering the main thrust of the XIII story, uses much of that back story as the basis for its plot.
The XIII saga began with the assassination of American President William Sheridan and, over the course of many books, readers discovered that his brother, Wally, was the instigator of that assassination and much of what happened afterwards which finally resulted in Wally becoming the new president of the United States Of America. At his retirement ceremony, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Ben Carrington, whose daughter Kim had been used as part of the greater assassination plot, uses his access to President Sheridan to kidnap him and hold him hostage in a disused underground missile silo. With the American public unaware of the kidnapping, and the US military unable to recapture the silo without the President being killed, Carrington advises that XIII and Major Jones must recapture the dangerous assassin known as The Mongoose and bring him to the silo. With both the President and the Mongoose under his control, General Carrington intends to put President Sheridan on trial for his crimes and broadcast the proceedings for all the nation to see.
The Trial sounds like the rather credulity-stretching plots of one of those cheap TV movies that clutter the evening schedules of the less well known satellite channels. However Van Hamme is such a good writer that he can take the so-so bare bones of the story and weave his XIII tapestry around it resulting in a book that harks back to much of what has gone before and reuses many characters familiar to long time readers, yet remains surprisingly accessible to new readers due to the format of the trial explaining the whole assassination plot. The book is effectively split into three – the initial kidnapping and official reaction to it, XIII and Jones capturing The Mongoose, and finally the trial in the underground silo, and with this episodic timeline it is perhaps not as satisfying as other titles in the series but the ending does establish the characters for the books to come.
Vance's artwork, while dealing with a lot of closed rooms and talking heads during the first and last sections of the story, gets to shine during the middle as XIII and Jones plot to retrieve The Mongoose from his luxurious Caribbean hideaway. While the Pentagon building, Caribbean island and underground silo locales leave Vance little chance for his rapidly-becoming-a-XIII-trademark of a fight in the rain, Jones adds yet another accurately illustrated military jet to the rather long list of Air Force and Marine Corps aircraft that this US Army officer is able to fly (and in this case crash… and walk away from… in the rain).
Twelve books into the series, and with such an overarching plotline, it can be difficult to recommend a jumping on point for this series other than the first book. XIII – The Trial, despite being deeply embedded within the main XIII assassination storyline, is just such a jumping on point as it provides a taster of what has gone before along with the promise of more intrigue to come.
There are more details of the English language XIII books on Cinebook's website.
There are more details of the original French XIII albums on the official XIII website (in French).
You can read an interview with Cinebook publisher Olivier Cadic and XIII translator Jerome Saincantin on downthetubes at XIII Questions About XIII.
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Pottery or stoneware, relief, 2.0L, pewter lid, text varies.
"Und nähert sich solch einem Schoppen, mein Herz dann über walt's!
(And approaching such a stein, my heart overflows!
First text string is adapted from a poem entitled Der Fünfundsechziger (The Sixty-five), written by Josef Viktor von Scheffel (1826-1886).


for horticulture providing produce for consumption by the household.
platform measures 60m north to south by a maximum of 50m east to west.
both the platform and the ditch. The purpose of this is currently unclear.
water to and away from the moated site.
from the monument, although the ground beneath is included.
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Amazing Stories Showrunners Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis Share What They're Binging
byAdam Horowitz & Eddy Kitsis
Posted April 3, 2020, 10:47 p.m.
Hi! It's Eddy Kitsis & Adam Horowitz. Our newest show Amazing Stories, which we made with Steven Spielberg and Amblin for Apple TV+, just landed a few weeks ago – although it feels like five centuries ago now. Like so many of you, we're home and dealing with the seismic changes to all of our lives.
As we've been filling our spare moments, consuming various bits of media and culture in these uncertain, unsettling, and scary times, we've been a bit reflective about our own work over the years. We've come to realize, whether consciously or not, our work always seems to have "hope" as part of its DNA, and we think finding hope in any form of art we seek out now, in particular, is probably a good thing. So with that in mind, here's what we're consuming these days…
(L-R) Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis
What is the last thing you finished watching?
Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10. I just binged it with my wife, Erin. It was our "let's laugh" before bed tonic for the day. A really brilliantly funny season. Amazing that 20 years later, the show is still operating at such a level, and given all that's going in the world, that it can still make me smile the way it does.
What are you currently watching? The Imagineering Story on Disney+. It's a six-part documentary series looking at the creation and history of the Disney theme parks. It's something I'm watching with my wife and three kids. It's far more than a history lesson, it's an examination of art and creativity and passion. Inspirational.
What is your go-to comfort watch? Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I've been watching old episodes of The Clone Wars animated series with my seven-year-old son. It's nice to just shut down and lose myself in that universe through his eyes.
What book are you reading? The Giver by Lois Lowry. It's one of my 11-year-old daughter's favorite books and she insisted I read it, so in this time home together, we've formed a little "book club." And she's chosen this as the first book. We've just started it and are only a few chapters in, but it's a Y.A. book about a dystopian society (maybe not the escapism I was looking for, but, well, she loves it…). Most importantly it's a great bonding experience.
What is the last book you read? The last book I read was Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I read this book because it was recommended to me by the two partners in my life – my wife, Erin, and my writing partner, Eddy. They both raved about this tale of a young singer coming of age in the '60s and '70s. They were right, it's a spectacular story that is compellingly told as an "oral history" as though it really happened and from the point of view of all the affected parties.
What game are you playing? / What is the last game you played? In an effort to get the blood flowing, we're playing a lot of Just Dance on our PS4. I think I should leave it at that because no one wants to visualize what my family witnesses when I play. Other than that, my go-to is a mini tabletop vintage Galaga game replica that I play to unwind. In my day, I used to be quite adept and find the game soothing not just because it brings me back to my youth, but because the patterns and the pace of it actually create an almost trance-like meditative state that I find quite relaxing when I lose myself in it.
What is next on your to-watch/read/play list? I'm looking forward to Don Winslow's new book, Broken, which is coming out in a few weeks. I've loved his "Cartel" trilogy and am excited to see what he's got cooking in his latest. He really has a talent for throwing you in these worlds in a visceral manner that makes them come alive in ways that may be horrific or terrifying, but always seem truthful.
What is one thing you'd recommend that other people should watch/read/play if they're looking for something new? Well, if you missed Watchmen or Locke & Key, run, don't walk to your device of choice to watch them. Absolutely brilliant work by two of our mentors, and dear friends, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. We've learned so much from those two – and for good reason, they're the best. Why not treat yourself and check out their latest? And I'll throw one more rec out there for sports fans who may have missed this the first time around – Ken Burns' Baseball docu-series. It's probably about 20 hours or so… and a staggering work that explores the history of the game and is just about the next best thing to actually having a baseball season.
Eddy Kitsis
What is the last thing you finished watching? Schitt's Creek. I binged all five seasons so I could be caught up to watch with my wife.
What are you currently watching? I just started Devs. I am a HUGE fan of Alex Garland's work ever since I first read The Beach.
What is your go-to comfort watch? Nailed It. It's my child's favorite show. We watch it together every night. There's nothing more comforting than bad baking.
What book are you reading? I am currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I started it in December inspired by a trip I took to Japan and am finally about to finish it.
What game are you playing? / What is the last game you played? In my house right now, we are all about Rummikub.
What is next on your to-watch/read/play list? Next up for me is something to listen to: June 1976: The Grateful Dead. Five complete shows in all their glory. As a lifelong Deadhead, this is a welcome tonic to the Quarantine Blues.
What is one thing you'd recommend that other people should watch/read/play if they're looking for something new? Check out Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project on the Criterion Channel. I finally have time to check out all the subscription services I forgot to which I had subscribed. The World Cinema Project has introduced me to movies from around the world I never knew about. Currently watching: Manila In The Claws Of Light. I'd also recommend checking out David Crosby: Remember My Name. It's an extremely honest documentary about a really complicated artist, as well as a great L.A. rock history lesson from someone who helped start the whole thing.
Season 1 of Amazing Stories is now available in its entirety on Apple TV+. For more Binge Lists from our favorite creators and stars, check out what the cast of Amazon's The Boys are binging, Brian Michael Bendis' "Stuck at Home Comic Book Reading List, and recommendations from Spiral director Darren Lynn Bousman.
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Eddie McDonough, NABBA Bodybuilding Legend Dies, Age 85
Bodybuilding Community Mourns Loss Of Eddie McDonough
Photos via Facebook - Si Sweeney
The bodybuilding community took a huge blow this week as longtime competitor Eddie McDonough has passed away. He was 85 years old.
McDonough was something of a legend in the bodybuilding world. He rose to prominence in the '70s, largely competing under the NABBA banner, but also had appearances in WABBA contests. He was the winner of the 1974 and 1977 NABBA Mr. Britain, and scored as high as third in the NABBA Universe events.
Unfortunately, Eddie McDonough passed away this week, at the age of 85 years old. This news was broken in a Facebook post from Si Sweeney on Wednesday. Although no information has been revealed, regarding the circumstances of his passing, it is still tragic news.
This was his post:
"Eddie McDonough has passed away at the age of 85 .. Eddie won NABBA Mr Britain twice 1974 and 1977 . Also placed 3rd in Mr Britain in 1973 and 1976. Eddie competed in 7 NABBA Universe contests between 1972 and 1979 , never placing outside top 6 in the medium class , he placed 3rd in 1975 and 1978 .. In 1974 Eddie won the Medium Class title at AAU Mr World . He also competed in NABBA Europeans with his best placing of 2nd in 1977 .. Eddie finished his career in 1980 after nine years with a victory in the Medium Class of the WABBA Europeans. A year after he won the same title in 1979 . .. An excellent bodybuilder of his era and will be missed by many .. condolences to his family and friends from all NABBA Family Rest in Peace Eddie NABBA Legend"
Via Facebook – Si Sweeney
Despite the fact that McDonough had not competed since 1980, this is still heartbreaking news for the community. He was a legend in his era and helped to inspire others to pursue their bodybuilding goals. As such he will truly be missed.
FitnessVolt would like to offer their sincerest condolences to the friends and family of Eddie McDonough.
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Q: simpletransformers: size mismatch for classifier.weight and classifier.bias even after providing correct arguments with simpletransformers library I'm using simpletransformers library for fine-tuning a BERT model for Named Entity Recognition (NER) on a custom dataset which is having 13 distinct entities.
Even after providing model_args.labels_list, the NERModel() produce the following error.
RuntimeError: Error(s) in loading state_dict for BertForTokenClassification:
    size mismatch for classifier.weight: copying a param with shape torch.Size([9, 768]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([13, 768]).
    size mismatch for classifier.bias: copying a param with shape torch.Size([9]) from checkpoint, the shape in current model is torch.Size([13]).

Sample code:
from simpletransformers.ner import NERModel, NERArgs

model_args = NERArgs()
model_args.labels_list = ["ENT1", "ENT2", "ENT3", "ENT4", "ENT5", "ENT6", "ENT7", "ENT8", "ENT9", "ENT10", "ENT11", "ENT12", "ENT13"]  # this list is having thirteen entities from my dataset

model = NERModel(
    "bert",
    "dslim/bert-base-NER",
    args=model_args,
)

A: I had the same problem. I updated my simpletransformers and it solved the problem.


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Company that produces Crystal Geyser bottled water pleads guilty to dumping ARSENIC in California's water system
Parent firm of Crystal Geyser admitted illegally storing and transporting waste
Firm accused of discharging 23,000 gallons of wastewater containing arsenic
Hazardous waste dumped by CG Roxane into man-made pond for about 15 years
Company behind the bottled water producer has agreed to pay a $5 million fine
By Chris Dyer For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
A California company that produces Crystal Geyser bottled water has pleaded guilty to illegally dumping wastewater containing arsenic.
Crystal Geyser's parent company, CG Roxane, along with two contracted firms, were charged in 2018 with failing to disclose details of arsenic in wastewater transported from the bottling plant in Olancha, California.
Following a court case last week, the firm agreed to a $5million fine for storing and transporting the hazardous waste, federal prosecutors said.
The waste was produced by filtering arsenic out of Sierra Nevada spring water at CG Roxane LLC's facility in Owens Valley, authorities said.
CG Roxane was accused of discharging the wastewater into a man-made pond for about 15 years.
According to court records, the company created an 'arsenic pond' in a remote part of eastern California between Death Valley and the Sequoia National Forest and did not disclose that water pumped out of the pond and delivered to water treatment plants contained the poisonous heavy metal.
The Crystal Geyser water bottling plant in Olancha, California. The parent company, CG Roxane, was charged with failing to disclose details of arsenic in wastewater transported from the bottling plant
Pond sampling by local water quality officials in 2013 found arsenic concentrations above the hazardous waste limit, as did subsequent sampling by state authorities and the company, prosecutors said.
State officials instructed the CG Roxane to remove the pond but that was done by two hired companies without identifying the wastewater as hazardous material, resulting in 23,000 gallons (87,064 liters) being discharged into a sewer without proper treatment, prosecutors said.
The company entered the pleas last week to one count of unlawful storage of hazardous waste and one count of unlawful transportation of hazardous material, the US Attorney's Office said.
The office said the $5 million fine was included in a recently filed plea agreement.
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The US Attorney's Office statement noted that the investigation focused on handling, storage and transportation of CG Roxane's wastewater, 'not the safety or quality of CG Roxane's bottled water'.
A call to a telephone listing for the company facility was not answered when called last week.
Prosecutors say the company used sand filters to reduce the concentration of naturally occurring arsenic in the spring water to meet federal drinking water standards.
'To maintain the effectiveness of the sand filters, CG Roxane back-flushed the filters with a sodium hydroxide solution, which generated thousands of gallons of arsenic-contaminated wastewater,' the office said.
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By Kathy Ritchie, KJZZ News
Maricopa County will ban all tobacco products and e-cigarettes on county-owned property later this year.
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Fans are building MMOs based on the original Fallout games
When most people think of Fallout, it's in the "modern" 3D form that emerged just over 10 years ago with Fallout 3, which introduced the franchise to mainstream success. But before that, the series had been anchored on two fiddly, grainy RPGs developed by Interplay. While Bethesda took the natural step of taking its new vision for Fallout into the massively multiplayer space with Fallout 76, fans around the world have made a series of MMOs based on the original 2D games.
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The goal for FOnline 3, he told PCGamesN over Discord, is ultimately to replace the abandoned FOnline Reloaded. It's based on another iteration called FOnline Aftertimes, which KompreSor spent some time helping develop.
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FOnline 3, along with the rest of the fan games built on the FOnline engine, certainly capture the look of the two original Fallout titles. Things get a bit busy with all the character names and titles during larger battles, but these look just like the first Fallout games looked. What's missing are the classic turn-based battles, which don't show up in the trailer. Instead, it's reminiscent of the early years of Ultima Online. However, KompreSor says that "certain parts" of the game are turn-based.
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Phila. school faces loss of dedicated music teacher
To cover an expected $629 million budget shortfall, the Philadelphia School District will likely make deep cuts in kindergarten and busing, as well as eliminating 3,820 jobs.
One of those jobs belongs to Hugh Williamson at Shawmont School.
Perched on a ridge in Roxborough, Shawmont is the highest school in the district. It also has one of the best elementary school music programs.
Williamson directs the jazz ensemble, the concert band, and the pit orchestra. He and four part-time teachers give 180 lessons each week. If their hands are too small for the instruments, first-graders start off with vocal lessons.
But Williamson's position will be eliminated in July.
"We've talked about writing grants, we've talked about soliciting support from local music organizations who have volunteer programs," said Shawmont principal Michael Graff.
"Those are great for partnering, great for networking. But day to day, Monday through Friday, 9 to 3:15, nothing takes the place of having a position dedicated solely to the instrumental program," said Graff.
Graff says music is a keystone of the school's academic program. Discipline learned in the practice room carries over into other subjects.
The first year Graff took over at Shawmont, Annie Evans was in eighth grade and learning violin. Now she has a son in the sixth grade and has seen what its music program can accomplish.
"Daniel is very shy. Extremely shy when he was younger," said Evans. "You had to force him to get out there and be social. Here, he had an opportunity to meet kids and they performed together, you see another side of him. I told his teacher he used to be shy and she couldn't believe it."
The school cuts are not yet set in stone, but Graff is expecting the worst. Parents who pushed to get their kids into Shawmont say that without the music program, the school will not have the same quality.
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