MackieMade Paper Creations: Paper Sweeties February Release Rewind!
Paper Sweeties February Release Rewind!
Hello my stampy friends! Today is February Release Rewind here at Paper Sweeties ! We want to demonstrate how easy it is to combine the new releases with the older releases. All kinds of possibilities!
I made a vase of pretty flowers!
My flowers are from the Pretty Posies stamp set and matching Sweet Cuts.
The vase was cut with Garden Time Sweet Cuts.
The banner is from the Be Happy Sweet Cuts.
The sentiment and little flower is from the Sending Sweet Thoughts stamp set.
See how great all of the stamps work so well with each other??? LOVE!!!!! These and many more fabulous stamps and Sweet Cuts are available at the Paper Sweeties Boutique!
Please go visit my super talented Paper Sweeties Teamies!
P.S. I am going to let you in on a little secret: I had this card ALL put together and OOPS! I must have had black ink on one of my fingers...and I got an ink spot on my card! Exactly where that little flower is beside the vase! Sometimes you just have to IMPROVISE!!!!
Super cute card Mackie! Love the vibrant flowers! Looks like spring has sprung!
Soooooooo beautiful! LOVING the bright colors!!!!!
Gorgeous color...love all the beautiful blooms!!!
Gorgeous Mackie! Love the tiny flower improv! And the lip you added to the flower pot! And mostly these pretty flowers that make me smile!
Eeek! So bold, bright, and full of life! Love this happy palette to bits, and the shimmer and shine is such a great finishing touch! So pretty!
Cute card Mackie, so bright and happy!
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Barack Obama in talks to create shows for Netflix: New York Times
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Former U.S. president Barack Obama is in advanced talks with Netflix Inc to produce a series of high-profile shows, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Under the terms of a proposed deal, Netflix will pay Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama for exclusive content on the video streaming service, NYT said.
The company declined to comment on the report.
Obama will not use his Netflix shows to respond to President Donald Trump or conservative critics, and has instead talked about producing shows highlighting inspirational stories, the newspaper said.
The financial terms of the deal are not known yet, the daily said.
In addition to Netflix, executives from Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc have also expressed interest in talking to Obama about content deals, according to NYT.
Last year, Penguin Random House landed a deal to publish two books by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, with one volume to be written by each.
The deal followed a heated auction for global rights to the two books with bidding that reached more than $60 million, a record sum for U.S. presidential memoirs, the Financial Times had reported last year.
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Lithuanian (Lithuanian: lietuvių kalba) is a Baltic language spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.9 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200,000 abroad.
As a Baltic language, Lithuanian is closely related to neighbouring Latvian and more distantly to Slavic, Germanic and other Indo-European languages. It is written in a Latin alphabet. Lithuanian is often said to be the most conservative living Indo-European language, retaining features of Proto-Indo-European now lost in other languages.
Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in some aspects of its grammar and phonology, retaining archaic features otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit (particularly its early form, Vedic Sanskrit) or Ancient Greek. For this reason, it is an important source for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language despite its late attestation (with the earliest texts dating only to c. 1500).
Lithuanian was studied by linguists such as Franz Bopp, August Schleicher, Adalbert Bezzenberger, Louis Hjelmslev, Ferdinand de Saussure, Winfred P. Lehmann and Vladimir Toporov and others.
The Proto-Balto-Slavic languages branched off directly from Proto-Indo-European, then sub-branched into Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic. Proto-Baltic branched off into Proto-West Baltic and Proto-East Baltic. Baltic languages passed through a Proto-Balto-Slavic stage, from which Baltic languages retain numerous exclusive and non-exclusive lexical, morphological, phonological and accentual isoglosses in common with the Slavic languages, which represent their closest living Indo-European relatives. Moreover, with Lithuanian being so archaic in phonology, Slavic words can often be deduced from Lithuanian by regular sound laws; for example, Lith. vilkas and Polish wilk ← PBSl. *wilkas (cf. PSl. *vьlkъ) ← PIE *wĺ̥kʷos, all meaning "wolf".
According to some glottochronological speculations, the Eastern Baltic languages split from the Western Baltic ones between AD 400 and 600. The Greek geographer Ptolemy had already written of two Baltic tribe/nations by name, the Galindai and Sudinoi (Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί) in the 2nd century AD. The differentiation between Lithuanian and Latvian started after 800; for a long period, they could be considered dialects of a single language. At a minimum, transitional dialects existed until the 14th or 15th century and perhaps as late as the 17th century. Also, the 13th- and 14th-century occupation of the western part of the Daugava basin (closely coinciding with the territory of modern Latvia) by the German Sword Brethren had a significant influence on the languages' independent development.
The earliest surviving written Lithuanian text is a translation dating from about 1503–1525 of the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed written in the Southern Aukštaitian dialect. Printed books existed after 1547, but the level of literacy among Lithuanians was low through the 18th century, and books were not commonly available. In 1864, following the January Uprising, Mikhail Muravyov, the Russian Governor General of Lithuania, banned the language in education and publishing and barred use of the Latin alphabet altogether, although books printed in Lithuanian continued to be printed across the border in East Prussia and in the United States. Brought into the country by book smugglers despite the threat of stiff prison sentences, they helped fuel a growing nationalist sentiment that finally led to the lifting of the ban in 1904.
Jonas Jablonskis (1860–1930) made significant contributions to the formation of the standard Lithuanian language. The conventions of written Lithuanian had been evolving during the 19th century, but Jablonskis, in the introduction to his Lietuviškos kalbos gramatika, was the first to formulate and expound the essential principles that were so indispensable to its later development. His proposal for Standard Lithuanian was based on his native Western Aukštaitijan dialect with some features of the eastern Prussian Lithuanians' dialect spoken in Lithuania Minor. These dialects[clarification needed] had preserved archaic phonetics mostly intact due to the influence of the neighbouring Old Prussian language, while the other dialects had experienced different phonetic shifts. Lithuanian has been the official language of Lithuania since 1918. During the Soviet era (see History of Lithuania), it was used in official discourse along with Russian, which, as the official language of the USSR, took precedence over Lithuanian.
Lithuanian is one of two living Baltic languages, along with Latvian. An earlier Baltic language, Old Prussian, was extinct by the 18th century; the other Western Baltic languages, Curonian and Sudovian, became extinct earlier. Some theories, such as that of Jānis Endzelīns, considered that the Baltic languages form their own distinct branch of the family of Indo-European languages, but the most widely accepted opinion is the one that suggests the union of Baltic and Slavic languages into a distinct sub-family of Balto-Slavic languages amongst the Indo-European family of languages. Such an opinion was first represented by the likes of August Schleicher, and to a certain extent, Antoine Meillet. Endzelīns thought that the similarity between Baltic and Slavic was explicable through language contact while Schleicher, Meillet and others argued for a genetic kinship between the two families.
The Baltic hydronyms area stretches from the Vistula River in the west to the east of Moscow and from the Baltic Sea in the north to the south of Kiev. Vladimir Toporov and Oleg Trubachyov (1961, 1962) studied Baltic hydronyms in the Russian and Ukrainian territory. Hydronyms and archeology analysis show that the Slavs started migrating to the Baltic areas east and north-east directions in the 6-7th centuries, before then, the Baltic and Slavic boundary was south of the Pripyat River. In the 1960s Vladimir Toporov and Vyacheslav Ivanov made the following conclusions about the relationship between the Baltic and Slavic languages: a) Proto-Slavic language formed from the peripheral-type Baltic dialects; b) Slavic linguistic type formed later from the Baltic languages structural model; c) the Slavic structural model is a result of the Baltic languages structural model transformation. These scholars' theses do not contradict the Baltic and Slavic languages closeness and from a historical perspective specify the Baltic-Slavic languages evolution.
Lithuanian is spoken mainly in Lithuania. It is also spoken by ethnic Lithuanians living in today's Belarus, Latvia, Poland, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, as well as by sizable emigrant communities in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, and Spain.
Lithuanian is the state language of Lithuania and an official language of the European Union.
Dialects of Lithuanian. Samogitian subdialects are yellow, red, and brown; Aukštaitian subdialects are green, blue, and purple.
The Lithuanian language has two dialects: Aukštaičių (Aukštaitian, Highland Lithuanian) and Žemaičių/Žemaitiu (Samogitian, Lowland Lithuanian). There are significant differences between standard Lithuanian and Samogitian. The modern Samogitian dialect formed in the 13th–16th centuries under the influence of the Curonian language. Lithuanian dialects are closely connected with ethnographical regions of Lithuania.
Dialects are divided into subdialects. Both dialects have three subdialects. Samogitian is divided into West, North and South; Aukštaitian into West (Suvalkiečiai), South (Dzūkai) and East.
Standard Lithuanian is derived mostly from Western Aukštaitian dialects, including the Eastern dialect of Lithuania Minor. Influence of other dialects is more significant in the vocabulary of standard Lithuanian.
The Lithuanian writing system is largely phonemic, i.e., one letter usually corresponds to a single phoneme (sound). There are a few exceptions: for example, the letter i represents either the vowel [ɪ], as in the English sit, or is silent and merely indicates that the preceding consonant is palatalized. The latter is largely the case when i occurs after a consonant and is followed by a back or a central vowel, except in some borrowed words (e.g., the first consonant in lūpa [ˈɫûːpɐ], "lip", is a velarized dental lateral approximant; on the other hand, the first consonant in liūtas [ˈlʲuːt̪ɐs̪], "lion", is a palatalized alveolar lateral approximant; both consonants are followed by the same vowel, the long [uː], and no [ɪ] can be pronounced in liūtas). Before the 20th century, due to the Lithuanian press ban, Lithuanian alphabet included the Polish Ł for the first sound and regular L (without a following i) for the second: łupa, lutas.
A macron (on u), an ogonek (on a, e, i, and u), and y (in place of i) are used for grammatical and historical reasons and always denote vowel length in Modern Standard Lithuanian. Acute, grave, and tilde diacritics are used to indicate pitch accents. However, these pitch accents are generally not written, except in dictionaries, grammars, and where needed for clarity, such as to differentiate homonyms and dialectal use.
The Lithuanian prosodic system is characterized by free accent and distinctive quantity. Its accentuation is sometimes described as a simple tone system, often called pitch accent. In lexical words, one syllable will be tonically prominent. A heavy syllable—that is, a syllable containing a long vowel, diphthong, or a sonorant coda—may have one of two tones, falling tone (or acute tone) or rising tone (or circumflex tone). Light syllables (syllables with short vowels and optionally also obstruent codas) do not have the two-way contrast of heavy syllables.
Lithuanian is a highly inflected language in which the relationships between parts of speech and their roles in a sentence are expressed by numerous inflections.
In Lithuanian, there are two grammatical genders for nouns – masculine and feminine, and there are three genders for adjectives, pronouns, numerals and participles: masculine, feminine and neuter. Every attribute has to follow the gender and the number of the noun. The neuter forms of other parts of speech are used with a subject of an undefined gender (a pronoun, an infinitive etc.).
Lithuanian has a free, mobile stress, and is also characterized by pitch accent.
Indirect mood: present (esąs nešamas/neštas), past (buvęs nešamas/neštas), past iterative (būdavęs nešamas/neštas) and future (būsiąs nešamas/neštas).
In practical terms, the rich overall inflectional system makes the word order have a different meaning than in more analytic languages such as English. The English phrase "a car is coming" translates as "atvažiuoja automobilis" (the rheme first), while "the car is coming" – "automobilis atvažiuoja" (the theme first; word order inversion).
The first prescriptive grammar book of Lithuanian was commissioned by the Duke of Prussia, Frederick William, for use in the Lithuanian-speaking parishes of East-Prussia. It was written in Latin and German by Daniel Klein and published in Königsberg in 1653/1654. The first scientific Compendium of Lithuanian language was published in German in 1856/57 by August Schleicher, a professor at Prague University. In it he describes Prussian-Lithuanian which later is to become the "skeleton" (Būga) of modern Lithuanian.
This even extends to grammar, where for example Latin noun declensions ending in -um often correspond to Lithuanian -ų, with the Latin and Lithuanian fourth declensions being particularly close. Many of the words from this list share similarities with other Indo-European languages, including English and Russian. The contribution of Lithuanian was influential in the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language.
Lexical and grammatical similarities between Baltic and Slavic languages suggest an affinity between these two language groups. On the other hand, there exist a number of Baltic (particularly Lithuanian) words without counterparts in Slavic languages, but which are similar to words in Sanskrit or Latin. The history of the relationship between Baltic and Slavic languages, and our understanding of the affinity between the two groups, remain in dispute (see: Balto-Slavic languages).
In a 1934 book entitled Die Germanismen des Litauischen. Teil I: Die deutschen Lehnwörter im Litauischen, K. Alminauskis found 2,770 loanwords, of which about 130 were of uncertain origin. The majority of the loanwords were found to have been derived from the Polish, Belarusian, and German languages, with some evidence that these languages all acquired the words from contacts and trade with Prussia during the era of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Loanwords comprised about 20% of the vocabulary used in the first book printed in the Lithuanian language in 1547, Martynas Mažvydas's Catechism. But as a result of language preservation and purging policies, Slavic loanwords currently constitute only 1.5% of the Standard Lithuanian lexicon, while German loanwords constitute only 0.5% of it. The majority of loanwords in the 20th century arrived from the Russian language.
The vowels written ą, ę, į, ų were still pronounced as long nasal vowels, not as long oral vowels as in today's Lithuanian.
The optative mood (i.e. the third-person imperative) still had its own endings, -ai for third-conjugation verbs and -ie for other verbs, instead of using regular third-person present endings.
Word order was freer in Old Lithuanian. For example, a noun in the genitive case could either precede or follow the noun it modifies.
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^ Martynas Mažvydas' Language Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Zigmas Zinkevičius, 1996. Accessed 26 October 2007.
^ Slavic loanwords in the northern sub-dialect of the southern part of west high Lithuanian Archived 6 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. V. Sakalauskiene, Acta Baltico-Slavica 2006. Accessed 26 October 2007.
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Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.
Klimas, Antanas. "Baltic and Slavic revisited". Lituanus vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1973 . Retrieved 23 October 2007.
For a list of words relating to Lithuanian language, see the Lithuanian language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.


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Project Target
The «Waste2Bio» project aims to develop the first pilot scale facility in Greece and worldwide for the production of ethanol from source dried biowaste. It is the synthesis of an innovative source pre-treatment technology called the waste drying that was developed at the Unit of Environmental Science and technology and the SSF technology.
Domestic Waste drying, has proven to have multiple advantages to enzyme processes since the use of the technology can help all enzyme processes to become effective when used. The reason for that is the fact that domestic waste drying conserves the carbohydrate content of domestic biowaste by substantially reducing their mass and volume at source.
The facility will be innovative since it will handle source separated dried biowaste.
The Project's main targets are:
The development of an innovative method of producing bioethanol from Bio-waste via bioconversion with a view to help Greece and Europe's effort managing Bio-waste in a sustainable and concrete way thus achieving the goals set in the EU's waste management strategy. This is expected to be achieved through the following specific equal in terms of importance objectives:
The objectives of Waste2bio are:
■ to promote the dissemination of a promising Bio-waste treatment technology, aiming to the sustainable management of this waste stream and thus resulting in the mitigation of climate changes
■ to design, develop, test, optimize and evaluate an innovative pilot scale plant for the production of Bioethanol from Bio-waste via bioconversion which will be capable of converting more than 70% of the total Bio-waste quantity to second generation bioethanol
■ to introduce high level of technical innovation related to Bio-waste bioconversion into biofuels (especially bioethanol)
■ to significantly reduce the quantity of household Bio-waste going to final disposal while avoiding an increase of emissions to air, water and soil
■ to lead to the production of a final product (after the bioconversion process) which can be further used instead of fossil fuels which damage significantly the environment and the economy
■ to demonstrate a pilot scale bioconversion plant in the area of Athens Greece which faces a serious problem from waste going to landfills
34 Months [1/9/2012 - 31/8/2015]
Project Beneficiaries
National Technical University of Athens [Coordinator]
Papagos-Cholargos Municipality [Αssociated Beneficiary]
Aspropyrgos Municipality [Αssociated Beneficiary]
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What are the misspellings for dairy?
What are the common mistypes for dairy?
What is the definition of dairy?
What are the quotes for dairy?
What are the rhymes for dairy?
What are the translations for dairy?
What are the common typos for dairy?
The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
This graph shows how "dairy" have occurred between 1800 and 2008 in a corpus of English books.
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates- the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day- our demand for these things, not our need, our want- drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
Tampa's crazy... The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen.
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Molkerei, Käserei, Milch, Meierei, Molkereibetrieb, Milchgeschäft.
lácteos, lácteo, leiteira, lacticínio, leiteiro, laticínio, leiteria, fábrica de lacticínios, leitaria, queijaria.
establo, lácteos, lechería, central lechera, vaquería, lácteo, de leche, lechero, quesería.


Winter* is a single mother of two young children fighting hard to have a better life. She is a woman looking to do better, be better, have more. She is a recipient of welfare trying to become self-sufficient. Even while her circumstances remain difficult, this new season is bringing hope into her life.
Since coming to Minnesota, Winter has been working with Takoda Works, and enrolled in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) and the Diversionary Work Program (DWP). Winter has attended all the offered workshops and job fairs, receiving counseling and guidance. It was difficult for her to navigate the Twin Cities, but every day she would use public transit and make her necessary appointments. What she found was that securing employment wasn't easy; however, being solely responsible for her two children would require that she get a job fast. Winter decided to get a job as a Patient Care Assistant which was only part-time and paid $11.00 per hour. Although this was a step in the right direction, Winter never stopped wanting better for her and her family.
In August of this year I started working with Winter and by September she applied for and secured a temporary position with Award Staffing. This position is full-time and pays $12.00 per hour with option for overtime. She takes two buses just to get to the worksite during the week and three on the weekends. Winter never complains, and she is always on time for work. This job has allowed her to believe that she can have more, do more, and achieve better. This step up has fueled her with hope and strength to keep going.
Yes, she is a little bit broken and still scared, but she has a lot of fight in her. She might need a reminder that it's possible to do hard things as a mom, an employee, and a dreamer. She might need to know it's possible to stand up when she feels like sitting down, to show up when she wants to disappear, to swing for the fences when she feels like she's doomed to strike out. On her journey to self-sufficiency I will continue empowering and encouraging her… greater is coming for Winter and her children.
*Name has been changed to protect the privacy of our participants.


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Study in Scarlet Podcast
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Study in Scarlet Podcast: Introducing Sherlock Holmes and Watson
Welcome to the Study in Scarlet podcast episode (one of two) focused on the very first Sherlock Holmes novel.
The "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick, Watson — two of the most famous characters in English literature — make their first appearance in this tale, which forever changed the way mystery novels were written.
How to Read It: Buy it on Amazon, find a copy at a used bookstore, or read it for free (courtesy of Project Gutenberg).
Estimated Reading Time: 3 hours. Share your thoughts and check out the questions below!
What We're Talking About in our Study in Scarlet podcast episode (part 1 of 2) --
As usual, we have loads to discuss. Here's a sampler …
Knowledge Is Power: Sherlock Holmes is ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the solar system. "That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact," says Watson. What does Holmes know, and how does this knowledge serve him?
The Brain Attic: Holmes says, "A man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order." What do you think about the brain attic?
The Consulting Detective: Holmes is the one and only consulting detective. Why does he prefer the consulting detective gig? Why not simply become a Scotland Yard detective or a private detective?
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Holmes calls Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin an "inferior fellow. He had some analytical genius, but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."
The Dearth of Both Detectives and Criminals: Holmes says, "No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it."
Holmes and Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes and Watson are an amazing pair. Sherlock Holmes is a force of nature, and Watson's a pretty impressive investigator in his own right. Both are terrified of supernatural hounds. To be fair, we're also terrified of supernatural hounds. We are, however, BIG fans of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The Science of Deduction
The curse of the Baskervilles is scary stuff, and Dartmoor is terrifying. Until, that is, you realize that Dartmoor is stunning. (Seriously, Arthur Conan Doyle, it's a lovely area.) Would you move into the Dartmoor family mansion if given the chance? We would. Most definitely, curse or no curse.
The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill may not be a household name, but it should be. His 1892 novel, The Big Bow Mystery, is a locked-room mystery set in London's working-class East End. Two detectives race to solve a murder, an innocent man is condemned, and the solution's a shocker. (And it's laugh-out-loud funny.)
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Introducing Sherlock Holmes
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package jep.example.pattern.listenerPattern;

/**
 * This functional interface defines a listener for {@link WorldModel}-instances.
 * <p>
 * Can be added to the model via {@link WorldModel#addListener(WorldModelListener)} and removed via
 * {@link WorldModel#removeListener(WorldModelListener)}.
 *
 * @see WorldModel
 */
@FunctionalInterface
public interface WorldModelListener {

    /**
     * Update function defined by this {@link WorldModelListener}-instance. Should be called by the
     * {@link WorldModel} if its state changes.
     *
     * @param model {@link WorldModel}-instance which called this function
     */
    public void update(WorldModel model);

}

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The industry-wide loss of more than $250M in air freight and estimated well over $1B in ocean has been driving leadership conversations across airlines, ocean carriers and forwarders alike. While the revenue discussions have captured the attention of publications including Air Cargo World and Journal of Commerce, I believe there's also a much bigger picture to consider.
If we look at the business objectively, the ultimate impacts of revenue loss may extend far beyond the top and bottom lines. I find that changes on the P&L often create shifts in operations, which then affect the employees and inevitably the customers. Let's explore those impacts below.
Inaccurate invoicing can have many negative effects to a company's profitability. Beyond the revenue that is missing from the top line, being unable to see or measure this critical missing element also means we'll be unable to include this in forecasts. Forecasts tend to become overly optimistic since plans don't include overcharges which haven't yet received corrections.
Misunderstood profitability data can also cause unforeseeable missteps into undetectable weak markets, and we may also be encouraged to raise prices to protect margins in eight seasons. The disappeared profit and resulting higher pricing then cause us to be less competitive, further stunting our market growth.
The biggest impact to the CFO may be extended DSO (days sales outstanding) and CCC (cash conversion cycles). When invoice inaccuracy is reduced, collections often occur faster on average which further reduces the cost of carrying debt.
This one can be much more difficult to see from the outside. What I've learned in conversation is that many operations managers are tasked with balancing a moving target of metrics, such as cost per kilo vs. cost per man hour or moves per hour – and that balancing these metrics isn't always easy.
I'm even told by top 10 global forwarder veterans that when the P&L shifts and forecasting changes, it drives daily changes to staffing in terminals, service centers, gateways, and office support in our local communities.
These folks are on the other side of the fence, where they are at risk towards suffering additional overtime rather than absorbing reduced work hours. As inaccurate invoicing permeates the industry across all modes, our back office feels the sting of the customer complaints.
Once the corrections are lodged, much follow up work is generated. Now, a second run of invoices and documentation must be produced, while days and weeks are lost in mailing and transit. This extends the DSO and CCC mentioned under Finance.
To top it off, this double-invoicing work then delays invoicing to other clients.
Sales are often the front line of the company to forge and maintain strategic relationships. Their accounts are hard-won, but at the same time remain delicate. When a minor detail goes askew, often the Sales Exec must do some 'tap dancing' to make it right. After all, the saying goes that "We're only as good as our last shipment" …and our last shipment may have been their invoice.
The Sales Exec's incentive pay is directly impacted by any under-calculated billings. Including the friction and stress of absorbing the customer's frustrations, this has been previously reported as a contributing factor to sales team turnover. But if we had a process to accurately capture this revenue, the same would be true in reverse: Sales would now be more secure through accurate compensation, and more competitive pricing to go to market.
Let's think about this for a second. The ability to offer more competitive pricing while also being able to firmly commit a reduction in overcharges creates a real competitive advantage. This can help a traditional carrier or forwarder to stand up firmly against the modern tech-based companies like Flexport, who are currently capable of providing hard guarantees on zero invoice discrepancies thanks to investor support.
Once the invoice errors and resulting disputes are alleviated, the Sales Exec can quantifythe time and cost savings and present to the Client as confirmed value added through soft costs reduced. When we're able to show a reduction in work hours for the customer's specialists, supervisors and managers, we would now have the evidence needed to make the case that higher rates are warranted on improved service.
Offering more accurate invoicing than your competitors then becomes a differentiator, driving both new business growth and deeper account penetration. Good for Sales, good for Everyone.
The client is the final mile, and they are impacted by all that we've discussed above. After receiving higher than competitive prices, they must scour their invoices for corrections.
When overcharges are found on their books, they file more claims – and then they gain first-hand experience of the delays this causes in operations, accounting, and billing. In some cases, customers receive invoices after their due date! This tension contributes to friction in the Sales relationship, and the cycle of adding pressure to carriers and forwarders to lower their prices as compensation for lesser service begins all over again.
To get even deeper, here's a real-world example: One Sales Director with a top 10 Forwarder found a year-long 35% overcharge issue on a $12M air freight account. Because corporate pricing could not accurately forecast margins, they were constantly adding pressure to raise prices – and prices were already $0.70 per kilo more than the next 5 competitors.
This caused a diversion of shipments to more cost-effective forwarders who also provided more accurate pricing and billing. Because the shipper was obligated to operate tactically, each $100k shipment brought a new question as to who would carry it, at what price, and at what service. Disrupting the deliveries in this way damaged their Distributor relationships, which then caused the client to lose out on their market.
All told, the Forwarders 90% wallet share soon turned into only 10%. The instability in carrier practices caused the High Tech/Retail client to miss their Holiday deliveries, which opened the window for a hostile takeover within 6 months. Potentially, accurate billing could have saved an entire brand.
Because customer experience has become the primary focus of our industry (outside of mergers for ocean liners), many of the world's largest carriers and forwarders have implemented plans for improvement.
These plans may include invoice review task forces, although ultimately no office has the time to manually review every invoice indefinitely. The next step is usually to look towards IT, but as I've shared in my recent article, the software is only a tool. It does not stop revenue loss because the revenue loss occurs before the data is in the system.
This is why I say that Carriers and Forwarders will need to examine their process and approach, to discover how they can apply the most effective controls to identify the systemic issues that technology and office staff alone cannot uncover. Inside my "Cargo Revenue Protection" LinkedIn group, VPs of Sales, VPs of Operations, CFOs, Revenue Managers and others are exchanging ideas on how to fill revenue leakages such as invoicing issues that lead to under-billings.


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Q: Change the shape of list with multiple arrays python Initially, I had a dictionary named voltage with 206 arrays each of the shape (25,3,1). I have converted the dictionary into a list of arrays using the following code
temp = []
input= []

for value, key in voltage.items():
    temp = [key,value]
    input.append(temp)

input is the name of my list. When I check the shape of the list, I get (1,206,2)
np.shape(input) - gives (1,206,2)

I want to change the shape of the list to (206, 25,3,1). When I pass the input to the following model I get an error (attached below).
K = Input(shape=(25,3,1))

x = Conv2D(16,(2,2), strides=2, activation='relu', data_format='channels_last', padding='same')(K)
x = BatchNormalization()(x)

x = Conv2D(32,(2,2), activation='relu', data_format='channels_last' , padding='same')(x)
x = BatchNormalization()(x)

x = Flatten()(x)

x = Dense(320, activation='relu')(x)
x = Dense(160, activation='relu')(x)
x = Dense(80, activation='relu')(x)
x = Dense(1)(x)

model = Model(K,x)

model.compile(optimizer='adam',loss='mse')

model.fit(x=input, y=output, steps_per_epoch=None, epochs=1000)

ValueError: Error when checking input: expected input_5 to have 4
dimensions, but got array with
(1, 206, 2) shape

Would appreciate some help.

A: You could do the following:
import numpy as np

d = {1: np.random.rand(25, 3, 1),
2: np.random.rand(25, 3, 1),
3: np.random.rand(25, 3, 1),
4: np.random.rand(25, 3, 1)}

arr = np.empty((len(d.keys()), *d[1].shape))

for i, k in enumerate(d.keys()):
    arr[i] = d[k]

print(arr.shape)  # (4, 25, 3, 1)

Create an empty numpy array in the desired size, and then append the dict, volatge, value to the desired position.
If your keys are not regular (meaning 1, 4, 6 etc) you could create a map that maps the first entry of the arr to the voltage value.

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Internet Desk| The new revelations on Rafale have once again led to political assertiveness. In the media, fresh revelations have been claimed that the Prime Minister's Office was interfering in finishing the Rafale Deal from France. Following this news in a newspaper, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has once again said that the watchman is a thief. In Parliament, Congress has demanded formation of JPC in this case.
The Central Government has alleged that it had approved the deal without any sovereign guarantee from the French government. Although, the news agency ANI has issued a letter. This letter was written to PM Narendra Modi on September 8, 2016 by the then Prime Minister of France, Manuel Valls. In this letter, the Former Prime Minister of France has written that his government will be bound to accept the terms laid down by the Indian firm.
The former Prime Minister of France wrote in this letter that the French government is fully committed to the fact that French companies fully comply with their obligations. He wrote in the letter, "As it is decided between the talks between the two countries and later the Defense Ministers of both the countries, I would like to convey this to the full commitment of the French government, especially the French industrialists to fulfill their obligations."
Further in this letter it has been written that if the future of French companies is in the process of completing this deal, these companies will have to return all the payments received from the Indian government. In such a situation, the French government will take all necessary steps so that the payments made by the Indian government get back to them as soon as possible.
Let us tell you as soon as the Ministry of Defense appeared in Noting Media. In this note, it was said that the PMO is talking parallel to the French government on Rafale Deal. The noting, in reference to the then Defense Secretary, J. Mohan Kumar, states that the parallel talks conducted by the PMO have weakened the position of the Indian negotiator on Rafale Deal.
Coming to the report, Rahul Gandhi came to press conference with the whole of party members. Rahul said that this new evidence point out that Modi is a criminal of scandal. Rahul said that the PM has given Anil Ambani a benefit of 30 thousand crore. Following the alleged notice of the Ministry of Defense, this letter from the former PM of France came out.


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If Cuomo Fires Chris Ward, NY and NJ Will Lose a Proven Leader
Chris Ward may only have a few months left as executive director of the Port Authority despite a record of success. Photo: Port Authority ##http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/ask-about-the-port-authority/##via NYT##
Chris Ward may only have a few months left as executive director of the Port Authority. According to a report in the New York Post, Andrew Cuomo intends to replace the Paterson appointee this fall, once the ceremonies marking the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks have passed.
Ward has been widely lauded for his stewardship of the Port Authority. Before Cuomo took office, the Tri-State Transportation Campaign urged him to keep both Ward and MTA chief Jay Walder in their positions. Now in response to rumors that the governor may fire Ward, environmental and transportation advocates are rallying to his side.
"The Port Authority is cleaner, greener and more efficient thanks to Chris Ward's leadership," said Tri-State Executive Director Kate Slevin.
"He stands up for the public interest, whether that's with the real estate industry, the construction industry, or other agencies," said Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White. "He's looking out for the public, whether that's bus riders or bike riders."
Rumors of Ward's ouster come at an important moment for the Port Authority. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has for months been trying to use Port Authority funds to pay for local road projects that would normally be funded by the state department of transportation. If successful, Christie's plan would transform the Port Authority from an agency dedicated to regional planning and long-term investment into a piggybank for the two states. Bus riders would be hit especially hard as potential investments in projects like a larger Port Authority Bus Terminal get postponed and neglected.
As executive director, Ward has perhaps attracted the most attention for his successful guidance of the World Trade Center reconstruction, which has made significant progress recently. His skills as a financial steward extend to the Port Authority's transportation business as well. The development of a plan to build a new Goethals Bridge under a public-private partnership could serve as a model for future infrastructure projects across the region, said Slevin.
In an era of tight budgets, Ward put forward a 2011 budget for the Port Authority with no growth but didn't lose sight of the need for investing in the region's future. In part, Ward struck that balance by eliminating wasteful spending where he could find it. He cut consultant spending by 32 percent and overtime by 20 percent, said White, but "nobody would say that the Port Authority is doing less."
The current budget crisis has demanded tough decisions in addition to bureaucratic efficiency-finding. Ward refused to use Port Authority funds to provide extra financing for Larry Silverstein's World Trade Center developments, Slevin explained, while pushing for PATH upgrades, freight improvements and better cross-Hudson bus service to be prioritized in the authority's capital plan.
Progress has been especially apparent on the realm of freight. Slevin pointed to the Port Authority's recent acquisition of a Jersey City rail yard that will allow New York City's trash to be transported across the Hudson by barge and then transferred to trains rather than being hauled on city streets in thousands of polluting trucks. Last year, the Port Authority announced a truck replacement program to get the oldest and dirtiest trucks out of the port and off the streets.
Last March, Ward also officially committed the Port Authority to integrating bicycles into the authority's operations. Ward promised to remove restrictions on bicycles at Port Authority facilities, build more bike lanes and bike parking, and encourage its tenants to accommodate cyclists.
White praised the Port Authority's work to take transportation dollars marked for beautification of the Palisades Parkway and repurpose them for a bike connection to the George Washington Bridge. "Instead of helping people gaze at flowers from the windshield of their car, they made a safe cycling route from the bridge down to the park," he said.
Ward has also won praise from environmentalists for greening his agency's operations. Marcia Bystryn, the president of the New York League of Conservation Voters and a former Port Authority official, said in a statement:
Under Chris Ward's leadership, the Port Authority has set a high bar for environmental sustainability. That includes committing to reducing the Port Authority's carbon footprint 80 percent by 2050, developing a wind farm on its property and leading the way for better solid waste management through the purchase of energy certificates. The Port Authority needs talented, forward-thinking leaders like Chris Ward.
Filed Under: Andrew Cuomo, Chris Ward, Port Authority
Cuomo Names Patrick Foye to Head Port Authority
By Brad Aaron	| Oct 19, 2011
As expected, Governor Cuomo has tapped Patrick Foye to replace Chris Ward as executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Foye, Cuomo's deputy secretary for economic development and an MTA board member, had been considered a contender since shortly after Ward announced plans to step down. An appointee of David […]
Reincarnated ARC Tunnel Funds Proposed to Support Auto Infrastructure
The spoils of the ARC tunnel are being prepared to be doled out in New York and New Jersey, and–not surprisingly–the proposed replacements don't have quite the same green tint. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has named three major projects it hopes to advance with the roughly $3 billion in diverted […]
Amid Christie and Cuomo Raids, Port Authority Plans Huge Fare and Toll Hike
By Noah Kazis	| Aug 5, 2011
Crossing the Hudson River will get much more expensive under a proposed Port Authority plan to sharply increase tolls and fares on its four bridges, two tunnels and the PATH train. The increases are a result of the poor economy, the costs of rebuilding after the attacks of September 11, and the expensive repairs needed […]
Cuomo Will Retain Jay Walder and Chris Ward
By Ben Fried	| Jan 24, 2011
Erik Engquist at Crain's has the good news. Governor Cuomo will keep two widely respected managers at the helm of the MTA and the Port Authority: Jay Walder will be retained as MTA chairman and chief executive and Christopher Ward as executive director of the Port Authority, the source said. Both men have been informed […]
Port Authority Chief Calls for Green Overhaul of Region's Freight System
By Noah Kazis	| Jun 23, 2010
Port Authority exec Chris Ward pointed to Dresden's CarGoTram as a sustainable freight mover that the region could learn from. Image: Wikimedia. In a region where passenger transportation is being reimagined, freight needs to catch up. That's the message Chris Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority, delivered in a "call to arms" at […]
Panel: NYC Electeds Need to Get Serious About Funding Infrastructure
By Stephen Miller	| Apr 23, 2014
This morning, the Association for a Better New York, a business group, hosted a discussion on the city's infrastructure. The focus was squarely on transportation, and the message wasn't pretty. Panelists warned of dire consequences if elected officials don't act on the precarious state of transportation funding. Calling himself "the ghost of infrastructure past," former traffic commissioner […]


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Shaggy Featured On The Remake Of Christmas Classic "Feliz Navidad"
by Shirvan Williams November 24, 2020
Christmas is in the air, and few tracks welcome the season in the Caribbean, like the timeless classic "Feliz Navidad." Now the celebrated tune is getting a facelift after 50 years, and it will feature Dancehall superstar Shaggy.
The release of the track, which will also commemorate its fifty-year anniversary, will feature both Shaggy and the original composer Jose Feliciano. He will be joining an all-star cast as Michael Bolton, and several other artists will feature on the remake. The tentative number given for the remix is 30 artists so far.
Feliciano said, "The idea of Feliz Navidad was to try and unite the people. My thought when I wrote the song was that it didn't matter what language you were singing in, the feeling of Christmas is privy to all of us." The 75-year-old is a nine-time Grammy winner. He added that it was a dream come through for so many artists to come together to help him spread holiday cheer.
It will be quite a finished product considering that the song has just 19 words. The song will be distributed through Amazon Music this Friday, November 27. The recording was done remotely.
It seems Shaggy is feeling the Christmas season this year as he recently released a 15 track Christmas album called Christmas In The Islands. He enlisted some top names in the genre for this project, including Beenie Man, Ding Dong, Bounty Killer, Junior Reid, Shenseea, Romain Virgo, Richie Stephens, Conkarah, Sanchez, OMI, Joss Stone, and Ne-Yo.
Through a press release at that time, Shaggy said, "We enlisted some of Jamaica's leading, iconic artists to participate, and with guests like Ne-Yo and Joss Stone, who frequent Jamaica during the holiday season, we hope to transport listeners and share how we celebrate Christmas in the Islands!"
Every year Feliz Navidad features on the Billboard Hot 100 and has also become one of the most played and recorded Christmas songs around the world.
More Shaggy News
Shaggy Outlines How To Reform Jamaica's Music Industry, "Numbers Don't Lie"
Shaggy Says Christmas Albums Will Get More Songs & Features Following Positive Feedback
Dancehall Icon Shaggy Ready To Take Covid-19 Vaccine, Fans Remains Skeptic


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"""
A module to automate CIGALE. Currently works for a single galaxy.
It generates a configuration file and runs the standard pcigale
script. Requires pcigale already installed on the system.
"""

import numpy as np
import sys, os, glob, multiprocessing, warnings
from collections import OrderedDict

from astropy.table import Table

try:
    from pcigale.session.configuration import Configuration
except ImportError:
    print("You will need to install pcigale to use the cigale.py module")
else:
    from pcigale.analysis_modules import get_module
    from pcigale.data import Database

from frb.surveys.catalog_utils import _detect_mag_cols, convert_mags_to_flux

from IPython import embed

# Default list of SED modules for CIGALE
_DEFAULT_SED_MODULES = ("sfhdelayed", "bc03", "nebular", "dustatt_calzleit", "dale2014",
                        "restframe_parameters", "redshifting")

#TODO Create a function to check the input filters
#Or create a translation file like eazy's.
#def check_filters(data_file):

def _sed_default_params(module):
    """
    Set the default parameters for CIGALE

    Args:
        module (str):
            Specify the SED using the CIGALE standard names, e.g. sfhdelayed, bc03, etc.

    Returns:
        params (dict): the default dict of SED modules
        and their initial parameters.
    """
    params = {}
    if module == "sfhdelayed":
        params['tau_main'] = (10**np.linspace(1,3,10)).tolist() #e-folding time of main population (Myr)
        params['age_main'] = (10**np.linspace(3,4,10)).tolist() #age (Myr)
        params['tau_burst'] = 50.0 #burst e-folding time (Myr)
        params['age_burst'] = 20.0
        params['f_burst'] = 0.0 #burst fraction by mass
        params['sfr_A'] = 0.1 #SFR at t = 0 (Msun/yr)
        params['normalise'] = False # Normalise SFH to produce one solar mass
    elif module == "bc03":
        params['imf'] = 1 #0: Salpeter 1: Chabrier
        params['metallicity'] = [0.0001, 0.0004, 0.004, 0.008, 0.02, 0.05]
        params['separation_age'] = 10 # Separation between yound and old stellar population (Myr)
    elif module == 'nebular':
        params['logU'] = -2.0 # Ionization parameter
        params['f_esc'] = 0.0 # Escape fraction of Ly continuum photons
        params['f_dust'] = 0.0 # Fraction of Ly continuum photons absorbed
        params['lines_width'] = 300.0
        params['emission'] = True
    elif module == 'dustatt_calzleit':
        params['E_BVs_young'] = [0.12, 0.25, 0.37, 0.5, 0.62, 0.74, 0.86] #Stellar color excess for young continuum
        params['E_BVs_old_factor'] = 1.0 # Reduction of E(B-V) for the old population w.r.t. young
        params['uv_bump_wavelength'] = 217.5 #central wavelength of UV bump (nm)
        params['uv_bump_width'] = 35.6 #UV bump FWHM (nm)
        params['uv_bump_amplitude'] = 1.3 # Amplitude of the UV bump. For the Milky Way: 3.
        # The following parameter can have a significant affect on stellar mass
        #  We use the recommendation in Lo Faro+2017
        params['powerlaw_slope'] = -0.13  # Slope delta of the power law modifying the attenuation curve.
        # These filters have no effect
        params['filters'] = 'B_B90 & V_B90 & FUV'
    elif module == 'dale2014':
        params['fracAGN'] = [0.0,0.05,0.1,0.2]
        params['alpha'] = 2.0
    elif module == 'restframe_parameters':
        params['beta_calz94'] = False
        params['D4000'] = False
        params['IRX'] = False
        params['EW_lines'] = '500.7/1.0 & 656.3/1.0'
        params['luminosity_filters'] = 'u_prime & r_prime'
        params['colours_filters'] = 'u_prime-r_prime'
    elif module == 'redshifting':
        params['redshift'] = '' #Use input redshifts
    return params

def gen_cigale_in(photometry_table, zcol, idcol=None, infile="cigale_in.fits",
                  overwrite=True, **kwargs):
    """
    Generates the input catalog from
    a photometric catalog.

    Args:
        photometry_table (astropy Table):
            A table from some photometric
            catalog with magnitudes and
            error measurements. Currently supports
            DES, DECaLS, SDSS, Pan-STARRS and WISE

            The naming convention follows those specified in frb.galaxies.defs
            with the exception of WISE which use WISE-1, etc. although the code
            also handles WISE-W1, etc.
        zcol (str):
            Name of the column with redshift estimates
        idcol (str, optional):
            Name of the column with object IDs. By default,
            the code looks for the first column with "ID" in
            its name. If that's not present, it creates a
            column with row numbers for IDs.
        infile (str, optional):
            Output name + path for the CIGALE input file generated
        overwrite (bool, optional):
            If true, overwrites file if it already exists
        kwargs: only here to catch extras
    """
    #Table must have a column with redshift estimates
    if not isinstance(zcol, str):
        raise IOError("zcol must be a column name. i.e. a string")
    assert zcol in photometry_table.colnames, "{} not found in the table. Please check".format(zcol)

    magcols, mag_errcols = _detect_mag_cols(photometry_table)
    cigtab = photometry_table.copy()
    cigtab.rename_column(zcol,"redshift")
    photom_cols = magcols+mag_errcols

    # Rename any column with "ID" in it to "id"
    if idcol is None:
        try:
            idcol = [col for col in cigtab.colnames if "ID" in col.upper()][0]
        except IndexError:
            print("No column with 'ID' in name. Adding a column.")
            idcol = 'id'
            cigtab[idcol] = np.arange(len(cigtab))+1

    cigtab.rename_column(idcol,"id")

    #First round of renaming
    cigtab = convert_mags_to_flux(cigtab)
    cigtab = cigtab[['id','redshift']+photom_cols]

    # Rename our filters to CIGALE names, as needed
    new_names = {
        'SDSS_u': 'sdss.up',
        'SDSS_g': 'sdss.gp',
        'SDSS_r': 'sdss.rp',
        'SDSS_i': 'sdss.ip',
        'SDSS_z': 'sdss.zp',
        'VLT_u': 'VLT_FORS2_u',
        'VLT_g': 'VLT_FORS2_g',
        'VLT_I': 'VLT_FORS2_I',
        'VLT_z': 'VLT_FORS2_z',
        'WISE_W1': 'WISE1',
        'WISE_W2': 'WISE2',
        'WISE_W3': 'WISE3',
        'WISE_W4': 'WISE4',
        'VISTA_Y': 'vista.vircam.Y',
        'VISTA_J': 'vista.vircam.J',
        'VISTA_H': 'vista.vircam.H',
        'VISTA_Ks': 'vista.vircam.Ks',
        'LRISr_I': 'LRIS_I',
        'LRISb_V': 'LRIS_V',
        'WFC3_F160W': 'hst.wfc3.F160W',
        'Spitzer_3.6': 'spitzer.irac.ch1',
        'Spitzer_4.5': 'spitzer.irac.ch2',
    }
    for key in new_names:
        if key in photom_cols:
            cigtab.rename_column(key, new_names[key])
            # Try Error
            if key+'_err' in photom_cols:
                cigtab.rename_column(key+'_err', new_names[key]+'_err')

    cigtab.write(infile,overwrite=overwrite)
    return

def _initialise(data_file, config_file="pcigale.ini",
                cores=None, sed_modules=_DEFAULT_SED_MODULES,
                sed_modules_params=None, **kwargs):
    """
    Initialise a CIGALE configuration file and write to disk.

    Args:
        data_file (str):
            Path to the input photometry data file.
        config_file (str, optional):
            Path to the file where CIGALE's configuration
            is stored.
        cores (int, optional):
            Number of CPU cores to be used. Defaults
            to all cores on the system.
        sed_modules (list or tuple, optional):
            A list of SED modules to be used in the
            PDF analysis. If this is being input, there
            should be a corresponding correct dict
            for sed_modules_params.
        sed_module_params (dict, optional):
            A dict containing parameter values for
            the input SED modules. Better not use this
            unless you know exactly what you're doing.
        kwargs: only here to catch extras
    Returns:
        cigconf (pcigale.session.configuration.Configuration):
                CIGALE Configuration object
    """
    # Check
    if sed_modules !=_DEFAULT_SED_MODULES:
        assert sed_modules_params is not None,\
             "If you're not using the default modules, you'll have to input SED parameters"
    # Init
    cigconf = Configuration(config_file) #a set of dicts, mostly
    cigconf.create_blank_conf() #Initialises a pcigale.ini file

    # fill in initial values
    cigconf.pcigaleini_exists = True
    cigconf.config['data_file'] = data_file
    cigconf.config['param_file'] = ""
    cigconf.config['sed_modules'] = sed_modules
    cigconf.config['analysis_method'] = 'pdf_analysis'
    if cores is None:
        cores = multiprocessing.cpu_count() #Use all cores
    cigconf.config['cores'] = cores
    cigconf.generate_conf() #Writes defaults to config_file
    cigconf.config['analysis_params']['variables'] = ""
    cigconf.config['analysis_params']['save_best_sed'] = True
    cigconf.config['analysis_params']['lim_flag'] = True

    # Change the default values to new defaults:
    if sed_modules_params is None:
        sed_modules_params = {}
        for module in sed_modules:
            sed_modules_params[module] = _sed_default_params(module)
    cigconf.config['sed_modules_params'] = sed_modules_params

    # Overwrites the config file
    cigconf.config.write()

    # Return
    return cigconf

def run(photometry_table, zcol, data_file="cigale_in.fits", config_file="pcigale.ini",
        wait_for_input=False, plot=True, outdir='out', compare_obs_model=False, **kwargs):
    """
    Input parameters and then run CIGALE.

    Args:
        photometry_table (astropy Table):
            A table from some photometric catalog with magnitudes and
            error measurements. Currently supports
            DES, DECaLS, SDSS, Pan-STARRS and WISE
        zcol (str):
            Name of the column with redshift estimates.
        data_file (str, optional):
            Root name for the photometry data file generated used as input to CIGALE
        config_file (str, optional):
            Root name for the file where CIGALE's configuration is generated
        wait_for_input (bool, optional):
            If true, waits for the user to finish editing the auto-generated config file
            before running.
        plot (bool, optional):
            Plots the best fit SED if true
        cores (int, optional):
            Number of CPU cores to be used. Defaults
            to all cores on the system.
        outdir (str, optional):
            Path to the many outputs of CIGALE
            If not supplied, the outputs will appear in a folder named out/
        compare_obs_model (bool, optional):
            If True compare the input observed fluxes with the model fluxes
            This writes a Table to outdir named 'photo_observed_model.dat'

    kwargs:  These are passed into gen_cigale_in() and _initialise()
        sed_modules (list of 'str', optional):
            A list of SED modules to be used in the
            PDF analysis. If this is being input, there
            should be a corresponding correct dict
            for sed_modules_params.
        sed_module_params (dict, optional):
            A dict containing parameter values for
            the input SED modules. Better not use this
            unless you know exactly what you're doing.

    """
    gen_cigale_in(photometry_table,zcol,infile=data_file,overwrite=True, **kwargs)
    _initialise(data_file, config_file=config_file,**kwargs)
    if wait_for_input:
        input("Edit the generated config file {:s} and press any key to run.".format(config_file))
    cigconf = Configuration(config_file)
    analysis_module = get_module(cigconf.configuration['analysis_method'])
    analysis_module.process(cigconf.configuration)
    if plot:
        try:
            from pcigale_plots import sed  # This modifies the backend to Agg so I hide it here
            old_version = True
        except ImportError:
            from pcigale_plots.plot_types.sed import sed
            old_version = False

        if old_version:
            import pcigale
            warnings.warn("You are using CIGALE version {:s}, for which support is deprecated. Please update to 2020.0 or higher.".format(pcigale.__version__))
            sed(cigconf,"mJy",True)
        else:
            # TODO: Let the user customize the plot.
            series = ['stellar_attenuated', 'stellar_unattenuated', 'dust', 'agn', 'model']
            sed(cigconf,"mJy",True, (False, 1e5), (False, 1e2), series, "pdf", "out")
        # Set back to a GUI
        import matplotlib
        matplotlib.use('TkAgg')

    # Rename the default output directory?
    if outdir != 'out':
        try:
            os.system("rm -rf {}".format(outdir))
            os.system("mv out {:s}".format(outdir))
        except:
            print("Invalid output directory path. Output stored in out/")

    # Move input files into outdir too
    os.system("mv {:s} {:s}".format(data_file, outdir))
    os.system("mv {:s} {:s}".format(config_file, outdir))
    os.system("mv {:s}.spec {:s}".format(config_file, outdir))

    # Compare?
    if compare_obs_model:
        #Generate an observation/model flux comparison table.
        with Database() as base:
            filters = OrderedDict([(name, base.get_filter(name))
                                for name in cigconf.configuration['bands']
                                if not (name.endswith('_err') or name.startswith('line')) ])
            filters_wl = np.array([filt.pivot_wavelength
                                    for filt in filters.values()])
            mods = Table.read(outdir+'/results.fits')

            try:
                obs = Table.read(os.path.join(outdir, cigconf.configuration['data_file']))
            except:
                print("Something went wrong here. Astropy was unable to read the observations table. Please ensure it is in the fits format.")
                return
            for model, obj in zip(mods, obs):
                photo_obs_model = Table()
                photo_obs_model['lambda_filter'] = [wl/1000 for wl in filters_wl]
                photo_obs_model['model_flux'] = np.array([model["best."+filt] for filt in filters.keys()])
                photo_obs_model['observed_flux'] = np.array([obj[filt] for filt in filters.keys()])
                photo_obs_model['observed_flux_err'] = np.array([obj[filt+'_err'] for filt in filters.keys()])
                photo_obs_model.write(outdir+"/photo_observed_model_"+str(model['id'])+".dat",format="ascii",overwrite=True)
            #import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

    return

def host_run(host, cut_photom=None, cigale_file=None):
    """
    Run CIGALE on an FRBGalaxy's photometry
    and store results in a folder with the
    FRBGalaxy's name.
    Args
    ----
    photom (astropy Table): Table containing
        galaxy photometry. Table columns
        must be in the format '<SOURCE>_<BAND>'
        and '<SOURCE>_<BAND>_err'.
        e.g. SDSS_u, SDSS_u_err, Pan-STARRS_g
    host (FRBGalaxy): A host galaxy.
    cigale_file (str, optional): Name of main
        CIGALE output file. Must be in the format
        `<something>_CIGALE.fits`. No file is
        renamed if nothing is provided.
    """
    cigale_tbl = Table()
    cigale_tbl['z'] = [host.z]
    cigale_tbl['ID'] = host.name

    # Deal with photometry
    if cut_photom is not None:
        photom_obj = cut_photom
    else:
        photom_obj = host.photom
    for key in photom_obj.keys():
        cigale_tbl[key] = photom_obj[key]

    # Run
    run(cigale_tbl, 'z', outdir=host.name, compare_obs_model=True, idcol='ID')

    # Rename/move
    if cigale_file is not None:
        os.system('cp -rp {:s}/results.fits {:s}'.format(host.name, cigale_file))
        model_file = cigale_file.replace('CIGALE', 'CIGALE_model')
        os.system('cp -rp {:s}/{:s}_best_model.fits {:s}'.format(host.name, host.name, model_file))
        photo_file = cigale_file.replace('CIGALE.fits', 'CIGALE_photo.dat')
        os.system('cp -rp {:s}/photo_observed_model_{:s}.dat {:s}'.format(host.name, host.name, photo_file))
        # SFH
        sfh_file = cigale_file.replace('CIGALE', 'CIGALE_SFH')
        os.system('mv {:s}/{:s}_SFH.fits {:s}'.format(host.name, host.name, sfh_file))
    return


I led a workshop over the weekend at the Christian New Media and Awards Conference in London. My topic was "Online Theology": can we "do theology" online? What are the advantages of doing theology via blogging and microblogging? What are the limitations? I also asked this: what sort of disciplines and skills should we embrace for doing online theology well?
The issue strikes me as massively important because theology is massively important and because digital media is becoming more and more integrated into our daily (hourly!) lives.
Normally I do my writing on media-theology at www.BigBible.org.uk, but since some of those readers attended the conference, I thought I would open the conversation up here at Hopeful Realism.
This noble invention is to be the means of extending civilization, republicanism, and Christianity over the earth. It must and will be extended to nations half-civilized, and thence to those now savage and barbarous. Our government will be the grand center of this mighty influence…. The beneficial and harmonious operation of our institutions will be seen, and similar ones adopted. Christianity must speedily follow them, and we shall behold the grand spectacle of a whole world, civilized, republican, and Christian…. Wars will cease from the earth. Men "shall beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks' … then shall come to pass the millennium.
Such idealistic, florid language is also used to describe the Church's use of the Internet. Beware. But also, let's beware of wholesale negative assessments as well!
So "theology blogged" is more just and equitable than "theology booked," as the logic of the quote goes.
My questions for this blog post for our dear readers is this: should theology done through the media format of a blog be pitted against theology done in the traditional formats of books and academic journal articles? Or can they be complementary? Does one trump the other?
The working definition of 'theology' that I work to, as an antidote to my academic background, is 'stuff people think about God'. Thus, theology is people's thoughts – blogged, booked, YouTube-ed or scrawled on the walls, and each can be brought into dialogue, though a degree of translation may be required. To deem one medium as superior or incompatible with another is to dismiss the thoughts of those unable or unwilling to use a certain medium to convey them, or even those for whom the use of a certain medium would be inappropriate for what they have to say.
I think that theology can be done in both arenas. Yet I think that both have their distinctive flavors and services.
I think that blogs are much more personal, have a more conversation based style, usually a blog is on the level of its core readers, and it is a place for heuristic learning and writing (I'm pretty sure I picked that up from you or Busby).
I think the academic side, where it is booked, published, placed in Journals, presented at conferences, and so forth is also very helpful but less accessible. At this point the readership is often assumed to be at the same level as the writer (top tier of Theology). This is not heuristic pastoral writing, but presenting new theories due to the skill sets you have developed. This is of immense service because it grasps at truth with as much veracity as the intellect can muster and results are rigorously vetted by a system already in place. I think of how within the past century or two the wealth of A.N.E texts has led to revolutions in how to understand the OT, Creation, Poetry, and Covenant to name a few. These changes started in the academy and were booked, journaled, and published first.
Both have a place and they overlap somewhat, but I think they each trump one another in certain areas. A blog has little to no regulation while a Journal has quite the regulation, a journal is not accessible while a blog is very accessible.
As Luke said, blogs are more personal and conversational, and I think that actually makes it harder to blog theology. Blogs (at least to me) are personal views on life…they are the authors opinions. While theology done in books is more cohesive, it tends to be collective and have depth.
The challenge for blogs is to offer that depth and to try to speak in a collective voice rather than in a "this is my new/origianl thought" voice and have it make an impact in a sound byte world.


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Health Minister: 42 damaged health centers repaired, 5 new ones opened, 32 ambulances and mobile clinics provided
National news January 24, 2018 Health Minister: 42 damaged health centers repaired, 5 new ones opened, 32 ambulances and mobile clinics provided2018-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
Health Minister Nizar Yazigi said that the Ministry's hospitals and centers provided around 40 million health services at a cost of over SYP 81 billion in 2017, which shows the exceptional efforts exerted by workers in the health sector despite the circumstances of the war.
In an interview given to SANA, Yazigi said that in 2017, 42 damaged health centers have been repaired, including 6 in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city, asserting that the Ministry will continue repairing damaged centers in areas that are secured, adding that 5 new health centers have been opened in Aleppo, Tartous, Homs, and Damascus Countryside.
He also said that 26 new ambulances and 6 mobile clinics have been put into service during last year.
Yazigi pointed out that terrorist attacks have left many people with injuries and disabilities, which prompted the Ministry to expand the work of its prosthetics unit, which provides around 35 prosthetics to patients each month.
He went on to say the Ministry's investigation teams have been working hard across all provinces to monitor any possible epidemics and prevent the spread of contagious diseases, which are still within normal limits in Syria.
Regarding pharmaceuticals, the Minister said that locally-produced medicine covers around 90% of the local market's needs despite difficulties facing this sector, and efforts are ongoing to work with friendly countries and international organizations to provide the types of medicine not produced in Syria like vaccines and medicine for terminal, immune, hereditary, and epidemic diseases, as well as building production lines for these types of medicine.
Yazigi said that there are currently 1,195 health centers providing medical services to citizens, with special emphasis on vaccination campaigns, 3 of which were carried out to provide polio vaccines along with 2 measles vaccination campaigns across the country, in addition to 2 polio vaccines in northern provinces.
Regarding future plans, Yazigi said the Ministry will launch a services center to simplify and facilitate paperwork soon, as well as a project for establishing a database for medical human resources and equipment.
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form a traditional French "cornet decompose." The Twelfth and Seventeenth of the Great may be combined with the Flutes or the Principals to achieve the German "Sesquialtera"
combination. These mutations can also give a reedy tone to the Principal chorus.
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A Member of the Order of Canada, Joyce is the Director of the MBA Program in Arts and Media and Entertainment Management. She is the former director of the Canada Council for the Arts and dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts (now the School of Arts Media Performance and Design) at York University. Her research focuses on cultural policy, curatorial practice, and twentieth-century Canadian art with a particular interest in Canadian cultural policy, the development of abstraction in Canada and the work of Canadian women artists.
Joyce is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Arts Management and the Law, Washington, D.C; the Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management, University of South Australia; and RACAR, Revue d'art canadienne/Canadian Art Review (the Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada). She currently serves as a member of the advisory committees of the Toronto Arts Council, the Theatre Museum of Canada, and the acquisitions committee of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.


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