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Q: Bulk update: return all results or only failures I'm developing an API that performs bulk update of a large number of items in a single call. This code will consist of a REST endpoint and the internal library code that it calls.
There are a few reasons why the update of a specific item may fail (e.g., the item has been deleted). The question I'm debating is how to return the result to the caller.
I'm leaning towards returning a collection that contains only the items with failures, but I could see scenarios where it would be helpful to return the result for all of them.
In either case, the response would contain a collection of objects like this:
class UpdateResponse
{
    int ItemId;
    ResultType Result;
}

Where ResultType is an enumeration that describes the result of the update.
Is there any compelling reason to choose one strategy over the other (return all vs. return failures)?

A: You have two options. Either to use the 200 OK or the 207 Multi-Status.
I would not recommend to use the latter, as it is a WebDav status code (WebDav is an extension of HTTP) status code that forces you to respond with an XML document. Although it allows you to use multiple status code in your response.
My preference would goes to the 200 OK because it basically means: "yes your request has been completed". That is your case.
The second question is a choice between: "your request has been completed: here is a summary" or "your request has been completed: here is what goes wrong".
The real question is: does the client needs to know that an item has been successfully updated ?

*

*Yes: provide all results.

*No: provide only failures. It will avoid for a client to parse the entire response with unnecessarily information.

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There are a few reasons why the update of a specific item may fail (e.g., the item has been deleted). The question I'm debating is how to return the result to the caller.

Touchstone: how would you do it as a web page?
Presumably, the user would start out looking at a web page, with a form on it that would allow her to describe the task -- the jobs in the batch.  The submit button would POST the form to the resource identified by form.action.  The response would be another html page.
Expressed in REST terms, the initial state of the application would be described by a hypermedia document (the html page) with hypermedia controls (links/forms).  The application would represent the controls based on its interpretation of the media-type (form parameters).  The user would configure and choose which control to activate, which would dispatch a message to a resource on the server, which would respond with another hypermedia document describing the next application state.
That's RMM level 3, anyway.  Up to you how much you want to push toward that goal, but I find it's easier to work backwards from "right" to "practical".

I'm leaning towards returning a collection that contains only the items with failures, but I could see scenarios where it would be helpful to return the result for all of them.

Again, how would you handle this with web pages?  You'd probably send back the html that is most useful for the common case, and include a link to other resources that describe the result with different granularity.  That will get you by in version 1, but eventually you'll discover that some users always prefer the secondary representation.  So you'll set up a new resource that accepts the job batch, and returns the secondary representation (probably with a link to the first).  Your initial web page would have two links on it, each posting the same batch job to a different resource, so that the user can express their preference for a representation right away, doing away with the extra click.
You can use the same trick with other representations.  At RMM-3, your documents would have hypermedia controls to connect the application to other representations of the results, but at RMM-2 you can get by with two different resources that accept the same job batch, and produce different reports.
The key point here is that it is an easy problem to address later, you just add another resource that does the same work.
Assuming that you are using HTTP to transfer your documents back and forth, the right status code is most likely to be 201 (Created).  You aren't describing the result of the work in the back end, you are describing what is happening to the resources.  Here, you are presumably taking the application that submitted the job to "some representation of the results."  Unless you have got time travel going on, the report of the results probably didn't exist before the request arrived at your server, so it is a natural fit that you are creating a new resource (the document describing the results).
It's not, so far as I can see, particularly critical to get this right; returning a 200 (OK) instead is probably fine.  I call your attention to it, because I find that thinking about the document helps get past the mental block of confusing the "resource" with the "thing that's actually doing the work".
See: REST in Practice by Jim Webber.

A: You'll probably have a hard time fitting this kind of request in a REST approach, since it is fundamentally aimed at accessing a single resource.
That being said, for the response I would simply return 200 OK if some failures doesn't mean global failure, and 409 Conflict if it does. You can put whatever you want in the body of these responses, so better to be exhaustive and mention successes as well as failures.

A: I would argue that you should be returning a batch identifier of some sort, and provide another endpoint that the user can call to get whatever information they want about the batch. This would be especially handy if the batch contains a large number of items that take some time to process, as it would enable you to return a 202 Accepted response with the batch ID right away (so the request doesn't time out), then return the data on a subsequent call. So you would wind up accepting a POST to /api/batch to submit the batch, return a 202 with a batch ID, then also provide the ability for the user to submit a GET to /api/batch/:id/failures to get the failed records, or /api/batch/:id/processed to get all the successful ones, etc.

A: I know how I would do it in a WCF service.
class UpdateResponse
{
    int ItemId;
    ResultType Result;
}

Class Result
{
   Status   //"success"     = ALL items were successfully updated
            //"fail"    = At least 1 item in list failed

           //If status = "sucess" then ItemResponse will be empty
           //If status = "fail", this will contain an entry for EVERY
           //item that was in the original request
   List<UpdateResponse> ItemUpdateResponse
}

The reasoning for having every item in the returned list on any failure
is so that if the user of your API wants to relate their original list
with the returned list, they can do so using the ordinal position.

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If a woman is from the people of paradise but she was not married in the worldly life, or she was married but her husband did not enter paradise, then what will be her situation?
If a woman is from the people of paradise but she was not married (in the worldly life) or her husband is not from the people of paradise, then when she enters paradise there will be men from the people of paradise who were not married (in the worldly wife). They (i.e. those men of paradise who were not married in the worldly life) will have wives from the 'Hoorul Ain' and wives from the people of the worldly life if they wish.
Likewise if a woman did not have a husband in the worldly life, or she had a husband but he did not enter paradise, then what she desires has to be available if she wishes to marry due to the general statement of Allaah [i.e. in soorah 41, aayaat 31-32].


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Melody for Rebellion: Interview With ALBA
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Not only can musicians touch our hearts and make us dance, they can also use their melodies to launch a rebellion. That is exactly what London-based singer, guitarist, and songwriter ALBA is doing. Her latest single "Mass Extinction" was released under 'Sixth Mass Extinction Recordings', a newly created record label by Extinction Rebellion and Music Declares Emergency. A talented musician, ALBA is using her guitar and vocals as weapons to fight for social equality and ecology. Even more, proceeds from her potent environmentalist anthem will generously go towards combating climate change.
Rising star ALBA is here to answer a few of Impakter's questions about her background, inspiration for her new single, and her message to the world.
What is your musical background and how did you get involved with Extinction Rebellion and Music Declares Emergency?
ALBA: My musical background goes back to growing up in a home where the record player was constantly on. My parents love music and they passed on that love to me. They took me to concerts as memorable as BB King or Eric Clapton when I was only 10 years old, and got me into piano lessons before I found my ultimate partner in crime: the electric guitar.
I've been speaking up about climate change and our self-destructive ways long before it became the worldwide movement that we know today. I was really excited when I saw the world finally open their eyes and take to the streets to demand systemic action. It was just a matter of time. I naturally became involved with Music Declares Emergency as soon as I heard the music industry was joining forces with Extinction Rebellion to find ways to become greener and to achieve zero net emissions by 2030.
What does joining forces with such prominent environmentalist movements mean to you? And to your career?
ALBA: I'm really happy to be part of this. There are a lot of incredibly talented people from all the spectrums of art, who are devoting all their time and energy to the environmental cause. It's lovely to collaborate with passionate, inspiring people! And for many of us suffering from climate anxiety, taking action and helping out in any ways possible seems like the way to go.
I'm pleased that my music is not only able to entertain but also to convey a message, which is something that I think is lacking in mainstream music nowadays.
In your new single Mass Extinction, wah pedal grooves and brisk beats establish an alarming mood, and your profound vocals sing the voice of reason, "No one is gonna save us from ourselves." How would you describe the creative process of writing this song? How do you want your song to impact listeners?
ALBA: I wrote this song last summer on a writing retreat in France. I wanted to write a song that would stress the emergency of the situation and the fact that we are responsible for our future, whatever that future is. The song has a positive note, as my idea is to empower listeners to take action, showing that change is possible if we have all hands on deck.
Throughout the music video for Mass Extinction, fire and trash emblematically ravage the globe while you portray mother nature suffocating in a veil. How does paring this poignant imagery with your music develop the overall message of this song?
ALBA: My friend Harry Oliver, who is the director and creative mind behind the video, came up with the perfect visuals to go with the song. The brainstorming and shooting sessions were really fun. We shot the Earth spinning and getting progressively wrecked in stop motion, one frame at a time! It required a good deal of craftsmanship. The shots where I play Mother Nature help to create a feeling of urgency and anxiety, with the planet collapsing before our eyes. The ending is quite powerful; it shows how Mother Nature reacts to the stress we are putting "her" under. She can survive without us, but it's pretty clear we cannot survive without her.
To your fans, you embody female empowerment because you are using your voice and talents to stand up against injustice. Speaking as a lifelong feminist, how do you think that human rights and gender equality tie into the message you're hoping to convey?
ALBA: As a feminist, and someone who has a "public" voice, I feel it's important to raise awareness about the matter. We're still a long way from gender equality, and although we are making progress thanks to brave women and men, there is still much work to be done and glass ceilings to be shattered.
I can speak for my own experience as a female guitarist and frontwoman in the male-dominated world of electric guitar and rock music, always competing for listening-time on your good bookshelf speakers. When I was learning how to play my instrument, I was surprised there were almost no female guitarists in any of the top guitarist rankings and guitar magazines I was reading. It was like they didn't exist, which I later found not to be true after doing my own research. I don't know if they were deliberately ignored or just forgotten, but I believe names like Sister Rosetta Tharpe should be as relevant as Chuck Berry in the history of electric guitar. I also remember receiving my share of nasty comments as a teenager leading her own rock band, as I often was the only girl in a tour/festival full of male bands.
Although diversity has significantly improved and most people are respectful now, I believe visibility is key to addressing the issue. I'm happy to see more prominent female musicians, music directors, producers, record label directors and engineers all across the music industry.
Girls need role models to look up to.
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What was it like preforming at the Extinction Underground festival on Feb. 22, 2020? How does it feel to not only perform artistically but also for the greater good?
ALBA: It was a wonderful experience to be part of something bigger than a music/arts festival. I loved the creativity and good vibes around it. People from all backgrounds and ages coming together to make a better world, and why not, also have some fun in the process! In a way, it reminds me of what the 60/70s pacifist and environmentalist movement must have felt like.
I loved getting involved in this historic event, and I hope to be in many more to come.
Which environmentalists have inspired you most?
ALBA: Carl Sagan is one of my inspirations. He was an excellent science communicator, mainly known for his TV series "Cosmos", where he touched upon anything from the origins of the universe, metaphysics to art and history. As one of the early scientific voices warning of the potential devastating effects of climate change back in the 80s, I couldn't recommend his series enough.
I'm also inspired by the work of the late Polly Higgins, co-founder of "Stop Ecocide", a UK-based charity whose purpose is to make Ecocide a crime under International Criminal Law. Sadly she passed away last year, but the work of the charity continues and I was happy to support them through a crowdfunding I recently held.
Which performers have influenced your music most? If you could choose one legendary musician/band to tour with, who would it be?
ALBA: There are too many to cite here, but I'd say Eric Clapton, Joss Stone, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer and Alicia Keys, just to name a few.
Choosing one legendary band is tough but… opening for The Rolling Stones would be so much fun!
What are some sustainable habits that you practice outside of your life as a musician?
ALBA: I consider sustainability in everything I purchase. I try to go for biodegradable/recycled products whenever available, and choose companies that I know are environmentally friendly. There are many ways to check this info online. You can easily find the best-in-class companies that are committed to decarbonisation, have good ESG (Environmental Social and Governance) scores and so on. There's always a choice, and we should definitely use our power as consumers. If you need some inspiration, check out the Earth Day Switch initiative: www.earthdayswitch.org
On the other hand, I use public transport or walk for all my needs, but I guess that is easy to do in London!
What is next for you?
ALBA: I'm focusing on writing and releasing music online at the moment. I am also streaming concerts from my Instagram page (@albasmusic).
To hear more of ALBA's music, be notified of upcoming events, and enjoy live streams, follow her on Spotify and her social media accounts:
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Editor's Note: The opinions expressed here by Impakter.com columnists are their own, not those of Impakter.com. — In the Featured Photo: Guitarist, Singer, ans Songwriter ALBA —Featured Photo Credit: ALBA
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About 100 ft. north ( according to R. M. Bayles ) of the parsonage was the home of Nathaniel Hudson who died 1874 at the age of 80 and is buried in the Union Cemetery. I presume that he was the husband of Temperance Hudson who was born about 1802 according to the census.
Richard Bayles who was living nearby in the Edward Swezey house referred to her as Aunt Temmy.
March 3 Helped load and get things away from Aunt Temmy's. She went with Mr. & Mrs. Still.
Eleazer Overton and get goods belonging to Aunt Temmy. Got a feather bed and bedding. ( according to the 1880 census Eleazer was living with Temperance ).
A little east of the N. Hudson house was the house of Mrs. Miriam Hudson who is listed as 72 years old and living there in the 1880 census with Mary her daughter age 33.
Nov. 17, 1875 - Went up to E.J. Swezey's and cut a load of firewood for Miriam Hudson.
Nov. 24, 1888 - Went to East Setauket and got deed and paid $ 150 for house and lot of Miriam and Kate Hudson in Middle Island.
Dec. 8 Sold the Miriam Hudson place to Willet S. Swezey. $ 165.
This became the home of John Butler, later Sophia Butler and later in the 1930s was the residence of Fred J. Zimmer. In the 1940s Mr. Lymber and family lived there and later the Taylor family who had a welding shop on the highway where they made iron railings , etc.
Jan. 11; Joe Hudson arrives here today, having been absent from home since last spring on southern voyage.


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The sibling rivalry between the United States Revolution and Canada Northwind intensified at Royal Park, with a physical match between the teams never in doubt. As the clouds rolled in, so to did the tempers, but it was the Revos who would come away with the valuable win.
In a low scoring affair, the Revolution's Ryan McGettigan kicked the first and only goal of the opening quarter. Both teams were trying to impose their presence on the match, but the Americans clearly had the competitive edge with the Northwind only able to respond with a behind. Tempers spilled over and a Canadian was yellow-carded, resulting in his absence for ten minutes, and the Canadians having to play a man down. The United States led Canada 1.0 (6) to 0.1 (1) at the first break.
Canada started the second term still a man down, but their performance did not show it, controlling the opening minutes but only being able to capitalise with another behind. The United States wrestled back the momentum later in the quarter and managed to once again kick the only goal of the quarter. United States led Canada 2.2 (14) to 0.3 (3) at half time.
Bryan Dragus opened up the third quarter scoring for the United States marking the ball in the goal square. He kicked the goal to the jeers and boos of the Canadian fans, who thought 45 seconds was too long to tie one's shoelaces. The Canadian men finally hit back, scoring two goals to bring the margin to just two points at the final break. The United States led Canada 3.2 (20) to 2.6 (18).
The three quarter time huddle was electric, as the Canadian men felt they finally had the momentum and the ability to beat the Revolution. The estimated 200-300 strong crowd seemed to favour the underdog Canadians, but the Revolution fans were still very vocal. The Canadians kicked a behind to bring the margin to a point in the final quarter, but it was all the Revolution from then on. In an anti-climatic finish, the Americans found another gear and kicked the last five goals of the match, showing superior fitness and why they owned the favourites tag.


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The hunt is central to indigenous and coastal culture, sharing customs and skills and values passed from generation to generation.
From Coast-to-Coast-to-Coast
Sealing is a vital activity for tens of thousands of rural Canadians throughout the country. There are twp seal species that are more frequently harvest in Canada: the Harp Seal in Newfoundland & Labrador and the in Magdalen Islands in Quebec Province and the Ringed Seal in Nunavut, Northern Quebec and Northwest Territories. Due to its growing population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Gray Seal hunt is developing in Nova Scotia and the Magdalen Islands. More recently, indigenous communities in British Columbia have revive Harbor Seal harvest due to its predation on salmon species.
As a local and sustainable food source, it is difficult to pin a dollar value on the seal hunt. Especially in areas like the high north, where food security is an issue, seal meat is vital.
The amount of money worth of meat that one seal can provide to a family.
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The number of commercial seal licence holders in Canada. Statistics on the Seal Harvest. Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. March 2006. https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fisheries-peches/seals-phoques/seal-stats-phoques-eng.html
The landed value of harp seals in 2006, just before the EU ban on seal products.
Vital Activity
At the national level, the economic contribution of sealing is small—yet it represents a significant source of income for over 6,000 individuals and their families for Atlantic Canada coastal communities at a time of year when employment opportunities are extremely limited. In some communities, over 25% of households take part in the hunt, and among those people the hunt can account for 25-35% of their annual income.
" The European Union banned the importation of seal products in 2009. The result was devastating, reducing the number of pelts sold by 90%. "
The East Coast
While the traditions of sealing on Canada's east coast has a shorter history – "500 years" – compared with indigenous culture, the early settlers of Newfoundland and the Magdalen Islands did rely on seal, first as a source of meat in a diet with little variety, and then as a source of income, in addition to the cod fishery.
In Canada's north, where store-bought meat is expensive, a single seal can provide the equivalent of $200 or more worth of meat to a family—and a much higher level of nutrition.
Canadian Inuit and Indigenous communities have a long cultural history with hunting seals, making full use of the animal. Seals provide vital food and creates cultural, social and economic benefits. The very existence of Inuit in the Arctic is grounded on their relationship with seals.
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This Certification allows products harvested by indigenous communities and/or made by indigenous crafters to be marketed and sold on the Proudly Indigenous Crafts & Designs (PIC&D) online store. PIC&D is working with recognized bodies to ensure consumers receive high quality and authentic Indigenous seal products.
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Q: Moving python package without messing internal imports I wrote a python package that includes many modules. The modules import each other within the package.
Now after it is complete I wish to move my package inside a different package as a subdirectory. But I can't do it because now all the imports get errors because they can't find the modules on their new path.
For example -
In module my_package.a I have:
x = 5

In module my_package.b:
from my_package.a import x
print x

Before I did: from my_package import b, and now I wish to do from tools.my_package import b, and get the same result.
What is the right way to change a package logic path without having to add the new path to sys.path?

A: I would use relative imports internally:
from .a import x

If your module is self-contained, you can relocate it without issues if it uses relative imports.


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Milestones of Innovation 3: 'Modern Pioneers' at the Waldorf–1940
Victor McElheny
When people made lists of leading innovators 75 years ago, they saw a landscape very different from today's for putting discoveries, techniques, money, workers, and customers together to get something new and useful onto the market. In the brief interval between the Depression and World War II, the dominant factor was the large, vertically integrated corporation able to use retained earnings to finance its own scale-up to mass-marketing of cars, light bulbs, and plastics.
On the evening of Feb. 27, 1940, a lot of high-powered Americans gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York to honor the nation's top innovators of the previous 25 years. Those who had done the most to advance "the American standard of living" were designated "Modern Pioneers." Each received a special plaque depicting factories, dynamos, laboratory flasks, and airplanes thrusting aside the ox and the covered wagon.
The 1,500 at the Waldorf were celebrating the impending 150th anniversary of the first United States patent law of April 10, 1790. The not-so-hidden agenda behind the banquet was to combat the notion, widely held in the Depression, that new technology was a job-killer, and to build sentiment against changing patent practices to encourage non-exclusive licensing (as the New Deal Anti-Trust Division advocated).
The event had quite a buildup. The principal sponsor, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), recruited a prestigious jury to pick the Pioneers, headed by MIT President Karl Compton. They winnowed 1,000 nominees down to 572 who were honored at some 15 regional dinners, including a bash at Boston's Copley Plaza Feb. 18.
All those honored were men, and all were individuals except 10 members of the DuPont team that developed nylon. Its leader, Wallace Carothers, had committed suicide three years earlier. Other Pioneers, such as Lee DeForest of the Audion triode tube, Henry Ford of the automobile assembly line, and Orville Wright of the airplane, were also absent. The Belgian immigrant Leo Baekeland of Bakelite was represented by his son. Charles Kettering, inventor of the automobile self-starter and the legendary "boss" of General Motors research, addressed the banqueters by telephone from his laboratory in Coral Gables, FL. His theme was, "Pioneering never ceases." Kettering said, "We have only scratched the surface of invention… America is not yet finished."
The youngest of the national winners, 30-year-old Edwin Land of Polaroid Corporation, stood beaming in the center of the front row of the Waldorf group picture, next to x-ray developer William D. Coolidge, boss of GE's research, who had tried to hire Land years before. Land's invention of inexpensive plastic light-polarizing sheet was already used in many pairs of sunglasses; it was being tested for use in all automobiles to cut nighttime highway glare.
Others in the front row were Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of RCA's television tube; Irving Langmuir of GE, developer of a more efficient incandescent light bulb; Willis Carrier of air conditioning fame; George Curme of Carbide and Carbon, inventor of Prestone anti-freeze; and Harry Steenbock of the University of Wisconsin, who found a way to add Vitamin D to milk. In the back row, looking glum, was Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of the circuitry behind commercial two-knob radios as well as FM.
The occasion couldn't banish larger issues entirely. Dictatorships in Europe and Asia had launched World War II. And American unemployment, while declining, was still huge. On Jan. 3, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress, "We have not yet found a way to employ the surplus of our labor which the efficiency of our industrial processes has created." He added, "To face the task of finding jobs faster than invention can take them away is not defeatism."
NAM president H.W. Prentis was indignant. He told the banqueters that from 1870 to 1930 (tactfully omitting the Depression), U.S. production increased 11-fold, while employment nearly quadrupled. "Did invention take away jobs faster than other jobs could be found in those years? Obviously not. Moreover, employment today is most nearly normal in those industries that are most highly mechanized—on which there has been the greatest technological advance."
Few at the Waldorf could have known how quickly the task of defeating the dictators would bring industry together with government and lead to the greatest private-public partnership in history.
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More Spiders Found To Engage In Female Genital Mutilation
Ben Taub
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Males of a species of an orb-web spider called Cyclosa argenteoalba cut off part of their partners' genitalia after mating. Masaki Ikeda via Wikimedia Commons
Spider sex is a curious and often brutal thing. Unlike the emotional performance of human intercourse, arachnid mating is very much a functional affair, and regularly brings grisly consequences for the participants, which have been observed cannibalizing or tying each other up after doing the business. Last year, researchers found evidence that one species of orb-web spider even performs female genital mutilation (FGM) after copulating, and it seems that this was not a one-off, as another species has now been found to do the same.
Publishing a study in the journal Biology Letters, Kensuke Nakata from the Kyoto Women's University describes how she collected virgin female orb-web spiders belonging to the species Cyclosa argenteoalba from bamboo forests around Osaka and Kyoto. These specimens were confirmed as virgins as they were all in the process of molting, which occurs as they make their transition from adolescence to adulthood, and before which they do not mate.
These spiders were then paired with males and allowed to mate. After, the study authors inspected their genitalia, known as epigynum. This includes an appendage called a scape, and in 90 percent of cases, females were found to have had their scapes cut off following their first copulation with a male.
According to previous research, male spiders use the scape to help them mount females, clasping onto it in order to be able to insert their sperm. By removing the scape, therefore, it is thought that males ensure that females can no longer successfully mate with rival males. In doing so, they ensure that they alone are able to pass on their genes by mating with a given female.
The scape of the female is cut off after copulation. Kensuke Nakata
Further observation revealed that none of the mutilated females were able to mate with other males once their scapes had been cut off, highlighting the effectiveness of the technique. Many other spider species are known to engage in practices designed to prevent the repeated mating of females, yet few of these techniques are as successful as this particular form of FGM.
For instance, some male spiders break off parts of their own genitalia in order to "plug" that of the female, yet this comes at a greater cost and produces less favorable results than simply removing a partner's scape.
Interestingly, female spiders continued to respond to courtship from other males even after undergoing FGM, and often attempted to mate again, yet always unsuccessfully. While it is not yet clear why this occurs, Nakata suggests that it may be because the scape contains no sensory nerve endings, meaning females might not actually be aware that they have been mutilated.
Speaking to National Geographic, Nakata explained that this study indicates that, rather than existing in just one species of spider, FGM is probably "widespread in orb-web spiders."
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Legislative Scorecard: January 28th
By JT Aregood • 01/28/16 4:19pm
Senators Greenstein, Lesniak and Sarlo introducing a new tax reporting bill Thursday
TRENTON — Thursday's Senate committee hearings saw notable advances for bills on potential local ethics boards across the state and public health benefit double-dipping as the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee voted unanimously to release six bills. The double-dipping bill, to prevent public employees from unduly collecting on health benefit waivers, was brought to the committee by Senator Loretta Weinberg (D-37).
Weinberg had noticed a $400,000 line item in the Teaneck municipal budget, where she lives. Those funds were going to public employees who had declined coverage under one plan, but continued to be covered under a separate public health plan through a quirk in the state's family plans. Senator Sam Thompson (R-12) commended Weinberg for bringing the problem to light during Thursday's hearing. Though Weinberg is the primary sponsor, she has not formally introduced the bill in the Senate yet.
"I think they were kind of surprised too when I brought some of those cases," Weinberg said of the school boards she had talked to in her investigations.
That meeting also saw former state senator William Schluter of the State Ethics Commission testify in favor of a bill from Senator Tom Kean (R-21) bill to have the commission assume the responsibility of hearing ethics complaints about local officials.
Agreeing with Schluter about to the scope of the problem, Thompson gave one example in which a candidate for freeholder in Middlesex County shot a political commercial while on the clock as a county employee. Despite the challenges of having one state agency handle all complaints, Thompson argued that county boards are often unreliable.
"We did file a complaint with the county ethics board. That was 2010. We're still waiting," Thompson said. "Having the state in charge I would feel a lot more comfortable with."
Senator Jim Whelan's bill to allow public financing in elections to fill gubernatorial vacancies also passed, along with his bills to standardize overseas voting in the state and create a task force for research into new voting systems. A bill from Senator Nilsa Cruz-Perez (D-3) urging Congress to approve chapter 9 bankruptcies in Puerto Rico also passed.
Also today, Senator Ray Lesniak (D-20) formally introduced a bill to close tax loopholes for multi-state corporations alongside Senators Linda Greenstein (D-14) and Senator Paul Sarlo (D-36). The legislation aims to limit companies' use of shell corporations, a practice that costs New Jersey $200 million a year in lost revenue when companies skimp by filing through subsidiaries in states that do not levy a corporate business tax.
The Lesniak bill would mandate detailed reporting of profits from all iterations of multi-state and multinational corporations, a step that 25 other states have taken so far.
"What's fair is fair," Greenstein said. "This is not a tax increase, this is tax fairness. By closing this loophole we would end unfair and what I would consider unscrupulous tax avoidance on the part of multi-state and multinational corporations."
"The fact remains that profits are earned by companies doing business in our state, where we educate our workforce, keep our roads and bridges and other infrastructure in good repair.
"Sort of," Greenstein added of the roads and bridges.
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Apple's WWDC 2014 developer conference has been scheduled to take place between June 2 and June 6 at the Moscone West in San Francisco. This year, tickets to the event will be sold on a lottery basis. Members of the iOS Developer Program, iOS Developer Enterprise Program, or Mac Developer program need to register by April 7 at the website, and hope to win the opportunity to procure a $1599 WWDC ticket. Purchases must be completed by April 14 at 5PM PDT.
Over the past three years, Apple has only made software and PC-related announcements at WWDC. Even though Apple did unveil their iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 during past WWDC event, they now have dedicated events for their flagship smartphones. During WWDC, the public generally gets a first glimpse at the software platform which will eventually make its way to the public alongside the new flagship.
Apple is known to break tradition, so we cant wait to see if it will break it again and unveil a 4.7 inch iPhone 6 at this year's WWDC?


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Book Review: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Title: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date: 2 July 2015 (ebook) or 14 July 2016 (paperback)
Twitter: @natasha_pulley
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori – a kind, lonely Japanese immigrant. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library, desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry.
As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures and opposing geniuses.
With her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks being published last month, I thought this would be a great time to review Natasha Pulley's debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. I know that we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, however a book that looks this good has a lot to live up to!
The tale is largely set in Victorian London around the time of the Clan na Gael Irish nationalist movement, and it was interesting to learn a bit about London politics at that time. The story also takes us to Oxford and Japan, and I greatly enjoyed the glimpse into Victorian-era Japan, a time when the country was recovering from the Boshin civil war.
The book is, in fact, gripping from start to finish, with Pulley creating a rich and detailed world that draws the reader in. Thaniel Steepleton is a telegraph clerk working for the Home Office. One evening, he returns home to his bedsit to find that his room has been broken into and a gold pocket watch has been left waiting for him. He has no idea how it got there or who it is from. After the watch saves his life in a most peculiar way, Thaniel is determined to track down its maker, the mysterious Keita Mori, a Japanese watchmaker based in Filigree Street, suspicious that he may have some involvement in a recent terrorist attack. As Thaniel and Mori strike up a friendship, the reader is also introduced to Grace Carrow, an eccentric Oxford student who has undertaken a mission to prove the existence of ether. The tale flows forth with several twists and surprises, until Thaniel finds himself torn between his two friends.
The writing is very detailed which, I felt, caused the story to drag slightly in the early chapters, however the pace quickly picks up and falls into a steady flow. I very much enjoyed the author's elegant and evocative writing style, such as when she is talking about the watch, Pulley writes "The gold caught the ember-light and shone the colour of a human voice".
The plot is great fun and very engaging, leading the reader into a thought-provoking journey of random chance versus destiny. Our lives are made up of a series of events which influence the direction that our futures take. Are those events predetermined? If so, what would happen if we could see those events and the impact those events will have on our future lives?
The tale does address some weighty subjects, such as gender equality, class and racism, all issues that would have been naturally quite prevalent in society during the 1880's, however those issues are well-thought and do not distract from the main story line.
There are some little quirks to the story that I really enjoyed, including reading about Mori's workshop and some of his seemingly magical creations. I particularly loved the addition of Katsu, the sock-stealing clockwork Octopus.
To summarise, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is an elegant, complex, and charming tale. This is a book that I would happily recommend.
Natasha Pulley lives in Ely. She studied English Literature at Oxford University. After working as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University Press as a publishing assistant in the astronomy and maths departments, she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She spent nineteen months in Tokyo on a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo–Japanese Foundation.
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Hamilton Hume (Seven Hills, Nova Gal·les del Sud, 10 de juny de 1797 – Yass, 19 d'abril de 1873) va ser un explorador australià. Fou un dels pioners de l'exploració a Austràlia visitant les zones dels estats actuals de Nova Gal·les del Sud i Victòria. El 1824 amb l'explorador anglès William Hovell, Hume formà part d'una expedició que es dirigí des de Sydney fins a Port Phillip, a prop del que actualment és la ciutat de Melbourne.

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MAHQX
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NAV Total Return as of Jan 15, 2021 YTD: -0.46%
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9.01 0.60 1.97 9.01 18.65 27.98 59.44
Total Return (%) 3.45 4.26 -0.88 9.82 9.01
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Size of Class (Millions) as of Jan 15, 2021 $9,334.9 M
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30 Day SEC Yield as of Dec 31, 2020 1.67%
Unsubsidized 30-Day SEC Yield as of Dec 31, 2020 1.65%
Yield to Maturity as of Dec 31, 2020 2.18%
Yield to Worst as of Dec 31, 2020 2.07%
Effective Duration as of Dec 31, 2020 5.50 yrs
Weighted Average Life as of Dec 31, 2020 6.72 yrs
Best 3-Month Return Over the Last 3 Years 3 months ending Jun 30, 2020 5.63%
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UNITED STATES TREASURY 9.66
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 6.74
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION 6.34
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION II 5.51
CHINA PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF (GOVERNMENT) 4.42
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 1.38
BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.37
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION I 1.12
MORGAN STANLEY 0.82
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Rick Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team. Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock's Executive Sub-Committee on Investments, a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.
Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. He served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury and is currently a member of the Federal Reserve Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.
Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014 and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013. Four of the funds Mr. Rieder manages (Strategic Income Opportunities, Fixed Income Global Opportunities, Total Return, and Strategic Global Bond) have been awarded Gold Medals by Morningstar.
From 1987 to 2008, Mr. Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.
Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the business school's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program.
Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, New Jersey, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Graduation Generation Public School Collaboration in Atlanta. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation, and Trustee for the US Olympic Foundation. Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation.
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Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Mr. Miller was a co-founder and partner at the Round Table Investment Management Company, a multi-strategy, research-based investment company, where he managed a global macro strategy. Previously, Mr. Miller spent 20 years at Bank of America, where he served in a variety of roles, most recently as senior portfolio manager for the bank's proprietary multi-asset class investment portfolio. Mr. Miller managed global interest rate, credit and foreign exchange portfolios during his tenure at Bank of America. Mr. Miller is a Trustee of Davidson College and serves as a member of the Investment Committee and the Athletics Committee. He is also actively involved with the Davidson July Experience program. Mr. Miller is a former Trustee and past Chairman of the Board at Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte, NC. He currently serves as an advisor to the TES Investment Committee. He previously served as an advisor to the Investment Committee of St. Mary's School in Raleigh, NC.
He earned a BA degree in economics from Davidson College.
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David Rogal, Managing Director, is a member of the Multi-Sector Mutual Fund team within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. He is a portfolio manager of BlackRock's Core Bond, Inflation Protected, Total Return, and Strategic Income Opportunities Funds. Mr. Rogal focuses on broad macro positioning, with specialties in interest rates, inflation, and volatility trading.
Mr. Rogal joined Fixed Income in 2009. Previously, he was a member of BlackRock's Multi Asset Strategies group, where he developed quantitative models and advised insurance companies, pension funds, and banks on asset-allocation and asset-liability management. Mr. Rogal began his career at BlackRock in 2006 as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group.
Mr. Rogal earned a BA degree in economics and biology from Cornell University in 2006, with concentrations in statistics and genetics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, for which he currently serves on the alumni board of directors.
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BBC iPlayer iPad app hits Europe today
By Chris Smith 2011-07-28T02:21:00.208Z Internet
Access to global iPlayer available exclusively through Apple tablet
the BBC iPlayer app will arrive in Europe today
The BBC iPlayer will begin its global roll-out on Thursday when the Apple iPad application becomes available in 11 Western European countries.
The service will hit the App Store with the Corporation promising that the international iPlayer will be more of an on-demand platform, rather than the catch-up TV service we're accustomed to.
The iPad app will be the exclusive way for Europeans to access the global iPlayer service during the one-year trial period.
As well as showing new episodes of EastEnders, Top Gear and Doctor Who, the service will also offer cherished archive content like Only Fools and Horses on-demand.
100 hours a month
The catalogue will contain 1,500 hours of programming at first with the Beeb promising to add 100 hours a month from a 50-60 year history of programming.
Mark Smith, global iPlayer launch director says: "Most audiences know the big shows like Top Gear or Doctor Who, but maybe not so much about other shows, so we have been working hard on how we surface that content."
BBC.com managing director Luke Bradley-Jones added: "We think we have a load of unmet demand for BBC and British content internationally,"
"This is not a catch-up service: this is a video-on-demand service. We will have content from the last month, but also the best from the catalogue stretching back 50 to 60 years."
ITV and Channel 4 too
As an unexpected bonus, 10 per cent of the content will be comprised from ITV and Channel 4 shows thanks to deals Auntie made with independent television companies.
The app will offer some free content supported by pre-roll ads and sponsorship, but for full access Europeans will have to pay €6.99 a month or €49.99 a year.
Users can stream over Wi-Fi and 3G and also download a programme for viewing offline, which overrides Apple's hibernation functionality.
Not even us Brits can stream the iPlayer app over 3G, so hopefully that's coming to the UK build soon.
Launch countries
The 11 launch countries are Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, The Republic of Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
UK users will not be able to access the service, which means no on-demand classics for us as yet.
Another disappointed group will be ex-pats living across the Atlantic who still can't access the Beeb's library (A handy little VPN server can assist with that though).
The BBC says once rights issues are sorted out, launches in the US, Canada and Australia will follow later this year as the one year trial extends to more territories.
"The rights picture for the US is a little bit more complicated," said Luke Bradley-Jones.
"The nature of the agreements with our rights partners are different, and the windows across our existing business are older than they are in Europe.
"Form our side, we have to jump through a few more of those commercial and legal hoops. We could have launched in the US with a product this week, but there would have been a few too many missing parts."
via Guardian
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For the Logic Supply team currently in Taipei, the second day of Computex 2014 largely revolved around technologies related to the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT concepts have been around for years but many companies are now ramping up their efforts to create products ranging from fully-integrated smart appliances and wearable tech that leverage cloud computing, advances in sensor technology and an increasingly, "always on" society.
Day 2 at Computex 2014 provided a slew of fascinating questions.
What Does The Future Hold for IoT?
1) People becoming more connected while communicating, interacting and syncing with the cloud.
2) Objects becoming more connected, communicating with each other and being monitored and controlled through cloud-based systems.
3) The overall interconnectivity and cross-communication of people, places and things.
What Are The Key IoT Developments Being Talked About at Computex?
A fully-integrated society is expected by 2030, with tens of billions of networked devices containing some form of processing and sensing in use.
Hardware implementation is expanding exponentially with the focus moving from mobile phones to wearables (smart watches, clothing and accessories).
Communication protocols are becoming increasingly diversified (WiFi, ZigBee, Bluetooth Low Energy, Near Field Technology).
Cloud storage and cloud-based applications continue to expand and become more tailored to specific user needs.
What are Companies Creating Using IoT Devices?
The appl ications for IoT are incredibly diverse, some obvious and others surprising.
At day 2 of Computex we saw a motorcycle/bicycle security platform that allowed users to digitally link their two-wheeled transport directly to their mobile device, allowing them to receive live updates on it's location and monitor it in the event that it is stolen.
In another example of the ways IoT is hoping to help keep us safer, there was a 3D mapping technology on display that allows users to take three-dimensional photos of their family and colleagues. These images are then stored in the cloud and accessed by a connected surveillance system that provides a warning when an unrecognized individual enters a home or business. This type 3D profiling is something that a number of major technology manufacturers have hinted they may incorporate into their products as soon as the end of this year.
We're excited to be powering some of this IoT innovation. Computex is a great venue for seeing what the future holds for IoT. More tomorrow!


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Q: EPPlus multiple tabs c# I'm using EPPlus to export an excel. I have done some functions to get a "ExcelWorksheet". I would like join all of them in one excel(one per tab) using it but I don't know how can I do it.
here is the main function:
public ActionResult ExportReports(string sheetName)
{
    try
    {
        var req = GetRequest();
        var fileDownloadName = "OnlineReport.xlsx";
        var contentType = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";

        var package = new ExcelPackage();
        var ws1 = AnalysisByAirCarrier(package, req);
        var ws2 = Summary(package, req);

        var fileStream = new MemoryStream();
        package.SaveAs(fileStream);
        fileStream.Position = 0;
        var fsr = new FileStreamResult(fileStream, contentType);
        fsr.FileDownloadName = fileDownloadName;

        return fsr;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        _logger.Error("Error ExportReports", ex);
    }
}

I would like join ws1 and ws2 in the same file in different tabs.
note: ws1 and ws2 are ExcelWorksheet objects
any idea??
Thanks.

A: You should be able to add a copy of a worksheet to a workbook as a tab:
using(var package = new ExcelPackage())
{
    package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("First worksheet 1", ws1);
    package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add("First worksheet 2", ws2);
    // Do something with the package
}

I'm not sure what you're doing in AnalysisByAirCarrier and Summary though.
I haven't tested it, but adding blank worksheets and operating on them works just as expected for me (it creates multiple tabs which I can fill with content)
[edit]: Updating "First worksheet" comment

A: var groupedSheetList = UserData.GroupBy(u => u.date).Select(grp => grp.ToList
()).ToList();
using (var package = new ExcelPackage ()) {
foreach (var item in groupedSheetList){
var workSheet = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add (item[0].date);}}


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 Rex Reed
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 Ours d'or : Le Jardin des Finzi-Contini de Vittorio De Sica
 Ours d'argent (Grand prix du jury) : Le Décaméron de Pier Paolo Pasolini
 Ours d'argent de la meilleure actrice : ex-aequo Simone Signoret pour Le Chat de Pierre Granier-Deferre et Shirley MacLaine pour Desperate Characters de Frank D. Gilroy
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Zoe Saldana (photos ) complains about her two-year-old twins while Kirsten Dunst talks about her goddaughter's swearing and Jamie Foxx admits he needs a funnier story about his daughter.
In fact, Saldana can't stop swearing while talking about her twins' bar fights.
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£11.8million Flats Revamp Completed
Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 12:00am
Find out what these flats look like NOW!
A multi-million pound upgrade of two Swansea city centre blocks of flats has now been completed.
The £11.8m Swansea Council improvement of the Matthew Street flats in Dyfatty has included the installation of new bathrooms and kitchens for hundreds of residents.
The work also included the refurbishment of the outside of the buildings, as well as the introduction of nine new units of accommodation.
Funded by council rents with financial support from the Welsh Government, the works, giving each of the 120 flats at least a further 30 years of life, were carried out by Interserve.
Other works included new car parking spaces, landscaping, drainage improvements and the resurfacing of access roads.
Cllr Andrea Lewis, Swansea Council's Cabinet Member for Next Generation Services, said: "Around £260m is planned to be spent on our housing stock in the next three to four years, including work completed in this current financial year, so this major completed project is just one part of a broader investment story that's benefitting many thousands of people's lives every day.
"As well as new kitchens and bathrooms that will boost the health and wellbeing of our Matthew Street tenants, the work outside the buildings has improved the look of a key gateway in and out of the city centre, while also weather-proofing the flats for many years to come.
"This project, in combination with others that are either completed, on-going or planned, will help the council reach the Welsh Housing Quality Standard, help tenants tackle fuel poverty and improve the wellbeing of communities across the city."
Other Matthew Street works included rewiring, new roof coverings, new fire doors and new entrances.
More than 2,400 council homes will also benefit from new kitchens and bathrooms in the 2017/2018 financial year in areas including Cwm Felin Fach, Bonymaen, Llanllienwen, Caemawr, Clase, Birchgrove, Clydach, Craig Cefn Parc, Pontarddulais and Penllergaer.
This follows on from similar works that have been completed in areas including Penlan, Gendros and Waunarlwydd.
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