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Nobel Conference 57
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All lectures and panel discussions will be live streamed here and archived on the conference website.
9 a.m. Musical Prelude
Gustavus Wind Orchestra
Lisa Heldke, Director, Nobel Conference
Rebecca M. Bergman, President of the College
Nobel Conference 57 Introduction, Thomas LoFaro, 2021 Nobel Conference Chair
Data-Driven Decision Making: Now and Imagined
Lecture by Talithia Williams, PhD
Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
Technology has a history of being a catalyst of change in training and education. We've seen it with desktop computers and, more recently, with the emergence of smartphones. But those shifts, substantial as they were, pale in comparison to the next big technological disruption: Data. In this talk you will discover how the advancing world of data analytics is forever changing the future of learning and work. You will explore the full landscape of data analytics, looking at both the expanding ways in which data is generated, and the advancements in analytics that make that data actionable. You will hear examples of data being used to better understand performance in both education and enterprise, and learn how those insights are being used to inform decision making and transform society.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Jillian Downey, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
11 a.m. Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A
12:10 p.m. Dance at the Nobel Conference - re(visions)
Learn more about the dance.
12:20 p.m. Musical Prelude
Gustavus Wind Symphony
How Much Evidence Do You Need? Data Science to Inform Environmental Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lecture by Francesca Dominici, PhD
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science;
Co-Director, the Data Science Initiative, Harvard University
On December 7, 2020, the New York Times reported that then-President Trump declined to tighten soot rules. This was despite strong evidence of the adverse health effects including a link to COVID-19 deaths. Francesca Dominici will provide an overview of data science methods--including methods for causal inference and machine learning--to inform environmental policy. This is based on Dominici's work analyzing a data platform of unprecedented size and representativeness. The platform includes more than 500 million observations on the health experience of more than 95% of the US population older than 65 years old linked to air pollution exposure and several confounders. Finally, the talk will provide an overview of Dominici's studies on air pollution exposure, environmental racism, wildfires, and how they also can exacerbate the vulnerability to COVID-19.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Melissa Lynn, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
From the Village Watchman to Actionable Data: A Challenging Journey
Lecture by Michael Osterholm, PhD
A Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
Data science can offer powerful tools for tracking the spread of an infectious disease and the effectiveness of vaccines, medical treatment or mitigation efforts. However, the quality of data available in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic is highly variable. The data obtained from poorly designed studies, or data from comprehensive disease surveillance or from well-designed studies, when disregarded by a public skeptical of science can greatly limit the public impact that data science offers. How can data be most effectively used to both to reduce the health and economic impact of the current pandemic and to reduce the risk of future pandemics? Michael Osterholm will detail the challenges of an implementing an effective use of data science in such public health crises both for this pandemic and for those of the future.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Karl Larson, Professor and Program Director of Public Health
2:30 p.m. Panel Discussion and Audience Q & A
Explore specialized topics in a smaller, more interactive online format.
All workshops will be held over Zoom, giving audience members the opportunity to engage with the speakers.
Zoom links will be available on the conference livestream website.
View workshop titles and descriptions.
Gustavus Student Discussions with Speakers
For Gustavus students only, small group discussions with speakers. Learn more about the discussions here.
Discussion #1 - Wendy Chun and Talithia Williams
Discussion #2 - Francesca Dominici and Rhema Vaithianathan
Discussion #3 - Pilar Ossorio and Cynthia Rudin
Zoom links will be available to students on the conference livestream website.
Audience Discussion
Members of the Westminster Town Hall Forum and Nobel Conference audience members are invited to participate in a facilitated small group discussion, hosted by the Forum's director Tane Danger '07. The facilitated conversations will offer a chance to reflect on Wendy Chun's Westminster Town Hall Forum talk and discuss our own experiences with politics and democracy online.
A Zoom link will be found in the conference livestream page.
6 p.m. Gallery Talk, Schaefer Art Gallery
Arlene Birt, "Background Stories"
Meet artist Arlene Birt and learn more about her creative process and work. The exhibit, Putting Data Into Context, is in creative conjunction with Nobel Conference 57, Big Data Revolution. Sponsored by the Art and Art History Department.
Arlene Birt, is an infodesigner, visual storyteller, public artist and educator. She incorporates behavioral psychology to visually explain the stories behind products and places and to help individuals connect emotionally to seemingly distant environmental topics. She's the founder of Background Stories, a company that creates "clear visuals of complex stories." Her exhibition for this conference includes installation and participant based artworks that use data as a means of visual creativity.
Visit the Schaefer Art Gallery website for exhibit images and the Zoom link to the gallery talk.
Nobel Conference Concert
Bjorling Recital Hall
OboeBass! presents American Vein, New Music for Oboe and Bass
Featuring Carrie Vecchione, oboe and Rolf Erdahl, double bass
What do the arts and big data have in common? How do they intersect? Is the creative act uniquely human? This concert features works composed for OboeBass! since 2019 by composers who provide points of departure for these questions.
Live concert is free and open to the public.
Event will be livestreamed via the Nobel Conference website.
OboeBass!
Carrie Vecchione, oboe, and Rolf Erdahl, bass, are OboeBass! Called "pioneers" by Minnesota Public Radio, they concertize widely around the U.S., and toured Norway in 2017. They have commissioned over forty new oboe/bass pieces and recorded six CDs, effectively creating the oboe/bass duo genre.
View a PDF of the concert program.
9 a.m. Music Prelude
Gustavus Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday Recap and Wednesday Preview
Interpretable Machine Learning
Lecture by Cynthia Rudin, PhD
Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science; Director, Prediction Analysis Lab, Duke University
With machine learning have come serious societal consequences from using black box models for high-stakes decisions: flawed bail and parole decisions, racially-biased models in healthcare, and inexplicable loan decisions in finance. Transparency and interpretability of machine learning models is critical in high stakes decisions. However, there are clear reasons why organizations might use black box models instead: it is easier to profit from inexplicable predictive models than transparent models, and it is easier to construct complicated models than interpretable models. Most importantly, there is a widely-held belief that more accurate models must be more complicated, and more complicated models cannot possibly be understood by humans. Both parts of this last argument lack scientific evidence and often are not true in practice. In many cases, carefully constructed interpretable models are just as accurate as their black box counterparts on the same dataset. Cynthia Rudin will discuss the interesting phenomenon that interpretable machine learning models are often as accurate as their black box counterparts, using examples encountered throughout her career: manhole fires in New York City, caring for critically ill patients and predicting criminal recidivism.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Jessie Petricka, Associate Professor of Physics
Justice in Machine Learning/AI for Health Care
Lecture by Pilar Ossorio, JD, PhD
Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
Health care organizations and health care providers are using advanced algorithmic approaches (machine learning or artificial intelligence "ML/AI") for a variety of purposes. For instance, organizations use ML/AI to assess the quality of health care services, make systems more efficient, and determine which patients need extra follow up and care coordination. Health care providers use ML/AI to identify recommended treatments, predict patient outcomes, and help with diagnoses. However, growing literature on ML/AI indicates that algorithms or combinations of them can reproduce race, gender, class and other social biases, and a small literature has now shown how ML/AI used in health care also incorporates a variety of pernicious and unfair biases. In this talk, we will consider how such biases become encoded in ML/AI for health care and some means for decreasing bias. We will also discuss how we might use the technology to identify existing unfair biases within health care systems with the aim of ameliorating them.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Phil Voight, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
11:25 a.m. Panel Discussion and Audience Q & A
Gustavus Wind Orchestra Prelude
Hillstrom Museum of Art Virtual Tour
1:15 p.m. Music Prelude
Gustavus Jazz Ensemble
Child Protection: Too Much and Not Enough
Lecture by Rhema Vaithianathan, PhD
Professor of Health Economics; Director, Centre for Social Data Analytics,
By the age of 18, one in three American children will have been investigated for suspected child abuse or neglect by a child welfare agency. Yet despite this surprising level of surveillance, the rates of serious injuries and deaths from child maltreatment remain high; on average, more than five American children die every day from abuse or neglect. After every tragic maltreatment death, agencies tend to increase their rates of investigations, casting the net even wider and bringing more families and children into the system. This means a child protection system that was meant to only be used to investigate rare cases of abuse or neglect is overwhelmed with large caseloads of children, many of whom are at minimal levels of risk. Research tells us that predictive risk modeling tools are good at estimating the risk of future harm for children who are referred to agencies. But these are high stakes decisions, and a human centered approach is essential. As Vaithianathan and her team learned when they developed and implemented the Allegheny Family Screening Tool–a world-first use of predictive analytics to help triage referrals about abuse and neglect–that means using data in an ethical, transparent, and trusted way to achieve the social licence needed to proceed.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Kate Knutson, Professor of Political Science
Discriminating Data
Lecture by Wendy Chun, PhD
Canada 150 Research Chair; Leader, the Digital Democracies Institute,
What if the polarization of our online communities is not an unfortunate accident of machine learning and predictive data analysis, but actually its goal? What if the assumption that "birds of a feather flock together" (an assumption that underwrites the system that will recommend your next FB friend) actually just creates angry birds? Wendy Chun argues that the tools and methods used by predictive data analysis begin from a set of assumptions that effectively encode segregation and eugenics in their results. Consider, for example, correlation, which grounds the potential of big data to make prediction about the future; it has its roots in twentieth-century eugenics projects to "breed" a better future. And homophily--the "birds of a feather"assumption--underpins "recommender systems," which group people into increasingly-segregated, often increasingly-angry clusters.
Post-lecture comments by Lisa Heldke and Colleen Stockmann, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
4:30 p.m. Closing remarks with Tom LoFaro, Karl Larson and Lisa Heldke


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Iconic Scottish designs made into digital 'Rubik's Cubes'
Kevin O'Sullivan, October 16, 2017 3 min read
An Abertay University student team has turned some of Scotland's most iconic designs into playable digital puzzles as part of an innovative collaboration with V&A Dundee.
The Falkirk Wheel, the Jaguar F-TYPE, and V&A Dundee itself have all been digitally mapped then broken into 'slices' for the game, which sees players challenged to reconstruct them in as few moves as possible.
Also incorporating Glasgow designer Christopher Dresser's Teapot and the famous Orkney Chair, the mobile device prototype – working title Spinnacle – was part of the museum's wider Time Capsule project.
Created by a group of six students under the banner BluePix Games, the unique title has been months in the making.
Team leader Phil Smy, 22, from Essex, said: "Spinnacle seeks to promote Scottish designs and their designers by interacting with 3D models.
"Different slices can be rotated and moved, much like a Rubik's Cube, and the game helps the player to think about the form and structure of each of these objects
"We have an animation where the capsule opens and all these slices come out before the player is asked to solve the puzzle – it's a great educational tool."
Other BluePix members include Stewart McCready, 26, from Gourock, Inka Nieminen, 21, from Helsinki, Kirsten Currie, 20, from Paisley, Lewis Cooper, 20, from Dalrymple, Nicole Sangster, 20 from Aberdeen and John Bruce, 23, from Aberdeen.
All students are studying a mix of Abertay's Computer Arts, Computer Games Technology, and Games Design and Production Management courses.
Stewart has gone on to earn a one year internship with the software company Unity, whilst Inka has secured a graduate position at top mobile games company, King, in London.
At the start of the academic year the team came together and selected V&A Dundee as their client.
As part of the game development the students tested the prototype with audiences at the Wellgate Centre during V&A Dundee's Family Time Capsule workshops in the October 2016 school holidays and then again at Douglas Community Centre in March 2017.
From the insight gained, the students gauged Spinnacle's playability and set a difficulty level, introducing a star system with bonus points for completion in fewer moves.
"We didn't know each other before this came about, but it's a very talented team and it's worked out really well," Phil said.
"The game is good and plays so well – I'm very lucky to be leading this team.
"Abertay has great industry links within games and the wider world, and it was through these connections we were able to get into the project."
V&A Dundee's wider Time Capsule project, developed in collaboration with SQA and Jaguar, offered secondary students studying Higher Design and Manufacture in Scotland a chance to design a time capsule which will be a unique feature permanently on display in the grounds of the museum after it opens in 2018.
Jaguar will manufacture the winning capsule design created by Luisa Geddes from the Community School of Auchterarder, Perthshire.
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Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, from September 1698 to July 1699. These also include records of the appointment and replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.
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Irish Pensioners of William III's Huguenot Regiments: Old Pensioners (1702)
From an original return in Miscellaneous Bundle 17 of the Civil List books preserved in the Public Record Office, William A. Shaw prepared this abstract, published in 1902. The paper itself was entitled 'Abstract of the Examination of the French Pensioners now on the Civil List of the Establishment of Ireland'. The return was in book form with very wide pages, each folio or spread divided into eight columns. In his abstract the first number is the folio number; (a) is the name and station of the pensioner, either by first commission, second, or incorporated by warrant; (b) allowance on the establishment per diem; (c) where served and how long; (d) what substance and in what it consists; (e) what family they maintain; (f) able or not to serve, and why not; (g) when disbanded. In some cases some of the columns are blank in the original, and are ignored in this abstract. The least informative entries give just surname and rate of pension. Christian names are rarely given. The return is divided into two sections - Galloway's Regiment, and Old Pensioners. The latter include some women, presumably widows. The return was forwarded to the Lords Justices of Ireland as an appendix to a report, dated 29 June 1702, from Charles Dering, Auditor-General of Ireland. In all there were 590 pensioners, 398 being in Galloway's Regiment. Dering provided an analysis of the return, and annotated with an asterisk those 'absent out of the kingdom, dead or otherwised provided for, whose names are in the abstract blank'; with a dagger those 'that have been placed on the establishment by his late Majesty's warrants & have not served'; and with a double dagger those 'that have pensions above their stations markt upon the abstract.'
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### Visual Studio

- [Tutorial for newbies](https://www.bilibili.com/video/av10044534/?p=1)

- [Debugging, F5 and ctrl+F5
](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11202088/what-is-different-between-visual-studio-f5-ctrlf5-or-running-outside-of-visua), set breaking point while using debugger

- [Redirected standard input
](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14043986/debugging-with-visual-studio-using-redirected-standard-input),
 Command Arguments `< "$(ProjectDir)test.txt"`

- Inspecting variables by clicking on the variables of interest

- [Change variable names collectively](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23865830/variable-name-changing-in-whole-program)

- [Conditional breaking point](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6670415/how-to-set-conditional-breakpoints-in-visual-studio)

### Xcode

- [Redirect](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31876321/how-to-work-with-c-redirection-in-xcode)

- Inspecting variables by clicking on the variables of interest

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He was appointed Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress President on 10 April, 2022.

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Living people
20th-century Indian politicians
Indian National Congress politicians from Uttarakhand
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Q: What is the proper testable way to include lodash in an Angular 2 / 4 App? I have an angular 4 app that uses lodash. In reading about angular 4, most everything get's included via dependency injection to make testing easier.
Do I need to worry about using DI for lodash and if so, how do I go about setting that up for my project?

A: Yes, you should use DI to make your code loosely coupled.
In this case you should creating an underscore injectable dependency. For creating the same OpaqueToken would be useful.
common/underscore.service.ts
import { OpaqueToken } from '@angular/core'
declare let _: any ; //just typescript to consider _ API is available

export let UNDERSCORE = new OpaqueToken('UNDERSCORE');
export const loadDashProvider = [
   { provide: UNDERSCORE, useClass: _}
];

AppModule
//imports here

declare let _: any ; //just typescript to consider _ API is available

@NgModule({
   declarations: [...],
   imports: [...],
   providers: [
      //... other dependecies ... ,
      loadDashProvider
   ],
})
export class AppModule {
}

Whenever you want to access _ js API you could use UNDERSCORE token inside your class constructor which will eventually brings _ API in it.

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White House unveils smart grid strategy, $250 million in loans
The White House renews its attack on America's aging power grid. Jason Hiner summarizes the Obama administration's plans and outlines the two biggest obstacles.
Written by Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief on June 15, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If Thomas Edison could drop into 2011 and take a look at our progress, he would likely be dazzled by the smartphone, high definition video, and digital storage for music and movies -- all decedents of technologies that he pioneered and championed. However, something Edison would recognize all-too-well and would likely be puzzled at how little his creation had changed would be our electrical grid.
That's the narrative that White House officials used to help sell the idea of revolutionizing the U.S. electrical grid at an event for the press, energy industry leaders, and technology industry executives on Monday in Washington.
Led by the Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, the White House unveiled its strategy -- and $250 million in loans -- for building a 21st century 'smart grid' as a catalyst to make power less expensive, minimize outages, unlock next generation power sources, and empower citizens to monitor and manage their own usage.
If these plans become a reality, it will open up new jobs and business opportunities for a wave of technologists and engineers.
As part of the event, the National Science and Technology Council released a new report called "A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: Enabling Our Secure Energy Future." This report, along with the rest of the White House's smart grid materials and its presentation on Monday, are packed with details on the current challenges and obstacles and the ways the U.S. can overcome them.
But a lot of the information is locked away in bureaucratic and legal language. So here is my list of bullet points on what the Obama administration is trying to accomplish:
A better grid: Upgrade the U.S. electrical infrastructure to drastically improve storage and transmission. Creating standards will be a critical part of the plan.
Tap tech: Use information technology to infuse intelligence and visibility into the power grid. This will enable utilities to better monitor and predict outages and recover more quickly. It will also drive better efficiency and planning overall.
Citizen power: Enable consumers to have easy access to their own energy usage and better ways to control and self-regulate it in order to save money and energy. Smart meters are key.
New energy: Prepare the 'smart grid' to better handle new forms of power -- wind, solar, geothermal, etc. -- that are going to be an increasingly larger proportion of the pie.
Two big obstacles that the U.S. has to overcome:
Innovator's dilemma: Since the U.S. is where the modern electrical grid was born, this country has an old, well-established infrastructure with a large installed base. Changing the stuff that is already in use and is critical to daily life is painful and expensive. It's like trying to repair an airplane while it's in the middle of a cross-continental flight.
Too many cooks in the kitchen: Lots of different states, municipalities, and companies have control and regulation over the way the electrical grid works across the U.S., and so there are a lot of different stakeholders who have a say in how things are done. As a result, any sweeping national changes are almost impossible to push. It takes a lot of buy-in and consensus-building.
The second issue deserves a little extra attention. Later in the day Monday, president Obama, speaking at the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in Durham, North Carolina, said that when he first came into office the smart grid issue was something he wanted to move quickly on.
But: "I was rapidly informed that the problem wasn't capital... The problem was the patchwork of local jurisdictions," he said, adding that what's needed is to create a local, state, and federal agreement on energy and grid standards so that utilities "don't have to guess" when they are dealing with different jurisdictions to upgrade the grid.
This was confirmed by Bob Shapard, CEO of the Texas utility Oncor, who said that energy companies were ready to invest in upgrading the infrastructure. "This doesn't take government money," he said. "If we have the clarity, the utilities can raise all the capital."
So, that leaves the Obama administration to herd the cats. It has to get government agencies on the same page, convince private and public entities to agree on technological standards, get local and state governments to cede some of their jurisdiction to help create a national network, and convince citizens of the benefits of self-managing their own energy use.
It's no wonder that small countries like Ireland and totalitarian governments like China are moving a lot faster that the U.S. in modernizing their energy infrastructure.
Still, energy Secretary Steven Chu succinctly summed what's at stake:
America cannot build a 21st century economy with a 20th century electricity system. By working with states, industry leaders, and the private sector, we can build a clean, smart, national electricity system that will create jobs, reduce energy use, and expand renewable energy production.
For more details on the U.S. smart grid plans, read:
Administration Announces Grid Modernization Initiatives to Foster a Clean Energy Economy and Spur Innovation
Fact sheet: The President's Plan for a 21st Century Electric Grid
A Policy Framework for the 21st Century Grid: Enabling Our Secure Energy Future
Author's note: Enthusiasm may be the best thing the U.S. has going for it in facing the two major obstacles to the smart grid. The participants in the event -- from officials in various agencies to business leaders in energy and technology to a couple high school students who've pioneered smart meters in their school -- all spoke with the enthusiasm you don't typically see at government events. They all seemed to have a sense that a big opportunity is standing right in front of us.
And, a lot of people want to get in on this opportunity. One indicator of that was the huge line to get into the event itself (see photo below). Keep in mind that this wasn't a public event. Twenty minutes before the event was supposed to start, there was a line of over 100 people waiting to get through security at the White House's Eisenhower Building. Based on line chatter, these were mostly government officials and leaders from the energy industry.
Once I got in, the White House official who escorted me to the conference room asked, "Was there a line out there?" I explained that there were still about 100 people waiting to get in. He was shocked. "Whoa, really?" he asked. Once I made it into the South Court Auditorium -- which seats about 150 -- it was already over half full. The event was standing room only and I'm sure there were a lot of people who never made it in.
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Oct 21, 2019 - National Geographic Explorer
Albatross Monument at the top of Cape Horn.
The road signs in Ushuaia proudly declared the town to be the southernmost in the world: Fin del Mundo. Chileans may choose to disagree but this lively township (at least in the summer season) on the Beagle Channel has an interesting history. When Captain FitzRoy of HMS Beagle surveyed this passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the south of Tierra del Fuego, he had captured some members of the native population to take back to England between voyages. Jemmy Button, York Minster, Fuegia Basket, and Boat Memory were dressed in contemporary English costumes, taught English table manners, and even presented to the royal family before being returned to Tierra del Fuego in the company of Charles Darwin on the voyage that departed from Plymouth in 1831. (Boat Memory sadly died while in England, as a consequence of a well-intentioned smallpox inoculation.) What ensued was a fascinating case study in the relative strengths of nature versus nurture, with the released Fuegians (as FitzRoy called them) quickly reverting to their former habits, an occurrence noted with horror by Darwin.
A place at "the uttermost ends of the earth" was of particular interest to Protestant missionaries anxious to help the eschatological process along by preaching the gospel to the local inhabitants in their native tongue to hasten the Second Coming. A Patagonian Missionary Society had been established for this purpose and it was as a result of this organization's activities that Thomas Bridges and his wife opened the mission school around which the settlement of Ushuaia grew up. Thomas Bridges came to appreciate the sophistication of the native people through his mastery of their language and worked for a decade through the 1870s to compile a Yahgan-English dictionary even as the native population was decimated by European-introduced diseases and later by deliberate genocide. Ironically, the missionaries had saved the language through Bridges's dictionary but destroyed the cultural group that had spoken it. In the century from 1832 to 1932, the native population of Tierra del Fuego fell from 3,000 souls to just 43.
Further to the south, a veritable "uttermost end," lies Cape Horn, a name feared and respected by generations of sailors and Cape Horners themselves. The sea captains who regularly took ships around this perilous island at the southernmost tip of South America were the elite of their profession. The Cape is on the island of Hoorn, named after a 17th-century Dutch vessel which carried early Dutch adventurers to this southernmost destination but foundered at Puerto Deseado on the Argentine Patagonian coast. The black cliffs of the southern cape rise 424 metres from sea level. In perfect and uncharacteristically normal weather conditions, we were able to make an early morning landing and visit the still-manned lighthouse, the Albatross Monument, and memorials to Captain FitzRoy, who came here on his first Beagle voyage, and the Cape Horners. We may now count ourselves amongst their number.
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2. junij je 153. dan leta (154. v prestopnih letih) v gregorijanskem koledarju. Ostaja še 212 dni.

Dogodki
 455 - Vandali vdrejo v Rim
 575 - Benedikt I. postane papež
 1615 - prvi pripadniki sekte Récollet prispejo iz Rouena v Québec
 1800 - v Trinityju na Novi Fundlandiji opravijo prvo cepljenje proti črnim kozam v Severni Ameriki
 1846 - odprta železniška proga med Gradcem in Celjem
 1848 - v Pragi se prične slovanski kongres narodov habsburške monarhije
 1865 - z vdajo generala Edmunda Kirbyja Smitha v teksaškem Galvestonu se konča ameriška državljanska vojna
 1924 - ZDA uradno priznajo državljanstvo prvotnim prebivalcem (Indijancem)
 1941 - Vichyjska Francija sprejme drugi Statut o Židih
 1946 - Italijani na referendumu izglasujejo odločitev, da Italija postane republika
 1953 - okronana britanska kraljica Elizabeta II.
 1955 - s sprejetjem Beograjske deklaracije se normalizirajo odnosi med Sovjetsko zvezo in Jugoslavijo
 1965 - prve avstralske čete prispejo v Južni Vietnam
 1966 - Surveyor 1 s pristankom v Oceanus Procellarum na Luni kot prvi človeški izdelek mehko pristane izven Zemlje
 1967 - v protestih v zahodnem Berlinu proti obisku iranskega šaha umre Benno Ohnesorg, njegova smrt spodbudi nastanek teroristične skupine Gibanje 2. junij
 1979 - papež Janez Pavel II. z obiskom rodne Poljske kot prvi papež obišče komunistično državo
 1985 - v San Franciscu aretirajo množičnega morilca Leonarda Lakea zaradi tatvine v trgovini
 1991 - v 510. učnem centru na Igu in 710. učnem centru v Pekrah priseže prva generacija nabornikov v TO
 1995 - med nadzorovanjem zaprtega zračnega prostora nad Bosno in Hercegovino sestreljeno lovsko letalo F-16 ameriškega pilota Scotta O'Gradyja

Rojstva
 1202 - Margareta II. Flandrijska, grofica Flandrije in Hainauta († 1280)
 1303 - Abu Said Bahadur, zadnji vladar Ilkanata († 1335)
 1621 - Isack van Ostade, nizozemski slikar († 1649)
 1740 - Markiz de Sade, francoski pisatelj († 1814)
 1743 - Alessandro Cagliostro, italijnaski šarlatan, okultist, pustolovec († 1795)
 1821 - Ion Constantin Brătianu, romunski državnik († 1891)
 1835 - Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto - Pij X., papež italijanskega rodu († 1914)
 1840 - Thomas Masterson Hardy, angleški pisatelj, pesnik († 1928)
 1857 - sir Edward William Elgar, angleški skladatelj († 1934)
 1859 - Christian von Ehrenfels, avstrijski filozof in psiholog († 1932)
 1891 - Ilka Vašte, slovenska pisateljica († 1967)
 1899 - Charlotte Reiniger, nemško-britanska filmska režiserka († 1981)
 1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, ameriški plavalec]], filmski igralec († 1984)
 1908 - Miklos Szentkuthy, madžarski pisatelj († 1988)
 1930 - Lojze Rozman, slovenski gledališki, filmski, TV igralec († 1997)
 1938 - Princesa Désirée Švedska
 1941 - Charlie Watts, britanski bobnar († 2021)
 1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, ameriški skladatelj
1986 - Miha Rodman, slovenski igralec

Smrti
 261 pr. n. št. - Antioh I. Soter, kralj Selevkidskega cesarstva (* okoli 324 pr. n. št.)
 657 - Evgen I., svetnik, papež (* ok. 615)
 829 - sv. Nikefor, bizantinski patriarh (* ok. 758)
 1052 - Guaimario IV., salernijski knez (* 1013)
 1258 - Peter Portugalski, grof Urgella, baron Majorke (* 1187)
 1280 - Jolanda II., grofica Neversa (* 1247)
 1716 - Ogata Korin, japonski slikar (* 1657)
 1882 - Giuseppe Garibaldi, italijanski domoljub, revolucionar (* 1807)
 1896 - Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, nemški geograf, raziskovalec (* 1831)
 1901 - George Leslie Mackay, kanadski misijonar na Tajvanu (* 1844)
 1938 - Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, ameriški načrtovalec jadrnic (* 1848)
 1956 - Jean Hersholt, dansko-ameriški filmski igralec, človekoljub (* 1886)
 1961 - George Simon Kaufman, ameriški dramatik, gledališki režiser (* 1889)
 1962 - Fran Saleški Finžgar, slovenski pisatelj (* 1871)
 1970 - Leslie Bruce McLaren, novozelandski avtomobilski dirkač, inženir, konstruktor (* 1937)
 1973 - Lojze Zupanc, slovenski pisatelj (* 1906)
 1974 - Tom Kristensen, danski pesnik, pisatelj (* 1893)
 1982 - Fazal Ilahi Čaudhri, pakistanski pedsednik (* 1904)
 1988 - Radž Kapor, indijski filmski igralec, filmski režiser (* 1914)
 1990 – sir Reginald Carey »Rex« Harrison, angleški filmski igralec (* 1908)

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import csv
import io

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib import messages
from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve, reverse
from django.db import transaction
from django.db.models import Count, Q, Sum
from django.http import (
    Http404, HttpResponse, HttpResponseBadRequest, HttpResponseRedirect,
    JsonResponse,
)
from django.utils.timezone import now
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from django.views.generic import (
    CreateView, DeleteView, ListView, TemplateView, UpdateView, View,
)

from pretix.base.models import Voucher
from pretix.base.models.vouchers import _generate_random_code
from pretix.control.forms.vouchers import VoucherBulkForm, VoucherForm
from pretix.control.permissions import EventPermissionRequiredMixin
from pretix.control.signals import voucher_form_class

class VoucherList(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, ListView):
    model = Voucher
    context_object_name = 'vouchers'
    paginate_by = 30
    template_name = 'pretixcontrol/vouchers/index.html'
    permission = 'can_view_vouchers'

    def get_queryset(self):
        qs = self.request.event.vouchers.all().select_related('item', 'variation')
        if self.request.GET.get("search", "") != "":
            s = self.request.GET.get("search", "").strip()
            qs = qs.filter(Q(code__icontains=s) | Q(tag__icontains=s) | Q(comment__icontains=s))
        if self.request.GET.get("tag", "") != "":
            s = self.request.GET.get("tag", "")
            qs = qs.filter(tag__icontains=s)
        if self.request.GET.get("status", "") != "":
            s = self.request.GET.get("status", "")
            if s == 'v':
                qs = qs.filter(Q(valid_until__isnull=True) | Q(valid_until__gt=now())).filter(redeemed=0)
            elif s == 'r':
                qs = qs.filter(redeemed__gt=0)
            elif s == 'e':
                qs = qs.filter(Q(valid_until__isnull=False) & Q(valid_until__lt=now())).filter(redeemed=0)
        return qs

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if request.GET.get("download", "") == "yes":
            return self._download_csv()
        return super().get(request, *args, **kwargs)

    def _download_csv(self):
        output = io.StringIO()
        writer = csv.writer(output, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, delimiter=",")

        headers = [
            _('Voucher code'), _('Valid until'), _('Product'), _('Reserve quota'), _('Bypass quota'),
            _('Price effect'), _('Value'), _('Tag'), _('Redeemed'), _('Maximum usages')
        ]
        writer.writerow(headers)

        for v in self.get_queryset():
            if v.item:
                if v.variation:
                    prod = '%s – %s' % (str(v.item.name), str(v.variation.name))
                else:
                    prod = '%s' % str(v.item.name)
            elif v.quota:
                prod = _('Any product in quota "{quota}"').format(quota=str(v.quota.name))
            row = [
                v.code,
                v.valid_until.isoformat() if v.valid_until else "",
                prod,
                _("Yes") if v.block_quota else _("No"),
                _("Yes") if v.allow_ignore_quota else _("No"),
                v.get_price_mode_display(),
                str(v.value) if v.value is not None else "",
                v.tag,
                str(v.redeemed),
                str(v.max_usages)
            ]
            writer.writerow(row)

        r = HttpResponse(output.getvalue().encode("utf-8"), content_type='text/csv')
        r['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="vouchers.csv"'
        return r

class VoucherTags(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, TemplateView):
    template_name = 'pretixcontrol/vouchers/tags.html'
    permission = 'can_view_vouchers'

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        ctx = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

        tags = self.request.event.vouchers.order_by('tag').filter(tag__isnull=False).values('tag').annotate(
            total=Count('id'),
            redeemed=Sum('redeemed')
        )
        for t in tags:
            t['percentage'] = int((t['redeemed'] / t['total']) * 100)

        ctx['tags'] = tags
        return ctx

class VoucherDelete(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, DeleteView):
    model = Voucher
    template_name = 'pretixcontrol/vouchers/delete.html'
    permission = 'can_change_vouchers'
    context_object_name = 'voucher'

    def get_object(self, queryset=None) -> Voucher:
        try:
            return self.request.event.vouchers.get(
                id=self.kwargs['voucher']
            )
        except Voucher.DoesNotExist:
            raise Http404(_("The requested voucher does not exist."))

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.get_object().redeemed > 0:
            messages.error(request, _('A voucher can not be deleted if it already has been redeemed.'))
            return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())
        return super().get(request, *args, **kwargs)

    @transaction.atomic
    def delete(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.object = self.get_object()
        success_url = self.get_success_url()

        if self.object.redeemed > 0:
            messages.error(request, _('A voucher can not be deleted if it already has been redeemed.'))
        else:
            self.object.log_action('pretix.voucher.deleted', user=self.request.user)
            self.object.delete()
            messages.success(request, _('The selected voucher has been deleted.'))
        return HttpResponseRedirect(success_url)

    def get_success_url(self) -> str:
        return reverse('control:event.vouchers', kwargs={
            'organizer': self.request.event.organizer.slug,
            'event': self.request.event.slug,
        })

class VoucherUpdate(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, UpdateView):
    model = Voucher
    template_name = 'pretixcontrol/vouchers/detail.html'
    permission = 'can_change_vouchers'
    context_object_name = 'voucher'

    def get_form_class(self):
        form_class = VoucherForm
        for receiver, response in voucher_form_class.send(self.request.event, cls=form_class):
            if response:
                form_class = response
        return form_class

    def get_object(self, queryset=None) -> VoucherForm:
        url = resolve(self.request.path_info)
        try:
            return self.request.event.vouchers.get(
                id=url.kwargs['voucher']
            )
        except Voucher.DoesNotExist:
            raise Http404(_("The requested voucher does not exist."))

    @transaction.atomic
    def form_valid(self, form):
        messages.success(self.request, _('Your changes have been saved.'))
        if form.has_changed():
            self.object.log_action(
                'pretix.voucher.changed', user=self.request.user, data={
                    k: form.cleaned_data.get(k) for k in form.changed_data
                }
            )
        return super().form_valid(form)

    def get_success_url(self) -> str:
        return reverse('control:event.vouchers', kwargs={
            'organizer': self.request.event.organizer.slug,
            'event': self.request.event.slug,
        })

class VoucherCreate(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, CreateView):
    model = Voucher
    template_name = 'pretixcontrol/vouchers/detail.html'
    permission = 'can_change_vouchers'
    context_object_name = 'voucher'

    def get_form_class(self):
        form_class = VoucherForm
        for receiver, response in voucher_form_class.send(self.request.event, cls=form_class):
            if response:
                form_class = response
        return form_class

    def get_success_url(self) -> str:
        return reverse('control:event.vouchers', kwargs={
            'organizer': self.request.event.organizer.slug,
            'event': self.request.event.slug,
        })

    def get_form_kwargs(self):
        kwargs = super().get_form_kwargs()
        kwargs['instance'] = Voucher(event=self.request.event)
        return kwargs

    @transaction.atomic
    def form_valid(self, form):
        form.instance.event = self.request.event
        messages.success(self.request, _('The new voucher has been created.'))
        ret = super().form_valid(form)
        form.instance.log_action('pretix.voucher.added', data=dict(form.cleaned_data), user=self.request.user)
        return ret

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # TODO: Transform this into an asynchronous call?
        with request.event.lock():
            return super().post(request, *args, **kwargs)

class VoucherBulkCreate(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, CreateView):
    model = Voucher
    template_name = 'pretixcontrol/vouchers/bulk.html'
    permission = 'can_change_vouchers'
    context_object_name = 'voucher'

    def get_success_url(self) -> str:
        return reverse('control:event.vouchers', kwargs={
            'organizer': self.request.event.organizer.slug,
            'event': self.request.event.slug,
        })

    def get_form_kwargs(self):
        kwargs = super().get_form_kwargs()
        kwargs['instance'] = Voucher(event=self.request.event)
        return kwargs

    @transaction.atomic
    def form_valid(self, form):
        for o in form.save(self.request.event):
            o.log_action('pretix.voucher.added', data=form.cleaned_data, user=self.request.user)
        messages.success(self.request, _('The new vouchers have been created.'))
        return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())

    def get_form_class(self):
        form_class = VoucherBulkForm
        for receiver, response in voucher_form_class.send(self.request.event, cls=form_class):
            if response:
                form_class = response
        return form_class

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        ctx = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
        ctx['code_length'] = settings.ENTROPY['voucher_code']
        return ctx

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        # TODO: Transform this into an asynchronous call?
        with request.event.lock():
            return super().post(request, *args, **kwargs)

class VoucherRNG(EventPermissionRequiredMixin, View):
    permission = 'can_change_vouchers'

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        codes = set()
        try:
            num = int(request.GET.get('num', '5'))
        except ValueError:  # NOQA
            return HttpResponseBadRequest()

        while len(codes) < num:
            new_codes = set()
            for i in range(min(num - len(codes), 500)):  # Work around SQLite's SQLITE_MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER
                new_codes.add(_generate_random_code())
            new_codes -= set([v['code'] for v in Voucher.objects.filter(code__in=new_codes).values('code')])
            codes |= new_codes

        return JsonResponse({
            'codes': list(codes)
        })

    def get_success_url(self) -> str:
        return reverse('control:event.vouchers', kwargs={
            'organizer': self.request.event.organizer.slug,
            'event': self.request.event.slug,
        })


If we're trying to get a hold of some cannabis or even want to store our stash – our options were pretty limited and pretty unsightly. Until recently, cannabis paraphernalia came from a 'head shop' and we were made to feel like we were part of the seedy underbelly of society when we wanted to purchase or store our stash. No wonder women feel a stigma -we're supposed to be upholding the morals of our households for gods sake!
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April 6, 1974: ABBA Won the Eurovision Song Contest for "Waterloo," Launching Their International Career
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On April 6, 1974, ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest for "Waterloo," launching their international career. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the group's name is an acronym from the first letter in each of their names. With other hits like "Dancing Queen, "Mamma Mia," "S.O.S.," and "Take a Chance On Me," ABBA ruled the charts from 1974 to 1982. They are the best-selling band from continental Europe, as well as from outside the English-speaking world. One of the most commercially successful acts in music history, they are getting back together to tour for the first time in 35 years, as holograms. Set to premiere in the spring of 2019, the tour is billed by the band as "a time machine that captures the essence of who we were. And are."
Songwriters and musicians Ulvaeus and Andersson first met in 1966. However, it was in 1969 when the seeds of the soon-to-be Swedish supergroup were planted when Björn met his fiancée, Fältskog, and Benny met his fiancée, Lyngstad. Ulvaeus and Andersson knew how to write contagious pop hits. However, Fältskog and Lyngstad's beautiful harmonies were integral to the global chart-topping ABBA sound.
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After "Waterloo" won the 19th edition of the Eurovision song competition, the winning tune reached the No. 1 spot on the UK chart and became a top ten hit in the US on the Billboard Hot 100. "Waterloo" sold six million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.
ABBA charted four Top 10 singles in the United States. In 1977, they hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Dancing Queen." In the UK, ABBA ruled the No. 1 spot on the charts nine times from 1974 to 1980. By the mid-1970s, they were one of the most popular groups on the planet. Meanwhile, at the height of their fame, both couples' marriages were on the rocks. The marital tensions might have led to more introspective song lyrics, but it did not stop ABBA from dazzling their global fanbase. However, in 1982, ABBA gave their last official performance.
By the 1990s, ABBA experienced a resurgence in popularity. The popular musical play based on ABBA's music, "Mamma Mia!," has sold $2 billion worldwide and the film version was a global hit as well. In 2010, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but refused to perform. Last summer, ABBA celebrated their 50th anniversary by performing together for the first time since breaking up. On July 20, 2018, you'll be able to relive their hits when "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" comes out and in 2019, they're kicking off their virtual tour, so get your sequins and platforms ready.
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InDesign's CC's New Document dialog box has its pros and cons. One one hand, it gives you handy access to recently used settings and Adobe Stock templates. On the other hand, it's rather klutzy and slow, and we seem to have lost the ability to edit the new default document preset. The old way, of creating a new preset, naming it... using InDesign CC 2015, refer to the Version 11.0/en_us folder. If you are using InDesign CC 2014, If you are using InDesign CC 2014, refer to the Version 10.0/en_us folder.
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Please email resumes and cover letters to Neva Bryan at nbryan@uvawise.edu. Application deadline: January 18, 2019 (noon). Specify the job title in your materials.
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After years of conflicting advice, now a recent study has found that public health benefits of e-cigarette use tend to outweigh the downsides. The modeling study by top tobacco control experts finds that e-cigarettes are likely to provide public health benefits based on "conservative estimates" of the likely uptake of vaping and smoking by adolescents and young adults. The study suggests that "recent claims by some scientists that e-cigarettes are likely to act as a gateway to the use of tobacco products are overstated," said lead author David Levy of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Levy noted that if used instead of smoking, e-cigarettes provide the potential to reduce harm and improve public health, but they also have the potential to increase harm if youth who would not have otherwise smoked become cigarette smokers as a direct consequence of first trying e-cigarettes, the so-called "gateway" hypothesis that has gained favor by some. "Our study indicates that, considering a broad range of reasonable scenarios, e-cigarettes are likely to reduce cigarette smoking and not lead to offsetting increases in harm from the use of e-cigarettes and more deadly cigarettes," Levy added. "When we consider the plausible positive and negative aspects of e-cigarette use, we find that vaping is likely to have a net positive public health impact." The team that developed the model, researchers from the U.S., Australia and Canada, projected a reduction of 21 percent in smoking-attributable deaths and 20 percent in life years lost as a result of use of e-cigarettes in people born in 1997 or after, compared to what would have happened if e-cigarettes were not an option. Levy supports the recent decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban use of e-cigarettes to youth younger than 18 "because we still want to discourage use of all nicotine and cigarette products." Levy also says that, despite their estimates of an overall public health benefit from e-cigarettes, youth use of these products needs to be continuously monitored, since use patterns are likely to change as the product and awareness about the product changes.


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The high court in Cape Town entrance was on Tuesday morning cordoned off with yellow tape ahead of the arrival of honeymoon murder-accused Shrien Dewani.
The tape was tied to a police vehicle at either end. Around 13 police vehicles were parked near the court and a throng of police officers stood at a side entrance where prisoners usually arrive.
Dewani is expected to enter the court through this gate. Traffic cones blocked off the road to the side gate.
Meanwhile, media camera crews set up their equipment in the arrivals hall at Cape Town International Airport and at the high court in the Western Cape before 7am.
Dewani arrived in Cape Town on a private plane after 9am on Tuesday morning.
"He has been transported by a chartered plane from the Bristol Airport in the United Kingdom to South Africa.
The department of justice procured the chartered plane," spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said in a statement.
Among the reasons for the private aircraft was that Dewani had previously shown suicidal tendencies, said Mhaga.
"We took into account the fact that there was undisputed evidence during [the] extradition hearing that he had displayed suicidal tendencies and the South African government did not want to take chances.
"His peculiar medical condition needed to be monitored and the situation on a commercial fight had the potential to compromise it and that would have [an] adverse effect on the pending medical examination in a bid to get him to recover."
Mhaga said there was a need to ensure that Dewani and the team he travelled with – including doctors, nurses and police – were secure.
"...That would have been difficult on a commercial flight with many passengers. [It] had [the] potential to compromise their security as his identity is now well-known," he said. "It was therefore paramount that his return to the country is hazard-free in order to ensure that he eventually makes the court appearance without hindrance."
The millionaire businessperson touched down on a private plane direct out of London's Heathrow Airport.
According to the electronic information board in the arrivals hall, the flight will land at 9.56am. Dewani is set to be transported from the airport to the court where he is expected to appear before Judge President John Hlophe at 11.30am.
The justice department on Monday said Dewani was being accompanied on the flight by a medical doctor, a nurse, and members of the South African Police Service.
When he appears in court, he is expected to be charged with conspiracy to commit murder and defeating the ends of justice.
The couple had been on honeymoon in the country. His wife's body was found in the abandoned car the next day. She had been shot dead.


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We are proud to invite you to Oaker Farm. The 3 cottages have been lovingly converted from farm barns and a dairy, we also have a bespoke handcrafted luxury shepherd's hut. Oaker Farm nestles at the foot of Lose Hill amidst our own well maintained farmland.
The area offers a great deal to see and do; climbing, horse riding, sight seeing, bird watching, and excellent walking with many routes straight from the door.
We have spent many years making Oaker Farm into what we feel is a little haven, and we know that you will enjoy it as much as we do.
Wood burning stoves in Losehill and Winhill Cottages and Haddy's Hut.
Haddy's Hut 2 from £490.00 to £625.00 per unit per week Haddy's Hut is a spacious, airy and bright bespoke handcrafted shepherd's hut designed and built to a high standard benefiting from modern day comforts including a warming wood burning stove, en-suite bathroom with fluffy towels, handmade fully equipped kitchen with full size hob and a single oven with grill, comfy patio furniture where you can read the paper or your favourite book and if it becomes chilly light the fire pit. To bring it all up to the 21st century there is WiFi, a combined TV and DVD player, and under floor heating. The hut offers everything you should need, a rural retreat for all seasons.
Losehill 4 from £460.00 to £615.00 per unit per week Two bedrooms - one double and one twin. Bathroom with shower over bath, wash basin and WC. Log burning stove in lounge.
Winhill Cottage 4 from £460.00 to £615.00 per unit per week Two bedrooms - one double and one twin. Bathroom with shower over bath, wash basin and WC. Log burning stove in lounge.
*Short breaks in Haddy's Hut start from £240, please see our website for full details.
Ground floor bedroom - All cottages have a ground floor bedroom, please ask for further details.
Shower - In the 3 cottages the shower is over the bath.
From Sheffield, take the A625 then A6187 to Hope. In Hope turn right opposite the church on to Edale Road. Pass the Cheshire Cheese Pub and then take a left fork on to a narrow lane in between two cottages. Oaker Farm cottages are at the end of the lane.
Nearest railway station is Hope on the Manchester to Sheffield line.
Haddy's Hut, Hope ValleyHaddy's Hut is a spacious airy and bright handcrafted Shepherd's Hut designed and built to a high standard benefitting from modern day comforts including under floor heating, woodburning stove, en-suite bathroom and fully equipped kitchen.


Are you looking to become actively involved in shaping the future of a local non-profit organization? Do you wish to share and build social media knowledge among the Madison areas leading marketing professionals and business owners? Do you get excited about professional development and networking?
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Its so easy to feel overwhelmed with all of the changes that come along with becoming pregnant. Forget the expanding waistline, the mood swings and the intense fatigue, the seemingly endless list of what you need to buy can feel insurmountable. Luckily, we have a great network of friends who have been able to share their list of essentials with us and now it is our delight to share them with you. Georgia Tapert Howe, talented interior designer and mother to 2-year-old Byrdie spills her favorites from baby towels to the diaper bag.
CHANGER: Dwell Studio Mid Century Modern Changer I'm a big fan of this changer, because it allows you to select a good dresser that your little one can grow with and you just remove the changer afterwards. I found a lot of the "changing table" dressers were really small or felt babyish i.e ugly. I love the terry change pad covers to go with it. The look so crisp and clean.
DAY BED: If you have the room for it, then I love having a day bed in the nursery. It is nice to have a place to snuggle and read together, plus it's a welcome addition in the case you ever have to sleep in there with your baby. Mod Shop lets you customize anything So I did this one and put fun legs on it and a kid friendly fabric. Another simple one is that is great because you can send them your own fabric is Ballard Designs.
FABRICS: Right now I'm loving Katie Ridder fabrics for kids rooms. They have great prints that don't feel overly babyish and add a fun pop of color. The wallpapers are great too. We recently wallpapered the ceiling for a clients nursery. Its a cool way to introduce something patterned and colorful and you don't need as much if you are only doing the ceiling.
MOSES BASKET: I really don't think you need any kind of contraption (i.e bouncers etc) other than a moses basket for the first 6 months. I loved it because it allowed us to have Byrd with us all the time. I would sit in the backyard while she slept in it and and bring her up into my room if I wanted to take a nap. The crib also felt so HUGE when we first brought her home. Then when she became a little older she loved climbing in and out of it and it sort of doubled as a toy. Some of our favorites include this from Serena & Lily this gingham version from Badger Basket.
BABY BLANKET: I love these big quilted thick baby blankets from Roberta Roller Rabbit to put down on the floor. They come in a ton of colors and patterns and are easy to wash.
DIAPER BAG: I hated the idea of a diaper bag not to mention the actual bags themselves. I just refused to believe you needed 40 diapers and 5 changes of clothes when out and about for several hours with a baby. So I bought a big LL Bean Bag that could get trashed and a Porthault toiletry case to keep a few diapers and snacks etc the pouches make it feel a little more organized. Roberta Roller Rabbit also makes a set of pouches that works.
DECOR: I wanted to find something cute to hang on the walls that wasn't go to be a fortune and I came across these fun papier mache animal heads. They have about 10 different animals and make for something cute and decorative. They only come in white but you can easily spray paint them a color.
PRODUCTS: Right around when I was pregnant it came out that Johnson & Johnson was using formaldehyde in their products. It got me paranoid about what products I would use for my baby so someone recommended Oatmilk Calendula Baby wash and Shampoo This whole site is great for organic products!
TOWELS: I got all these baby robes as presents when I was pregnant that were so cute, but when it came time to actually give this tiny baby a bath there was no way I was maneuvering her into a robe. So baby hooded towels are a must. I love these ones from D. Porthault.
CASHMERE ONSIE: Ok so, this definitely not a necessity as it's totally extravagant, but someone gave me one and it was the coziest cutest thing ever. I mean, when else in your life will you wear a full cashmere one piece with a dickey no less!?
FIRST TOY: I am of the less is more approach when it comes to toys. This sounds crazy but someone gave me this idea when I first had my daughter. When babies first want hold and play with something they still don't have much strength to hold anything so starting at about 3 or 4 months give them a handkerchief and they really are completely entertained by it. Once they are a little older and bored by it you can put them away and save them for when they are older as a cute little momento. And, they're way better looking than all those ugly and noisy rattles. Any kind will do, but these are so sweet!
STORAGE: As they start to accumulate toys I have found having a few baskets around super useful!


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Jason Watts (born 29 July 1971) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Watts was recruited by Footscray on the back of his strong 1993 season at Werribee, when he won their best and fairest award in a premiership year. Picked up in the 1994 Pre-Season Draft, Watts appeared in 21 games for Footscray, including a qualifying final, in his first year at the club. He played as a small forward in 1996 and was the leading goal-kicker for the Bulldogs, with 44 goals from his 20 games. Over the next two years he added only five more games to his tally.

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The Penalties For Animal Cruelty in Florida
In recent news, three Daytona, Florida men were arrested for attacking a disabled Navy veteran after he confronted them and attempted to talk them out of brutalizing and torturing a freshwater turtle, according to the News Journal Online. The three had been kicking and smashing it to the ground when the Navy veteran intervened. The three defendants face charges of aggravated battery, a second degree felony as per Florida statute 784.045, and animal cruelty, which is also a felony.
Aggravated Animal Cruelty Can Be Charged as a Third Degree Felony in Florida
Animal cruelty is defined as unnecessarily overloading, overdriving, tormenting, depriving of necessary sustenance or shelter, mutilating, or killing any animal. Animal cruelty is a crime charged as a first degree misdemeanor, punishable by up 12 months in jail and a maximum fine of $5,000.
Aggravated animal cruelty is defined as causing a cruel death or causing "excessive or repeated infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering" to an animal. Aggravated animal cruelty is a third degree felony, punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years and a maximum fine of $10,000.
Knowing and Intentional Act to Torture Results in Mandatory Fine and Completion of Psychological Counseling Programs
If the defendant is found to have known that their actions included the knowing and intentional act to torture or torment, and the animal is injured, mutilated, or killed, they face a minimum fine of $2,500 and must partake in a psychological counseling program or complete an anger management course. Additionally, a second conviction of animal cruelty or aggravated animal cruelty will result in a mandatory minimum fine of $5,000 and a mandatory incarceration period of six months.
Multiple Acts of Cruelty May Be Charged Separately, Resulting in Multiple Felony Charges
A person who commits an act of cruelty or aggravated animal cruelty against multiple animals may be charged with more than one offense, as each act of cruelty can be charged as a separate offense. This means that you may be facing multiple felony charges if you have been accused of abusing more than one animal.
Committing Intentional Harm to a Horse is a Third Degree Felony
In addition to the types of animal cruelty listed above, anyone who intentionally trips, fells, ropes or lassos the legs of a horse as a form of entertainment or sport faces a third degree felony charge, whether the horse was injured or not.
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If you have been charged with any type of animal cruelty or animal mistreatment, call the experienced West Palm Beach criminal defense attorneys of Skier Law Firm today at 561-820-1508. We are eager to help you immediately.
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After a devastating betrayal, Audra Russel escapes to her brother's Greek island to lick her wounds. Only she soon finds that her brother's best friend, Finn Sullivan, is vacationing there, too! He may be recovering from a near-fatal accident, but the irresistible daredevil is intent on showing buttoned-up Audra how to have a good time. And now that she's started, she doesn't ever want to stop!


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AvA, which in Persian means "Voice", is an ensemble of four musicians that are experimented in classic and traditional music. They approach a repertory of self-made compositions and lives full of improvisations, rhythms and harmonies along with a wide spectrum of folkloric instruments from Iran, Turkey and Greece. They achieve to create an esthetic that is traditional, new and refreshing.
Alexánder Pewló
Instruments: Lavta and yayli tanbur.
He was born in Madrid in 1986. At the age of 4, he started studying piano at Centro de Formación Musical Tristán, relying on the experiences of teachers such as Lourder Pérez or Cristina del Mar Gómer. In 2006 , taught by Nisio Aranguren and Juan Carlos Alonso López, he studied Spanish guitar. Immersed in the improvisation world, he took classes along the pianist and saxophonist Marcelo Peralta in the Escuela de Música Creativa of Madrid. Since 2009, he made various trips to Crete and Turkey where he specialized and took lessons of baglama, yayli tanbur, lavta, bouzouki, makam, modal composition and orchestration in music of the Mediterranean and Middle East with masters such as Cihan Turkoglu, Evgenios Voulgaris, Christos Barbas, Sinan Ayyildiz, Cem Çelebi, Theodora Athanassiou, Efrén López.
Babak Kamgar
Instruments: Tar , Oud, Kamanche and Setar
In 2008, he graduated in cinematographic composition in Prins Claus Conservatorium and in 2010 he enrolled in a master's degree in composition in the HKU University of the Arts , both in the Netherlands. He plays two classic Persian instruments, the Tar and the Barbat (Ud.). Being of Iranian origins, he takes influences from his own traditions, which allow him to create a personal and unique sound.
Instruments: Cretan Lyra
In 2012, she specialized in viola and started getting in touch with the Aberastury Method (Conscient System in the Movement Technique). In love with Cretan music, in 2011, she traveled to Crete in order to start her studies on Modal Music Composition, lyra and Cretan and Turkish traditional music. She received advice from great masters and composers such as Stelios Petrakis, Efrén López, Hristos Barbas, Dimitri Psonis, Tatiana Matsurenko, Clara García… and has made collaborations in various folk music recordings.
Luis Taberna
Instruments: Frame drum, Riq, Bendir, Darbuka
Since he was young, he started playing drums and, later on, he starts to feel an interest for percussion in general. Percussion from Arabia and Middle East, particularly, makes him live three years in Tunisia where he studies the three instruments of Eastern Percussion: the Daburka, the Daf/Bendir and the Riq. He has realized stays in Turkey and in the Balkans, studying the rhythmic richness of the music of these countries and has participated in many projects from musical meetings in the Balkans and the ancient Yugoslavia. In the Balkanic countries he learned another percussion instrument that is essential for this kind of folklore; the Tapan, also known as Davul. In parallel, he has trained with many big names of the percussion world such as Glen Vélez, Ruben Van Rompaey, Pedram Khavar Zamini or Zohar Fresco.
Saturday January 6th, 2018
AVA Ensemble -"Intro"- Iglesia de Santa María de Melque
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AVA Ensemble -"Reng"- Iglesia de Santa María de Melque