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Downtown Pomona's Renaissance
Victor Preciado, Pomona District 2 City Council member, represents nearly all of the downtown area. Victor was born and raised in Pomona and now resides in the Mayfair Hotel, located in the historic downtown area. / photo by Ashley Villavicencio
by Michael Sprague
photography by Ashley Villavicencio
Law enforcement continues to combat human trafficking and violence throughout the Holt Corridor in Pomona, garnering media attention and painting an unfavorable image of the city to neighboring communities. But the downtown area highlights a different side of Pomona, one that may have gone unnoticed to those who have not been watching as a modern renaissance has taken place. Just two blocks east of the Holt Boulevard corridor sits the epicenter of the best the city has to offer. Restored neon lights of The Fox Theater act as a beacon, welcoming people into the city. Downtown Pomona stands as a refuge for culture, history, art and a haven for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
In the first half of the 20th century, this area was a destination for shopping, entertainment and even major film studios during the golden days of Hollywood. Now, it has fallen to disrepair, waiting for someone to come by and remember its potential. Luckily, there is a cast of characters who have put down their stake in the success of the downtown Pomona community. All are working to do what they can to restore the downtown area to the booming metropolis it once was.
As Deborah Clifford, the president of the Pomona Valley Historical Society explains, the city has gone through stages since it was founded in 1888. "[Pomona] has ranged from empty fields during the Rancho period to a bustling small town of two-three thousand in the late 1880s." Between the 1920s and late 1950s, she says the downtown area was filled with high-end retailers and restaurants, and business was booming. "If you wanted the best, you came to Pomona."
Hennessy Woods and members from Justice 4 Youth, a non-profit organization based in Pomona, volunteer for Pomona's Beautification Day, led by Council member Victor Preciado. / photo by Ashley Villavicencio
In the 1930s, Hollywood film studios would show films at the Fox Theater as a litmus test for larger audiences. These films featured golden-age film stars like Cary Grant and Betty Grable. "The people in Pomona had come from the great lakes area, upper Midwest; you could play a movie here, and you can guess pretty accurately how it was going to play in Minnesota or Iowa or Michigan. So it made Pomona a convenient proxy for audience testing around the country," explains Ed Tessier, co founder of the Pomona Arts Colony.
Ed's company Arteco specializes in "constructing creative communities through adaptive-reuse of historic structures," according to the website. Arteco is run by Ed and his family, who own a sizable portion of downtown Pomona, including the Fox Theater. As Ed grew up roaming around his father's downtown legal office, he watched as his childhood hangouts disappeared, and businesses shut their doors. "I'd get my first baseball mitt, and the sportsman would close. I'd get my first Cub Scout uniform, and John P. Evans would close," Ed recalls. Because of these patterns, Ed says he was bitter about all the people who had abandoned their investments and businesses in the city.
That bitterness eventually led to a pact between Ed and his brothers: that they would never abandon the city. Years later, he graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Urban Sociology and since has dedicated his entire career to urban revitalization. He can recount every phase the downtown area has been through in its tumultuous history. Ed explains that in the early '60s, indoor suburban malls were a phenomenon that changed the way people shopped, altering downtown Pomona's economic trajectory over the next few decades. "And now it was evident that it was eating away at traditional downtown shopping districts. So there was a national panic. Like what are we going to do? How do we make our downtowns survive this?" Ed says.
Ed thinks that, in trying to modernize the shopping center to keep up with the new types of malls, poor decisions were made by the city planners that had negative impacts on the downtown area, like making the downtown shopping center into a pedestrian mall. "Unfortunately it did other disastrous things, like closing the streets to cars, tearing down a lot of historic buildings to create parking lots, and masking historic buildings to make them look more modern. It was a real disaster."
Ed explains the developers at the time ignored the demographic changes, primarily the influx of immigrants and people of color. At the center of the mall was the department store Buffums, or as Deborah and Ed refer to it, "the Nordstrom of its time." Ed says that with the building of the Interstate 10 freeway came the construction, "of a thousand homes throughout the most affluent parts of Pomona. From that moment, Pomona is really an absentee landlord city. The people who owned the factories and the shops here from that moment on principally lived outside of the town."
In 1960, there were eight African American families in the city. By 1966, the city population had nearly doubled, gaining 22,000 residents, with 17,000 of the new residents being African American. "You can't put that number of people in this community that was run by an old white guard that was traditionally very racist, that had absolutely no interest in serving those communities, and expect things to go well," Ed explains. "The downtown just became disconnected from its own customer base and had these really impossible economic challenges with the movement to suburban malls and the primacy of the automobile. Traditional retailers like John P. Evans, where everybody got their Cub Scout uniforms? Well, the Cubs aren't a big thing in the African-American community. Did they adapt? Did they hire African-American shopkeepers to give them participation in how to select the goods that are going on the floor? They didn't do any of that."
From then on, the downtown area continued on a steady decline until the summer of 1977. Three different groups propped up the downtown area enough to keep it breathing: Western University came to Pomona and began inhabiting the east end of the downtown area; the first antique mall was opened, paving the way for antique row, which still stands today; and a federal grant was awarded to a group of Claremont College students, who intended to use art to beautify and repair community and urban spaces. "Those were the three components that showed up kind of magically, all in the summer of '77. It's important to note that none of them had any sort of official encouragement, whatsoever. They were totally organic," Ed explains.
The artists were able to take advantage of the art grant for about a year before it was squashed by the Reagan administration. Nevertheless, when the artists came to the city, they fell in love, and ended up homesteading. "There were a lot of abandoned buildings that had completely missing -in-action landlords. So a couple of [the artists] just kind of took over spaces and started using them for studios and living spaces. They probably wouldn't have survived if somebody hadn't been looking after them," he says. With the "old white guard" in political power at the time, the artists were not fully accepted, so they had to get creative. "The arts community really had to go underground. You had this phenomena where there were artists down here, but they'd actually used some of their creative talent to make their buildings look more abandoned than they were."
In the early 1990s, Ed opened Haven Coffee Shop in the downtown. True to its name, it was a sanctuary for Pomona artistry: a gallery, community center, and a makeshift concert venue all in one, and it provided a home for the disjointed artists who were hiding below the surface of the downtown area. The artists, after finding some stability in Haven, came together to advocate for the downtown, networking with the preservation community to rally around the historic buildings that had been collapsing. They reached out to businesses owned by people of color who were once unwelcome. In 1993, the Pomona City Council became ethnically representative of the city demographic. Six months after the new Council came in, the zoning ordinances changed, allowing the arts and business to come back to the downtown. By 1994, the city of Pomona officially recognized The Arts Colony and Antiques Row, establishing them as the principal use of the downtown.
The Celebrities of Third Street
Steve Nunez owns and operates The Social Cut, a grooming cafe, open since 2017 in the heart of downtown Pomona, just steps away from the Fox Theater. Passersby who glance through the windows see a boxer mutt lounging, and Steve, scissors in hand, behind a vintage barber chair. Today, he is wearing his signature cheetah print pants, but no matter what day you visit the shop, he is always in an outfit that only someone with a Mick Jagger level of confidence could pull off.
Steve A. Nuñez, Cal Poly Pomona alumnus and owner of The Social Cut, is an artist who found a home for his business in the heart of Pomona. / photo by Ashley Villavicencio
In addition to haircuts, Steve has made his space into a mecca for menswear sartorialists. He offers tailoring services, and hosts events for his menswear group the Social Gents, a group he describes as "modern-day gentlemen from all walks of life united by our passion for menswear and grooming." The events pull style bloggers, brands and aficionados from across Los Angeles and Orange County into downtown Pomona.
From open to close every day, Steve is accompanied by his best friend and unofficial Social Cut mascot Bruce, a bulldog mix rescue. While Steve cuts and cleans, Bruce greets customers by standing at their feet, not-so-subtly awaiting head scratches. Bruce has became such an iconic part of The Social Cut that his face is immortalized on The Social Cut t-shirts. On their daily walks around the block, the pair have become local celebrities, although Steve says it is all because of Bruce. "They say hi to Bruce before they say hi to me! And a lot of times they say hi to him but don't even say hi to me!" he jokes.
The Social Cut is just a block from City Hall and Western University and a short drive from Cal Poly Pomona. On any given day, Steve will have city officials, college students or lawyers and judges from the courthouse in his chair. Steve wants his shop to put the social aspect back in barbering, and the downtown community provides the perfect venue for community. "Here you get that small town feel where everybody kind of knows each other, but, at the same time, it's not a small town. Pomona's a big place," Steve says.
Different options are shown on the grooming menu at The Social Cut, including wine or coffee with any service. / photo by Ashley Villavicencio
Steve is eclectic and vibrant with the marketing mind of someone who spent time post-graduation in the Los Angeles corporate scene, coupled with the look and energy of an artist. In downtown Pomona, Steve found a storefront that had an aesthetic to match his—with art-deco architectural details and floor to ceiling windows that let natural light illuminate the open floor space and give guests a view of the downtown. "It just has that artistic feel, that loft feel, you know? We have the piping that's exposed, the high ceilings. I love it; it's very unique. You know, there's not many businesses or places that you find a scene like this," Steve says. He considers himself an artist and says the culture of art drew him to the area. As part of a collaboration with The School of the Arts, The Social Cut was used as a gallery displaying student artwork during a weekend event. He hopes to continue the crossover and have monthly rotating artists work on display.
The Homegrown Politician
Pomona City Councilmember Victor Preciado is the poster boy of local government politicians. The 30-something-year-old politician grew up in Pomona; his first job was at a local grocery store, and he graduated from Ganesha High School. After beating a multi-year battle with cancer, Victor threw himself into any activities he could, eventually leading him to join an organization called Pomona Beautiful, which focuses on cleaning up areas of the city. It was in this organization that Victor found his passion for serving the community he grew up in.
As he toured the downtown, an area that is in the district he represents, he describes what he hopes to accomplish. During that walk, he was interrupted no less than 10 times by residents, constituents, and business owners who wanted to greet him, or share an update. It was like walking down Mayberry Street with Andy Griffith.
A newcomer to the political scene, Victor was elected in November 2018. As is the policy for most city councilmembers, Victor lives in his District 2. From his residence in downtown, his fiancée is able to walk to the downtown metro station for her Los Angeles commute where she works as an attorney, and Preciado walks a block east and arrives at city hall. As he walked the downtown, he talked about the big and little changes that he has made to make the downtown area more family-friendly and to drive foot traffic there. As a tour guide, he pointed out the little historic details that people could walk by and never know, like the tiny painted artist figures scattered across the pavement in the arts colony, painted by some renegade artists and eventually left to stay by the city. At one point, he stopped by a discolored square patch of concrete outside of the downtown Starbucks. He said when he first took office a newsstand stood in that spot. After seeing it used as a garbage can instead of its intended purpose, he found it had no permit to be there and had it removed. In addition to work with Pomona Proud, Victor and his fiancée organize and operate a running club that meets in downtown and runs throughout the city as they train for the LA Marathon.
Victor walked through civic center plaza, an open plaza space between the library and city buildings that he believes is the key to truly transforming the downtown. "We should concentrate on a few things that will make families want to come for free, and then that will open up activity; it will activate the downtown, and then businesses will come because they know that there's families here." The area is covered in big trees, and shaded planters, with a wide-open plaza. On weekday afternoons, you'll see city employees enjoying their lunch break here. "For the celebration during beautification day, we had 1,500 people here. For the children's festival, we had performances right here. It was the first ever, and we had over 1,000, and we had free food for all the kids. It was great." He hopes to continue expanding the area's use.
Changing Perceptions
Deborah says from a historian's perspective, "This has been a town that is bound and determined to compete with anybody." She believes right now the city is dancing on the threshold of an expansion. "We're still looking for that right mix that will just go click, and we're closer than we've ever been!" Retail shopping that matches the downtown vibe is what she thinks the downtown could use.
Larry Egan, president of the Downtown Pomona Owners Associations believes a neighborhood market or bodega would make it easier for people to live in the downtown area, and work well for the commuters who use the downtown transit station. For Steve, he hopes more like-minded entrepreneurs who want to grow with the city will join the community. "There's a need for everything out here. There's a need for a good barber shop, there's a need for good restaurants; you know, if you go to downtown L.A. or just any other bigger cities, it's saturated."
"There's a lot of people who either remember Pomona from some of its more troubled days, or they grew up hearing their parents talk about how Pomona fell off the truck. There's a lot of holes in that storyline of how dysfunctional it is," Ed says.
Though the downtown area economy is improving for residents and stakeholders alike, most agree that the area stands on the cusp of a complete breakthrough to an Old-Town Pasadena level of recognition. What addition is needed to cross that threshold is under debate, though all the stakeholders agree if more visitors just came to downtown they would witness the heart of the city. "If [people] could just come down here once to check out the monthly art walk, then they're converts," says Ed. ■
Steve says when he gets people from different professions into his shop, they are always surprised about the variety of restaurants and breweries that Pomona offers. "It's cool because you know when this area grows, it helps — not just my business — it helps everybody." / photo by Ashley Villavicencio
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Alphonso Davies, 17, shows he might be worth the risk for Bayern Munich
By Steven Goff
The Washington Post |
If Bayern Munich had any second thoughts about spending up to $22 million in transfer fees last week on a Canadian teenage attacker with no MLS goals before this year, they were put to rest in a ferocious and spectacular performance Saturday at Vancouver's BC Place.
Three months and a few days short of his 18th birthday, Alphonso Davies looked very much like someone ready to take the next step in his dawning soccer career and fulfill the massive expectations that are sure to shadow him to Bavaria this winter. He played a part in every Whitecaps goal, scoring twice on breathtaking sequences and assisting twice during a 4-2 victory over Minnesota United.
While he was making outrageous runs in the Pacific Northwest, his future employer was in Miami with an American teenager in the starting lineup for a preseason friendly: defender Chris Richards, 18, on loan from FC Dallas. He will play for Bayern's under-19 squad this season, but so far this summer Richards has entered as a substitute against Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus and played 90 minutes against Manchester City.
Because he is too young for a formal transfer, Davies will remain with the Whitecaps through the end of the season and join Bayern Munich when the German transfer window reopens in January.
The fee from the Bundesliga titans - a base of $13 million, with clauses that could result in additional payments - is the largest for an MLS player in the league's 22-year history, besting the $11.6 million that Spanish side Villarreal spent 10 years ago on Jozy Altidore, then with the New York Red Bulls. The Whitecaps have pledged to pour that money into the sporting side of the club, such as youth development and player acquisitions.
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"He's got a massive future, and it's really up to him how far he goes," said Minnesota defender Mike Boxall, who was burned by Davies on the first goal. "He's got a great opportunity ahead of him."
He will carry a compelling personal story with him to Europe: Born in a Ghanaian refugee camp to parents fleeing civil war in Liberia, he relocated with his family to Ontario at age 5 before settling in Alberta.
An Edmonton youth club that helped groom him will receive a small share of the Bayern transfer fee, a FIFA-required solidarity payment that MLS' U.S. teams, citing antitrust laws, ignore.
Davies's career began to take shape in earnest at the Whitecaps' youth academy three summers ago. Within six months, he had signed with the club's lower-tier team in the United Soccer League. By the summer of 2016, at age 15, he had upgraded to an MLS contract.
With the first team, he started twice in 2016 and nine times last year before becoming a regular this season. With European clubs monitoring him, he has scored five times and posted 10 assists in 21 regular season matches, which, entering Sunday's matches, earned him a share of fourth place on the league charts.
Davies scored a terrific individual goal against D.C. United in the Audi Field grand opening two weeks ago.
He met with Bayern officials last week in Philadelphia, where the German club began a U.S. tour. A deal was soon finalized.
He then returned to Vancouver for Saturday's sensational performance, assisting on Yordy Reyna's sublime goal in the 35th minute, beating three players in tight space to score in the 52nd, setting up Kei Kamara on a two-on-one in the 62nd and splitting two defenders and finding the top corner of the net in the 89th.
Putting the Bayern deal to rest and rejoining the Whitecaps, he said, "was a weight off my shoulders after all the travel and meetings."
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After a slow start - "the first 20 [minutes were] as bad as I've seen him play," Coach Carl Robinson said - Davies hit his stride.
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"Another bit of magic," Robinson said of Davies' second goal.
Davies is making gains on the senior international level as well, making six appearances since becoming a naturalized citizen in early 2017 and scoring three goals in Canada's first two matches at the Concacaf Gold Cup last summer. He was the youngest in tournament history to score, was named the best young player in the event and made the Best XI squad.
Canada hasn't qualified for the World Cup since 1986 and has produced few world-class players. Calgary's Owen Hargreaves, signed by Bayern Munich in 1999, is an exception, though he opted to play for England on the international level. In Davies, however, the country has a brighter future.
"We know he is a wonderful talent," Robinson said. "We know he's got ability. He's got potential, but when he keeps playing like that, that's not potential - that's reality."
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The monitoring ports (J3 and J4) are receive-only; they connect to the receive data lines on the monitoring station but do not connect to the station's transmit lines. This makes it impossible for the monitoring station to accidentally transmit data packets onto the target network.
The LAN Tap is designed to monitor 10BASET and 100BASETX networks. It is not possible for an unpowered tap to perform monitoring of 1000BASET (Gigabit Ethernet) networks, so the Throwing Star LAN Tap intentionally degrades the quality of 1000BASET target networks, forcing them to negotiate a lower speed (typically 100BASETX) that can be passively monitored. This is the purpose of the two capacitors (C1 and C2).
Like all passive LAN Taps, this device degrades signal quality to some extent. Except as described above for Gigabit networks, this rarely causes problems on the target network. In situations where very long cables are in use, the signal degradation could reduce network performance. It is a good practice to use cables that are not any longer than necessary.


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Q: Troubles with predict() function (probably easy to solve) all.
This is the first question I make in this forum. I'am a beginner, as you all will immediately tell.
I´m doing a small task in which I must compare a training model with a test model. The point is that the training model has much more rows than the test one.
Through a linear regression model, I wish to compare both models, but when I use the predict() function I get the following error:
"newdata" had 3456 rows but variables found fave 7689 rows.
This is what I did:
regression = lm(train$students~train$subjects, train)

(train is the trining database)
prediction = predict(regression, test)

(test is the testing database)
I don´t know if I´m using the predict() function correctly. Could someone tell me what I did wrong?
Thank you so much in advance your your help and kindness!

A: Don't refer to variables as data$var in a formula. Never. Ever.
What is happening is that you fitted a model with variables named train$students and train$subjects. To predict from the model R will look for a variable named train$subjects in the test set, test. Clearly no such variable exists in tests; who'd create variables with such silly names!? There is no need to use data$var format in a formula, because the whole point of the data argument is to indicate where R should lookup the names of variables mentioned in the formula.
To start fixing this, fit your model as:
regression <- lm(students ~ subjects, data = train)

then predict using
predict(regression, test)

where test will need to have a column containing subjects.
The error message is because newdata has 3456 but when it search for variable train$subjects it found 7689 rows, presumably that is the number of complete observations in train...?

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Patriotic Country Songs: 10 Prime Hits
CMT.com Staff Choose 10 Favorites From the Past 10 Years
by CMT.com Staff 7/1/2011
Country music has established its own national anthem with Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A." However, the last decade has inspired numerous country stars to salute our country in their own way, from Alan Jackson's somber reflections after 9/11 to the Zac Brown Band's hearty endorsement of fried chicken, family and our armed forces. Here are 10 of our favorite country songs from the last 10 years, chosen by the CMT.com staff.
"All-American Girl," Carrie Underwood
Being an all-American girl can mean different things to different people, but they all have one thing in common. Whether she's a girlfriend or a daughter, there is something about her that a guy cannot resist, and they will do anything for her. In the music video, Underwood represents a variety of all-American girls, from a firefighter to a nurse to a painter. To me, that is what being an American is all about — representing all different types of people and having the opportunity to be who and what you want to be. — Michelle Ferullo
"American Honey," Lady Antebellum
"She grew up good/She grew up slow/Like American honey." Every time I hear this song, I think about hearing the lyrics coming out of my 5-year-old cousin's little mouth, so sweet and innocent. I think in that moment, she was the perfect representation of "American Honey." One thing I remember well about my own childhood is running around barefoot in the yard chasing lightning bugs at dusk on summer days — when the air was still warm, but the grass was cool under my feet and I didn't have a care in the world. At some point, you're forced to grow up and lose that, but this song takes you back there. — Lacey Spears
"American Saturday Night," Brad Paisley
One thing that rarely comes up in songs dedicated to the good ol' U.S.A. is the idea that many things that make us uniquely American actually came from somewhere else. That's what I like about Brad Paisley's "American Saturday Night." Brazilian boots and a German car may not be part of the average American's everyday experience, but how about French kisses and pizza pies? Even horses, cattle, beer and country music itself owe their existence here to other parts of the world. My favorite line in the bouncy tune is a reminder that no matter where an idea started, Americans take pride in making it our own. "When my great, great, great granddaddy stepped off of that ship/I bet he never ever dreamed we'd have all this." — Chris Parton
"Arlington," Trace Adkins
Like many mothers, I've helped my kids research Arlington National Cemetery for curriculum fairs, reports and field trips. I became very well-versed in 21-gun salutes, the wreath laying and the intricate choreography of sentinels who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns. But until Trace Adkins released a song about Arlington and made a video showing him paying his respects around the cemetery, I'd never been so moved by the history of that peaceful property. Hearing this song makes me agree with Adkins: "And every time I hear 21 guns, I know they brought another hero home to us." God bless those heroes, all 300,000 of them, this Independence Day. — Alison Bonaguro
"Chicken Fried," Zac Brown Band
Good eats, first-rate friends, a cranked-up radio and a salute to our soldiers? Sounds like a recipe for country music success. The Zac Brown Band cooked up that winning combination with their chart-topping debut single, "Chicken Fried." Their signature dish also calls for one part beer, mixed with Friday nights, Mama's love and just-right-fittin' jeans. Add a heaping helping of patriotic pride for the stars and stripes, God and our American troops. Lastly, drop a dollop of buoyant beats and a spoonful of roll-off-the-tongue rhymes — and voila! What country fan doesn't enjoy this deep-fried favorite? — Whitney Self
"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," Toby Keith
Toby Keith's no-holds-barred tune, released following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was labeled by the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines as "ignorant" and a feud between the two ensued. Well, if loving this song makes me ignorant, then that's quite all right with me. No matter if it ruffled a few feathers, there's no denying Keith's patriotism when the video features footage from his USO tours. Personally, I get chills every time I see the soldiers cheering so enthusiastically for him and the song's message. It's a powerful reminder of the troops' constant sacrifices and ultimate goal, along with the mindset of many Americans following that tragic day. — Stephanie Pendergrass
"Everyday America," Sugarland
I like to think Jennifer Nettles is telling her own story, and the story of millions of others, in this catchy (and candid) song about big dreams, small towns, disappointing relationships and family pride. Even though many of us are still "just getting by," as the song indicates, I feel like optimism remains one of our country's most persistent traits. — Craig Shelburne
"If You're Reading This," Tim McGraw
"Looks like I only got a one-way ticket over here." That's all Tim McGraw has to sing to tell you exactly what this song is about: a soldier laying down his gun, hanging up his boots and saying goodbye to his family in a letter he wrote before he died. It makes me sad to my very core, and at the same time, so overjoyed to be an American. That was especially true when he debuted the song on the ACM Awards in 2007 with families of fallen soldiers onstage with him. I cried. The families cried. I think McGraw even cried. It was a memorable five minutes for America and country music. — Alison Bonaguro
"Only in America," Brooks & Dunn
"Only in America" was released a few months prior to 9/11 and became an anthem that highlighted Brooks & Dunn's concerts following the attack on the World Trade Center. Musical hooks abound as the lyrics provide a snapshot of people living their daily lives. Although the song celebrates the "promise of the promised land," it's not about waving flags. With lines about one kid potentially ending up in prison while another becomes president, the message subtly suggests that a person's ability to fulfill the American dream generally comes down to personal choices and attitudes. That alone is something worth celebrating. — Calvin Gilbert
"Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," Alan Jackson
It is impossible to this day to overestimate the emotional impact that this song had and continues to have on the American psyche. In the wake of the devastation of 9/11, there remained a general hole in the center of many people's hearts. Alan Jackson filled that vacuum with this simple, yet eloquent song. Like many people in Nashville and across the country, I first heard "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" when he performed it live at the CMA Awards on Nov. 7, 2001. I was at the Grand Ole Opry House that night and still recall the enormous emotional upswelling in the house. I was on my feet and crying, and so was everyone around me in the house. I cannot recall a single instance of a song having the instant healing effect that "Where Were You" had. And continues to have. — Chet Flippo
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Labour's Ros Jones has retained her role as Doncaster's elected mayor.
She has been the borough's elected mayor since 2013, with seven years as local councillor for the Askern Spa ward.
In March, she was made CBE for services to local government during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Conservative candidate George Jabbour finished second, taking 13,575 votes (21.2%). UKIP candidate Brian Whitmore was third with 7,764 (12.1%).
Independent candidates Eddie Todd and Steve Williams received 5,344 votes (8.3%) and 1,531 votes (2.4%) respectively, with Yorkshire Party's Chris Whitwood taking 3,235 (5%).
A turnout of 28.9% was recorded.
In her election address, Ms Jones promised to run regeneration programmes for towns across the borough and clamp down on anti-social behaviour.
Speaking at the count, held at Doncaster Racecourse, she also prioritised "the economy and skills".
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"There's so many things we want, but we're on the right track and we will deliver."


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James Paul &
The Crossing Crew
DITTIES
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The Crossing Crew – Album Review
Love Is Like That
Brilliant. That's the first impression anyhow; you can hear the inviting vibes of The Crossing Crew immediately on display as their new album Love Is Like That begins with the playfully sweet sounds of "We Two." According to the sites I've looked over on the internet, this entire dealio can be traced back to the mind & musicianship of one man…a Mr. James Paul. I want it on the record that I think he's a genius…that's how strong & complete of an experience this first song is. Big thumbs-up to this track.
After having listened to the record in-full several times over at this point, what I can tell ya is this – I wouldn't go as far as to say that The Crossing Crew has put the best song/songs up front on this set-list, but I'd be more than willing to listen to someone argue that point & likely agree with what they had to say if they felt that way.
There's definitely great material on this record and a really signature style of his own that James should be proud of – "We Two" just happens to offer that sound of his at its most universally appealing & sweet…accessible, that's the word I'm looking for – you can add welcoming to that list too.
Time & again as I listened to Love Is Like That, each time "We Two" popped up again, it continued to work its gentle magic on me; there really is a possibility it's the albums most enticing tune to listen to. Definitely a solid start – "We Two" is as inviting as songs get at the beginning of an album and it's a fantastic gateway into the rest of what you'll find in the songs to follow on Love Is Like That.
"Are We Ever" makes incredible use of instrumentation and hooks, both in the musicianship & vocals. The Crossing Crew goes on to ask several questions as Paul muses on the future and life throughout the lyrics of "Are We Ever" – melody-wise, I feel like he's nailing it again here with a vocal approach that's completely inspired & refreshingly unique throughout the verses, and the chorus supplies supreme doses of stunning harmonies & smoothness for ya. When you listen to the actual bare-bones ingredients of this tune, the spacing & pace of the music…you'll be more than surprised at just how entertaining this song actually IS from beginning to end. For the majority of this song, we're talking about a microphone, a voice to use it, a guitar, and a shaker in Paul's hand to guide the beat – and that's pretty much IT, yet this song never lets up on its sweet & humble questioning and beautifully captivating charm. He'll add in some harmonica here & there…a little bit of violins in the mix as well – both of which make a solid impact for sure, but the real impressive factor of "Are We Ever" is just how much James and his vocals carry the weight of this song, and how well he pulls it all off. What you DO hear in the music brings extraordinary personality & charm to the overall aura & vibe of the song – there's a really uplifting feeling to this entire tune, even with all the existential questioning going on in the lyricism and the struggles that James faces in the storyline. Extremely well-done from beginning to end – songs like "Are We Ever" completely confirm he's the genius I proclaimed him to be with the absolutely stellar layout & structure of a tune like this and how expertly it reveals each piece so cleverly as it plays on.
The album's title-track continues the streak of enticing sounds and songs you'll find on this record, flexing immediate uniqueness through the odd-but-enchanting sample that gets included in the music. I'm more tossed-up on this song than the others to this point by comparison; I think you can hear an audible difference for sure. The verses of this cut are a bit stiff if I'm being honest with the man – the ideas are strong and the melody works, but it genuinely feels like this vibe calls for Paul to loosen up a lil' bit, know what I mean? There's a real jazzy thread in the swagger this song locks into in the music that he needs to fully unlock…he's close, but you can hear the back & forth in the melody and tones it calls for occasionally get the better of him by comparison to how golden & flawless those first two cuts are. He catches the vibe we're looking for a lot more in the chorus than the verse to be fair…and believe me, I'm not saying there's nothing worth your time on "Love Is Like That" – far from it – it's one of the record's strongest & most diverse ideas…and I'd be willing to bet money that since it's been recorded, James has probably already noticed that he can sing this tune better now than when he did at the time. In my opinion – a track like "Love Is Like That" is definitely one that, given the opportunity, I'd probably go back for another round or two in the vocal-booth to bring that fluidity the writing is calling out for. Musically, I think we're talking all-aces here…I love the hooks & sparkle the guitars bring to this song and the shift into the chorus is a serious highlight to be found upon this entire record…that's a single-worthy sound right there is what that is. Kind of like a more innovative & cool Jack Johnson here on the title-track of The Crossing Crew's record…the appeal of that sample in the music can't be denied – or all of it really – when it comes to the instrumentation and execution on this song, it's spot-right-on.
I think for the most-part, The Crossing Crew steers the ship right back on course with "Better" to follow. Ultimately, I think there's probably more potential for a song like "Love Is Like That" to go on to reach a single-worthy type of tune – but "Better" has a solid mystique & unique vibe to it. I dig the lyrics quite a bit, though I'm not a massive fan of the vocal-flow to the verse; James sings it well, there's no doubt about that – I actually like that quite a bit…it just felt maybe a bit more familiar & less creative than he's already proved he's capable of being perhaps. Not necessarily easy for him – I'm sure it's taken him plenty of effort to come up with this whole song…but maybe a bit easier for him by comparison to the other tunes you'll hear on the record. Which on one hand, means that the level of execution is certainly there – you may feel one way or the other about this part of the song or that part, but when it comes to his performance on the microphone or in the music, he's delivering in-full on his potential. When you get to the chorus of "Better," I felt like that's where you'll find the most gold here in this song in terms of the melody & hooks that pull you in. I'll admit…there is a fair amount of pull towards the verse through the storytelling style the lyrics presents and the fact that James sings this song like there's an added wisdom in his voice, which definitely has an great effect on how cohesive this idea also ends up. The way the melody & his vocals drift off in the chorus makes for a genuinely captivating moment in "Better" that I couldn't take my ears off of…I love Paul's vocals in this tune and how it seems like he's singing to us, of course, but like he's also lost in the sea & swirl of his own thoughts at the same time. Definitely my favorite guitar moment/solo on the record as well around the two-minute mark…like I said, it might be an easier idea to come to him, but he executes bang-on.
"Feel" has some of my favorite musicianship of any tune…maybe not just from this album, maybe from this entire year if I'm being honest with ya – this is fantastic. James, with his quaint Indie-Folk style, has stumbled into a song that expertly combines the old with the new in a highly relevant way that'll connect with the hearts & minds of the people out there. The guitars have incredible moments – the vocals are beautifully unique, especially when it comes to the melody of the one-word chorus & title of "Feel" – it's such an unexpected part of the song, yet such an excellent fit. And for about two-minutes or more, this tune just kind of saunters along, almost like it doesn't even notice we're right here listening – and then in the final fifty-seconds or so, absolutely sparks-up with personality, with a muted trumpet in the mix making an essential appearance on this song & record. Do I need a whole lot MORE of that sound than The Crossing Crew gives me? YES. Yes I do. But I suppose I'll have to take what I can get in this instance…the bottom line is, it's sheer sonic perfection and provides "Feel" with a noteworthy highlight of its own in the music beyond what the guitars create & the vocals supply. I'll admit…"Feel" is an odd gem of its own design in many ways…even in the folk-genre, you don't often hear a tune like this one…ultimately, the uniqueness in what James is comes up with should play to his advantage over time.
I'm a huge fan of the way that The Crossing Crew is getting many of these songs recorded…make no mistake, it can play a gigantic role in what pulls us in to listen and James completely uses this to his advantage at points throughout this record, exemplified best on "That Pain" towards the end of the album. The main banjo melody that fuels the entire song is set in the distance…the vocals just a bit in front of them…and then elements like the violins will enter into the mix over top; it provides stunning clarity in each element, but it really also has its own distinct sound & atmosphere. Dude deserves an award for this cut as far as I'm concerned; he's nailed that truly humble, backwoods folk-sound to perfection on "That Pain." The harmonica solo…is absolutely the best moment the instrument has on the record, earning its time in the spotlight and giving it up to the exceptional violin coming in to follow. "That Pain" is another oddity when it comes right down to it – many of these songs by The Crossing Crew really are…you call it Indie, call it low-key College-Rock/Garage-Pop, call it Folk – there's just about a million theories you could apply to the sound of what you hear in this project – but I guarantee it'll be just as outstanding to you for the texture of the music as it will for the ideas you'll hear.
All the proof you need of that is right there in "That Pain" – which is also a highlight for its intentions…this is one of those tunes that seeks to gently advise & guide us through Paul's experience, words, and wisdom – not at all in a forceful way…more-so one that speaks directly from the heart with entirely good intentions. "That Pain" may be unavoidable in life for many reasons, many of which he'll outline through a tale of adolescence and growing up throughout the lyrics…but The Crossing Crew will also offer a few suggestions on how to navigate on through your sea of emotions, thoughts & feelings to better days.
"Find & Forgive" is a short & sweet final tune to end the album on. Musically, I adore it – I think The Crossing Crew ends on another strong highlight here in that sense. Lyrically, I dig that too – the sentiment, intentions, and ambitions that run through this entire record are blissfully altruistic and endearing to say the least. Vocally…I might be a bit more mixed there – I like the idea in the melody, I think James gives it a good performance as well – I'm just not entirely sure that the gruffness & edge of his voice was what the music was calling for in this particular case…and the smoother or shinier approaches he's taken earlier on in songs like "We Two" or "Are We Ever" might have fit this better. It works well enough that I certainly shouldn't be complaining – and ultimately I'm not – "Find & Forgive" might not be my favorite cut on Love Is Like That and maybe a little uneven in the balance between its energies somewhat, but it's still got plenty of redeeming qualities in the music & melody that make it worthwhile. Besides…it's a ninety-second long tune – we've all got time to fit something short & sweet like this somewhere into our day and onto our playlists, don't we? You know you do. The Crossing Crew has put plenty of great ideas and melodies into the music you'll find all throughout this record – and if you've got the repeat button checked like it should be, you're right back into the inherent gorgeousness of "We Two" all over again…and likely easily hooked right into another spin like I was, several times.
We Two
you and me and you are never blue
always to do, got something new
for me and you are never through
oh yes we two
and the silver spokes
on the wheel go round and round
I run to your door
and the choir sings, she's not at home
so I roll round to the marketplace in town
we meet up there
and the city echoes our little joy
on the wheels go round and round
you and me and two, now baby blue
so much to do, a small face new
you and me and blue, now a girl too
so much to do, they're off to school
copyright 2018, James Paul Moravec
Are We Ever
gonna live within our means
gonna step out
from living in between
will the sunrise
greet us to a better day
and will time buy the peace
we look for when we pray
I give it all I got
and just a little bit more
nobody holding me back
or giving me the what for
call me loser, or gypsy
just one more time
sticks and stones baby
little words don't mean rhyme
that fear makes you afraid
you'll never open the gate
are you gonna wait here forever
that hope gives you more hope
make that fear fall away
all things now possible, whatever
so much better than a hero name
we were ready when winter came
they would let us say anything
in the end nothing they could bring
no doubt better than selfish me
give it up now im feeling free
so much better to have loved and lost
than a tiny boat here tempest tossed
so much better, so much better
so much better when you know the cost
don't tell me when all hope is lost
sooner head out to the open sea
future unknown than to let things be
My burn is a play on words
nothing like you ever heard
when it comes time to let go
you run to me
paper torn I cannot fold
true as long the tale told
and now that the deed it done
I die for you
love is like that, not a show
giving over
to the better me
your burn is a slight of hand
never goes like you had planned
you can't find you
center mass the wind is gone
no pain you feel moving on
you die for you
to the better me, Jesus I know
I stopped by just to let you know
I dont mind it
I held hate in my heart for you
but now I cant find it
some might say my mind's at play
but a greater love helped me
throw it away, Ooh
I have power to let things go
nothing behind it
rage is giving way to peace
I hope you can find it
but a greater love
helped me throw it away
That Pain
the woman who bore you
had to push you out too soon
and then she hit the road and with a man
and you grew up with aunt June
now you do the same to everyone
cause that is what you do
now you do they same to anyone
who tries to get close to you
first thing you gotta do
is help yourself and let go of that pain
don't lay it on someone else
gotta learn to care and live again
school you was so hard on you
but you did not know why
at 15 years old you dropped out
because you did not try
now you do the same to everything
now you quit most anything
that tries to get close to you
and learn to care and live again
feel, feel, feel, feel
feel like your always on your own
real time is all you know
no looking back to learn from time
no learning from scene of the crime
still, still, still, still
still lost here but go I go
will this peace I found now hold
stand still lost on the causeway
orderly threads begin to fray
feel like your always your own
hoping that true love would show
patch me up mother mine
mend me just one more time
The Crossing Crew © 2020 by James Paul Moravec


Originally Published: September 18, 2018 10:15 a.m.
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Texas Rangers' prospect Ronald Guzman can definitely be considered one of the leaders of the Double-A Texas League so far this season. The twenty-one year old was signed by the Rangers in July 2011 out of the Dominican Republic at just sixteen years old.
He made his pro ball debut in the summer of 2012 with the AZL Rangers where he hit .321 in fifty-two games. He has continued his journey the last few seasons throughout the Texas Rangers Organization and after the 2015 season was chosen as the Rangers' Organization All-Star by MiLB.com. In 2015, he hit .283 with 12 homers and 87 RBIs while slugging .434 and an .324 OB while splitting his time with the Class-A Advanced affiliate.
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I'm Japanese. After having stayed in UK and Ireland, currently live in Spain. **I'm teaching online to all levels from Zero Japanese knowledge to Noken N1 advanced level.** I have basic Japanese lesson for beginners and also general conversation lesson. I love to encourage students and would like students to have fun studying, thus your request for lesson is also welcomed. For students who say "I dislike to study grammar!", I'm teaching words and phrases in the conversation practice that I decide the theme each time. I speak slowly according to the level, and explain in English or Spanish when it's needed. Additionally since I worked in medical feild, I have lesson to practice with paper patient or to read medical articles.
Soy japonesa. Después de haber estado en el Reino Unido e Irlanda, actualmente vivo en España. Estoy enseñando en línea a todos los niveles, desde conocimientos de japonés zero hasta nivel avanzado Noken N1. Tengo una lección básica de japonés para principiantes y también una lección de conversación general. Me gusta animar a los estudiantes y me gustaría que los estudiantes se diviertan estudiando, por lo que su solicitud de lección también es bienvenida. Hablo lentamente de acuerdo con el nivel, y explico en inglés o español cuando sea necesario. Además, desde que trabajé en el campo médico, tengo una lección para practicar con un paciente de papel o para leer artículos médicos.
Miyuki sensei is an amazing Japanese teacher, patient, focus on what you need, so friendly and always explain everything easily. She send you your lesson after end up and if you have any question always she is going to answer it.
Miyuki-Sensei is a fantastic teacher. She is always top motivated, super friendly, punctual and very patient. I like that we focus alot on speaking japanese together. She teaches you how to speak natural japanese and not to sound like a textbook :)). What helps me alot is the PDF which she sends you after the lesson. There you can see as example the mistakes you made (with corrections) and the new grammar&words you learnt during the lesson. She also gives you homework if you wish which is very great! I can fully recommend her as a japanese teacher!
With Miyuki, I have had an hour lesson more than 10 times already. Miyuki is very dependable, and very skillful to teach Japanese. Not only that, she is very knowledgeable about many fields. I'd like to have more lessons with her.
Miyuki is a great teacher! she is patient and her explanations are really good. After each lesson she sends a PDF document with all of the difficult words and the new grammar forms you have learned during class- this document really helped me develop my vocabulary in Japanese! Each lesson has a topic to talk about and the lesson is dynamic and adjusted to the student. If you want to improve your Japanese, I really recommend you to take Miyuki's class!
Miyuki is a wonderful teacher. Upon completion of the lesson she sends me a list of new words (in hiragana and kanji) and phrases that I have had trouble with during our lesson. She is very encouraging and I believe would be a great teacher for all levels. I am glad to have found Miyuki and recommend others to try her lesson.
Profesora muy puntual y que cumple con la hora de clase. Aprendizaje personalizado y muy ameno. Su nivel de español es muy bueno lo que permite una buena comprensión del japonés. Pone atención a tus intereses y hacia dónde quieres enfocar tu aprendizaje. No tiene problemas en responder a dudas o preguntas del idioma o cultural. Clases muy divertidas y perfectamente adecuadas para niños.
General conversation practice lesson. I will choose and tell you topics before the lesson. Teach you vocabulary and expression, and give you a sheet about what you learned.
For those in medic / healthcare, according to your needs, you could practice with the paper patient or read articles related to medicine to learn pronunciation, vocabulary and expressions.
La clase de práctica de conversación general. Prepararé las temas y le avisaré antes de la clase. Enseñarle vocabulario y expresión, y luego enviarle una hoja sobre lo que aprendió.
In a basic Japanese lesson for beginners, you would learn useful knowledge for travel, such as greetings and shopping.
In the first lesson, you would learn self introduce, greetings and vocabulary. But you already know some of them, let's go forward! For those who don't want to "study", I would teach vocabulary and frases for the topic or situations what we choose.
En las lecciones básicas de japonés para principiantes, aprenderá conocimientos útiles para viajar, como saludos y compras.
En la primera lección, aprenderá a presentarse, saludos y vocabulario. Pero si ya conoce algunos de esos, ¡sigamos adelante! Para la gente que no quiere "estudiar", le enseñaría vocabulario y frases sobre el tema o las situaciones que elegimos.
In a lesson for those in medic / healthcare, according to your needs, you could practice with the paper patient or read articles related to medicine to learn pronunciation, vocabulary and expressions.


I would estimate this photograph was taken between 1955-57. From the left Sandy Maclean, Willie Mackay who lived in Clyde Street, Hamish Urquhart and Donald Macleod (Shortie) who both lived in the High Street.
Thanks Harry for your comments! When I sent in this picture I didn't know Shortie had passed away but have since spoken to my cousin Amelia Muckle and she confirmed that he had. This is a lovely photograph of him, I hope one of his family will see it. Hamish was in the police force in Edinburgh or Glasgow but I am not sure where he is now. Willie still lives in Invergordon. I think Sandy Maclean used to live in Tomich.
There must have been a dance on at the Town Hall! I don't remember Sandy either but memories of the others came flooding back as if it was yesterday. Doesn't Willie have a real "Scottish" face? The period would be just before Teddy Boys and Rock and Roll hit us, so when you dressed up you wore the same as your dad - no youth culture in those days.
Hamish Urquhart was in the police in Glasgow and is now retired and still living there.
I can confirm that "Shortie's" son Terry has seen the picture of his father on the site and can also state that Terry's own picture can be seen in picture #883. The family likeness is evident..
I am Shortie's daughter and now live in Glen Etive.... It was really nice to see his picture. We have just had Hamish and Evelyn, Brenda and Willie and Mum down for the weekend so we all had a great time catching up on the past and the present. Think this is a brilliant site, keep up the good work. My eldest son looks very like his grandad, I only wish he was still here to be proud of them.
I worked with Shortie in the Distillery for 3 years. He was always up for laugh, but at the same time a very talented mechanical fitter.


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Kurd Sellout Watch, Day 54.
Two days ago, Chatterbox wondered whether the United States had invited Turkish troops into Iraq, as had been reported in the Turkish daily Zaman. He now thinks the United States did not—or, if it did, did so via a meaningless boilerplate "question text" sent to all coalition members. At the moment, our soldiers in Iraq seem far more intent on kicking Turkish troops out.
Michael Ware reported yesterday on Time magazine's Web site that U.S. paratroopers had captured roughly a dozen Turkish soldiers trying to sneak into Kirkuk. Ware said they were Turkish special forces in civilian clothes who came down from Turkey under the pretext that they were assisting a shipment of humanitarian aid. The paratroopers found AK-47s, grenades, and other weapons in the Turks' cars, Ware reported, and concluded they were there to foment rebellion among the Turkmen population against the newly arrived Kurds. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul denied the soldiers were sent by the Turkish government, but U.S. Ambassador Robert Pearson surely pressed Gul on this today when Gul summoned him to discuss a separate matter.
All told, it's been a very good couple of days for the Kurds.


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Exclusive: Lin Shaye Talks Status of Insidious Franchise & Possible Return
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While chatting with the star for her upcoming film The Call in which she stars alongside fellow horror genre icon Tobin Bell (Saw franchise), ComingSoon.net explored the state of the Insidious franchise and the possibility of her return for a fifth installment in the Leigh Whannell-penned series.
RELATED: Patrick Wilson Open to Returning for Insidious 5
Word first began circling last year that Whannell (The Invisible Man), James Wan (Aquaman) and producer Jason Blum were in talks about developing a new story for the series and after expressing doubt earlier this year as to her potential return, Shaye confirms that she's not heard word about another film, though chalks it up more to the state of the world than a disinterest in the franchise.
"I think everybody is so preoccupied with the horror of our own society, we're in a horror film right now of sorts," Shaye laughed. "There was some thought at one point that James had about another Insidious, but I've heard nothing. I think everybody's preoccupied. I'm good with whatever, if we come back, I'm in The Further this time, so that will be different."
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Though her time may or may not be at an end for the box office hit franchise, the 76-year-old expressed she felt "honored" the lengths at which Whannell, Wan and The Last Key director Adam Robitel went to explore her paranormal investigating Elise and that she's ready to continue if everyone else is.
"It was a really beautiful arc for me to find as the character and in the storyline," Shaye warmly described. "Right now it's all about The Call and I hope Insidious has provided me with a beautiful frame work to remember right now. Now it's in my memory and I would love it if there was another one, of course, but we'll see."
RELATED: Enter ComingSoon's The Pale Door Giveaway from RLJE Films & Shudder!
The first film hit theaters in April 2011 and was a major success, earning generally positive reviews from critics and audiences and scaring up just under $100 million at the box office. Its success not only helped revive Wan's and writer Leigh Whannell's careers but also helped Blumhouse Productions continue their rise to its current mammoth status of box office champion.
The Call is set to hit select drive-ins and theaters on October 2 and tickets can be purchased here!


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Q: How to find similiarity between two row data I try to remove one of almost duplicated data from data set programmatically. My data set is logically like the table below.As you see there is two rows in data set and a human can understand easily that this two data is related and probably added by same person.

My solution to this problem is using Levenshtein two compare fields(name,address,telephone number) separately and find their similarity ratio. Then I calculate average ratio as 0.77873. This similarity results seems to low. My python code is like
from Levenshtein import ratio
name     =  ratio("Game of ThOnes Books for selling","Selling Game of Thrones books")
address  =  ratio("George Washington street","George Washington st.")
phone    =  ratio("555-55-55","0(555)-55-55")

total_ratio = name+address+phone
print total_ratio/3 #Average ratio

My question is what is the best way two compare row data? Which algorithms or methodologies is require for doing this?


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Many of us are too keenly aware of the destruction being done to residential neighborhoods, by excessive flight scheduling at the few U.S. airports where airlines are expanding their hubs. To protect homes and health, more of us are now forced to fight with FAA and airport authorities, asking for information and filing our concerns and complaints. This fight is generally made more difficult by one of FAA's ugliest habits: their tendency to impede real education of citizens who are impacted by aviation.
Sadly, FAA et al tend to bury us with acronyms that cause eyes to glaze over. They try to dazzle us with vague technical references, hoping we become so overwhelmed by the details that we just have to step back and let the experts work this all out. They do not want us to know, of course, that the experts are routinely being compensated by FAA and/or industry, which of course biases their 'expertise' with a pro-aviation slant.
And so, there is a need for us to cultivate our own expertise. Fortunately, the internet offers very many resources, not just for research but also for helping one another.
Here's a tool that can help. The scrollable PDF below can be downloaded and shared, and it can be viewed offline. It presents an example of how one online flight tracking website (in this case, FlightAware) can be used to gather more information about impacting flights. The links within the PDF are all active.
Please use this tutorial. Learn, research, and share, so others can benefit from your research; so we can precisely present the data needed to compel FAA and your local airport authority to end the excessive impacts. Airports need to serve the local community first, not the airlines and their failed regulator.


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Perfectly positioned in the heart of the city, The Imperial Hotel has an interesting history. It opened in 1813 and has hosted many famous figures including Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray and Franz Liszt.
Although the lobby is quite grand with marble floors, high ceilings and glittering chandeliers, the hotel is not pretentious and the friendly staff ensure a welcoming atmosphere. Rooms feature subtle tones and all modern amenities.
The hotel takes pride in only using quality ingredients of Irish origin, many of which come from Cork's famous English Market. The elegant Pembroke Restaurant serves traditional dishes with a modern twist and the chic Seventy Six on the Mall bar is popular for evening drinks.
Stylishly designed with comfortable chairs, crisp linens and soft duvets, all rooms have a warm, inviting atmosphere. The classic and superior guest rooms are similarly decorated in soft tones with carefully appointed furnishings that can be rearranged to accommodate a variety of bedding options. Rooms are equipped with a Nespresso coffee machine and have a spacious bathroom stocked with Orla Kiely toiletries, and either a shower over the bath or a walk-in shower. Some rooms also include a sofa bed for families. The lavish Penthouse Suite boasts floor-to-ceiling windows and a more contemporary design. All rooms feature complimentary Wi-Fi, digital music library and internet browser, and interactive TV.
Occupying a prime position in the heart of the city, the 200-year-old Imperial Hotel is the oldest guest accommodation in Cork. The famous English Market is less than a ten minute walk from the hotel and is so close to the property that the chefs rely on the market's fresh fish, meat, vegetables and spices for their gourmet cuisine. Numerous cafes, restaurants and shops can be also be found within moments of the hotel.
The hotel prides itself on the fact that all of their ingredients are of Irish origin and sourced responsibly – many of them coming from Cork's famous English Market. The contemporary Pembroke Restaurant puts a modern twist on traditional Irish dishes and offers an early bird menu for those who want to dine before the opera. In addition, a light lunch or an afternoon snack can be enjoyed in the casual Lafayette's Brasserie. At night, the intimate alcoves of the stylish Seventy Six on the Mall are the perfect place for an evening drink.
Facilities and activities
In addition to its state of the art gym, The Imperial Hotel offers indulgent beauty treatments in its Escape Spa. Services inspired by plant-based products, such as aloe and seaweed, include holistic massages, facials and luxury manicures and pedicures. The spa also features a Vitality Suite equipped with relaxing tropical, rain and mist showers, a hydrotherapy pool and Aroma and Salt Grottos.
With an unbeatable location and a grand yet welcoming atmosphere, this is a fantastic option.
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Ballymaloe House
A family-owned country manor with a prestigious cookery school, Ballymaloe House offers elegant and attractive guest rooms amid an expansive farm estate situated 40 minutes east of Cork. Dining is a highlight, with local sourced ingredients forming exquisite tasting menus.
Castlemartyr Resort
The Castlemartyr Resort is located in east Cork on vast grounds containing ruins from a castle built in 1210. The historic resort once served as a private boarding school for boys and now consists of three dining options, a modern spa, and opulent guest rooms.
Cliff House Hotel
This boutique hotel on Ireland's south coast offers a high level of service and sophistication along with a warm and friendly atmosphere. Highlights include the Michelin-starred House Restaurant, an indoor pool and sweeping views of the sea from all rooms.
Hayfield Manor exquisitely blends old world charm with contemporary conveniences. Tucked away in its own grounds, this sophisticated hotel is only a short walk from the heart of Cork and offers exceptional service and award-winning cuisine.
Perfectly situated close to the heart of Cork, The River Lee hotel elegantly blends bright, cheery communal spaces with simple, contemporary guest rooms. Facilities include a lively outdoor terrace bar that overlooks the water and a huge state-of-the-art fitness studio.
Behind-the-scenes tour at the Jameson Distillery
In use for over 150 years and full of character, the Old Jameson Distillery is an ideal place to learn about the history of whiskey distilling in Ireland. This engaging tour gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the whole process.
Walking tour of Cork
Explore Cork's history on a walking tour of the city, learning about its links with ancient saints and fleeing French Protestants. You'll also learn how it came to be an international maritime hub and the impact all these influences had on the city.


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Home / Main News / Kariba Dam wall a ticking time bomb
Kariba Dam wall a ticking time bomb
Posted on December 9, 2016 by The Independent in Main News
… urgent repairs needed to avert regional disaster
KARIBA Dam has become a ticking time bomb that could cost lives and plunge the southern African region into darkness should the authorities fail to rehabilitate the dam wall of one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.
Zimbabwe is facing an energy deficit due to limited investment in the capital-intensive sector. As of Monday this week, the country was generating 883 megawatts (MW) out of peak demand of 2 200MW. Kariba hydropower plant generates 500MW daily, but experts say delays in upgrading the dam wall could be catastrophic for the region. The lake is crucial for power generation in Zambia, Zimbabwe and downstream Cahora Bassa hydroelectric generation
The Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) and Aon South Africa issued a report last year written by IRMSA founder member Kay Darbourn revealing that the dam wall would collapse if urgent repair work was not carried out promptly.
"If nothing is done, the dam will collapse in three years," Darbourn warned in her report.
Nico Bianco, the head of the business unit in charge of corporate affairs at Aon South Africa — which is a leading risk advisor and insurance brokerage as well as sponsor of the report — warns of dire consequences should the Kariba Dam collapse.
"The potential failure of the Kariba Dam is a Southern Africa regional risk that falls into the infrastructure risk category, but in addition it would lead to severe power supply constraints — another key challenge currently impacting the region," Bianco said. "This report shows that all of us in Southern Africa will suffer the impact if this risk materialises and calls for each of us to take an interest and be as involved as possible in preventing this potential catastrophe from happening. The impact will span across the entire risk consequence spectrum, from significant loss of life, damage to property and the environment, to economic fall-out.
"This risk and its potential consequences need to be viewed as part of the existing power supply and demand challenges in the region and will require a strong commitment from governments, private companies and financiers to prevent the failure from happening. By providing this information to our clients and other risk managers in the IRMSA network, we hope to empower you to make the right decisions with regards to the risks you and your company may face."
The World Bank, which has organised the funding for the rehabilitation of the dam, does not share the view proffered by the two organisations that Kariba Dam is on the brink of collapse that could plunge the region into a major power deficit.
However, the rehabilitation of Kariba Dam, which was supposed to begin last year and is expected to cost US$294,2 million, has not yet taken off with expectations that it will now begin next year.
Ministry of Energy permanent secretary Partson Mbiriri told journalists in November 2014 that the rehabilitation of the dam wall, which involves the remodeling of the plunge pool and the refurbishment of the six spill gates, would start in the first half of 2015. He said the remodelling of the pool would cost US$125 million, while the remainder of the US$294,2 million would be used for the refurbishment of the spill gates. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority will be the borrower for the project.
Last year Mbiriri told the Zimbabwe Independent in an interview that the expectation of having started the project in the first half of 2015 "was ambitious".
"We were too ambitious with our targets," Mbiriri said. "When you have World Bank and EU as your partners, it is a very thorough process and therefore it will take more time."
A senior official in the ministry who spoke to this paper last month said the project is expected to begin next year.
"The adjudication process for an international contractor to implement and supervise the project is ongoing and we expect the rehabilitation of the Kariba dam to begin next year," the official said. He, however, could not say how long the adjudication process to secure a contractor for the project would take.
Economist John Robertson called the reports "discouraging and alarmist" as work is being done on the dam.
Lack of proper planning and poor management of the Kariba Dam resulted in massive power cuts last year as both Zambia's power utility, Zambia Electricity Supply Company (Zesco) and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, through its subsidiary the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), burst their water usage ceiling by huge volumes resulting in an unprecedented decline of water levels in the dam.
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company in September last year introduced a schedule of massive power cuts stretching up to 18 hours a day, attributing this development to low water levels at Kariba Dam, generation constraints at Hwange Power Station and limited imports. The power utility has also blamed weather patterns, especially drought, as well as introducing unusual methods of preserving power supply, which includes the ban on electric geysers.
In a report titled Kariba Dam and Power Crisis: The Cost of Poor Management, Greg Mills, the head of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, which has a global network of top analysts, pointed out that excessive use of water by both Zesco and ZPC is the reason for the current major power crisis in Zimbabwe.
Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe, was designed and constructed between 1955 and 1959.
Designed by Coyne et Bellier of France and constructed by Salini Impreglio of Italy in two main phases, the dam was financed by the World Bank and Zambia.
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