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There is a seemingly endless number of obscure tennis tournaments held around the world each year but in the eyes of any real punter there are only four tournaments that mean anything. The Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open make up the most prestigious tour circuit of all: the Grand Slam Tournaments.
Major bookies around the world offer some outstanding promotions for the duration of the big four, with Australian, USA, Spain, France and British punters among those who enjoy betting on who will claim glory.
You often hear the leading players say they cater their training loads to peak for the grand slam tournaments and in turn some like Serena Williams have brilliant records at the majors. While it is well and truly possible to grind out a winning year as a punter on the tennis circuit, it is during the grand slams when the most money passes between bettors and the bookies.
While much of the attention is on the men and women's singles crown at the grand slams, each tournament on the Grand Slam tour also includes men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles events.
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The Australian Open is a hard court tournament and kicks off the Grand Slam Tour in January each year. Held at Melbourne Park tennis centre in Melbourne, the tournament has been played in one form or another since 1905. However back then it often moved cities from year to year. The current incarnation of the tournament has been locked in and played in Melbourne since 1972.
The 2016 Australian Open is set to eclipse the $40,000,000 mark in prize money, making it the third richest tournament on the calendar behind Wimbledon and the US Open.
Since the tournament became an open event to professionals in 1969 there have been some great names to win the tournament, none doing better than current day champ Novak Djokovic. He has dominated the men's singles with five tournament wins, three of which were consecutive.
For the women's singles Australian's own Margaret Court managed to win 11 titles both before and after 1969. Court strung together seven consecutive titles before '69 and another three consecutive titles after '69. However exclusively in the modern era, Serena Williams holds the record for most titles at six.
The French Open, also known as Roland Garros, is held annually at Roland Garros in Paris and gets started at the end of May each year. It marks the second stop of the Grand Slam tour. The only Grand Slam tournament to be played on a clay court, The French Open has a prize pool of AU $35.6 million dollars.
What is now known as the French Open started in 1891 as a National tennis tournament in which only members of French tennis clubs could enter. From there the tournament evolved over the years and in several different forms to eventually solidify itself until 1968 when the competition became an open event for both amateurs and professionals alike.
Since its open status Rafael Nadal has dominated the French Open and relished the clay court claiming nine titles, winning all but one title between 2005 and 2014. For the women, Chris Evert is the most successful claiming seven titles between 1974 and 1986.
Other great clay courters to have won the French Open include Thomas Muster, Gustavo Kuerten, Bjorn Borg, Michael Chang and Ivan Lendl. In the ladies American Chris Evert stands head and shoulders above her peers with seven French Open titles, with German Steffi Graf having won six. The pick of the ladies presently playing are Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova who have both been crowned Queen of Roland Garros twice.
Wimbledon is the oldest of the Grand Slam events and highly steeped in tradition. In fact, Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament that is still around today, having begun in 1877. Played on grass courts at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, Wimbledon begins toward the end of June each year.
All participants in Wimbledon must adhere to the rules and only wear white clothing when competing in Wimbledon which is a great tradition to see survive after so many years. Interestingly Wimbledon was the grand slam last tournament to hold off installing a roof on centre court, but this tradition was scotched in recent years.
Wimbledon is not only the oldest competition on the Grand Slam circuit but also the richest, boasting a war chest in winnings of US $50,000,000.
In the modern era (since 1968) Pete Sampras and Roger Federer each won seven titles in the Gentlemen's singles. Federer was even able to string five of those wins together consecutively.
In the Ladies Martina Navratilova has won nine titles, six of which were consecutive wins. Graf was also prominent on grass having won seven titles. Again in the current players it's William throwing down the gauntlet with seven Wimbledon singles crowns.
Founded in 1881 the US Open is played at Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York City in late August each year.
This hard court tournament has had many location changes over the years before finally settling at Flushing Meadows and has even changed surface from grass to clay to hard court. This is the final stop of the Grand Slam tournament circuit, beginning in late August each year.
The US Open boasts a prize pool of AU$48.7 million dollars each year.
In the modern era of the event Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer have dominated the men's singles event with five titles each. Federer even managed each of his five wins consecutively.
Chris Evert and Serena Williams have each claimed six titles in the ladies singles. Evert even strung together four of her titles in consecutively.
Best Bookies for Tennis Betting
Online bookies are great for betting on tennis both in-play and for futures or outright bets. You can find extremely competitive odds in almost every country in the world for the four major tennis tournaments each year.
Depending on where you are situated in the world will have a great bearing on what bookmaker or sportsbook you should use to bet on tennis.
You need to take a number of things into consideration before choosing a bookie. Do they accept people from your country? If you are from the USA you are much more restricted in betting options, than say, if you were from Australia – where online gambling is regulated and a booming industry.
Other European countries like France have strict online gambling laws, so you need to be aware of restrictions that may be placed on you.
Often the website won't be blocked to people of your residence, with it more like they simply won't have the appropriate deposit options for people in your country. Always be aware you need to be able to cashout if you are depositing at a bookie.
Tips for Betting on Tennis
Like every bet you make, be informed! A little knowledge can go a long way. Know what the surface is for the tournament you are thinking of betting on. Obviously Rafael Nadal is close to unbeatable on clay but can be up and down on surfaces like grass. It pays to look at lead-up form.
Who is playing? Some players simply struggle against some players. One prime example is Maria Sharapova's struggles against Serena Williams. So manipulate your bets accordingly.
What is your bet's history playing on that surface? What is your bet's history against their opponent? What is your bet's current form? These are all questions you need to ask yourself before punting on tennis.
Then you have to look at the odds. Do you actually see any value in the odds? It always pays to do a quick scan of several different bookmakers to make sure you are getting the best possible odds. That extra 40 cents you find on a Federer victory might be the difference between a winning day and a losing day.
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There really is nothing better than spending a lazy day at the beach!
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The Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path is a developing long distance route that follows much of the island's coastline.
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The Wales Way are three iconic routes that take you through the best that Wales has to offer.
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In light of Covid-19 (coronavirus) many of our events in 2020 have been cancelled, postponed or have gone 'virtual'. Check out our social media pages @visitanglesey for all the latest updates or to search for events, choose from the categories below.
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Aberlleiniog, Llangoed and Penmon all lie in close proximity to one another within the south eastern corner of Anglesey. This area is covered by the mature, predominantly broadleaf woodland that fringes the Menai Strait. It lies within the Anglesey Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The landscape between the town of Beaumaris and Black Point is sublimely attractive, with stunning, far reaching views of the Menai Strait, the coast of mainland North Wales, the Great Orme headland and the majestic Snowdon and Carneddau mountain ranges. The pretty village of Llangoed has its own Local Nature Reserve, with Aberlleiniog Castle – a restored 11th century Norman motte and bailey castle - at its centre. The charming village of Penmon lies within a mile or so of Llangoed, and is directly linked to footpaths through Penmon Deer Park (which historically held deer), and on to Penmon Priory, Black Point and around the area's impressive limestone quarries. Black Point boasts a distinctive black and white striped lighthouse, and superb views across the Puffin Sound to Puffin Island. Penmon has a wealth of historical attractions, which include the ancient Priory, Church and dovecote. There is a car park (small charge payable) immediately adjacent to the buildings.
Llangoed has a car park at the centre of the village, and there are car parks at Lleiniog beach and at Black Point. There are numerous walks in the area, including the Anglesey Coastal Path, which presents a good opportunity to explore and appreciate the area's varied habitats and landscape features.
For a list of public toilets on the island, please see Isle of Anglesey County Council - public toilets
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Q: How to make a scatter chart completely ignore blank cell (Python Plotly) I'm working on a dataset with columns: YM, Type (Level 1), Subtype (level 2).
Under each level-1 type, there are a couple of different level-2 subtypes.
For example, under the type "Capital raising", there are subtypes "venture capital" and  "private equity"; or, under the type "M&A", there are subtypes "merger" and "acquisition"... etc.
I want to plot a chart like this, but only keep the subtypes under the correct type.
That is, remove the rows such as "merger" and "acquisition" from the type "Capital raising.
I'm wondering if it's possible.
Below is the code I used to plot the scatter graph.
Thanks so much for helping!
df_ym_subtype = data.groupby(['YM','Type (Level 1)', 'Subtype (Level 2)']).size().to_frame('count').reset_index()
#df_y_m_ht['sales'] = round(df_y_m_ht['sales'], 2)

# chart
fig = px.scatter(df_ym_subtype, x='YM', y='Subtype (Level 2)', color='count', size='count',
                 facet_row='Type (Level 1)', title='Average Sales: Holiday_type Vs Year(Month)')

# styling
fig.update_yaxes(ticksuffix='  ')
#fig.update_xaxes(tickmode = 'array', tickvals=[i for i in range(1,17)])
fig.update_layout(height=900, xaxis_title='', yaxis_title='',
                  margin=dict(t=70, b=0),
                  plot_bgcolor='#fafafa', paper_bgcolor='#fafafa',
                  title_font=dict(size=29, color='#444', family="Lato, sans-serif"),
                  font=dict(color='#555'),
                  hoverlabel=dict(bgcolor="#f2f2f2", font_size=13, font_family="Lato, sans-serif"))

fig.show()

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It seems that the new part of the Assassin & # 39; s Creed series is already under development and that gamers will not be able to play until 2020.
YouTube blogger JorRaptor drew attention to the posters of The Division 2, hung in a virtual copy of the Potomac Event Center. In the image an unknown man in a white cape and a red cloak walks in an unknown direction and he holds the apple of Eden in his hands. The poster also has the inscription "Valhalla", which refers to Norse mythology. The blogger decided that this was an allusion to the new Assassin & # 39; s Creed and was right.
Guy's guess was confirmed by journalist Kotaku Jason Schreier, who was told about the project by two independent sources who were familiar with the game. According to Schreier, the game is called in the walls of Ubisoft Assassin & # 39; s Creed: Kingdom, there will be Vikings in it and a new part of the series will appear in 2020. Note that at the same time it is expected that the consoles of the ninth generation will be released and that a new part of the series may already appear on PlayStation 5 or Projekt Scarlet (the new Xbox).
The setting of the AC is also suggested by the work of Ubisoft Milan & # 39; s artist Michel Nusera, who published an image titled "Viking Hell" in 2018.
The studio did not comment on the guesswork, but this is not the first time the French are hinting at new projects in their own games. For example, Pioneer, which has already been canceled and revived, appeared for the first time in Watch Dogs 2. In addition, a hint of Watch Dogs 3 appeared in the latest patch for Watchdogs.


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19-Year-Olds Don't Belong in Adult Prisons
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | June 20, 2017
Governor Baker introduced a criminal justice bill in February to great fanfare. Designed to give prisoners incarcerated on mandatory minimum sentences access to good-time credit to hasten their release and to provide reentry programming, it received wide bipartisan support — as it should. The justification was clear. "Reducing recidivism," Baker said, was the bill's focus. The people of Massachusetts benefit "when more individuals exit the system as law abiding and productive members of the society."
True enough. Except for those sentenced to life imprisonment, all prisoners get out of jail, and if their needs have not been addressed inside prison, not much will change when they get outside. The bill the governor proposed should help. But measures that would do much much more to address recidivism are pending before the Legislature. Representatives Evandro Carvalho and Kay Khan and Senators Cynthia Creem and Karen Spilka propose to gradually raise the age at which juveniles will be subject to juvenile court jurisdiction to include 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds.
Keeping 18-to-20-year-olds in the juvenile system, where they must attend school and participate in rehabilitative programming, where they are given supervision and intensive services, is the best bet to reduce recidivism. The governor should be championing these bills, as law enforcement representatives already have. Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins and former sheriff Frank Cousins are publicly supporting the bill, because sheriffs know better than anyone what damaging environments adult facilities can be for young people. Our current approach to this age group is a failure, with reoffending being more common than rehabilitation. It is time to try something new, informed by science and aimed at more than incremental change. Continue reading »
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Judge Gorsuch is More Dangerous Than He Appears
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | April 3, 2017
He sounds so judicial. He talks about neutrality, raising plain vanilla issues about deference to the expertise of administrative agencies. It is boring, hardly likely to engender indignation. He says his decisions are required by the law — not affected by his own background. He is Judge Neil Gorsuch and he may soon be on the Supreme Court. Don't be fooled. His approach is not neutral, not required by the law, and far out of the mainstream. Quite apart from social issues like abortion or gay rights, his approach could gut health and safety and antidiscrimination laws. Continue reading »
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How 'Confused' Could Jeff Sessions Have Been?
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | March 6, 2017
That Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a false statement under oath before a congressional committee is clear. He said, "I did not have communications with the Russians," when in fact he had met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The only question is what the consequences should be. Continue reading »
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Secrets of the Grand Jury
By Nancy Gertner and Jack Corrigan | The Boston Globe | April 27, 2016
The Globe reported Sunday that Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh wouldn't say whether he had been a grand jury witness in a federal investigation into the tactics of Boston Building Trades unions. Since then, many have chided him for not being more forthright. But that misses a critical point: Grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret. Government agents are bound by strict confidentiality rules. They may not disclose who has been called, when they testified, or what the subject was; they are barred from releasing information about wiretaps or other evidence they have assembled. While witnesses may speak about their testimony, they do receive a letter from the government with their subpoena that strongly urges them not to do so to protect the integrity of the grand jury investigative process. And that "suggestion" is particularly important in this probe and one that Walsh was right to heed. Continue reading »
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Even When Inconsistent, Justice Scalia Was Certain
On Saturday, February 13, Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia passed away. CLBB Faculty Member Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.) reflects on his legacy.
By Nancy Gertner | The Boston Globe | February 14, 2016
I did not know Justice Antonin Scalia. Following the announcement of his death, I could not help but be struck by the accounts of his warmth, his friendships (notably with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, with whom he regularly disagreed on the Supreme Court), his deep religious commitment, his infectious sense of humor.
I knew him through his opinions, books, and speeches. Even though I disagreed with him much of the time, one thing is clear: His legal positions could not be ignored — not by lawyers, scholars, judges, nor the public. I had to take them seriously in my own judicial decisions and in my writing. And the need to deal with his arguments shifted the debate, even the outcomes. Continue reading »
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Q: Windows + Qt and how to capture webcam feed without OpenCV I'm fighting with this problem from a long time.
I can't get OpenCV to work, and I have follow a lot of tutorials about it and how to use in Qt, so I get tired and I want to avoid the use of OpenCV for this.
Now, my requirement or question... I need to show a webcam feed (real time video, without audio) in a Qt GUI application with only one button: "Take Snapshot" which, obviusly, take a picture from the current feed and store it.
That's all.
Is there anyway to get this done without using OpenCV ?
System specification:

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*Qt 4.8

*Windows XP 32 bits

*USB 2.0.1.3M UVC WebCam (the one I'm using now, it should support other models too)
Hope anybody can help me with this because I'm getting crazy.
Thanks in advance!

A: Ok, I finally did it, so I will post here my solution so we have something clear about this.
I used a library called 'ESCAPI': http://sol.gfxile.net/escapi/index.html
This provide a extremely easy way to capture frames from the device. With this raw data, I just create a QImage which later show in a QLabel.
I created a simple object to handle this.
#include <QDebug>
#include "camera.h"

Camera::Camera(int width, int height, QObject *parent) :
    QObject(parent),
    width_(width),
    height_(height)
{
    capture_.mWidth = width;
    capture_.mHeight = height;
    capture_.mTargetBuf = new int[width * height];

    int devices = setupESCAPI();
    if (devices == 0)
    {
        qDebug() << "[Camera] ESCAPI initialization failure or no devices found";
    }
}

Camera::~Camera()
{
    deinitCapture(0);
}

int Camera::initialize()
{
    if (initCapture(0, &capture_) == 0)
    {
        qDebug() << "[Camera] Capture failed - device may already be in use";
        return -2;
    }
    return 0;
}

void Camera::deinitialize()
{
    deinitCapture(0);
}

int Camera::capture()
{
    doCapture(0);
    while(isCaptureDone(0) == 0);

    image_ = QImage(width_, height_, QImage::Format_ARGB32);
    for(int y(0); y < height_; ++y)
    {
        for(int x(0); x < width_; ++x)
        {
            int index(y * width_ + x);
            image_.setPixel(x, y, capture_.mTargetBuf[index]);
         }
    }
    return 1;
}

And the header file:
#ifndef CAMERA_H
#define CAMERA_H

#include <QObject>
#include <QImage>
#include "escapi.h"

class Camera : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    explicit Camera(int width, int height, QObject *parent = 0);
    ~Camera();
    int initialize();
    void deinitialize();
    int capture();
    const QImage& getImage() const { return image_; }
    const int* getImageRaw() const { return capture_.mTargetBuf; }

private:
    int width_;
    int height_;
    struct SimpleCapParams capture_;
    QImage image_;
};

#endif // CAMERA_H

It's so simple, but just for example purposes.
The use should be something like:
Camera cam(320, 240);
cam.initialize();
cam.capture();
QImage img(cam.getImage());
ui->label->setPixmap(QPixmap::fromImage(img));

Of course, you can use a QTimer and update the frame in QLabel and you will have video there...
Hope it help! and thanks Nicholas for your help!


What is it that you need to affirm about yourself to help you move forward in your spiritual journey? What is it that our congregation needs to affirm about ourselves in order to move forward in our ministry to our neighbors?
In 2006, while I was at Union Theological Seminary, I began a ministry to New York City's restaurant workers. Being the largely self-proclaimed Chaplain to the New York City Restaurant Industry was a ministry, but it wasn't exactly a job. And so to pay the rent I was also working in the industry myself as a busser at a fine dining restaurant here on the Upper West Side. I met a lot of great people, including one of my fellow bussers, Alberto.
It took a while to get to know him because he was kind of a shy guy – which is actually perfect for us busboys. We hover at the edges of the dining room watching our tables sharply and silently. Ideally, we shouldn't ever be noticed. Just before a water glass is emptied we swoop in, fill it, and slip away. When a dirty napkin is dropped on a chair because of a trip to the restroom, we glide to it, fold it, and lay it back on the seat with quiet deference. When a course is completed, we make eye contact with one another, nod in coordination, and come to the table from multiple angles, clearing every dish and piece of silver no longer needed in the blink of an eye. With our arms loaded up and our heads down, we rush out through the kitchen doors.
If a busboy does get noticed, it's almost universally a bad sign – a shattered glass, a splattered sauce, and the dreaded, "I'm not done with that yet!" I once asked a diner if she had finished her amuse bouche, and she threatened to stab me with her oyster fork. I slid back into the corner with a smile neither amused nor offended, like an aproned automaton.
It's better not to be noticed. And Alberto was good at not being noticed, which made him a good busser. He was introverted. He never raised his voice. He never laughed or fooled around. He never seemed to get bored or tired. He never bickered with the servers or the managers.
After a while, working together night after night for months, when the restaurant was slow, Alberto began to whisper with me in the dark corners of the service area while we watched our tables. He was naturally quiet – even the other Spanish-speakers thought so – but he was also embarrassed by his English. He had a lot of trouble with the pronunciation and enunciation of English words, so we would practice together. He would say an English word he had learned, I'd repeat it back, he'd try to parrot me, I'd repeat it again, slowly articulating each sound. He'd imitate me again and again, trying to contort his lips and tongue into unnatural poses.
It was the first time I saw flashes of emotion in the man – anger. Alberto was frustrated with the way he sounded. He kept practicing, but mostly he just kept his head down, stayed quiet, and bussed his tables.
Based on our Gospel reading this evening, Jesus doesn't seem like he'd make it as a busboy. Flipping tables over, yelling, whipping the customers, arguing with the managers, threatening to burn the place down – none of these things for a good busboy makes. It's easy to assume that Jesus must have just been made this way – born to be the new sheriff in town! – and that this is just the kind of behavior we should expect from the Son of God – outspoken moral indignation from a Messiah who's fearless or reckless (or both).
But Jesus' behavior in the Temple, here in the second chapter of John's gospel, is very different than what we'd expect from this Jesus based upon what comes before it.
John the Baptist shouts out in the wilderness near the beginning of John's gospel just like we expect. But when Jesus shows up there's no baptism scene. Jesus doesn't say or do anything. He just shows up. John sees a dove descend on Jesus and John starts calling Jesus the Lamb of God in front of everyone. Jesus doesn't even seem to notice.
The next day Jesus walks away (so far Jesus has shown up and left – that's it), and two of John's disciples decide to follow Jesus – not because Jesus calls them to follow, but because of what John is saying about Jesus. That evening, one of these new disciples takes it upon himself to recruit a third person. Jesus doesn't even go with him.
Two days later Jesus and his new friends go to a local wedding in Cana. Jesus' mother famously complains to him about the party running out of wine, and he says to her, "What does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come." But she manipulates the situation as only a mother knows how and Jesus turns some water into wine. But it's not like he makes it a big production, waving his hands around and saying "abracadabra." He doesn't even get out of his seat. He just says, "Fill those jugs up with water and then drink out of them." He's like a busboy slipping in to magically refill a wineglass without the guests even noticing – inconspicuous. When people start freaking out about how good the wine is, Jesus doesn't even take credit.
Then Jesus leaves for Passover in Jerusalem, he takes one look at the marketplace that had always been in the Temple, and the next thing you know he's crafting a whip. How does something like that happen? How do you go from being quiet and unassuming to a full-blown rabble-rouser with the turn of a page?
These questions make me think back to something I learned from a great mentor. When I was at Union Theological Seminary I got involved with the Poverty Initiative. The mission of the Poverty Initiative is to raise up generations of religious and community leaders committed to build a social movement to end poverty, led by the poor. And one of our leaders was Willie Baptist who came up out of the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia and who organized as a poor and homeless person among poor and homeless folks.
"What is the Spirit? Usually it's construed as just emotionalism. You know, you go to church, the Reverend gives a nice speech, and you feel good. And really a lot of that is just entertainment! Because it come and go, it come and go! But Spirit doesn't come and go.
"Yeah, it expresses itself in emotion – those things that you feel deeply about, you're very emotional about – but what you feel deeply about has more to do with certain values; values that you are committed to over time – that is the Spirit. Often in organizing, you separate your Spirit from your Activity and that is where you lose because Spirit is part of commitment.
"Spirit can also help the movement because it has something to do with your relationship to death. I think, if you're not afraid of death, [LAUGHING] you're not afraid of nothin'! If what you're doing is something you're not prepared to die for, it's very difficult to live for it – consistently, to sustain it. This question of life and death is directly related to Spirit in terms of Spirit being about how you see yourself, your deep beliefs, your commitment, and what you are prepared to die for.
It's not that it's not about death and crucifixion anymore – it's still deeply tied to Jesus' ultimate end with Jesus making a veiled prediction about his death and resurrection, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up," talking about his body. The disciples would only understand it in retrospect, but Jesus needed to say it anyway not for anybody else, but for himself.
According to John, Jesus, right from the very beginning, needed to face down the anxiety of his own death, on his own terms. But it must have been more than just death, right? As Willie Baptist said, death is the ultimate place of our fear. Facing it down and dealing with it isn't about getting yourself killed – it's about finding the freedom to really live for something.
When the gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke tell this story of Jesus in the marketplace they make it very clear that Jesus' action is a form of public protest. Jesus is mad as heck about the corruption in the marketplace and the way the system of money changing and having to purchase pure animals enriched the Temple and the powerful at the expense of the poor.
John again shifts the focus slightly from anger to passion, and from public protest to public self-affirmation, or, as Willie Baptist said, from the struggle for justice to the Spirit of the Movement. It's not one or the other. Both anger and passion, protest and affirmation, Spirit and Activity are a part of this story, and the different storytellers bring them out in different ways.
One version of the Jesus story, in Mark, Matthew, and Luke, says that Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple near the end of his life in angry protest of corruption. In John's version of the story, Jesus drove the moneychangers out of the Temple at the very beginning of his ministry in a passionate, self-affirmation meant to help him stick-and-stay the course, to stand up for what he believes in, to live for the good news even when threatened by death.
Restaurant workers move around a lot, and Alberto and I lost touch. Eventually, I got a job as a workplace justice organizer with the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York. ROC-NY, as it's called, was formed in 2001 to help restaurant workers displaced by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and has grown to become a national organization in ten urban centers that organizes workers to fight against illegal practices and bad policies in the restaurant industry.
As workplace organizers it was the job of our team to start a justice campaign in a fine-dining restaurant group that was treating its workers illegally – discrimination, sexual harassment, stealing tips and wages, etc. Celebrity chef Mario Batali and his numerous NYC restaurants had a bad reputation in the industry for all of these things. Batali's reputation hasn't gotten any better recently. He was forced to step away from his businesses after the Me Too movement caught up with him. But we were hearing stories of his sexual harassment way back in 2009. And management was stealing tips, creating a hostile environment for workers of color and immigrant workers, and they were discriminating based on race in their hiring and promotions policy. We met with a lot of angry workers.
One of the reasons our campaign succeeded was because I found my old coworker Alberto working as a busser in one of Batali's restaurants. You can imagine that at first he did not want to get involved – he was shy. But he was also angry. His managers had insulted him, called him racist names, and even put their hands on him threateningly and demeaningly.
The launch of the campaign was especially stressful for the workers. We told them we couldn't just file the paperwork in court, but that they needed to present their demand letter to their manager at the restaurant in person. And that it would be a big, public event. All the workers would be there. We'd have a big group of allies and supporters. We'd have news reporters and filmmakers. More than 100 of us would march together to the restaurant during dinner service, go inside, ask to see the manager, and one of the workers would hand the demand letter to their manager and in the biggest, loudest voice they could muster, so that everyone could hear, they would summarize the list of complaints and demands to their manager.
Obviously, no one really wanted to be the spokesperson of the campaign. No one wants to single themselves out as a leader, or a rabble-rouser, because they were afraid of retaliation, of losing their jobs, of the police, and of immigration troubles. In the end, there were a lot of workers who talked a lot in meetings who passed on this opportunity.
But it didn't take long for Alberto, who was always quiet, and who never wanted trouble, and who struggled with pronunciation, and who was embarrassed by his English, to raise his hand and volunteer. It wasn't just that he was angry. Anger got him involved, but to put himself out front, out in front of all his fears, that took a deep desire to stand up for himself and people like him, to affirm himself in the face of disrespect, in spite of all his fears and the very real risks of leadership.
What is it that's holding you back from saying, "Here I am!"? What's holding you back from affirming yourself and moving forward in your spiritual journey? What is it that our congregation needs to affirm about ourselves in order to be able to say, "Here we are!" to our neighbors and the world? Where do you imagine we can find that kind of courage?


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Richard Neville Hartley is an English composer, best known for his work on The Rocky Horror Show. He grew up in Holmfirth.

Career
In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for The Rocky Horror Show. He went on to arrange the score for the London Stage and film adaptation (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as well as its follow-up Shock Treatment, and then worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, Revenge of the Old Queen. His other 1970s film scores included Galileo (1975), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Aces High (1976), and the remake of The Lady Vanishes (1979).

Musical works

Film and Television
In the 1980s, Hartley worked primarily in television, including providing the music for the 1986 Doctor Who story Mindwarp, and TV movie productions, such as Kennedy (1983), Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985), Mandela (1987) and Rules of Engagement (1989). However he also composed for film, including the Nicolas Roeg film Bad Timing (1980), Bad Blood (1982), The Trout (1982), The Return of Captain Invincible (1983), Sheena (1984) (for which Hartley was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award), Dance with a Stranger (1985), Parker (1985), The Good Father (1985), Consuming Passions (1988) and Tree of Hands (1989). However, one of his lesser known works is the music for The Fifth Dimension, a dark ride at Chessington World of Adventures.

In 1986, he composed additional music for the Wham! documentary Wham! in China: Foreign Skies directed by Lindsay Anderson.

In the 1990s he provided the scores for many films including Afraid of the Dark (1991), The Railway Station Man (1992), The Secret Rapture (1993), Princess Caraboo (1994), Victory (1995), An Awfully Big Adventure (1995, which was released on CD), Rough Magic (1995), Stealing Beauty (1996), Rogue Trader (1999), and Alice in Wonderland (1999), in which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore).

Hartley provided music for the BBC/HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers in 2004, and wrote the music for the film Flashbacks of a Fool (2008).

Stage productions

 Dionysius 73 (Harrowgate Opera House, 1973) – composer, musical director
 The Threepenny Opera (Sydney Opera House, 1973) – musical arrangements
 The Rocky Horror Show (Royal Court Theatre, 1973) – musical director
 Tooth of Crime (Royal Court Theatre, 1974) – musical director
 T. Zee (Royal Court Theatre, 1976) – composer, musical director
 The Rocky Horror Show (Broadway, 1975) – vocal and dance music arrangements
 Disaster (Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1978) – composer, musical director
 The Stripper (Sydney Theatre Company, 1982) – composer, musical director
 The Rocky Horror Show (London, 1990) – musical arrangements
 The Stripper (UK tour, 2009) – composer, musical director

Other

Hartley is credited as producer of two of the four tracks on "The Music of Torvill and Dean" EP, which reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart in the wake of Torvill and Dean's success at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

References

External links
 Richard Hartley – official website

British film score composers
British male film score composers
British television composers
English film score composers
English male film score composers
English television composers
Living people
Male television composers
Varèse Sarabande Records artists
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Q: Одно действие по двум событиям в jQuery ajax запрос вызывается по двум действиям:
через нажатие кнопки:
$('#start-button').click(function(event){ ajax ...});

и через нажатие Enter:
$('html').keydown(function(eventObject){ //отлавливаем нажатие клавиш
    if (event.keyCode == 13) { ajax...} })

Чуствую, что дублировать код ajax не правильно. Как объеденить эти два события?

A: Можно вынести запрос в отдельную функцию, например, и вызывать её.


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This plugin is meant to gather dataset-like informations about OpenApi Endpoints.

As example, if by calling GET at the endpoint at `https://test_endpoint.com/api/users/` you obtain as result:
```JSON
[{"user": "albert_physics",
  "name": "Albert Einstein",
  "job": "nature declutterer",
  "is_active": true},
  {"user": "phytagoras",
  "name": "Phytagoras of Kroton",
  "job": "Phylosopher on steroids",
  "is_active": true}
]
```

in Datahub you will see a dataset called `test_endpoint/users` which contains as fields `user`, `name` and `job`.

## Setup

To install this plugin, run `pip install 'acryl-datahub[openapi]'`.

Example of configuration file:

```yaml
source:
  type: openapi
  config:
    name: test_endpoint # this name will appear in DatHub
    url: https://test_endpoint.com/
    swagger_file: classicapi/doc/swagger.json  # where to search for the OpenApi definitions
    get_token: True  # optional, if you need to get an authentication token beforehand
    username: your_username  # optional
    password: your_password  # optional
    forced_examples:  # optionals
      /accounts/groupname/{name}: test
      /accounts/username/{name}: test
    ignore_endpoints: [/ignore/this, /ignore/that, /also/that_other]  # optional, the endpoints to ignore

sink:
  type: "datahub-rest"
  config:
    server: 'http://localhost:8080'
```

The dataset metadata should be defined directly in the Swagger file, section `["example"]`. If this is not true, the following procedures will take place.

## Capabilities

The plugin read the swagger file where the endopints are defined and searches for the ones which accept
a `GET` call: those are the ones supposed to give back the datasets.

For every selected endpoint defined in the `paths` section,
the tool searches whether the medatada are already defined in there.
As example, if in your swagger file there is the `/api/users/` defined as follows:

```yaml
paths:
  /api/users/:
    get:
      tags: [ "Users" ]
      operationID: GetUsers
      description: Retrieve users data
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Return the list of users
          content:
            application/json:
              example:
                {"user": "username", "name": "Full Name", "job": "any", "is_active": True}
```

then this plugin has all the information needed to create the dataset in DataHub.

In case there is no example defined, the plugin will try to get the metadata directly from the endpoint.
So, if in your swagger file you have

```yaml
paths:
  /colors/:
    get:
      tags: [ "Colors" ]
      operationID: GetDefinedColors
      description: Retrieve colors
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Return the list of colors
```

the tool will make a `GET` call to `https:///test_endpoint.com/colors`
and parse the response obtained.

### Automatically recorded examples

Sometimes you can have an endpoint which wants a parameter to work, like
`https://test_endpoint.com/colors/{color}`.

Since in the OpenApi specifications the listing endpoints are specified
just before the detailed ones, in the list of the paths, you will find

    https:///test_endpoint.com/colors

defined before

    https://test_endpoint.com/colors/{color}

This plugin is set to automatically keep an example of the data given by the first URL,
which with some probability will include an example of attribute needed by the second.

So, if by calling GET to the first URL you get as response:

    {"pantone code": 100,
     "color": "yellow",
     ...}

the `"color": "yellow"`  part will be used to complete the second link, which
will become:

    https://test_endpoint.com/colors/yellow

and this last URL will be called to get back the needed metadata.

### Automatic guessing of IDs

If no useful example is found, a second procedure will try to guess a numerical ID.
So if we have:

    https:///test_endpoint.com/colors/{colorID}

and there is no `colorID` example already found by the plugin,
it will try to put a number one (1) at the parameter place

    https://test_endpoint.com/colors/1

and this URL will be called to get back the needed metadata.

## Config details

### Getting dataset metadata from `forced_example`

Suppose you have an endpoint defined in the swagger file, but without example given, and the tool is
unable to guess the URL. In such cases you can still manually specify it in the `forced_examples` part of the
configuration file.

As example, if in your swagger file you have

```yaml
paths:
  /accounts/groupname/{name}/:
    get:
      tags: [ "Groups" ]
      operationID: GetGroup
      description: Retrieve group data
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Return details about the group
```

and the plugin did not found an example in its previous calls,
so the tool have no idea about what substitute to the `{name}` part.

By specifying in the configuration file

```yaml
    forced_examples:  # optionals
      /accounts/groupname/{name}: test
```

the plugin is able to build a correct URL, as follows:

    https://test_endpoint.com/accounts/groupname/test

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I have put off writing this post. I have put off writing, because it is so painful to share the news that on September 4, 2013, my dear mother, Jutta Salzberg Levy, died. Not just that, though–it's not just that it is painful. If I'm going to tell you about my mother's death, you see, I want to tell you about her life, too. You may know something of her life, because she is, after all, the central figure in my book, The Year of Goodbyes. But that book covers just one year in her long (not long enough) life, when she was 11 and 12 twelve years old. And there is so much more to know than her life in Germany in 1938.
So I have put off writing because when I reach inside for the right thing to say here, I am finding both a geyser of memories and, at the same time, a well that has run dry. Some might call it writer's block. I think it's simply daughter's grief.
And yet, I do want visitors to this website–who are likely to know "Jutta Salzberg" from The Year of Goodbyes–to know that she is gone, and I want you to know at least a little bit more. For that little bit more, the best I can do for now is to share what I said about Mom at her funeral service. . . .
I don't know that I'll ever free myself of the impulse—the need—to pick up the phone or get in the car and drive over to talk to my mother.
And I know that I'm not the only one. My mother made friends everywhere she went and at all stages of her life. In the grocery store checkout line. At the gym. In the beauty parlor. The nail salon. The theater. The doctor's office. The dialysis center. At my dining room table, with my friends. At my friends' dining room tables, with theirs. There was, it seems to me, nothing my mother liked to do more than get to know people, all kinds of people, from all walks of life and different ages and religions and ethnicities and, even, believe it or not, political persuasions.
We could always get a table at Clyde's because she became friends with servers and managers there. We could always get a hot ticket at the Kennedy Center because she became friends with a very dear man, whose name shall remain top secret, in the box office. She didn't make friends to score a reservation or a theater seat. Mom was without guile in that way. She made friends because she found people, in all their variety, infinitely interesting and inherently worthwhile.
But, as anyone who knew her knows, my mother was not all talk. Relationships and the attendant yakking were central, but so were experiences. Here are some things Mom did with me into her 80s: kayak, fish, fish from a kayak, run around in a power boat, run aground in a power boat at a fairly high speed (my heart was in my throat, she was kind of, "and so?"), explore Sugarloaf mountain or, to be exact, the products of the Sugarloaf mountain winery, go to dive-y jazz clubs. . . .
rim of a volcano, get submerged in a submarine, travel to Alaska and Russia when such travel was still exotic, become a charter member of Bally Total Fitness and joyfully head to the gym for classes—aerobics, weights, Pilates—almost every day. . . .
Really, Mom could be a beer commercial: "Go for the gusto." She loved the Kennedy Center, National Theater, opera, parties, movies, her grandsons, the rest of us in the family, her friends. . . .
She said this to an auditorium full of seventh and eighth graders at the Holton-Arms School. It was 2010 and I'd just finished a talk on my then-new book about Mom's last year in Nazi Germany. One chapter depicts my 12-year-old mother agonizing over what would fit into the suitcase she was allowed when she and her family were packing to leave Germany forever.
Now, at Holton-Arms, it was Q&A time, and I had a not-so-secret weapon in the audience: my mother herself. Hands waved. The kids wanted to know—how did she feel leaving behind her friends, family, home? How did she feel about leaving her stuff?
When we sifted through her stuff at the house on Vance Place, before the move to the apartment, Mom could barely contemplate selling anything. I insisted—everybody downsizes, Mom!—and we pulled together enough for an uninspired estate sale.
I admit: Mistakes were made. The Barbra Streisand CDs: missing and presumed trashed. There were tears.
The opera glasses that belonged to Mom's mother-in-law, a woman so forbidding that my mother only ever referred to her as "Mrs. Levy," not "Mom" or "my mother-in-law": missing and presumed sold. More tears.
My mother's love affair with her stuff makes sense. You may lose your childhood, but if you manage to hang on to your poesiealbum—it's not entirely lost.
You may lose your father at a young age, but if you have the mother-of-pearl handbag he gave you, his doting love remains tangible.
Your mother-in-law never liked you—but in the end you got her exquisite opera glasses.
So, loving your stuff isn't really about loving your stuff. It's about loving your life. And, although there were certainly some low points, my mother loved her life. It was full of people, it was full of gusto, and also, okay, it was full of a certain amount of truly cherished stuff.
And now she paddles away. . .
Love Your stuff as well Debbie! Your words don't just tell us more about Jutta, your mother, but bring to the surface memories of mine, and who knows how many other readers' moms, nonnas, savtas, bubbes, or avuelas. It's been three years since you wrote the above, and I just read The Year of Goodbyes thanks to Caryn Wiseman. Thank you for sharing more on this blog about the girl I got to know a little because of her poesiealbum, her diary and your book, that touching celebration of (her) life.
Judith, it means so much to me that you read The Year of Goodbyes, and that you came here to get to know my mother a little bit more. Thank you for thinking about her life, and for reflecting on your own mother's life and thinking about all the others moms, nonnas, etc. (as you say). Your comment made my day, and it was already a pretty good day.


To attain a well proportioned head, which must be in balance with the rest of the dog, it embodies the following: Expression--The expression is intelligent, alert, soft and appealing. Eyes--Eyeballs are round and full and look directly forward. The shape of the eye rims gives a slightly almond shaped appearance; the eye is not weak or goggled. The color of the iris is dark brown and in general the darker the better. Ears--Lobular, long, of fine leather, well feathered, and placed no higher than a line to the lower part of the eye. Skull--Rounded but not exaggerated with no tendency toward flatness; the eyebrows are clearly defined with a pronounced stop. The bony structure beneath the eyes is well chiseled with no prominence in the cheeks. The muzzle is broad and deep, with square even jaws. To be in correct balance, the distance from the stop to the tip of the nose is one half the distance from the stop up over the crown to the base of the skull. Nose--of sufficient size to balance the muzzle and foreface, with well developed nostrils typical of a sporting dog. It is black in color in the blacks, black and tans, and black and whites; in other colors it may be brown, liver or black, the darker the better. The color of nose harmonizes with the color of the eye rim. Lips--The upper lip is full and of sufficient depth to cover the lower jaw. Teeth--Teeth strong and sound, not too small and meet in a scissors bite.
On the chest, optional; presence or absence shall not be penalized.


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LSU's Gilbert has left team for rest of season, but Orgeron hopes to retain him for 2021
Glenn Guilbeau
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
BATON ROUGE - LSU freshman tight end Arik Gilbert has left the team for the remainder of the 2020 season, but Coach Ed Orgeron hopes to recruit him back for 2021.
"Arik and I had a good conversation yesterday (Tuesday). He told me he was opting out," Orgeron said Wednesday on the Southeastern Conference teleconference. "He said his body was hurting, and he had some things he had to take care of. Do I think we have a chance of getting him back next season? Yeah. Is there a chance of him transferring? I don't know that. He hasn't told me he's transferring."
Gilbert, a five-star prospect in the class of 2020 from Marietta, Georgia, was recruited by the University of Georgia, which is 80 miles from his hometown.
"Obviously, we're going to re-recruit him, and we wish him the best," Orgeron said. "Take care of the things he has to take care of, and we'd like him to be back with us next year."
Orgeron said "opt out," but Gilbert's exit apparently has nothing to do with COVID-19. Orgeron previously said that Gilbert has been very homesick. And LSU, which was No. 5 in the nation entering the season, fell to 3-5 Saturday with a 55-17 loss to No. 1 Alabama. Georgia is 6-2 on the season and ranked No. 10 in the nation.
LSU freshman outside linebacker BJ Ojulari was a teammate of Gilbert's at Marietta High, and the DawgNation reported Ojulari may not finish this season at LSU along with Gilbert on Tuesday.
But Orgeron said Ojulari remains with the Tigers and will play when LSU plays at No. 6 Florida (8-1) on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN).
"Yes, he will," Orgeron said.
Ojulari's older brother, Azeez Ojulari, is a sophomore starting outside linebacker for the Bulldogs.
LSU Bowl Tracker: Tigers are a popular pick by prognosticators
The Tigers signed Gilbert as the No. 1 tight end in the nation and as the No. 9 overall prospect in the country and No. 3 player in Georgia. A combination tight end and wide receiver, Gilbert has caught 35 passes for 368 yards and two touchdowns. He caught five passes for 29 yards against Alabama.
What a difference a year makes: LSU punter Zach Von Rosenberg looks back
Orgeron's plan was to continue using Gilbert more as a wide receiver with the loss of top junior wide receiver Terrace Marshall Jr., a first round NFL Draft prospect who exited a week ago Sunday to prepare for the draft.
The Tigers are scheduled to finish the regular season at home against Ole Miss (4-4) on Dec. 19. The Rebels' game against Texas A&M scheduled for Saturday, however, has been postponed because of COVID-19 issues with the Ole Miss team.


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Q: Stripe .configure() change button & description text dynamically Is it possible to change the button text when using https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js ... Here's my code. I'd like to populate the "panelLabel" with my data-price attribute and the "description" with my data-description attribute. Thanks.
<button data-price="Pay $5.00" data-desc="My description" id="stripe-button>Pay $5.00</>

document.getElementById('stripe-button').addEventListener('click', function(e) {
        handler.open();
        e.preventDefault();
    });

var handler = StripeCheckout.configure({
        key: "xxxxxx",
        image: "{{ asset('assets/public/img/logo.png') }}",
        name: "Create Your Subscription",
        description: "CUSTOM DESCRIPTION GOES HERE",
        panelLabel: "CUSTOM AMOUNT GOES HERE",
        locale: 'auto'
    });


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Q: How do I make the background image change on hover, for my span? Suppose I have a span:

.myspan{
background: url(image.png) top left no-repeat;
}

How do I make it so that when people hover my span, it shows "image_hover.png"?

A: .myspan:hover{
background-image:url('image_hover.png');
}

But what you really would want to do is make one image with both states, natural state and hover state, one beside the other. Then you would have:
.myspan{
width: *the width of only one state. aka half the width of the whole image*
background:url('image.png') top left no-repeat;
}

.myspan:hover{
background-postion:right;
}

That way only one image is loaded and on hover, it just moves it left to right. Displaying only one half of the image.

A: You can apply the :hover pseudo class to every element:
.myspan:hover
{
    background-image: url(image_hover.png);
}

Internet Explorer 6 won't care … but who cares about IE 6? :)

A: Alex,
You can try
.myspan:hover{background:url('image_hover.png') top left no-repeat;}

You can also combine image.png and image_hover.png into one png image and simply move the position on hover. Your png would look like this: http://www.missgoodytwoshoes.com/images/nav_shop.png
And your code would look like this:

.myspan{
background: url(image.png) top left no-repeat;
height: 37px;
}
.myspan:hover
{
background-position:0 -37px;
}

A: Use the :hover pseudo class:
.myspace:hover
{
    backbround: url(image-over.png) top left no-repeat;
}


Introduction of a break in series for duration of unemployment estimates.
For the period November 1984 to May 1994, employment by industry estimates have been revised to reflect improvements made to the concordance between the formerly used Australian Standard Industrial Classification (ASIC 1983) and the current Australian and New Zealand Industry Classification (ANZSIC 2006). This new concordance remains largely the same as what was previously used, except for amendments to the estimated employment ratio between seven ASIC 1983 Industry Groups and their 26 attributable ANZSIC 2006 Groups. The most notable impact of these revisions is on the estimates of Division I: Transport, Postal and Warehousing and Division J: Information Media and Telecommunications.
Further details of these amendments are available in Information Paper: Revisions to Historical ANZSIC Industry Data (cat. no. 6259.0), released on 25 February 2011.
Revisions to employment by industry estimates for the month November 2010 have also been applied this month due to correction of a coding error. Correction of this error has resulted in minor revisions to the division level estimates, but improvements have been made to the underlying subdivision and group level estimates. These changes are mostly isolated to the estimates within Division P: Education and Training.
For the period April 1986 to August 1997, revisions have been applied to the time series data contained in the Excel spreadsheet products to incorporate more accurate estimates from the source data and improve coherence with other labour force products. These revisions have been applied to the time series spreadsheets released in Labour Force, Australia (cat. no. 6202.0), Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery (cat. no. 6291.0.55.001) and Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly (cat. no. 6291.0.55.003).
The time series data contained in the SuperTABLE data cubes remain unchanged. The revisions to the time series spreadsheets brings them in line with the SuperTABLE data cubes, and both types of products now accurately reflect the source data.
The impact of these revisions to estimates are small, and in most cases there is little difference to those previously published. Seasonally adjusted and trend estimates have also been revised to incorporate the revisions to the original estimates.
When did you begin looking for work?
When did you last work for at least 2 weeks in a job of 35 hours or more a week?
If someone employed full-time was told they were going to lose their job and began looking for work 9 months ago, but didn't actually stop working until 6 months ago, then their duration of unemployment was 6 months.
When did you last work for 2 weeks or more?
If someone last worked full-time 2 years ago and began looking for work 9 months ago, then under the old definition their duration of unemployment would be 9 months. However, during their job search, if they worked part-time for 2 weeks in a temporary job 3 months ago, then their duration of unemployment under the new definition would be 3 months.
The duration of unemployment data collected between February 1978 and March 2001 under the old definition was reclassified as "duration of unemployment since last full-time job" and the ABS has continued to collect data based on the original questionnaire design and published the estimates in Tables 15a, 15b and UM1 of Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery (cat. no. 6291.0.55.001).
These historical tables will be provided in the February 2011 issue of Labour Force, Australia, Detailed - Electronic Delivery (cat. no. 6291.0.55.001) for one month only, before being moved to the labour force archive of superseded and outdated data stored in the publication Labour Force Historical Timeseries, Australia (cat. no. 6204.0.55.001).
Seasonally adjusted and trend estimates provided in the historical Table 14b_Apr86 are based on a seasonal analysis for the time period April 1986 to January 2011. From February 2011 onwards, the new Table 14b with the historical data removed will have seasonal adjustment and trend estimation based on an analysis starting from April 2001. This will result in minor revisions to the trend, which are noticeable near April 2001, but there is no noticeable difference to the seasonally adjusted and trend estimates for recent years.
For any queries regarding the implementation of any of these changes to the LFS, contact Labour Force Estimates on Canberra 02 6252 6525, or via email at <labourforce@abs.gov.au>.


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Harnessing the Power of Radio in Times of Crisis
Last updated 1 month ago
Following Liberia's devastating civil war, two organisations, Mercy Corps and IREX, helped establish and strengthen community radio stations across the country. After the crisis these were flagship projects, aiming to give communities greater voice in development and peacebuilding.
Many of these stations again partnered with the two organizations under the Ebola Community Action Platform (ECAP), funded by USAID, which was Liberia's largest consortium of organizations working on the Ebola response.
Building trust through community radio partnerships
At the start of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, there was significant suspicion and mistrust of Government health information. Myths and conspiracy theories abounded, with many denying the existence of Ebola.
Aid workers were blamed for bringing the virus to Liberia; treatment units were feared as sources of transmission and many hid their sick and their dead from the authorities, which contributed to the rapid spread of the disease. It was a terrifying time across the country.
To rapidly build trust, the ECAP program partnered with known local organizations, so that messages and information from the Ministry of Health could be better shared and received within the communities. Through IREX, this included partnerships with 27 community radio stations, which produced and aired dramas, talk-shows and jingles relating to Ebola.
Localizing content increases legitimacy of health information
This localized approach proved critical to turn the tide of the virus, and bring communities onboard with Ebola preventive practices and treatment. It also strengthened the capacity of local media to share critical public health information.
"In the past partners typically produced messages in the capital and we simply aired those messages. The unique thing about ECAP was that it allowed community radio partners to air and produce our own content, in our own languages, and communities themselves were involved in its production,' says Zinnah Cassel, Station Manager of Radio Bomi.
"We used opinion leaders, community leaders, youth, elders and women and religious leaders. We asked Survivors to share their stories and to tell the people about the importance of living by the preventive measures. Through this approach, people became receptive to the information they received on the Ebola virus."
Achieving scale in a rapidly evolving emergency
Recent research conducted by Mercy Corps finds that community radio is not only the most prevalent but also the most trusted media in Liberia.
The fact that radio is seen as the most significant source of news and information in Liberia is not surprising: illiteracy rates are high, especially in rural areas, and infrastructure challenging. However the specific importance of community radio is revealing.
In the survey, 7 in 10 people said they prefer community radio to national radio, attributing this to the availability of locally relevant news and information, as well as the use of local dialects. Roughly 80% of respondents say that community radio stations effectively cover local issues and allow people to engage in broader social discussions.
We know too that the community-centered approach has been effective. 970,000 people heard our health messages on the radio during three months of our latest campaign and over 90 percent of these respondents said that their understanding on targeted health issues increased as a result.
These are remarkable achievements that show the important role community radio stations can play in building awareness and cohesion, during a crisis, recovery and beyond. This is why Mercy Corps, together with IREX, has invested heavily in local radio through ECAP 2, the second phase of its program, which aims to rebuild trust in the health system following Ebola.


00:00 Stewart Frank at goalie for Springfield.
00:00 Ryan Wilson at goalie for Plattsburgh State.
01:28 Shot by PLAT Chris Robertson, SAVE Stewart Frank.
05:48 Shot by PLAT Alex Price WIDE.
12:26 Shot by SPR Justin Breedlove WIDE.
15:06 Substitution!SPR substitution: Freddy Clark for Emmanuel Agyemang.
15:06 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Jimmy Marchena for Michael Ciardullo.
15:06 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Cameron Richards for Jordan Fein.
20:08 Header Shot by PLAT Jimmy Marchena HIGH.
23:49 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Taka Fukushima for Connor Nembach.
23:49 Substitution!SPR substitution: Adrian Avellaneda for Joseph Olaynack.
25:01 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Sean Cray for Chris Robertson.
28:48 Shot by SPR Andrew Ma, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
29:04 Yellow card on PLAT Matt Iuorno.
29:37 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Yusif Okine for Alex Price.
29:37 Substitution!SPR substitution: Mateusz Dziemian for Andrew Ma.
29:45 Corner kick by PLAT Taka Fukushima [29:45].
32:54 Header Shot by PLAT Jimmy Marchena WIDE.
35:53 Corner kick by PLAT Taka Fukushima [35:53].
36:06 Shot by PLAT Cameron Richards BLOCKED.
37:51 Corner kick by SPR Keith Dixon [37:51].
38:17 Shot by SPR Brad Deckel BLOCKED.
45:00 For PLAT: #1 Ryan Wilson, #2 Luke Rapaport, #7 Connor Nembach, #8 Matt Iuorno, #9 Michael Ciardullo, #14 Jordan Fein, #15 Michael Grald, #20 Amani Francois, #23 Joe Gula, #26 Alex Price, #31 Chris Robertson.
45:00 For SPR: #2 Keith Dixon, #4 Justin Breedlove, #8 Andrew Ma, #9 Joseph Olaynack, #10 Brad Deckel, #12 Emmanuel Agyemang, #13 Ian Zacharewicz, #14 Xavi Arroyo, #19 Jack Costa, #21 Christian Schneider, #62 Stewart Frank.
46:29 Header Shot by PLAT Michael Grald WIDE.
48:12 Shot by SPR Andrew Ma, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
48:27 Corner kick by SPR Andrew Ma [48:27].
48:48 Header Shot by SPR Christian Schneider WIDE.
49:14 Shot by SPR Brad Deckel HIT POST.
50:37 Shot by PLAT Matt Iuorno WIDE.
54:13 Corner kick by SPR Andrew Ma [54:13].
54:31 Shot by SPR Jack Costa, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
55:10 Shot by SPR Christian Schneider HIT POST.
56:30 Shot by SPR Joseph Olaynack WIDE.
56:51 Corner kick by SPR Andrew Ma [56:51].
56:59 Header Shot by SPR Emmanuel Agyemang HIGH.
57:10 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Jimmy Marchena for Michael Ciardullo.
58:48 Corner kick by SPR Andrew Ma [58:48].
59:03 Shot by SPR Justin Breedlove WIDE.
59:50 Substitution!SPR substitution: Freddy Clark for Andrew Ma.
59:50 Substitution!SPR substitution: Adrian Avellaneda for Joseph Olaynack.
61:57 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Sean Cray for Alex Price.
61:57 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Cameron Richards for Connor Nembach.
61:57 Substitution!SPR substitution: Mateusz Dziemian for Emmanuel Agyemang.
63:59 Substitution!SPR substitution: Stefan Richardson for Christian Schneider.
63:59 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Taka Fukushima for Chris Robertson.
68:51 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Michael Ciardullo for Jordan Fein.
69:34 Substitution!SPR substitution: Jack Rosenberg for Justin Breedlove.
71:19 Shot by SPR Xavi Arroyo, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
71:40 Shot by SPR Mateusz Dziemian, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
72:16 Shot by SPR Stefan Richardson WIDE.
72:23 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Alex Alejo for Matt Iuorno.
72:23 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Alex Price for Taka Fukushima.
72:23 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Chris Robertson for Cameron Richards.
72:23 Substitution!SPR substitution: Justin Breedlove for Brad Deckel.
74:47 Shot by SPR Mateusz Dziemian, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
76:22 Corner kick by PLAT Alex Alejo [76:22].
76:55 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Jordan Fein for Sean Cray.
76:55 Substitution!SPR substitution: Andrew Ma for Freddy Clark.
77:15 Corner kick by PLAT Alex Alejo [77:15].
77:22 Header Shot by PLAT Jimmy Marchena HIGH.
79:41 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Connor Nembach for Alex Alejo.
80:19 Substitution!SPR substitution: Christian Schneider for Stefan Richardson.
80:19 Substitution!SPR substitution: Brad Deckel for Jack Rosenberg.
80:19 Substitution!SPR substitution: Joseph Olaynack for Adrian Avellaneda.
81:59 Shot by SPR Andrew Ma, SAVE Ryan Wilson.
83:24 PLAT Jimmy Marchena PENALTY KICK GOAL, goal number 1 for season.
84:41 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Matt Iuorno for Michael Ciardullo.
84:41 Substitution!SPR substitution: Emmanuel Agyemang for Mateusz Dziemian.
85:48 PENALTY KICK by PLAT Jordan Fein MISSED, save Stewart Frank.
85:48 Shot by PLAT Alex Price, SAVE Stewart Frank.
86:13 Substitution!SPR substitution: Jack Rosenberg for Ian Zacharewicz.
88:25 Substitution!PLAT substitution: Alex Alejo for Matt Iuorno.
89:14 Shot by SPR Joseph Olaynack BLOCKED.
89:47 Yellow card on PLAT Chris Robertson.


The owner of a Dutch web hosting firm is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the biggest slowdowns in internet history last month.
BBC News reported today that a 35-year-old Dutch citizen has been arrested in Barcelona, Spain following one of the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to date.
The Dutch public prosecutor who requested the arrest identified the suspect as only "SK" - believed to be Sven Olaf Kamphuis, owner and manager of Netherlands-based web hosting firm Cyberbunker.
The arrest follows what prosecutors described as "unprecedented heavy attacks" against anti-spam firm Spamhaus, an assault which also slowed data speeds on neighboring networks.
Non-profit anti-spam firm Spamhaus maintains a blacklist which companies use to identify unwanted junk mail and keep it from flooding their customers' email inboxes - including those hosted on Cyberbunker servers.
The blockade reportedly didn't sit well with Kamphuis, who argued in the press that Spamhaus had no right to decide "what goes and does not go on the internet."
Suspect "SK" is accused of launching a massive DDoS attack which flooded Spamhaus web servers with upwards of 300 gigabits per second of data over several days in late March - substantially more than traditional attacks that push only 50Gbps by comparison.
The arrest in Barcelona was a cooperative effort with other EU authorities, and Spanish police are expected to soon transfer the suspect to the Netherlands for prosecution.


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Class DIMS options coming
A growing view amongst the financial advisory community is that the Financial Markets Authority will issue very few licences to advisers to offer personalised DIMS, but others are lining up to offer class DIMS solutions.
Friday, May 30th 2014, 7:00AM 10 Comments
Currently the market is waiting for the FMA and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to release the guidelines for offering class and personalised DIMS, however a number of key speakers at the recent SiFA Conference in Taupo believed the number of licences for personal DIMS will be limited to a small number.
A number of fund managers and providers though are preparing to offer their a class DIMS service to advisers including Grosvenor Financial Services and Sovereign with its Select Investment Service.
Grosvenor chief executive Alan Yeo says a class DIMS services is what the company has been offering since the company was established 16 years ago. It had also been running similar services in Australia so had good knowledge in how to go about it.
While he is critical of the changes going on, describing them as an "over-reaction" by authorities to the David Ross case, they are perfect for Grosvenor.
"They probably couldn't write the legislation better to suit our business model," he said.
Yeo also acknowledges the changes are major for authorised financial advisers; many are concerned about the changes and the continuing regulatory impact being put on their businesses.
"We see some advisers are getting pretty exhausted (with all these changes)."
Yeo says advisers will look to providers like Grosvenor for class DIMS services as it means they won't have to go through what is likely to be a difficult process not only to get the licence but for on-going compliance.
He also says class DIMS don't have to be restricted to model portfolios as many believe. The Grosvenor offering allows for some flexibilty for advisers to add other investments and tilts to the portfolios.
Grosvenor chief investment officer David Beattie says Grosvenor will research and take responsibility for the other assets added to the portfolio.
MBIE referred queries about the guidelines to the FMA.
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On 30 May 2014 at 7:46 am Pragmatic said:
It seems that DIMS will accelerate the industry towards the inevitable: those investors who are willing & able to pay will be provided with a bespoke financial solution. The rest will have the choice of a black box solution.
In listening to the debate, it seems that the non aligned financial advisor is considered to be the highest risk by the Regulator to the industry, with all efforts to eradicate current behaviours. Time will tell if this has been the correct outcome... although remembering that a reduced industry will require a reduced Regulatory workforce
On 30 May 2014 at 12:54 pm Brent Sheather said:
Never have offered DIMS so thank goodness this legislation won't affect me but reading this article it sounds like another step backwards from the perspective of mum and dad retail investor. Quite depressing really. Thank goodness I started in this industry back in 84 and not 2004.
Regards Brent
On 31 May 2014 at 1:21 pm Colin said:
Brent - If you don't offer DIMs, what do you offer?
On 2 June 2014 at 1:16 pm brent sheather said:
Non-discretionary advice of course. But if any client consistently ignores it they get told to go away...unless of course they have 10m or more....
On 3 June 2014 at 12:51 pm Ally said:
But Brent, you have previously said you have 600 million or so "under management". That's different from "giving non-discretionary advice"......
But Ally how is it different …. I will admit that our annual fees are much lower than most other funds "under management" but in my humble view I think our business model is far more sustainable than most.
Interested to hear from you how "that's different" … apart from the fees of course.
On 3 June 2014 at 3:53 pm Gavin Austin ABCompliance said:
Very strange Brent that you've been licensed to provide DIMs since you became an AFA. I guess you'll be giving that up so that people who look up the FSPR register won't be mislead into thinking that you do.S
uggest you look at sec 17 (1)(a) (iii) of the FSP Act 2008 as it has a potential penalty of $10,000.
On 4 June 2014 at 8:57 am Ally said:
But Brent, why are you charging "annual fees" when you are not managing client funds, just giving "non-discretionary advice" ?
On 4 June 2014 at 9:00 am Brent Sheather said:
Hi Gavin, yes that is strange because as far as I know we aren't licensed to provide DIMS and certainly haven't but you are the compliance expert so I suppose you are right! Incidentally I hope nobody looks up my name on the FSPR register as I am not taking new clients.
I was an expert witness in a trial of a stockbroker who took advantage of his DIMS position with the net effect that the client lost about $3 million so I am not in favour of discretionary management at all.
I think non-discretionary where you make a recommendation and then the client decides whether to execute or not is a better, safer and lower cost business model. Certainly when I discussed the matter with the FMA a few years ago and said we didn't hold clients assets they viewed us as a relatively low risk operation. .
Didn't Oscar Wilde say "a stockbroker is someone who invests your money until it is all gone". LOL.
Hi Ally, we are doing everything that a DIMS advisor does except we are getting permission from the client before executing the transactions. With $600 million plus under management and just three advisers, one of whom also does research, you would have to say the model is moderately successful. Agreed?


welkl,its been awhile I know I kinda faded into the mists,but I'm back,least for a few weeks,till school starts...anyways,hows you all doing?
Just came back to see how everyone was doing. School started and I had six hours of homework on the first night .
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Lively, playful, talkative, and affectionate, the Burmese cat (also known as copper cat), is available in three body types and various colours and patterns.
Despite its relatively recent introduction to North America and Europe, the Burmese breed had been well-established in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for hundreds of years, and legend has it that these cats were once worshipped in Burmese temples. The Burmese is featured in The Cat-Book of Poems, a manuscript created in Ayudha, Siam (now Thailand), sometime between 1350 and 1767.
The Burmese originated in Myanmar, where it is known as the copper cat. All Burmese cats living in North America and Europe share a single common ancestor (Wong Mau), which was brought to the United States in 1930 by Joseph Thompson.
Thompson, a retired navy doctor who had spent time in Tibet as a Buddhist monk, had developed a fascination with eastern cats. He bred the walnut-brown Burmese female with Siamese cats, thus determining that the Burmese was a distinct breed rather than simply a Siamese variant. He then worked to establish the Burmese as a unique breed in the United States, but faced an uphill battle because Siamese cat breeders believed that Wong Mau was just a Siamese cat with improper colouring that would pollute the Siamese gene pool.
The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) recognized the Burmese in 1936, but poor breeding practices and opposition caused the organization to rescind registration in 1947. Breeders responded by improving the breed until its registration was reinstated in 1953.
More closely aligned with the original Myanmar Burmese, the Traditional Burmese differs from the Contemporary in that its face and nose are longer and less flat, and its head less round.
Also known as "Foreign," the European is slimmer, but still solid and muscular, with a more elegant frame and slightly slanted eyes. The European Burmese is available in additional colours and patterns, including red, cream, and tortoiseshell.
Burmese cats have won a large following among cat lovers due to their appealing personalities. Active, highly intelligent, playful, and devoted, Burmese like to spend every waking moment with the people they love.They are usually lap cats, and are inclined to follow people from room to room and "help" with the chores. This is not a breed for those who spend a lot of time away from home.
Owners report gender differences in Burmese temperament. Females tend to be more active and curious, whereas males are more laid back and placid. Burmese of both genders are quite vocal, and utilize a variety of different meows. However, their voices tend to be softer than those of the Siamese, and somewhat raspy.
Extroverted, loyal, and often interested in playing fetch with their toys, Burmese are among the doglike cat breeds, but they also have a strong assertive streak and can be quite stubborn. Once committed to a course of action, it is difficult to dissuade them. Owners rate the Burmese highly on nearly every positive measure, but notably low on docility.
Trusting, friendly, and lacking in survival skills, Burmese cats should kept indoors. On the plus side, they are relatively adaptable, and can learn to accept (and even enjoy) spending time with dogs or traveling in cars, as long as they are introduced to these pastimes at an early age and the experiences are positive.
Burmese cats are prone to developing gingivitis, so preventative dental care is recommended. Burmese kittens are also prone to a disorder of the third eyelid called "cherry eye," which can be surgically corrected.
The Contemporary Burmese has a slightly higher-than-average risk of cranial deformities, as well as weepy eyes and breathing problems. These problems are not associated with Traditional or European Burmese cats.
Overall, like many other eastern cats, indoors-only Burmese cats tend to enjoy above-average longevity barring accident or disease. Adopting kittens from a reputable breeder significantly reduces the risk of inherited problems and increases the likelihood of a long and healthy life.
Purebred Burmese kittens cost at least $300-$500 and often more, depending on bloodlines, markings, and other factors. See Where to Adopt Kittens for tips on finding reputable breeders.
To provide a loving home for an adult Burmese cat in need, visit Petfinder's list of available Burmese cats and the Burmese Cat Rescue page.
Helgren, A.J. (2009). "Choosing a Burmese." PetPlace.com.
Kollman, J, & Swihart, P., Cat Fanciers' Association. (2009). "Breed Profile: Burmese." CFAinc.org.
Vella, C.M., & McGonagle, J. (1995). Burmese Cats. Hauppage, NY: Barron`s Educational Series.
Love our burmese have an on going problem with spraying.