I've only been out for ten weeks or so. Or rather, of course, I mean in. At the grand old age of 49, I've started to work from home, as a writer, after twenty-eight years of working in a college. No more division of days into periods, modules, doubles, sessions, lessons, lectures - whichever phrase was fashionable at any given time. Where I worked, there were no bells, but they went off in your head anyway. So those Quasimodo moments are things of the past.
That's the main change. It should be the main challenge, too, I suppose - forcing one's way out of bed, averting one's eyes from the newspaper, refusing to be hooked on morning television - or radio. Suddenly, you're able to find out what happens on Start The Week with Melvyn Bragg, when you've only ever heard the trailers. The temptation to hear all that adenoidally cod philosophy!
Actually, it doesn't work like that, or perhaps I don't. Not for a single tick since I went self-employed, and knew that work was just a few paces away, have I been seduced by the attractions of having a quiet holiday. A holi-half-an-hour, perhaps. Otherwise, the day is all about momentum, and the difference is that I sit on the toad work; it doesn't squat on me at all. People were full of advice about patterns and habits and new routines, but momentum was the only important word anyone really offered.
To start with, there were faint pangs of guilt if I stepped outside the door. Seeing the village in which I live (Morchard Bishop) in broad daylight, visiting the post office on a weekday, ruminating in the graveyard on life, death but mainly the next paragraph - these all seemed initially like illicit pleasures. That wore off after about a week. In fact, the main thing about working at home is how paralysingly normal it seems.
The most obvious change is in the nature of conversation. On an average day at college, I would perhaps have spoken to about a hundred people - glancing hellos, brow-furrowing discussions, banter, verbal skirmishing, the politesse and politics of work, all of these. Now the silence is intense. I don't even hear the clatter of the keyboard (I can't write to music - it interferes with the rhythms of thought). Do I talk to myself? Yes, there's time to catch up on that conversation, I suppose. But then the brainwag was always going on: it's just that I have time to reply.
E-mail helps. There are a lot of other home-workers out there, and there's the freedom of e-conversation. That kind of sporadic chat breaks up the day, but they are conversations you can control. They take place in slow motion ("How are you?" on Monday, "Fine" on Friday week.) Working from home gets rid of interruptions. The rhythm and tempo of the day adjust themselves to you like familiar clothes.
Could work naked, I suppose, if I wanted, but do I want the postman to think I'm a flasher? He's not my type. But there's no denying that the slob factor is part of working from home. You can give yourself a dressing-down to an even greater extent than ever. Your feet hardly need to see a pair of socks. On the other hand, when your home is your work-place, you are far more tempted to keep it tidy. This is the world's worst sorter, swabber and mopper speaking, by the way. But even my sensationally low standards have risen a little.
I've lost half a stone without trying (unless it's down the back of the sofa). Plenty more work needed on the body mass index yet, I'm afraid, but there's no pressure any more to compound the poundage. Working from home is potentially much more healthy, although I can see that the reverse might be true if you were a snackaholic. In my case, I feel no compulsion to launch search-and-destroy missions on the fridge, to be home on the range through the larder. When the workplace was a separate entity, there was plenty of comfort eating and drinking - and a binge when you arrived home. That's gone. I haven't had coffee in a polystyrene cup for weeks now. The withdrawal symptoms were far easier to manage than I'd imagined.
The eyes take a pasting, of course. You have to make an effort to drag yourself away from the screen if you're writing from home - have to force yourself to use notebooks and biros, and not to be sucked into the vortex of WordPro 97, my poison program of choice. Making sure that your limbs aren't hunched and clenched all day is quite hard. Sometimes the adrenalin of deadlines feels like a ten-mile hike. Alas, it isn't even halfway round a writer's block. You have to snap a chapter shut and go for a guilt-free stretch of the legs. A sustained creative burst is always lousy with bad grammar, anyway. You have to give it time to settle.
One occasional misconception made by acquaintances is that you are just resting, most of the time. I mean, you're at home, aren't you? You're free to do what you want? Well, not if you want to have cash in the bank, or even under the bed. It helps the momentum to think of the mortgage. It also helps to think of the person who is really experiencing change - your partner. Curiously enough, my experience of change is minimal. I'm just driving a different car, metaphorically speaking. One that doesn't travel. But your partner will experience things differently - will think that the changes are huge and profound and potentially difficult for you. The fallacy here is that you made the choice in your head, so you adjusted to the idea a long while back. But for partners of those who are new to working from home, the conceptual change is, for them, colossal. When they come home, you're in. It's important that they don't feel you've gone out (as in, like a light). Meanwhile: work sweet work. It's where the heart is.


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Thomas Wilson "Bear" Walters
February 28, 1967 ~ November 28, 2020 (age 53)
Thomas Wilson "Bear" Walters, age 53 and a resident of Ada, Oklahoma, passed away Saturday, November 28, 2020 at Chickasaw Nation Medical Center in Ada.
A graveside service is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 5, 2020 at Vamoosa Cemetery under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home of Konawa, Oklahoma. Visitation will begin Thursday, December 3rd at the funeral home. Bro. Kellos Walker will officiate. Casket bearers are Paul Schwander, Toby Schwander, Billy Walls, Jason Peters, and Rick Eastman Harjo. Honorary bearers are Shane Impson, Paul Impson, Calvin Harjo, Trent Lena, Thunder Lena, and Salyer Billie.
Bear was born February 28, 1967 in Wewoka, Oklahoma to Sophia Jean (Hernandez) Walters. He attended Konawa schools, and graduated from Seminole High School. He proudly served his country in the Army from 1987 until 1991. After the Army, Bear moved to Texas until 2015 when he moved back to Seminole with his mom. Bear worked as a truck driver for a concrete company. He received an Associate degree from Seminole State College in 2017, and he also received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from East Central University of Ada in 2019. In 2019, he and his brother moved to Ada to live until his death.
He is survived by a brother, Bobby Lena of the home; his half-brother, Manuel Lena of Seminole; his army brothers, Paul Schwander and Billy Walls; three nephews, Trent and Thunder Lena, and Salyer Billie; one niece, Sarada Castaneda; and a host of cousins and other relatives.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Sophia Walters; and grandparents, Willie and Lillian (Morgan) Walters.
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Qualcomm to pay out $19.5m in gender discrimination settlement
Qualcomm in landmark settlement in gender discrimination case
Chip giant Qualcomm has agreed to pay $19.5m to settle a gender discrimination class-action lawsuit, in which it is alleged women were denied pay and job opportunities equal to their male counterparts'.
It was alleged that women at the company received lower pay and fewer chances for promotion than men.
The deal will affect around 3,300 current and former Qualcomm female employees.
'By paying $19.5m in monetary relief and agreeing to additional costs associated with instituting internal changes, Qualcomm is investing in real equity for its current employees and for a rising generation of women in tech'
– FELICIA MEDINA, SANFORD HEISLER
In addition to monetary relief, the settlement requires Qualcomm to institute comprehensive programmatic relief, which will ensure that female employees working in STEM and related positions will enjoy equal job opportunities at the company, the lawyers taking the case said.
Under the settlement agreement, Qualcomm will make a non-reversionary payment of $19.5m to settle all class claims in the case.
Ending discrimination against female STEM workers
Qualcomm will also institute significant changes in its policies and practices to help eliminate gender disparities and foster equal employment opportunity going forward.
These changes will have a lasting positive impact on women at the company, said David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler and lead counsel for the plaintiffs.
"It is common knowledge that women in STEM and other related fields face persistent discrimination in pay and promotions," Sanford said.
"This settlement represents a giant leap forward toward leveling the playing field, and can serve as a model of best practices for other technology companies.
"The fact that the settlement has produced such an excellent result without litigation is a tribute to the good faith Qualcomm and the plaintiffs exemplified throughout the settlement process. Qualcomm is a great company that has now become even greater."
The case may be the tip of the iceberg, with many long-running grievances over the treatment of women in Silicon Valley finally coming to the surface.
A damning "Elephant in the Valley" study published earlier this year revealed that discrimination against women and sexual harassment in the workplace were endemic throughout the tech industry.
But, while the Qualcomm case may the be tip of the iceberg, Sanford said it offers an opportunity for tech companies to learn how to ensure that discrimination can be dealt with or avoided in the future.
Qualcomm has agreed to retain two independent consultants, who specialise in industrial, organised psychology who will be charged with conducting a full assessment of the company's policies and practices.
The independent consultants will provide specific recommendations designed to make the company a more equitable workplace for women.
Qualcomm will also appoint an internal compliance official to ensure the company complies with the terms of the settlement agreement.
"The abstract commitment to workplace equality for women will never become a reality without tangible commitments to transparency and guaranteed freedom from reprisal," said Felicia Medina, managing partner of Sanford Heisler's San Francisco office.
"Without those and other concrete structural changes, lofty promises for diversity and equality go unfulfilled.
"By paying $19.5m in monetary relief, and agreeing to additional costs associated with instituting internal changes, Qualcomm is investing in real equity for its current employees and for a rising generation of women in tech."
For its part, Qualcomm said that, as well as appointing an internal compliance officer, it will conduct regular pay equity and promotion analyses.
"Qualcomm is committed to treating its employees fairly and equitably," Christine Trimble, the company's vice president of public affairs, said in a statement.
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Chapter 609: Qin Wangfei loses her temper
The needle was aimed for none other than Long Feiye, which was why Tang Li was feeling uneasy! The Pear Blossom Teardrop Rain needles were quite vicious, but still wouldn't escape the notice of high-level experts. Long Feiye and Ning Cheng both sensed the weapon flying towards them. Because it came from the direction of Han Yunxi and Tang Li, Ning Cheng was convinced that he was their target. He didn't move, but his eyes flashed with disdain and disgust.
He almost thought that Han Yunxi was different from Chu Qingge, but it looks like she wasn't anyone remarkable. Stupid beyond belief, he decided.
No, she's even more of an imbecile than Chu Qingge! She actually attacked first in a place like this, and even with a hidden weapon. Not only that, she was found out with her first blow.
As the needle drew closer, Ning Cheng's scorn shone stronger from his eyes. As if a mere needle could hurt me. He cradled his wine cup in his hand as he continued to compete in drinking against Long Feiye. His other rested against the table, preparing to block the weapon as soon as it came close and humiliate Long Feiye.
Of all the women you could find, you picked this idiot to be by your side.
Ning Cheng waited, but as time passed, he realized something wasn't right. The strength and direction of the needle wasn't aiming for him, but Long Feiye instead.
Is Han Yunxi insane? She wanted to sneak attack Long Feiye?
Once again, Ning Cheng's perceptions of Han Yunxi changed completely. Was she even stupider than he imagined to completely miss her mark? Or was she a crafty, treacherous woman set on betraying Long Feiye? Besides those options, Ning Cheng couldn't think of any other reason to puzzle her out.
Long Feiye was far more familiar with assassination weapons than Ning Cheng, especially if they came from the Tang Clan. He could tell that the needle was aiming for him as soon as it flew towards them from their backs. Moreover, the strength and speed of the needle showed that it came from within Han Yunxi's hidden bracelet in her sleeve.
What is this woman doing?
Truthfully speaking, Long Feiye had no idea, but he didn't doubt a minute. He sat still and made no move to defend against the attack at all. The needle sank smoothly into Long Feiye's back---not very deep, but firm enough to stay put. Long Feiye could remove it just by shifting his posture slightly, but he didn't. The position of the needle wouldn't take his life, but only Han Yunxi knew what kind poison she had smeared on its tip. Long Feiye simply acted as if nothing had happened and continued his drinking contest with Ning Cheng. He rarely drank, but that didn't mean he couldn't hold his liquor. He didn't even touch the wine cup to his lips, but dumped its contents into his throat with every swig and drained it dry.
Even his drinking motions were so handsome! While he paid no mind to the needle in his back, Ning Cheng grew more preoccupied by the object. Long Feiye cast him a cold glance before setting a row of cups on the table and slowly pouring wine into them again. Once all the cups were full, he looked up at Ning Cheng again and said, "How about 10 cups?"
The two of them had no rules when it came to their contest, but simply competed in terms of quantity. Ning Cheng was full of doubts, but agreed all the same. He wouldn't be drunk even after 100 cups, to say nothing of 10. But Long Feiye would definitely turn tipsy. No matter how well Long Feiye drank (even if he drank better than Ning Cheng), he would still lose! Because the wine here was filled with a special drug called Distiller's Grain #7. A single jug of wine only needed one drop to double its alcohol content. They were drinking hard liquor to begin with, which was enough to turn any ordinary man drunk after one cup. Even the best of them couldn't stand more than 10. But he and Long Feiye had already polished off 15 cups each. Ning Cheng had taken an antidote beforehand and was simply waiting for Long Feiye to turn drunk out of his mind.
"10 cups?" Ning Cheng was a little incredulous. "It looks like Your Highness Duke of Qin has a great capacity for liquor."
Long Feiye stopped wasting words and got straight to the point. He picked up the first cup and downed its contents. If Ning Cheng didn't hurry up, he was going to lose. But if he matched Long Feiye, then whoever turned drunk first would be the loser. Ning Cheng naturally followed suit, pouring himself 10 cups and downing the contents in one gulp just like his rival.
Both Chu Yunyi and General Chu were gobsmacked by the sight. Meanwhile, Tang Li was still stroking his chin and trying to figure out what the needle in Long Feiye's back meant. He wasn't worried about Long Feiye's alcohol tolerance, because even 10 tankards of wine like this was normally nothing to Long Feiye. Han Yunxi hadn't witnessed Long Feiye drinking much before, so she didn't know about his tolerance. But she wasn't worried either. Right now, her focus was on changing the needles in Gu Beiyue's back, her eyes hooded with concentration.
Very soon, both Ning Cheng and Long Feiye downed ten cups of wine. Long Feiye sat sitting without a change in his expression, looking cold and noble. He didn't seem like someone who had drank at all. Ning Cheng was calm and unruffled as well, making the victor between them unclear.
But Ning Cheng didn't understand: why isn't Long Feiye drunk yet? Hard liquor spiked with Distiller's Grain #7 should be enough to turn anyone unconscious within 20 cups. Long Feiye had already drank 25, so why didn't he react at all?
While Ning Cheng was puzzling over this, Long Feiye refilled the ten cups in front of him again. A complicated look flashed past Ning Cheng's eyes. He didn't follow suit immediately, but the servant by his side lightly coughed a few times. This was to remind Ning Cheng that his antidote was only good for 25 cups of wine at most. If he kept going, there wouldn't be any left in his body to deal with the alcohol in this wine. According to his calculations, he could last five more cups before turning utterly drunk.
"Not following suit?" Long Feiye asking provokingly.
Ning Cheng's cold face was the only answer he gave, but he still began to fill his cups. Once they were all full, the two started drinking again, but Ning Cheng was starting to suspect the needle in Long Feiye's back.
By now, Han Yunxi had finished her acupuncture treatment on Gu Beiyue. She cleaned up all her needles and was about to get up when Lil Thing suddenly jumped on Gu Beiyue's leg and tore at his clothes, revealing his injured knee. Seeing this, Han Yunxi was stunned and quickly went to inspect the wound. She carefully enlarged the cut and sucked in a cold breath at the sight. This was a wound from a Chu Clan arrow that had pierced past the tendons and sinews. Han Yunxi carefully looked over the wound and discovered that it had been there for a long time. Its current healing prospects were bad. For one thing, it hadn't been treated in time after the injury occurred. For another, someone had stopping applying the medicine before the cut fully healed up. Moreover, Gu Beiyue's body had a terrible healing factor that couldn't deal with such a severe injury on its own at all.
The more Han Yunxi looked, the angrier and more impatient she felt. Gu Beiyue's treatment couldn't be delayed! Although his tendons hadn't been severed, they were still torn. A regular arrow wouldn't do this, but whoever shot him had been cunning enough to aim for a specific spot so that removing the arrow would harm the sinew. Unless someone supported him, it would be impossible for Gu Beiyue to stand, much less walk! In other words, his leg was completely crippled now! She wasn't even sure if this could be cured, but she had to strive for time. The earlier they could treat him, the better. There would be less side effects as well!
At this moment, Lil Thing pointed at Gu Beiyue's right shoulder and began to cheep. Han Yunxi's heart gave a jolt as she realized it must have discovered another injury. She threw all conventions of male-female relationships outside the window and quickly took out a tiny pair of scissors to cut away the cloth over his shoulder. As it turned out, this wound was even worse than his leg! The offending weapon had pierced straight into his shoulder and gone out the other side. Like his leg, the recovery prospects for this shoulder looked low. Heaven knows how much he had bled from the wound? Now the bleeding had stopped and the sound seemed half-healed, but the damage to his bone was long-lasting and impossible to cure. Even if the skin closed up, he would always feel pain from his shoulder in his coming days.
Injured bones couldn't heal that easily.
Besides the Tang Li's assassination weapons, it was only the Chu Clan's Driving Arrow Arts that could pierce a body with such strength! What a Chu Clan!
Han Yunxi's entire aura grew sinisters as she emanated killing intent. She suddenly strode into the pavilion and glared at Chu Yunyi and General Chu before telling Long Feiye, "We must return immediately. Gu Beiyue was severely injured by the Chu Clan's arrows, we can't afford to delay!"
Gu Beiyue wasn't bleeding as much as Gu Qishao when he was injured, nor in any urgent need of blood transfusions. His shoulder could also afford to wait a couple of hours when it was already like that.
Gu Beiyue's leg injury had been neglected for too long and needed immediate care. Han Yunxi wasn't even sure if he could walk normally again, but she only had the thought to save him as much as she could as soon as possible. They wouldn't be able to find instantaneous treatment even after leaving Fenglin City because she didn't know how to treat him herself. She had to get in contact with Medical City's Third Elder Shen ASAP because this went beyond the skills of ordinary doctors. Only Sage Level physicians like the elder had a chance to give Gu Beiyue a full recovery.
Thus, her most important task now was to buy Gu Beiyue time and get him medicine as soon as she could. But Long Feiye didn't even get to reply before Ning Cheng said with a cold laugh, "Men are drinking, so women should just wait on the side."
Unfortunately, Han Yunxi simple chose to ignore his existence. Finding the situation awkward, Ning Cheng tried to speak again but was cut off by Long Feiye standing up. "We'll stop here for now and compete another day."
He moved to leave with Han Yunxi, but Ning Cheng set down his cup and stood up as well. "Duke of Qin, you can't afford the loss?"
"Are you sure your lordship will lose if we kept competing?" Long Feiye retorted.
Without hesitation, Ning Cheng declared, "Certain!"
At that, Han Yunxi picked up the wine from the table and splashed it in Ning Cheng's face! Absolute silence fell on the crowd as Ning Cheng stood there with droplets dripping off his chin...


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Home » Another E. coli outbreak linked to flour in Canada
Another E. coli outbreak linked to flour in Canada
The BCCDC recommended that consumers dispose of Rogers Foods all-purpose flour in a 10 kg bag with the lot number MFD 17 Jan 19 C.
VANCOUVER, B.C. — The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) on May 19 issued a statement indicating that six people in British Columbia were infected with the same strain of E. coli O121 between February and April 2017.
A sample of flour from one of the ill individuals was tested by the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory, and the flour subsequently was found to be positive for the same strain of E. coli O121 as seen in all the illnesses.
As a result of its findings, the BCCDC recommended that consumers dispose of Rogers Foods all-purpose flour in a 10 kg bag with the lot number MFD 17 Jan 19 C. The flour was available to Costco customers in British Columbia beginning in January 2017.
"Although this outbreak is occurring at the same time as a national outbreak involving a different strain of E. coli O121 that has been linked to various flours and flour products, it is unclear whether there is a link between the two outbreaks," the BCCDC said.
Related Reading: Robin Hood flour recall follows E. coli outbreak in Canada
The earlier recall initially was linked to Robin Hood all-purpose flour, original, produced by Smucker Foods of Canada Corp., a subsidiary of The J.M. Smucker Co. That recall was expanded to include products made by Ardent Mills' facility in Brampton, Ont.
Responding to the latest findings, Rogers Foods issued a letter to its customers noting its commitment "to producing safe, quality flours for our consumers."
"We are working diligently with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in their investigation on how this bag became contaminated with E. coli O121.," Rogers Foods said. "At this point the agency has not recommended a recall. However, we encourage all of our consumers with the flour lot code in question to abide by the BC Centre for Disease Control's recommendation. We appreciate the testing and scientific analysis being done by both the BC Centre for Disease Control as well as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Their investigation is ongoing.
"We must emphasize that flour is a raw agricultural product and must be thoroughly baked or cooked before eating."
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Africa / The 2021 Zambian elections: A triumph of democracy in Africa
By Linda Kasonde
Each year, on 15th of September, the world commemorates the International Day of Democracy. It's a day of reflection on the state of democracy in the world. It is based on the shared value that the will of the people should prevail. To use a translated Latin maxim, "the voice of the people is the voice of God". The theme of this year's International Day of Democracy was 'strengthening democratic resilience in the face of future crises'. This theme is certainly very apt for Zambia having just emerged from a period of democratic decline. We must reflect on the state of democracy in Zambia following the just ended August 2021 general elections and see how we can emerge as a stronger, more resilient democracy.
Elections are the largest exercise of the will of the people in any democracy. With a record number of registered voters and a record 75% of registered voters voting in the elections, that alone was a democratic triumph. This article will focus on the lessons learnt in the run up to and post the election and to discuss our hopes and expectations of the new government in the wake of the third peaceful transfer of power in Zambia.
Lessons learnt from the previous ten years
The warning signs that our democracy was in decline could be illustrated by the following events:
Abuse of the weaponization of the law against citizens
The apparent partisanship of the law enforcement agencies in securing law and order in relation to public meetings of opposition political parties and independent civil society organisations. There was an increase in politically motivated violence by various political parties in the country. The law enforcement agencies were not seen to preserve and protect the safety and security of all involved, particularly of dissenting voices. We saw this with the abuse of the Public Order Act and Covid Regulations as well as the use of criminal defamation laws and the recent introduction of the Cyber Security and Cyber Crimes Act to police the digital space.
A blurring of the line between the Ruling Party and the Government with party officials making statements on issues of government policy.
The rhetoric and statements of high-ranking government officials and senior officials with the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party have continued to pose a threat to civil society organizations, ordinary individuals, and human rights defenders who are labelled as partisan in order to marginalise and intimidate them. In the past we saw the use of political party supporters employed to intimidate ordinary citizens, particularly those who expressed dissenting views from the government.
Public threats against members of the judiciary.
In November 2017, former President Edgar Lungu threatened judges not to follow the Kenyan court on the issue of whether or not he was eligible to stand in the 2021 presidential elections[1]. These sentiments were echoed by his press secretary. However, it is also worth noting that whilst the Courts have been under attack from the Executive, the Courts too have been heavy handed in laying charges of criminal contempt against those that criticize them in the media[2]. This was a worrying trend as courts should ordinarily only speak through their judgments and through their conduct of cases generally. The courts have also been used as a battle ground to fight political battles often resulting in judgements favourable to the ruling government e.g., the eligibility of President Lungu case which was ultimately decided in favour of President Lungu.
The harassment of journalists and closure of alternative voices perceived to be anti-establishment in an environment where there appears to be a decreasing tolerance for divergent views
In June 2016, the government shut down the largest independent newspaper in Zambia, The Post, ostensibly for tax related issues[3]. In August 2016, the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), a public agency run by officials appointed by the President, suspended the licenses of three private media houses a few days after the country's leading opposition party filed a petition in the Constitutional Court contesting the outcome of the presidential election in which President Edgar Lungu was announced as the official winner. Also, the largest independent television station, Prime Television, was shut down in 2020.
Divide and Rule
Article 3 of the constitution of the Patriotic Front manifesto which seeks to "ensure that all the public institutions, State-owned enterprises and popular mass and similar organizations are led by persons who are members of the Party and who are uncompromisingly committed to achievements of the Party".[4] We saw this play out in professional associations, the civil service, NGOs, and the Church. Any critic of government on governance issues was labelled 'anti-government' and subsequently was often abused through state-affiliated media or social media sites. This was one of the biggest threats to civil society and the media in Zambia. We also saw the use of tribal hate speech to demonise opposition political party leaders and to discourage people from voting for them.
Since our return to multi-party democracy in 1991, Zambia has been touted as a beacon of peace and stability on the Continent. This reputation has been hard-fought. Historically, we have seen that power exercised even in between elections. We saw that with the movement for multiparty democracy in the late eighties to early nineties; with the anti-third term campaign in the mid-1990s and most recently with the anti-Constitution Amendment Bill 10 campaign in 2020. These events did not only threaten our democracy but the state of human rights in Zambia. The results of the August 2021 elections are a clear sign that Zambians yearn for democracy and democratic ideals as established by the Constitution.
The biggest lesson that we Zambians have learnt and continue to learn is that the structure and foundation of democracy are based on choices and joint efforts of each citizen of the country. When democracy thrives, the people win, and their choices and joint efforts deliver peace and prosperity. If the last election taught us anything it is that true power vests in the people and that the demonstration of that power can defy seemingly insurmountable odds.
In conclusion, the existence of democracy is underpinned by freedom of expression, assembly, and association. These rights afford citizens the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to receive and impart information and ideas through any medium. Our hope is that the new UPND government has learnt the lessons of the past and will respect human rights and the rule of law that in turn support economic emancipation. If the government fails to listen to the voice of the people once more, history tells us that will be the cause of their demise. The last ten years have shown us that it is that civil and political issues are everyone's business because without the will of the people being respected our democracy will die and we will all suffer for it – economically as well as politically.
[1] https://diggers.news/local/2017/11/02/lungu-says-there-will-be-chaos-if-judges-disqualify-him-for-2021/
[2] https://diggers.news/local/2018/07/11/supreme-court-slaps-chifire-mambo-with-contempt-charges-in-savenda-case/
[3] http://www.times.co.zm/?p=86367
[4] Constitution of the Patriotic Front, http://www.lusakavoice.com/2014/11/16/constitution-patriotic-front-election-pf-party-president/


Lars Lukas Mai plays the position Defence, is years old and cm tall, weights kg.
In the current club Bayern Munich played 2 seasons, during this time he played 19 matches and scored 0 goals.
How many goals has Lars Lukas Mai scored this season?
In the current season Lars Lukas Mai scored 1 goals.
In the club he scored 1 goals ( DFB Pokal, 1. Bundesliga, Regionalliga, Champions League, Germany Cup 5, Friendlies). Lars Lukas Mai this seasons has also noted 0 assists, played 348 minutes, with 2 times he played game in first line.
Lars Lukas Mai shots an average of 0.07 goals per game in club competitions.


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Q: Mysql finding the updated slave I've set up simple MySQL replication: 1 master and 3 slaves.
How to find out in those 3 slaves which is the latest and perfectly sync before the master server is down? Let's say I don't have access on the server because it is totally damage.

A: A slave works with 2 threads. The Slave_IO thread and the Slave_SQL thread.
The Slave_IO thread is responsible for reading the binary log from the master and writing what he read in the relay log on the slave.
The Slave_SQL thread is responsible for executing the statements in the relay log.
A slave is up to date not when Seconds_behind_master is 0 (I'm talking about the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G), but when

*

*Relay_Master_log_file is the same as Master_log_file and

*Exec_Master_log_pos is the same as Read_Master_log_pos
Again, in other words Master_Log_File and Read_Master_Log_Pos is what the slave is fetching from the master.
And Relay_Master_Log_File and Exec_Master_Log_Pos is what is being executed in master "coordinates".
And, just for completeness but not really interesting, Relay_Log_File and Relay_Log_Pos is what is being executed from the relay log.
Hope this answers your question.

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FeralpiSalò sign striker Jawo on loan
Gambian striker Lamin Jawo has joined Italian third-tier club FeralpiSalò on a season-long deal from second-tier Carpi FC.
The 22-year-old, who was on loan at third-tier Robur Siena last season, has been sent out again in search of regular first-team football at Lombardy-based Feralpi, who have an option of turning the loan permanent.
Mo Barrow nets first Reading goal
Gambia winger Modou Barrow scored his first goal for Reading in their 2-1 win over Aston Villa on Tuesday night.
The home side took the lead at the Madejski Stadium in the 49th-minute before Scorpion international Barrow's first goal for Reading on 55 minutes handed Villa more misery.
Just barely 24 hours after Barcelona icon Rivaldo asked the club and its fans to join and work in the same direction and raised doubts over the La Masia academy, the club's reserve had other plans by allowing two of its players to train with CE Sabadell FC.
One of the player's is Gambia-born Alasana Manneh. Days prior to the La Liga season opener, you talk of real crises starting to engulf one of the best clubs in our generation. Alasana is currently training with the Catalonia-based club with the latest development only hinting a possible loan or permanent deal.
Kekuta nets third Columbus goal
Gambian winger Kekuta Manneh scored his third goal of the season for Columbus Crew who achieved perhaps the biggest surprise of the MLS weekend with a 3-1 win over Supporters' Shield-chasing Chicago Fire.
The Bakau-born player levelled for Columbus in the 18th minute for his 25th MLS career goal and the third of this season since making the move to the Crew.


Green, purple, pink and even white - asparagus comes in many varieties and is equally at home in a simple soup as it is beside a prized cut of meat. The arrival of this highly versatile vegetable always signals the beginning of spring and its wonderful bounty.
So if you have a bit of a green thumb you may be thinking of growing your own asparagus. Asparagus requires some patience to grow and harvest - it will be two to three years from planting until you can start harvesting your own asparagus spears. However, the best thing about asparagus is that they are a perennial vegetable, which means that, unlike most vegetables, they will continue to produce spears for many years from the same plant.
The asparagus bed should be prepared well before the planting. This can be done by feeding the soil with organic matter to enrich it in the autumn, followed by applying mulch in the winter.
Check the pH of the soil, which should ideally be between pH 6.0-8.0.
Clear the asparagus bed from any weeds.
Asparagus can be planted in early spring. It is common to start from one-year-old crowns rather than seeds, which also has the added benefit of being able to harvest sooner.
To plant asparagus, start by digging trenches of about 6 to 8 inches deep, 12 to 18 inches apart.
Plant the crowns flat in the trench. Each should be spaced 12 to 18 inches apart from each other.
Cover with the soil, entirely, 6 to 8 inches. This once-only filling method will work if the soil is rather loose. Some gardeners, however, prefer to cover the crowns as they grow, 2 inches of soil at a time, until the trench is full.
Harvest spears before the flower buds are open.
Snap the asparagus off at ground level, or cut with a knife.
The harvest season for mature plants can last for up to 6 to 8 weeks, but around 2 weeks for younger plants.
A rule of thumb is to stop harvesting when the diameter of the spear is less than the width of a pencil.
Allow the ferns to grow after harvest season, and cut back asparagus only after the foliage has turned brown or yellow in autumn. Cut everything back down to soil level.
Place the cut asparagus in a plastic bag to protect it from drying out. If you want to store them in the fridge, it is best to rinse asparagus under cold water, dry completely using a clean tea towel, then bundle them up and wrap the ends with a moist paper towel. Place the bundle in a plastic bag and store in the fridge until ready to eat.
Keeping the base moist prevents the asparagus from developing tough fibres. These should always be trimmed off before cooking.


Andrew Gelman just posted an interesting article on the philosophy of Bayesian statistics. Here's my favorite passage.
This reminds me of a standard question that Don Rubin … asks in virtually any situation: "What would you do if you had all the data?" For me, that "what would you do" question is one of the universal solvents of statistics.
Well for starters, I think I would be looking for a new job.
Answer 1: Quickly go broke due to the data storage costs.
Answer 3: ….Probably uncover what the true rate of Asperger's in the population is, and if it is indeed rising, or if that is just due to increased diagnosis.
Last semester I was working with a professor on a business analytics project where we had all of the data that the business could give us. She was so happy throughout the entire thing. The p-values we had were roughly infinitesimal in most cases.
Really, the only thing we had to worry about was what the values really meant outside of certainty. If you get a .64 R^2 value for a regression and you don't have all the data, then you can wonder if you have a good sample. But if you have all the data, then you start thinking about why it is .64.
Nevertheless, it was way fun.
If I knew what I would do if I had all of the data, then having the data is unnecessary to my decision making. The only rational response to that question is "I don't know". Why pose a question whose answer is already known? I'm either missing something fundamental about that quote and its context, or it's a nonsensical absurdity.
Some banks "have all the data" on credit card transactions, but they still have trouble determining whether a new transaction is fraudulent because the card was recently stolen. Walmart "has all the data" on what has been sold in every store, but they still have problems anticipating demand and predicting how many of each item to order and ship.
Having all the data implies that you don't have a sample, you have the entire population. Sample statistics like mean and variance become exact parameters. But it is still a challenge to USE the data to manage a business.
For Rubin I would guess "all of the data" often means the potential outcomes. In the simplest case, these are Y_1 and Y_0 for whether a unit is subject to the treatment or control. The fundamental problem of causal inference is that we only observe one of these (without making other ignorability assumptions).
What I love about science is that every answer produces more questions. Even if you have all of the data, calculations of R^2, mean, and variance make assumptions about the nature of the data. So, question your models, e.g.: What functional family are you regressing against? Does the data really have Gaussian noise? Did you pick these models because they are mathematically convenient, "standard practice", or because they really reflect the data? You can no longer hide behind the excuse that if your model doesn't fit the data perfectly it's because it is only a sample.
Conform it so that I (no we!) could see across date, geography and any other measured grain and slice and dice the heck out of it. Aggregate it; dis-aggregate it. Calculate ratios of sums. Derive efficiency ratios, and ultimately create an idea from it.
I just wanted to say, I loved the quote, a lot.


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Q: Efficient cache for results of comparisons I am processing instance dumps from a heap dump. My goal is to find instances with duplicate data which means traversing the objects and their references. I need to speed it up, so I created a cache for comparisons I have already done, but the cache is very memory inefficient because it uses nested HashMaps. I would appreciate any advice on how to store the results of comparisons more efficiently. My main idea is storing ids of objects I have compared and storing the result of comparison, either they are duplicates, then I cache true, or they are not, then I cache false.
Here is the code for the current cache:
public class DefaultInstanceComparisonCache implements InstanceComparisonCache {

    private final Map<Long, Map<Long, Boolean>> cache = new HashMap<>();
    private long cacheHit = 0;
    private long cacheMiss = 0;

    @Override
    public Optional<Boolean> instancesEqual(InstanceDump a, InstanceDump b) {
        InstanceDump first = a.getInstanceId() < b.getInstanceId() ? a : b;
        InstanceDump second = first == a ? b : a;

        Optional<Boolean> result =  Optional.ofNullable(cache.get(first.getInstanceId()))
                .map(cachedComparison -> cachedComparison.get(second.getInstanceId()));
        if (result.isPresent()) {
            cacheHit++;
        } else {
            cacheMiss++;
        }
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public void cacheComparisonResult(InstanceDump a, InstanceDump b, boolean comparisonResult) {
        InstanceDump first = a.getInstanceId() < b.getInstanceId() ? a : b;
        InstanceDump second = first == a ? b : a;

        cacheResult(first.getInstanceId(), second.getInstanceId(), comparisonResult);
    }

    @Override
    public long getCacheHitCount() {
        return cacheHit;
    }

    @Override
    public long getCacheMissCount() {
        return cacheMiss;
    }

    private void cacheResult(long instanceKey, long comparedTo, boolean comparisonResult) {
        Map<Long, Boolean> cachedComparison = cache.computeIfAbsent(instanceKey, a -> new HashMap<>());
        cachedComparison.put(comparedTo, comparisonResult);
    }
}

What approach would be better in this case?


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Steep Drop in Hungarian Turkey Sector
Broilers Egg layers Turkeys Waterfowl Production types Markets and economics
HUNGARY - According to the census on 1 June, Hungary's cattle herd continues to increase while the pig numbers are in long-term decline. Overall, poultry numbers follow a seasonal pattern but there were 30 per cent fewer turkeys that 12 months previously.
The growth of cattle stock lasting since December 2010 continued, according to the Hungarian Central Statistics Office. The number of sheep rose somewhat in the last six months, while the number of pigs slightly decreased. The stock of poultry showed an increase in line with seasonality compared to the stock in December.
The number of cattle was 758,000 on 1 June 2013 according the present standing of data processing, the stock increasing by 25,000 since June 2012 and by 5,000 since the survey in December 2012. The cow stock (335,000) did not change over a year, their number decreasing by 27,000 (seven per cent) since June 2003.
The number of pigs was 2.892 million on 1 June, 64,000 fewer than the stock in December and 20,000 less than one year earlier. The number of pigs exceeded five million 10 years earlier, however, it has been below three million since June 2012. The number of breeding sows (194,000) fell by 11,000 from last year.
The number of chickens was 34 million in June, 1.1 million or three per cent fewer than one year earlier. Compared to 1 December 2012, the stock was up by 3.5 million (12 per cent). The stock of laying hens of 11.3 million was nearly one million (10 per cent) more than one year earlier and 814,000 (seven per cent) fewer than six months earlier.
The goose stock rose by 626,000 (19 per cent) in the past year, their number reached almost four million on 1 June 2013.
The stock of ducks was 4.6 million, 113,000 or two per cent more than in June 2012.
The turkey stock was 2.2 million, 900,000 (29 per cent) below one year previously.
The sheep stock was 1.2 million – of which the number of ewes was 810,000 – on 1 June 2013, which were 4,000 and 30,000 fewer, respectively, than the figures for June 2012.
The stock of goats did not change over a year; their number was 88,000 on 1 June.


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Crime News The NorthSider
County officer charged in death of girl struck by car
April 29, 2020 at 8:00 pm 0
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County police officer who struck and killed a 12-year-old girl with his patrol SUV was charged Wednesday with second-degree involuntary manslaughter.
Preston Marquart
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said Officer Preston Marquart had been charged in the death of Akeelah Jackson after "an exhaustive and detailed investigation" that involved the St. Louis police department.
Akeelah was struck by the county vehicle on Oct. 14 when she was crossing a street in St. Louis. She died several weeks later.
At the time, County Police Sgt. Benjamin Granda said the officer told police he was trying to get closer to a suspicious car to make a traffic stop when he struck the girl. The officer was not using the vehicle's lights or sirens.
In December, the Ethical Society of Police, a police association made up mostly of black officers that fights racial discrimination, demanded that the officer be charged in the death of Akeelah. She was black; Marquart is white.
Akeelah Jackson
Marquart's attorney, Joseph Hogan, said Wednesday that a St. Louis police department investigation had determined that no charges were warranted against Marquart, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
"It is unfortunate that Ms. Gardner continues to make charging decisions based on scoring political points, despite the effect this decision will have not only on my client, but on the entire Jackson family," he said. "I am confident that when all the facts come to light of this tragedy that took place in 30 seconds, my client will be completely exonerated of all charges."
Hogan did not explain why he thought his client would be exonerated.
The St. Louis County Police Association also noted that the police department had found no basis for charges and accused Gardner of attempting to "further a political agenda."
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Hammer Nutrition is an endurance sports nutrition company founded in 1987 by Brian Frank. They provide products, knowledge, and service to health-conscious athletes all over the world. Their product line has grown from fuels & supplements to now include clothing and body care products.
They have been using Myagi since the start of 2018 to help drive product knowledge and brand insight directly to the frontline associates representing their brand on the shop. Hammer are delivering the toolkit their partners need to troubleshoot fueling difficulties and build loyal customers, helping them to add a new avenue for customer development across the store, through a true understanding of nutrition and the opportunity it represents.
Education has always been one of the core values of Hammer Nutrition. In fact, owner Brian Frank used to give free consultation to customers when he launched his original 2 products over 30 years ago. From dealing mainly in direct-to-consumer market in the early years, Hammer developed a strong customer service culture that they rightly pride themselves on today. As Loren Mason-Gere, Dealer Services & Education Specialist at Hammer Nutrition puts it, ''Until someone had bought the products, correctly used them, been happy with it, and returned a happy customer to repurchase, the job wasn't really done. That was truly the core tenet, and that has always existed very strongly and fluidly on the customer-direct side of the business''.
When Hammer started to grow in popularity, the need to offer a business to business model became apparent. With their products now being sold and represented by sales associates of other businesses, the concern for Hammer was that their stellar customer service reputation could be diluted by sales associates who were not familiar with their brand and it's commitment to great service. There was also a continuous need to educate accounts around what value nutrition as a whole could add to their store as this could often be confused. As the best-selling nutrition brand for decades, Hammer took it upon themselves to set the bar for dealer education.
''We didn't want all the hard work we had put into creating great customer experiences with Hammer either in our store or over the phone to be lost in our retailers'' continues Loren, ''we wanted to find ways we could evolve and better serve our retailers so that they were willing to engage in education around our products and could offer great customer experiences, whilst truly understanding the sector of nutrition and how it could work for them''.
To address this, Hammer understood the value of moving their training to easy to access online platforms. Originally existing within a closed Facebook group, Hammer first started distributing training materials through a closed group through something they named the 'Fueling Expert' programme. The programme worked well for Hammer whilst they were operating in smaller numbers but the need to scale up the process became apparent as Hammer's successes continued.
Hammer's commitment to the category of Nutrition was and continues to be truly admirable. With the amount of new and novel products entering the marketplace, Hammer is continually looking for ways of supporting and teaching retailers how to sell nutrition as an actual system that generates regular, repeat customers year round. The need for a solution that could help foster and spread this message was important for Hammer when considering any change in their education initiatives.
That was a big thing for us. We managed to leverage Myagi to get some of these accounts more involved with our products. We needed a solution that was easy for retailers to get involved in and free for them, and startup needed to be pretty easy for our accounts. We could also now separate out our training based on who stocked what, give it to some folks and not to others. And we also found with Myagi we didn't have to go from 0-60 and get promised a load of activity for a huge upfront cost. It matters to me that you can build as you go and expand the number of doors we reach as we grow and pay accordingly''.
Hammer's approach to content is very authentic and genuine. Composing of a mix of videos, presentations and PDF's, the variety of content allows them to ensure sales associates have a range of ways to learn and gives the chance for some really personal 'behind the brand' type videos that connect the sales associates more deeply to Hammer's vision. Learning from feedback received on their content, Loren set about creating more personal videos, shot on iPhone, introducing their retail partners to himself, the company owner and even the office dog!
With a truly personal and co-operative approach to training, Hammer have managed to create an engaging, stimulating and supportive training programme for their dealers and their staff.
''When retailers do nutrition right, they make serious money. We can help any shop make that happen. Given the exceedingly competitive retail climate we face, maximizing those sales and education opportunities is increasingly important for all of our partners. It can be a hugely lucrative component to any store, and we also have business policies that make it literally risk-free to have Hammer product in your store. If you want to make nutrition work for your shop, get involved with Hammer''.
The results speak for themselves and we look forward to supporting Hammer in their continued quest to create brilliant customer experience for every consumer using engaging with their product. At the time of writing, over 500 hours of training have been completed on Hammer Nutrition content, and they rank as the brand with the most engagement amongst their competitors.
Are a brand or retailer and want to know more about Myagi's online learning network? We'd love to hear from you- so let's continue the conversation.


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Thank goodness, before heading for the Cook Islands, I stopped at the little Society island of Maupiti, my final anchorage in French Polynesia. Before that, Bora Bora, with its lavish, high-class and unduly swanky reputation, allround price extortion, smelly traffic, and buzzy overpowered jet skis had left a flavour of mild disappointment and annoyance. Maupiti, just 30 miles away, in contrast, reminded me of the true delights and unsullied beauty of the vast majority of French Polynesia.
In case you didn't already know, the fastest way to destroy a place's natural charms, other than a nuclear test programme, is to feature it in fat heavy glossy magazines (the kind probably found in expensive beauty salons rather than your average dentist's waiting room), build a few Hiltons, Intercontinentals and others of that ilk, and maybe even send along a few 'exclusive' little cruise ships; and in no time at all it'll be as flashy and tasteless, or tawdry and unlovely as you could imagine. In the case of Bora Bora, the coral will be dead too and you can be fleeced $90 for a quick boat trip to see manta rays – most of whom, being sensible fellows flapped off and fled ages ago; oh! and, if you as a humble cruiser, so much as set foot on one of the hotel jetties you can be $50 out of pocket (each) before you even move!
Us yachties know we're lucky to choose our landfalls and, give or take the odd spell of nasty weather when forced quickly to find shelter and silly mistakes or incidences of plain ignorance, don't visit or hang around for long in such unsavoury places. (Bora Bora doesn't want us much anyway; our budgets aren't up to it.) But, as a footnote I add that it is a convenient place to go through exit formalities and customs and get clearance papers for next foreign places, and the gendarmes who handle such stuff in Bora Bora were perfectly polite, friendly and helpful.
Moving on, after that little Bora outburst, I had a boisterous sail over to Maupiti, in through its narrow reef pass and meandering well-marked channel, overlooked by towering craggy mountain, to a calm anchorage with four others – including my favourite Berliners, the adventurous young family on Kalibu (if you read German or even if you don't, have a look at www.sykalibu.de).
Given a forecast of dwindling winds (and the fact that Bora Bora had gobbled up the last of my local currency) I didn't stay in Maupiti very long. Just enough time to enjoy supper on Kalibu, wander past the well-kempt, flowery gardens of homesteads on the main street, smiling local folk, and another day to stagger up the highest peak, the hot steep beautiful, Tiriano (only 1,200 ft, but felt more! they've put ropes to help on steep bits, and somewhere there's a lone sailor selfie photo of me looking silly).
Feeling energetic and cheerful I did lots of swimming too, and started to clean the worst of the weed that now grows vigorously on Henrietta's bottom.
And then, with decision taken to sail to Suwarrow (690 miles), I upped anchor and set out. Wind dwindled even quicker than forecast and before the first night, we were rolling and slopping along at less than 3 knots, cooked by tropical sun, with outline of Maupiti, destined to remain visible for nearly 24 hours.
It wasn't till day 4 that wind picked up, making it more than six days for this little bit of the Pacific. (I still can't get over how big it is!) The only alarming event was as I sipped a morning mug of tea. A massive bang and Henrietta shook….spinnaker pole had broken its mast track and was being held at one end only by skinny bit of rope and shackle pin. Quickly (not really very 'quickly' because it was mighty rolly and windy at that stage) I found that rivets had sheared and bit of tracking snapped off; so lowered pole to deck and tied it down; rearranged sail plan and adjusted course; often wishing I had the balance, the strength and the dexterity of a much much younger man; and resumed my mug of tea – which by then was of course stone cold.
Next stop, Suwarrow is a tiny atoll, at least 200 miles from the nearest people, that was put on the map, as it were, because a New Zealander, Tom Neale, lived a hermit life here for many years from 1952 and wrote a book about it, "An Island to Oneself". He was buried here when he died in 1977.
It's now a Cook Islands National Park (birds and sealife) and two park rangers, Harry and Katu, live here six months a year and help visiting yachts deal with the many bits of paper required for immigration, biosecurity, customs, yacht entry…and I know not what, and they spray inside our boats with some foul stinky insecticide.
There are not so many visiting yachts as in the past; Henrietta is only number 46 this year and there won't be many more as I'm very near the back of the pack (which meanders across the Pacific each year heading for New Zealand or Australia before cyclone season).
This entry was posted in Older Posts on 25 September 2017 by michaelsweet50.
Terrific. More descriptive stories from the southern ocean, conjouring lovely scenes for the reader. Delightful. Keep them coming, Mike. Happy sailing in between.
Michael – thank you so much for your wonderful words from the other side of the world! Snippets that manage to paint a perfect & true picture of your world wanderings … the ideal antidote to a landlocked Sunday in autumnal Shropshire.
Looking forward to reading your next posting – which I note has recently landed in my inbox.


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Q: Telegram bot limits for user-to-bot chats What is the correct strategy to make a bot that can serve many subscribers (say, 10,000) provided each chat is 1-to-1 (user-to-bot) and within a single chat there is no heavy communication (i.e. less than 1 message in a minute on average and chat sessions are limited to 20-30 minutes a day on average per user).
There is plenty of information on the telegram bot API rate limit but one thing still evades me. I struggle to understand how exactly API rate limits are applied when many users have an open 1-to-1 chat with a bot account (not a group chat with bot being a member).
Currently, the docs say a limit of 30 messages / second if sent to different users. Does it mean that if there are 31 users sending messages simultaneously then I will have to apply throttling on the bot backend?
Priorities here are to make sure that the bot responds as fast as possible and uninterrupted service is required even at peak times.
Can someone guide me in the right direction? I find official documentation had to understand in this regard.


This is my fourth and final work visit to Frýdek-Místek in the past six months. Wondering where that is? It is a tiny town in the Czech Republic, population 60,000, and perhaps 30 minutes from Ostrava. It used to be two independent towns, Frýdek and Místek, divided by the Ostravice River. But then the prince of Frýdek fell in love with the princess of Místek and they united the two towns. That is obviously a blatant lie, but it makes for a better story than the truth, which is that the Nazis forced the towns to merge during the occupation in WWII. Enough of the history lesson, because this is where it gets weird. There are a lot of Koreans in this town. In a big city this would, of course, not be weird. But this is Frýdek-Místek! The very first time I travelled here I immediately noticed the large amount of Korean men on the flight. What are they doing here, I wondered. Turns out the answer was simple, there's a Hyundai factory nearby. And then came the gem: where there are Koreans, there are Korean restaurants. So I go to Restaurant Benu every time I'm here. Last night my predictability in food choice was proven when a colleague that lives here decided to try to find us without calling and here was his reasoning process: they're out for dinner. There's two likely places, the Irish pub or the Korean. Selma is with them. They are at the Korean.
Of course I'm at the Korean! I love Korean food! I always have kimchi and Korean chili sauce in my fridge at home. This evening's dinner started with 6 different pickled items, including an awesome kimchi which was salty, pungent, tangy, sour, spicy and with a satisfying crunch. The other items were, going clockwise from upper left, cabbage with a salty bean paste on top, potato or some other root vegetable julienne, cucumbers with onions, kimchi of course, glass noodle salad, and mushrooms. The chopsticks here are metal and flat shaped, which I had never seen before. Looks nifty but takes some getting used to because they feel a bit awkward in your hands at first; however, the grip on food is very good because of the flat ends. To drink I had local pilsner beer, Radegast.
For our main course I had the kalbi, bbq beef short ribs. The bbq sauce was sweet and meaty, finger-licking good. The meat was a bit tough every now and then but the flavor made up for it. There were giant chunks of garlic on the hotplate, which I had one or two of, didn't want to overdo it considering all the meetings planned the next day. My colleagues ordered the beef doenjang jjigae, which is Korean soy bean paste stew with beef, and the vegetarian bibimbap, which literally means mixed rice. The soybean paste stew turned out to be a bit too spicy for my colleague. Actually, it wasn't that spicy but he had the misfortune of eating an entire seed-filled green chili. As his face turned red I told him to eat plain white rice but he went for water instead. Mistake! Water, especially cold water, makes it worse. I pursed my lips and gave him a slow head shake and he finally followed my advice and stuffed his face with rice. A glass of milk would've been helpful as well. The experience traumatized him a bit, so I gave him half of my ribs and ate most of his stew, carefully avoiding the chilies as I wasn't in the mood for milk. I also ordered another portion of the kimchi because I couldn't get enough of it.
It was a satisfying dinner. Not the best Korean I've ever had, but definitely good and of course a pleasant surprise when in Frýdek-Místek. So if you ever find yourself in this part of the Czech Republic, head over to the town square and have a meal here. As for the price, food in the Czech Republic is cheap, and this place is 'expensive' at 12-18 Euros for a main dish. My half liter of beer was a mere 2 Euros.


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Uber celebrates Chinese New Year by bringing lion dances on demand to China and Singapore
by Kaylene Hong — in Asia
Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and to celebrate it with a dash of extravagance, private car hire service Uber is letting you hire a lion dance troupe on demand throughout Wednesday.
Uber is branching out from its usual black cabs to send you a lion dance in three Chinese cities — Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou — as well as Singapore. All you have to do is download the Uber app and request the 'Lion Dance' option — if a troupe is available, it will arrive at your home or workplace within minutes.
For those not in the know, a lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture typically performed during Chinese New Year and other festivals, in which performers mimic the movements of a lion. Here's an example.
However, demand for such special services tends to be high and Uber warns that availability may be limited — so it could take a couple of tries to find an available lion dance troupe. The lion dance offering will run through 9am to 6pm and will cost CNY188 ($31) in the three Chinese cities, and SG$50 ($39) in Singapore.
Uber has previously experimented with other products for its on-demand taxi-hailing service. In the past, customers have been given the chance to request Christmas trees, ice cream trucks, roses and even kittens for a limited period. The lion dance is the company's way of localizing its service in Asia — adding on to its increased efforts to expand in the region.
Read: Uber targets Asia, confirming plans to expand to Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong and beyond
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The number of companies large and small also exploded and many of the sponsors also had a major presence, including AutoDesk, Lego, DFRobots. More photos in next posts.
At the Shanghai Maker carnival I asked "the" Massimo to sign my Arduino (first of many Arduinos). He did and I have to say he is a very nice guy. Was hoping to get some feedback on the serial number and without any prompting he said "this is a collectors item" and when asked said that is was actually number 62,638.
Prior to this at the pre-maker carnival party at XinCheJian, while exchanging background information with other party goers, I was about four seconds into my background "grew up with no TV, so had to entertain myself making…" when I was interrupted with "so you are a true geek" and to make this really official – this came from a cultural anthropologist who specialises in maker culture etc!
Author spanner888Posted on October 19, 2013 September 9, 2016 Categories About, Hardware, Open SourceTags carnival, maker, Shanghai, XinchejianLeave a comment on What am I?
Was going to post a shorter article about below – but it felt way too much like I was just bragging – so I did not publish. Now after seeing and having the view that "XinCheJian = amazing" expressed by others – well I had to publish!
Two weeks ago on the way to XinCheJian's hackerspace in a container – went past the beginnings of the new FoxConn Shanghai building.
OK that is a bit random – how about a week ago I opened XinCheJian door to let some people in – it was the new owner of HackaDay and the CTO.
I was at XinCheJian to meet with David Li, founder of XinCheJian and so were they, so I got to listened and participate in a really interesting flow of ideas.
Turns out hackaDay is really a side project and is just on of 70 sites they own, mostly in electronics! They have been exploring Shenzhen electronics markets and are looking into ideas for HackaDay!
And it also turns out while I was impressed with meeting them and what they are planning, they were also very impressed with XinCheJian – see their interesting post.
company could exist on such low volume production runs of 100s and 1,000s instead of their "usual" millions of units.
suppliers and manufacturers also sell most services on common shopping websites like Taobao!
for about $10,000 you can just start manufacturing your product – no need for massive fund raising – maybe just borrow a bit from a few friends.
forget about http://phonebloks.com/ HIGHLY modular DIY design/make mobile phone!!!!!
…. you go Shenzhen, pick and choose your phone modules, then for about $10,000 just manufacture it!
large companies often have spare capacity – ie already paid for infrastructure and idle staff, so if you can convince the owner, manufacturing can and does occur cheaper without or only part of cost those overheads.
SeeedStudio, Hackvana, DFRobot and ITeadStudio, Sparkfun, Fritzing, and Upverter and 3D printing services like: Ponoko and Shapeways and hardware accelerators like: haxlr8.
Then there is also a small, but growing shift in the low volume market where more and more companies are now targeting low volume production at "affordable" cost instead of really expensive prototyping/low volume and also providing direct global access to these services, not just local access, for example: DragonInnovation and HWTrek and SnapEDA.
Finally – I hear that Massimo – yes from Arduino will be at XinCheJian in late October after BarCamp and Maker Carnival.
pcDuino Arduino on steriods – better than new Arduino Yun?
similar GPIO pins to an Arduino.
Arduino "emulation" runs directly on the Linux hardware!
usage – it all just works nicely!
Arduino "emulation" – ie running Arduino GUI with Arduino code on the pcDuino hardware – just works.
…and you can then run the program outside of Ard gui, even have it run on startup.
In an Arduino, you might not notice if your code crashes. In a pcDuino crashes can be more obvious! If you do something bad in your code (like going beyond array bounds) – the terminal running your Arduino code might crash!
your code does NOT run all the time power is applied like on Arduino, but only when you run it.
memory – code size limits – seem to have vanished! A simple sketch "Binary sketch size: 17,517 byes (of a 104,857,600 byte maximum) – 0% used". Then adding MANY k of text, yet compiled code size only increased by about 1k!
reset switch is just like Arduino – it resets the entire board, but with pcDuino – this means instantly rebooting your Linux environment!
Found it necessary to to do a full system update via the F8 boot menu and that not all Arduino libraries are yet available/functional – eg SoftwareSerial.
The physical header layout seems odd with a non-Arduino layout and most headers on one side. Maybe some background on their design decisions on those layout choices would explain this.
Speed – guess it runs way faster than Arduino – but have not checked yet, although compilation process is quite slow.
The LinkSprite translation board (T board) shield provides a standard Arduino shield pin layout so you can use your existing Arduino 5v shields and code, run faster and access the added Linux capability!
That is actually very impressive! What other capability is there to discover? Guess need to explore this device some more – for example interrupts, sleep, timers.
Co-incidentally there is a lot of press about the new Arduino Yun, which is also an Arduino + Linux hardware. The Yun has both Arduino & Linux hardware (plus WiFi) and has a serial bridge and library that allows communication between the Arduino and Linux hardware. The pcDuino does not have the additional Arduino processor, but does provide almost the same IO pins with control via the same Arduino programming IDE.
So the Yun is an Arduino (Leonardo) and has direct control of all IO, plus has some control of the Linux WiFi and other functions, and the pcDuino has direct control of all IO and Linux functions, plus if programming via Arduino IDE provides significantly extended Arduino capability.
I don't have a Yun to try so I can't answer this posts title question, but I can definitely say the pcDuino really delivers and shows promise of improving further!
Summary: pcDuino is a highly functional mini-Linux system that also adds several BIG features to Arduino capability, plus everything works right out of the box!
Author spanner888Posted on September 13, 2013 September 9, 2016 Categories Hardware, Open SourceTags Arduino, Linux3 Comments on pcDuino Arduino on steriods – better than new Arduino Yun?
Went to XinCheJian hackerspace the other day to run Helper Session and left with a LeapMotion, pcDuinio with LinkSprite shields and sensors and a Raspberry Pi – all on loan – but such nice devices – made a great weekend.
The LeapMotion has had plenty of press since it's release, so no need to rehash that here, my big first impression after a quick setup and short time playing game, was of being totally lost once the game finished, then I realised oh – have to use the old keyboard and mouse again – it was a huge letdown after being so free using the LeapMotion!
The rPi is one of the prizes for the SwarmRobot team (got shipped – returned and shipped again). Was going to use it for the new TheSpaceProjects, but then was told about the donation of several pcDuino's and the LinkSprite shields etc. So now upgrading to pcDuino and maybe also the rPi.
More posts coming on pcDuino – as first impressions are it is actually a LOT more capability than expected!
Author spanner888Posted on September 9, 2013 September 9, 2016 Categories Community, HardwareTags LeapMotion, pcDuino, rPi, XinchejianLeave a comment on Hackerspaces are great!
Trying to add a bit more wisdom to all the existing information that is around the web based on my tribulations with a SwarmRobot 32u4 based board (core of the Leonardo) and a SeeedStudio Xadow.
the port may have a different name/number. Recent Arduino programming GUI versions usually auto-detect the change. If not, you may have one of the other issues below. Older Arduino programming GUI versions did not auto-detect and you had to manually change the port.
Sometimes auto-upload works, other times you have to press the Leonardo reset button. It seems to run in streaks, working reliably for auto, then for manual reset. Don't know how to reliably fix this. Sometimes solutions here work, often not.
Sometimes Arduino autodetects the port correctly, but does not select it, so you need to check and select it.
close and reopen the Arduino programming GUI, especially if you see red messages like "lib rxtx cannot access the com port".
reboot your computer and power off/on the Leonardo and if you see the above message. Under Windows 7, the following message usually means a computer reboot for me "processing.app.debug.RunnerException: Couldn't find a Leonardo on the selected port. Check that you have the correct port selected. If it is correct, try pressing the board's reset button after initiating the upload.
If the com port is greyed out, try selecting the com port during that brief moment of disconnection and before reconnection after board is reset. Using your operating system sound events for this is very handy!
in addition to HID control of mouse or keyboard that you have programmed, I suspect that on some Leonardo style boards active HID control sometimes causes issues. I use a few seconds delay in setup function to avoid this at least while developing my code, in addition to the generally suggested method to easily disabled HID mouse/keyboard control.
Sometimes you end up with multiple copies of Avrdude running and using a lot of CPU. For me this occurs occasionally under OpenSuse.
All my attempts to get OpenSuse working with Xadow failed for weeks, until I left the Xadow plugged in at computer power on/boot, then ran the Arduino GUI with root privilege, then after that the GUI ran OK with userlevel privileges. I really do not understand why this is so!
Added header pins to the Xadow breakout board, plugged in the MMU 6050 sensor, uploaded the SAME code been testing on the Teensy++2 and success – the Xadow works as an air mouse!
I did comment out the button code as I have loaned my buttons to another Xinchejian Assistive devices team member. Also changed the movement sensitivity.
Will probably use the Teensy to continue the sensor – library debugging as it has heaps of IO to drive LEDs or a logic analyser. Will also move the draft code for the virtual button control to both boards and then should have a fully functional mouse. There are a lot more features planned, so this will be a highly capable and highly adaptable mouse!
A Xinchejian members first experience is in this second video – only instruction to him was hold like this and rotate! Seems like he was quite impressed!
This more complicated demonstration uses an accelerometer to detect movement, displays accelerometer values on the OLED display and vibrates to indicate movement detected!
The demo code works first time, although the wiki instructions do need a little update to help klutzes like me. I'll have to get stuck into those updates next!
First try with the Xadow was using the LED demo code. Looks really nice and has me thinking hard for some more nice motion displays. Especially as the Xadow display board also has an ATmega168 on it!
The Xadow runs well from the supplied battery, so these little devices should really make very useful little wearable devices with plenty of show-off bling and some real capability as well!.
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Rob Morrow ("Northern Exposure"), David Krumholtz ("Ray"), Judd Hirsch ("Taxi") and Peter MacNicol ("Ally McBeal") star in the drama series, NUMB3RS. Inspired by actual events, the drama follows an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles.
Don and the team must protect high-profile activist Benjamin Polk at a political rally, but it soon becomes a manhunt when they search for a sniper trying to kill Polk. Also, Charlie awaits an answer from Amita, on the sixth season premiere.
Don and the team investigate a series of murders which they realize are being copied from scenes out of a soon-to-be-released movie. Also, Larry leaves to embark on his personal adventure.
The team searches for a geneticist's daughter who they suspect was abducted by her unstable mother, but become more concerned when they think the young girl may be a clone. Also, Charlie and Amita talk about having kids, and Liz reveals a dark secret.
When strange, almost paranormal happenings are observed at a decommissioned air base, the spooky occurrences take on a decidedly different tone when the team is brought in to investigate the mystery of a dead woman found there.
The team conducts an undercover sting to locate a cyber crime lord, but the operation is foiled by a charming, brilliant hacker whose desire to take over the online black markets puts him in a dangerous online turf war that could lead to murder.
When robbers hit a diamond exchange and take hostages, Don and the team find an unlikely ally in convict John Buckley, who may help the team's investigation when they believe the men are copying Buckley's criminal strategies.
When the team foils a robbery of an armored car full of Federal Reserve money and recover bills that trace back to the infamous D.B. Cooper heist, they call on Agent Roger Bloom, who worked on the Cooper case, for help with the investigation.
The team searches for a lost shipment of high-caliber firearms when one of the weapons is responsible for random killings throughout the city. Also, Charlie and Amita disagree on a wedding date while Don re-evaluates his relationship with Robin.
The team searches for a serial killer who is targeting men who solicit prostitutes. Also, Colby and Nikki deal with the aftermath of a car crash when they have an accident during the investigation.
The team gets a taste of the limelight when they search for jewels worth millions that have been stolen during an awards show broadcast. Also, Don revisits an old case that is haunting him, and Larry returns from his adventure in the desert.
The team investigates the deaths of two men who were part of a group of friends that had been sexually assaulted by a teacher when they were young boys.
Charlie and Amita get married and begin preparations for their London adventure, but they put a slight hold on their plans when they assist Don to track down the whereabouts of his gun after it goes missing, on the sixth season finale.


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Q: How to set BigQuery configuration properties with google-api-python-client? The project I'm working in is still using google-api-python-client which is deprecated and the official documentation has no examples for it. I've gotten BigQuery working with it but I can't seem to figure out how to set configuration properties, specifically so that I can run a query with BATCH priority.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

A: The answer is to use jobs().insert() rather than jobs().query(). Inserting a new job asynchronously gives the caller the ability to specify a wide range of options but requires them to run another command to get the results.
So assuming gs is your authenticated service object:
# insert an asynchronous job
jobr = gs.jobs().insert(projectId='abc-123', body={'configuration':{'query':{'query':'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM schema.table'}}}).execute()
# get query results of job
gs.jobs().getQueryResults(projectId='abc-123', jobId=jobr['jobReference']['jobId']).execute()