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Jim Bryant Papers
Abstract Jim Bryant began this collection because of an interest he had in the Fernley and Lassen Railroad, a branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad which ran from Fernley, Nevada, to the vicinity of Susanville, Lassen County, California. This research brought to his attention the lumber industry of northern California which was inextricably tied to the railroad. The collection includes are company and governmental records (partial), newspaper clippings, maps, photos, and research notes on logging...
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Jim Bryant Papers
Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company Records
The Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company was organized in 1873 with Duane L. Bliss as president and general manger and H. M. Yerington, D. O. Mills and J. A. Rigby as stockholders. It was probably the largest and most extensive lumber operation serving the mines of the Comstock. Collection includes correspondence, company papers, land related documents, financial accounts, lumber statistics and maps from 1858-1946.
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company Records
Map of Comstock Lode Extending Down Gold Canon
Identifier: 2016-29
The Comstock Lode is a region on the eastern slope of Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range of western Nevada. The area produced one of the largest silver lodes ever discovered. The map of Comstock Lode Extending Down Gold Canon was drawn by G. T. Brown, the San Francisco-based lithographer, and depicts Comstock Lode mine claims, locations of mills, and mining works in color.
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Map of Comstock Lode Extending Down Gold Canon
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company Records
Abstract The Consolidated Virginia Mining Company (Con Virginia) in Virginia City, Nevada, was once the richest source of ore in the Comstock Lode. Mine operation records including reports, assay reports, ore and bullion statements, mill records, annual reports, bylaws, equipment specification books, legal records, resolutions, and account registers. Also included are records of the adjacent California Mining Company, the Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company, and the C & C Shaft...
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Consolidated Virginia Mining Company Records
Claude Dukes Collection of Federal Water Master's Office Records
Collection contains papers from the Federal Water Master's Office, Reno, Nevada, 1926-1982. Included are office operational records, correspondence; also water data, reports, maps and printed material relating to water in the Truckee and Carson River Basins, Nevada and California.
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Claude Dukes Collection of Federal Water Master's Office Records
El Dorado Wood and Flume Company Records
Abstract The El Dorado Wood and Flume Company was incorporated in Nevada in 1875 with H. M. Yerington, J. W. Haynie and A. J. Ralston as trustees; H. M. Yerington was the president when the company incorporated. Its major areas of operation were in Lake Valley, El Dorado County, California and in Hope Valley, Alpine County, and California. The company also held land in Ormsby, Douglas, and Washoe counties, Nevada. Collection contains correspondence, land related documents, financial accounts, legal...
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / El Dorado Wood and Flume Company Records
Eureka Consolidated Mining Company Records
The Eureka Consolidated Mining Company was an underground, hard rock mining company operating about two miles from Eureka, Nevada on Ruby Hill. The collection includes mining reports, correspondence, maps, and technical drawings which documents structures, head frames, underground facilities, mining equipment, and the Ruby Hill Water Company. One group of records relates to a 1950s proposal to bring a nuclear power plant to Eureka.
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Eureka Consolidated Mining Company Records
Eureka-Nevada Railway Company Records
The Eureka and Palisade Railroad Company was formed in 1873 to serve the mines in the Eureka Mining District in central Nevada. The collection consists of the records of the Eureka and Palisade Railroad Company, 1873-1902; the Eureka and Palisade Railway Company, 1901-1911; and the Eureka-Nevada Railway Company, 1912-1945. Collection includes articles of association, minutes of meetings, correspondence, legal documents, financial accounts, operational records, maps, and printed material.
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Eureka-Nevada Railway Company Records
Carrie Smith Forestry Collection
Identifier: NC1379
Scope and Contents The Carrie Smith Forestry Collection consists of materials that Carrie Smith collected while working for the Truckee Ranger District. This collection contains materials related to the US Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, Truckee, Donner, and Tahoe. The majority of the materials in this collection pertain to the protection and management of forest resources in Truckee and the Tahoe National Forest. This collection also reflects Smith's interest in archaeology and cultural resource...
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Carrie Smith Forestry Collection
Vincent Paul Gianella Papers
Vincent Paul Gianella (1886-1983) was a professor in the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1915-1925 and again from 1935-1952. The collection contains correspondence, field notes, subject files, geologic reports, printed materials, maps, photographs related to Gianella's research in Nevada geology and earthquakes, his work at the Mackay School of Mines, and to routes of John C. Fremont and other early explorers of Nevada.
Found in: University of Nevada, Reno. Special Collections Department / Vincent Paul Gianella Papers
More about 'Maps'
Yerington, Henry M. 5
El Dorado Wood and Flume Company 3
Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company 2
Mackay School of Mines 2
Markleeville Flume Company 2
Mills, Darius O. (Darius Ogden), 1825-1910 2
Anderson, Charles L. (Charles Lewis), 1827-1910 1
Archer, W. Andrew (William Andrew), 1894-1973 1
Arthur Brant Laboratory for Exploration Geophysics 1
Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 1
Baldrica, Alice M. 1
Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965 1
Barrett, Stanley R. 1
Bell, Walter L., 1924- 1
Billings, W. D. (William Dwight), 1910-1997 1
Bliss, Duane L. 1
Bliss, W. S. (William Seth), 1865-1941 1
Brown, Grafton Tyler, 1841-1918 1
Brunswick Exploration Company 1
Bryant, Jim (Local historian) 1
Bunyan, Paul (Legendary character) 1
C & C Shaft Company 1
California Mining Company (Virginia City, Nev.) 1
Cashman, Patricia Hughes 1
Consolidated California and Virginia Mining Company 1
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company 1
Cook, Eliza, 1856-1947 1
Cook, Sherburne Friend, 1896-1974 1
Cutter, Donald C. 1
D'Azevedo, Warren L. 1
Dangberg, Grace, 1896-1985 1
Dukes, Claude, 1914-1984 1
Dukes, Harry C. 1
Dukes, Lynne 1
Eureka Consolidated Mining Company 1
Eureka and Palisade Railroad 1
Eureka and Palisade Railway 1
Eureka-Nevada Railway 1
Fair, James Graham, 1831-1894 1
Federal Water Master Nevada 1
Fernley and Lassen Railway Company 1
Flood, James Clair, 1826-1888 1
Frei, Milt 1
Fruit Growers Supply Company 1
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 1
Full, R. P. (Roy P.) 1
Gianella, Vincent Paul, 1886-1983 1
Gifford, Edward Winslow, 1887-1959 1
Groom Nevada Lead Mines Company 1
Groom Southend Mining Company 1
Hardman, George 1
Hart, Red (John) 1
Haynie, John W., 1836?-1897 1
Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979 1
Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC 1
Hoyt, Homer, 1895-1984 1
Hudson, John W., 1857-1936 1
Inyo Development Company 1
James, Roy, active 20th century 1
John, Barton 1
Johnson, J. R., active 1872 1
Johnston, Annie Bronn 1
Juniata Consolidated Silver Mining Company 1
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 1
Lander, F. W. (Frederick West), 1821-1862 1
Lappin, Burt L. 1
Lappin, Dawn Y., 1940-2018 1
Larkin, William, active 1872 1
Lassen Lumber and Box Company 1
Lee, Simeon Lemuel, 1844-1927 (Anthropologist) 1
Lehenbauer, Philip A., 1881-1968 1
Leland, Joy 1
Lindström, Susan 1
Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering 1
Mackay School of Mines. Burrus Mining Laboratory 1
Mackay School of Mines. Hard Rock Miners 1
Mackay School of Mines. Seismological Laboratory 1
Mackay, John William, 1831-1902 1
Mason, Howard G. 1
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station 1
McDonnell, Anna Lander West, 1876-1966 1
McKay, Cameron 1
Merrill, Mary 1
Murray, Nobel T. 1
Myron Wall and Associates 1
Natomas Company 1
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 1
Nevada State Commission for the Preservation of Wild Horses 1
Nevada. Emergency Relief Administration 1
Nevada. State Land Use Planning Committee 1
Newlands Project (U.S.) 1
Newman, Linda P. 1
O'Brien, William Shoney 1
Oberbillig, Ernest, 1915-1983 1
Orr Ditch and Water Company 1
Osborne, J. B., 1831-1913 1
Osborne, T. J., 1860-1918 1
Paul Laxalt Mineral Engineering Center 1
Pete, Hank 1
Peterson, William 1


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Adare Saddle is a saddle at about , situated at the junction of Adare Peninsula and the Admiralty Mountains, and at the junction of Newnes Glacier and Moubray Glacier which fall steeply from it. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1957–58, in association with Adare Peninsula and Cape Adare. The landform is situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

Mountain passes of Victoria Land
Admiralty Mountains
Pennell Coast

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Many clubs have good relationships with their local pool to get started. Attached are some documents on why Pools need to have kayaking in their pool and why it can benefit their operating plan.
Another good mechanismm to introduce your community to kayaking is through your local school. This document is intended for teachers but you can use it with your local school to help them understand why they need to get their classrooms into a kayak this year.
To be successful you will need access to some funding. Government Grants, Casinos, Special Events are all ways for your club to earn money to buy equipment, rent facilities and pay for Instructors.
One of the easiest forms of fundraising is to run a casino. It takes 2 days work with 17 shifts each day. Your organization must have financial records and programming for 2 years before you can apply. Edmonton & Calgary groups will earn about $70,000 every 21 months. This translates into $40,000/year. Groups outside the cities earn about $50,000 every 30 months and this translates into $15-$20,000/year.
The Alberta Community Initiatives Program can provide up to $75,000 in capital funding and $75,000 in operational funding to your club. More information and templates to follow.
To be successful you will need to let people know who you are and what you are doing. The Club Marketing Manual will help you to tell your story and enlist more people to support your club.


Buying direct car insurance has never been easier, especially with so many auto insurance companies on the internet. Now that these companies have a quality online presence, you can buy your coverage direct, instead of going through a middle man. This makes it more likely that you will get a good deal, and takes some of the hassle out of the process.
Buying direct auto insurance online is actually easy. It's not so different from buying your coverage in person, but takes out some of the most frustrating and annoying steps.
First, you'll want to get quotes for your car insurance. To do this, you'll need to find websites that offer free quotes. There are two ways to do this. You can either find the website for the direct car insurance company you want to work with, or you can use a site that aggregates information for multiple companies in your area.
If you work with the direct vehicle insurance company's site directly, you have the advantage of having all of their particular information at your fingertips. If you know the company that you want to work with or if there are only a couple that you would consider buying your coverage from, this option can be faster and more efficient than working with an aggregate website. On the other hand, if you want to get a lot of different car insurance quotes, the process of finding websites for each company can take quite a while.
If you work with an aggregate site, you have the benefit of getting your information to many direct automobile insurance companies all at once. You won't have to find each company's website independently, either.
Different aggregate sites work differently, so the best thing to do is to get instructions once you've found the site that you'll be working with. Some of them will have representatives from companies in your area contact you, while others will give you quotes in a more direct manner, sending them straight to your email box or presenting them to you online. Choose a direct car insurance site whose process makes sense to you and that you're comfortable with, so the process of buying your insurance can go as smoothly as possible.
Once you've chosen the website you want to work with, make sure you follow their instructions. The quotes you get from any site are only as good as the information you can give, so make sure that everything you type is accurate. If they ask something about you or your car that you don't know, dig it out of your files before you go any farther in your process of purchasing direct coverage.
No matter which kind of direct car insurance website you choose, make sure that you get several quotes on your coverage before you make any purchases. Each car insurance company will calculate your rates based on a slightly different formula, so you could end up paying less in one place than you would in another. Since the only way to find out which direct company is the cheapest is to ask them all for quotes, take the time to do this. You will see that it is time well spent when you are saving on your direct coverage.
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Make sure you look at reviews before you choose which car insurance company you want to work with. You can usually find these online, or you can ask around and talk to family and friends who have their policies through a particular company. Make sure you find out how claims are handled, if they are dealt with quickly, and whether the company seems helpful in general. Choose a company that will deal with you easily and honestly, and buy your coverage once you've made your choice.
Once you've purchased your direct car insurance, drive with confidence. While this is not an excuse to drive poorly, having good coverage means that, even if you make a mistake, your liabilities and any personal damages are taken care of. If you ever need to make a claim against your coverage, contact your company immediately. They should be able to take care of any problems quickly, getting you back on the road as soon as possible.


Getting Gorgeous is having a huge party on Saturday. It's going to be so much fun. There will be so much to see. This means a bit of walking. Here's some relief for your toes, when you get back from the party.
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Azimov Bobur Bokhodirovich
Born on September 11, 1982 in Tashkent region, Qibray district.
He finished secondary school No 297 in 1996.
He graduated from college named after P.P.Benkov at 1999 in Tashkent.
Specialty: National miniature artist.
He graduated from Tashkent Architectural and Construction Institute (in brief TACI) in 2004.
Specialty: Architectural environment designer
From 2010 to the present, he has been working as a Designer-in-chief of the company.
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Our address: Tashkent city,
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The opening scene of the pilot episode of one of my current fave TV shows finds Eleanor (Kristen Bell) sitting on a couch in a waiting room staring at the words "Welcome! Everything is fine" painted on the wall opposite her.
Did I mention this is a comedy?
What plays out over the next three years of NBC's "The Good Place" is a hearty dose of ethics, smart metaphysical humor, and a sassy robot girl named Janet. Except she's not really a robot, but … it's complicated.
One of my favorite scenes is the orientation video produced for new arrivals to the Good Place. You can watch it above. I'm especially fascinated by the point system that the Good and Bad Places are based upon.
During your time on earth, every one of your actions had a positive or a negative value depending on how much good or bad that action put into the universe. Every sandwich you ate, every time you bought a magazine, every single thing you did had an effect that rippled out over time and ultimately created some amount of good or bad … When your time on earth has ended, we calculate the total value of your life using our perfectly accurate measuring system. Only the people with the very highest scores, the true cream of the crop, get to come here, to the Good Place.
In "The Good Place," going to heaven or hell depends on one's final "score." That might sound amusing, but it absolutely amazes me how many people live their real lives according to this reasoning. This kind of moral reckoning likely makes sense to lots of people. In fact, I would guess that a large percentage of Americans believe in heaven and hell, and most of them probably believe that the way to get to heaven is to accumulate more good actions than bad.
I want to say to them, though I usually don't say it as bluntly as this, that BEING A GOOD PERSON HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HEAVEN OR HELL.
In fact, that's the exact opposite of the good news of Jesus Christ. The core gospel message is that God loves us — period. We are all sinners, all flawed and broken, but God forgives us anyway, and not because of anything we have done, but on the merit of Jesus Christ's advocacy on our behalf.
This was the central theological point of the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther protested the clergymen who were traveling the countryside selling "good points" to folks to boost their chances of gaining heaven. Luther insisted that God didn't work this way; we couldn't earn our way to heaven, but could only rely on grace to get us there.
In other words, God has no point system.
Paul put it like this: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God — not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life" (Eph. 2:8-10).
The good news is that we are saved by grace, not by good works, but that we are created to be people who do good works. The good works are not a means to an end; they are the end themselves. They are what constitute a meaningful, purposeful life.
You are already loved, already saved, already held in the arms of God. Nothing can tear you from God's arms, nothing can separate you from God's love. You are secure.
You will be in the Good Place one day, along with everyone else.
But until then, let's do everything in our power to make this planet, this earth, this nation, this neighborhood, God's Good Place.
Join us at our next Faith on Tap session, Feb. 12, 7 pm at 723 Ft Worth Ave, as we take a deeper dive into "The Good Place" and what it means to be good.


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Bargo es una aldea  española situada en la parroquia de Tojosoutos en el municipio de Lousame (provincia de La Coruña, Galicia).

En 2021 tenía una población de 21 habitantes (11 hombres y 10 mujeres). Situada a 444 metros sobre el nivel del mar, es la localidad a mayor altitud del municipio y también la situada más al norte. Dista 11,4 kilómetros de la cabecera municipal y las localidades más cercanas son Sabugueiro y Fontefría.

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Produced in luxuriously soft black nappa leather, this café race jacket has a clean, streamlined designed complete with channel quilting on the shoulders. Zip fastening, 2 external pockets, Popper fastening at collar, Zips to cuffs, Stitching on shoulders.
This garment fits true to size, take your usual size. Centre back length = 49cm.Model's height is 5'11" and she wears an Italian size 40.


Salted Fenugreek Crackers, a perfect tea-time snack. Always enjoy these homemade buttery salted crackers with cup of hot tea!
A lot of sweets/savory preparations world-wide are made with all-purpose white flour.. probably that's why it's called all-purpose. Be it Indian Gulab Jamun or American Twinkies, no matter how these are made, all are pretty darn tasty always! then why cook all these treats at home? Well... home cooking gives us opportunity to make'em little healthier (a touch of whole wheat and all.....), and fresher (and with some love.... the most imp ingredient (patent homemade ;)).
Namkeen (Salted) Methi (Fenugreek) Mathri (Crackers) is one such delightful fried Indian finger snack that is traditionally made with all white flour (called "maida" in hindi) and lots of butter/clarified butter. White flour gives these crackers fine texture and clarified butters adds the crispiness. These snacks are easily available in Indian Sweets Store during festive season, but I love make some at home.
Past two weeks, there were several Indian festivals, one after another, which kept me very busy... One of such festival, almost celebrated all-over-India and especially popular in north India is called Karwa Chauth. On this day, married ladies keep a day's fast for long life and well-being of their husbands. For ladies, it is a fast day, but, for rest of the family, it is the day to eat a lot of sweets, snacks, and authentic Indian food.
My home is no different Indian household. Day before the fast, I made these traditional Fenugreek Crackers to eat for Sargi (early morning fasting meal, before sunrise). I also made sweet version of these crackers to eat after pooja (idol worship) in the evening. (will share that recipe too).
I don't fry a lot of stuff frequently, but... these holidays and festivals days demand something rich and comforting... you know what? Vishal was ecstatic looking at fried snacks for teatime. :) Growing up, his all festivals were defined as fried sweet and savory food all day. And who doesn't love deep fried, crispy and butter goodies to enjoy. I guess, specially during holidays and festival season, no one wants to remember dieting, healthy eating etc... yet homemade treats have fresher ingredients and natural preservatives that gives me some piece of mind.
So.... almost half batch of mathri crackers disappeared with evening tea, a day before fast. Rest.... you can imagine how long it lasted?
However, I did not cook everything at home, did buy some Indian sweets. I have to tell you.... those were no where near tasty/fresh like these homemade crispy crackers. You can even make these crackers with all wheat flour instead of white. See, this is the beauty of home-cooking, change recipe, adapt to your life-style and make it your own!
All-in-all, I had great time cooking and serving these snack bites and even more loving to share this recipe with you.
1. In a large bowl, add all-purpose and wheat flours. You can use all wheat flour or all all-purpose flour too. Add cold butter cut into pieces (or ghee at room temperature not warm).
2. Massage the flour and butter/ghee with fingers until it has bread crumbs like consistency.
You can also process flour and butter in food processor in 7-8 quick pulses.
3. Add fenugreek, salt, black pepper, carom seeds and mix well to distribute.
Or in food processor add all ingredients and pulse two times to re-distribute.
4. Add water (preferably cold) 1-2 tbsp at a time until dough comes together. Dough should be firm and just holding together not pliable or soft.
Or in food processor, close the lid with motor running on slow, add water until dough just comes together.
5. With oiled hands make a smooth dough-ball and cover. set aside for 5 minutes. I meantime, heat oil in a deep frying pan for frying crackers.
6. Divide dough into 12 equal size portions.
7. Roll each portion to a rough 2-2.5 inch round (edges will be rough, this make'em look traditional. so don't worry). If you want neat and smooth edges, then use a cookie cutter. Poke 5-6 times with fork on rolled dough.
While working on dough portions, always keep rolled or un-rolled portions cover to prevent dough from drying out.
8. Poke 5-6 times with fork on both sides of each rolled mathri. Keep rest covered while working on a few.
Fork holes insure mathri does not puff in oil or it will not be crisp but soft inside.
9. Deep fry mathri in hot oil 3-4 at a time. At right oil temperature i.e. 375 F. Read notes at end of recipe about - how to find right temp of heating oil without thermometer.
10. Each batch takes about 4 minute to fry.
11. Drain fried mathri (crackers) on a plate lined with paper towel. Again, don't overcrowd, make a single layer or heat of new crackers will make ones sitting at bottom soggy. Serve warm mathri crackers with hot tea as evening snack. Keep remaining (room temperature mathri) in air-tight tin/plastic container. Enjoy!
Don't overcrowd the pan while frying. It will drop oil temperature and mathri will not cook properly and get soggy/oil drenched. Also, don't let mathri get over brown in oil. They should be just golden when removed from oil.
You can increase the amount butter by 1-2 tbsp to make crackers crispier.
If dough rising to top at count of 3-4, it is at right temperature.
If dough gets to top immediately, it means oil is over-heated, lower the temp before frying or hot oil will brown crackers very quickly whereas inside will be raw.


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Q: How to count the most frequent value in a dictionary value that is a list? I have a dictionary that looks like the following:
{'0013E139F1F37264': ['33984', '72190', 'V8909', '4019', '73303', '4011', '49390', '4019', '', 'V5869', '4019', '79029', '920', '', '', '33829', 'V1582', 'V5889', '72885', '', '', '25000', '25000', '', '', '', '', '78079', '4241', '', '', '', '', '', '73710', '', '', '', '', '', 'V5865', '', '', '', '', '', '73390', '', '', '', '', '', 'V5861', ''], '0014FFD71C90B753': ['36650', 'V811', 'V559', '73642', 'V5866', '', '', '4019', '2449', '', '', '72252', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '',
'', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', ''], '00151A878F9A2C0D': ['4019', '38640', '73303', '7915', '36651', '73302', '8470', '78900', 'V7641', '42731', '7840', '', 'V5861', 'V431', '2724', '', '', '', '25000', '4279', '', '41400', '2724', '', '', '', '', '2720', '2859', '', '', '27802', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '71690', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '7291', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', 'V5869', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', ''], '00157F1570C74E09': ['3005', '36619', '30000', '53081', '', '2469', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '']}

This isn't like a normal dictionary because the values are in a list. I want to just count the most frequent value that aren't '' for each key. I can't use the counter method or really any other libraries within python. I would usually use counter to do this but am confused about how to move further.
My output should look like this (numbers are examples) :
0013E139F1F37264 : 2
00151A878F9A2C0D: 3
00157F1570C74E09 : 4

A: You could use the following:
test = {'0013E139F1F37264': ['33984', '72190', 'V8909', '4019', '73303', '4011', '49390', '4019', '', 'V5869', '4019', '79029', '920', '', '', '33829', 'V1582', 'V5889', '72885', '', '', '25000', '25000', '', '', '', '', '78079', '4241', '', '', '', '', '', '73710', '', '', '', '', '', 'V5865', '', '', '', '', '', '73390', '', '', '', '', '', 'V5861', '']}

test_list = list(test['0013E139F1F37264'])

filt = list(filter(lambda x: x != '', test_list))

result = max(set(filt), key = test_list.count)`

result gives the output of 4019
Explanation:
You first create a variable with a list type from your dictionary value and then use the filter function to filter the empty elements out.

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We're absolutely over the moon to announce that we've been nominated (yet again!) for another ESTA award! We've officially made the shortlist for Best Letting Agent (North West) as voted for by our landlords.
The ESTAs are one of the most prestigious awards in the property sector, so we couldn't be happier to receive a nomination. Especially when it's been voted for by you, our landlords. It really gives us a boost and lets us know we're doing our job right.
We've won several awards so far, including another ESTA just last year, so it's great to know that all our hard work has paid off. We also just want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who voted and left us some amazing feedback too, we couldn't have done it without you.
The ESTA awards ceremony isn't too far away and will take place on April 20th down in London.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Well as the release date is soon 22 May 2008 (UK) I thought I would show the trailer and of course put some pictures of Shia LaBeouf in the post.
Harrison Ford back in the role of adventurer/archaeologist Indiana Jones. Spanning the age range, however, co-star Shia LaBeouf was 2 years old when the third Indy film opened in 1989.
Last month, an online poll of more than 5,000 users of movie ticket-selling site Fandango.com, voted Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as the summer's "most anticipated" movie. The fact that much of the plot has been kept under wraps has further piqued consumer interest.
Hoping that the big-budget release from Paramount Pictures would have fans jonesing for all things Jones, brands including M&M's, Dr Pepper, Expedia, Burger King and Kraft Lunchables have launched big-budget marketing tie-ins.
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Meera starrer 'Baaji' bags two awards in Canadian competition
LAHORE (City News) – Pakistani actress Meera's recently released 'Baaji' won two awards at the Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival in Mississauga, Canada.
According to details, the movie received the Jury Prize (audience recognition category) and Nayyer Ejaz grabbed 'Best Supporting Actor' award.
"It's the biggest South Asian Film Festival in North America and Baaji was screened to a packed, sold-out crowd. Baaji has won the Jury Prize, while veteran actor Nayyar Ijaz bagged the award for Best Supporting Actor," actor Ali Kazmi told.
Reacting on the occasion, Meera said she is very much happy and praying for more success of the film. It's an honor for me that my film has received awards in this festival, she added.
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Rumors are accepted by fools – Becca fights song theft accusation
While answering how she deals with trolls having been taunted on several occasions by a section of the Ghanaian populace, Becca said she is least perturbed because she finds it awkward to respond to rumors and comments aimed at making her feel less of a person.
"People who troll you are usually your enemies. I don't think when you love someone so much, you won't give them the opportunity to explain themselves," she told MzGee on TV3's New Day, Friday.
"Sometimes, I'm quiet because I believe that's the best way to do things. I believe that when you're quiet about things, it passes… [My way of dealing with trolls is] just silence because I believe that silence is really golden."
The musician is of the conviction that colleagues join the bandwagon and subject her to vehement attack for reasons best known to them when they are supposed to know better. Regardless, she holds no grudges as she focuses on positivity and forges ahead to chalk successes.
"There might be ordinary people there as well but definitely there's gonna be some who come from the industry," she said while adding a phrase which could be attributed to her should a discussion about rumours and how they spread is tabled for discussion.
"Rumours are started by enemies, accepted by fools, and spread by ignorance without confirmation."
The songstress, accused of bleaching, was recently hit with a song theft allegation following the release of her song 'No One'. She was said to have sampled South African singer, Sho Madjozi's, 'John Cena' song and trolled on various social media platforms.
Setting the record straight, Becca said the accusation was fueled by ignorance. She explained that 'No One' falls under a genre called Gqom beat – an electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010 from Durban, South Africa – stressing that when people were jabbing her in Ghana, the song was trending at number two in South Africa.
"That's the irony of life. People are home trolling [me] but my song was number 2 in South Africa. People do not really understand the kind of music I released," she said. "It sounded like somebody else's song and so are all Gqom beats. Gqom beats all sound alike. If the song you claim is gqom beat does not sound like all gqom beats, then it's actually gqom beat.
"The good thing is that I featured one of the main women who are the founders of gqom beat – Busiswa. Would you actually think that she would take weeks and weeks to go through my song and feature if she thought it was a copied song?" she asked.
On whether she was disappointed about the development, Becca responded in the affirmative.
"I was disappointed. I fell it was naivety and I felt like people should have just asked these questions. But people who knew it knew it so I wasn't really worried about it," she mentioned.
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Despite Anti-Profiling Rules, the FBI Uses Race and Religion When Deciding Who to Target
The bureau still claims considerable latitude to use race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion in deciding which people and communities to investigate.
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Cora Currier
January 31 2017, 12:04 p.m.
The FBI's Secret Rules
One of the Obama administration's high-profile criminal justice reform efforts was a new policy that purported to ban racial profiling in federal law enforcement. But internal policy guidelines The Intercept has obtained show that the FBI has left its racial profiling practices virtually unchanged, and that the bureau still claims considerable latitude to use race, ethnicity, nationality, and religion in deciding which people and communities to investigate.
The issue of profiling by federal law enforcement and immigration authorities has taken on new urgency with the inauguration of Donald Trump, who as a candidate called Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals and was slow to denounce white supremacist supporters. Among his first moves in office has been an executive order banning immigration from a list of majority-Muslim countries.
The FBI updated its policy on racial profiling as recently as March 3, 2016, in a section of its main governing manual, known as the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. (The Intercept is publishing the 2011 edition of the DIOG in its entirety, along with the updated section on profiling.) The guidelines make clear that when an FBI agent is deciding whether or how to investigate someone, he or she can consider factors like race, nationality, or ethnicity so long as these factors are clearly relevant and coincide with other reasons for suspicion. And when the FBI selects communities on which to gather intelligence — in order to generate what the bureau calls "domain awareness" — it also allows itself to take such factors into consideration.
The only policy change on profiling added in the five-year gap between the manuals — and in the wake of former Attorney General Eric Holder's anti-profiling initiative — is that the new version reflects an expanded definition of profiling, which covers not just race and ethnicity but also gender identification, national origin, religion, and sexual orientation.
Civil liberties groups, which have long objected to the FBI's practice of surveilling ethnic communities and seeding them with informants, say that the guidelines leave the door open to alarming forms of monitoring.
"The fact that the DIOG hasn't changed is exactly what we had feared," said Ferhana Khera, president of the group Muslim Advocates. "While we appreciate that Attorney General Holder expanded the categories to include religion, national origin, and sexual orientation, we were concerned that he did not go far enough in making those revisions, and that it still gave a green light to the FBI to engage in activities that would target our communities."
The flexible guidelines on racial profiling show that the FBI's formal procedures reflect the blunt talk of its leadership. In late 2014, when the Department of Justice announced the new rules, Holder, who had spoken about his own experiences being stopped by the police as a young black man, heralded them as an important step to ensure "sound, fair, and strong policing practices."
Yet the very next day, FBI Director James Comey insisted that the new guidance would have no impact on his agency's counterterrorism investigations or on its ability to look for informants and map Muslim communities and businesses in the United States.
"No, nothing. It doesn't require any change to our policies or procedures," he said in a press briefing.
Behind the scenes, the FBI had reportedly pushed back against any rules from Holder that would ban consideration of race, ethnicity, and religion in counterterrorism investigations. Federal law enforcement has long been barred from scrutinizing someone solely on the basis of race or ethnicity, unless chasing down a particular suspect of a crime. But rules in effect under the administration of George W. Bush included a blanket exception for national security and border investigations.
Holder's guidelines retain significant loopholes. For example, they explicitly permit cultivating sources of a particular ethnicity when investigating a terrorist organization made up of members of that ethnic group. They also allow mapping a city and looking at "population demographics, including concentrations of ethnic demographics," if that information is collected "pursuant to an authorized intelligence or investigative purpose." Moreover, the guidelines apply only to federal law enforcement, not to local and state police, and not to federal agents near the borders.
The FBI argues that agents need such latitude in order to recruit informants who might have insight into terrorist networks. For example, the bureau has suggested, agents might look within Somali communities in the United States for people who might have information about the Shabab militant group.
"When there is a threat from outside the country, it makes sense to know who inside the country might be able to help law enforcement," Comey argued in 2014. "It is about knowing the neighborhoods: What's it like, where's the industry, where are the businesses, are there particular groups of folks who live in a particular area?"
In recent years, the American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents showing FBI field offices investigating ethnic communities based on broad generalities. For example, a 2009 document from San Francisco justified mapping that city's Chinese neighborhoods because "within this community there has been organized crime for generations." In Michigan, the FBI looked at the "large Middle Eastern and Muslim population" as "prime territory for attempted radicalization."
Civil liberties groups, and Muslim groups in particular, oppose this logic, noting that the overwhelming majority of Muslim Americans have nothing to do with terror networks.
"Imagine the FBI deciding to collect data on where all Italian-Americans live, the churches that they worship in, and their charitable giving activities, because they're concerned about the mob," said Khera. "Rather than focusing on where there's evidence of particular criminal activity, they collect data in one broad brush on an entire ethnic group."
The mapping policy has also come under criticism from those who see it as a representation of the FBI's mutation after the 9/11 attacks into an intelligence agency with broad investigative powers aimed at counterterrorism rather than at solving specific crimes.
Faiza Patel, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that she worried about the FBI combining mapping with "the vast reams of public information that are now available about everybody (including, for example, social media posts and travel records obtained through license plate readers) to create detailed portraits of each of us and of entire communities."
An FBI spokesperson said the guidelines under which the FBI operates "are very clear that the FBI cannot predicate investigative activity solely on the exercise of First Amendment rights, including freedom of religion, or on race or ethnicity."
A U.S. Border Patrol agent speaks to a driver at a checkpoint north of Nogales, Ariz., on Feb. 26, 2013.
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The FBI's profiling loopholes raise questions about the extent to which other federal law enforcement agencies will amend their practices — especially under a Trump administration that has pledged to take a hard line on immigration and counterterrorism. The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Transportation Security Administration have all been expected to put out new policies, which are "badly overdue," said Chris Rickerd, policy counsel for the ACLU.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CBP and TSA, does have its own policy against racial profiling, but it has a broad loophole for national security. CBP's current guidance states that "the use of nationality as a screening, enforcement, or investigative criterion is appropriate for the vast majority of CBP functions and operations." A CBP spokesperson told The Intercept this fall that the agency follows Holder's 2014 rules but did not elaborate on whether or how it will update its own guidance.
A spokesperson for DHS told The Intercept last month that the department "has reviewed the Attorney General's guidelines on racial, ethnic, religious and other profiling by federal law enforcement and is in the process of developing our own department-wide standards."
Activist groups have documented the targeting of Latino drivers for traffic stops and other examples of Border Patrol activity that extends well beyond actual border crossings. Last year, The Intercept reported on FBI cooperation with CBP to create lists of passengers arriving from "countries of interest" who might make good informants.
The TSA has also been singled out for allegedly profiling minority passengers for extra screening. In April, a Minnesota TSA manager said that he was told by his supervisor to look for Somali-Americans.
"Absent a specific, reliable suspect description, no law enforcement agency should engage in profiling based on protected characteristics because such profiling is ineffective and offensive," Rickerd said. "We call on CBP and TSA to make clear that discriminatory enforcement plays no role in their operations, as well as to implement public data collection and training reforms to be vigilant against profiling."
Top photo: Somali Muslims pray during a soccer tournament in St. Paul, Minn.
Cora Currier[email protected]theintercept.com@coracurrier
Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide
The rulebook governing all FBI agents' activities, in unredacted form for the first time. This is the 2011 edition, which remains the baseline document today, although the FBI recently released some updates from 2013.
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CIA and NSA Dossiers Are Available to the FBI in the Absence of Any Crime, Raising Privacy Questions
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On Campus, the FBI Sometimes Operates Outside Restrictions
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Confidential Human Source Policy Guide
Detailed rules for how the FBI handles informants. Classified secret. This unreleased September 2015 document is a major expansion and update of a manual from 2007 on the same topic.
How the FBI Recruits and Handles Its Army of Informants
Trevor Aaronson
Counterterrorism Policy Guide
Excerpts from a guide for agents working on counterterrorism cases, which functions as a supplement to the FBI's main rulebook, the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. Classified secret. Not previously released. Dates to April 2015.
Disruptions: How the FBI Handles People Without Bringing Them To Court
Confidential Human Source Assessing Aid
A document bearing the seal of the FBI's Anchorage field office that gives tips for agents cultivating informants. It is classified secret, and dates from 2011.
DIOG Profiling Rules 2016
A 2016 update to the Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide's policy on profiling by race, gender, and other factors.
Guidance on Guardian Assessments 2013
A 2013 unclassified communique from the FBI's counterterrorism division explaining the database checks and other steps to be taken as part of low-level investigations.
National Security Letters Redacted
An unclassified internal FBI document explaining the rules for national security letters, orders that the bureau uses to obtain certain information without a warrant. The document is undated but contains references to another document from November 2015.
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Warming cities may see more rain — and frequent flooding
Atlanta, Ga., was rainy in September 2009. Very, very rainy. Water poured from the sky for days. In one 24-hour deluge, more than 53 centimeters (21 inches) of rain fell.
Normally, rain washes off city pavement into gutters. Those gutters lead to storm drains. And storm drains should channel the water through pipes to local rivers and streams. But in 2009, the drains weren't big enough.
Roads became rivers. Homes flooded. Roller coasters at the local Six Flags amusement park became submerged. The flood did an estimated half-billion dollars in damage. Tragically, 10 people died.
Follow along on this ride of the Great American Scream Machine at the Six Flags over Georgia amusement park. In Georgia's 2009 flood, 80 percent of this roller coaster ended up under water.
Most of the rain was due to incoming storm fronts. Rain clouds gathered over hundreds of kilometers, due to winds blowing from hundreds or thousands of kilometers away. Marshall Shepherd initially had bet 2009's excessive flooding was due to these "large-scale weather processes." It was just the weather, right?
Shepherd is an atmospheric scientist at the University of Georgia in Athens. He and his colleague Neil Debbage studied the 2009 flood. They ran a series of models — computer simulations of real events. Atlanta always would have flooded that week, they found. But more rain fell on the city than natural weather patterns could explain — 10 cm (3.9 inches) more. Paved surfaces shoved water downstream. This increased what accumulated on the ground in some places by another 12 cm (4.7 inches). In other spots, they could trace back more than one-fifth of the total flooding to features of the city — the skyscrapers, asphalt and concrete.
A flooded Atlanta road on September 22, 2009. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue issued a state of emergency for 17 counties due to the extreme flooding. Data now suggest Atlanta's urban buildup may have intensified how much rain deluged the city during that storm.Jessica McGowan/Stringer/Getty Images
It was an example of the urban rain effect — the role that cities play in where and when rain falls. "Urban regions can not only initiate or modify rainfall in storms," Shepherd explains. "They in some cases may enhance or amplify pre-existing rain systems that are caused by something else."
Cities, he says, can make it rain.
As Atlanta and other already warm cities get even hotter, their heat can fuel rainstorms. That excess water can now fall on areas that are increasingly likely to flood. Scientists are working to find out what causes this urban rain. And by staring at storm drains and building basketball courts that flood, they've begun finding creative ways to help all that extra water flow away.
How the urban rat race feeds the water cycle
As water evaporates, steam begins rising high into the air. When it hits air that's cool enough, this vapor condenses into tiny droplets. Little drops gather into bigger ones, grouping around "seeds" — airborne particles of dust or ice. We see those amassing droplets as clouds. Once the droplets get heavy enough, they fall back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail. That water can then soak into the ground, fall on the ocean or join a river or lake. Eventually it evaporates, returning to the air once again.
In this way, water from the ground cycles into the air and back again, over and over. Unless, that is, it falls onto a city.
Cities modify the water cycle in several big ways, explains Shepherd. One is their absorption of heat. In cities, pavement, concrete buildings and dark-roofed houses often replace trees and other vegetation. Trees used to cool the land. But roads and buildings now absorb and hold heat. This creates what's come to be known as urban heat islands. These areas can be far warmer than the nearby countryside.
Cars, air conditioners and industrial activities also add heat to the city. This heat tends to leave cities at night. But the concrete and asphalt release their absorbed heat more slowly than soil or plants might. So the evenings remain warmer in cities than in nearby suburban and rural sites.
Explainer: Urban heat islands and how to cool them
A city's buildings, traffic and people also emit pollutants into the air. These aerosols can serve as the seeds around which cloud droplets form. Tall buildings also channel air upward, Shepherd explains. These currents push warm air up even further, where it can cool and condense to form clouds. Finally, "cities have been shown to cause storms to split and veer around them. We don't necessarily understand the process," Shepherd says, "but we've seen it happen."
Those four things — hot cities, tall buildings, pollution and storm splitting — change if and where rain will fall across a city. "You need something to lift the air, you need the air to want to rise once you lift it," Shepherd says. The hot city air wants to rise, and the buildings help hoist it up. Clouds begin to form. And where there's enough moisture, he says, these conditions create bonus clouds and rain.
From tailpipe to thunderstorm
Over many studies, Shepherd and his colleagues have shown that some cities really do get more rain in certain places than would be expected. As winds push the forming clouds, those rains tend to fall slightly downwind of the city center. Houston, Texas, for instance, gets 25 percent more rain than the surrounding countryside.
Other scientists have confirmed the urban rain effect in places such as China and other parts of Asia. Hiroshi Okochi is one of them. He's an environmental chemist at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. In one hour, heavy rains can drop 3 cm — or more than an inch — of rain. In Tokyo, he says, "the number of heavy rainfalls in a decade has almost doubled."
Okochi is especially concerned with chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Tokyo has a very large port. The exhaust spewed by ships there produces about 70 percent of the sulfur dioxide in the air, he notes. Nitrogen oxide comes from vehicle tailpipes. In warm urban air, those chemicals react quickly with other particles in the air. Chemicals such as sulfuric acid and nitric acid form. These chemicals not only help to form clouds, but also to make the cloud water more acidic. Ever heard of acid rain?
The particles in air pollution can help build more rain clouds, leading to more rain in cities such as Tokyo, Japan. Koukichi Takahashi / EyeEm/Getty Images Plus
The mix of urban heat and air pollution has boosted rainfall over Tokyo, Okochi and his colleagues have found. Because of the air pollution, this heavy rain is more acidic than normal rain would be. The researchers published their findings three years ago in Atmospheric Research.
Once that rain falls, Shepherd notes, you hit the final problem: where it ends up. Unlike soil, paved surfaces don't absorb rain. Instead, that water runs off of streets and into sewers and storm drains. When coupled with storms that have been strengthened by climate change, the result can be deep and dangerous floods. Like the September 2009 one in Atlanta.
Explainer: Earth's water is all connected in one vast cycle
The rains won't fall evenly across a city. Some areas end up hotter and wetter than others. People who live in these spots will suffer more than those elsewhere. And those affected are more likely to be low-income and people of color, Shepherd and Debbage find.
This is partly because of history, Shepherd explains. Some of these people didn't have access to more valuable land. "So they often get stuck in places that, you know, are more flood-prone."
Rain, rain, flow away
In the spring of 2016, a group of students from Furr High School inspected the Houston street drains they walked past every day and sampled the drain water. These drains weren't working very well.
Their neighborhood, Manchester, is right by the Houston Ship Channel. Factories and other industrial sites line this waterway. It's an area that floods even after normal rains.
The teens were studying where storm waters went and how polluted they were. They also brainstormed how their neighborhood might reduce this flooding. They hoped to remove some paved lots and replace them with green spaces — park-like lands that could soak up extra water.
Two of Hendricks' high school student collaborators stare into a storm drain. The students proposed different ways to reduce the frequent floods in their neighborhood.M. Hendricks
No matter where rain falls in a city, it has to flow somewhere. Often it ends up in a stormwater system. It's a series of grates or holes cut into streets and gutters that collect water underground. Eventually, this water moves to rivers and streams. These systems are often neglected, explains Marccus Hendricks. "It doesn't rain every day," he says. "The systems are out of sight and out of mind."
Five years ago, Hendricks was a graduate student at Texas A&M University in College Station. Back then, he and his colleagues mentored the teens as those students developed their plans.
Green spaces do more than limit flooding. They also make communities resilient, Hendricks says — better able "to adapt to changing circumstances." The better communities can handle storm water now, the better they will be able to limit future disasters.
Hendricks published the work he did with the Houston students three years ago in the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. At about the same time, his team also shared the lessons it learned in Landscape Journal.
Hendricks now studies environmental planning at the University of Maryland in College Park. "I owe my career to a crew of brilliant high-school students in the eastern end of inner-city Houston," he says. One day he hopes those former teens will see Houston adopt their changes. Then their neighborhood may flood less often.
Hendricks (center left, in maroon) helps to coordinate a group of high school students studying storm water. The teens learned about flooding and storm water systems, and devised plans to control water flow near their homes. M. Hendricks
Preventing a flooded future
Water management has "been underground for a long time," says Lauren McPhillips. Unless your basement or street is flooding, she says, "you don't think about it. It's happening to somebody else." McPhillips is a hydrologist at Pennsylvania State University in State College. She explores how cities can manage extreme rains.
Some communities are installing pavements that allow water to run through them instead of over them, she says. There are also tree boxes in sidewalks with extra soil and pipes underneath — tiny rain gardens on a city street.
Stores and malls buy into ponds and rain gardens for flood control
And in some places, she says, your basketball court or soccer field might flood — on purpose. "If we can design this basketball court to also hold water during a really big storm," McPhillips says, "you can still play basketball 99 percent of the time." But when severe downpours threaten, this site "might be able to hold back some water and prevent flooding."
People can rebuild after floods, of course. They can clean polluted water. But it would be better if they didn't have to.
"I think we don't recognize the burden of having to be resilient," Hendricks says. "Communities that have faced risk and lived at the margins of society for so long are inherently resilient." But, he notes, there also is "a burden associated with having to bounce back." Rebuilding costs money and time, which not every community has.
If cities are built well — with green areas, rain gardens and ways to slow the flow — they might be able to handle the bonus rain that cities can foster. City planners are "realizing that the storm sewer system designed a century ago can't hold that water. They need something different," says McPhillips. Storm water systems often don't get rebuilt for decades, or even centuries. And science is now telling us that cities can no longer get by with storm systems designed to handle the rains they see today. They will need to plan for hotter cities and the more extreme downpours that are likely to occur 100 years in the future.
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People who suffer migraines are about twice as likely as people without the headaches to suffer a stroke caused by a blood clot a new research review finds. The current analysis combined the results of 21 published studies. The meta-analysis confirms a connection between migraines and ischemic stroke -- the most common form of stroke, occurring when a clot disrupts blood flow to the brain. Across the studies, migraine sufferers were about twice as likely to suffer an ischemic stroke as people without migraines. Experts are not sure why the relationship exists, and it is not yet known whether the migraines themselves directly lead to strokes in some people.
It's likely, however, that a common underlying process contributes to both migraines and stroke risk, said Dr. Saman Nazarian, the senior researcher on the new study and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
For now Dr Nazarian advises according to an email to Reuters Health; the bottom line for migraine sufferers is that they should be particularly vigilant about controlling any modifiable risk factors for stroke that they may have. Some of those risk factors include high blood pressure, smoking and diabetes.
The current findings are based on 21 international studies conducted between 1975 and 2007 and involving more than 622,000 adults with and without migraines.
Most of the studies took into account a number of factors that might help explain any connection between migraine and stroke risk -- such as age, high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking habits and weight.
The precise cause of migraines is not fully understood, but the pain involves constriction, and then swelling, of brain blood vessels related to a trigeminal nerve and inflammation in that nerve. One theory is that people with migraine may have dysfunction in the blood vessels throughout the body, which may explain the increased risk of stroke and, as some previous studies have found, heart attack. No one yet knows whether treating and preventing migraine attacks can do anything to affect people's risk of cardiovascular problems. The study is published in the American Journal of Medicine, online ahead of print May 20, 2010.


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MARLBOROUGH ENTERPRISE
Judge grants co-owners access to accounts
Money didn't come from TelexFREE, SEC says
Scott O'Connell Daily News Staff
A federal court judge in the government's civil case against TelexFREE this week allowed the company's co-owners to access a frozen account containing more than $400,000.
According to a representative for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has charged TelexFREE with operating a pyramid scheme, James Merrill and Carlos Wanzeler were able to show the money was not linked to the alleged scam.
The two accounts, from which the government had seized $421,115, according to a copy of the July indictment of Merrill and Wanzeler, were held in the name of Brazilian Help, Inc., a telecommunications company owned by Wanzeler.
Corporate filings with the secretary of state's office say Brazilian Help was organized by Wanzeler in 2007, and was last located at an office building on Cedar Hill Street in Marlborough – the same place from which TelexFREE ran its business.
Still unknown is the status of Merrill's request in the criminal case against him and Wanzeler for the release of more than $4 million from other frozen accounts. The Ashland resident has argued he needs the money to fund what he expects to be an expensive defense against charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's office have fought Merrill's motion, arguing the money he is seeking came from TelexFREE, which is accused of defrauding hundreds of thousands of customers.
A hearing on the motion had been scheduled to take place this past Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Worcester, but was canceled the day before. Instead, a telephone conference was held at the time the hearing was supposed to happen on Tuesday, according to court records.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department this week said the record of that conference has been sealed.
A call left with the attorney representing Merrill in the criminal case, Robert Goldstein, was not returned.
Alleged victims of TelexFREE have expressed concern about the company and its operators having access to money derived from its business, which the government asserts primarily involved selling accounts to customers that promised to pay them for posting ads. When TelexFREE abruptly ended that system in March, account holders reported losing thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.
The company claimed its main business was selling a phone service.
The next court date in the TelexFREE case is a status conference in the criminal proceedings against Merrill scheduled for next Thursday in federal court in Worcester.
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In a world lit only by ancient fires…passion and danger await.
Atar is now the Firestarter, but his only wish is to escape to the land of his dreams. It is the fabled "Land of the Water Dogs," where white mares graze by a crystalline lake. Atar and Bulliwuf are making their way there, but as the rightful heir to the throne of the Persian Empire, Atar is thrown into responsibilities he does not wish to face. Zohak is waiting to pounce on the throne. He is also an heir, but his rule will bring disaster to the fair land. When forced to compete for the throne, Zohak loses until he cuts a deal with a demon. Zohak was once the evil brother of Atar. Now he is a demon.


1 John 2:2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world. I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. When he served as a sacrifice for ou and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. He died in our place to take away our sins, and not only our sins but the sins of all people. and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. And He [that same Jesus] is the propitiation for our sins [the atoning sacrifice that holds back the wrath of God that would otherwise be directed at us because of our sinful nature—our worldliness, o He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
I write this, dear children, to guide you out of sin. But if anyone does sin, we have a Priest-Friend in the presence of the Father: Jesus Christ, righteous Jesus. When he served as a sacrifice for our sins, he solved the sin problem for good—not only ours, but the whole world's. Here's how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments.
He died in our place to take away our sins, and not only our sins but the sins of all people.
And He [that same Jesus] is the propitiation for our sins [the atoning sacrifice that holds back the wrath of God that would otherwise be directed at us because of our sinful nature—our worldliness, our lifestyle]; and not for ours alone, but also for [the sins of all believers throughout] the whole world.


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The political economy of greek policing: Between neo-liberalism and the sovereign state
George S. Rigakos, Georgios Papanicolaou
This article interrogates historical developments, modern structures and future trends in Greek policing from the viewpoint of contemporary neo-liberal policing and social theory. We argue throughout this article that although neo-liberal thinking has indeed recently crept into the rhetoric and logics of Greek governance, the particular social, geographical and political history of the Hellenic Republic has muted these tendencies significantly for policing. Rather than reflecting changes toward post-Keynesian or postmodern policing, Greece (and Greek policing) is confronted by the basic modernist dilemma of ensuring state integrity both physically in the material military security of its borders and vast coastline, and ideologically in the battle for establishing public trust in the efficiency and effectiveness of government. This article analyzes relevant statutes and offers data on the growth of the Greek police and the relatively small private security sector. We conclude that while it is tempting to point to Greece as an exception to the general theoretical maxim that the provision of policing is fragmenting and de-centring as the state is shrinking, there are more and more examples of the recrudescence, re-emergence and continuing central relevance of the state for security provision in other national contexts.
Policing and Society
https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460308034
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Rigakos, G. S., & Papanicolaou, G. (2003). The political economy of greek policing: Between neo-liberalism and the sovereign state. Policing and Society, 13(3), 271-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460308034
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Q: Uploaded pypi package missing module on install I have created a python package and would like to distribute it on pypi ( https://pypi.org/project/catapi.py/ ). My initial v0.1.1 upload worked without issue. I decided to add in a sub directory to store abstract classes because there was a lot of code reuse. Upon uploading this to pypi and installing, I get the message that the abc module does not exist.
I did some research and found that I must include the subdirectory in the MANIFEST.in file, so I did. Upon uploading and attempting an install again, I get the same error. I downloaded the package directly and extracted the files to find the abc directory does indeed exist. Next I checked the site-packages version of catapi only to find it does not have the abc module.
Has anyone encountered this and know how to fix this? Here's a script to show the issue
# make a temp dir to hold this in
mkdir catapi
cd catapi

# Prepare python venv
python -m venv env-catapi
source env-catapi/bin/activate
pip install catapi.py==0.3.4

# Download file for comparison
wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ac/ee/044c1cc53e7c994fe4a7d57362651da8adff54eb34680c66f62a1d4fb57d/catapi.py-0.3.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf catapi.py-0.3.4.tar.gz
diff catapi.py-0.3.4/catapi env-catapi/lib/python3.8/site-packages/catapi
deactivate
cd ../

# Prints out
# Only in catapi: abc
# Only in env-catapi/lib/python3.8/site-packages/catapi: __pycache__

A: It's necessary to add in the sub-directories into the
packages=['package1', 'package2', 'etc']

part of setup.py. In my case, I had to add in the abc directory to have it placed in the catapi install
packages=['catapi', 'catapi.abc'],


With so many things to do in Balatonalmadi, it's important to choose a good Hotel.
Apartment Balatonalmadi 1O is a self-catering accommodation located in Balatonalmádi. There is a full kitchen with a refrigerator and a coffee machine. Featuring a shower, private bathrooms also come with a bath or shower and a bidet.


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2020 Daytime Emmys presenters: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Kelsey Grammer, Cookie Monster and more will give out awards
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The 2020 Daytime Emmys will take place on Friday night, June 26, during an unprecedented virtual ceremony necessitated by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But there are still a number of stars slated to present the kudos. And they run the gamut from soap stars to talk show hosts to a beloved Muppet.
Those presenters will include Gayle King ("CBS This Morning"), Kelsey Grammer ("Light as a Feather," "Cheers," "Frasier"), Melody Thomas Scott ("The Young and the Restless"), Kathie Lee Gifford ("Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee," "Today Show"), Cookie Monster ("Sesame Street"), Scott Evans ("Access Hollywood"), Patrika Darbo ("Studio City," "Days of Our Lives," "The Bold and the Beautiful"), Kevin Frazier ("Entertainment Tonight"), Wayne Brady ("Let's Make a Deal," "B&B"), Michael Strahan ("Good Morning America," "GMA3"), James Reynolds ("Days"), Jacqueline MacInnes Wood ("B&B"), Maurice Benard ("General Hospital"), Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest ("Live with Kelly and Ryan"), Nate Burleson ("Extra"), Sunny Hostin ("The View"), and Eric Braeden ("Y&R").
SEE2020 Daytime Emmy hosts announced: The women of 'The Talk' will headline the event on June 26
Several of those are also current nominees, including Grammer, whose show "Light as a Feather" is up for Best Young Adult Program; Brady, already a multiple Emmy winner and again a Best Game Show Host contender for "Let's Make a Deal"; and Best Entertainment Talk Show host nominees and past winners Ripa and Seacrest, among others.
Meanwhile, daytime drama stars MacInnes Wood and Benard are the reigning champions for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively, though neither is nominated again this year. Reynolds is also a recent Best Actor champ, having won that award in 2018 for playing Abe Carver on "Days." Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this virtual ceremony on CBS? Will this be a model for award shows going forward?
PREDICTthe Daytime Emmys now; change them until June 26
Be sure to make your Daytime Emmy predictions so that Hollywood insiders can see how their shows and performers are faring in our odds. You can keep changing your predictions until winners are announced. And join in the fierce debate over the 2020 Daytime Emmys taking place right now with Hollywood insiders in our daytime TV forums. Read more Gold Derby entertainment news.
2020 Daytime Emmys: Stars you didn't know were nominees


Kajari Teej is observed on third day after Shravan Purnima i.e. Krishna Paksha Tritiya in Bhadrapada month as per North Indian calendars. In 2018, Kajari Teej date is August 29.
On this day women perform Sri Krishna Puja and neem pooja. This is the biggest of all three Teej festivals celebrated in the North.
Kajari Teej is the festival celebrated to welcome monsoon season in grand manner. It is celebrated with utmost enthusiasm in Bundi of Rajasthan, and towns of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Kajari Teej fairs are held for 2 – 3 days in most of the places in Rajasthan.
In some places of North India, Kajari Teej Vrat is held for 15 days, starting with Hariyali Teej.


The Big Promise: What Your Tagline Says About You!
So much is involved in the advertising and marketing of a product that it can get confusing for the customers. This is where it becomes important to sum up your message in a few words or a one-liner.
Your tagline is the sum of all promises that you are making. It has to be memorable enough to set you apart from the competitors and it must remind your customers of what benefits or solutions your brand provides.
The fact of the matter is that small businesses simply can't afford the millions of dollars in advertisements and promotions that Americans are used to seeing every day. This makes it even more important for SMEs to differentiate themselves with a stellar tagline that the customers can remember easily. Think of it as a well-thought-out positioning statement that captures the essence of the company.
Decide on a short tagline that integrates the benefits your customers will receive when they buy your products or services. Also think about how to bring together the concepts of benefits, solutions and valuable experiences to create an easily identifiable "big promise" with your branding.
The "big promise" is an integral part of brand building. It is important to let the world know about it with effective marketing and advertising. Soon, the big promise tagline will become your best and least expensive form of advertising all by itself.


Rung in anticipation of John Gipson's 91st birthday on 25/08/14.
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J L Burke, House of the Rising Sun
James Lee Burke brava novel of American history, here published as a limited collectors edition of 55 copies with a special tribute by daughter and crime writer Alafair Burke tribute.
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James Lee Burke's latest novel House of the Rising Sun has been issued in handsome binding by the Scorpion Press with an appreciation by Alafair Burke and limited to 55 numbered copies. New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance—and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever.
From its opening scene in revolutionary Mexico to the Battle of the Marne in 1918, and on to the bordellos and saloons of San Antonio during the reign of the Hole in the Wall Gang, House of the Rising Sun is an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army.
After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who then places Hack's son Ishmael squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ.
Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the Danish immigrant who is Ishmael's mother and Hackberry's one true love; Beatrice DeMolay, a brothel madam descended from the crusader knight who brought the shroud of Turin back from the Holy Land; and Maggie Bassett, one-time lover of the Sundance Kid, whose wiles rival those of Lady Macbeth. In her own way, each woman will aid Hackberry in his quest to reconcile with Ishmael, to vanquish their enemies, and to return the Grail to its rightful place.
House of the Rising Sun is James Lee Burke's finest novel to date, and a thrilling entry into the Holland family saga that continued most recently with Wayfaring Stranger, which The New York Times Book Review described as "saturated with the romance of the past while mournfully attuned to the unholy menace of the present."
Alafair Burke, a successful crime writer and daughter of the author allowed us to publish her speech given in honour of her father being honoured at the Grand Master Awards in 2009. The speech is four pages in length and gives unique insights in the acclaimed writers' development. Here is an extract:
"Readers who have read even a few James Lee Burke stories will recognize his vision on the page. It is a vision of honourable but flawed men challenged by an arbitrary and sometimes cruel fate. It is a vision of a specific but somehow transcendent era and region, a dying way of life in the south that tells a broader story about a decent but imperfect country savaged by mega-corporations, polluters, and a callous government. His vision was clear even in his début novel, whose themes provoked a comparison from the Times to the works of Hemingway, Sartre, and Camus, where "man is doomed by no fatal flaw of character but by the simple fact of being born."
And perhaps no stories tapped into his vision more aggressively than those that emerged from Katrina and its aftermath. When levees failed and the images of dark faces pleading for help on rooftops became salient reminders of an inept and indifferent political administration and broken government, many of us might have paused before allowing those stories to penetrate our fiction. But my father, not stopping to worry about the hate mail that would follow, embraced the role of narrative documentarian. "New Orleans was a poem, man," a character recalls in his story, Jesus Out to Sea, "a song in your heart that never died. I only got one regret. Nobody ever bothered to explain why nobody ever came for us." Tin Roof Blowdown was not just the next book in the Robicheaux series, but a tribute to a beautiful and forsaken city, "killed three times, and not just by the forces of nature."
The content and tone of my father's post-Katrina work are unsurprising given his view of the writing process. He believes that his talent was not earned but was given to him for a specific purpose. He believes that the characters about whom he writes are not created by him, but live within the unconscious, waiting for their discovery. He does not outline and rarely sees beyond the next two scenes as he writes. He wrote about post-Katrina Louisiana because he was meant to".
Scorpion Press special edition of James Lee Burke's House of the Rising Sun.
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