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OWINGS MILLS, Md. The Baltimore Ravens path to the playoffs is devoid of tiebreakers, scoreboard watching or lengthy plane trips. For the Ravens to end a two-year hiatus from the postseason, all they have to do is win their last two games both at home against teams that long ago were eliminated from playoff contention. Now that a home stretch to savor. Then again, coach John Harbaugh is taking nothing for granted as he prepares his team for Saturday game against Indianapolis and the New Year Eve finale against Cincinnati . We re going to need to play our best football to accomplish what we re trying to accomplish, Harbaugh said Monday. Judging by past performances, the odds are stacked heavily in favor of the Ravens. Baltimore is 58-20 at home during the regular season during Harbaugh 10-year run, including 15-7 in December. The Ravens have allowed an NFL-low 16.4 points per game at home over that span and have an average victory margin of 14.2 points. They re 4-2 in their own stadium this season, including a 40-0 rout of Miami and a 44-20 win over Detroit Michael Pierce Jersey. In their road finale Sunday, Baltimore avoided the temptation of looking past winless Cleveland. After a slow start, the Ravens outscored the Browns 10-0 in the second half and pulled away to a 27-10 victory . Not long after the final whistle, the players began thinking about facing Indianapolis. Although it going to take two wins to get into the postseason, the Ravens will worry about the Bengals next week. If you look ahead, you set yourself up for a trap, quarterback Joe Flacco said. All we can focus on is feeling good about this game and looking forward to the next game. Against Cleveland, Flacco threw for a season-high 288 yards and Mike Wallace had six catches for 89 yards to back up a defense that forced four turnovers. In a must-win situation, the Ravens did exactly that. I live for this type of stuff Tavon Young Jersey. Nothing is ever going to make me nervous, Wallace said. Every game is a playoff game from here on out. We want to be in the real playoffs, and right now every week is the playoffs. It an ideal situation for a team that battled through injuries and bounced back from a 4-5 start. I do appreciate the character of our team, the resilience of our team, Harbaugh said. We dealt with quite a bit probably early and in the middle of the season, and our guys handled it and they kept fighting through it https://www.ravensgearfanstore.com/Jaylen_Hill_Jersey-274. The reports of our demise, I guess, were greatly exaggerated. But we have a long way to go, and it runs through M&038;T Bank Stadium. The Ravens could be without receiver Jeremy Maclin and defensive tackle Carl Davis on Saturday. Both were injured against the Browns. Both of those guys will do everything they can to get back this week, with varying degrees of likelihood, Harbaugh said. It kind of depends on how they come along in the next couple of days. More likely that it wouldn t be this week, and it could be the week after.


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UPDATE: Lumumba Wins Mayor's Race, Republican Candidate Wells Wants Recount
Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the Democratic nominee for mayor of Jackson, talked about superheroes, family, and politics during the podcast interview. Photo by Imani Khayyam.
By Donna Ladd, William H. Kelly III Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:51 p.m. CDT
JACKSON — "We have a lot of work to do," Mayor-elect Chokwe Lumumba said Tuesday night at the King Edward Hotel when he stepped to the microphone to acknowledge his overwhelmingly victory over a Republican and several independents. "If you have the best ideas, that's what we're moving with."
At 9:20 p.m. with 98 percent of the vote, Lumumba declared victory at the King Edward Hotel in downtown Jackson, chanting "One City, One Aim, One Destiny!" as he held a clear lead with more than 22,000 votes. His nearest rival, Republican nominee Jason Wells, had fewer than 1,000. Likewise, Lumumba stunned the city on May 2 when he defeated nine Democratic challengers in the primary to avoid a runoff.
Lumumba called on supporters to remember that with him voted in as mayor, they were "elected mayor," meaning they still had a lot of work to do.
The mayor-elect, who is 34, repeated his pledge not to fire people for political reasons and to make Jackson safe for young children and for senior citizens; Lumumba ended his acceptance speech by saying "I love you all" and committing to an inclusive administration.
Broadening the Tent: Lumumba Vows to Gain, Give Respect as Mayor
The 2017 JFP Interview with mayoral candidate Chokwe Antar Lumumba
He also acknowledged one of his Democratic opponents, Ronnie Crudup Jr., who was at the victory party with his wife. "They have demonstrated their commitment. When Ronnie didn't win this, he didn't take his ball and go home. He joined us. He's been with us. So I'm happy to call him an ally; I'm happy to call him a friend. I thank you for that," Lumumba said.
Lumumba said that "it won't be a quid pro quo" in his administration. "No one will be fired for political reasons. We're going to make sure we choose the very best, the very best to make sure this city moves forward," he said.
He said the city will be safer. "We're not going to have any more Kingston Fraziers in this city." He said that the city will be smart and "transformative" about crime.
The next mayor pledged "creative strategies" to help bring businesses back and move the city forward.
Soon after his acceptance speech, with 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Lumumba had 23,175 votes, or 93 percent. Republican Wells had 900 votes, or 4 percent. Jaclyn Mask had 572 votes, or 2 percent, and Kenneth Swarts 175 votes, or 1 percent. Lumumba will take office in July.
Around 8:58 p.m., Wells went to Facebook to question the ballot counting process, saying that "they are cheating and then--they ran out of ballots." Along with the Facebook status updates, Wells shared a Facebook Live video from WAPT Reporter Ross Adams, who stated that New Hope Baptist Church ran out of ballots.
The Republican received over 60 comments from enraged supporters. One commenter said, "They're pulling a Hillary on you brother." Wells responded, "Yes they are and this is one time I will not be used and cheated out."
In another Facebook comment, Wells says, "Tomorrow I am calling for a recount." The Jackson Free Press contacted Wells on Wednesday evening. "We won't decide until tomorrow. I already told him congratulations so I probably won't," Wells said. He added that he will call JFP on tomorrow with a decision.

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Bradley went for a little walk around the plane.
Bradley and Miss Burns ready for the beach.
Bradley and the Barcelona football team.
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Bradley, Oodles and Miss Whittle enjoying a swim.


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NEW YORK — Conor McGregor arrived in the courthouse in handcuffs and left with both his passport and the right to fly home to Ireland.
Thursday night and most of Friday in police custody — and he'll need to be back in court on June 14.
The UFC's biggest star was charged with three counts of misdemeanour assault and one count of criminal mischief after he stormed into Brooklyn's Barclays Center arena on Thursday afternoon and attacked a bus full of fighters set to compete at UFC 223 on Saturday evening.
Multiple videos posted by fighters showed McGregor and a group of around 20 men surrounding the bus and throwing objects at it while attempting to prevent it from leaving the arena.
On Friday, McGregor was also accused of punching a member of the security team, Jason Ledbetter, at the Barclays Center.
McGregor remained expressionless throughout his five-minute arraignment at the downtown Brooklyn Central Booking facility. His bail was set at $50,000, but his passport will not be seized by U.S. authorities. He will be allowed to fly back to his native Ireland.
In the videos posted online, McGregor was seen throwing a dolly through a bus window, injuring lightweight Michael Chiesa and flyweight Ray Borg and causing the UFC to pull both of their fights from Saturday's card.
McGregor's teammate, Artem Lobov, also had his fight against Alex Caceres cancelled because of his involvement in the incident.
Multiple reports have confirmed that McGregor and his crew were trying to get at UFC lightweight star Khabib Nurmagomedov as retaliation for an incident between the Russian's team and Lobov earlier in the week at the fighter hotel in Brooklyn.
In addition to the four charges filed against McGregor, judge Consuelo Mallafre-Melendez also issued an order of protection in favour of Chiesa, Borg, Ledbetter, Ozzy Arias, and Ricardo Chico against McGregor. The Irishman was strictly ordered not to have any contact with them or he would be arrested again.
McGregor, whose friend Cian Cowley was also charged for the part he played in the attack and was given $25,000 bail, turned himself into the NYPD shortly after 10 p.m. EST on Tuesday night, and was brought in front of the judge on Friday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. local time.
While McGregor himself offered no statement to the media and spoke only with "Yes, your honour" when addressed by the judge, his lawyer Jim Walden did argue on his behalf and insisted he wasn't a flight risk.
UFC president Dana White has suggested that several of the fighters who were on the bus that McGregor attacked may file civil charges, and it seems inevitable that there will be repercussions coming from the UFC itself.
For now, though, White said nothing has been decided — or even discussed — about how to deal with McGregor's fighting career moving forward.
It's looking increasingly likely that Brock Lesnar could make a return to the UFC.
The former heavyweight champion and current WWE wrestler has been rumoured to be eyeing a return for some time now, despite failing a USADA-administered drug test when he fought Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in July 2016.
With Conor McGregor looking like he'll be gone for a while after the stupidity that got him arrested this week in Brooklyn, the UFC could sure use someone with Lesnar's star power.
UFC president Dana White hinted this week that something was near and even acknowledged that Lesnar might get an immediate shot at the winner of July's super-fight at UFC 226 between heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and light-heavyweight king Daniel Cormier.
"It's a possibility," White said.


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Zac prefers to keep people at arm's length. Yet when Rudy offers him a family Christmas it's impossible to resist. With no parents of his own, Zac is pleasantly surprised to be welcomed by Rudy's. The only drawback is that everyone assumes they're a couple. Unwilling to disappoint Rudy's mum and make Christmas awkward, they decide not to deny it.
It's not a chore for Zac to pose as Rudy's boyfriend, but the pretense makes him want things that scare him-things like a real relationship with Rudy. Zac's suffered enough rejection in his life already and is afraid to risk his heart. If he can get over his past rejection and let Rudy inside his armor, he might get more for Christmas than he ever imagined.


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Q: How to remove certain range of coordinates or index in an array? I am new in pygame. I am facing an issues on how to delete a certain range of coordinates inside my array. I want to delete the coordinates which is less than (200,0). Attached picture is sample output of my array.
for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
        running = False
    elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
        pos = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
        path_wp.append(pos)
        if index >= 0:
            pygame.draw.line(screen, (255,0,0),path_wp[index-1], path_wp[index],2)
        index += 1
pygame.display.update()

A: I recommend to create a new list with a subset of the items. For example, if you want to find all points where the x coordinate is greater than 200:
disp_w = [p for p in disp_w if p[0] > 200]

A: This is my code. Try This. This will create a new list contains coordinates
new_points = [point for point in disp_w if point[0] > 200]

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Cambridge Stem Cell Institute has today been confirmed as a major research centre by biomedical research charity Wellcome and the Medical Research Council, receiving continued support for a further five years.
The Wellcome / MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and Wellcome / CRUK Gurdon Institute have been named as two of 14 Wellcome Centres announced today, all of which aim to advance our understanding of health and disease, and span fundamental and social sciences, clinical research and engineering.
At Wellcome Centres, groups of world-class researchers with a joint vision come together to share facilities, collaborate, and benefit from the dynamic research, cultural and training environment. This special environment allows them to deliver world-leading research and high-impact translation.
The Wellcome / MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute was established in 2012, is a world-leading centre for stem cell research, and is the heart of a vibrant stem cell community in Cambridge. Stem cells give rise to the multitude of cell types that make up our bodies. The mechanisms that regulate normal stem cell behaviour are of fundamental biological importance, and stem cell dysfunction underlies numerous diseases including many current global health challenges. Moreover stem cells also provide unique tools for modelling disease and for generating novel cell-based therapies. In 2018 our researchers will come together in a new purpose-built building embedded within the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, close to multiple other research institutes and adjacent to Addenbrookes and Papworth hospitals.
"Wellcome Centres play a special role in the global research ecosystem. By creating places where researchers can flourish we can catalyse world-leading research and translation, and amplify its influence and impact."
"At Wellcome we believe in long term support for discovery-driven science, and Wellcome Centres are an outstanding environment for researchers to further our understanding of fundamental biology, accelerate translation to clinical practice, and explore the social and cultural context of medicine."
Our neighbours and collaborators The Gurdon Institute have also been awarded funding as a Wellcome Centre.
The Gurdon Institute was founded in 1989 to promote research in the areas of developmental biology and cancer biology, and to foster a collaborative environment for independent research groups with diverse but complementary interests. The Institute changed its name in 2004 to the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in recognition of the achievements of Professor Sir John Gurdon, one of the founder members. In 2012, Professor Gurdon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Developmental biology is concerned with how cells acquire and maintain their normal functions, and cancer is a result of cells escaping from these normal controls. Research in the Gurdon Institute aims to extend our understanding of these processes through analysis of intracellular and intercellular activity at cellular and molecular levels.
"We are delighted that the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK have decided to renew the Centre funding for the Gurdon Institute, which will allow us to continue our ground-breaking research on the links between developmental biology and cancer."


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Cry the Beloved Country: Summary: Book I Chapters 1-4
Cry the Beloved Country: Novel Summary: Book I Chapters 1-4
Cry the Beloved Country: Novel Summary: Book I Chapters 9-12
Cry the Beloved Country: Novel Summary: Book I Chapters 13-17
Cry the Beloved Country: Novel Summary: Book II Chapters 18-21
Cry the Beloved Country: Novel Summary: Book III Chapters 30-33
Cry the Beloved Country: Character Profiles
Cry the Beloved Country: Metaphor Analysis
Cry the Beloved Country: Theme Analysis
Cry the Beloved Country: Top Ten Quotes
Cry the Beloved Country: Biography: Alan Paton
Cry the Beloved Country: Essay Q&A
Book I Chapters 13-17
Book I: Chapters 13-17
Msimangu and Kumalo visit Enzenzelani, a place where white people assist blind black people. Msimangu preaches a moving sermon in the chapel there.
The next day, back at the Mission, Msimangu and the young white man from the reformatory inform Kumalo that Absalom has been arrested and charged with the murder of Arthur Jarvis. John Kumalo's son and another black man have also been arrested, but it was Absalom who fired the fatal shot. Kumalo goes to tell his brother of what has happened, and they both go to the prison to visit their sons. Absalom admits he killed Jarvis, but said he fired the shot because he was frightened. He did not mean to kill the man. Under questioning from his father, Absalom says that the devil made him do it, but this does not satisfy his father. Absalom also says that he still wishes to marry the girl who is pregnant by him. After the meetings with their sons, John Kumalo tells his brother they must get a lawyer. He also reveals that the other two boys claim they were not present in the house when the murder took place. He says that no one will believe Absalom when he says they were there.
The young man from the reformatory comes to see Kumalo and persuades him to hire a lawyer. Kumalo then has a long talk with Father Vincent at the Mission House, who consoles him in his grief and fear. The next day Kumalo visits the pregnant sixteen-year-old girl. He tells her what Absalom has done, and asks her whether she wants to marry him. She says that she does, even though it will mean going from Johannesburg to live in the very quiet atmosphere of Ndotsheni, where she will bear her child.
Kumalo arranges with Mrs. Lithebe for the girl to live temporarily at her house in Sophiatown. The girl and Gertrude get on well and talk a lot, but Mrs. Lithebe does not like the girl's careless laughter, which she thinks may hurt Kumalo, and she rebukes her. The girl becomes quiet and obedient.
Kumalo visits his son again, tells him he is hoping to arrange the marriage and find him a lawyer. They talk about the other boys involved in the crime, and Kumalo rebukes his son for choosing his friends so poorly.
Back at the Mission House, Kumalo meets Mr. Carmichael, the prominent white lawyer who has agreed to defend Absalom pro deo (without charging a fee).
These chapters show the difficulty of reforming troubled youth. In Absalom's case, the best attempts of the staff at the reformatory fail. Even though Absalom performed well there, he soon falls into bad company again when he is released. This shows how badly he needs the kind of structured life that the reformatory provided, and which is no longer available for young black men since the breakdown of the old tribal culture.
Kumalo learns more of how his brother has become corrupt in the city. John Kumalo uses all his cunning to save his own son, regardless of the truth of the matter. He shows no loyalty to his brother. Once again, this shows a breakdown of the old ways. In Johannesburg, it is each man for himself.
Although the picture is generally bleak, there are still some good things taking place. At Enzenzelani, for example, white people dedicate themselves to helping blind black people. And Mr. Carmichael, the lawyer, is prepared to defend a black man in a murder trial and not ask for any fee. This is typical of the book as a whole. It does not show all white people as heartless or as racists, so there is some hope for the future of South Africa.
Paton Alan
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Q: Why does this scheduler block Requests and how can it be prevented? Our Kotlin(1.7.10)-based reactive Springboot(2.7.3) application uses a Scheduler like this to schedule Notifications for the frontend:
@Component
class NotificationScheduler(
  val transactionManager: ReactiveTransactionManager,
  val time: Time,
) {
  companion object {
    const val DELAY_BETWEEN_SCHEDULES = 5000L // milliseconds
  }

  val logger = logger()

  @Scheduled(
    fixedDelay = DELAY_BETWEEN_SCHEDULES
  )
  fun scheduler() {
    Mono.fromRunnable<Unit> {
      /* the transaction is required to keep row locks for the duration of the transaction
            to sync this scheduler to those of other instances */
      runBlocking {
        val tx = TransactionalOperator.create(transactionManager)
        tx.executeAndAwait {
          try {
            ...
          } catch (e: Exception) {
            logger.error("NotificationCron rollback", e)
            it.isRollbackOnly
          }
          return@executeAndAwait
        }
      }
    }
      // this ensures that the above code runs on a different
      // thread from the selected thread pool
      .subscribeOn(Schedulers.boundedElastic())
      .subscribe()
  }
}

The actual code inside the try-catch-block is quite computation intensive and includes a lot of Database-operations, both writing and reading. The intent is that each backend instance does this work on the side while still processing Requests from the frontend.
However, we found that the backend becomes unresponsive while it is doing this scheduling work.
We haven't managed to determine the cause of this. Is there a problem with the above code or is there a bottleneck elsewhere?


One of my favorite things to do around town is leave little love notes for our community downtown. We've done balloons, vinyl stickers, and our latest round of notes was spray chalk! These DIY stencil spray chalk sidewalk messages are so easy, so quick, and you could do a zillion different things with them. Advertisement for a shop? Leading guests to a wedding? Birthday messages? Yes to all of the above! Here's how we made ours.
Step 2: Set the machine to cut stencil paper and cut your stencils.
Step 3: Place your stencils on the ground – the flattest spot you can find will help keep the stencil nice and sharp. If you're afraid of overspray, you can place some scrap cardboard around the edges of your stencils to protect from that.
Step 4: Shake your chalk can. From about 6″ away, spray the exposed areas of your stencils, keeping your can moving quickly to avoid spraying too much in any one area.
Step 5: Once it's all filled in, remove your stencils and admire your work!
Extra Tip! If you want to reuse a stencil before the chalk dries on it, wipe it clean with a damp rag so that you don't get your next design messy with the wet chalk.
In love with this idea! I'm totally doing it.
This is awesome! Thank you for the inspiration!
I know this is an old post but do you have a rough idea of how long these messages lasted? Thanks in advance!


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This Day in History: June 19th- Giancana's Demise
June 19, 2015 Kathy Padden	2 comments
This Day In History: June 19, 1975
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Sam Giancana, also known as "The Cigar", was born as Momo Salvatore Giancana on June 15, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager, he led a gang that did small jobs for the infamous Chicago Mafia headed by Al Capone. Sam soon was promoted to wheelman, or driver, in the Capone organization. By age 20, Giancana had been the prime suspect in three homicide investigations.
Giancana married Angelina DeTolve in 1933. They had three daughters. (One of them wrote a book in 1984 called Mafia Princess.) Throughout the decade, Sam concentrated on increasing his standing in the mob. Capone went to jail in 1931, which changed the power structure of the Chicago Mafia, and Giancana took the opportunity to climb the ranks. Sam also went to jail for the first time during the '30s – he served a term in the pokey for bootlegging whiskey.
In the 1940s, Giancana decided to take over Chicago's illegal lottery and gambling rackets. Since asking nicely didn't do the trick, a series of brutal beatings, kidnappings, more beatings, and murders were in order. Once Sam and his pals won control of the numbers racket, the Chicago Mob's yearly income increased by the millions.
When Anthony "Tough Tony" Accardo retired in the mid-1950s, Giancana took over as head of the Chicago outfit. Under his tutelage, the organization went from a relatively small-time racket to a full-scale professional criminal operation. And Sam Giancana, like Al Capone before him, became a celebrity mobster.
The FBI bugged Giancana's headquarters at the Armory Lounge in Forest Park in 1959. Over the next six years, they gathered intelligence on the inner workings of the Chicago Mafia and of their activities locally and nationally. Thus began the Cigar's downfall.
Sam's beloved wife Angelina had died in 1954, and Giancana became a notorious womanizer after her death. He hung out with entertainer Frank Sinatra, and some believe he used the singer's ties to the Kennedy family to try to get Attorney General Bobby Kennedy to end his crusade against organized crime.
There has always been speculation about Giancana's ties to President John F. Kennedy. It's probable they both shared actress Judith Campbell Exner as a girlfriend for a spell, but how much information, if any, she was passing between the two men has never been established.
Giancana liked to claim that a vote-stealing scam he organized in Chicago was instrumental in Kennedy taking the 1960 presidential election. There's a theory that the Kennedy assassination was a mob hit in retaliation for Bobby's anti-mob rabble-rousing when the Mafia was (in their own estimation, at least) instrumental in winning JFK the presidency.
Evidence later came to light that the mob and the CIA had joined forces in an attempt to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. (Both groups had reason to hate Castro. The Mafia lost their Cuban gambling rackets when Castro took over, and the CIA had that whole Cold War Commie thing.)
Giancana was extradited from Mexico in 1974, where he'd gone after serving a one-year prison term for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating organized crime in 1965. He was being called to testify before another grand jury and was granted immunity, but provided little information of any value.
But the government wasn't done with Sam yet. Next he was called to testify before a United States Senate committee about mob involvement in that CIA plot to snuff Castro. But before he could take the stand, someone shot him to death with a .22-caliber automatic pistol on the night of June 19, 1975.
The killer has never been identified. Theories abound to the shooter's identity. Could it have been a hit ordered by CIA operatives concerned about his upcoming testimony? Perhaps a crime of passion by a jilted ex-girlfriend? Maybe. But a far more likely scenario is that Giancana was taken out by the mob.
For starters, Giancana's high profile drew far too much attention to the Mafia. After all, they were mobsters, not movie stars. Wielding power from the shadows works much better for criminal masterminds. Aside from that, Sam wasn't sharing his profits from his offshore gambling racket and was angling to be Outfit boss once more. The fact that Giancana was killed in his home while cooking also, perhaps, points to his killer being someone he knew and trusted.
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"The son of Sicilian immigrants, Sam Giancana, also known as "The Cigar", was born as Momo Salvatore Giancana on June 15, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois."
The supposed name given here, "Momo Salvatore Giancana," has two errors. First, the family surname was "Giangana." Sam did not change that to Giancana until he was an adolescent (and possibly later). Second, he was not "born" with the name, "Momo." He was baptized, "Salvatore" (Savior) soon after he was born. After becoming a member of the mob, he gradually acquired the nickname, "Momo." Here is what happened, according to the magazine, "Carpe Noctem:"
"… Giancana qualified … as the most ruthless of the top bosses in organized crime. He was also perhaps the screwiest, originally nicknamed 'Mooney' because he was considered as nutty as a 'mooner.' (Giancana himself corrupted that into 'Momo,' which was a much safer moniker to use around him.)"


If you survive her spell, we then move on to Belvedere Estate, another popular plantation tour which comprises a twin river farm with a historic village and museum. You will be exposed to the milling of sugar cane by horse–drawn techniques as well as a guided tour of the estates herbal garden. Sampling of Jamaica's famous Jerk Chicken and Jerk Pork are also a unique treat of this tour. Demonstrations of hand–crafted straw hats & mats will open your eyes to the culture of Jamaicans. Lunch served at the estate is an open restaurant affair with Jamaica's mento music providing live entertainment.
Belvedere is a family–owned working plantation of 1,000 acres, of which 500 are cultivated with tropical fruits. Red Poll cattle, which are indigenous to Jamaica, graze the other 500 acres. There is a waterfall where you may bathe.
The estate offers a fascinating perspective of modern estate life and an intriguing re–creation of how things were almost three centuries ago, when the estate became one of the first sugarcane plantations in Jamaica.
You're welcomed by guides in Jamaican–bandanna prints offering sugarloaf, and pineapple and orange samplers, while a farmhand coaxes a donkey in circles to demonstrate the workings of an old sugar press. If you've arrived under your own steam, a guide will come in your car as you drive through the groves of citrus and coconut palms.
She'll also walk you though the botanical gardens and post–Emancipation Village, featuring huts where a basket–weaver, baker, blacksmith, and coffee and cocoa grinder demonstrate traditional skills. A tour by tractor–pulled jitney is in the works.
You will be exposed to the milling of sugar cane by horse–drawn techniques as well as a guided tour of the estates herbal garden. Sampling of Jamaica's famous Jerk Chicken and Jerk Pork are also a unique treat of this tour. Demonstrations of hand–crafted straw hats & mats will open your eyes to the culture of Jamaican's. Lunch served at the estate is an open restaurant affair with Jamaica's mento music providing live entertainment.


If you've been around the digital block a few times, you know to be careful when buying online. Some sellers, a distinct minority according to the evidence, are unscrupulous.
But you also need to be careful when selling or trading in. And it's not only the small percentage of unscrupulous buyers you need to watch out for. Sometimes it's the particular online marketplace itself.
In the old days, when you had stuff you no longer needed that you wanted to try to get some money for, you could do a yard or garage sale or take your items to a second-hand or consignment shop. You can still do this today.
But there are now digital options that can be more convenient and lucrative. Among the options are Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. Both can hook you up with local buyers, preventing you from having to ship. Another option is eBay.
Still another option is Amazon Trade-In, which specializes in letting people trade in used smartphones, tablet computers, notebook computers, and other electronics.
You might think Amazon would be a great choice here, with its stellar overall reputation for reliability. Amazon has been around for more than 20 years, and it's by far the largest online marketplace in the US.
Amazon has always done of a good job of providing feedback to shoppers about the reliability of sellers, which can be businesses or individuals. About 40% of the merchandise sold is from third-party sellers, with the remainder from Amazon itself.
Amazon's overall reliability, however, hasn't prevented unscrupulous people from writing bogus positive reviews about their own items or bogus sabotage reviews about others' items, though Amazon devotes considerable resources to cracking down on this.
Some people disapprove of what has been reported to be tough working conditions for Amazon employees. Workers have been tracked on a minute-by-minute basis and threatened with reprimands if they complain. This fits in, however, with Amazon's image of efficiency, even if it sometimes is harsh.
I personally use Amazon all the time to buy products and consistently have had positive experiences, from the quality of the items to the fast shipping times. I also like Amazon Smile, which lets you designate a nonprofit organization that Amazon will donate a percentage of revenue to.
Amazon Trade-In, however, has its problems. Announced in 2009, it initially received positive reviews. When you send in an item, Amazon has you rate its condition and check a box to choose whether to reject the trade if Amazon thinks it's in worse condition or accept the trade at a lower condition, if Amazon determines this, and a subsequently lower amount of credit. In return for the item, you receive an Amazon gift card, good for buying anything on the huge marketplace that's Amazon.
A new investigation by freelance tech journalist Andrea Smith (andreasmith.org) just found that the same thing is still happening.
After repeatedly having items downgraded by Amazon, out of frustration Smith did a test. She sent Amazon Trade-In an unopened Roku 4 streaming device, sealed with the plastic wrap still around it, as she told me in email. She rated it as being in excellent condition, and she chose "reject the trade" if Amazon didn't agree with the condition. Amazon didn't agree and sent it back.
She phoned to ask what the issue was and was told there were scratches on the device. She looked for the scratches but couldn't find any. Amazon wanted to offer her 45% of what it would have if it determined that the item was in excellent condition as she said.
Smith says, "Trader beware!" She recommends going with another trade-in site. Other sites include Gazelle, Swappa, SecondSpin, and GameStop.


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The idea of a fermented dough with wild yeasts pre-digesting the gluten seemed like the healthier way to keep bread in my diet.
Breads made with my starter develop a nice caramel color in the crumb and a complex flavor. Slightly sour but not unpleasant.
Discard or use 80% of previous day's starter. Feed remaining starter with 4oz room temperature filtered water and 4oz flour and cover loosely with a cloth. Place out of the way on counter top.
A basic starter made with unbleached all-purpose flour and filtered water. Mix equal parts flour and water and feed every day. I cover mine with a cloth and keep it on the counter in my kitchen. It takes 2 to 4 weeks using this method to create a starter from scratch.
A perfect use for starter discarded when feeding is to make a batch of waffles. I have also tried my hand at pizza.


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The last section! I actually stalled even longer before starting this last section; it took me 8 days after finishing Beauty and the Beast to get going on Bambi. I wanted to make it last, but at the same time I wanted to get it finished. I was getting sad that it was almost over, and in addition to having no idea what to do with the completed puzzle, I had no idea what to do with myself when the puzzle was totally assembled!
Nevertheless, I was excited to assemble the last section and it looked like it was going to be fun. Spoiler alert - it was!
Once the filmstrip and the twinkly edges were mostly done I wanted to start with Flower; he's my favorite character from the movie and is so adorably cute! It may not look like it, but Flower is over 200 pieces - it's so difficult to tell the scale from these pictures. My mother always commented when she came over that it was so much more impressive in person because you just cannot tell from the pictures how large it actually is.
The picture above is about halfway through this section. Thumper and Bambi were so adorable and seemed so easy to assemble that it went very quickly. Thumper is also connected to both the edge and Bambi, it always made me happy to get smaller sections connected together. Bambi seems so large in this image; I was surprised that most of his legs were only 2 or 3 pieces wide. I keep saying it, it's just so cute!
Things are filling in beautifully and looking amazing. The colors are much brighter in person, but I had to turn off the overhead light to reduce the glare for the pictures. The pink flowers on the tree are absolutely gorgeous, and were so much fun to put together. The pale yellow under the tree and the grass was easier to assemble than I thought they would be and went pretty fast. The entire section was so fun to assemble that it seemed to be going TOO quickly.
I did it! All 10 sections of this gigantic puzzle are finished! This section took 17 days to finish, but I was consciously trying to stretch it out and make it last (and I really didn't want to finish on April Fool's Day) The whole image is bright and colorful and was great fun - but it made me sad at the same time. What do I do with myself now?
We had to rent the hall at my parent's church to have enough room to put this monster together. I don't know about you, but I didn't have any free space in my house that was over 23 feet long and over 6 feet high! I wanted to be sure the special people in my life were able to be there for the unveiling, so although it was completed on April 2, 2017 it wasn't completely assembled until the middle of June.
If you'd like to see the day to day assembly of Bambi click here to see the day it was begun and keep clicking next to watch it come together daily.
The last part of this series is up next - final assembly day. You don't want to miss it!
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Starting in 1999, Lopez released seven albums, including two #1 albums on the Billboard 200 charts and four Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles. She won the 2003 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist. She has appeared in numerous films, and has won ALMA Awards for outstanding actress for her work in Selena, Out of Sight, and Angel Eyes. She parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement.
Media attention has also focused on her personal life. She has had high-profile relationships with Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Sean Combs, Ben Affleck, and Marc Anthony. Her first children, fraternal twins named Max and Emme, were born on February 22, 2008.
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Easter Island not victim of 'ecocide', analysis of remains shows
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY—Analysis of remains found on Rapa Nui, Chile (Easter Island) provides evidence contrary to the widely-held belief that the ancient civilization recklessly destroyed its environment, according to new research co-conducted by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
"The traditional story is that over time the people of Rapa Nui used up their resources and started to run out of food," said Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo. "One of the resources that they supposedly used up was trees that were growing on the island. Those trees provided canoes and, as a result of the lack of canoes, they could no longer fish. So they started to rely more and more on land food. As they relied on land food, productivity went down because of soil erosion, which led to crop failures…Painting the picture of this sort of catastrophe. That's the traditional narrative."
Lipo and a team of researchers analyzed human, faunal and botanical remains from the archaeological sites Anakena and Ahu Tepeu on Rapa Nui, dating from c. 1400 AD to the historic period, and modern reference material. The team used bulk carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses and amino acid compound specific isotope analyses of collagen isolated from prehistoric human and faunal bone, to assess the use of marine versus terrestrial resources and to investigate the underlying baseline values. Similar isotope analyses of archaeological and modern botanical and marine samples were used to characterize the local environment. Results of carbon and nitrogen analyses independently show that around half the protein in diets from the humans measured came from marine sources; markedly higher than previous estimates. These findings point to concerted efforts to manipulate agricultural soils, and suggest the prehistoric Rapa Nui population had extensive knowledge of how to overcome poor soil fertility, improve environmental conditions, and create a sustainable food supply. These activities demonstrate considerable adaptation and resilience to environmental challenges—a finding that is inconsistent with an 'ecocide' narrative.
"We found that there's a fairly significant marine diet, over time, throughout history and that people were eating marine resources, and it wasn't as though they only had food from terrestrial resources," said Lipo. "We also learned that what they did get from terrestrial resources came from very modified soils, that they were enriching the soils in order to grow the crops. That supports the argument we've made in our previous work, that these people came up with am ingenious strategy in enriching the soils by adding bedrock to the surface and inside the soil to create, essentially, fertilizer to support their populations, and that forest loss really isn't a catastrophe as previously described."
Lipo and a team of researchers analyzed human, faunal and botanical remains from the archaeological sites Anakena and Ahu Tepeu on Rapa Nui, dating from c. 1400 AD to the historic period, and modern reference material. Credit: Jonathan Cohen, Binghamton University Photographer
Pictured to the right in this photo: One of the many monumental statues, called moai, created and erected by the early Rapa Nui people. Alan Britom, Wikimedia Commons
Lipo said that these new findings continue to support the idea that the story of Easter Island is more interesting and complex than assumed.
"The Rapa Nui people were, not surprisingly, smart about how they used their resources," he said. "And all the misunderstanding comes from our preconceptions about what subsistence should look like, basically European farmers thinking, 'Well, what should a farm look like?' And it didn't look like what they thought, so they assumed something bad had happened, when in fact it was a perfectly smart thing to do. It continues to support the new narrative that we've been finding for the past ten years."
Article Source: Binghamton University news release
The paper, "Diet of the prehistoric population of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) shows environmental adaptation and resilience," was published in "American Journal of Physical Anthropology."
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Q: Objective-C algorithm to find largest common subsets of arrays? I'm currently in need of an efficient solution to finding the largest common subsets of multiple arrays.
For example:
Let's say a user, Chris, wants to find other users with common interests (from most common to least common); we'd have to compare his array of interests with other users' arrays and find the largest common subset to the smallest common subset.

Chris {bowling, gaming, skating, running}

And other users in database.

Brad {bowling, jumping, walking, sitting}
  John {bowling, gaming, skating, eating}
  Sarah {bowling, gaming, drawing, coding}

So Chris has the most common interests, respectively, with John, then Sarah, then Brad.
How would I, in Objective-C, be able to do this? Any pointers would be great.

A: You are looking for an algorithm to find the cardinality of a set intersection.
Depending on your set representation, you could choose different ways of doing it. The most performant representation for this would be using bits in an integer, but if the number of possible interests exceeds 64 this may not be easy to implement.
A straightforward way of implementing it would be with NSMutableSet, like this:
// Prepare the individual lists
NSArray *chris = @[@"bowling", @"gaming", @"skating", @"running"];
NSArray *brad =  @[@"bowling", @"jumping", @"walking", @"sitting"];
// Obtain the intersection
NSMutableSet *common = [NSMutableSet setWitArray:chris];
[common intersectSet:[NSSet setWithArray:brad]];
NSLog(@"Common interest count: %i", common.count);


An entire group of people didn't have the same rights to vote, buy a house, or even drink out of a drinking fountain just because of their skin color. Words changed that.
Words inspired an entire nation of German people to commit unimaginable atrocities.
Words can be used for incredible good and unthinkable evil. Words shape and guide our lives. The words we tell ourselves can inspire us to achieve, or convince us we're worthless.
Whoever claimed that sticks and stones will break their bones, but words won't hurt them was living in a fantasy world.
So, what are the words you live by? Have you ever given consideration to the words that guide your life? Said another way — what are your values?
Here's a thought, our true core values are like putting oil and a good filter into our car engine, they make our lives run smoothly. But if we don't put the oil in, the engine seizes. The car is toast, and the only place it'll be going is the impound lot. If you put the wrong oil in, your car can't perform like it should.
Words have tremendous importance in our lives. Like the oil in an engine, every part that makes that engine go will be touched by that oil. It is the same in our lives. Every part of our lives is touched by our values, they become part of our identity, we live by. In doing this exercise, you are purposefully choosing which words you are living by.
I say purposefully because sometimes words stick to our hearts that are not true about us. Let me say that again, sometimes words stick to our hearts that are not true about us. So like an engine oil filter, we need to constantly be cleaning out the words that don't define us and replacing them with the ones we are purposefully choosing.
This is often painful. Often times, my clients recall words from childhood. Those are where some of our deepest wounds can come from. but the reward for this painful work? clarity. Understanding your values is worth the time and energy you will put into this.
What Words Do You Want Sticking To Your Heart?
So what words do you want to stick to your heart and become part of your true identity? The truth is, for life change to start, you need your values to stick to your heart. From there, they radiate out into everything you do.
The Oxford English Dictionary has 171,476 words. That's a lot of words. That's a pretty ridiculous list to try and shrink down to 5-7 values. But that is our mission here.
Why personal values? Once your values are set, you now have an oil filter. They provide a way to clean out the junk to prevent damage to your life.
The friendships that don't fit your values.
The things people ask you to do at work.
That new person in your life that keeps rubbing you the wrong way.
That's your values filtering out what isn't good for you. And once you commit to these values, you can use them to measure everything — it becomes an effortless way to measure what to pursue, and what to pass on. In a practical sense, values save you time and effort.
Values are often intuitive. Have you ever had that feeling where you get excited about something, there's this intuitive push within you to try it or go for it? That's because it fits you, your values what inspires you and intrigues you to move.
Have you ever felt that twinge in your gut/intuition that is telling you to resist, to not do something? That again is your values, but in this case, someone or something bad is trying to get through your filter.
Do you want to discover your Personal Values? You can with this 7-Step process.
PS: The great thing about having an actual physical values list is it gives you a basis for why your resisting doing something or why you are embracing doing something. Your values give you ground to stand on.
A ruler of sorts, to measure everything against. In your personal life, relationships, work, etc. This isn't an easy task but the value of this type of life filter is immeasurable.
You're putting that all important filter into your engine. This 7-Step process for determining your values works and it's part of the SAGE Program that helps you thrive in life and leadership.


Cooked prawns from retail and wholesale outlets in the Brisbane region included a large proportion with high bacterial counts (10(6)-10(8)/g) indicating a short remaining shelflife. Microbially inferior product entering the wholesale and retail trade indicated poor handling and storage practices from point of capture all along the distribution chain to the retail outlets. Current handling practices need to be upgraded and HACCP principles adopted.


International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released on Saturday covering the Asia-Pacific news focuses on the new course for decrease in foreign labor quota. Singapore officials aspire to promote domestic productivity and secure better unemployment statistics among the country's population. However, IMF expressed concerns about such strategy setting back the competitive strength of the country and the perspectives for its economic growth.
So far inflation has been kept under control by Singaporean authorities, but this trend is a "subject to a variety of risks", as the wording goes in the report. One of such risks is the decision to slow the inflow of migrant workers that provide cheaper work force. In the report IMF predicts that it will take some ling while for the country's economy to feel the positive outcome of such measures, while productivity and competitiveness will soon decline abruptly.
So far, the policy of hiring fewer overseas workers in the budget plan for 2013 lead to narrowing of the job market bid-asks. Increase in salaries contributed to core inflation growth.
The IMF recommendation to the Singaporean government is to put their best efforts in order to keep the level of surprisingly high trade surplus that was achieved by the end of 2013 that has seen a 1.2 percent rise from 17.5 percent of GDP in 2012 to 18.3 percent.
Since Singapore's economy vastly depends on the trade flow which is a subject to negative changes connected with decline in number of new trading partners and shocks experienced by the global market.
The executive board of IMF directors issued recommendations for the country's growing potential not to go in the reverse direction that consisted in constant assessment of financial risks, promote equality and address the issues bought on by demography problems.
IMF report sees Singapore economy grow presently stronger with the forecast growth of GDP by 3 percent in 2014 and 2015. The rise of core inflation anticipated by the Monetary Fund by 2015 is 2.4 percent.


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Shinsekai, or 'New World', is a densely concentrated collection of cheap eateries, dive bars, and a few other surprises. Wes Lang takes you through one of Osaka's most colorful neighborhoods.
The Shinsekai area swarms to life in the early evening glow. - image © Wes Lang
The Shinsekai area is at an important crossroads, as gentrification threatens to push out the older, cheaper establishments that have made it such a unique place to explore. With the area under continual transformation, I plan to dive head first into the area to find the remnants of old before they are just another faded memory. To get there, at Umeda Station I board a Tennoji-bound train on the Midosuji line and get off at Dobutsuen-mae Station. The station platform is adorned with glazed ceramic tiles of zoo animals lining the walls, as well as their photographic derriere wrapped around the support columns of the platform. The station is home to Tennoji Zoo, hence the name meaning "In Front of the Zoo". I follow the exit signs pointing to the zoo, and once out of the ticket gates, life-sized photos of zebras grazing in lush grasslands line the entire back wall of the station hall. While exit 1 leads to Shinsekai and the tourists, I take exit 2 for a literal step back in time.
Zebras point the way to Shinsekai - image © Wes Lang
On street level, I pass by a brick structure housing a 70s-era coffee shop and veer right, into the darkened shadows of the covered shopping arcade. The street is dominated by shuttered storefronts, punctuated in irregular intervals by clothing shops, cheap barbers, and red-lanterned establishments serving alcohol to elderly men in various states of inebriety. Several of these patrons have continued their early afternoon celebrations outside, stumbling down the arcade holding cans of strong chu-hi. At the first cross street I peer to my left and spot a middle-aged guy urinating on a corrugated metal wall. Such public displays of behavior are quite common in this part of town, which has always had a reputation for being somewhat precarious and seedy.
After passing through a brief open area exposed to the sun, the shopping arcade continues, deeper into an area that feels untouched and unkempt. Storefront facades remain exactly as they were constructed during the post-war boom. The 50s vibe is likely unintentional, as the shop owners probably do not have a lot of disposable income available for renovations or upgrades.
Storefronts remained as they were originally constructed - image © Wes Lang
I soon reach the artistic entrance to Cocoroom Guesthouse and Cafe. The creative space doubles as an accommodation space for budget travelers and an active NPO that provides workshops and support for local residents. The rooms are works of art themselves and it makes for an interesting place to stay in order to learn more about the hidden side of Osaka. You see, this shopping street marks the eastern edge of the biggest slum in Japan, an area that the local tourist authorities would have you believe no longer existed. While relatively safe in the daytime, you really need to keep your wits about you at night, especially on the streets to the west where an estimated 4000 homeless men are concentrated in an area the size of just few city blocks. Occasionally, the residents band together and riot against the authorities, who struggle to maintain order. The most recent uprising was in 2008, and was the 24th such disturbance since 1961.
Cocoroom posts the rates and availability on a daily basis - image © Wes Lang
I keep this in mind as I proceed on, turning left into another covered arcade that runs perpendicular to the main one. I am now heading due east towards Tennoji to check out another area that never makes it into the tourist literature. At the terminus of the shopping street, I veer right and find an old wooden clock tower overlooking a neighborhood of traditional two-story merchant row houses. Each space is flanked with a simple illuminated square signpost above the first story eave with names written in one or two kanji characters. I have now entered Tobita Shinchi, Japan's largest red-light district. I put away the camera and walk past the rows of open storefronts, each with a young woman seated on a tatami floor cushion, watched over by an old lady who verbally beckons potential customers. This used to be an area that was strictly off limits to foreigners, but judging by the English phrases being thrown in my direction, times are apparently changing. Male Chinese tourists have purportedly taken an interest in visiting the area, so one wonders if Osaka will clamp down on prostitution as its existence comes out of the shadows and into the international spotlight. Alex Kerr, in his seminal book Lost Japan, calls the architectural feel of the area "as close to Kabuki in the modern age as you can get." He also cautions tourists from wondering the streets alone, but in the mid-day sunshine I feel no threat other than the one in my stomach telling me I need food. Females may feel more comfortable avoiding the area, however, as one reporter was the recipient of vile insults for walking through the area with her boyfriend, a source of lost revenue in their eyes.
Tobita Shinchi, a holdover from Japan's feudal past - image © Wes Lang
One street of Tobita is more than enough for me, so I cross back under the overhead highway and back to the main shopping arcade, where I retrace my steps to the subway exit. Here I cross over the four-lane road and pass through a concrete tunnel and into a smaller, busier shopping arcade. This is Jan Jan Yokocho alley, a thriving, bustling stretch of restaurants and bars heaping with patrons no matter the time of day. I shuffle through the tourists, looking in vain for a smoke-free establishment to sample the local fare. Most shops only have room for about a dozen customers at a time, except for the standing bars, which tend to pack them in like sardines. I continue on, passing a shogi parlor full of elderly players gathered around low tables engaged in the traditional board games shogi and igo. As recently as 10 years ago, the alley was home to nearly a dozen such parlors, but this is the last one still in operation. The influx of tourist money has convinced the greedy owners to convert their precious real estate into restaurants, and it's only a matter of time before this last holdout gives in.
The end of an era, Jan Jan Yokocho's last shogi parlor - image © Wes Lang
The alley soon merges into a wider open-air street jammed with restaurants and neon lights. Servers stand outside each establishment with open menus, motioning patrons to enter their eateries. The specialty here is kushikatsu, deep-fried skewers that are dipped in a mysterious dark sauce. Restaurants sell these snacks by the stick, and it's a fierce pricing battle between shops to attract customers. I walk around the block, comparing prices as I go and I finally settle on Torakatsu, which hawks their kushikatsu at the affordable price of 80-yen a stick. The server escorts me over to a counter seat and I order skewers of lotus root, green pepper, asparagus, potato, eggplant, cheese, and a few other novelty items. The deep-fried gingko nuts were quite tasty, but some things, such as the avocado skewer, are best appreciated raw. I order a dozen different things and walk out with a full belly after having spent just 1000-yen.
Skewers of lotus root and cheese await their fate in the dipping sauce. - image © Wes Lang
I slow down the pace considerably once outside, and head towards the towering billboard of a blond-haired girl on rollerblades. This is the Asahi pachinko parlor, and just behind the building on your right sits the Kokusai movie theater. The facade is plastered with hand-painted movie posters that rotate every few weeks, a rarity in this era of digitally designed billboards. The upstairs theater hosts second run Hollywood movies for just 1000-yen a head, while the space downstairs screens X-rated films. The structure was built in 1930 and originally functioned as a playhouse before being converted into a theater in 1950. If your visit happens to coincide with one of the all-night screenings then it'd be a unique place to watch a flick, but there's no guarantee you won't be stuck with a dubbed version of your favorite blockbuster.
The retro facade of the Kokusai movie theater - image © Wes Lang
The fun continues at the next cross street, when the jet black exterior of Tower Knives draws me in for a closer look. Though I am not in the market for a new kitchen knife, the knowledgeable English-speaking salesclerk nonetheless explains about the handcrafted blades available for purchase at duty-free prices. The interior is part showroom, part workspace and is a recently opened expansion of the main store just around the corner. I grab a brochure for future reference and step back into the daylight, where I immediately run into Sam from Cycle Osaka. He has just returned from seeing a couple of clients off and we chat for a few minutes until the brisk winds push me further west, towards the star attraction.
A knife marks the entrance to Tower Knives - image © Wes Lang
I am now just in front of Tsukenkaku Tower, Shinsekai's own Eiffel-inspired tourist trap. The tower was originally constructed in 1912 as part of Shinsekai Luna Park, Japan's second ever amusement park. The original tower was twice the current height and was the tallest structure in Osaka for many years, until it was damaged by fire in 1943 and subsequently demolished for the precious steel to be used in the war effort. The current tower dates from 1956 but was completely overhauled in 2011 and now includes LED lighting for the Hitachi-sponsored neon billboards lining the exterior of the tower. Admission is 700-yen and access is through the confined quarters of the basement. An updated signpost at the ticket counter displays the estimated waiting time to enter. Tsutenkaku has recently been featured in the Michelin Guide, so waits of upwards of an hour are not unheard of. The views are definitely worth the wait, but beware that the convoluted route takes visitors through several gaudy souvenir stalls en route to the tiny elevator whisking visitors to the glassed observation platform at the top. For an additional 500-yen, you have the luxury of ascending to the outdoor observation deck, which affords unobstructed panoramic views of the city. Being short on both cash and patience, I quickly escape from the congested madness and head back outside.
The vista from the top of Tsukenkaku is well worth the wait - image © Wes Lang
The roads fan out in all directions from the tower, but I head due west, away from Tower Knives for half a block until arriving at The Pax, a groovy record shop/cafe that also doubles as a budget hostel. The staff welcome me with open arms as I order a hot latte and a slice of banana bread while settling into one of the wooden tables near the windows. Pax is a newcomer to the burgeoning Shinsekai arts scene, and a welcome addition to an area that is strikingly devoid of nightlife. Since opening in the summer of 2016, the guesthouse has proven popular with both foreigners and Japanese travelers alike, drawn to the communal atmosphere, friendly vibe, and incredibly welcoming staff. A second floor lounge area overlooks the main cafe space on the ground floor and is connected by way of a metal slide that was salvaged from an old playground. The cafe is open daily and serves a tasty curry lunch and succulent homemade sweets, while regularly hosting gatherings that are updated on their social media handle.
The Pax, a jewel of a cafe in a sea of tourist traps - image © Wes Lang
It was hard to tear myself away from the warm comforts of the cafe, but once outside I continue one street west from Pax and turn into the covered shopping arcade, where an intriguing bar and performance venue by the name of Imagination Pika Space gives me pause. Unfortunately it doesn't open for a few more hours, so it would have to wait until another time, but the place regularly hosts underground music and art events in the cozy confines of the elaborately decorated interior. I follow the arcade past the other shuttered shops to the terminus and turn right, crossing back under Tsutenkaku tower and continuing due south, where a giant rectilinear edifice dominates the horizon. In the late afternoon light the neon illumination comes to life, as the early birds head to the neighboring watering holes. However, I push on, past a couple of pulled rickshaws that look like they had taken a wrong turn out of Kyoto.
I head for my own watering hole, as I climb the stairs on the far end of the lively lane and arrive at Spa World, a giant hot spring facility featuring baths from all over the world. The 1800-yen price of admission is steep, but I am in luck, as there is currently a special campaign that charges a day pass for only 1000-yen. I purchase a ticket at the vending machine and proceed to the counter, where I exchange the paper for a numbered wristband that can be used to purchase things in the facility. Tattoos are strictly forbidden, so those with ink should be warned of the zero tolerance policy. There are two main bathing zones segregated by sex on two different floors of the multi-story facility. The zones alternate depending on the week, but at this time I am shown the way to the Euro zone, featuring a variety of hot tubs of Mediterranean influence. The hot water soothes the muscles and warms the body, but navigating the labyrinth of corridors proves tricky. With a little perseverance I find the correct passage to the outdoor baths on the roof and settle in for a long soak.
Spa World, a remnant of the bubble era - image © Wes Lang
The bath zaps the remainder of my failing energy, and I stumble back to the open air just as the sun hits the horizon and Shinsekai really springs to life. I have had enough for one day, so I retreat back through Jan Jan Yokocho and out to the main street. Instead of taking the subway back to Umeda, I walk due west towards the Nankai railway, where trains lead to Namba, Kansai airport, and Koyasan. Just before the entrance to the station, on the left side of the street, the homeless population set up shop for the night in front of Airin Labor Welfare Center, which has just closed for the evening. It is a stark reminder that while the affluent tourist enjoy the easy life in Shinsekai, there are others who are struggling to eke out a living in the shadows of the tourist hotels overlooking Japan's largest slum.
Homeless men set up camp for the night - image © Wes Lang


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Off East Catawba near I-77, Victoria Bay is a new development with single- family homes that sell for around $200,000. The community provides swimming, tennis, a clubhouse and walking trail along Lake Cornelius.
The rapid growth of Cornelius in the past decade has made the town increasingly prone to traffic jams, especially along West Catawba Avenue. Planned routes over the next few years are expected to reduce traffic problems in the area. Officials plan to rebuild Exit 28, the Catawba Avenue exit off I-77, and West Catawba Avenue will soon become a tree-lined boulevard with a grassy median and bike lanes.
Other forms of transportation are also easing traffic troubles. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) already offers express routes for commuters into Charlotte. Light rail service from Uptown Charlotte to Pineville is expected for 2006. By 2010, it will extend to a transit station in Cornelius' town center. Development in Cornelius along the rail corridor will provide a park for bicycles and walking, a mixed-use development of commercial and residential space and a large, multi-family component east of the railroad.
Antiquity is a new development near the proposed rail station east of N.C. 115. With an old-fashioned covered bridge, the neighborhood offers single and multi-family housing as well as shops and restaurants.
Cornelius offers numerous shopping opportunities. Near The Peninsula, Jetton Village features a Harris Teeter in addition to upscale restaurants and specialty shops.
Southlake Shopping Center off Torrence Chapel Road is anchored by a Harris Teeter, Eckerd Drugs and Blacklion, and unique shops and restaurants line the Shops on the Green.
Antique shops are popping up along East Catawba Avenue, including The Antiques Warehouse & Marketplace, which features imported English and European antiques, and Oak Street Mill Antique Mall, just off of East Catawba. On West Catawba, Custom Interiors offers antiques as well as furniture and interior design accessories.
Because much of Cornelius is along the lake, the town is home to some of the best parks on Lake Norman. With 106 acres, Jetton Park offers picnic sites, tennis courts, walking trails, a gazebo, sunning beach, bicycle rentals and a playground. Ramsey Creek Park supplies a boat launch, docks, a playground, picnic areas, trails and a fishing pier on its 46 acres. Both are operated by Mecklenburg County.
In the heart of old Cornelius, Legion Park is the site of a Revolutionary War encampment and a spring that provided water for the town. Off Torrence Chapel Road, the new Torrence Chapel Park includes picnic sites, ball fields, a tennis court, basketball court and walking trails.


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Fed Up shows how the first dietary guidelines issued by the U.S. government 30 years ago overlooked the role of dietary sugar in increasing risks of obesity, diabetes, and associated ill-health outcomes, particularly in children.
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Q: Spark Scala Understanding reduceByKey(_ + _) I can't understand reduceByKey(_ + _) in the first example of spark with scala
object WordCount {
def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
val inputPath = args(0)
val outputPath = args(1)
val sc = new SparkContext()
val lines = sc.textFile(inputPath)
val wordCounts = lines.flatMap {line => line.split(" ")}
.map(word => (word, 1))
.reduceByKey(_ + _)  **I cant't understand this line**
wordCounts.saveAsTextFile(outputPath)
}
}

A: reduceByKey takes two parameters, apply a function and returns
reduceByKey(_ + _)  is equivalent to reduceByKey((x,y)=> x + y)
Example :
val numbers = Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
val sum = numbers.reduceLeft[Int](_+_)

println("The sum of the numbers one through five is " + sum)

Results :
The sum of the numbers one through five is 15
numbers: Array[Int] = Array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
sum: Int = 15

Same reduceByKey(_ ++ _) is equivalent to  reduceByKey((x,y)=> x ++ y)

A: Reduce takes two elements and produce a third after applying a function to the two parameters.
The code you shown is equivalent to the the following
 reduceByKey((x,y)=> x + y)

Instead of defining dummy variables and write a lambda, Scala is smart enough to figure out that what you trying achieve is applying a func (sum in this case) on any two parameters it receives and hence the syntax
 reduceByKey(_ + _)


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Michael Daniel Cybersecurity Expert to President Barack Obama (2012 – 2016) & President, Cyber Threat Alliance
Home > Events > Michael Daniel Cybersecurity Expert to President Barack Obama (2012 – 2016) & President, Cyber Threat Alliance
Michael Daniel draws from his post at the highest echelon of government to sound the alarm on the global security threats of the 21st century, revealing the necessary steps for managing your organization's cyber risk.
From the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment to the intrusion into the Office of Personnel Management and the Russian efforts to meddle in the U.S. electoral process, Michael Daniel has maintained a pivotal role leading the government's response to the most prominent cyber incidents of our time. As cybersecurity coordinator to President Barack Obama, Michael led the nation's cybersecurity strategy and policy efforts from 2012 to 2016.
Widely recognized as one of the world's top cybersecurity experts, Michael specializes in managing cyber risk to critical infrastructure systems, such as financial services assets, electronic medical records and industrial control systems. As president of the newly formed nonprofit alliance, Cyber Threat Alliance, Michael leads a team of cybersecurity giants, such as Intel, Cisco and Symantec, to improve information sharing about cybercrime and other threats.
With proven strategies for identifying and alleviating threats, and responding to cyber incidents, Michael unveils key insights for safeguarding assets in an era of precarious digital disruption and connectivity. As attacks increase in sophistication and hackers prove more brazen each day, Michael's authoritative outlook on the global security landscape and applicable action plans help business leaders avoid becoming the next breaking cyber news story.


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From Paul's Franson's NapaLife (http://www.napalife.com/)
Women for WineSense signing for Conaway's Nose
New York Times bestselling author James Conaway will sign his latest book, Nose, at the Napa|Sonoma chapter of Women for WineSense at Ram's Gate Winery in Sonoma Carneros on Thursday, June 27 at 5:30 p.m. The evening will feature an intimate conversation about hot-button issues in American wine today covered in Nose, including ratings, corporate domination, environmental concern and biodynamic farming.
Guests can buy a copy of Nose, along with other Conaway books Napa and The Far Side of Eden, and have a chance to win a copy of Nose, all three titles and gift certificates from Reader's Books. All proceeds from the raffle will go toward the chapter's scholarship fund, which benefits enology students at local universities. Sip Ram's Gate Sparkling Brut and nibble on light hors d'oeuvres prepared by executive chef Jason Rose.
The evening's events will include a discussion with the author led by me, Paul Franson, and a raffle that also benefits the chapter's scholarship fund.
James Conaway's love affair with wine took off when he was a wine columnist for the Washington Post. He has since authored three novels, including the recently released Nose.
He is also the author of nine nonfiction books, including the best-selling, Napa: The Story of an American Eden, and its sequel, The Far Side of Eden: Old Land, New Money and the Battle for Napa Valley.
He is a regular contributor to Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler and Food & Wine magazines. He will also be the keynote speaker at the 13th annual Wine Bloggers' Conference in early June.
Upcoming Napa|Sonoma chapter Women for WineSense events include "Meet our WWS Wine Industry Experts" at Chimney Rock Winery in Napa on June 6, "Connect with the WWS Community" at NapaStyle in Yountville on Aug. 15, "Women in Wine" at Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma on Sept. 12 and "Wine on America's Holiday Table" on Dec. 12.
Buy tickets for $25 at WWS-Conaway-at-RamsGate.Eventbrite.com. Call 996-8740.
Walking (continued): Under the Tetons
Writing, wine and Nose discussed 6/27 at Ram's Gat...
San Francisco Chronicle Q&A about Nose, more
The novel can be read most anywhere, actually
Walking: Tsankawi, New Mexico
My Bay Area appearances in June:
Walk into America: Smoky Hill River
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