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Written by: Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Narrated by: Gabriel Woolf
Categories: Classics
Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Dominic West
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside – and into his past.
it was good but not epic
By Arjun on 27-08-19
Remembrance of Things Past
Swann's Way
Written by: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
Narrated by: John Rowe
Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past. In the opening volume, the narrator travels back in time to recall his childhood and to introduce the listener to Charles Swann, a wealthy friend of the family and celebrity in the Parisian social scene. He again travels back, this time to the youth of Charles Swann in the French town of Combray, to tell the story of the love affair that took place before his own birth.
The Forty Rules of Love
Written by: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: George Blagden
Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his 40 rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
Very Soothing
By OxyJenish on 06-11-19
Written by: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft.
Amazing writing, beautiful narration! Loved it!
By Manasi on 20-01-19
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Written by: Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
Narrated by: Naoko Mori
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, read by Noako Mori. Bring meaning and joy to your every day with the internationally best-selling guide to ikigai. The people of Japan believe that everyone has an ikigai - a reason for being; the thing that gets you out of bed each morning. And according to the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa - the world's longest-living people - finding it is the key to a longer and more fulfilled life.
Ikigai way of living long and healthy life
By khushi on 22-08-19
Written by: Daphne Du Maurier
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Daphne du Maurier's young heroine meets the charming Maxim de Winter and despite her youth, they marry and go to Manderley, his home in Cornwall. There, the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers and the mystery she keeps alive of his first wife Rebecca - said to have drowned at sea - threatens to overwhelm the marriage.
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
First published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782, the book cause scandal on its release.
The story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others,The story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade othersThe story, composed entirely of letters written by the various characters to each other, tells of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon to humiliate and degrade others, uncaring of those who face social ruin or whose hearts are broken. It depicts a decadent and corrupt aristocracy exposing the perversions of the so-called Ancien Regime. The relevance of this grew due to the ensuing the French Revolution.
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos (1741 - 1803) was a French novelist, official and army general.
Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.
Public Domain (P)2008 RNIB
De l'Education des Femmes
Les Liaisons dangereuses. Explication de texte
Steve Inman
Amazing story.
This is a great story. I highly enjoyed listening to the audiobook and the reader did a fantastic job. My only complaint is that this audiobook was adapted from cassette and there is a spot where you are told to turn the tape over. This should have been edited out. It seems that during this spot part of the text of the book was missed. For a moment I was confused. Because the audiobook was cheep and the reader so good, it can be over looked. If it wasn't for that I would have given it 5 stars instead of 4. Besides this I highly recommend this audiobook. It is worth the listen.
Good but long!
I knew what I was getting into. I like long stories but this one seemed unusally long. A french narrator, who's very good, reads the 200+ letters that compromise correspondence between two manipulators and other lesser characters in 18th century Paris. Fascinating as character studies but maybe too long. Also, a lot of deciphering, reading between the lines and if you let your attention drift, you lose what's going on as it is never told as a narrative but just letter after letter. Overall, good narrator, good characters, interesting.
Remastered from cassette tapes!!
This audio book was remastered from cassette tapes and sounds really terrible. Shame on you Audible for publishing something like this. The narrator even says "please turn cassette tape" in the middle of one of the chapters. Pathetic!
could be good
the preface was nearly impossible to understand sounding as if the narrator had swallowed the microphone, i am finding the the sound quality is not very good at all and i am glad i paid only about $2 for it
i feel that if the audio was cleaned up a bit the narrator would not be able to ruin the story so much
A must read- enjoy the language
Read this book twice, and watched the movie - love it! This book is full of observations and reflections on human behavior and thought that is applicable across generations. The language is the paramount of sophistication and literary wit.
StephCT
Faulty Recording--SKIPS & BREAKS
Story is sexy and torrid; the narrator has a comfortable, if rather too genial reading style. My complaint is that there are lapses in the narration, due to this being a recording of a cassette tape or CD. Audible should fix the skips and breaks before putting out audiobooks advertised as "only from Audible"--no?
Awesome performance
I like this book very much, but the narrator did such a good job that I'm not even sure if it's the story o just hearing him that I like the most.
Great story, not up to modern audiobook standards
Usually the "only from audible" yellow stripe along the bottom of the image means that you are getting a book of a particular quality. That wasn't really the case here. It was fine, but it wasn't the best quality audio and I would have guessed it came from one of the sites that provide free audio of books in the public domain.At some point I looked more closely at the notes for this one and saw that they way down at the bottom they warned me as much, but I guess I wasn't paying enough attention or was putting too much faith in that yellow stripe.
Also there's my constant complaint that I have about how Audible is really sketchy about telling us the translator for their books that were not originally written in English.
Still, the content is great. This is a classic for a reason and while the epistolary style has some flaws and necessitates some suspension of disbelief, the story is quite compelling.
Seirra B.
don't usually like epistolary novels but this was sufficiently scandalous to keep my interest. I enjoyed it, and I'm excited to compare it to the films
jbay99
Dangerously Boring
The movie is better. The narrator drags this out. It's extremely boring. I had difficulty getting through it as it was very very slow.
My new favourite thing!
18th century epistolary novel recounting the sexual intrigues and adventures of a pair of scheming French Libertines.
Really liked the way the letters are used to hide and to work parts of the plot instead of simply being a device that gives the characters a first-person voice.
Some interesting and disturbing psychological strategies are used between the main characters to goad each other and to trap and manipulate the hapless victims.
The letters are eloquent and quite amusing in a wicked sort of way, and the story is so fresh for something 233 years old. The audiobook is very well narrated by Gabriel Woolf using P.W.K Stone's very readable translation for Penguin (1961).
This recording is clear, but there are small hitches in the editing: small slips of the tongue have not been edited out, and about a paragraph of narrative is missing from 3:35:00 to 3:35:19 of letter 44 in part 1.
Lovely classic, very comical
This book is very well written, and the story is very comical in my opinion. I will say that at times it can be a bit slow (some of the love letters written to madame de Tourvel are boring)
What about Gabriel Woolf's performance did you like?
His performance is very good, but the audiobook is structured VERY poorly. It is even hard to find the beginning of the book because the preface is not in a separate section.
West Wickham, United Kingdom
an interesting but very old fashioned book
I did enjoy this book but it was somewhat spoilt for me for having seen the excellent movie starring John Malkovich and Glenn Close (the updated version with Sarah Michelle Gellar is pretty good too). The movie managed to retain the complex relationships between the characters, and the moral ambiguity of the story, but it had a much sharper focus and narrative drive. The book, in contrast does not so much dwell on as wallow in the detail and to the modern reader it does drag, particularly in the middle; and it beggars belief somewhat that people wrote such long, articulate and closely argued letters to one another. On the plus side the prose is superb - like eating a large and rich box of chocolates.
The book caused quite a scandal in its day - in the years just before the French revolution ( I think the author had a minor role in this but cant remember the details). Narration is superb and sound quality fine for what must be quite an old recording.
I confess I preferred the movie so in all honesty could not recommend the book unless you are keen on 18th century French literature.


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Q: How do you wait to return a value until promise is resolved? I'm trying to write a function that doesn't return it's value until a Promise inside the function has resolved. Here's a simplified example of what I'm trying to do.
'use strict';

function get(db, id) {
     let p = db.command('GET', 'group:${id}');
     p.then(g => {
         g.memberNames = [];
         g.members.forEach(id => {
             User.get(db, id)
                 .then(profile => g.memberNames.push(profile.name))
                 .catch(err => reject(err));
         });
         return g;
    });
}

It's a function that requests a group id and returns the data for that group. Along the way it's also throwing in the user's names into the data structure to display their names instead of their user id. My issue is that this is running asynchronously and will skip over the .then callbacks. By the time it gets to return g none of the callbacks have been called and g.memberNames is still empty. Is there a way to make the function wait to return g until all callbacks have been called?
I've seen a lot of stuff about await. Is this necessary here? It's highly undesired to add other libraries to my project.

A: Since your operation to return all the profile names is also async you should return a Promise fulfilled when all the other async operations complete (or reject when one of them is rejected) done with Promise.all
function get(db, id) {
  let p = db.command('GET', 'group:${id}');
  return p.then(g => {
    return Promise.all(g.members.map(id => {
      // NOTE: id is shadowing the outer function id parameter
      return User.get(db, id).then(profile => profile.name)
    })
  })
}

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Is there a way to make the function wait to return g until all callbacks have been called?

Yes, there is. But you should change your way of thinking from "wait until all the callbacks have been called" to "wait until all the promises are fulfilled". And indeed, the Promise.all function trivially does that - it takes an array of promises and returns a new promise that resolves with an array of the results.
In your case, it would be
function get(db, id) {
     return db.command('GET', 'group:${id}').then(g => {
         var promises = g.members.map(id => {
//                                ^^^ never use `forEach`
             return User.get(db, id).then(profile => profile.name);
//           ^^^^^^ a promise for the name of that profile
         });
         //
         return Promise.all(promises).then(names => {
//                                    ^^^^^^^^^^ fulfills with an array of the names
             g.memberNames = names;
             return g;
         });
    });
}

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Microbiology Society Prize Medal is awarded annually by the Microbiology Society to those who have made an impact beyond microbiology and are world leaders in their field.

It was introduced in 2009 as the Society for General Microbiology Prize Medal and renamed the Microbiology Society Prize Medal in 2015 when the society changed its name. All members can nominate anyone they consider appropriate for this award.

The award consists of £1000 and an invitation to give a lecture at a society meeting.

The following have been awarded this Prize:

2009 Stanley Prusiner prions and prion diseases
2010 Paul Nurse control of the cell cycle
2011 David Hopwood Streptomyces genomics
2012 Julian Davies
2013 Harald zur Hausen relationship between infections and cancer
2014 Rita Colwell disease, oceans and climate change
2015 David Baulcombe RNAi – the link between small RNA molecules and resistance to viruses
2016 Philippe Sansonetti microbiology and signalling in the digestive tract
2017 Michael Rossmann structural virology
2018 Jill Banfield impact of metagenomics on the Tree of Life and sub-surface biogeochemistry
2019 Jennifer Doudna discovery and developing CRISPR-Cas tools (Lecture given by Christof Fellman)
2020 Martin Blaser the human microbiome including Helicobacter pylori as an agent of disease in humans
2021 Joan Steitz RNA in bacteria and bacteriophage, small nuclear ribonucleoproteins and RNA splicing
2023 Wendy Barclay Virology, especially how the influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses may cause pandemics.

References

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Despite the active involvement of private firms in New Space, the EU should continue to play a key role; indeed, it should define its needs while leaving implementation to industry. This is because private and public actors pursue different goals: Industry bases investments mainly on market potential and return on investment. The EU, however, has its own strategic interests, such as prosperity, connectivity, sustainability and security. New Space opens up opportunities for the EU to benefit from innovative products, services and processes that create added-value in these areas.
Furthermore, public intervention can distort markets: for example, private companies in the United States have been awarded contracts from NASA and DARPA totalling billions of dollars. These contracts are often restricted to US firms, however, which reduces competition and leads to higher revenue than companies would likely have generated in the private sector. That is why Europe must focus on its own interests and carefully monitor conditions to ensure a level playing field for European companies.
OneWeb secures new funding from SoftBank to help it take on Elon Musk's Starlink
Elon Musk says SpaceX 'will double' Starlink satellite internet speeds later this year

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Nasty Pixie Tale Continued…
April 19, 2010 May 20, 2010 Alyssa16 Comments
I believe that this is part 5 of my Nasty Pixie Tale. The previous one was mistakenly labled 3 (and it was really 4). I'm back into writing mode and thought that I'd start off with this. I did and completed Script Frenzy, which turned out not to be as difficult as I thought. Really, it was actually quite easy though I'll be the first to confess that the quality of my product leaves much to be desired. But, more of that later. For now – I return you to the adventures of the Nasties. Enjoy.
Nasty Pixie Tale Part 5.
The Nasties were moving again.
After a quick trek to the stream Antonio had discovered for a drink, some failed fishing and a rest, Antonio pulled them up and started herding them through the forest. His pace was considerably quicker than before, fuelled by an excitement he wouldn't share with them lest he ruined the surprise. On the odd occasion, he'd run ahead to make sure he was on the right track, followed closely by Kylie and Marsha who seemed to revel in the increased pace – enjoying the strength of their new bodies.
Mud too lumbered forward with a slow but steady Zombie gait that allowed her to keep up with the group. Alyssa tried her best to remain with them but continued to fall behind until a now fully clothes Phil offered to piggy back her. It bore testament to her exhaustion when she accepted his help without protest.
Kylie glanced back to where Phil and Mud were walking before bounding ahead to where Antonio had trotted to an up rise, sniffing the air.
"Antonio-kun, you really ate ground on your last scouting trip," she said by way of greeting. "How did you manage that?"
Antonio, who was still standing on all fours, smiled and unconsciously stretched his back, digging his very tiger like claws into the ground. "This body's not just for show," he purred.
Marsha snorted and gave him a sharp thump with her tail as she walked by him to look around. "Where are you taking us Antonio," she queried. "Phil wants to know, as do we all really."
Antonio glanced back to see Phil and Mud start up the hill, his light green hair flashing in the sunlight. Alyss's wings were folded around him like a blanket and she seemed to be asleep. The young man didn't seem to have any trouble carrying her and was making a joke with Mud, though his face was covered in sweat.
"We're almost there," Antonio said and turned around, standing upright as he did so. "You'll see there's a clearing just up ahead, that's what we're aiming for. And, I'm not saying, telling you would be like reading ahead in a book to see what's going to happen next. That's not how I tell my stories."
Kylie laughed. "So you're a spoiler free Antonio?"
Antonio smiled and turned to Phil. "Something like that, should I take her for a bit?"
Phil tossed some of his hair out of his eyes and shook his head, shifting his burden into a more comfortable position. She was indeed sleeping and their talking didn't seem to hinder her at all.
"Nah, I'm alright. These wings are hot but other than that she's no effort." He looked around. "Are we there yet?"
Mud stopped with them and looked around, a small smile on her half rotten mouth. "I think we're close," she stated to which Antonio frowned.
"How do you figure?"
Mud tapped her skull. "Zombie sense."
The group gave her a puzzled look then turned to Antonio. "So?" Marsha queried.
Antonio only grinned and dropped down to all fours again. "Come on, just a little bit further." He trotted off, leaving the rest behind to roll their eyes at each other.
"Antonio the Adventurer," Mud said dryly. "He seems to be enjoying himself."
Marsha grinned at her and dropped down to all fours herself. "Aren't we all?" she confessed and turned to Phil. "You sure you alright?" When Phil nodded she wagged her tail and trotted after Antonio. Kylie looked at them and got a wicked glint in her eyes.
"Bugger this," she said. "I don't have to stay behind them. I'm off to see what Antonio's hiding. See ya!"
She leapt up into one of the trees, leaving the two conscious Nasties staring after their friends. Mud sighed patiently and started lumbering forward. "The living has no patience," she said and glanced at the sleeping Alyss. "Think she's nocturnal?"
Phil chuckled and started moving with her. "Would be interesting if she is, her sleeping patterns never matched with ours. What's it like to be a zombie Mud?"
The carcass grinned. "Enlightening, what's it like to be able to go invisible?"
Despite himself, Phil blushed. "Draughty."
Antonio and Marsha waited for them at the edge of the clearing, both frowning when they did a headcount.
"Where's Kylie?" Antonio asked, but before Phil could answer there was a shout from the clearing.
"It's the clubhouse!! I swear!! It's the clubhouse!!"
They looked up to see Kylie running towards them, her ninja mask unable to hide her glee. "Antonio you found our house!" Behind her, they could see the faint outline of a small house at the furthest edge of the clearing. Kylie ran up to them but, instead of slowly down, she leapt onto Antonio and glomped him to the ground. Grinning, she hugged the tiger. "You found our clubhouse!"
Antonio laughed as he pushed her off, accepting a helping paw from Marsha who pulled him up. "It might not be ours," he tried to calm the ninja down. "But, it's… Familiar sort of. I didn't take time to explore it, I figured it would be something we can do together. And the door's locked."
Kylie grinned and pushed herself up. "I can fix that!" she exclaimed. "I'm sure I have ninja lock picking skillz!" She ran back to the cottage yelling; "We have a house!"
Marsha looked after her then at Phil. "Was there anybody there? Any new Nasties?"
Antonio shook his head and started to follow Kylie, motioning the others to walk with him. "No, I couldn't see or smell anybody." He paused for a moment, making Mud raise her only eyebrow.
"But?" she queried.
Antonio shrugged. "I couldn't help but feel that that place is occupied. But, it wasn't." He hesitated and looked at Kylie who had already reached the house and was working on the door. Marsha made a considering sound in the back of her throat almost touching on being a growl and lifted up her tail.
"Maybe we should hurry down to her," she said softly. "We don't know what's out here. And I mean, she might be a ninja but… she's still our responsibility."
Phil stepped forward. "Maybe I should go in first," he offered. "I sneak in without alerting anybody to my presence…"
"I'VE OPENED IT!"
Mud shook her head and rolled her eye. "Great plan, late execution," she said. "Come on, before she hurts anything. Go on you two, we'll catch up." She nodded as Antonio and Marsha sped down to where Kylie was slowly pushing open the door.
When the two animals joined Kylie she grinned and opened the door completely, stepping into the house confidently. "Hello?" she called. "Anybody in here?!"
Antonio rose up onto his hide feet and put his paw on Kylie's shoulder. "Wait for the other's kiddo," he said with a small smile. "It's only fair…"
A flower pot sailed out of the house and would've hit Antonio had Kylie not reacted instinctively and kicked it out of the way.
"Damn!" Marsha snapped as she dove both of them to the ground and pulled them out of the way as another pillow came sailing out of the door.
"Staaay… Awaaay…" A disembodied voice rose up around them. "Staaay… Awaaay…"
Both Antonio and Marsha seemed to double in size as the fur on their bodies stood on end and Kylie's eyes were wide as she squirmed out of their grip. "There's a ghost!" she said. "There's a ghost in the house!"
"Guys!" Came Phil's call as he ran up to them. The increased pace woke Alyss who blinked surprised and let go of him without warning, opening her wings with a flap as she jumped back from his back. She stood there blinking for several seconds until Mud grabbed her by the arm and pulled her forward. Phil reached the group and ducked as another vase flew out of the window that opened with a snap as the door slammed shut. "What's going on?"
Antonio didn't answer him immediately but looked back and yelled at Mud. "Get down!"
His warning came too late as a tennis racket sailed out of the house, spinning like a ninja star, and severed Mud's head right from her body. Adrenaline jolted Alyss to a full waking state as she cursed in a foreign tongue and tackled Mud's body to the ground before making a dive for her head and shoving it back in place.
Kylie tried to see what was going on inside the house by looking through the window but Marsha once again pulled her down and held onto her.
"What's that?!" Phil asked, thoroughly spooked as another pan sailed out of the window.
"A ghost!" Kylie said. "Marsha let up! It might be Beej!"
"No way Kylie," Antonio said sharply. "That voice sounded female."
"Awh!" Kylie moaned in protest. "Come on guys! Let me go! I can talk to it!"
The disembodied voice drifted around them once more. "Staaay… Awaaay… Staaay… Oh for bloody hell. Where did I put that…" The voice faded away.
Silence reigned around the Nasties as they looked at each other. Alyssa and Mud joined the group and where Alyss looked bewildered, Mud seemed quite calm as she counted her finger to make sure she had a full set before looking at the door. "A ghost eh?" she said. "Goodness."
All eyes turned to Kylie. "What did you do this time?" Alyssa snapped, gesturing to the door.
"Hey!" Kylie snapped. "I didn't draw any ghosts just like I didn't draw Phil naked! It just sort of happened."
Marsha swallowed and motioned to Alyssa to calm down. "Do you think it's one of us?" she queried to which Antonio let out a sharp breath.
"Someone's gotta talk to it." He said. "If it is… No Kylie, not you."
The youth rolled her eyes. "Come on, I'm used to it."
Mud sighed and pushed herself up. "None of you will," she said patiently and lurched to the door. "Let's leave the dead to the dead shall we?"
Nasty Pixie Tale, Writing


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Crime rates have been steadily falling not just in the UK but in almost all parts of Western Europe and America. Importantly, it is falling steadily even amid the current recession which puzzles people given the supposed relationship between unemployment and increased crime. While no single definitive reason accounts for the steady decline, research in this area (including some of my own work with various collaborators) suggests that a number of factors have contributed to the fall in crime.
First, policing seems to have become more effective. Targeted intervention has led to better detection of crime and indeed the inverse relationship between crime and detection has been well documented (including in a series of recent papers of mine with several co-authors. Further, at least for the UK and US, a large increase in prison population may have been partly contributory. However, policing is not the only factor as a recent article in the Economist points out. This is again borne out by our research which shows that even after controlling for policing and socio-economic factors the trend is consistently downwards.
Socio-economic factors of course matter but their impact on crime is more complex. Unemployment may increase crime as unemployed people often have fewer options but unemployment is also accompanied by people spending less which means there is less to steal. Further, with more people at home rather than at work, property is left unguarded less often making it more difficult to steal. Average earnings also have an ambiguous effect on crime. Increased earnings suggest people do not need to steal but at the same time it also implies greater spending on goods which can become targets for theft. Hence, the combined effect of unemployment and depressed wages may paradoxically reduce crime.
That of course is not the whole story either and indeed the downward trend that I mentioned suggests there are additional factors not related to policing and the economy which are responsible. Theories abound but two of the most interesting are the abortion crime link and the impact of unleaded petrol. The abortion crime hypothesis suggested that the legalization of abortion led to a decline of unwanted children whose upbringing could make them most prone to crime. While plausible, causality in general is hard to establish and indeed a UK study looking at this finds no such clear association once causality issues are considered. The lead hypothesis suggests that exposure to lead causes people to be more aggressive and crime prone. Over the years, with more environmental safeguards, exposure to lead has decreased which seems to correlate with declines in crime.
Of course, the composition of crime changes with time. Young people spend more time online and vandalise less but their web savvy has led to more sophisticated fraudulent practices on the net and internet fraud may turn out to be the crime that shows growth in the future. But so far, the numbers continue to be encouraging suggesting we may have reached a lasting decline in criminal activity.


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Geography project goes online
It should come as no surprise that an Advanced Placement Human Geography teacher would welcome a journey into the unknown.
"I have a new project that I'm going to get ready to start. You're going to get together a PowerPoint and [use] a GIS program, where you actually create the map," said teacher Brooke Owen-Thomas, who added that the project has been improved from the way it was done last year.
"I'm going to launch this project to be the first time I've ever done it, so we'll have to see how it goes. A lot of the work will be done online, and the presentations will have to be posted to my workbox online," she said. "[That way] I can access them, and they can access them through the computer to work on them at home. And then when they present them in class, instead of doing it from a jump drive, they'll do it from [the website] online. I'm just going to have to see how it goes because I've never done it before."
The new program will give students an easier way to learn the information.
"It's a little bit different [from last year], but it's available online with a lot more power," Owen-Thomas said.
Sophomore Holly Cappelmann, a former Human Geography student recalled last year's project.
"I thought that they were a good way to work hands-on with the material," she said. "The visual made it a lot easier to understand boundaries, and I was often surprised by what would come up on the map."
Cappelmann likes the idea of being able to access the information online for future students.
"I think it would be beneficial to the students because it would cut down on the amount of computer lab time that the teacher needs to reserve."
Owen-Thomas is also working on a textbook adoption program that will bring new materials to the course.
"I think having an online extension of the textbook would be a great idea. When I was taking the course, I often relied on the internet for definitions and explanations, but they would contradict with what the book said a lot," Cappelmann said.
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John Frusciante's new Billboard interview "He's done with rock band"
Especially in the case of this one, it reflects the music, you know? I mean, any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world. But that's what a lot of people who in the Seventies played extended solos, they would just kind of get lost in their own world, and so they became what I would consider to be a kind of a lazy area for guitar players.
"it didn't really occur to me to quit until Flea came to me at one point and said, "I want to take a two-year break after this tour." And he said that to me about halfway through the [2007 "Stadium Arcadium"] tour, and when he said it I was kind of shocked, 'cause I thought we were on a roll, let's just keep moving with this, you know? But once he said it to me, my mind started thinking, "What would I do with that two years if I had two years to just do whatever I wanted?"
No, I have no interest in playing live. I really don't think of myself as a performer anymore. It was never something that came naturally to me. It was something that I adapted to, but it was never really an expression of who I was."


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Set in Santa Fe, the organization is part of the astounding cultural diversity, vibrant artists' community, and huge art market – the second largest in the US – maintained by the city. Despite this rich cultural ecosystem, however, a large proportion of the city's residents live below the poverty line. With one of the poorest school systems in the US, there is little, if any, art in public schools or in the lives of low-income members of the community. In partnership with the Santa Fe Art Institute, Minelli succeeded in bringing the richness of the arts to all of Santa Fe's residents with the Art in Transit campaign.
A component of a larger brand strategy project, Art In Transit is an initiative that brings art to the public by replacing the ad spaces on buses, bus shelters, bench backs and kiosks with art imagery and poetry. Launched in March 2007 with support from a Sappi Ideas That Matter grant, Art In Transit has been enjoyed by the thousands of Santa Fe residents who use the public transit system every day. The design solutions for Art in Transit came to life in the simplest form — brief informative sentences in both English and Spanish placed alongside photographs of work created by artists-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute. By transforming ordinary encounters into unexpected opportunities, Minelli created tremendous buzz and visibility in the community, and across the country.


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The whites are dry, with a pale gold color and hints of green. The nose is expressive, offering floral aromatic sophistication with notes of acacia and lily-of-the-valley, with citrussy touches of lemon and grapefruit. The nose then evolves to reveal hints of honey and quince, bringing a complexity to this wine. In the mouth, it is smooth, leading to a marked length, in particular after 3-5 years ageing. The wines then tend to reveal aromas of candied fruit and sometimes tropical fruit.
An additional geographical denomination that is part of the Régionale Mâcon appellation in the Mâconnais.
According to the 2005 specifications rules, the name Mâcon-Lugny refers to red, white, and rosé wines grown within a defined area in the villages of Bissy-la-Mâconnaise, Lugny, Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé, and part of Cruzille.
Located in the central Mâconnais, the vines of Mâcon-Lugny extend on the western side across the slopes of the valley of Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé, opening to the south and north towards the appellations of Mâcon-Azé, Mâcon-Cruzille, and onto those of the valley of Lugny, closed off to the south, but extending north onto the slopes of Mâcon-Chardonnay.
A powerful 12th century chatelain and fief of the chivalrous lineage of the same name, the seigneury of Lugny shared jurisdiction and taxes in "wheat, rye, oats, and wine" with the religious establishments of Mâcon and Cluny, established since the 10th century in Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé.
It was here that Henri Boulay and other winegrowers who were struggling due to poor sales founded the first cave cooperative in this part of Bourgogne in 1926, soon followed by the winemakers of Lugny. In 1950, these visionaries began campaigning for higher quality production with the Chardonnay varietal, "The preferred plant for this land." As volumes increased, during the 1970s it was possible to conquer more distant markets, which helped boost the notoriety of Mâcon wines across the Atlantic.
The area covered by the Mâcon-Lugny appellation is a concentration of the topographical configuration of the central Mâconnais, with a complementarity between slopes and plateaus where the geo-climatic environment offers a compromise between the cool of the Haut-Mâconnais and the more southerly weather felt in the area immediately around Mâcon. Between these south-southwest/north-northeast relief lines, the vines grow at between 235 and 380 meters above sea level, alongside the nearby woods.
The vines cover the east-facing slopes in the lieux-dits of Le Climat, Saint-Pierre, and Les Fiez; the other side of the slope facing the setting sun in Les Crays; and the berms of Beluzes, Brinchamps, Charmes, and Genièvres. The terrain is made up of fine, pale limestone, "caille" stones that explode when heated, and marl or even siliceous marl, covering the geological substrate from the Middle and Upper Jurassic, from between 151 and 172 million years ago.


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Why we can't look to corporate agriculture to define how we recruit and what we expect of employees.
The livestock production industry is not so simple anymore. Compliance, regulation, safety, labor relations, public relations, biosecurity, expanding responsibilities in light of expanding operations: All these facets of operational sustainability require both technical competency — how you do things — and behavioral capacity — motivation, a sense of ownership, conscientiousness, innovation, awareness, etc.
Industry requirements of our labor force redirect our efforts from hiring physical labor to recruiting and training people who must multitask: technician, manager, teacher, learner, counselor, communicator, enforcer, motivator, and innovator of processes, systems and solutions.
Producers find themselves competing with corporate agriculture for talented and motivated employees who can serve as critical thinkers in their organizations — the managers, trainers, and financial and technical specialists. That's pretty tough competition when you consider today's best students and the environments for which they are geared — classrooms decked out with every technical tool imaginable, state-of-the-art facilities and access to some of the best production specialists in the field. The next-gen talent has lots of choices, and working ground up to become a manager in a production facility holds less romance than Google tech and innovation environments.
At conferences and in conversations about threats to production agriculture, labor surfaces as the No. 1 concern. We've reached a point where the practice of recycling old people and filling in with outside consulting is not sustainable.
1. Don't compete or compare. Provide clarity about who production leaders need to be.
What we don't do is attempt to compete or compare. A physical production environment is unlike almost any other agricultural business, and thus the type of managers and leaders we need and attract will be driven by different types of incentives, relationships and environments. The type of people inspired by team leadership sessions, technology and structured environments are not the same people who have the intellectual and physical constitution to handle manure management and animal mortality.
Emotional fortitude in light of disappointments or urgencies caused by circumstances beyond our capacity to manage. Metrics for success in production environments typically rely on performance and profitability — what happens when that's compromised by things we can't control? Physical production requires leaders who can both tolerate discomfort caused by unpredictable environments and results and inspire and focus teams on metrics that demonstrate how they struggle together, and how they address challenges and learn.
Defining those qualities necessary for successful leadership will help you attract the right talent. When considering future employees, character and capacity are more important than technical competency. Often, technical competency is customizable according to operational habits and initiatives. Behavioral capacity, or character, is much harder to train for.
2. Don't hide your light under a bushel. Define opportunities unique to physical production.
The "make a difference factor." Above all, consider what "millennial" experts broadcast about the greatest motivator for young talent — a capacity to "make a difference." There is no better place for unlimited opportunity to innovate and impact than in a production facility. This is a virgin frontier for many operations focused on traditional production methods, technologies and labor practices. What we can promise our next generation of managers and leaders, and inspire them with, is that invitation to create structure, inject technology, solve problems, and minister to a portion of our labor pool that is unskilled or sometimes challenged in some personal or educational manner.
3. Don't try to imitate corporate offerings. Align benefits and incentives with a stewardship culture.
Research tells us that most employees are driven by opportunities for autonomy, belonging and competency. Yet, our experience in the field of physical production seems to reflect a belief that employees are driven by bonuses and benefits, and that it is our duty to provide them job descriptions and performance metrics.
Perhaps mistakenly, our producers rely on cues from consultants, corporate cultures and universities that adopt a philosophical approach to employment that is transactional; if you give us X time and talent and ensure X profitability, we compensate you with X wages, benefits, vacation and incentives. The job of the owner then becomes defining contractual expectations — the job descriptions — of employees. Everything is tied to exchange and associated with individual performance, which is tied, of course, to operational profitability.
Transactional relationships are not bad in and of themselves; they're just not the sort of relationships we need or want to prefer in a production environment. While transactions are necessary, they do not characterize the nature or motivations of our best leaders. For one, transactional relationships limit opportunity by defining pay for specific "services" or tasks; so, we should not be surprised only to get out what we put in. People are not vending machines.
"So why would an employee stay past their shift if they can't get everything done?" I asked.
"Because we pay them to," the owner answered.
But we don't pay them to.
Consider the producer who asked his employees to work short-term in another site — which required a longer commute. The producer compensated the employees by paying them an extra hourly wage until it became clear that the situation would require more people and more shifts. The producer had a conundrum — the expense was not sustainable. When the producer changed the program, the employees were angry. That's the consequence of transactional relationships.
If we are considering what is best for production, we should be asking our employees, especially our leaders, to care and create safety for live animals and live people. So what we want and need is stewardship — not execution of a series of checklist tasks. Our capacity to secure our investment in people and pigs is first and primarily reliant on behavioral capacity to be aware, respond, invest, and care.
This, then, drives and informs how we execute. It should be clear from the beginning that we are not like corporate culture — we don't pay people to fix washing machines and produce light bulbs. We need stewards, people who align their fortunes and their standard of living with investment behaviors — standards for giving.
How do we establish a stewardship culture and align rewards with people's capacity to promote operational "welfare"?
As a defining practice, value and mission, we elevate animal, human and operational welfare, and we establish clear objectives and outcomes for how that looks.
We define the values and metrics of "stewardship" by which we assess employee performance. This means the entire focus of our leaders is promoting and maintaining people, animal and operational "welfare" in every aspect of production. Thus, the person who sees animals are out of feed at the end of her shift finds a way to secure those animals.
We align the benefits we offer with the practice of stewardship. We articulate that health and vacation benefits are not part of compensation: They are what we choose to do because they promote the welfare of our people because we've adopted stewardship as our driving value and expectation. Health benefits ensure the care of physical self, and vacation promotes mental wellness. We make it clear that our care of live people and live animals drives our decisions, and that those decisions are connected to profitability.
We compensate people to "own" the job. There are lots of ways to compensate — not just money. What types of "ownership" programs can we build that demonstrate and invite employee stewardship? If we are to capture a younger talent pool, we have to consider their desire to make an impact and participate. We have to understand that employees will connect the value of their contribution to the investment or reward we provide. In some cases, this isn't big dollars; it's big contribution. What does that look like for these younger stakeholders?
- Being gifted with increased quality time or opportunities for them to spend with family—box seats, experiences, not counting PTO toward hospital visits or funerals.
- Sharing performance profit for the ENTIRE TEAM; this is important because stewardship means operational (not individual) welfare.
- Clarifying a path to leadership/shared ownership in the operation, production facilities or services.
- Having owners provide resources and time off for advanced technical education or for personal education goals.
Does our standard of living match our standard of giving?
He owns that operation, and every decision he makes impacts his own profitability. He gets to choose where the money goes, and a lot of the money is invested into the owner's future and the future of the owner's family. Our owner connects ownership to his future welfare and should connect it the welfare of those he cares for.
That's what we want to inspire in our leaders and barn workers. That's the standard we need to hold ourselves to ownership inspired by a desire to steward our operations, our people and our animals. That's what will make us competitive. If we can pull this off, corporate business will find it difficult compete with production agriculture when it comes to fertile ground for talented people to thrive and deliver.


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August Update: World Mangrove Day, Marine Science Workshops, Wildlife Sightings
Happy World Mangrove Day!
On the 27th of July, we celebrated #WorldMangroveDay at BCSS. Mangrove forests are complex ecosystems with many functions. In our latest article, "The Value of Mangroves for Marine Life, Coastal Communities and Climate Change", we are deep diving into a mangrove forest's functionality and how land and marine animals, as well as coastal communities (including Mozambique) and the planet in general, depend heavily on healthy mangrove forests. Read the article here.
July Wildlife Highlights
As humpback whale season has now started, we have spotted several individuals breaching, along with plenty of sharks, rays and other megafauna, including:
July 2: Three green turtles (Chelonia mydas), on the surface northeast off the coast of Benguerra Island.
July 3: Two humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) moving on the surface south off Magaruque Island.
July 11: Three reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) feeding on the surfaceeast off the coast of Bazaruto Island.
July 12: Two Jenkins rays (Himantura jenkinsii) resting together with a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) (as pictured), and two grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) on the seabed northeast off Benguerra Island.
July 20: Four humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching east off Bazaruto Island and a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) accompanied by two grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) spotted east off Bazaruto Island.
July 21: A dugong (Dugong dugon) on the surface off the south coast of Bazaruto Island.
July 22: Northeast off the coast of Bazaruto Island, an eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari), four bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas), two humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and a leopard whipray (Himantura leoparda) were spotted.
Permaculture and Waste Management Update
The BCSS gardens are in the middle of peak winter growing season, meaning our team has been busy harvesting fruits and vegetables. Permaculture manager Chloë invited the marine science interns to assist with harvesting, while educating them on the practical applications of permaculture. Because Benguerra Island is dry and the soil infiltrated with salt, the island is often considered a challenging location to grow crops however, our permaculture practices have proven there are solutions to ensure fruitful growth and delicious results. The BCSS kitchen has been stocked with tomatoes, lettuce, couve (Portuguese cabbage), spinach, chilis, bananas, mint, arugula, parsley and basil.
The interns also contributed to the weekly beach clean-ups in four different locations on Benguerra Island. In July, the team collected 198 kgs of marine litter, of which 72kg was directly from beach habitats, 86 kg from seagrass habitats and 39kg from mangrove habitats. The data has been added to the BCSS database for the scientists to analyse.
Mangrove Ecosystem Workshop
Research manager Karen Bowles presented a lecture on mangroves to our current interns. She covered subjects like the importance of these ecosystems, their adaptations and the nine types of species found here. After the lecture, the group explored one of the nearby mangrove forests on the West coast of Benguerra Island to observe different species of mangrove trees.
"I love to learn about mangrove forests as they store 10 times more carbon per hectare than terrestrial forests. This makes them a critical part of the solution to climate change, but due to deforestation mangrove forests are contiuously being lost throught the world." – Daniel, Marine Science Intern
Interview with ZuBlu Diving
We are excited to share a new partnership with ZuBlu's Ecoventures program. The program involves a selection of conservation-focused experiences to help connect eco-aware divers to NGOs, so they can contribute to marine conservation and research. Last month, ZuBlu invited our Media & Communications manager Iris Uijttewaal to tell them about the Ocean Observatory, the mission of BCSS and what she finds most rewarding about her work. Read the interview here.
"As the underwater world is quite literally hidden for a vast majority of people, visualization can be an incredibly powerful tool to show what is happening beneath the surface, especially in today's online world. Seeing people engage with our content, it being the website, a social media post or simply a photo, makes me hopeful for the future." – Iris Uijttewaal, Media & Communications Manager at BCSS
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Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children is the first book in the series.
I had heard a lot of positive reviews about this book, so I decided to give it a try.
The book is about a sixteen-year-old Jacob who admires his grandfather a lot. But a few chapters into the book, his grandfather dies. He utters certain mysterious words before dying which lead Jacob to an island. On the island, he finds Miss Peregrine who lives with orphaned children who have peculiar qualities. He befriends them and fights with monsters to protect them. Later, he has to make an important decision about if he should live with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children and leave his parents.
But, I'm actually saddened when I say that I didn't like this book as I thought I would have. Maybe, I dove in with a lot of expectations. But, I appreciate the ambiance that the book created. Not to lie, I loved the plot, the concept, it was definitely unique.
Another thing that I did like was the photographs in the book, they were simply AMAZING. Also, the main reason why I picked this book is because it felt so good in my hands.
There were certain parts that I thoroughly enjoyed, I loved the way of writing in this book. There were A LOTT of new (sometimes complicated) words that I got to learn. So, I guess, I would say I didn't completely dislike this book but I don't think I'll be picking up the second book of the series!


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Maxine Waters Hates Trump So Much, She's Siding with Iran
Zach Gibson / Getty ImagesMaxine Waters speaks during a House Financial Services Committee Hearing on Capitol Hill on April 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Zach Gibson / Getty Images)
By C. Douglas Golden
On Thursday, Iran shot down a United States drone, allegedly in international waters.
The downing of the unmanned surveillance plane, worth $110 million, brought the two countries dangerously close to war. In an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, Trump said that there were no planes in the air for a retaliatory strike "but they would have been pretty soon, and things would have happened to a point where you would not turn back, you could not turn back."
"Nothing was green-lighted until the very end because things change," Trump said. "I didn't think it was proportionate."
Later on the same day that interview aired, Rep. Maxine Waters decided she was going to take Iran's side in the matter.
Trump, you get no credit for so-called stopping the strike against Iran. Why was the unmanned drone in Iran's airspace? Why the surveillance? Don't provoke and then pretend innocence.
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) June 23, 2019
"Trump, you get no credit for so-called stopping the strike against Iran," the California Democrat tweeted.
"Why was the unmanned drone in Iran's airspace? Why the surveillance? Don't provoke and then pretend innocence."
So, let's start with the facts: The Pentagon says the drone wasn't over Iran's territorial waters. Here's the path that it was apparently taking:
The Pentagon has just released the flight path fro the RQ-4A drone shot down by Iran pic.twitter.com/8q3dSsEXKx
— Fergal Gallagher (@gallagherfergal) June 20, 2019
Iran's National Guard has claimed that the drone was over its airspace. A top aide to Vladimir Putin has also claimed Russia had intelligence backing that up. The Putin aide had also said, Reuters reported, that "evidence presented by the United States alleging Iran was behind attacks on ships in the Gulf of Oman was poor quality and unprofessional." That's basically the only two voices backing up Iran's side of the story.
Waters is telling us, essentially, that she believes Iran and Russia more than she believes the Pentagon. This certainly says something.
Do you think President Trump deserves credit for averting war in Iran?
Also speaking volumes: The fact that Waters believes surveillance against Iran is unnecessary.
As the Middle East and North Africa editor at Jane's Defence Weekly told CNN after the attacks, Iran's military prowess has increased considerably in recent years. "They work," Jeremy Binnie said of Iran's air defense system, saying that the shoot down "highlights that when the Iranians really make investment, it can really count."
"We knew that with ballistic missiles, but it appears the case with air defenses too."
Beyond building up their military capabilities, Iran is also poised in a matter of days to break through limits set by the nuclear deal on how much low-enriched uranium it was allowed to stockpile. Tehran has essentially used this projected breach of the agreement to force the European countries still in the compact to give the country a better deal and provide relief from American sanctions.
Is this not a nation that Maxine Waters believes needs to be surveilled?
When it comes to provocations, those are both pretty significant. Thus, a chant of "Death to America" that Iranian parliamentarians struck up after the national body's speaker called President Trump the "real world terrorist" during a Sunday session, as Reuters reported. This is the side that Rep. Waters believes is more believable than our own Pentagon?
No, probably not. What she wants is material to condemn the president with. Anything will do — including, it seems, the shooting down of an American drone.
Thankfully, responses to this tweet showed just how ridiculous it was:
It was international airspace Einstein. You as a US Congresswoman who took an oath to protect America chooses to believe Iran propaganda over US intelligence? It's a sad day when Democrats choose getting votes in their district over defending America!
— Travis Wines (@TWines4congress) June 24, 2019
And this is why we need term limits! pic.twitter.com/ZlwkDaLdcI
— Rhiannon Richards (@rhi_richards) June 24, 2019
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— Chad Stafford (@chad_stafford) June 26, 2019
Wondering if this also qualifies as provocation, Maxine. https://t.co/5P3o2AY8nW
— קאל רייזור (@Kell_Razor) June 25, 2019
When she comes up with evidence that it was over Iranian waters, that the president knew about the flight and that it was deliberately done to provoke the Iranians, fine.
Until then, this is wild speculation aimlessly engaged in to smear the other side. In other words, par for the course when it comes to Maxine Waters.
C. Douglas Golden
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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal for four years.
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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal for four years. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
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Villa Amenia in the island of Mykonos, is located in St. Lazarus in the area on Psarou Bay, a short distance from the sea overlooking the beautiful beach. It is built on a plot of about 3,5 hectares, in amphitheater location, along with its sister Villa Azurina, occupying a total area of 192 m2 on two levels, comprising of a spacious living room, dining room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms master, 1 WC for quests and 1 studio ideal for service staff.
The Entrance Floor consists of an open space living room, dining room, a fully equipped kitchen and 1 Master Bedroom with en-suite bathroom. The outdoors area on the same level features a dining area, the private swimming pool with sun-beds and a veranda with sitting area. At this level there is the studio (for service staff) with en-suite bathroom.
The Intermediate Floor comprises of one Twins Bedroom with en-suite bathroom and a small WC.
Villa Amenia has been developed through the bold rupture of old and new, managing to create a sense of communication between the past and the future. The minimal decor with elegant furniture provides a special style to the luxury Villa.
The spacious living room (with fireplace) and dining room adjacent to the kitchen, is equipped with all modern appliances. Villa Ammonite features full air conditioning (Clima), WIFI, TV, DVD, CD and alarm system. The infinity pool blends with the blue of the sea, thanks to the artificial waterfall that is created on the front side.
The exterior setting of Villa Amenia is shaped in different levels creating more spaces, with both shaded living and dining rooms creating with pergolas, thus making a perfect environment for relaxation and sunbathing in Mykonos island.


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Rauman Pallo was a sports club established in 1949 from Rauma, Finland, playing football, bandy and ice hockey. It was dissolved in 1991 as the club merged with Pallo-Iirot. Rauman Pallo played mainly in the second and third tiers of Finnish football.

Notable former managers
 Juha Malinen
 Hannu Touru

References

Football clubs in Finland
Association football clubs established in 1949
Bandy clubs established in 1949
Defunct bandy clubs in Finland
Association football clubs disestablished in 1991
Rauma, Finland
Sport in Satakunta


Investors poured more than $5.6 billion into the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known as SPY, last week, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The last time the world's largest ETF saw inflows of this magnitude, U.S. stocks were on the cusp of a bear market in late 2018. But this time around, the cash infusion comes as the benchmark nears new highs.
Investors may be "looking at the headlines saying, 'Well, maybe it's got another 10%,"' said Delores Rubin, a senior equity trader at Deutsche Bank Wealth Management. "People recognize growth is still there."
Although stocks are already up 16% this year, fueling a temptation to bail and pocket the profits, the appeal to remain invested persists as earnings season gets underway. The first quarter should mark a bottom for the year, and Wall Street strategists are being forced to boost their year-end price targets or get left behind.
"Moving forward, we are just seeing an earnings slowdown and things are likely to re-accelerate into the back half of 2019," said Jeff Schulze, investment strategist at ClearBridge Investments, which has about $142 billion in assets under management. "Recession isn't on the horizon and global growth is likely turning."


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The Pfizer Vaccine Comes to Orange County!
Vern Nelson
– December 16, 2020Posted in: "The OC", board of supervisors, coronavirus, Don Wagner, Fresh Juice, public health
Just now, Dr. Clayton Chau and a couple of supervisors (Wagner & Chaffee) gathered at St. Joseph Hospital with CE Dr. Jeremy Zoch to administer the newly approved Pfizer vaccine to five frontline healthcare workers.
Orange County got our first shipment of the vaccine – a little over 25,000 doses – just this morning! As you may have heard, the Pfizer vax is administered to each person in two doses, three weeks apart. (The first dose is 88% effective, the second makes it over 95% effective.) Well, this first 25,000 is going to be the first dose for 25,000 OC healthcare workers, we'll be expecting a lot more shipments in coming weeks. We expect 17k more sometime next week, which will go to 17k more healthcare workers for THEIR first dose. And 25k to finish up those first people will come in 2 weeks.
This Saturday we expect the FDA to approve the Moderna vaccine, which is just as effective but easier to store (none of those science-fictiony subfreezing temperatures) – and we should get 32k of those next week as well if that happens. But it'll still be a while before all our 200k healthcare workers (including 12k "first responders") are all vaccinated, and they can move on to the next "tier" of at-risk people. Clayton estimates it'll be (at best) late February before robust specimens like you and I will be getting our shots, and we'll be getting to herd immunity. He also foresees the need for a lot of education, for the vax-paranoid to comply.
These frontline healthcare workers have been lining up for a vaccine – these last nine months have been unbearably stressful for them. There's been an unsustainable ratio of patients versus staff; they've been at their limit. They wear their PPE but they are inside rooms with the infected constantly and it's a miracle that not more of them have caught the virus. When they go home many of them dump their garments into a bucket so as not to endanger their families. This vaccine will be a life changer for these heroes.
So, this morning, nurse Christy administered the vaccine to FIVE of these workers chosen by lot. The first was Michael Wellman, who's been a nurse in St. Joseph's Covid unit during this whole pandemic.
The Shot Heard Round the County:
Next up was another nurse, Song Lee, who cared for general surgery patients during most of the year, but with the more recent second wave has "stepped up" to caring for Covid patients:
A respiratory therapist, Brian Sullivan, came next. Respiratory therapy, with all its "airway management" has been incredibly important in this pandemic.
And then, the County's first actual PHYSICIAN to receive the vaccine was Dr. Paul Shipowitz (sp?)
And finally, the emergency nurse Soledad Mathis:
Dr. Chau says there's still a lot we don't know about these vaccines – they DRASTICALLY reduce your risk of getting ill with Covid, but as far as we know SO FAR, they MAY still allow you to get infected asymptomatically and unknowingly spread the virus. So those who've been vaccinated must still be safe and wear masks. AND THAT GOES TRIPLE FOR YOU AND ME!
The two roughest months are ahead of us still! St Jude's in Fullerton is at 105% capacity, having to triage patients. St Joseph's has had to work with the CHOC children's hospital next door and use some of their units. Dr. Zoch (Chief Executive at St Joseph's) says they've learned a lot over the last 9 months but currently have 75% more patients than the last peak in July. They are doing everything possible not to "vent" a patient unless completely necessary.
These last two weeks Dr. Zoch has been a lot more nervous about coming home to his family. One thing he was NOT nervous about was calling his mother to tell her he was NOT coming home for Christmas this year. Chau and Zoch both urge us all to stay at home this holiday season so we can all enjoy the next one. Or as I would put it, you don't want to hear people singing: "I'll be home for Christmas … just in my vented dreams!"
https://www.facebook.com/ocgov/videos/2786390708265967
Tags: Clayton Chau, coronavirus, COVID 19, Jeremy Zoch, Pfizer vaccine, public health, St Joseph Hospital, vaccine
About Vern Nelson
Greatest pianist/composer in Orange County, and official troubador of both Anaheim and Huntington Beach (the two ends of the Santa Ana Aquifer.) Performs regularly both solo, and with his savage-jazz quintet The Vern Nelson Problem. Reach at vernpnelson@gmail.com, or 714-235-VERN.
Mark Richard Daniels
Nancy West works at UCI in Orange, She is an EVS Discharger (environmental services) and is on the front line of this pandemic, her department is in charge of getting the rooms ready for the next patients many of which are Covid-19, this involves cleaning every machine,wall, floor, every "nook & cranny" in a room that is more times than not covid related.
They are so very important to the operations of a hospital in that they're on the front line and cleaning up the Covid-19 aftermath, and the potential danger that goes with that.
Well, Nancy should be getting vaccinated soon then!
Ron & Anna Winship
Posted December 20, 2020 at 10:04 AM
*Yeah, good. So what variation of the Vaccine are you going to take? The new one that includes the fix for the UK Mutation? The Aussie/New Zealand variation? The European Choice? The Asian Alternative? Decisions….Decisions!
*The latest is pretty good…."OH, no you don't have to worry about the Mutations! Our Vaccines covers it!" then: "Not a problem…we will be able to adjust the vaccines as these mutations appear!" HUH?


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Q: If-Else Statements with OR in R Is it possible to change an if-else statement to include OR in an R-Script? Like 70% of the time would turn into this, while the remaining 30% would turn into something else. Similar to increasing the probability to change?
if (w0[i, j] == 1) { w1[i, j] <- rL[nNeigh + 1]
        } else             { w1[i, j] <- rD[nNeigh + 1] }

This is the statement where the result is deterministic, but I want to change it into a probabilistic function.
if (w0[i, j] == 1) { w1[i, j] <- rL[nNeigh + 1] || w1[i, j] <- rL[nNeigh]
        } else             { w1[i, j] <- rD[nNeigh + 1] || w1[i, j] <- rL[nNeigh] }

I know this is not the right way to even do it, but I'm at a loss

A: Just a quick idea:
coin <- rbinom(1, 1, 0.3)

if (w0[i, j] == 1) {
  w1[i, j] <- coin * rL[nNeigh + 1] + (1 - coin) * rL[nNeigh]
} else {
  w1[i, j] <- coin * rD[nNeigh + 1] + (1 - coin) * rL[nNeigh]
}

A: It's not clear what the larger context of the question is.  However note that Martin Gal's useful answer can be simplified:
coin <- rbinom(1, 1, 0.3)

if (w0[i, j] == 1) {
  w1[i, j] <- rL[nNeigh + coin]
} else {
  w1[i, j] <- rD[nNeigh + coin]
}


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Pelequén  es un pueblo chileno perteneciente a la comuna de Malloa, Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins. Está ubicado a 41 kilómetros al suroeste de la ciudad de Rancagua y a unos 122 de Santiago de Chile. Su población se sustenta tanto en la industria vitivinícola como en la artesanía de muebles de madera y la piedra de cantera rosada. Se destaca por la festividad de santa Rosa de Lima, cuya imagen está en el Santuario del pueblo.

Geografía

Geomorfología

El poblado de Pelequén se encuentra inserto en una depresión sobre la cual se asienta parte importante la comuna de Malloa, la que se caracteriza por la presencia de sedimentación fluvial y meteorización in situ, proceso que finalmente se traduce en una geomorfología con amplios sectores de relleno, perteneciente a la Depresión Intermedia. La mayor peculiaridad de la geografía de este poblado es el cordón montañoso, llamado de Pelequén o Rigolemu, que separa a la Cuenca de Rancagua (o Valle del Cachapoal) por el norte, con el Valle Longitudinal por el sur. Este cordón está formado por estribaciones de las cordilleras de Los Andes y de la Costa. Pelequén tiene una altitud media de 266 .

Latitud: 34º 27' S
Longitud: 70º 53' O

Climatología
En Pelequén hay un clima mediterráneo, con veranos calurosos y secos e inviernos frescos y húmedos. El promedio anual de precipitaciones ronda por los 650 mm (concentradas preferentemente entre los meses de abril a septiembre) y temperaturas moderadas con un promedio de 15 °C (en enero promedia los 21 °C y en julio 9 °C).

Hidrografía
En las cercanías de la localidad está presente el estero Rigolemu, que asegura el abastecimiento de aguas para el regadío de la zona, así como para la conformación de especies de humedales en donde se desarrolla la totora y arbustos nativos, que son la materia prima para la artesanía del lugar.

Historia

Leyenda de Pelequén
Existe una leyenda que relata la historia de amor entre Malloa y Pelequén, que según la tradición de la zona dio origen a estos poblados:

Fundación
Aunque no está muy clara la fecha de fundación de esta localidad, a juzgar por algunos documentos históricos de la Guerra de la Independencia en los que ya se menciona el poblado, se puede establecer que se fundó durante la Colonia. El pueblo nació en primera instancia como un poblado minero, ya que se extraía la piedra rosada de Rigolemu para la construcción de palacios, piletas y otras estructuras. Hay registros que la piedra de la cantera de Pelequén es extraída desde 1870, y hasta el día de hoy sigue siendo una de las principales fuentes de empleo en la zona.

Santa Rosa de Lima

La historia contemporánea del pueblo de Pelequén gira en torno a su santuario de santa Rosa de Lima. Hay diversas leyendas que cuentan cómo la imagen de la santa llegó hasta el poblado de Pelequén Viejo. Una dice que la imagen de la Santa Negra (Rosa de Lima), iba en una carreta que se dirigía desde Valparaíso a Colchagua, pero que en el trayecto se cayó. Los lugareños la recogieron y comenzaron a pedirle favores, que con el tiempo acrecentaron su devoción en ella.

La segunda historia, y más aceptada, cuenta que después de la Guerra entre la Confederación Perú-Boliviana y el Ejército Restaurador Chile-Perú (1837-1839) un oficial chileno trajo para el servicio doméstico a un "cholito" del Perú. Caminando hacia sus dominios, ubicados en las cercanías de Nancagua, quedaron empantanados cerca del caserío de Pelequén. En tal situación los auxilió doña María Terán, natural del pueblo, en cuya vivienda quedó albergado el "cholito", pues sufría de fiebre tifoidea y no estaba en condiciones de seguir el viaje. Ante los requerimientos de la dueña de casa, el peruano descubrió el tesoro que guardaba en un arcón de madera: la milagrosa imagen de santa Rosa de Lima.

Ante la imagen sagrada, ambos pidieron por la salud del enfermo, el cual al día siguiente amaneció totalmente recuperado. Esto sucedía en el año 1840. Rápidamente la noticia se supo entre los vecinos, que rápidamente fueron a conocer la imagen sagrada, a quien imploraron diversos favores. Recuperado, el peruano dejó su imagen querida, a la que construyeron una gruta donde acudieron más personas a pedir favores y a pagar mandas. Las autoridades eclesiásticas establecieron como lugar de veneración a Santa Rosa en Pelequén.

Luego de construirse el Santuario de Santa Rosa, se configuró un nuevo pueblo alrededor de él, lo que es el actual Pelequén. El antiguo caserío quedó con el nombre de Pelequén Viejo.

Economía

Industria vitivinícola
La cuenca de Rancagua es un lugar propicio para la producción de vinos finos, por poseer un clima de características mediterráneas y una tierra fértil. En Pelequén existen una serie de viñas, destacándose como la más importante la perteneciente a la familia Morandé, que posee una capacidad instalada para 11 millones de litros en estanques de acero inoxidable, y que funciona desde 1997. Esta viña es parte de la Ruta del Vino de Cachapoal, que es un circuito turístico por los principales viñedos de la zona.

Artesanía
En Pelequén existen dos oficios artesanales que se destacan a nivel nacional, el tallado de piedra y la mueblería.

Los canteros de Pelequén trabajan la tradicional piedra rosada, con visos blancos y grises de Rigolemu (toba volcánica o ignimbrita), la cual se extrae de las canteras existentes en los cerros que circundan el sector en bloques dimensionados, a través de métodos rudimentarios, como el uso de pólvora casera (mezcla de carbón, salitre y azufre). Estos bloques de piedra serán más tarde convertidos en revestimientos, baldosas y adoquines, así como de piezas de ornamentación y uso doméstico, los que se exhiben a ambos costados de la Autopista del Maipo.

Asimismo, al lado norte de Pelequén existe un sector destinado a los artesanos de la madera, los cuales fabrican excelentes muebles para el hogar, tales como mesas de centro, comedores, dormitorios y mesas de arrimo, todos elaborados en raulí. Pelequén es también famosa por sus escobas de curahuilla, las cuales previo a la artesanía en madera, era una de las actividades principales de la localidad.

Atractivos turísticos

Santuario de Santa Rosa
El arzobispo de Santiago, Rafael Valentín Valdivieso Zañartu, ante el destino no siempre piadoso que se daba a las limosnas que se dejaban a Santa Rosa, ordenó trasladar la imagen a la parroquia de Malloa, ya que en Pelequén aún no había templo, y el poblado formaba parte del Curato Malloíno. La santa permaneció en Malloa mientras se construía un santuario en Pelequén.

La construcción del templo se hizo posible gracias a la donación del terreno que para los efectos hace en 1871 José Santiago Gallegos. El 6 de agosto de 1881 la iglesia de Santa Rosa se inaugura oficialmente. El 10 de agosto de ese mismo año se crea la viceparroquia de Pelequén. El 30 de agosto de 1881 se hace el solemne traslado de la imagen desde la capilla interior de la iglesia parroquial de Malloa a la nueva iglesia de Pelequén, en medio del fervor popular. El 8 de febrero de 1897 Mariano Casanova crea la parroquia de Pelequén. El primer templo fue totalmente destruido por el terremoto del 16 de agosto de 1906.

Se construyó un segundo templo, que posteriormente fue dañado parcialmente por el terremoto del 2 de diciembre de 1928. En ese momento se decidió reacondicionar y ampliar el templo de tres amplias naves, mezcla Romántico-gótica. El templo nuevo se inauguró el 29 de agosto de 1929, y las torres en 1953.

Luego del terremoto de marzo de 1985, el obispo de Rancagua Jorge Medina Estévez mandó a construir una cúpula sobre la Torre del Santuario, hecha completamente de cobre, mineral que es muy abundante en la región debido a la existencia de la Mina El Teniente. Esta cúpula hacía visible al templo desde la ruta 5. El terremoto de 2010 derrumbó la torre y causó graves daños a la estructura, haciendo obligatoria otra reconstrucción del Templo, siendo reinaugurado el 31 de julio de 2011 gracias al aporte del Programa de Apoyo al Material del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, y a aportes privados. La ceremonia contó con la presencia del presidente de la República Sebastián Piñera, la primera dama, el ministro de Cultura y autoridades locales y regionales.

Hacienda Los Lingues
Esta es una gran hacienda de construcción colonial, que data del siglo XVII. En la construcción de la casa se usó adobe, cal y canto, piedra rosada de Pelequén, roble, colihue, patagua y techo de tejas. Destacan las puertas, que fueron talladas por los jesuitas bávaros de la Hacienda Calera de Tango, expertos maestros ebanistas. Estos sacerdotes contribuyeron significativamente el desarrollo de la zona, en especial en la agricultura.

La arquitectura colonial de Los Lingues se complementa con una capilla, parques y patios con hermosos jardines y árboles autóctonos. El interior de la casa conserva el alhajamiento colonial; vajilla de plata fina, cristalería, lámparas, mesas de juego, muebles estilo francés, platería mapuche y cerámica diaguita.

El piso de las caballerizas de Los Lingues, de una superficie de 3500 m², es de piedra rosada. Estas dependencias acogen un criadero de caballos finos de raza Aculeo, una de las mejores del mundo.

Lugares de recreación
Otro atractivo que posee Pelequén es el Balneario Piedra del Gallo a orillas del Estero "Rigolemu" en el Valle del mismo nombre. Cuenta con piscina natural, sectores para pícnic y posibilidades de pesca a orillas del estero. Se encuentra cerca de la localidad de Los Maquis a 12 km del pueblo hacia la cordillera.

Transportes
Para acceder a Pelequén se pueden tomar dos rutas; la primera es por la Ruta CH-5 (Carretera Panamericana), que en este tramo se hace llamar Autopista del Maipo, desde el norte o bien desde el sur del país por la misma ruta. La segunda alternativa es por la Ruta CH-66 (Carretera de la Fruta), que conecta al poblado con la comuna de Las Cabras y con la ciudad de San Antonio en la Región de Valparaíso. Hay recorridos de buses que conectan a Pelequén con las principales ciudades de la región (Rancagua y San Fernando), los que se refuerzan para la celebración de santa Rosa.

Otra forma de llegar a Pelequén es vía ferrocarril, específicamente con el servicio de Trenes Metropolitanos Metrotrén de la Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado, que tiene viajes frecuentes desde Santiago a San Fernando, y que se detienen en la estación Pelequén.

Tradiciones

Festividad de Santa Rosa

Debido a la existencia del Santuario de santa Rosa de Lima en Pelequén, se realiza la celebración de su solemnidad cada 30 de agosto, al igual que en otros países (en Perú, por ejemplo, es día feriado). El tranquilo pueblo se transforma en un gran lugar de devoción, donde miles de fieles provenientes de todas partes de Chile van a agradecer a la santa por los favores, o mandas concedidos. Se ofrecen misas durante todo el día en el Santuario, y se hacen romerías en honor a la santa. Esta celebración contemplaba los días 29, 30 y 31 de agosto, sin embargo con el correr de los años se ha ido extendiendo incluso a una semana y media de duración.

Cabe destacar que esta celebración da paso también para una gran llegada de comerciantes ambulantes desde Santiago, con una serie de productos que venden en las calles del pueblo, previo pago de una autorización de la municipalidad de Malloa.

Así mismo, la celebración da paso a una verdadera fiesta costumbrista. En 1974 la Intendencia de Rancagua pretendió excluir los aires "paganos" en la popular celebración de Santa Rosa de Pelequén. La prensa de la época consignó:

Curiosidades
Entre diciembre de 1927 y mayo de 1931, la comuna de Malloa cambió su nombre por Pelequén.
En el libro Curfew del autor chileno José Donoso se menciona la piedra rosada de Pelequén: «and sat on chairs or on the benches made of pink stone from Pelequén» (y sentados en sillas o en las bancas hechas de piedra rosada de Pelequén).
En Chile existe el dicho "ir camino a Pelequén", que significa que una persona está quedando calva.

Véase también
Salsipuedes (Chile)
Rengo
Valle del Cachapoal

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Sitio web de la Sociedad Minera Cantera de Pelequén
Santuario de Santa Rosa de Pelequén
Sitio web de la Hacienda Los Lingues
Galería de fotos de Pelequén

Localidades de la provincia de Cachapoal
Toponimia mapuche de Chile
Malloa


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Historical Marker: Bickur Cholim (First Jewish Congregation)
In 1861, San Jose's first Jewish congregation, Bickur Cholim (Hebrew for "visiting the sick"), was established and eventually built its temple at this location in 1870. Unfortunately, a fire destroyed the temple in 1940 but the Torah, the Ner Tamid (eternal lamp), and stained glass windows were saved. They are now located at the new temple, which was built in 1948; the congregation renamed itself Temple Emanu-El.
The city's first Jewish temple was built here in 1870.
The fire that destroyed the original temple in 1940
San Jose's first Jewish synagogue was established in 1861 at Bickur Cholim, which means "visiting the sick." The congregation was dedicated to helping the needy and sick and assisting with burials. In its early days, the congregation met in Old City Hall as well the Masonic Hall.The congregation's first building, located at the corner of Third and San Antonio Streets, was dedicated in 1870.
The congregation's first ordained rabbi was Myer Sol Levy, who arrived in 1873 and served until 1881. For the remainder of the 1800s into the early 1900s, the congregation had numerous rabbis, most of whom had short tenures, and there were a few periods when the synagogue had no rabbi at all. For most of the Great Depression, the congregation was without a rabbi, and did not hire another rabbi until 1939.
In 1940, the synagogue burned to the ground. Only a few items were saved, including the Torah. When the current building was dedicated in 1948, the Torah and other items that were saved from the fire were moved to the new University Avenue location. The new temple was renamed Temple Emanu-El.
"Bickur Cholim." The Historical Marker Database. Accessed June 7, 2017. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=52655.
"Our Roots." Temple Emanu-El. Accessed June 7, 2017. https://templesanjose.org/roots#.
Photo: Barry Swackhamer, via the Historical Marker DatabaseWeissbach, Lee Shai. Jewish Life in Small-Town America: A History. New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press, 2008. pgs. 207-208
Created by Ben M on June 7th 2017, 12:45:52 pm.
Last updated by Rebecca Woodham on July 8th 2017, 6:25:59 pm.


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Q: Play Framework 2.6 Error When Unit Testing Controller Endpoints I have the following test:
import org.scalatestplus.play._
import play.api.test.Helpers._
import play.api.test.{FakeRequest, WsTestClient}
import com.github.andyglow.websocket._
import com.inland24.plantsim.controllers.ApplicationTestFactory
import org.scalatest.WordSpecLike
import org.scalatest.concurrent.{IntegrationPatience, ScalaFutures}
class EventsWebSocketSpec extends PlaySpec with WordSpecLike
      with BaseOneServerPerSuite with ApplicationTestFactory
      with ScalaFutures with IntegrationPatience {

      private implicit val httpPort = new play.api.http.Port(9000)

      "Routes" should {

        "send 404 on a bad request" in  {
          route(app, FakeRequest(GET, "/boum")).map(status) mustBe Some(NOT_FOUND)
        }

        "send 200 on a good request" in  {
          route(app, FakeRequest(GET, "/")).map(status) mustBe Some(OK)
        }

      }
    }

I get this error. Seems like the Test is not even started:
Exception encountered when invoking run on a nested suite - org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLoggerFactory cannot be cast to ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLoggerFactory cannot be cast to ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext

Has it got anything to do with some dependency exclusion that I have to do? Here are my dependencies:
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  ws,
  // Our streaming library
  "io.monix" %% "monix" % "2.3.3",
  "io.monix" %% "monix-cats" % "2.3.3",

  // Dependencies needed for Slick
  "com.typesafe.slick" %% "slick" % "3.2.0",
  "com.typesafe.slick" %% "slick-hikaricp" % "3.2.0",

  // For application Metrics
  "io.dropwizard.metrics" % "metrics-core" % "4.0.0",
  "io.dropwizard.metrics" % "metrics-jvm" % "4.0.0",

  "com.typesafe.scala-logging" %% "scala-logging" % "3.8.0",
  "org.scala-lang.modules" % "scala-async_2.11" % "0.9.6",
  "com.typesafe" % "config" % "1.3.1",

  // For JSON parsing
  "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-json" % "2.6.0",
  "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-json-joda" % "2.6.0",

  // JDBC driver for MySQL & H2
  "mysql" % "mysql-connector-java" % "5.1.26",
  "com.h2database" % "h2" % "1.4.186",

  // Swagger UI API Docs
  "io.swagger" %% "swagger-play2" % "1.6.0",
  "org.webjars" %% "webjars-play" % "2.6.0-M1",
  "org.webjars" % "swagger-ui" % "2.2.0",

  // Test dependencies
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-testkit" % "2.5.2" % Test,
  "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "3.0.1" % Test,
  "org.scalatestplus.play" %% "scalatestplus-play" % "3.1.2" % Test,
  "com.github.andyglow" %% "websocket-scala-client" % "0.2.4" % Test
)

Appreciate any help!
EDIT: Upon further exploration, I think the culprit is this slf4j binding:
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/joe/.ivy2/cache/org.slf4j/slf4j-simple/jars/slf4j-simple-1.7.12.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/joe/.ivy2/cache/ch.qos.logback/logback-classic/jars/logback-classic-1.2.3.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.SimpleLoggerFactory]

How to get rid of this? I know that in my build.sbt for one of the dependency, I have to exclude the slf4j, but which one is that?

A: By trial and error, I found out that this way of excluding slf4j for two of my dependencies, I was able to fix this!
  "org.scalatestplus.play" %% "scalatestplus-play" % "3.1.2" % Test exclude ("org.slf4j", "slf4j-simple"),
  "com.github.andyglow" %% "websocket-scala-client" % "0.2.4" % Test exclude ("org.slf4j", "slf4j-simple")


A lot of us have had leftover cans of paint lingering in our basement or garage. It often isn't something we think twice about, unless we're wondering how we can properly dispose of it. After all, it seems like it can't be as easy as simply throwing the leftovers into a nearby dumpster. You also shouldn't empty your paint extras down the drain, no matter how much is left in your can. Paint can actually be hazardous, not least of all because it contains materials that may leak into the ground. Instead, dispose of your leftover paint in a better way.
When a can of paint is sealed correctly, it can last as long as ten years if it is latex-based paint or up to 15 years if it is oil-based paint. While you may think "who would keep paint that long?" consider this: do you have any small ones running around? What about pets? Have you ever repositioned your furniture? Chances are the next time your child decides to make the living room wall their art project or when your entertainment center scratches a nearby wall, you'll be happy you saved the leftover paint. Always keep paint in its original container and save the original label. Don't forget to add your own label, noting the date you first opened the can and what room the paint corresponds to. When you seal your can of paint, place some plastic wrap over the lid and hammer that lid into place. Paint should be kept in a cool, dry area that is away from sunlight. It should also be kept out of reach of both children and pets.
When you think of donating items, you probably think of clothes, shoes, and unwanted knickknacks. Change the way you think! Ask your friends or a neighbour if they want to use your leftover paint as part of a project of their own. Call local schools to see if they have any upcoming projects that might require paint, or get in touch with a local non-profit organization to see if the paint could be of value to them. You could also list it on a local buy/sell/trade website to see if anyone would take it off your hands for free.
Let's say that you don't want to keep the paint and you can't find anyone else who would have a use for it. To dispose of leftover cans of paint, you should first dry the paint out. If there isn't much paint left, putting the can in direct sunlight will probably do the trick for you. If there's more than a little in the bottom of your can, try adding kitty litter or even newspaper to help soak up leftover paint and hurry up the drying process.
You can also purchase a paint hardener from a local hardware store. Once your paint is dry, you should check your local laws to see how to properly dispose of it. Many states will actually let you throw out your dried paint with the rest of your household trash!
Many times if you just can't seem to get rid of your leftover paint, the store you purchased it from may take it back. They'll recycle it or use it for samples and many other things. Disposing of your leftover paint might seem like a chore, but it doesn't have to be. There are many ways you can dispose of paint while keeping the environment safe.


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