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IN PICTURES: HM Armed Forces remember the fallen from Afghanistan to London
From bases in Afghanistan, on board Royal Navy ships, at RAF stations and in Army barracks around the world, the British Service community has honoured the fallen of military campaigns past and present.
The reflection of a British soldier in one of the plaques on the Camp Bastion Memorial to the members of Her Majesty's Armed Forces who have lost their lives during military operations in Afghanistan [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
In London's Whitehall some 4,500 Service personnel and veterans gathered at the Cenotaph to take part in the Remembrance Sunday march past.
Her Majesty The Queen was the first to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph to commemorate those servicemen and women killed in military action since the First World War.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, also attended the service along with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, the Chiefs of Staff, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey, and opposition leader Ed Miliband.
Her Majesty stood metres from the Cenotaph, eyes fixed on the memorial, while behind the sovereign stood members of the Royal Family including Their Royal Highnesses The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of York, The Earl of Wessex, The Princess Royal and The Duke of Kent.
Soldiers from the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired an artillery round from nearby Horse Guards Parade which echoed around Whitehall to signal the end of the two minutes' silence.
HRH Prince William of Wales lays a wreath at the Camp Bastion Memorial during a special visit to British forces in Helmand province [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
As the echoes of the blast faded, buglers of the Royal Marines sounded the haunting melody of the Last Post, which traditionally signalled the end of a soldier's day.
Meanwhile, HRH Prince William of Wales paid a surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan and joined them for a Remembrance Sunday service during which he laid a wreath in memory of the fallen.
The Prince was joined by Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox for the surprise visit to Camp Bastion, Helmand province, where they joined about 2,500 Service personnel for the Remembrance Sunday service on the camp's parade square.
A two-minute silence was observed, after which Prince William laid a wreath bearing the note: 'For Jo, Lex and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.'
The Prince wrote a special piece, published in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph, in which he described how humbled he is by the respect shown for fallen heroes. In the article, His Royal Highness wrote:
The country is as fervent today in its support for our Armed Forces and the sacrifices that they make as it has ever been.
The awareness of what young men and women are doing for us in the most extreme and hostile environments imaginable is striking and moving. I find this remarkable and, frankly, humbling…
After the visit, Prince William said the occasion was extremely important to him, not only to remember personal friends he had lost, but everyone who has lost their lives in the line of duty.
Also in Afghanistan, the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) Battle Group took time out from their tasks in Patrol Base 2, Helmand province, to remember those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice doing their duty.
The short service was attended by approximately 100 officers and soldiers from the Battle Group, representing a range of regiments and ranks. It lasted for approximately five minutes and included a two-minute silence, the Airborne Forces Collect and the Lord's Prayer.
The two-minute silence was interrupted by small arms fire from an enemy contact involving C (Bruneval) Company, 2 PARA, only a few kilometres away, which gave great poignancy to the event. Commanding Officer of 2 PARA, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Harrison, recognised the importance of maintaining military traditions whilst also noting the irony of the gunfire in the background during the remembrance service:
The remembrance service and two-minute silence is a tradition that we maintain to honour those who have fallen before us in this conflict and in previous conflicts," he said. "There is a certain irony during our two-minute silence today that the only two interruptions were those of small arms fire and the birdsong.
Similar acts of remembrance took place across the UK and around the world from patrol bases in Afghanistan to Royal Navy ships in the Indian Ocean.
In Plymouth, Flag Officer Sea Training Rear Admiral Chris Snow joined the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor Mary Aspinall, in laying a wreath.
Rear Admiral Snow said:
The November ceremonies bring our past and present together. Whether we recall the brave men and women of past conflicts, or our forces today in Afghanistan and across the world, this focus for our respect is a central event for the entire nation to reflect on the meaning and cost of war.
In Tangiers, Morocco, thirteen graves, twelve belonging to airmen killed over the western Mediterranean during World War Two, and one to Sergeant Terence Henning, a member of the Gibraltar Security Police killed in an explosion in February 1942, lie in the graveyard of St Andrews Church.
There, RAF officer Flight Lieutenant Sean Flynn laid a wreath on the grave of an airman 'Known only to God', whilst the Chief Police Officer of the Gibraltar Defence Police, Superintendent Rob Allen, laid a wreath on Sergeant Henning's grave. Further wreaths were laid by the British Ambassador to Morocco, Mr Timothy Morris.


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How psychedelic science fiction conquered the world
September 11, 2019 by www.polygon.com
The mention of "science fiction" likely conjures images from Star Wars or Star Trek, dystopias ranging from The Hunger Games to The Handmaid's Tale, or Westworld-ian futuristic societies where technology has altered what it means to be human. But a psychedelic strain of sci-fi, present for decades in the genre, is becoming more pervasive in the mainstream — and promptly refracting the world into an impossible and mind-bending pattern.
As psychedelics themselves take center stage in a larger cultural moment in the United States, from the increased popularity of microdosing to the city of Denver decriminalizing psychedelic mushrooms, psychedelic science fiction has emerged as a space to discuss, debate, and explore the ecstatic and embrace the ambiguous. The murky definition only helps the pursuit. "While easy to recognize, 'psychedelic' remains harder to define," Mark Cole wrote in a 2016 Clarkesworld article looking at psychedelic science fiction's roots in the 1960s. Cole ultimately arrives on a vague yet succinct definition: "What defines psychedelic matches the physical effects of hallucinogens."
The advent of visual effects has opened a door for modern psychedelia. The recently concluded television series Legion has prominently featured psychic warfare, ambiguous realities, and surreal time travel, among other forays into the odd. Stranger Things, while less overtly esoteric, indulged in the bizarre imagery of psychic experiments and sensory-deprivation tanks, straight out of Ken Russell's 1980 cult classic Altered States. Ant-Man director Peyton Reed said in interviews that he also lifted from Altered States for Ant-Man and the Wasp. And the Quantum Realm scenes in Avengers: Endgame featured some of the headiest visuals ever seen in a movie of that scale — as well as a plot line centered around traveling to a microscopic dimension where the flow of time is fundamentally altered.
The psychedelic stretches beyond blockbusters. Alex Garland's adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's novel Annihilation made use of narrative ambiguity and groundbreaking visual effects to tell its story about exploration, betrayal, and evolution. Independent films like Shane Carruth's Upstream Color and Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson's The Endless transport viewers to bizarre and harrowing corners of the world, where the borders of consciousness blur and the nature of physical laws bends into something incomprehensible. This fall will bring even more forays into the strange and sublime on screens both small and large. Richard Stanley, no stranger to the bizarre corners of cinematic science fiction, is adapting one of H.P. Lovecraft's most bizarre stories with Color Out of Space.
And Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy's upcoming series Undone, which premieres this Friday on Amazon, uses hallucinatory imagery to depict the life of a protagonist who navigates space and time in increasingly surreal ways as she searches for the truth about the death of her father. The show's trailer promises a host of surreal visuals — including prominent use of rotoscoping, albeit of a very different variety than what showed up in Richard Linklater's adaptation of A Scanner Darkly.
Much has been written about the influence of the late Philip K. Dick on contemporary science fiction, and given Dick's forays into psychedelia and religious visions, it's not difficult to detect some overlap. But the rise of psychedelic science fiction on a larger scale isn't as directly connected to Dick's legacy as it first seems. By and large, the phildickian qualities that have trickled into TV and film adaptations of his work are those that focus on shifting identities and a sense of "but is this the real world" — as opposed to some of the even headier and more psychedelic characteristics of his work. It's telling that an adaptation of Dick's hallucinatory Ubik has never made it to the screen, for instance, despite numerous attempts.
One exception is A Scanner Darkly, which tells the story of an undercover cop, Bob Arctor, investigating a strange new drug. While undercover, Arctor develops a second personality — meaning that he is, for all intents and purposes, his own quarry. That the undercover officers meet while wearing an ever-changing garment that hides all identifying qualities adds another layer of ambiguity and visual weirdness to the proceedings.
The animation is largely subtle: The animated versions of the cast, including Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Winona Ryder, generally resemble themselves. Sometimes, however, the visual effects rapidly shift things into the realm of the uncanny, echoing Arctor's fraying mental state. In one bizarre scene, Downey Jr. briefly transforms into a humanoid cockroach.
Creating the right visuals for such a distinctive narrative posed a challenge for the filmmakers. Bob Sabiston, head of animation for the film, created the software used for rotoscoping, and had previously worked with Linklater on Waking Life. To hear him tell it, having an established visual style helped considerably with the film's more surreal elements. "For the most part Scanner was realistic," he recalled. "There were only a few distinct scenes where it became surreal, and even those were done within the bounds of the style laid out for the movie."
"I think the animators wished there was more craziness going on in the visuals," Sabiston added. "But even though it's a sci-fi story, it's rooted in the mundane, banal life of that household."
While A Scanner Darkly's visuals are distinctive and stylized, Sabiston considers the work of the animation team to be a kind of collaboration with the cast. When asked about creating visuals that reflect a character's particular mental state, he replied, "I think that sort of thing happens very naturally if the artist is given freedom to interpret the scene, at least with rotoscoping. You have the underlying video performance, which anchors it to reality, so everything the artist layers on top is a sort of an interpretive mask."
"I think the animator's inclination is to push it in whichever emotional or psychological direction is indicated by the character," Sabiston added. "It may seem like it would be a challenge, but often it's the organic result of an artist being in the flow, doing their thing."
On the other side of the psychedelic science fiction spectrum from A Scanner Darkly is Annihilation. Here, a research team — played by Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny — ventures into "The Shimmer," a region where the boundaries between life forms have broken down and the laws of time and space no longer apply.
The process for creating the pearly barrier involved abundant trial and error, according to visual effects supervisor Andrew Whitehurst. "The Shimmer was described in the screenplay as being like a heat haze but with a 'glassy liquid quality,' which gave us an insight into the kind of thing Alex [Garland, the director] was looking for," Whitehurst explained. "We knew that it needed to keep what was inside fairly hidden to build up mystery, so it couldn't be too glassy. We knew that it needed to have movement because it is described as continuously expanding, and that it would have, in some way, to reflect the alien presence in the film."
Eventually, Whitehurst said, a chance encounter on location sparked inspiration. "We happened upon a large puddle which had a thin film of petrol on the water surface," he said. "That film gave a striking rainbow effect which we all commented on at the time." Combine that with a number of other aesthetic touchstones, including the Mandelbulb and Antoni Gaudí's Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, and the design was finalized.
The process of creating distinctive effects for Annihilation wasn't limited to individual scenes, though — and it was, much like the Shimmer itself, in constant flux. "As the edit evolved, we had to redesign the effects so that the overall filmic flow was maintained," Whitehurst recalled. "We started to see design themes emerge as we, and the art department, worked on the visuals for the film. For example, as we homed in on using a Mandelbulb variant as our physical representation of an alien, the art department took it on and started to make mandelbulb-shaped fungi and lichens to dress the sets."
For Whitehurst, this process was both holistic and taxing. "Ideas were always sparking other ideas for different sequences, and this continued after the shoot as the edit evolved," he said. "I think the film's evolution and in design mirrored what the characters went through on screen, and the complexity of the relationships between every design element in the film was more complex than anything else I've ever worked on."
How did we get here? In the new book High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Erik Davis, no stranger to the intersection of the strange and the cultural, ventures into the history of a quartet of writers and thinkers — Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and the Illuminatus! trilogy authors Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson — to find answers. Despite their focus on the 1970s, a number of Davis' observations resonate with the current cultural moment as well, and help to explain the foothold that psychedelic science fiction has right now.
Early on, Davis discusses the effect of the Nixon administration on, well, everything. "What Nixon and his cronies initiated did go on to warp American reality," he writes, citing the "uncanny tropes [that] are inextricable from the matter of Watergate," among other things. A residential administration whose upending of norms causes observed reality itself to splinter? That has a familiar ring to it. Davis also ties the psychedelic movement discussed in High Weirdness to the early days of the internet — and if one believes that the internet has a pocket of psychedelia hidden away deep inside of it, it's not too much of a stretch to envision that the circa-now omnipresence of all things online might have also created a subtle craving for the same thing in mainstream pop culture as well.
"Today, as memetic noise eats consensus reality, and conspiracy thinking is weaponized by parties across the political spectrum, a sort of existential vertigo has opened up beneath our feet," Davis writes toward the end of his book.
It's a succinct description of the contemporary condition, and a recipe for just why psychedelic science fiction narratives have begun to resonate for such an audience. What the coming years will bring for American culture remains to be seen, but pop culture's forays into the deeply strange show no signs of abating.
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Production and transplantation of retinal cells from human and mouse embryonic stem cells
Anna La Torre Vila, Deepak A. Lamba, Anu Jayabalu, Thomas A. Reh
Over the last few years, numerous studies have introduced strategies for the generation of neuronal populations from embryonic stem cells. These techniques are valuable both in the study of early neurogenesis and in the generation of an unlimited source of donor cells for replacement therapies. We have developed a protocol to direct mouse and human embryonic stem cells to retinal fates by using the current model of eye specification. Our method is a multistep protocol in which the cultures are treated with IGF1 and a combination of BMP and Wnt inhibitors to promote the expression of key retinal progenitor genes, as assayed by RT-PCR and immunofluorescence microscopy. The retinal progenitor population spontaneously undergoes differentiation towards various types of retinal neurons, including photoreceptors.
Retinal Development: Methods and Protocols
Humana Press Inc.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-848-1_16
Methods in Molecular Biology
Retinal Neurons
Eye field
hES cells
mES cells
Photoreceptor
Retinal progenitor
La Torre Vila, A., Lamba, D. A., Jayabalu, A., & Reh, T. A. (2012). Production and transplantation of retinal cells from human and mouse embryonic stem cells. In Retinal Development: Methods and Protocols (Vol. 884, pp. 229-246). (Methods in Molecular Biology; Vol. 884). Humana Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-848-1_16
Production and transplantation of retinal cells from human and mouse embryonic stem cells. / La Torre Vila, Anna; Lamba, Deepak A.; Jayabalu, Anu; Reh, Thomas A.
Retinal Development: Methods and Protocols. Vol. 884 Humana Press Inc., 2012. p. 229-246 (Methods in Molecular Biology; Vol. 884).
La Torre Vila, A, Lamba, DA, Jayabalu, A & Reh, TA 2012, Production and transplantation of retinal cells from human and mouse embryonic stem cells. in Retinal Development: Methods and Protocols. vol. 884, Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 884, Humana Press Inc., pp. 229-246. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-848-1_16
La Torre Vila A, Lamba DA, Jayabalu A, Reh TA. Production and transplantation of retinal cells from human and mouse embryonic stem cells. In Retinal Development: Methods and Protocols. Vol. 884. Humana Press Inc. 2012. p. 229-246. (Methods in Molecular Biology). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-848-1_16
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Q: Ubuntu 20.04 wifi randomly disconnecting I have a network issue on Ubuntu 20.04. Wifi randomly disconnects about every 30-45 minutes or whenever I am having a zoom call or I am watching videos in streaming. I tried to fix this by disabling the power management on the wifi card, but it didn't solve my problem. Any idea? My kernel version is 5.4.0-51-generic. Please help me, this is very annoying.

A: I have solved this similar problem on Ubuntu 20.10, Gnome 3.38.1, by going to Settings > Power > Power Saving > Automatic Suspend > Off.

A: Anyone has any news on this issues, I tried those solutions as well but it's still coming up.
I run sudo dmidecode -s bios-version and it shows A10.
Then sudo lshw -C network shows :
  `*-network
   description: Wireless interface
   product: Wireless 7260
   vendor: Intel Corporation
   physical id: 0
   bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
   logical name: wlp2s0
   version: 73
   serial: f8:16:54:55:e2:f9
   width: 64 bits
   clock: 33MHz
   capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
   physical wireless
   configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.8.0-50-
   generic firmware=17.3216344376.0 7260-17.ucode ip=192.168.0.56
   latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
   resources: irq:49 memory:e3500000-e3501fff`

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Brave Archer and His Mate is the fourth and final saga from the famous Brave Archer series. Considered a Venoms film, Brave Archer and His Mate stars international favorite Alexander Fu Sheng, however this time Kuo Chue is the new hero who is out to defeat the mass murderer of his martial arts masters. In fact this action-packed, Venom-filled film is even choreographed by the three core Venoms , making it a unique combination of grand Martial Arts World mayhem and special Venom-style high flying kung-fu.


Oil painting on board, a busy scene showing a Mail Coach outside an inn with the sign of a Stag and Post Office on the other side. There is a Mail Coach with a four chestnuts fully laden with passengers and off to the side a change of four grey horses. Lots of bystanders looking on with dogs and another carriage in the back ground, in the far distance is a windmill.
Henry Thomas Alken was born in London in 1785 died 1851, part of a dynasty of sporting artists.
He was a prolific artist of hunting and coaching scenes.


Another work day so photos thin on the ground! Do I go for the cherry clafoutis I made this morning or the newly painted bathroom of this evening!? Food or DIY? On the basis that the bathroom painting job has been a long time in gestation, here it is!
Clever picture:-) and I like the colour.


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Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Intergovernmental Forum
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Though these important socio‐economic contributions make small‐scale mining an indispensable economic activity, there is an obvious need for improved sustainability in the industry, more specifically, for operations to resolve pressing problems, many of which have wide‐ranging impacts.
CHAPTER 13 ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING
Artisanal and small-scale miners extract a broad range of minerals.In many countries,most of them produce gold,which has the advantage of being relatively simple to extract,refine,and transport.In Ecuador and Ghana,for example,gold accounts for two-thirds of their production of minerals;in the Philippines,it accounts for 90% and in Peru,almost 100%.18
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SMALL scale miners in Zimbabwe are officially producing more gold than large scale, however, the conditions on which small scale miners are operating need a lot of improvements. By Dickson Rudairo Mapuranga. The miners are reportedly neglected by the government, many of them are denied opportunities to get funding the same way small scale farmers are getting through command
Six Key Factors in Formalizing Artisanal and Small-Scale
Benefits to small-scale miners would include more efficiency and longevity at sites, minimized environmental degradation and improved profitability. Comprehensive legislation specific to ASM needs to be developed. They should account for ASM's diverse character in countries where ASM is illegal or where it is legal but unregulated.
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining World Bank
Artisanal and small-scale production supply accounts for 80% of global sapphire, 20% of gold mining and up to 20% of diamond mining. It is widespread in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Central and South America. Though the informal nature and on the whole un-mechanized operation generally results in low productivity, the sector represents an important livelihood and income
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Small Scale Production
Small scale production is more labour-intensive i.e., there is more use of labour than machinery. Thus, many unemployed persons are employed in the newly developed small scale industries. 4. Need of small Capital: The small scale production can be started with small capital. Where there is shortage of capital, the small scale industries are of great advantage for the development of industries
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2 天前· Mining is a historically dangerous and challenging sector, but UK-based Shondilo Gold Mining Ventures Ltd is aiming to help change the way artisan and small-scale mining (ASM) operators work with the launch of much-needed equipment, management, safe working practices and
The contribution of small-scale mining to Zimbabwean
2 天前· Researchers have estimated that the small-scale and artisanal mining sector in Zimbabwe benefits over 1,5 million people excluding equipment and service providers, this, therefore, shows that the ASM is of paramount importance to the economy of Zimbabwe. The national Geological Survey estimates that local gold mining started in the country in the seventh century and that of more than
Negative Impacts of Informality Artisanal Small Scale
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) 8. Negative impacts due to informality . The widespread informality of the ASM sector and of miners operating illegally, has given rise to a range of negative social and environmental issues. In turn, these issues have led to increased pressure on government and local communities to better monitor and enforce existing laws and regulations, as well as
Artisanal and small-scale mining Extractive Industries
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is largely an informal sector with limited available information on production, revenues, operations and even location of activities. Regulation of the sector is often inadequate and its real contribution to a national economy is difficult to estimate. In many resource-rich developing countries, artisanal and small-scale mining provides a livelihood for
maximize the benefits brought by small-scale mining and to avoid or mitigate the costs.Attempts to achieve this are constrained by a number of factors.Some of these,such as the lack of government and community capacity,apply to larger companies as well.Others are specific to ASM,such as poor access to finance and a lack of collective capacity,particularly for artisanal mining with operations
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Small-scale mining includes enterprises or individuals that employ workers for mining, but generally still using manually-intensive methods, working with hand tools. Interior of an artisanal mine near Low's Creek, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The human figures, exploring this mine, show the scale of tunnels driven entirely with hand tools. (two-kilogram (4.4 lb) hammer and hand-forged
The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale
The purpose of this book is to examine both the positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries. In recent years, a number of governments have attempted to formalize this rudimentary sector of industry, recognizing its socioeconomic importance. However, the industry continues to be plagued by
Zimbabwe's Small-Scale, Artisanal Miners Emerge as
But he adds that "small-scale miners should also learn that mining is an expensive business venture. It is not meant for all and sundry." There have been improvements made to support small-scale miners, Dube says, including a decentralization initiative in 2015 that created offices of the Ministry of Mines and Development in each province.
Ghana: Small scale mining useful to economy
"Small scale mining has become synonymous with galamsey (artisanal gold mine in Ghana)," Seth Klaye, executive director of the Precious Metal Marketing Company (PMMC), told The Africa Report in an interview. If Brazil can do it everyone else can do it. You don't have to reinvent to the wheel "But galamsey in our local setting means something which is illegal." Klaye says with proper
Comparative development benefits from small and large
Small-scale mining contributes more to the local economy encouraging local entrepreneurship but yields a lower total financial return. Large-scale mining provides better stone security and safer working conditions for employees, but any benefits of capital transformation do not accrue locally. Policy should focus on the formalization of small-scale mining and pay closer attention to the impact
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01.02.2019· Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) small sized, largely unrecognized, rudimentary, and an informal form of mining occurs in more than 70 countries around the world and is mainly hailed for its socioeconomic benefits and reviled for its environmental devastation. As a result, many people are confused about the future of ASM. In Ghana, the government banned ASM in 2017 and formed a
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining World Gold Council
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM): ASM is a collective term embracing both small scale and artisanal mining. It covers formal or informal mining which is characterised by low capital intensity and high labour intensity and relatively simple methods for exploration, extraction and processing. ASM can involve men and women working on an individual basis as well as those working in family
Formalising for Development: Artisanal and Small- Scale
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is another important livelihood strategy in Malawi, which is similar to many other developing countries (Hentschel et al. 2002); however, negative externalities of ASM are a challenge for sustainable development. ASM is frequently associated with poor health and safety performance, environmental degradation, illegal mining and trading, lack of training
Recasting the Debate on the Economic and Development Benefits of Small-Scale and Artisanal Gold Mining Key Findings • The stone challenges the prevailing thinking on small-scale and artisanal mining, outlining the positive potential of the sector for development while rebalancing the exaggerated orthodox view of large-scale mining's contribution to development. • ASM is an important
The social and economic impacts of gold mining
However, as previously noted, the impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining are outside of the scope of this report. Responsible gold mining companies can be important job
(PDF) FORMALISATION OF ARTISANAL AND SMALL
PDF On Jan 1, 2007, Alice Suzyo. Lungu published FORMALISATION OF ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE MINING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: CHALLENGES AND WAYS FORWARD Find, read and cite all the research you
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The upsurge in illegal gold mining activities, popularly known as "galamsey operation" has left in its wake, loss of ecosystems and increased poverty levels especially among peasant farmers who depend solely on environmental resources for a living.
What benefits will result from the formalisation of small
What benefits will result from the formalisation of small-scale mining (SSM)? Interview with Sulemanu Koney . 01/02/2018. Reading Time: 2min read . 0. SHARES. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on WhatsApp. SULEMANU KONEY: The SSM segment is an important source of employment for a significant proportion of the local work force. With respect to employment statistics, the Minerals
Working with small-scale miners brings benefits
Working with small-scale miners brings benefits From Laura Kelly, Director of Sustainable Markets, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London WC1, UK
The Benefits Of Banning Small-Scale Gold Mining And
The Benefits Of Banning Small-Scale Gold Mining And Halting The Export Of All Unrefined Gold From Ghana. By Kofi Thompson. LISTEN AUG 1, 2017 John Peter Amewu. Future generations of Ghanaians will forever be grateful to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and his able minister for lands and natural resources, the dynamic Hon. John Peter Amewu. Without a shadow of doubt both men will be
Though these important socio‐economic contributions make small‐scale mining an indispensable economic activity, there is an obvious need for improved sustainability in the industry, more specifically, for operations to resolve pressing problems, many of which have wide‐ranging impacts. However, because most small‐scale mines are low‐tech and employ poorly trained uneducated people
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The economic contributions of artisanal and small-scale
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities have been a significant source of employment for Kenyans, playing a critical role in poverty reduction and rural development. Even so, limited data and information has been available concerning the current and potential economic development opportunity that the small-scale mining sector represents.
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I can create a database backup.
I am logged in as the administrator. Originally when I installed Magento with an installer I went with the suggested installation folder magento2/. I wanted the installation in the root so later moved it to the root. I did see later that 2 cron jobs were set up referencing this now deleted folder. I edited the target url and fixed that. I am wondering if the renaming has caused an issue with permissions. (I am assuming the permissions error is a server issue).
Hi, I've ran into the same issue while back. Although it started bit differently and I am running Ubuntu I had the same message pop up at some point.
You can check out this topic: Magento backup problem perhaphs you have something set wrong and you will find answer there. However, it didn't really help me. To fix my problem I had to change file permission which is not a recommended solution to any problem.
I have used this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3740152/how-do-i-change-permissions-for-a-folder-and-all-of-its-subfolders-and-files-in to change files and directories permissions to 664 and 775 respectively only in magento root directory. As I mentioned it is not recommended but it helped me in a short run.
Sounds like it's either an Owner or Permissions issue. My var/backups folder is set to '770' which grants both Read and Write Permissions to both the magento user and www-data.
You may also need to verify that your backups folder has the correct ownership. So, for example if you ever created that file as root user then neither your magento user or www-data user would be able to write to the folder regardless or whether it was set to 770 or not.
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I've set the permissions for var/backups/ to 770.
Running 'ls -la var/' gives me the cPanel username as both the Owner and Group. Is this correct?
Cool. I think that Owner/Group might be right, but I have no way of knowing as your setup is unique to you. So assuming that your Owner/Group is "bob" and that's the user you're also logged in as, then running crontab -l should produce similar results as what I mentioned before.
Then in theory you should be good to go.
I have been away so sorry for late reply. The error still persists but have moved the development site from our unmanaged OVH server to a managed VPS with Fastcomet. I am going to get these guys to sort it Hopefully it serves as a good indicator of what they can do. Just bedding it in and their support response has been very fast.
Sure, no problem. If you find out, let me know what the issue was after they fix it for you.
This is a bit embarrassing and a mystery, thus even more embarassing.
"The warning occured due to the .htaccess file inside the /app/etc folder was missing, thus I added the .htaccess file with the correct rules which deny public access.
Once I completed the above the warning was removed,"
Ha At least it was a nice easy fix. Thanks for keeping us posted.


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John Legend and Chrissy Teigen are one of Hollywood's most beloved couples. They are cute, quirky and — especially when it comes to parenting — amazingly honest. Teigen has spoken out about parent problems from multitasking and mommy-shaming to her postpartum insecurities. But on Friday, it was Legend who had something to say on the matter. In an interview with People, Legend admitted he (*gasp!*) changes diapers, surprising exactly no one. In fact, Legend told People he and Teigen have a pretty even split when it comes to all aspects of parenting duties — whether or not they involve baby poop.
He continued, "Just do it" — and he's right. Diapers may seem intimidating, but they don't require a college degree — nor do they require a mother's touch.
That said, despite the fact that it is 2019, some dads still do not get down on diaper duty. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, Russell Brand admitted he won't go anywhere near his little girls' nethers — nor will he do much of anything parenting-wise. "Laura does all of it," Brand told the Sunday Times. Yeah, that method probably wouldn't work for most — and it sure as hell wouldn't fly in this here mama's house.
As for Legend, the reason he spoke about the seemingly benign issue wasn't because he wanted an award or praise. He is simply gearing up for his Super Bowl debut. Legend will star in a Pampers commercial this Sunday, and he may even sing his now-famous "Stinky Booty Song"!
As for all you parents who haven't changed a diaper: Do yourself (and everyone else) a favor and heed Legend's advice. "Just do it." Because poop is poop is poop.


Australia has a feral cat problem. Not only do feral cats kill one million native birds every night, but they've caused the extinction of 20 native species. No matter how much people may like cats, they don't like feral cats wrecking the wildlife.
That's why Australia has created the largest cat-proof fence and that's also why Sydney philanthropists Andrew and Jane Clifford have pledged to match every donation made to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy up to $1m, hoping to create a $2m fund to eradicate Australia's cat plague.
The goal is to create a large, cat-free sanctuary so native species can thrive once more. Cats may be cuddle, but keep them inside so they don't kill birds, especially in Australia.
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San Gimignano began life as an Etruscan settlement sometime during the 3rd century BC. Its hilltop location overlooking the Elsa Valley had obvious strategic advantages for its earliest inhabitants in history.
By the 10th century AD, San Gimignano had grown into a town. Its name is derived from that of a 4th-century bishop of Modena, who was known as St. Geminianus. He is believed to have bravely defended the town from a Barbarian invasion.
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During the Middle Ages, San Gimignano grew both in size and wealth. Defensive walls were built to enclose the town. One of the reasons for such growth was its proximity to the Via Francigena, which had already become an important pilgrimage and trading route. In the middle of the 12th century, the Duomo was consecrated.
In 1199, San Gimignano became a free municipality and freed itself from the powerful Volterra bishops, who boasted a long-established hold over the town. However, during the 13th century, the town was torn apart by internal rivalries between the Ardinghelli family, who supported the Guelph faction, and the Salvucci family, who were of the Ghibelline persuasion.
It is recorded that in the spring of 1300, Tuscany's Ambassador of the Guelph League visited the town. Despite such struggles, however, San Gimignano was surprisingly successful at this point in its history. Economically speaking, it flourished. The fact that there were some 70 towers in the town at this time is a sign of its wealth.
In the mid-14th century, San Gimignano suffered terribly from the outbreak of the Black Death, a plague which killed many of its inhabitants. It may have been this crisis that led to the town's eventual submission to Florence in 1353. In the years that followed, San Gimignano managed to halt its decline and recover some of its former cultural importance.
Florentine power over the town lasted until the mid-16th century. After the fall of the Medicis, San Gimignano fell under the control of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. In the early 19th century, Napoleon placed the duchy's government in the hands of his sister, Elisa Bonaparte.
During the 19th century, San Gimignano started to become recognised as a tourist destination, thanks to its well-preserved historic architecture and art treasures. Indeed, 14 towers have managed to be preserved to this day.
As the 'city of beautiful towers', San Gimignano was awarded World Heritage Site status in 1990. In 1996, the Teatro dei Leggieri was restored and has become a popular place to listen to concerts and opera recitals. More recently, 'Tea with Mussolini' was filmed right here in the town, telling the story of English and American women at the time of World War Two in Italy.
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On the flight to Paris, I watched a documentary called HUMAN that I hadn't so much as heard of. This isn't a total shock since I watch roughly 2 movies a year, but this kind of thing is more or less my precise cup of tea- how could I not know about it? I'm now left wondering if this was a big cultural thing that happened with its own moment and what not, and whether you have all already seen it?!?
I am one man among seven billion others. For the past 40 years, I have been photographing our planet and its human diversity, and I have the feeling that humanity is not making any progress. We can't always manage to live together. Why is that? I didn't look for an answer in statistics or analysis, but in man himself.
If you have seen it, let's discuss immediately (in the comments section below). If not, I could not recommend a better way to detox from the events that have unfolded over the last 20 days (yes, I'm counting and yes, IT'S ONLY BEEN 20 DAYS). Maybe wait for President Trump's next executive order, Betsy DeVos' official first day (maybe that was yesterday?), or don't wait at all and just watch on basically any run of the mill day in the new administration in which it appears that we human beings have lost any sense of a shared humanity. Luckily, there's a web version available on YouTube (links below) in three volumes, so this affirmation of the beauty of the human spirit is just a click away.


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    def self.check(android_env)
      return if Helper.test?

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    end

    def self.check_adb(android_env)
      android_home = android_env.android_home
      adb_path = android_env.adb_path

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    def self.raise_missing_adb(android_home)
      if android_home
        UI.error "The `adb` command could not be found relative to your provided ANDROID_HOME at #{android_home}"
        UI.error "Please ensure that the Android SDK is installed and the platform-tools directory is present"
      else
        UI.error 'The `adb` command could not be found on your PATH'
        UI.error 'Please ensure that the Android SDK is installed and the platform-tools directory is present and on your PATH'
      end

      UI.user_error!('adb command not found')
    end

    def self.check_aapt(android_env)
      android_home = android_env.android_home
      aapt_path = android_env.aapt_path

      warn_if_command_path_not_relative_to_android_home('aapt', android_home, aapt_path)
      # aapt is not required in order to function, so we'll only warn if we can't find it.
      warn_missing_aapt(android_home) unless aapt_path
    end

    def self.warn_missing_aapt(android_home)
      if android_home
        UI.important "The `aapt` command could not be found relative to your provided ANDROID_HOME at #{android_home}"
        UI.important "Please ensure that the Android SDK is installed and you have the build tools downloaded"
      else
        UI.important "The `aapt` command could not be found on your PATH"
        UI.important "Please ensure that the Android SDK is installed and you have the build tools downloaded and present on your PATH"
      end
    end

    def self.warn_if_command_path_not_relative_to_android_home(cmd_name, android_home, cmd_path)
      if android_home && cmd_path && !cmd_path.start_with?(android_home)
        UI.important "Using `#{cmd_name}` found at #{cmd_path} which is not within the specified ANDROID_HOME at #{android_home}"
      end
    end
  end
end

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Now, twenty-something Jessica has a successful career, loving boyfriend, Nick, and a keen eye on her dream home.
Now, twenty-something Jessie is stuck in a job with no prospects, with an unreliable boyfriend, Chris; her dreams never fulfilled.
Can Jessie gain the confidence to get her life back on track? And will Jessica lose everything she cares about because of one stupid mistake?
Whichever decision Jessica's dad makes, the same people are destined to come into her life, sometimes in delightfully different ways. And before they can look forward to the future, they will all have to deal with the mistakes of the past.
Another page turner from the No.1 bestselling author of Doesn't Everyone Have a Secret?
Love Them and Leave Them is the second novel from Sue Shepherd and I confess it has been sitting waiting to be read for quite some time (apologies Sue!). I have to start by saying that, for me, the title of this book gives the impression that it is about something entirely different. Part of the delay in me getting around to reading this book may be down to the title. Being terrible at reading and remembering blurbs, I had the impression that this was a book about someone's love life – a love life in which a person finds it difficult to commit. I was so wrong and there is so much more to Love Them and Leave Them than the title initially suggests.
Jessica/Jessie's dad makes a split-second decision that changes his life and the life of his family members forever. The result of this decision is what provides the story for Love Them and Leave Them as we simultaneously follow Jessica/Jessie at the point that her father makes this decision. The two very different paths that Jessica/Jessie's life takes shows how one seemingly innocuous decision can alter the life course of so many people and I adored this. It really had me thinking about the decisions I had made throughout the course of my life and wonder 'what if?' We all have those moments when we reflect on our lives and Shepherd has captured this wonderfully.
The two different storylines mean that Love Them and Leave Them could easily become confusing but Shepherd manages to pull it off without the use of separate chapter headings. There were moments when I picked the book up after a break and I would be confused however I was quickly able to establish which thread I was following and that for someone with a memory as appalling as mine is saying something! I have huge admiration for Shepherd for her ability to manage the two threads and ensure the story flowed and that both gelled together despite being different storylines. I imagine she must have had a copious amount of notes while writing this book.
Love Them and Leave Them is funny at times, sad at times but always heart-warming and the characters ensure that you want to keep on reading to discover what will happen to them. I became fully invested in the lives of Jessica/Jessie and her family and friends during the time it took me to read this book.
On finishing the book I now get that the title refers to Jessica/Jessie's dad and the different outcomes of that initial split decision and it seems apt. I just hope it doesn't put people off reading it due to assumptions that it refers to something entirely different as within the pages of Love Them and Leave Them is a wonderfully constructed tale about life, fate and consequences.
Love Them and Leave Them was published on 27 September 2016 by Corazon Books.
A huge thank you to Sue Shepherd for the copy in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.


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How Much the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Cost to Build
Ballpark Estimate: $8 Billion (1997 dollars)
OIL – needed in enormous quantities by both the industrial as well as the rapidly developing third-world countries, it is a commodity that significantly influences the economy of many major governments. For this reason, when Atlantic Richfield and Humble Oil (now Exxon) announced the presence of oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in 1968, the largest oil field in North America and the eighteenth largest in the world, the U.S. Government took notice. Extracting the oil from the frozen and pristine wilderness would be a major engineering feat, but transporting it to the refineries was another matter of serious concern. Following a number of surveys the only reasonable and cost-effective means for transporting the crude oil from Prudhoe Bay to the closest seaport was determined to be by pipeline.
Building the Pipeline
Consequently, in 1973 President Richard Nixon approved the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline which was built and is managed by a consortium of seven oil companies holding exploration rights under the name Alyeska Pipeline Service. These companies include BP (47%), ConocoPhillips (28%), and Exxon Mobil (20%). Taking 3 years to complete, the 48-inch diameter pipeline was open for business in 1977.
800 Miles of Steel
The long steel pipeline zigzags across the frozen tundra for 800 miles. It stretches from Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope, to the northernmost ice-free port at Valdez, Alaska, on Prince William Sound. Along the way, it must travel over three mountain ranges, cross more than 500 rivers and streams, over three unstable earthquakes faults, and through the migration paths of the caribou and moose.
Designed to Withstand Earthquakes
The pipeline was purposely built in a zigzag configuration to allow the pipe to move more easily from side to side and lengthwise in cases of earthquakes or temperature-related fluctuations. The effectiveness of this design was proven in 2002 when the pipeline survived a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Where it runs over fault lines, the pipeline rests on perpendicular so-called "slider supports", long rails which will allow the pipeline to slide with the ground movement. Four hundred and twenty miles of the pipeline was built above ground because of the unstable soil conditions from the thaw sensitive permafrost and 380 miles below ground. To keep the oil flowing, there are eleven pumping stations along the length of the pipeline, each containing four pumps. Of these 44 pumps, however, only around 28 are operating at any one time.
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As one can imagine, the cost for this marvel of engineering was quite significant. The total price tag includes such items as the $2.2 Million for the archaeological survey and the $1.4 Billion for the Valdez terminal. Also included are the pump stations, 13 bridges, 225 access roads, the three "pig" launching/receiving facilities, over 100,000 lengths of 40 ft. pipe, 14 temporary airfields, and the some 70,000 salaries for the total number of employees over the life of the construction project.
The approximate cost as of 1997 to build the Alaskan Pipeline was $8 billion (does not include interest and post-1997 construction).
Don't Melt the Permafrost
One of the most significant innovations built into the system are heat exchangers. Since the temperature of the oil flowing through the pipe can reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the heat could be transferred from the pipe through the specially designed supports and could melt the permafrost. This would cause the pipeline to sink into the melted permafrost causing catastrophic damage and spillage. To prevent this scenario, heat exchangers were placed on top of the pipes. The heat is transferred from the base through pipes containing ammonia to the heat exchangers which are then is cooled by convection to the surrounding air.
Monitoring the Pipeline for Spills
Monitoring of the pipeline is accomplished by several methods. Aerial surveillance is performed several times a day, a task that can take two hours or more. Another is by sending inspection gauges, called "pigs" through the line on a regular basis which can relay radar scans and fluid measurements back to the launching facility as they travel within the line.
Although impervious to gunshots and despite the many safeguards in place, the steel pipeline is vulnerable to forest fires and terrorist attacks, domestic or otherwise. One such case in 1978 resulted in a loss of 16,000 barrels from an explosive device planted at the pipeline outside Fairbanks. Nevertheless, losses from the pipeline do occur from time to time, 1991 to 1994 being the worse when there were 164 minor spills.
Total Production
The total production since June 1977 is reported to be well in excess of 500 Billion barrels. (One barrel = 42 gallons). Although the best production year was 1988 when 744,107,855 barrels of crude was shipped, since then the yearly yield has steadily declined to a low of only 270,161,990 barrels in 2007. Nevertheless, the importance of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline cannot be overstated. With nearly 40 million gallons of crude flowing through its line each day, and with more still hidden under ground, the United States can look to Alaska to provide this necessary commodity in the future.
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Katie McEntire Wiatt was a 4th grade teacher that had an "aha" moment when she heard one of her student's say that she was one of those girls that wasn't very good at math. Katie had heard the same thing when she was in elementary school. That statement served as a catalyst for her to do something about the gap in confidence young female students felt compared to their male counterparts in the classroom, especially in relation to STEM subjects.
About that same time, Katie saw Patty Wagstaff and other female aerobatic pilots perform. It had a profound effect on her, and it was at that moment, she decided that aviation, with its diverse opportunities in everything from engineering to aerobatics, would be an excellent vehicle to tell the story. Now a few years later, she finds herself closing in on making her feature-length directorial debut with the documentary, "Fly Like a Girl."
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For the first time in my life, the phrase "lost in translation" has manifested itself. Fleshy, real, and complex. Interestingly enough, translation has never been a problem for the past 25 years of my life, despite me being multi-lingual. My language used to be Russian, but at some point its throne got fully occupied by English. The two rarely interact. What I can express in Russian I can express in English, but the converse is frequently not true. Having learned the language of teenage rebellion, of science, of depression, of (still in progress) maturity, in English – this language has organically become my mode of communication.
I never actively tried to bring my Russian to the level of English because I never had to. In Russian, I am still a child. Though aware of this gap, I never fully understood the complexity of translation because I assumed my gap to be that of vocabulary. I was wrong.
What does it mean for a translation to be accurate? If I preserve the vocabulary and the sentence structure of the original piece, then in some cases the translated version stops sounding like the original author. Even though it's the original author who translated from French into English in the first place. What a conundrum.
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These are such good questions. I don't have any answers, but I love being encouraged to think about this subject. I wonder: what does it mean to you for an author to "sound" the same in French and in English? I don't know that I've ever come across a translation that I would say sounds like the original. The core meaning may get through, and some measure of the author's facility with language, but how could the sound, or even the voice, of the author be similar in both languages?
Your post made me go back and reread one of my favorites of Nancy Huston's many works: Nord Perdu. There she writes, "Rilke en allemande, Rilke en français : deux poètes différents. Ou Tsvetaieva, en russe et en français. Si Beckett avait opté pour le serbo-croate, aurait-il écrit Fin de partie et Oh ! les beaux jours ? Quel genre de roman aurait inventé Conrad s'il n'avait pas renoncé au polonais ? Et pourquoi Kundera a-t-il perdu son sens d'humour en abandonnant le tchèque ? Ainsi de suite… Qui sommes-nous, alors ? si nous n'avons pas les mêmes pensées, fantasmes, attitudes existentielles, voire opinions, dans une langue et dans une autre ?" I remember my own disappointment upon reading Nancy Huston for the first time in English translation. She was someone…else. Not the writer I knew and loved. And I am not sure there is any translation that could have conveyed the writer she was to me in French.
I fully agree with you. I am starting to think that translation is more of a stand-alone work of art that is inspired by the piece as opposed to one that exactly represents it.


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import numpy as np
import pytest

from pandas.errors import NumbaUtilError
import pandas.util._test_decorators as td

from pandas import DataFrame, NamedAgg, option_context
import pandas._testing as tm
from pandas.core.util.numba_ import NUMBA_FUNC_CACHE

@td.skip_if_no("numba", "0.46.0")
def test_correct_function_signature():
    def incorrect_function(x):
        return sum(x) * 2.7

    data = DataFrame(
        {"key": ["a", "a", "b", "b", "a"], "data": [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]},
        columns=["key", "data"],
    )
    with pytest.raises(NumbaUtilError, match="The first 2"):
        data.groupby("key").agg(incorrect_function, engine="numba")

    with pytest.raises(NumbaUtilError, match="The first 2"):
        data.groupby("key")["data"].agg(incorrect_function, engine="numba")

@td.skip_if_no("numba", "0.46.0")
def test_check_nopython_kwargs():
    def incorrect_function(x, **kwargs):
        return sum(x) * 2.7

    data = DataFrame(
        {"key": ["a", "a", "b", "b", "a"], "data": [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]},
        columns=["key", "data"],
    )
    with pytest.raises(NumbaUtilError, match="numba does not support"):
        data.groupby("key").agg(incorrect_function, engine="numba", a=1)

    with pytest.raises(NumbaUtilError, match="numba does not support"):
        data.groupby("key")["data"].agg(incorrect_function, engine="numba", a=1)

@td.skip_if_no("numba", "0.46.0")
@pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:\\nThe keyword argument")
# Filter warnings when parallel=True and the function can't be parallelized by Numba
@pytest.mark.parametrize("jit", [True, False])
@pytest.mark.parametrize("pandas_obj", ["Series", "DataFrame"])
def test_numba_vs_cython(jit, pandas_obj, nogil, parallel, nopython):
    def func_numba(values, index):
        return np.mean(values) * 2.7

    if jit:
        # Test accepted jitted functions
        import numba

        func_numba = numba.jit(func_numba)

    data = DataFrame(
        {0: ["a", "a", "b", "b", "a"], 1: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]}, columns=[0, 1]
    )
    engine_kwargs = {"nogil": nogil, "parallel": parallel, "nopython": nopython}
    grouped = data.groupby(0)
    if pandas_obj == "Series":
        grouped = grouped[1]

    result = grouped.agg(func_numba, engine="numba", engine_kwargs=engine_kwargs)
    expected = grouped.agg(lambda x: np.mean(x) * 2.7, engine="cython")

    tm.assert_equal(result, expected)

@td.skip_if_no("numba", "0.46.0")
@pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:\\nThe keyword argument")
# Filter warnings when parallel=True and the function can't be parallelized by Numba
@pytest.mark.parametrize("jit", [True, False])
@pytest.mark.parametrize("pandas_obj", ["Series", "DataFrame"])
def test_cache(jit, pandas_obj, nogil, parallel, nopython):
    # Test that the functions are cached correctly if we switch functions
    def func_1(values, index):
        return np.mean(values) - 3.4

    def func_2(values, index):
        return np.mean(values) * 2.7

    if jit:
        import numba

        func_1 = numba.jit(func_1)
        func_2 = numba.jit(func_2)

    data = DataFrame(
        {0: ["a", "a", "b", "b", "a"], 1: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]}, columns=[0, 1]
    )
    engine_kwargs = {"nogil": nogil, "parallel": parallel, "nopython": nopython}
    grouped = data.groupby(0)
    if pandas_obj == "Series":
        grouped = grouped[1]

    result = grouped.agg(func_1, engine="numba", engine_kwargs=engine_kwargs)
    expected = grouped.agg(lambda x: np.mean(x) - 3.4, engine="cython")
    tm.assert_equal(result, expected)
    # func_1 should be in the cache now
    assert (func_1, "groupby_agg") in NUMBA_FUNC_CACHE

    # Add func_2 to the cache
    result = grouped.agg(func_2, engine="numba", engine_kwargs=engine_kwargs)
    expected = grouped.agg(lambda x: np.mean(x) * 2.7, engine="cython")
    tm.assert_equal(result, expected)
    assert (func_2, "groupby_agg") in NUMBA_FUNC_CACHE

    # Retest func_1 which should use the cache
    result = grouped.agg(func_1, engine="numba", engine_kwargs=engine_kwargs)
    expected = grouped.agg(lambda x: np.mean(x) - 3.4, engine="cython")
    tm.assert_equal(result, expected)

@td.skip_if_no("numba", "0.46.0")
def test_use_global_config():
    def func_1(values, index):
        return np.mean(values) - 3.4

    data = DataFrame(
        {0: ["a", "a", "b", "b", "a"], 1: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]}, columns=[0, 1]
    )
    grouped = data.groupby(0)
    expected = grouped.agg(func_1, engine="numba")
    with option_context("compute.use_numba", True):
        result = grouped.agg(func_1, engine=None)
    tm.assert_frame_equal(expected, result)

@td.skip_if_no("numba", "0.46.0")
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
    "agg_func",
    [
        ["min", "max"],
        "min",
        {"B": ["min", "max"], "C": "sum"},
        NamedAgg(column="B", aggfunc="min"),
    ],
)
def test_multifunc_notimplimented(agg_func):
    data = DataFrame(
        {0: ["a", "a", "b", "b", "a"], 1: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]}, columns=[0, 1]
    )
    grouped = data.groupby(0)
    with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError, match="Numba engine can"):
        grouped.agg(agg_func, engine="numba")

    with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError, match="Numba engine can"):
        grouped[1].agg(agg_func, engine="numba")


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Q: BS4 Cards in React with reactstrap? Couple of question on using cards within React.
First, based on the below code, why does these 4 cards not sit next to one another? Did I forget to apply something or another?
import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Container, Card, CardText, CardImg, CardBody, CardLink,
  CardTitle, Button, Col, Row } from 'reactstrap';

class Users extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <Container>
          <Row>
            <Col>
              <Card>
              <CardImg top width="25%" src="https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=318%C3%97180&w=318&h=180" alt="Card image cap" />
              <CardBody>
                <CardTitle>Need Help Finding Customers?</CardTitle>
                <CardText>Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.</CardText>
                <Button>Button</Button>
              </CardBody>
              </Card>
            </Col>
            <Col>
              <Card>
              <CardImg top width="25%" src="https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=318%C3%97180&w=318&h=180" alt="Card image cap" />
              <CardBody>
                <CardTitle>Get help with a Moneyball activity!</CardTitle>
                <CardText>Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.</CardText>
                <Button>Button</Button>
              </CardBody>
              </Card>
            </Col>
            <Col>
              <Card>
              <CardImg top width="25%" src="https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=318%C3%97180&w=318&h=180" alt="Card image cap" />
              <CardBody>
                <CardTitle>Request Moneyball in-person training</CardTitle>
                <CardText>Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.</CardText>
                <Button>Button</Button>
              </CardBody>
              </Card>
            </Col>
            <Col>
              <Card>
              <CardImg top width="25%" src="https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=33&txt=318%C3%97180&w=318&h=180" alt="Card image cap" />
              <CardBody>
                <CardTitle>Register for an Immerse Event</CardTitle>
                <CardText>Some quick example text to build on the card title and make up the bulk of the card's content.</CardText>
                <Button>Button</Button>
              </CardBody>
              </Card>
            </Col>
          </Row>
        </Container>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default Users;

What I am getting is this:

Additionally, going by examples I see on the web, I like the concept of cards, but would prefer to make the entire card like a large button. Within React, what is some best practices with this?
Thanks much.

A: The elements for the 'grid' system (Container, Row, Col) seem to be missing from reactstrap's docs, but taking a quick look at the code for the Col component I'd say you need to add a property for the desired size.
Something like this:
<Col lg="2">

for the 'col-lg-2' bootstrap class, or
<Col sm="true">

for the 'col-sm' class, without number.