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HUFFPOLLSTER: Why Did Eric Cantor's Polling Get It So Wrong?
Mark Blumenthal
Head of Election Polling at SurveyMonkey
Ariel Edwards-Levy
Senior Reporter and Polling Editor, HuffPost
Jun 11, 2014, 05:58 PM EDT | Updated Jun 16, 2014
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., speaks at a news conference about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Hopes for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" that threatens the U.S. economy fell Friday after fighting among congressional Republicans cast doubt on whether any deal reached with President Barack Obama could win approval ahead of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts kick in Jan. 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
We take a closer look at why two partisan polls missed Eric Cantor's surprise defeat. Economic optimism is growing. And New Yorkers are divided on ferrets. This is HuffPollster for Wednesday, June 11, 2014.
WHAT HAPPENED IN VA-07? - No one saw it coming. You see that phrase often in the news coverage of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) upset loss to tea party candidate Dave Brat. One big source of the surprise was that two polls conducted in the final weeks before the election gave Cantor double-digit leads. When the votes were counted, however, Brat defeated Cantor by an 11 percentage point margin (56 to 45 percent).
Early polls showed Cantor far ahead - An internal Cantor campaign poll of 400 likely Republican primary voters conducted two weeks before the election (May 27 to 28) by John McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates gave Cantor a 34 percentage point lead (62 to 28 percent), with 11 percent undecided. A second survey conducted for The Daily Caller a week later (June 2) among 583 likely Republican primary voters by the GOP firm Vox Populi Polling showed a much closer race, but still had Cantor leading by 11 percentage points (52 to 40 percent) with 9 percent undecided. [WashPost, Daily Caller]
Don't trust 'internal' polls? - That's a lesson some take away. Harry Enten: "This race is another example of why you shouldn't trust the internal polls put out by candidates...I've written about the bias of internal surveys released to the public. We should assume that internal polls are biased and misleading — unless we have a good reason to think otherwise. In this case, we knew what we were getting with Cantor's polling firm, McLaughlin & Associates. As demonstrated by Daily Kos Elections, McLaughlin has gotten many races wrong in the past two years. In Virginia, it had Mitt Romney and U.S. Senate hopeful George Allen winning their 2012 races easily. Both Republicans lost by a significant margin." [538, McLaughlin's track record via Daily Kos Elections
...but evidence the campaign believed them too - Enten's advice to be wary of publicly released surveys sponsored by campaigns and political parties is warranted, given the way their selective release creates statistical bias favoring the sponsoring party. Yet polls with partisan sponsorship have shown little collective bias in the Republican primaries so far this year, and some accounts suggest that Cantor's campaign believed their big lead in the McLaughlin poll foretold victory. "Cantor's friends are FURIOUS," The Washington Post's Robert Costa reported via Twitter. "[They] said he was told by consultants that he was up 20-30 points, didn't need to worry..." Similarly, an unnamed Republican consultant from Virginia told Roll Call that the Cantor campaign misread an unexpectedly high turnout as good news on election day, since "the models that they had indicated a higher turnout was going to be better for them. They completely missed it." [HuffPollster, @costareports, Roll Call]
Was methodology an issue? - Both the McLaughlin and Vox Pop poll drew their samples from official lists of registered voters, randomly selecting voters with prior histories of voting in Republican primaries to be called. The McLaughlin poll used live interviewers while the Vox Pop poll used an automated, recorded voice methodology. Beyond that, McLaughlin & Associates has disclosed little about their methodology. The automated Vox Pop poll did not attempt to identify the selected voter in each household, instead interviewing the person that answered the phone and using a screen question to toss out any that said they were not registered to vote. As such, the Vox Pop poll may have inadvertently included many voters with little or no prior history of voting in Republican primaries (11 percent said they were "probably not voting" in the primary, 30 percent identified as independents, 5 percent as Democrats). [Daily Caller]
McLaughlin 'tries to explain': Shane Goldmacher: "In an email to National Journal, McLaughlin, whose firm has been paid nearly $75,000 by Cantor's campaign since 2013, offered several explanations: unexpectedly high turnout, last-minute Democratic meddling, and stinging late attacks on amnesty and immigration. 'Primary turnout was 45,000 2 years ago,' McLaughlin wrote. 'This time 65,000. This was an almost 50% increase in turnout.' Translation: McLaughlin's estimate of who was a 'likely Republican' voter was way, way off the mark. But Cantor's total number of votes still shrunk, even as the total number of primary voters went up dramatically in 2014. He secured 37,369 primary votes in 2012 and less than 29,000 this year, with 100 percent of precincts reporting." [National Journal]
Democratic meddling? Dan Balz has more on McLaughlin's theory: "In an interview, McLaughlin said the size of the turnout suggested that many Democrats and others who haven't voted in previous primaries had shown up on Tuesday. 'We won't know until they produce the list of who actually voted,' he said. 'Chances are a lot of them didn't have a history of voting in Republican primaries.' He said in his polling, Cantor was winning Republicans by a margin of about seven to two. Among non-Republicans, Cantor was ahead 46-40 percent. 'Because we were surveying off lists of past primary voters, there were very few Democrats in that,' he said. Asked whether he and others in the campaign had anticipated such a surge in turnout, McLaughlin said, 'Polls don't predict turnout. You're trying to make assumptions of who usually votes… Here Eric got hit from the left and the right and it created a large turnout.'" [WashPost]
Or just Brat winning over independents? Vox Populi pollster Brent Seaborn, in an email to HuffPollster: "Based off of previous primaries in Virginia's Seventh District, it appears there was an 'Operation Chaos' type scenario where Brat successfully mobilized thousands of traditionally non-primary voters. There were 18,000 more votes cast on Tuesday than in 2012. And anti-establishment, anti-incumbent independents saw an opportunity to make a statement."
But no weak evidence for Democratic interference - Scott Clement: "[T]he data cast doubt on whether Democratic cross-over voting caused Cantor's loss...If Democrats showed up in large numbers to vote against Cantor, turnout should have spiked highest from 2012 in Democratic-leaning areas, with Cantor seeing an especially large drop-off in support. In fact, turnout rose slightly more in counties that voted more heavily for Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. Likewise, Cantor saw the biggest drop-off in support in Republican strongholds...Turnout expert Michael McDonald of the United States Elections Project found similar results analyzing precinct-level data Tuesday night, reporting GOP primary turnout was lowest in the most Democratic-leaning areas of the state. [WashPost]
Weak evidence Ds swung VA-7. Highest D precs have lowest total votes (not all localities in VA-7, but highest D incl) pic.twitter.com/iqxWgwFKkj
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) June 11, 2014
What about timing? - The McLaughlin poll was conducted two weeks prior to the election, while the Vox Pop poll was fielded one week out. Vox Pop's Seaborn: "We believe that David Brat was able to close gap pretty significantly over the last week of the campaign. Undecided voters likely broke heavily Brat's way plus the enthusiasm and momentum were on his side for turnout. Our poll of past Republican primary voters, a little more than a week before the election, showed Cantor facing the toughest race he has ever seen. We also had him losing with independents and Democrats to Brat. It is likely that those individuals could have turned out to vote on Tuesday for Brat. It will be interesting to see how many new Republican primary voters turned out in this election."
Did you vote in the VA-7 primary? We want to hear from you -- drop us a note at pollster@huffingtonpost.com.
A dispatch from @PollSonnets:
Internals showed the leader far ahead,
And though much closer one poll found the race
None predicted that lead to turn to shreds
And egg to dwell upon many a face.
Victim of the upset of the season:
Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
The polls were wrong, what might be the reason?
Perhaps the work of some dark enchanter.
Maybe immigration made some wary.
Could be, too, crossover votes took a hit.
Then there's risk in many a primary:
Failure to project the electorate.
But one thing's clear now to all our readers,
Republicans need a new House leader
OBAMA APPROVAL REMAINS IN MID-40S - Julianna Goldman: "President Barack Obama's favorability ratings hit the lowest point of his presidency in a Bloomberg National Poll, with just 44 percent of Americans saying they have positive feelings about him. That drop in personal popularity has become a broader drag on the public's perception of his performance in office. Obama, already given poor marks on the economy and health care, also gets low ratings on two recent political firestorms: the management of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the deal that freed the last U.S. prisoner of war in Afghanistan, according to the poll. His job-approval rating fell to 43 percent -- near the level at the end of 2013 after the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, his signature health-care law." [Bloomberg]
ECONOMIC OPTIMISM GROWS - Steve Liesman: "After seven long years of sharp recession and tepid recovery, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey found some key measures of U.S. public opinion finally regained their precrisis levels. Ninety-one percent of Americans now believe their home prices will either be stable or rise over the next year, the highest since March 2007. And for the first time in three years, Americans picked real estate ahead of gold as the best investment. Respondents also said they will spend about as much on a summer vacation as they did before the recession, following a sharp drop during the financial crisis." [CNBC]
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WEDNESDAY'S 'OUTLIERS' - Links to the best of news at the intersection of polling, politics and political data:
-St. Leo University finds a close race in Florida. [St. Leo]
-Mark Mellman (D) reviews the factors that Senate forecasting models can miss. [Mellman Group]
-New Yorkers are fans of carriage-drawn horses, divided on ferrets. [Quinnipiac]
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misstated the release of the Vox Populi poll as occurring "two weeks out" from Election Day. The poll was fielded on June 2 and published by the Daily Caller on June 6.
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Obituary of Joe D. Oswalt
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Services for Joe D. Oswalt, 85, of Abernathy, TX, will be held at 10:00 am Friday, April 12, 2019, in the Abernathy Church of Christ with Randall Carr, Steve Gauntt and Harold Bufe officiating. Burial will follow in the Abernathy Cemetery under the direction of Abell Funeral Home & Flower Shop of Abernathy. The family will gather to receive friends from 5:00 pm until 6:30 pm Thursday evening, April 11, 2019, at Abell Funeral Home.
Mr. Oswalt died in Abernathy, Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
Joe Doyle Oswalt was born on a farm in South Lubbock, during a sand storm, March 9, 1934, to Doyle J. and Artie (Mitchell) Oswalt. His family moved to Abernathy in December of 1946, where Joe spent the remainder of his life.
Joe farmed and raised cattle in the Abernathy area, owning a tractor before even purchasing his first car. He married Jerry Dell Norris, June 26, 1953 in Abernathy and they were blessed with almost 65 years together when his beloved Jerry preceded him in death on December 31, 2017. Joe was very involved in the Abernathy community. He was active in the Young Farmers Organization during the 1960's, and he and Jerry were honored to be named Abernathy's Outstanding Farm Family in 1995. Joe was known as a supporter of agriculture, local stock shows and the FFA. He was currently serving on the board of directors at First State Bank in Abernathy and was a faithful member of the Abernathy Church of Christ where he had previously served as Decaon and Elder.
He is survived by his 2 children, Cindy Alexander and husband Mack of Lubbock, TX, and Steve Oswalt and wife Lynn of Abernathy, a brother, Jerry Oswalt and wife Claudia of Lubbock, a sister, Sherley Foster and husband Kenneth of Salado, TX. He is also survived by 7 grandchildren, Brad and Carrie Phillips, Bryan and Kate Phillips, Wade and Karen Alexander, Mack and Melanie Alexander, Blake and Holly Oswalt, Clint and Kelly Oswalt and Stephanie and T. J. Thompson, 17 great grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and dear friends.
The family suggests memorials be sent to the Children's Home of Lubbock, P. O. Box 2824, Lubbock, TX 79408.

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Home Digitalisation Business leaders do not trust each others climate claims research shows
Business leaders do not trust each others climate claims research shows
Three quarters of business leaders do not believe their peers' ESG reporting, according to a new study, showing that a lack of industry trust and verifiable data is driving scepticism.
Most business leaders in major industries doubt their peers' Environmental, Social and Governance reporting, according to a new study by Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications.
The findings come from a new global, independent research report Accelerating sustainable action through IoT commissioned by the company. It explores the views of over 1,000 senior technology and ESG decision-makers across agriculture, mining, transport, utilities and oil & gas firms. The survey asked professionals about their perceptions on ESG and whether they believed data provided by 'Internet of Things' (IoT) solutions could help improve reporting transparency.
Respondents also report concerns about their peers' ESG priorities, with 80% saying their competitors are more focused on perception rather than achieving tangible sustainability outcomes.
However, despite scepticism about the motivations of their peers, most business leaders have faith in their own initiatives: with 81% convinced their company is more sustainable than their competitors.
Lack of data driving lack of trust
The results suggest that a lack of verifiable hard data – and the willingness to share it – is undermining trust and slowing progress on business sustainability.
Positively, however, many believe data collected via IoT solutions is critical to building trust (81%) and improving ESG outcomes overall (82%).
Four in five respondents plan to increase their use of IoT solutions over the next 12 months to measure and understand the impact of their sustainability initiatives more accurately. A similar proportion reported they are already seeing return on investment from IoT tools used to improve sustainability (78%).
While the majority (83%) agree they could be doing more to effectively leverage IoT solutions to produce ESG data, engrained resistance to data sharing creates an additional barrier to progress.
Only 47% said they would be comfortable sharing all their ESG data with third parties to improve industry reporting and benchmarking over the next 1-3 years, reinforcing that improving trust will be key to achieving better outcomes.
Satellite connectivity key for IoT
With big data at the heart of IoT effectiveness, nine in ten (91%) agree that satellite connectivity is the key to harnessing the full potential of IoT solutions focused on improving sustainability.
Currently, just over a third of respondents (36%) rely on satellite networks for IoT connectivity. However, satellite is set to become the most popular method of connectivity over the next decade, with half expecting to use it within this timeframe.
IoT-enabled data is not the only way satellite technology can help improve environmental outcomes. Inmarsat's recent 'Can Space Help Save the Planet?' report revealed that the world could reach Net Zero by 2040 – ten years ahead of schedule – by accelerating the adoption of space and satellite technologies.
Networks such as Inmarsat ELERA are central to this, providing ultra-reliable global connectivity which allows data sharing in industries like agriculture, electrical utilities, mining, oil and gas, and transport.
Jat Brainch, Chief Commercial and Product Officer, Inmarsat said: "You cannot manage what you cannot measure, so it is heartening to see so many organisations looking to IoT to assess and improve ESG reporting.
"To demonstrate progress, however, businesses must overcome their reluctance to share useful data and have the confidence to publish meaningful insights. Otherwise, they risk undermining genuine collaboration on sustainability and overshadowing the real progress being made. There is no quick fix, but creating methodical benchmarks based on actionable data, and sharing the results, will play a critical role in re-establishing trustworthy ESG reporting.
"IoT is nothing without connectivity. Yet terrestrial coverage often cannot reach the remote locations where our most valuable data points frequently originate. By using satellites to close that connectivity gap, organisations can access data to make the right decisions right away. We need to make the most of that opportunity if we are to achieve Net Zero quickly."
David Hill, Executive Director, IoT Community, said: "Connected IoT solutions are the key to sourcing, analysing and sharing aggregate ESG data in a compliant and secure way. The same way we use wearable devices to measure our personal health, businesses should rely on IoT solutions more to monitor progress, reduce costs, improve safety and maximise sustainability. Robust data will back up their ESG claims and can be used for reporting across all areas of their operations, particularly in remote locations with challenging conditions.
"To achieve true success, we must shift our mindset with regards to data sharing and connectivity. Once businesses become comfortable sharing their ESG insights to improve broader industry reporting and benchmarking and prioritise satellite connectivity as a key enabler, will we start to see real progress on sustainability."
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Archives|Foreign Affairs; The Fast Eat the Slow
Foreign Affairs; The Fast Eat the Slow
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN FEB. 2, 2001
There's an interesting new trend in the Arab world that is easily detectable from here in Qatar, the small Persian Gulf emirate off the east coast of Saudi Arabia. It's this: Almost all the innovation happening in the Arab world today -- politically, economically and technologically -- is happening in the small states on the periphery, while the least innovation is happening in the big traditional Arab powers -- Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia -- that always dominated this region.
Just go around the crescent: Morocco and Tunisia have taken the lead among Arab states in joining the global economy by forging free-trade agreements with the European Union. Over the next decade both countries will become associate members of the E.U., which will force them to raise their competitiveness in industrial goods and harmonize their laws, standards and regulations with the organization. This will gradually take them out of the Arab world. At the same time, little Jordan just became the first Arab state to sign a a free-trade accord with the U.S.
Qatar's al-Jazeera satellite TV station, which is the freest in the Arab world, has stolen Arab TV audiences from every one of the big powers in the region with its freewheeling debates, uncensored news and, lately, online polling -- which is a total no-no in the Arab world, where people are never asked what they actually think about specific governments or policies. Kuwait's big National Bank of Kuwait is by far the best private bank in the Arab world, and Bahrain's service sector -- lawyering, insurance and consulting -- is the most globally competitive in the region.
Meanwhile, the new Internet City in Dubai, also in the Persian Gulf, has attracted Oracle, Microsoft, I.B.M. and 200 other tech firms for their regional headquarters, because Dubai's combo of low taxes and good governance is so much better than the old power centers of Damascus, Cairo or Baghdad. Where is the World Trade Organization holding its summit next year? In Riyadh? No, in Qatar. Where will the I.M.F. and World Bank hold their 2003 summit? In Damascus? No, in Dubai.
And where are the freest elections? In Jordan, Morocco and in the gulf. Bahrain will hold a referendum on becoming a constitutional monarchy next month, as will Qatar in 2002. In March 1999 Qatar held the first free municipal elections in the region, in which women were allowed to vote and run for office. The only known political prisoner in Qatar is a man jailed for denouncing Qatar's progressive emir, Sheik Hamad, because he let women vote.
By contrast, the big boys -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria -- have been much slower to bring their non-energy industries into the global economy, get wired and reform politically. Why is this? To begin with, globalization. With globalization, the big don't eat the small, the fast eat the slow. And the little Arab countries, many of which are now led by young new kings, can see what's happening in the world and are much quicker to adapt than big bureaucratic countries such as Egypt or police states such as Iraq and Syria.
Second, the farther an Arab state is from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the more its leaders do not have their energies, focus and economies diverted and distorted by it.
Third, many of the smaller Arab states were not cursed with large amounts of oil, so they have had to live more by their wits and by learning to trade with the rest of the world. ''We diversified out of oil early, because we had to,'' said Bahrain's innovative Crown Prince Salman. ''We really concentrated on developing our human capital.''
Fourth, in the Arab world today almost all the small, peripheral states are led by kings who are progressive and relatively close to their people, while the big central states -- Syria, Egypt and Iraq -- are led by army officers who are autocrats and afraid of their people. Generally speaking, the Arab states on the periphery, with their small populations, are also much more open to foreign influences. ''I have 26 different nationalities working for me in Kuwait,'' remarked a Kuwaiti banker. ''That would not be possible in a lot of other Arab countries.''
For decades it was the big, central Arab powers that set the tone for the Arab world and led innovation. But today the region is being led from the outer edges. It's the little guys that are doing the most interesting stuff, and it's the big guys that will be left behind if they don't wake up.
A version of this op-ed appears in print on February 2, 2001, on Page A00019 of the National edition with the headline: Foreign Affairs; The Fast Eat the Slow. Today's Paper|Subscribe


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O NOES teh webz iz infantilizin yr brainz (yes, again)
February 25, 2009 Paul Raven
If you're anything like me, you've probably never heard of Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution. But Lady Greenfield knows all about you, and how your use of social networking sites and computer games is contributing to the ongoing infantilization of the 21st Century psyche:
Arguing that social network sites are putting attention span in jeopardy, she said: "If the young brain is exposed from the outset to a world of fast action and reaction, of instant new screen images flashing up with the press of a key, such rapid interchange might accustom the brain to operate over such timescales. Perhaps when in the real world such responses are not immediately forthcoming, we will see such behaviours and call them attention-deficit disorder.
"It might be helpful to investigate whether the near total submersion of our culture in screen technologies over the last decade might in some way be linked to the threefold increase over this period in prescriptions for methylphenidate, the drug prescribed for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder."
[Emphasis mine – try playing the same game with the whole of Lady Greenfield's output, kids! Should keep your attention for twenty seconds at least.]
Will no one think of the children? God only knows that when a generation grows up with things that its elders didn't have, the fate of the human race is bound to take a turn for the worse. Just look at the pernicious long-term effects of the printing press, the germ theory of medicine, radio and popular music, and (of course) television… [image by jmr_photo]
It's unfortunate that we're so hard-wired for fearing change – no new technology has managed to erase that little character trait yet, it seems. As always, the TechDirt boys do a great job of shredding this week's sensationalist backlash against Twitter:
It's pretty clear that none of these folks have ever really used Twitter — because they all seem to interpret it as being a broadcast mechanism, rather than a conversational one. This isn't to say that Twitter is right for everyone, but most of the people who find value in it, find value in the conversational aspect of it, not that it "broadcasts" mundane facts of their lives. […] There are still plenty of people who hate Twitter, but it's difficult to take seriously people complaining about it when it seems quite clear they've never even bothered to use it.
Quite – now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to post a few naked pictures of myself to Lady Greenfield's MySpace page. LOLZ
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Foreign exchange regulation now allows Argentine residents to enter into derivative transactions with foreign counterparties without the need for Central Bank authorization.
On August 8, 2016, the Argentine Central Bank introduced substantial changes to the foreign exchange regulations by issuing Communiqué A 6037 ("Communiqué 6037"). Communiqué 6037 collected and systematized much of the changes introduced in recent months and also amended the regulations in certain areas. In connection with derivatives, it changed the paradigm from a general rule in which residents could not enter into derivative transactions with foreign counterparties unless they could benefit from an exemption to a general rule in which they do not need such authorization.
Until Communiqué 6037, foreign exchange regulations on derivatives had been governed by Central Bank Communiqué "A" 4805 ("Communiqué 4805"), issued in 2008. Those regulations required that residents needed the Central Bank's prior authorization to enter into derivative transaction with a non-resident, whether or not the resident accessed the foreign exchange market, unless the transaction qualified for an exemption. If the resident were to access the foreign exchange market, additional requirements regarding the counterparty applied.
Derivative transactions that residents could enter with foreign residents without a specific additional authorization from the Central Bank were mainly: i) derivative transactions entered into under Argentine law and cash settled in Pesos in Argentina, and ii) certain hedging transactions mainly related to commodity prices and currency under foreign trade transactions, and hedging of interest rates and currency related to external financing.


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Q: puppet augeas resource only support avalialbe lenses I am automating rhnplugin config file in puppet, below is my manifests
augeas { 'config' :
    lens => 'Simplevars.lns',
    incl => '/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf',
   changes => 'set /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf/test " " '
 }

getting below error
Warning: Augeas[config](provider=augeas): Loading failed for one or more files, see debug for /augeas//error outputeven

I tried with "simplelines lenses" not getting any o/p
I used "simplelines and simplevars" since could not find lenses for rhnplugin.
I treid in augtool and it worked
augtool> set /files/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf/test
augtool> save
Saved 1 file(s)
augtool> set /files/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf/test/enabled 1
augtool> save
Saved 1 file(s)
augtool> print /files/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf/test
/files/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf/test
/files/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf/test/enabled = "1"

My doubt is can't we convert int to augeas resource if the lenses are not available.

A: rhnplugin.conf is not in a simplevars (i.e. key=value) format. It is an inifile. My recommendation would be to use puppet labs' inifile module to modify it.

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Armstrongs' Rita Keevil, was invited by the Law Society of Botswana to meet with the president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Mr R. Santhanakrishnan.
The evening's proceedings included interesting discussions on the synergies within the Commonwealth jurisdictions with Rita describing the evening as "extremely informative". Thank you for extending the invitation LSB.


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Learning disabilities: route into employment spelt out
May 13, 2009 in Adults, Disability
Older and retired people could be recruited to prepare people with learning disabilities to enter jobs, under a forthcoming employment strategy expected next month.
Anne Williams, national co-director for learning disabilities said the strategy would aim to get more people with learning disabilities into work, and widen the range of support available.
More ambition needed
She told Community Care LIVE that the existing workforce supporting people into employment "was not ambitious enough" and that a new approach was needed.
"We must ask whether we have the most appropriate workforce for job coaching and look at recruiting different providers," she said.
Williams said the strategy would be "radical" and aim at a "culture change" in services including schools between 2009 and 2025.
Richard Lawrence, spokesperson and research assistant at Mencap, told delegates that he had not received good advice at his Jobcentre after he left school, ending up with no benefits and nothing to do. "I felt frustrated I didn't get enough support and help," he said.
Benefits tap
Mark Goldring, chief executive of Mencap, called on the government to ensure the employment strategy would address the "benefits trap" and include people with learning disabilities who were not eligible for social services.
He also said it needed to include a "range of alternatives" for those with complex needs who were unable to work.
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Q: Choices: Migrating from Classic ASP to .NET or Migrate to Open-Source Platform My organization has a lot of legacy ASP software on its hands.
Since our perception is that Microsoft has shown a distinct lack of support for its older products, we need to figure out what to migrate to next.
If we migrate to ASP.NET from Classic ASP, It feels like that'd be a 'complete rewrite' "migration".  Since that is probably the case, we're thinking about turning to a free (as in beer and as in speech) platform. I particularly think our investment (in programming effort, I mean) would be better spent with a platform that will let us evolve, rather than forcing us to dump very single line of code every 4 / 5 years.  This is the main argument we've been using to advocate moving towards a 'free' platform.
Currently we're thinking about using a mixture of Java with a dynamic language like JRuby or Groovy.
My questions are: What would be a good migration choice? Are our fears unfounded? Would we (conceivably) need to rewrite a large portion of the codebase after 4 or 5 years anyway?  What arguments do you have for moving to either .NET or to a free platform?

A: We recently migrated a substantial ASP project to ASP.NET and it's definitely possible to do a migration that doesn't become a complete rewrite, preserving a susbstantial proportion of the original code (although we benefited from some fairly well architected code with good separation between the business logic and the presentation layers from the outset).
We looked at two possible routes to the migration:

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*A ground-up rewrite as a 'proper' ASP.NET application making the most of the built-in controls and shifting all of the business and data access layers into classes etc - ie the way we approach a new ASP.NET project.

*A more basic syntactic migration, taking the ASP pages and changing them over to ASP.NET without making too many up-front changes to the structure or logic. Then building on that as we continue to develop the site by making better use of ASP.NET controls, separate classes etc for new and revised functionality.
Due to schedule pressures, we adopted the second route, allowing us to make the switch sooner rather than later and then take a longer-term view on more fundamental changes as part of future developments.
On that basis, for the initial migration we were able to re-use the majority of the existing code, although this is gradually being replaced as we go forward. With an 'average' page having, say, 50-200 lines of HTML and 50-500 lines of VBScript code (as separate functions, not mixed into the HTML spaghetti-style), we found it took about an hour per page to migrate them, including changing all of the ADO data access to a new ADO.NET data access layer. Some simple pages took just a few minutes - some of the more complex pages took a whole day - but about an hour a page was the overall figure across hundreds of pages, with the time to change the data access representing a significant part of the effort.
If we were to redo the migration today, we'd use ASP.NET MVC rather than web forms as it maps better to the way that the original pages were written - although I couldn't comment on whether or not a migration to MVC would take more or less time.
This doesn't necessarily have any bearing on whether or not you want to move to a free platform or change languages - you might have other reasons for wanting to do this. (Our client was Windows based so moving to ASP.NET, development time aside, carried no additional costs.) However, I can say that it's possible to migrate a substantial ASP site to ASP.NET without a complete rewrite - and it's equally possible to migrate from earlier versions of ASP.NET to more recent versions with minimal work. Obviously the route that we chose, preserving some of the ASP feel to the code rather than opting for a complete redevelopment, might not suit everyone - but it does give you a low impact entry point into ASP.NET that then allows you to build on that groundwork while making the most of your existing codebase and skills.

A: You know mono exists right?
I think you'll find that the longevity of a language is not as important as you think it is, since the lifetime of the major versions of an app is really quite likely to be less than that of most languages. And to be fair to .NET 2.0 -> 3.0 is a pretty small shift up, not a "dumping every single line of code" exercise. If you even wanted to shift up, which isn't really required yet.
I think a strong case could be made for any given platform you might consider, I'd look at other factors like your programmers comfort/skills/familiarity, community support, extensions, and fitness for purpose.

A: The choice lies in your company's ability to support whatever you choose.
Are you going to support the code yourselves? If so, what is your skill set base right now?
If you are currently enjoying ASP, ASP.NET (code rewrite or no) seems like the first idea to try, even if you don't realise it, by having used ASP thus far, you have probably acquired a great deal of knowledge in maintaining IIS, as well as the plethora of Microsoft based Services and Servers that you can reuse or at least easily adapt to, in ASP.NET development, deployment and support.
JAVA, RUBY, Whatever you choose, the beauty/usefulness/power/usability/durability of any technology lies on the people behind its maintenance.
The questions you should be making are:

*

*best directed at your team

*who will be developing, planning managing the resulting app/service?

*Are you Ruby people? If not, do you want to be?

*Are you JAVA people? same as above

*are you....?

..and so on..
Don't distract yourselves with costs here and there or free versus non free.
when the technology is unknown/new to the people behind a project, man hours in support can be much more expensive than most packaged software solutions out there, which will then provide you with support.
This is also true for development environments where you have to pay more for the IDE/Server/etc, but on the bottom line you have less of a learning curve to go through and support at your level of expertise.
Besides: just like @annakata said, you have plenty of opportunities/projects to implement "free as in beer" ASP.NET functionality.. mono or not..
Example: you can set up ASP.NET service with Apache if you like that sort of thing..
Choose what technology you want to adopt by what you know and what you want to know, not what you think is the latest and greatest in buzz, specially if the whole reason why you even started thinking about rebuilding your code set is due to the lack of support for ASP from Microsoft.

A: I don't think you can escape the pain of migrating every 4-5 years given that the industry is in a continuous flux and tools, platforms and languages evolve to maximize efficiency. There's no guarantee that Groovy/Ruby/C# won't change to adopt the next big thing.
Personally I wouldn't lose sleep trying to 100% future proof myself. If that is the goal then you might as well use assembly and even then there's no guarantee that'll stay constant either.
Just consider the following
1) What do your guys know? If they are vb guys it makes sense to move to VB.NET
2) What budget do you have for tools?
3) Does the platform you want to move to have the stuff that you need? I remember some time back discovering with amazement Powerbuilder's support (or lack thereof) for regular expressions
4) Is there a community around the platform?


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The Society of Camera Operators To Honor Natalie Portman
By: LATF Staff | Dec. 17, 2019, 3:36 p.m.
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Photo Credits: The Society of Camera Operators (SOC)
The Society of Camera Operators (SOC) announce the honoree of the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards Governors Award recipient, Natalie Portman.
The Society is honored to be presenting the Lifetime Achievement award to Academy Award-winner and activist, Natalie Portman for her impressive body of work, collaboration on set with camera operators and crew members, and her commitment to critical social causes such as her work encouraging diversity on set and equality within the entertainment industry.
George Billinger III, SOC President, "We are honored to be presenting this award to such a talented professional as Natalie Portman. Her level of excellence and dedication to not only the entertainment arts, but to many of the challenges we face within our own communities, is an inspiration to us, and we are grateful for her contribution.
Ms. Portman will be presented with their SOC Lifetime Achievement Award on January 18, 2020 at the Lowes Hollywood Hotel.
The Lifetime Achievement Awards will be hosted at the Loews Hollywood Hotel on January 18, 2020 honoring the art and craft of camera operating and the production crew. The Awards feature a red carpet show, and the Awards ceremony will be streamed live. Matthew Skurow is the show's Producer, and Director and Miraculi Entertainment will be providing all production services. For further information about the Awards seats, sponsorship and all other details: SOCAwards.com
The Society of Camera Operators (SOC) advances the art, craft, and creative contributions of the Camera Operator. The SOC is an internationally recognized professional honorary society. The core activities of the Society are the annual SOC Awards, publishing the Society's magazine Camera Operator and our charitable commitment to The Vision Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
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Watch These Drunk Dudes Watch The First 10 Minutes Of Up For The First Time
Nov. 5. 2014 6:11 PM
Everyone who has seen Up knows how heartbreaking the first ten minutes are. Fortunately, not everyone in the world has seen Up yet; so, some geniuses gathered together some dudes who missed out, fed them alcohol and taped their reactions. Naturally, the end result is priceless. Take a look…
The first ten minutes of Up is the most heartbreaking thing I've ever watched in a movie theater. It makes The Fault In Our Stars look like Clue. It took every ounce of my strength not to devolve into a blubbering mess inside the screening. A few tears even escaped out of my eyes too. There was just no fighting it, probably because I'm a decent human being with a soul.
The dudes in this video, put together by Buzzfeed, know what I'm talking about now too. Honestly, you don't even need the sound on to figure out the exact moments these poor guys realize this touching little love story/ montage might not end quite as happily as we would hope.
Yup. That's the drunk face of sudden onset sadness. This poor man was hit with the creeping rush of dread. He knows terrible news is ahead, and he almost can't bear to watch it. He's grown fond of the old couple. He wants them to have babies, but that doctor obviously isn't delivering good news.
You can check a portion of the first ten minutes of Up without any drunks involved here…
What a beautiful movie. Pixar has done a lot of great things during its history. The studio deserves every last piece of praise it has ever gotten, but for my money, they've never created anything more beautiful than the opening of Up. It's perfect in every single way, whether you're a child or an adult, a man or a woman, drunk or sober.
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Wayfinding and Signs in Airports and semiotics.
Wayfinding is a term which has been around since the 1960s and although a rather simplistic term, it is the commonly used term to explain how we get from A to B. One would expect a more dynamic expression such as 'Directionalisation" or something which sounds at least a little more exciting. Wayfinding in travel is something that many of us take for granted and we only really become consciously aware of the significance of signs when we are under stress or pressure.
Have you ever noticed how large the signs are in an airport are to tell you where 'Passport Control" is and yet the signs to find a specific shop can he hard to see. Ever noticed how well toilets are sign posted in airports and yet the signs to find the airport train station can sometimes be misleading and confusing. These signs become more conscious to us as we find that we have limited time or when we feel the pressure once we have gone through customs at arrivals and are then faced by a new country, culture, language and the stress of trying to work out what to do next.
Arriving at an airport late, means that the need to analyse which signs are important needs to be decided upon at a much quicker rate and this can turn the decision making into a conscious effort. Signs can be not only informational and for wayfinding but also what can be termed "Re-assurance" signs in that the signs are designed to provide you with information which you have already faced. You might have also gone through customs and the baggage check area and see a sign saying "Welcome to Gate 12". This signage in this case is designed as a comfort sign; a sign to acts as confirmation and to be re-assuring. This is interesting in that people of different ages and cultures for example can interpret signs differently and also have different needs.
An elderly person who is more uncertain and needs more -re-assurance might sub-consciously benefit from comfort signs. Similarly, if you are unable to read in the local language but see a sign which is understood by most traveller's such as a gate number, then it does allow you to relax more as you travel.
Design and space are important factors in the equation when we consider the cognitive nature of signs and how they are perceived. Signs often work in conjunction with space and design and each of these subject areas interact with the other. A sign which on its own might seen quite large but when placed in in the middle of 20 other signs, might not even be noticed. If you have ever been to Las Vegas, you will be aware of how signage is taken to a new level in terms of design and the sheer number. Locations such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul, Korea also offer a fascinating insight into signs for those of us who see ourselves as semiotians. In an airport context, there is a certain standardisation across many airports worldwide compared to some other aspects of the tourism experience. An airport such as McCarren Airport in Vegas though when you arrive, immediately signifies what you can expect from the city at large. What other airport in the world has rows of slot machines in the arrivals hall? This form of sign in the form of what image is portrayed and the message it sends to you, is as much as part of semiotics as actual signage is. You can learn more about wayfinding and travel – click here for further information.
Even the airport has Vegas style entertainment.
Airports perfectly highlight the difficulties involved with wayfinding in complex indoor environments, particularly given the sheer number of people who need to find their way through the airport. It is not just a case of those arriving at the airport and needing to navigate the classic route from main entrance to check-in desk, through security, to the boarding area and then onto ones plane. Consider for example the complexities that can be involved with arriving passengers who need to connect to another flight and to do so in a large and confusing airport such as Dallas Fort Worth, Heathrow London or Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Without very clearly defined paths the process of navigating between planes and flights can be both stressful to the passenger and also costly to the airline.
Wayfinding in an airport can also involve people of varying mobility types including those who need walking aids such as a wheelchair or a stick and those who are blind or suffer from hearing issues. Navigating design and implementation thus essentially needs to also incorporate ways of providing information which does not rely on people to be able to read and in a certain way, such as at a certain height. A blind person will of course not see the signs, whilst a wheelchair bound passenger might struggle to see signs which are too high. Many disabled travellers often do travel with a helper, but this does not detract from the need from signage which provides for such as diverse social and cultural range of individuals and groups. Signage needs in other words also to make sense across culturally boundaries and languages. For this reason, symbols are often used on some signs and one classic example is the symbols used to signify airport toilets (restrooms in American English) with the stick symbols to signify a man and a woman.
Security requirements by the airport authorities further complicate what is already a difficult and complication exercise. As pointed out by Crouch and Desforges (2003). we might own our own bodies but we are not always in charge of it and an airport provides us with a good example of this. The wayfinding process has to take in the needs of others including the security and airport authorities.


I'm unsure what secrets will lie before me.
As there's beauties as there that lie beyond the tree.
Curled into lies, deceptions that push through.
So maybe there's something that can keep the calm.
But I'm yet to know, of those trees bare sharp horns.


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Henry Hopkins Sibley (25. svibnja 1816. – 23. kolovoza 1886.) bio je brigadni general za vrijeme Američkog građanskog rata, zapovjedajući Konfederalnom vojskom na teritoriju Novog Meksika. Njegov pokušaj da dobije kontrolu nad putem u Kaliforniju bio je uništen u bitci kod prolaza Glorieta. Diplomirao je na West Pointu, i služio je Oružane snage SAD-a od 1838. do 1861. i početka građanskog rata, kada je podnio ostavku da bi se pridružio Južnjačkom cilju.

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Henry Hopkins Sibley je rođen 25. svibnja 1816., u Natchitochesu u Louisiani. Sa 17 godina poslan je na vojnu akademiju West Point gdje je diplomirao 1838., i bio stacioniran na teritoriju Novi Meksiko. Sibley je služio u Seminolskom ratu i u ekspediciji protiv Mormona u Utahu, kao i u Američko-meksičkom ratu, gdje je dobio časnički čin i bio odlikovan za hrabrost. Godine 1856., po uzoru na indijanske šatore, patentirao je "Sibleyev šator", u koji se udobno moglo smjestiti 20 vojnika i njihova osobna oprema. 1860. imao je čin bojnika te se borio protiv Navajo Indijanaca u Novom Meksiku.

Kada je 1861. započeo građanski rat, Sibley je dao ostavku iz vojske SAD-a i pridružio se snagama Konfederacije. Predsjednik Konfederacije Jefferson Davis promaknuo ga je u brigadnog generala 17. lipnja 1861., te ga je poslao u Teksas kako bi sastavio brigadu za čišćenje Novog Meksika i Arizone od vojne prisutnosti Unije. To je uključivalo i osvajanje zlatonosnih polja u Koloradu radi osiguranja čvrste valute za Konfederaciju. Drugi cilj mu je bio da se uspostavi zapadna pomorska luka radi opskrbe Konfederacije preko Pacifika, luka koju Unija ne bi mogla lako blokirati. Sibley je vjerovao da bi njegovi vojnici mogli živjeti od škrte zemlje Novog Meksika, te da postrojbe Unije neće moći odoljeti invaziji vojske Konfederacije. U oba slučaja je pogriješio. Također je pogrešno očekivao podršku među stanovništvom španjolskog porijekla, ne znajući da su prijašnje ekspedicije Teksašana u to područje loše postupale s njima.

Svojim snagama od 2.500 ljudi Sibley je dao ime Vojska Novog Meksika. Iako je Sibley pobijedio snage Unije kod Valverdea i La Gloriete 1862., nije mogao izdržati unionistički protunapad koji je uništio opskrbu njegove vojske. On i njegovih 1.500 preostalih vojnika povukli se se u Fort Bliss u Teksasu, i odande u San Antonio kako bi izbjegli Kalifornijski odjel vojske Unije, pod zapovjedništvom brigadnog generala Jamesa H. Carletona.

Nakon toga, Sibleyu su dodjeljivani manje važni zadatci, i borio se s kroničnom bolešću i alkoholizmom. Njegovo djelovanje u kampanji na rijeci Teche 1863. je bilo loše. Bio je poslan na vojni sud i kritiziran, ali ne i osuđen, nakon promašaja Unije u napadima na Irish Bend i Fort Bisland u travnju 1863. godine. Četiri godine nakon završetka građanskog rata, postao je general topništva u vojsci egipatskog kediva. Nakon što se vratio u SAD 1874., bavio se predavanjima, ali je umro u siromaštvu u Fredericksburgu u Virginiji, 23. kolovoza 1886. godine.

Američki vojni zapovjednici u Američko-meksičkom ratu
Zapovjednici u vojsci Konfederacije

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Action started at 160 pounds, where Josh Heuss recovered from an early deficit to control the final two periods and get the decision victory.
Following a loss at 170 that put Mosinee ahead, Antigo went on a roll, Korbin Kreuger scored a technical fall by overwhelming his opponent 16-1. Collinn Eldridge needed only a minute and four seconds to secure a few takedowns and eventually pin his opponent. Nick Roller kept the streak going by securing an early takedown and turn that led to a pin in only 47 seconds.
Talik Bussey and Seth Beaber each received forfeits to push Antigo's lead to 32-6. Following setbacks at 113 and 120, Logan Edwards started the next Antigo run with a first period pin, followed by an exciting match from Jaden Schoeneck, who overcame an early 4-0 deficit by scoring 11 of the next 13 points before pinning his opponent in the second period.
Ben Stimac continued his impressive senior season with a first period pin, followed by Dylan Warax wrestling a very smart, controlled match that ended with him achieving a second period pin. A loss at 152 ended the dual meet at 56-22 in favor of the Red Robins.
Coming up soon for Antigo is the first home dual of the year on Friday, December 21st. Join the team as they celebrate Parents night with T-shirts for takedowns, where after every match gift wrapped t-shirts will be tossed into the crowd for each Antigo takedown. Wrestling starts at 7:00 p.m.


Mount Holyoke College, Simmons College and Smith College are proud to have co-hosted "Reconstructing Societies in the Wake of Conflict: Transitional Justice and Economic Development," a two-week Institute from May 25–June 6, 2014. The Institute brought together emerging women leaders, primarily from Asia, who are working to rebuild their communities and promote sustainable economic livelihoods following political violence and human rights violations. The Institute was made possible in partnership with the Women in Public Service Project.
Read selected stories in The Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post and more.
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View photo galleries of the Opening Ceremony, Massachusetts State House visit, WPSP sessions at Simmons College and more.
Read about a student's first-hand experience of the Institute here.


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We just watched a BBC documentary on the bad weather of the last few weeks. As always when I watch these shows I can't help feeling they are just an excuse to show loads of footage of waves crashing, riverbanks bursting and blokes in canoes. They are impossible to watch without a deep sense of excitement.
And flooding is exciting. In the moment. It's visceral and scary and life-bursting. It's like one great log-flume of a fairground ride.
But in the aftermath, when the cameras have long gone, and you're living in a crappy hotel having lost everything you own, wandering around in a fug, filling in forms, crying on the phone to Call Centre staff, wondering what on earth you've done to deserve such a thing, that's where the real drama lies. Our deepest sympathy goes to anyone currently suffering an unexpected deluge.
A week ago we flooded. Tuesday. Not long after midnight. We were lying in bed when I woke to the sound of running water. I thought: "Oh, bloody hell, Anne's plumbed the dishwasher in wrong." The lights weren't working and I stumbled nakedly downstairs to see what was happening, and stepped straight into water at the bottom of the stairs. I was still assuming the dishwasher was broken, until I opened the back door and a plant pot floated into the kitchen on a tide of water.
We finally evacuated the house when the water reached our waists. We've lost nearly all our possessions. We've been told the house will be uninhabitable for at least six months, so we are now effectively homeless. We are stuck in a hotel and are looking for a new place to rent. We're stumbling around like zombies, barely aware of what's happening to us. Life goes on but there's an other-worldly feel to it, like extreme jet-lag. I'm feeling completely unhinged. Anne appears to be heartbroken. We've only been here a couple of months and our lives seem to have fallen apart.


Carefree enjoyment begins and ends with Bob on Board. What is better than stepping on board, viewing the good life from the water and then trying to waterski, playing clog golf or doing a historic walk to? At the end of your day, just get on board again to see a beautiful sunset on board. Whatever you want to do, Bob arranges it for you and ensures that you are picked up and brought home!


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Maccarae or Makkarai () was a town in ancient Thessaly in the territory of Pharsalus.

It is tentatively located near the modern Arabises.

References

Populated places in ancient Thessaly
Former populated places in Greece
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Q: Displaying projection with IMSHOW() I am having an issue displaying satellite data on the correctly projection using cartopy and imshow. I am unsure of the initial data projection, but I am trying to put it into Plate Carree with a limited area extent using bbox. There are nans in the array and I tried to use np.ma.masked_invalid to mask.
https://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/v0.15/examples/geostationary.html
I tried the following examples, but it did not resolve the issue.
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52883594/projecting-goes-16-geostationary-data-into-plate-carree-cartopy]2
What happens is the data is correct, but it is not plotting it into the correct projection with axes. I overlayed states and coastlines and they are all out of whack. This is using SCMI data for GOES-16 from NOAAPort.
Here is my code and image that shows the correct display (using different approach; last image on bottom) and an image showing the incorrect display (includes little box in top left corner and lighter colors) from this code... for comparison. It should be noted that contourf works fine. I tried to use pcolormesh, but it takes forever and using runs into a mem error.
edexServer='awips'
DataAccessLayer.changeEDEXHost(edexServer)
request = DataAccessLayer.newDataRequest()
request.setDatatype("satellite")
sector="ECONUS"
request.setLocationNames(sector)
request.setParameters("CH-13-10.35um")
cycles = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableTimes(request, True)
times = DataAccessLayer.getAvailableTimes(request)
fcstRun = DataAccessLayer.getForecastRun(cycles[-1], times)
response = DataAccessLayer.getGridData(request, [fcstRun[0]])
grid = response[0]
data = grid.getRawData()
imdata = np.ma.masked_invalid(np.atleast_2d(data))
#where_are_NaNs = np.isnan(data)
#data[where_are_NaNs] = 0
#data = ndimage.gaussian_filter(data, sigma=0.50, order=0, mode='nearest')
lons, lats = grid.getLatLonCoords()

bbox = [-130.0, -65.0, 20.0, 55.0]
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(6,6),dpi=200)
ax = plt.axes(projection=ccrs.PlateCarree())
#ax.set_extent(bbox, ccrs.PlateCarree())
coastlines = '/home/awips/.local/share/cartopy/shapefiles/natural_earth/physical/ne_10m_coastline.shp'
states = '/home/awips/.local/share/cartopy/shapefiles/natural_earth/physical/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.shp'
globe = ccrs.Globe(semimajor_axis=6378137.0, semiminor_axis=6356752.31414)
crs = ccrs.Geostationary(central_longitude=-75,
                         satellite_height=35786000, globe=globe)
cpt=loadCPT('/home/awips/Downloads/IR4AVHRR6.cpt')
cpt_convert = LinearSegmentedColormap('cpt', cpt)
ir_norm, ir_cmap = colortables.get_with_range('ir_bd', 150, 357)
#cs = ax.pcolormesh(imdata,cmap='coolwarm', transform=ccrs.PlateCarree())
#cs = ax.contourf(lons,lats,data,cmap='Greys_r', transform=ccrs.PlateCarree())
#levels = np.arange(170, 357, 5)
#image = ax.imshow(data, origin='upper', extent=(-149,-53,14,51), cmap=cpt_convert, vmin=150, vmax=375)
image = ax.imshow(imdata, origin='upper',cmap=cpt_convert, vmin=150, vmax= 375, transform = ccrs.PlateCarree())


The 43rd Trofeo Nico Sapio took place this week in Genoa, Italy.
Matthew Josa started things off for the Americans, he took gold in the 100m butterfly event with a time of 50.99, following him on the podium was Germany's Marius Kusch and Brazil's Fernando Da Silva with times of 51.89 and 52.61, respectively. Come the spring semester, Josa will continue his NCAA stint at Cal.
Italian Lorenzo Mora narrowly took gold in the 100m backstroke with a time of 51.47, while 2016 Olympian and Cal swimmer Jacob Pebley claimed silver at 51.71.
On the women's side, the 100m freestyle win was taken by French mainstay Charlotte Bonnet with a time of 53.15, Italian Erika Ferraioli claimed silver in 54.36 and American Madison Kennedy took bronze in 54.81.


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Someone tried to infect Army Cyber Command with ransomware
Nov 14, 2016 | FEDSCOOP
Phishing emails that were sent last week as part of an extensive ransomware campaign designed to target government employees and contractors were also found in the inboxes of Army Cyber Command employees, a spokesperson told CyberScoop.
In response, Army Cyber Command issued an alert to warn employees about the malicious emails, providing information on how to spot, report and mitigate these incidents. NBC Washington first learned of the internal warnings on Friday.
"This warning is an internal document and a force protection warning from a subordinate unit within Army Cyber Command. These are common warnings that our subordinates — and indeed most U.S. military and government agencies — send out at the discretion of their staff security managers, often several times per week," said Army Cyber Command spokesperson Charles Stadtlander.
Each malicious email contained a malware laden attachment and was written to appear like it came from the Office of Personnel Management. The messages warned receivers that their respective banks had notified OPM of suspicious account activity that could be reviewed via a malicious attachment. A group of security researchers from Leesburg, Va.-based firm PhishMe first spotted the Locky ransomware campaign last Tuesday.
Locky is a common, Windows-based ransomware variant that was first discovered in Feb. 2016. The typical ransom price to receive a decryption key for Locky is roughly .5 bitcoin, which is around $360 as of this article's publication.
"Warnings like this serve as a reminder that cyberspace is a crowded domain where malicious actors exist among Americans conducting their everyday social lives, finances, and business. These actors consistently attempt to impact both US military and civilian systems, and Army Cyber command as well as our fellow military and US government cyber defenders exist to deter attackers," Stadtlander wrote in a statement.
Security researchers believe that the campaign was not designed to coincide with the U.S. election.
"The first messages in this set were captured by PhishMe at 06:39 Eastern and the last one was received at 12:53 Eastern time. The threat actors' selection for this timeframe is significant since it encompasses both the earliest risers on the US east coast and the start of the business day for the US west coast as well," said PhishMe Threat Intelligence Manager Brendan Griffin, "the criminals were likely trying to reach people as they got into the office for work or checked their email for the first time today."
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Q: Meta analysis in R - aggregate effect size I have produced a standard mean difference for my meta analysis.
But I am now trying to to get the combined variance for each study used.
The formula I have doesn't seem to be able to account for multiple variance or values of 0
I have tried to produce I looping aggregate of variance to determine the overall impact size and variance each study displayed.
When I tried this the studies that have values of 0 result in an output of Inf and doesn't allow me to plot the results


To perform tests using all three streams, I had to get another antenna attached to the Intel 5300 card. Since getting to the wireless card in the Dell Mini 12 requires significant disassembly, I turned to my Acer Aspire 1810T. Getting to the Acer's wireless card is easy, requiring only the simple removal of a panel on the bottom of the machine.
As I surveyed my stock of past-reviewed routers, I remembered the D-Link DIR-655 that had died after only a month of service. After some minor surgery, I had transplanted its connectorized antenna and internal pigtail cable to the Aspire.
The pictures in Figures 9 and 10 show the result ain't pretty, but it got the job done.
With this third antenna attached to the Intel 5300 card's terminal 3, I now got a 217 Mbps link rate with the router set to 20 MHz channel bandwidth mode and 450 Mbps with Auto 20/40 MHz mode.
I reran the tests with the router set to 20 MHz channel bandwidth and got the unimpressive results shown in Figure 11.
Downlink speed is again the slowest—exactly the opposite of what potential HD video streamers want! But the extrememely high throughput variation would kill any hope of trouble-free streaming anyway.
By the way, I kept an eye on the link rate during testing and found it constantly bounced around, spending very little time at 450 Mbps. And remember, this was with router and client in the same room, only 10 feet apart!
Figure 12 shows the results when I switched the router to Auto 20/40 MHz channel bandwidth mode. While it was nice to see results close to 100 Mbps, once again, I've seen similar speeds from the DIR-685 and WNDR3700.
I'll be running a full set of six location tests with both two and three antenna clients in the next few weeks. But, to tell the truth, I'm not really in a hurry to do them, because the key "reveal" has already been done.
I hope as much as you do that this first test of three stream N technology isn't the final word on what this much-awaited technology can produce. But, at least for now, it shows that three-stream N technology isn't yet capable of delivering better performance than you can already get with better-performing dual-stream gear.


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Sistas Season 4: Is It Really Happening Or Is It Just A Rumour?
Saturday, 25 December 2021, 04:37 IST
Source: TV Insider
If you have been religiously following the series Sistas, well, you might be having your own doubts of whether the show was renewed for a new season or is it all going to die down in just rumors.
If you're curious about what is going to happen to the dramatic comedy show, you can follow on here and get on with all the latest updates and news. When the show will be releasing its fourth season and what all will be happening in it are all mentioned ahead.
Is the Series Sistas Season Four Really Happening, Or Is It Just A Rumor?
The good news is that the show is renewed for a new season, and it's not a rumor, the series renewal was announced by the officials, and this is not some rumor. Even though the series seemed that it could be that it would not renew but rest assured the series is renewed. The details for the renewal date and where it will be airing are given ahead.
When Is The Fourth Season Of Sistas Going To Premiere?
The fourth season of Sistas is going to be released on January 5, 2022, as announced by the officials of the show. January 5 is a Wednesday, and the series will be releasing a single episode each week. As of now, the title of the episode hasn't been revealed, but as the time comes closer, the officials will most probably reveal it.
Who Be All Will Returning For The Fourth Season Of The Series?
We can expect the four main characters of the show to be in the fourth season as the series revolves around them. The character of Andrea Barnes is played by KJ Smith, and she plays the role of an attorney. The character of Karen Mott is played by Ebony Obsidian, and she is the owner of a hair salon and is in a complicated relationship.
The third woman of the show Daniella King is played by Mignon Von, and she works at an airline. The character of Sabrina Hollins is played by Novi Brown, and she is a normal bank worker.
What Will The Fourth Season Be About?
Source: TV Series Finale
The next season of the series is going to be yet another adventure for the woman with their love life and career. The immense love received by the series and the woman of the show is what has led it to be renewed. In the next season, we will expect it to pick the loose ends that were left in the third season-ending. It will look at one more season of important decisions to make and ups and downs.
Where To Watch Sistas?
The series has released its previous seasons on BET, the African American Television network. The next season of the series will be released on the same network. The previous seasons of the series are available for streaming on Fubo TV and DirecTV. Viewers can also purchase or rent the series or individual episodes on video on demand platforms like Amazon Prime, Google Play and Apple TV.
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Art For Whose People?: Literacy and Audiences in Xu Bing's Works
BY CLAIRE WU
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from the 07/2019 Issue
Filed under: painting, installations
"To change the written word, is to strike at the very foundation of a culture."
— XU BING
Illustration by Hafizah Jainal
Xu Bing was born in 1955, and spent his formative years in the hallowed halls of Peking University. His parents worked at the university — his mother a librarian and his father a historian — allowing him to spend much of his childhood in the Peking University library. Xu grew up surrounded by academics and was an introverted child. He enjoyed drawing, but worked slowly. The drawings he made won him high praise, and this motivated him to continue pursuing art. However as the Cultural Revolution swept through China, his family, like so many others, was torn apart. Branded a reactionary by the government, his father was imprisoned. Xu himself was sent to a remote village after finishing high school. There, he worked with farmers and did manual labour for three years. When he was able to return to Beijing, he enrolled in the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and studied printmaking. During this time, Xu was assigned to the propaganda division due to his skill in calligraphy.
During the cultural revolution, art production was tightly controlled. It was used as a tool for propaganda, and only art that glorified the Cultural Revolution was sanctioned by the state. The Communist Party of China's attitudes towards art and culture were clearly explicated during the Yan'An Forum on Literature and Art. At the forum, Chairman Mao spoke at length as to the place of art in Communist China. Mao's speech was concerned with who the audiences for art were – it must be for the people. Yet when we consider who art serves or is enjoyed by, who are these "people"? There is an in-group and out-group generated as such — those who can be considered the "people" and those who cannot. It follows then that maxim, "Art for the People", does not have its literal meaning. While the literal meaning is one of inclusivity, the actual meaning delineates specific audiences of art. This resulting disparity between one's expectation and the situation's reality is something that is repeatedly mirrored in Xu's work. This is particularly evident in his 1999 piece, Art For The People, which takes its title from a quote in Mao's speech.
Art for the People was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for Project 70: Banners, an exhibition under the Projects series. This series was created with the dual intention to provide more opportunities to emerging artists and junior curatorial staff, as well as to introduce avant-garde pieces to a museum context. Many of the works exhibited under this series were displayed in places in the museum that were less conventional, for instance in the museum café and, as with Project 70: Banners, along the façade of the building. Art for the People could not have debuted at anywhere more apt — at the entrance of the museum in an open, un-ticketed space, alongside the museum's logo. In this way, it acts as an almost-slogan to a museum, a public space in which art is patrimony of the people and not merely of the elite.
¹ Art For The People, Xu Bing
1999, Installation View at the Museum of Modern Art
² Art For The People, Xu Bing
1999, Installation View at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
The proclamation on Art for the People was written in Xu's invented writing system, Square Word Calligraphy. The symbols in Square Word Calligraphy resemble Chinese characters in form, but they actually comprise of English letters. Xu offers Art for the People as a message of reconciliation to a public he believes to be alienated by contemporary art. To an English speaker, the strangeness and exoticism of the Chinese form can be understood as a metaphor for contemporary art. To an outsider, the contemporary art world is full of gatekeepers that stand guard over knowledge, history and access points. Yet upon a closer look, it is a familiar language that is presented in a different way. With some attention, the work unravels and meaning can be found. Xu's desire to challenge his audience to re-examine "ingrained thinking patterns" can be accomplished. To the bilingual English and Chinese speakers, this is also possible in that they are able to perhaps bridge a gap in the two aspects of their identities.
In other words — to be part of the "people" or the work's intended audience, one needs to be fluent in English. While that, perhaps, is not an absurd or unreasonable assumption to make of an audience in New York, where the operating language is English, it becomes slightly uncomfortable when considering how a monolingual Chinese speaker may have to interact with this work.
Art for the People, for all purposes, appears to be inescapably Chinese. The red and yellow colour scheme bears resemblance both to the Chinese flag and the traditional Chinese spring scrolls. These scrolls are usually displayed vertically at the entrance of a building, and take the form of red banners with text written in either black or gold. The effects are such that it is immediately recognisable as Chinese, to the average New Yorker or to the first-generation Asian American immigrant who may have seen it in person on the 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan. However, from here familiarity departs. Although the words look Chinese, they are not. They concede to the lingua franca of today's world and are familiar only on the surface. The "Chinese-ness" of the work ends at its appearance, and it leaves a Chinese-speaking audience in a state of confusion.
³ An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, Xu Bing
Ashmolean Museum, 1994-1996, Detail
This sense of confusion finds echoes in another work of Xu's, Book from the Sky (天书). This work was first shown at the 1989 China/Avant-Garde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China. This was an exhibition that defined, in many ways, the shape and form of modern Chinese art. Book from the Sky is a site-specific installation piece. Long scrolls of paper are hung from the ceiling, suspended over bound, scholarly-looking volumes flipped open on a low platform. Surrounding this centre display are large posters hung on the walls. Xu had devised a "writing system" for this work as well, spending two years designing and carving out some four thousand Chinese-looking but ultimately nonsensical characters. In a previous interview, he explains a typical Chinese text would comprise about four thousand different characters. As such, one would be considered proficient in the Chinese language if they could recognise four thousand characters. The work touches on similar ideas of literacy and completeness. Should audiences be capable of deciphering these symbols, the four thousand characters in Book from the Sky present a language, and thereby reveal a complete meaning.
Yet, meaning is exactly what eludes the viewer. For Chinese viewers, the impact is heightened and pronounced. There is almost a sense of betrayal when the language, at first glance so familiar, reveals itself to be unrecognisable. The presentation of the script suggests knowledge, both ancient and wise, that could be uncovered. Yet, this knowledge and its meaning escapes the viewer. There is a sense of loss; the viewer is undermined, suddenly rendered illiterate. The work is whole, complete ecosystem with four thousand characters. The fault lies not in the work but with the viewer.
One's fluency in their own language is transformed into a pseudo-language, where meaning dances at the edge of one's fingertips, just out of reach.
Even to the mark-maker, the designer, carver and printer, Xu himself, the characters are meaningless. This echoes his own experiences growing up and living through the Cultural Revolution. In the Peking University Library, he was old enough to know the promise of knowledge held within the characters, but was too young to understand; during the Cultural Revolution, despite being the very maker of the posters and slogans, Xu did not own the meaning of the words. One's relationship to the language is almost irrelevant.
⁴ Book from the Sky 1987–91, Xu Bing
1987-1991, Installation View at Blanton Museum of Art
In Art for the People, language becomes relevant again. One must be literate in English in order to understand the work.
When we speak of making art for the people, who are these "people"? How effective is the message if the audience is limited to those who can read and write in English?
Perhaps an optimist would say that the writing, by being in the global lingua franca, can reach a wider audience than otherwise, thereby expanding the definition of the "people". However, it would be disingenuous and unfaithful to its roots as this writes off the audience that comes from the artist's own background, culture and history.
Since Art for the People was unveiled at the MoMA, countless scores of Chinese children have been made to learn English in order to fit into and be competitive in a globalised world of Western economic and cultural dominance. The varying degrees of success to which this has been achieved makes this work especially poignant. The Chinese language is not considered to be as precious or valuable as English, certainly not then and perhaps still not now. Square Word Calligraphy may even be considered to be an example of commodifying Chinese culture to be profitable and appealing to a Western audience, in the same vein as Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Ang Lee's Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger which won an Academy Award.
Art for the People ironically limits understanding. The words, about making art accessible to everyone, ring bright but are empty. The work lacks the powerful unifying factor evident in Book from the Sky, and seems almost cavalier in light of its exclusion of meaning to the very people whose language it takes its shape from. Absurdly enough, this perhaps still functions well as a metaphor for contemporary art, just as Xu intended. The work conveys something inaccessible by definition, coded in somebody else's system of meaning. To the monolingual Chinese speaker, the work is not reconciliatory. It merely represents the alienation that is the relationship between contemporary art and the public.
⁵ Book from the Ground, Xu Bing
2003-ongoing
His original intent in may be better fulfilled in a more recent work, Book from the Ground. It stands in diametrical opposition to the Book from the Sky, which was created twenty years prior. Book from the Ground is a graphic novel composed of symbols and icons that are universally understood. As these symbols have been adopted and used by cities and communities all around the world, Xu intended for this work to be legible to all who were familiar with these systems. The symbols used in these works have also been used on signboards, posters, instruction manuals, and more. In evoking a universal visual language, Xu eliminates the need for specific cultural knowledge or literacy in a certain language when encountering art.
To pay homage to his past works, Xu's studio made a character database software which translates English or Chinese to this new visual language — a compelling ode to the languages he has worked in over the years. An accompanying book, The Book about Xu Bing's Book from the Ground, has also been published. It serves as a guidebook for audiences, with translations and interpretations of these symbols.
Through these three works, it is clear that Xu Bing's body of work comments on audiences and meaning by experimenting effectively with the written word and literacy. Art for the People represents Xu's intent and beliefs. It preaches a message of accessibility, but inadvertently draws attention to the precariousness of inclusivity, and to barriers of literacy which may limit the audiences of a work. Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground respectively alienates and unites its audience as a whole, with the latter finally able to offer meaning to a universal audience. The relevance of Xu's works cannot be understated. His works have been the subject of countless retrospectives, such as Xu Bing: Thought and Method at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and at Museum MACAN. As the artist continues to question language systems and points of accessibility, his works will continue to engage and enthral audiences with both its inventiveness and insight.
¹ Bloomberg. "Intellectual by Nature, Poet at Heart: Xu Bing | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 15." Filmed November 2015. Youtube Video, 24:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxHWJjaUDQg&t=16s.
² BLOUIN ARTINFO. "AI Interview: Xu Bing." Filmed April 2012. Youtube Video, 5:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ioUyG1gSs.
³ Daftari, Fereshteh. Projects 70: Banners (Cycle 1): Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing: the Museum of Modern Art New York, November 22, 1999 – May 1, 2000. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 1999.
⁴ Erickson, Britta, and Bing Xu. The Art of Xu Bing: Words Without Meaning, Meaning Without Words. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2001.
⁵ Liau, Shu Juan. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Blog). "Redefining Art in the China/Avant Garde Exhibition". February 27, 2012. Accessed 24 June, 2019. https://mondaymuseum.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/1989-china-avant-garde-exhibition/.
⁶ Mao, Zedong. "在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话 Zai yananwenyi zuotanhui shangdejianghua" [Speech at Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art]. Speech, Yan'An, May 1942. Marxist Archive. https://www.marxists.org/chinese/maozedong/marxist.org-chinese-mao-194205.htm.
⁷ The Museum of Modern Art. "The Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series". Accessed 24 June, 2019. https://www.moma.org/calendar/groups/4.The Museum of Modern Art. "Projects 70: Banners I: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, and Xu Bing". Accessed 24 June, 2019. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/180.
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Nuthampstead women ordered to pay compensation after dog attack
Ewan Foskett
Published: 1:17 PM July 8, 2012
A 46-YEAR-OLD woman has been ordered to pay compensation after her rottweiler and two mastiff crosses mauled a puppy and its owner.
On December 28 last year Terri Peck was walking her dogs on a public footpath in Nuthampstead, when they attacked a munsterlander puppy belonging to another member of the public.
They then also attacked the owner of the puppy when he tried to stop the fight.
Peck, of Nuthampstead, was given a 12 month conditional discharge at Stevenage Magistrate's Court and ordered to pay compensation of �345 to cover vets bills as well as court costs of nearly �80. She was also ordered to muzzle the dogs and not to take them out on an extending lead.
Pc Paul Marina, from the North Herts Rural Neighbourhood Team, said: "This was a good result which I hope will encourage other owners to exercise their dogs responsibly and to take the necessary precautions to safe guard themselves and others, when out with their animals in public areas. Failure to do so could end up in a prosecution. "
He said dog owners had a responsibility to ensure their pets are well behaved and never encouraged to be aggressive towards other animals or people.
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As I pad into my room at Heckfield Place, I spot the tiniest buttonhole dahlia in a Lilliputian vase beside my bed. […] it is the weeny nosegay that makes my heart beat faster. It is a thoughtful detail that, thanks to its miniature scale, lends some perspective to my room and to Heckfield Place itself.


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Authentic winning the Kentucky Derby last month. He will be the favourite in the Preakness Stakes on Sunday morning (Singapore time). PHOTO: AFP
Kentucky Derby winner can give Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his eighth success in the Grade 1 race
Kentucky Derby winner Authentic, who has drawn Gate 9 of 11 runners, is the favourite for the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico racecourse in in Baltimore on Sunday morning (Singapore time).
The Grade 1 race over 1,900m is traditionally held in May as the second leg of the US Triple Crown, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"I'd rather be 9, than 1 or 11," said Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. "It really doesn't matter as long as he breaks okay."
Baffert, who counts seven Preakness Stakes wins among his record 16 victories in Triple Crown races, will also send out Albaugh Family Stables and Spendthrift Farm's Thousand Words, who will break from the fifth post.
Authentic, ridden by John Velazquez, led all the way at the Kentucky Derby. He held off a late challenge from favourite Tiz the Law down the stretch in the annual Run for the Roses.
Tiz the Law, who won the Belmont Stakes in June, is skipping the Preakness.
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The Belmont Stakes, traditionally the final of the three races, went first. The Kentucky went off in early September as the second leg, instead of the first Saturday in May. - REUTERS


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Taking Care of Elvis – The King Is Back
Ben Portsmouth – The World's Number One Elvis Tribute Artist
Ben, a multi talented musician, singer and songwriter had Elvis's DNA in his blood from an early age. His father was an avid Elvis fan and Ben grew up on a diet of Elvis songs. Having honed his musical talent Ben started his journey as an Elvis tribute artist in 2005 when he formed the Taking care of Elvis band. Audiences quickly realized that this was someone with a special talent.
He looked like Elvis, sang like Elvis and had an on stage charisma that had audiences believing at times they were watching the King himself. This talent saw Ben rapidly rise through the ranks of Elvis tribute artists.
In August 2012, Ben made history when he won the Elvis Presley Enterprises Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest which took place in Memphis, crowning Ben as the Worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist, the first artist from outside the USA to ever win this prestigious title.
Fans from all over the world declare Ben Portsmouth as the closest they have ever seen to Elvis Presley. Social media forums are overwhelmed with fans demanding his return to their country.
On this night, you will see the live performance that left David Letterman at a loss for words exclaiming, "Oh my God, Oh my God!" when Ben headlined his show in February of 2013.
Internationally renowned as one, if not The Best Elvis Tribute in the world today, Ben Portsmouth will bring his unique style and charisma and will show audiences why he is regarded as the best in the business.
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