The US State Department on Monday banned entry of 16 Saudi citizens for the murder of journalist Jamal Hashoggi.
State Secretary Mike Bombo's statement came out because the administration of President Donald Trump was under pressure from Congress for his reaction to the killings at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October, which caused an unprecedented international analysis of the country's human rights situation.
A statement issued by the US Department of State codified those who stated that they were appointed in accordance with Section 7031 (c) of the State Department's Foreign Operations and Appropriations Act of 2019.
The section states that "if the Secretary of State has reliable information that foreign government officials were involved in serious corruption or serious human rights violations, these individuals and their immediate relatives have no right to enter the United States".
The State Department previously canceled the visas of nearly 20 Saudi officials and froze the assets of 17 others.
Khashoggi, who criticized the Saudi regime, was killed on October 2 at a consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul by a group of 15 agents sent from Riyadh. His body was never restored.
Denying the murder, Saudi Arabia stated that the operation was carried out by agents who were out of control. The trial of 11 suspects began earlier this year in Saudi Arabia.
But many cases remain, beginning with the mighty crown prince of Saudi Arabia and the de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman.
After a closed briefing by the CIA in December, the US Senate passed a resolution calling the crown prince "responsible" for the murder, and President Donald Trump refused to take a public position.


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package org.apache.sqoop.manager;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

import com.cloudera.sqoop.SqoopOptions;
import com.cloudera.sqoop.util.ExportException;
import org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.InfiniDBExportJob;

public class DirectInfiniDBManager extends DirectMySQLManager {

	public static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(
			DirectInfiniDBManager.class.getName());

	public DirectInfiniDBManager(SqoopOptions options) {
		super(options);
	}

	/**
	 * Export the table from HDFS by using cpimport to insert the data
	 * back into the database.
	 */
	@Override
	public void exportTable(com.cloudera.sqoop.manager.ExportJobContext context)
		throws IOException, ExportException {
		context.setConnManager(this);

		if (context.getOptions().getColumns() != null) {
		    LOG.warn("Direct-mode export from InfiniDB does not support column");
		    LOG.warn("selection. Falling back to JDBC-based import.");
		    // Don't warn them "This could go faster..."
		    MySQLManager.markWarningPrinted();
		    // Use JDBC-based importTable() method.
		    // todo have to figure out how to call the grandparent method here
		    super.exportTable(context);
		    return;
		}

		InfiniDBExportJob exportJob = new InfiniDBExportJob(context);
		exportJob.runExport();
	}
}

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La Masía nurtures Barcelona's philosophy for technical excellence
Sid Lowe
On Monday afternoon, Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi Hernández walked out to the pitch at FC Barcelona's Sant Joan Despí training ground and posed for a photo. The three stood together and in the middle was a blue and red football, Messi reaching to lay a hand on it from the right, Xavi doing likewise from the left. Iniesta stood with an arm around his teammates.
It would have been a good picture anyway, but it was about to get better. The three men had just been confirmed as the final candidates for this year's Ballon d'Or (Golden Ball), awarded by France Football (and now FIFA) to the world's best player. So it was natural enough that on the cover of the Catalan sports newspapers the following day, red and blue leather had been turned into precious metal, gleaming and golden, France Football embossed on it.
Just as it was natural that while the pro-Real Madrid daily Marca declared "And the Ballon d'Or goes to ... Spanish football," Sport led on "Historic Barça." After all, this is only the third time that the top three have all come from the same club -- the last two times were both Arrigo Sacchi's Milan.
But that was not the only reason they were feeling so satisfied in Barcelona. And the ball was not the only thing to get the Photoshop treatment. By the time the picture appeared the following morning, the concrete, metal and plastic of the stands behind the three players had, by sleight of technological hand, turned into an old, traditional-style Catalan farmhouse, built in rough, slightly yellow stone.
The farmhouse's name is La Masía. It was constructed in 1702 and is 6,500 square feet. In the 1950s, it was used as an office for architects and builders as they toiled on the huge building site right next door. That building site became the Camp Nou, and La Masía, looking incongruous alongside, dwarfed by the city that has grown up around it, became Barcelona's "spiritual" home. Bought in 1979, La Masía became a residency for hopeful children looking to carve out a career at the club. More than that, it became a kind of indoctrination center in all things Barcelona.
Now, it has won the Ballon d'Or. Even those who never actually lived there are always said to be graduates of La Masía; it is a symbol of the club's youth academy, which included Messi, Xavi and Iniesta. No wonder El Mundo Deportivo splashed on "Masía Mundial." Smug though it may have been, and opportunistic too, never before has former president Joan Laporta's insistence that "some clubs buy Ballon d'Ors; we create them" rung truer than it does now.
The announcement on Monday was greeted by many as the success not just of Messi, Iniesta and Xavi or even of Barcelona, but an entire philosophy. It was a victory not just for those three players but the 500 children who have lived at La Masía and the rest who have come through Barcelona's youth system; a victory for the coaches and scouts, for the system -- and Xavi once described he and Iniesta as "sons of the system." It is a victory for an idea, an ideology. And when it comes to footballing religions, few are as puritanical as Barcelona.
The Ballon d'Or, wrote former Barcelona player Eusebio, is "everyone's success, recognition for a philosophy, for our values." It is seen as the confirmation of a trend and the vindication of a commitment to a very specific way of playing that, initially brought in by Johan Cruyff, is imposed at all levels at Barcelona. When players make the leap to the first team, the transition is smoothed by the approach being essentially the same. All the more so under Pep Guardiola, the Masía graduate who became club captain, coached the B team and now coaches the first team.
Guardiola was more than just a Barcelona player; he was a disciple of Cruyff and, with his technical, pass-pass-pass approach, the embodiment of that self-consciously expressed Barcelona style as a player. It is a way of playing that is obsessed by technique and passing, by possession. All of it underpinned by the simplest of drills: the rondo, or piggy in the middle. Iniesta recalls the obsession being simple: It was "receive, pass, offer" over and over again. To see him on the training pitch in Barcelona this week going through the moves, explaining them, is to be struck by the technical excellence and its simplicity.
As one director put it: "Almost 20 years ago, Cruyff arrived and said we were going to play in a certain way and [his] vision [was] always about the technique of the children, the speed of the pass, the speed of the mind."
"Barcelona," Fernando Hierro said, "has worked for some time according to a certain philosophy and personality and built projects according to that image."
Hierro is a former Real Madrid captain. Now, he is the sporting director at the Spanish Football Federation; now, he can smile rather more at Barcelona's success. After all, when Spain won the World Cup last summer, seven of the starting XI were Barcelona players. Better still, six had played for Barcelona at the youth level -- Gerard Piqué, Carles Puyol, Sergio Busquets, Xavi, Pedro Rodríguez and Iniesta -- and Spain's style was very much Barcelona's style. Likewise, when Barcelona beat Real Madrid 5-0 recently, in what many have called the greatest performance ever, eight of the players were Masía graduates. When it won the European Cup in 2009, seven were.
Now, the three men who can be declared the planet's best for 2010 are from Masía, too. And as if to prove the point, and to show that, although this is an extraordinary -- and probably unrepeatable -- generation of players, La Masía's success continues. On Tuesday, just hours after the Ballon d'Or announcement, Barcelona faced Russian side Rubin Kazan in the Champions League. Barcelona won 2-0, with Andreu and Victor Vázquez scoring, and Thiago Alcántara, Marc Bartra and Jonathan dos Santos playing. All of them had been promoted from the side that sits fourth in Spain's national Second Division: Barcelona B. The same Barcelona B that once housed Messi, Iniesta and Xavi.
An embattled exec scrambled to keep his job, and a frustrated quarterback could slip away as the franchise's future hangs in the balance.
By Greg Bishop and Jenny Vrentas
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Cavaliers center Drummond posted Cleveland's first 30-20 game since Carlos Boozer on Jan. 20, 2004.
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McNair was a redshirt freshman on the Maryland football team who died in 2018 after collapsing during a team workout.
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The NFL is working towards finalizing a plan for the 2021 scouting combine, and it won't look like any combine has before.
By Albert Breer
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The Xiaoyuan Hostelry (Xiaoyuan Kezhan) is a courtyard hotel situated near several vibrant commercial areas and offers guests the opportunity to explore and experience authentic, traditional Beijing Hutong neighborhoods. This Beijing hotel features Chinese-style rooms outfitted with traditional furniture and modern amenities such as air conditioning. Guests can enjoy Chinese cuisine at the on-site restaurant. In addition, there is a teahouse serving traditional and modern teas on premises.
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The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development defines the way forward for economic growth, gender equality, poverty and a secure future through partnerships and collaborations. The UdyamStree campaign, aligns with and endeavors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 05, i.e., Gender Equality, through its vision to create a gender-inclusive ecosystem and a level playing field for women entrepreneurs in the country.
An Overview of Women's Economic Status in India
India being the third largest startup ecosystem in the world and having a women populace of about 48%, records a Female Labour Force Participation Rate of only about 21% that is not even half of the global average of 47%.1
Indian women do not lack will and ambition. If given equal opportunities, they can contribute significantly to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. However, the deeply embedded gender norms among other socio-cultural issues such as inequal access to finance and property, along with the lack of support from family to name a few, are some reasons which inhibit their participation in the economy.
As per the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report 2021, economic gender gap is particularly profound in India. Ranking at 140 among 156 countries, India has fallen by 28 places since 2020, and it is the third-worst performer among South Asian countries. Economic opportunities for Indian women are extremely limited at just 32.6%, slightly better than other developing countries like Pakistan (31.6%), Syria (28.5%), Yemen (28.2%), Iraq (22.8%) and Afghanistan (18%).2
The Need for Women Entrepreneurship
Boosting women's participation in employment and entrepreneurship in India has the potential to grow the country's GDP by $ 0.7 trillion by 2025, and simultaneously enhance levels of gender equality and women's economic empowerment3. Therefore, there is an urgent need to be more inclusive and support women's participation in the Indian economy. A fundamental way to utilise their untapped economic potential is to create more jobs for them and encourage their participation in entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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The 'Landscape study on Women Entrepreneurship' is a flagship initiative under the UdyamStree campaign. The multi-faceted study carries insights pertaining to complex socio-cultural and economic challenges that women face during their entrepreneurial journey and how policy implementation, advocacy and multistakeholder interventions could overcome them.
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India being the third largest startup ecosystem in the world and having a women populace of about 48%, records only 27% women in the workforce as against a global average of 48% Indian women do not lack will and ambition. If given equal opportunities, they can contribute significantly to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. However, the various structural and societal barriers like unconscious gender bias, inequal access to finance and property, along with the lack of support from family, are some reasons which inhibit their participation in the economy.
As per the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report 2020, economic gender is particularly profound in India. Ranking at 112 among 153 countries, economic opportunities for Indian women are extremely limited at 35.4%, just slightly better than Pakistan (32.7%), Yemen (27.3%), Syria (24.9%) and Iraq (22.7%).1 India is the only country where the economic gender gap is greater than the political gender gap. Only one-fourth of women are an active part of the labor market, as compared with 82% of men. This is one of the lowest participation rates in the world at 145th among 153.
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Prior to her role at EdelGive Foundation, Vidya was associated with Edelweiss Group as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She has also worked with large financial institutions such as ICICI, Peregrine and NM Rothschild India, as an investment banker. Vidya has been recognised as India's Top 100 Women in Finance by Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) in 2019. She has also been awarded the Woman Achiever of the Year Award by ABP Group during their BFSI awards in 2017 and the Financial Inclusion Award by CNBC TV 18 in 2016.
Vidya earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) degree from R.A. Podar College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai.
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Q: Custom form authentication / Authorization scheme in ASP.net MVC I am trying to create a custom authentication scheme in ASP.NET MVC using form authentication. The idea that I might have different areas on the site that will be managed - approver are and general user area, and these will use different login pages, and so forth. So this is what I want to happen.

*

*User access restricted page (right now I have it protected with a customer AuthorizeAttribute)

*User is redirected to a specific login page (not the one from Web.config).

*User credentials are verified (via custom databse scheme) and user logs in.

Would really appreciate any help with this!!!
This is what I what I have so far, and it doesn't work:
 public class AdministratorAccountController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Login()
    {
        return View("Login");
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Login(AdministratorAccountModels.LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
            if (model.UserName == "admin" && model.Password == "pass") // This will be pulled from DB etc
            {
                var ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1,               // version
                                                           model.UserName,  // user name
                                                           DateTime.Now,    // create time
                                                           DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(30), // expire time
                                                           false,           // persistent
                                                           "");             // user data

                var strEncryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket);
                var cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, strEncryptedTicket);
                Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);

                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl))
                {
                    return Redirect(returnUrl);
                }
                else
                {
                    return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
            }

        // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
        return View(model);
    }

    [AdministratorAuthorize]
    public ActionResult MainMenu()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public class AdministratorAuthorizeAttribute : AuthorizeAttribute
    {
        protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
        {
            var authenCookie = httpContext.Request.Cookies.Get(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName);
            if (authenCookie == null) return false;

            var ticket = FormsAuthentication.Decrypt(authenCookie.Value);
            var id = new FormsIdentity(ticket);
            var astrRoles = ticket.UserData.Split(new[] { ',' });
            var principal = new GenericPrincipal(id, astrRoles);
            httpContext.User = principal;
            return true;
        }

        protected override void HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
        {
            var model = new AdministratorAccountModels.LoginModel();
            var viewData = new ViewDataDictionary(model);

            filterContext.Result = new ViewResult { ViewName = "Login", ViewData = viewData };

        }
    }
}

A: okay here you go The Code
in there you have ActionFilters folder ( AuthAccess.cs)
Plugins Folder (security.cs (encrypt/decrypt cookie), SessionHandler.cs (all matters of login))
Controllers folder (BaseController.cs, and exampleController (show you how to use)
and the loginTable SQL file.
i use mysql so you may need to amend, also i use subsonic so my model would come from there
and would be in the empty models folder.
really simple to use will leave it up for a while for you, enjoy
nope cookie model is here sorry:
using System;

namespace TestApp.Models
{
    public class CookieModel
{
    public string CurrentGuid { get; set; }
    public DateTime LoginTime { get; set; }
    public Int32 UserLevel { get; set; }
    public Int32 LoginID { get; set; }
    public bool isValidLogin { get; set; }
    public string realUserName { get; set; }
    public string emailAddress { get; set; }
}
}

A: Isn't this what roles are for?
Have a look at asp.net mvc authorization using roles or have a look at roles in general

A: I used a combination of code suggested by minus4 and my own code above to create this simplified scenario that might help someone else. I added some comments about things that confused me at first.
 public class AdministratorAccountController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Login()
    {
        return View("Login");
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Login(AdministratorAccountModels.LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
            // Here you would call a service to process your authentication
            if (model.UserName == "admin" && model.Password == "pass")
            {
                // * !!! *
                // Creating a FromsAuthenticationTicket is what
                // will set RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated to True
                // in the AdminAuthorize attribute code below
                // * !!! *
                var ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, // version
                                                           model.UserName, // user name
                                                           DateTime.Now, // create time
                                                           DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(30), // expire time
                                                           false, // persistent
                                                           ""); // user data, such as roles

                var strEncryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket);
                var cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, strEncryptedTicket);
                Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);

                // Redirect back to the page you were trying to access
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl))
                {
                    return Redirect(returnUrl);
                }
                else
                {
                    return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
            }

        // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
        return View(model);
    }

    [AdminAuthorize]
    public ActionResult MainMenu()
    {
        return View();
    }

    public class AdminAuthorize : ActionFilterAttribute
    {
        public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
        {
            if (!filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                // Redirect to the needed login page
                // This can be pulled from config file or anything else
                filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Redirect("/AdministratorAccount/Login?ReturnUrl="
                                        + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(filterContext.HttpContext.Request.RawUrl));
            }

            base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
        }
    }
}

A: i tackled this one before i have a class i use for login
routines are  login, read cookie, check cookie and they have a model that contains
name, email, id, userlevel
then you just have your own custom actionFilter
eg [CustomAuth(MinAllowedLevel=10)]
i use a baseclass for all my controllers so i can have an easier link to
all my session content and can then get info like so
var model = pictures.all().where(x => x.userid == users.ReadCookie.userID)

i will bob up the code tommorow if you want for you when im back on UK daytime
say 10 hrs i will let you have the class for all the session stuff and the
custom action filter that you can use, then all you need is a logins table with a userlevel field, best with levels of 10,20,30,40  incase you need a level between 1  and 2

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Q: Why my zipkin client do not connect to my zipkin server With dependency spring-cloud-starter-zipkin, App should connect to zipkin server when sleuth triggered. I did not started zipkin server, so it should throw a connection exception. But nothing happened. And when I start zipkin server, it can not receive anything.
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>bj.demo</groupId>
    <artifactId>hellozipin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>hellozipin</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.13.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>
    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
                <version>Edgware.SR3</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-zipkin</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

App.java
package bj.demo;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
    }

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public Object index() {
        return "hello world";
    }
}

application.properties
logging.level.org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet=debug
spring.sleuth.sampler.percentage=1

And logs
2018-06-08 12:27:06.104 DEBUG [-,8e644cefdea9d09c,8e644cefdea9d09c,true] 5454 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet' processing GET request for [/]
2018-06-08 12:27:06.104 DEBUG [-,8e644cefdea9d09c,8e644cefdea9d09c,true] 5454 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Last-Modified value for [/] is: -1
2018-06-08 12:27:06.105 DEBUG [-,8e644cefdea9d09c,8e644cefdea9d09c,true] 5454 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Null ModelAndView returned to DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcherServlet': assuming HandlerAdapter completed request handling
2018-06-08 12:27:06.105 DEBUG [-,8e644cefdea9d09c,8e644cefdea9d09c,true] 5454 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet        : Successfully completed request

A: When I change the project root log level to "debug", I saw some error report from zipkin. Then I realized that the zipkin server I used was very very old. And the zipkin API call returned 404.
When I updated my zipkin server to latest version. It worked.


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Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix
Isao Murakami, Takuma Fujii, Kaori Kameyama, Takashi Iwata, Miyuki Saito, Kaneyuki Kubushiro, Daisuke Aoki
産婦人科学(婦人科)
研究成果: Review article › 査読
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the risk and recurrence of early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix, and to determine whether non-radical methods of management could be performed. Methods: The medical and histopathological records of 50 patients with early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix treated at Keio University Hospital between 1993 and 2005 were reviewed, and compared with the literature. Results: The median follow-up period was 64.3 months. The depth of stromal invasion was ≤3 mm in 33 cases and >3 mm, but ≤5 mm in 17 cases. The horizontal spread was ≤7 mm in 25 cases and >7 mm in 25 cases. One of the 33 cases that had tumor volumes of ≤500 mm 3, and three of the 17 cases with tumor volumes of >500 mm 3 were positive for lymph node metastasis. When our data were combined with previously reported results, statistically significant differences were observed between the tumor volume and the frequency of pelvic lymph node metastasis/the rate of recurrence (p<0.0001). The frequency of pelvic lymph node metastases was significantly higher in the lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI)-positive group than in the LVSI-negative group (p=0.02). No adnexal metastasis or parametrial involvement was noted. Conclusion: Assessment of the depth of stromal invasion, tumor volume, and LVSI is critical for selecting an appropriate therapeutic modality. Non-radical methods of management are considered suitable for patients with LVSI-negative adenocarcinoma of the cervix exhibiting a stromal invasion depth of ≤5 mm and a tumor volume of ≤500 mm 3.
Journal of gynecologic oncology
https://doi.org/10.3802/jgo.2012.23.3.153
Published - 2012 6
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「Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix」の研究トピックを掘り下げます。これらがまとまってユニークなフィンガープリントを構成します。
Cervix Uteri Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Tumor Burden Medicine & Life Sciences 96%
Adenocarcinoma Medicine & Life Sciences 79%
Neoplasm Metastasis Medicine & Life Sciences 49%
Lymph Nodes Medicine & Life Sciences 43%
University Hospitals Medicine & Life Sciences 15%
Murakami, I., Fujii, T., Kameyama, K., Iwata, T., Saito, M., Kubushiro, K., & Aoki, D. (2012). Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix. Journal of gynecologic oncology, 23(3), 153-158. https://doi.org/10.3802/jgo.2012.23.3.153
Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix. / Murakami, Isao; Fujii, Takuma; Kameyama, Kaori; Iwata, Takashi; Saito, Miyuki; Kubushiro, Kaneyuki; Aoki, Daisuke.
In: Journal of gynecologic oncology, Vol. 23, No. 3, 06.2012, p. 153-158.
Murakami, I, Fujii, T, Kameyama, K, Iwata, T, Saito, M, Kubushiro, K & Aoki, D 2012, 'Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix', Journal of gynecologic oncology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 153-158. https://doi.org/10.3802/jgo.2012.23.3.153
Murakami I, Fujii T, Kameyama K, Iwata T, Saito M, Kubushiro K et al. Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix. Journal of gynecologic oncology. 2012 6;23(3):153-158. https://doi.org/10.3802/jgo.2012.23.3.153
Murakami, Isao ; Fujii, Takuma ; Kameyama, Kaori ; Iwata, Takashi ; Saito, Miyuki ; Kubushiro, Kaneyuki ; Aoki, Daisuke. / Tumor volume and lymphovascular space invasion as a prognostic factor in early invasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix. In: Journal of gynecologic oncology. 2012 ; Vol. 23, No. 3. pp. 153-158.
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2019 Arnot-Roberts, Gamay Noir, El Dorado, Sierra Foothills.
The 2019 Gamay from Arnot-Roberts shows a silky texture and a bright flavor profile with pretty cherry, cola bean, red currant and plum leading the way on the medium bodied palate, it tastes best with a slight chill that brings out sharper details and highlights the mineral here. True Gamay Noir was first found here in the Sierra Foothills, with Steve Edmunds of Edmunds St. John making what is believed to be original modern California Gamay, and the grape has really taken off in recent times, with dozens of new versions available it seems every year. The ruby hued Arnot-Roberts Gamay is beautifully elegant and has low alcohol, with vibrant acidity, taking advantage of the region's granite based soils, along with some volcanic clay-loam soils and studded with quartz and Feldspar rocks, which Gamay historically, like in the Crus of Beaujolais, has found a good home on the high elevation sites, along with a smooth ripe, almost Pinot Noir mouth feel. Usually made with whole bunches and native yeasts, these lighter styled reds from Arnot-Roberts mostly see their aging in used French oak, which allow transparency and delicacy to show through. This vintage is less crunchy and more refined with supple structure, it should age nicely for another 3 to 5 years, it does everything well, but is maybe just not as thrilling as the Trousseau is, in the Arnot-Roberts lineup.
The Arnot-Roberts label, founded in Healdsburg in 2001 by Duncan (Arnot) Meyers and Nathan Roberts, two Napa Valley boys, has, as I have said in prior reviews, helped elevate many unique varietals including Trousseau, this Gamay Noir, plus even some Gruner Veltliner, soured from Richard Alfaro's estate vineyard in Corralitos (Santa Cruz Mountains) and Touriga Nacional, from the Luchsinger Vineyard in Lake County, which they make one of the state's best Rosé wines out of, in California. The Arnot-Roberts Trousseau, as mentioned above, is a favorite of mine, and as revealed by the winery, is sourced from the three distinct vineyards; the Lake County Luchsinger, Bohan Ranch, in Fort Ross-Seaview, on the Sonoma Coast and Bartolomei, in the Russian River, that all of which have distinct soils and climate influences in these sites that results in a wine that shows their singular personalities, with their Gamay too being very distinct, coming from both the Witters and Barsotti vineyards, plus I wouldn't miss their Chardonnay(s) and Syrah(s), both of which are exceptional and exciting wines. For a while, Arnot-Roberts teamed up with Raj Parr to do their Gamay, called RPM, but now it is all their own style and has become a fine California influenced example of this varietal. I am excited to see the upcoming 2021 releases from Arnot-Roberts, it looks like a year to stock up on, especially as it will be their 20th anniversary as a producer!


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Britain Must Set Out A Realistic Brexit Negotiating Position
Joaquín Almunia 8th January 2018
Joaquín Almunia
Now the European Council has given permission for the second phase of Brexit negotiations to proceed, the moment of truth has arrived. The British position on the final status of its future relationship with the European Union must be clarified in the coming weeks. If possible, this should be before the end of January, when the EU-27 will give Michel Barnier his new mandate. Too many months have been spent on the first chapter of the negotiations, and this is why the UK side is now under pressure to reach an agreement in time to allow ratification proceedings to be completed before the final deadline of March 2019.
According to Brussels, the red lines defined by Theresa May are only consistent with a trade agreement that follows the pattern of the Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada. This means that the UK should accept that it will no longer be part of the Single Market or the customs union – just as the Brexiteers want. But Barnier has announced that it will not be possible to include provision for financial services within the Canadian model. Therefore, the City will be obliged to maintain a significant degree of regulatory equivalence with the European rules in order to operate in EU territory without losing the level playing field. Otherwise, the loss of access to EU markets could seriously harm the most dynamic sector of the British economy.
There are many reasons to foresee resistance to May's red lines as the negotiations progress. Opposition will not come only from the City. Indeed, some of the lines have already been blurred to get the green light from the European Council to declare that "sufficient progress" has been made on the Irish question, the situation of British and EU citizens living abroad, and the final divorce bill. The question now is to what extent the government still has leeway to adjust its previous demands, given May's political weakness and the internal tensions in the cabinet. Can we really imagine that the UK will stay in the Single Market once it becomes clear that its "four freedoms", including the free movement of people, cannot be split? At this juncture, everybody knows that it's not possible to eat the cake and keep it on the table at the same time. And the chances of getting a bespoke trade agreement are very slim.
The fact that the House of Commons will vote at the end of the negotiations on whether to accept or reject the deal adds new difficulties for Theresa May. On the one hand, from a democratic point of view is quite obvious that Parliament should have the final say. "Taking back control" also applies to Westminster. But on the other hand, as MPs will not be able to amend the agreement reached by the negotiators, a No vote when the two-year deadline established by Article 50 comes to an end will mean that the UK will be obliged to leave the Union in the worst way possible. This means that pro-European MPs, even if they are unlikely to reverse the referendum result, can exert strong pressure in favour of a deal close to their demands.
How all these contradictory demands can be reconciled without leading to a political crisis, a change in the Conservative leadership or a snap election is not an easy question. The risks are high. From now on, negotiators cannot waste another minute on utopian scenarios. The FT has estimated that the British economy has already lost, in terms of lower GDP growth, the £350m a week that the Brexiteers promised to the NHS during the referendum campaign. If the UK is unable to reach a good agreement with the EU, the negative economic consequences will dramatically increase.
Some optimistic Remainers think that pressure from the economic sector and politicians trying to avoid this scenario can help supporters of a "soft Brexit" within May's cabinet. This outcome would see Britain negotiate a relationship with the EU that would be close as possible to the so-called "Norwegian model", including Single Market rules. Or, at least, a long transitional period followed by commitment to limited regulatory divergence from the EU regulations. If Brexit were ever to be reversed, this arrangement would facilitate it.
The ball is in the Britain's court. Unless it clarifies its position, negotiations cannot advance, and the time pressures will increase every day. Businesses will start implementing their contingency plans, investments will be postponed, and people will feel more of the economic consequences. Politically, the internal tensions within the government and the Tory party will lead to a crisis. EU countries have managed to unite behind Barnier. Britain's interests will suffer unless it can set out a clear vision for its future relationship with the EU.
This post originally appeared on the LSE Brexit blog and represents the views of the author and not those of the Brexit blog, nor the LSE.
Joaquín Almunia is Visiting Professor in Practice at the European Institute, LSE and a former Vice-President of the European Commission.
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Minmetals has formally launched its new Australian-based company.
China's Minmetals formally launched its new Australian-based company yesterday following the completion of its $1.7 billion asset sale with OZ Minerals.
MMG (Minerals and Metals Group) was created out of the mines Minmetals purchased from OZ Minerals and will be headed up by former OZ chief executive Andrew Michelmore.
Mines to be operated by MMG include the Sepon project in Laos, Golden Grove in Western Australia and the world's second largest zinc mine, the Century project in Queensland.
Michelmore said he is looking forward to meeting expectations from both Australia and China.
"With established mining assets in Australia and Laos, and exciting exploration and development opportunities domestically and around the world, I am confident MMG is well positioned to deliver on these expectations," he said.
According to Minmetals president Zhou Zhongshu, MMG is well positioned to take advantage of its existing assets and become a major international minerals player.
"The organisation we launch here today has strength and a clear direction in its aim to develop world class mineral and metal projects," Zhou said.
"My hope is that MMG will come to be recognised as a familiar and respected participant in the Australian and international mining and exploration communities."
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Comcast knows that its customer service reputation is terrible — the question is whether it actually cares. With its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable up for regulatory review, Comcast certainly wants to at least give off the impression that it's working night and day to make things better. DSLReports flags a new blog post from Comcast Cable president and CEO Neil Smit, who says that Comcast is finally getting around to focussing on improving its customer service with the hire of a new executive named Charlie Herrin, who "has been named SVP, Customer Experience." What's really noteworthy, however, are Smit's explanations for why Comcast's customer service has been so infamously bad over the years.
Have you got that? Comcast has sadly lost focus on customer service because it's been so busy "innovating" on your behalf.
A couple of things stand out here. First, there are plenty of companies that do innovative things and still deliver first-rate customer service. Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and plenty of other big-name tech firms are extremely innovative and yet have customer satisfaction ratings that are off the charts.
Second: I've seen things from Comcast that I have never seen in any other company, with the possible exception of Comcast's would-be partner in crime Time Warner Cable.
From retention agents who come off as an unholy cross of Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, to customers who get disconnected on service calls after getting repeatedly transferred to phantom supervisors, to customers who are put on hold for three straight hours until the service center closes, to customers who get told completely contradictory things by multiple representatives, Comcast has set a standard for terrible customer that would make government bureaucrats in Kafka novels blush.
And again: Those are just examples of phone calls that have been recorded over the last three months alone. I cannot imagine the horrors that have befallen customers who haven't thought to make an audio document of their calls.
In fact, now that I think of it, I might be starting to understand where Smit is coming from — you may not enjoy customer service that's this terrible, but in its own way it is quite innovative.


In the late 19th century, the English naturalist William Thomas Blanford maintained that Fishing Cats occur in the Indo-Gangetic plain, extending as far as Sind, from where he had received a specimen procured from Sehwan (Blanford 1888–91). The city of Sehwan is located on the western banks of the Indus River, east of Manchar Lake.
It is now very rare in Pakistan, which country forms the extreme western limit of its world distribution. It is mainly confined to the Indus riverine tract in its southern portions, with an occasional straggler in the extreme north east wandering down the Ravi or Sutlej Rivers. Animal exporters within the past four or five years captured specimens from Haleji and Kalri [Keenjhar] Lakes around Thatta as well as in some of the 'dhands' on the east bank of the Indus around Sujjawal. It appears still to survive precariously in the swamps around Jamroa Head in the east Nara (Karim Dad Junejo, pers. comm. 1973). A few still survive in the Indus riverine forests south of Sukkur (Mir of Khaipur, H. H. Murali Murad Talpur, pers. comm. 1973).
In the north eastern region of the Punjab a large male was killed 12 miles north of Lahore near Batapur by Mr. Krebb in 1968. Another male was shot by Major S. A. Khan near the Sutlej River beyond Kasur in 1966. R. D. Taber (1967) describing the mammals of Lyallpur region refers to a large cat killed in the reeds alongside the Chenab River in the early 1960s, believed to have been this species.
Southern Sind was the only stronghold of this cat in Pakistan, and it is now fast disappearing because of increased cultivation adjacent of the Indus river and the shrinking of inundation areas from that river. Increased human exploitation of remaining swamp areas, both by fishing and cattle grazing, with its attendant reed burning, has driven the Fishing Cat out of most of its former haunts.
Its skin is esteemed by the fur trade and this rare and interesting cat must be protected if it is to remain on the list of Pakistan's fauna.
During surveys conducted in June 2007 and January 2008, indirect evidences such as tracks, faeces and interviews with local residents suggested the presence of Fishing Cats at Chotiari Reservoir, Keenjhar Lake and Keti Bunder Wildlife Sanctuary (WWF Pakistan 2007).
Blanford, W. T. 1888–91. Felis viverrina. The Fishing Cat. In: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. Taylor and Francis, London. Pages 76–77.
Roberts, T. J. 1977. Mammals of Pakistan. Ernest Benn Ltd., London. Pages 151–153.
WWF Pakistan — Indus for All Programme. 2007. Detailed Ecological Assessment of Fauna, including Limnology Studies at Chotiari Reservoir 2007 — 2008. WWF Pakistan, Karachi. Pages 105–106.
Appel, A. 2011. Fishing Cat in Pakistan. Fishing Cat Working Group.


has any one got this programe that they can let me have?
for some reason i cannot search and add new channels, only by putting in one at the time.
been told this will let me up load listing to my system.
I know Im new here but can some one please help me?
thanks chap for the link good reading but most of it a bit over my head. Iv had the system a very long time but have not done any thing to it from the day is was fitted.
was hoping i could find some free software to edit channels and up load as i seem to be missing a lot.
"was hoping i could find some free software to edit channels and up load as i seem to be missing a lot."


Energis Buys Links Between Six More Cities in Europe - InternetNews.
Broadband service provider Global TeleSystems (GTS) announced Friday that Energis Carrier Services (ECS) has ordered an Optical Sub-Network (OSN) service between Zurich, Milan, Geneva, Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg.
Initially, ECS will purchase a 2.5 Gbps dedicated bandwidth channel to connect the five new cities. It already has a similar connection between London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.
"As the e-business revolution drives a growing hunger for capacity in Europe, carriers like ECS are harnessing the power of our IP-enabled trans-European network to meet the needs of their customers," said Gerard Caccappolo, president of GTS Carrier Services.
Ray Ridgwell, managing director of ECS, said that the GTS network was the most robust international network in Europe and was helping ECS to become one of the premier carriers in the region.
The OSN service uses dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology which enablels huge volumes of data to be transmitted in comparison to networks of an earlier generation.
ECS will be able to upgrade its 2.5 Gbps dedicated bandwidth channel to 10 Gbps while also expanding it to other OSNs on the GTS network.
GTS operates the largest cross-border fiber-optic network and the largest Tier-1 IP backbone in Europe. Its European headquarters are in London and it has offices in 80 European cities.
Earlier this week Energis announced it has invested £7.5 million ($12 million) in Broker-to-Broker Networks Inc. (B2B), a financial e-commerce/online broking software and support company. The investment brings a 30 per cent stake in B2B.


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Q: Return name of category with best average rating from list I have list of products and I need to calculate average rating for every category based on it's products rating. The problem is that I don't know exactly number of categories and products in each category.
So basically there is n categories and m products in it and need to calculate average rating of every category and return name of the one with best average rating.
Desire Output : The best category is "phone" with average rating of "910"
Structure of list:
"products": [
    {
      "category": "pc",
      "rating": 1000,
    },
    {
      "category": "pc",
      "rating": 800,
    },
    {
      "category": "phone",
      "rating": 860,
    },
    {
      "category": "phone",
      "rating": 960,
    },
]

A: Try:
data = {
    "products": [
        {
            "category": "pc",
            "rating": 1000,
        },
        {
            "category": "pc",
            "rating": 800,
        },
        {
            "category": "phone",
            "rating": 860,
        },
        {
            "category": "phone",
            "rating": 960,
        },
    ]
}

from statistics import mean

tmp = {}
for p in data["products"]:
    tmp.setdefault(p["category"], []).append(p["rating"])

tmp = {k: mean(v) for k, v in tmp.items()}

for k, v in tmp.items():
    print("Category:", k)
    print("Average:", v)
    print()

best = max(tmp, key=tmp.get)
print(f"Best average: {best} Average: {tmp[best]}")

Prints:
Category: pc
Average: 900

Category: phone
Average: 910

Best average: phone Average: 910


How a DUI can turn into a Felony: | Michael D. Barber & Associates, P.C.
Late Saturday night a woman, Tessa Marie Openalnder, from Richmond Hill Georgia was traveling on Bellinger Hill Road just outside of Savannah and the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge when she was involved in a one car accident. (Island Packet news). There were two other occupants inside the vehicle and one of the men was ejected from the vehicle when the car struck the other side of the roadway. Upon being ejected the man died at the scene. Ms. Openlander was charged with a Felony DUI and was extradited to South Carolina. Savannah and Hilton Head share many traffic incidents between themselves as residents from surrounding areas travel the roads to and from destination.
Many people don't realize that although a DUI is normally charged as a misdemeanor it can turn in to a Felony if the facts and circumstances surrounding the DUI cause a Felony to attach. Normally, a DUI in Georgia is a misdemeanor, BUT if there is a contributing factor such as a serious injury by vehicle OR a death involved in an accident, then the DUI can be charged and treated as a Felony in Georgia.
CAN I BE CHARGED WITH A FELONY JUST FROM THE ACCIDENT INVOLVING A DUI?
Unfortunately the answer to this question is yes, but there is more to understand. A charge is simply the way that the prosecution gets started on your case. However, getting a conviction of those charges means little without facts and evidence and difficult or nearly impossible without facts and evidence. Each case has underlying facts which may either support or disprove the allegations that the prosecution has brought against you. For instance if the testing used in Georgia is not done correctly or not followed as it was required to be followed and is taught by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) then there is a possibility that the entire investigation can be suppressed in court. As an example these tests, or testing, have different ranges and requirements where the test that covers a Marijuana DUI is located in the Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement examination which is the testing that is just above the alcohol DUI testing version which is located in the Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and examination. The series of tests for drugs, including methamphetamine, Heroine, Cocaine, or prescription medication is the Drug Recognition Expert examination. These levels of testing require training which is usually given to the officers at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (or GPSTC) or the academy where the police officer received their instruction.
After confirmation by the officer that the driver was DUI the officer then takes any circumstances surrounding the DUI arrest, such as the accident, injuries from the accident or even a fatality from the accident and will assess further citations. Serious injury by vehicle can be found in O.C.G.A. 40-6-394 and is a Felony. Homicide by vehicle can be found at O.C.G.A. 40-6-393 and although depends on underlying citations, when Homicide by vehicle involves a DUI it qualifies as a felony under the statute in the State of Georgia.
Of course should YOU find yourself in a situation where you are facing criminal charges remember that there are facts to every case where defenses can be raised for anyone charged with the crimes of DUI, Serious Injury by Vehicle, Violation of Georgia Controlled Substances Act (VGCSA) or Possession of Marijuana. Each situation is different from the other and requires a evaluation of all the information in order to properly mount a effective defense and/or negotiation with the prosecutor's office.
Our office has 24 hour response lines to answer your questions and help you. Give our team of lawyers a call at 404-445-8494. We can help you mount a proper defense for your situation.


TOP notcher Tony Eccles won the second big tournament of the 2008 North-east darts calendar - the Tyne and Wear Open at Sunderland.
Cleveland's Eccles pocketed £750 after beating Durham surprise package Kev Elliott 5-3 in front of a capacity crowd in the final.
The 38-year-old professional, controversially beaten by Adrian Lewis in the last 16 of the PDC World Championship, had made it through after cruising past Northumberland's Andy Lynn in the last eight and toppling Ormesby's Glen Durrant 4-1 in a pulsating semi-final.
The tournament attracted a huge and high quality entry of 169 players, with an army of Cleveland hopefuls clashing with the best Tyne and Wear, Durham, and Northumberland has to offer.
Early casualties included former BDO World Championship runner-up Phill Nixon and England international Dave Richardson.
Acklam's Glenn Moody - now a cult figure in tungsten circles after reaching the second round on his BDO worlds debut - bowed out 3-2 after a tight encounter with Scotland captain Mike Veitch in the last 16.
Runner-up Elliott was a shock winner over local player Paul Williams in the quarter-finals and then saw off Paul Skelton - who had humbled Veitch 3-1 in a cracker - 4-2 to book his place in the final.
Durrant - winner of this year's opening North-east event at Eston Institute a fortnight ago - came back from 2-0 down to beat Northumberland's Alan Davie in his quarter final.
The next competition takes place at Marton Country Club this Saturday, February 9. Sponsored by Coors and the Country Club, spectator entry is free, with registration at 11am and toe-to-the-oche 12.30pm.


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Margate by the Sea: an unexpected delight
We went to Margate to visit the new(ish, 2011) Turner Art Gallery and the Grayson Perry exhibition.
We were slightly disappointed by its architecture – not the shape but the colour – dull grey. Apparently when opened it was coloured by banners but not now and whilst the sun was shining – quite remarkable for this end of summer this year, we could envisage it being very dull indeed on a wet grey day by the sea.
It is positioned right at one end of the huge series of bays that form the Margate sea front. By the harbour wall of what was once Meregate a small fishing village . it has been inhabited since probably pre-historic times and certainly the Romans lived there but constant invasions made life difficult during the 8th, 9th and 10th century.
Margate is situated on the coast of the Isle of Thanet, which of course, hasn't been an island for a long time. But it was still an island when the Romans lived there and a bridge wasn't built until the 1400s. In the 1700s you could still reach it by ferry, but the channel silted up and Reculver is now on dry(ish) land. The land still needs to be defended against the sea trying to gain its channel back and so there are sea defences all along the coastline.
Margate – which is on the outer edge and thus faces the English Channel, was part of the Cinque Ports through the control of Dover, but became independent from their control in 1857.
It is claimed to be one of, if not the first, coastal resort for sea bathing which greatly changed its status from a fishing (smuggling) harbour to a fashionable bathing town bringing with it not only boats carrying traffic down river from London but eventually also the railway. Turner lived in Margate for some years coming down by boat from London and then leaving by boat to cross the channel from there. Very convenient – and thus the Turner Gallery was built here.
However, after the flush of post war holidays in seaside resorts within Britain and then the holiday camps of Butlins and Pontins etc decline in the 1970s, when cheap Spanish holidays came in for the masses, Margate declined.
I went to this area of coastline often as a child staying at Broadstairs, just along from Margate in a bed and breakfast establishment of which there were huge numbers. These high terraced houses are now in sad repair but, since 2011 and the Turner Gallery, some are being bought up and refurbished and becoming boutique hotels such as the Crescent Victoria where we stayed, just along from the Gallery.
The Isle of Thanet has a most amazing coastline. It is really all sand and yet more sand. Great depth of beaches that are shallow in slope so good for kiddie play which is why the area was so popular when I was a child. And now there is a seawater pool in the middle of one beach for safe swimming.
Margate is tatty round the edges but has some interesting areas around the Old Town where they seem to specialise in vintage clothes and furniture. We found two really nice places to eat – Harbour Café which did the most amazing chips; and the Ambrette which is a modern Indian – even does roast Sunday lunches with venison and other exotic meats. However, rather lacking in vegetarian food which was a shame. Still good reviews from the meat eaters – even some suggesting it is worth a Michelin Star!
And then of course there is the Shell Grotto. No visit to Margate is complete without a visit to this very interesting but unexplained and without know history, underground cavern.
Stories about when it was created range from the Phonoecians in very early history (yes they did trade with the UK) as a religious place – with an altar at the far end of these underground passageways. Or a Folly of course. Or something else entirely.
What is certain is that all the shells apart from 4 are English, it has been around a few hundred years and has been open since the 19th century to the public, and the shells have been added, altered etc at different times but some are clearly very old. Many of the patterns are symbolic eg A Tree of Life; A Corn Goddess; A Ganesha; A skeleton; A Perseus and so on….
Spooky as it is all underground and quite large – 104 feet.
What is a really nice thing to have is the Viking Trail. This is coastal path for bikes and pedestrians which is very smooth and wide and goes all around the island's coast passing through Ramsgate and Broadstairs and Reculver too. It is 25 miles in length so you can run a marathon if you wish – but the one running when we were there did a figure of 8 and came back to its start!
This entry was posted in art, Food and eating, Random and interesting items, religion, travel, wildlife and tagged artists, Grayson Perry, history, Margate, nature, seaside, Thanet, Turner, wildlife on October 8, 2015 by ukgardenfiend.
The films of note – or not
It's not often that I do film reviews, but having been to the cinema quite a few times recently, plus sitting on a long haul flight, I've had the opportunity to see quite a few of the latest films. Some have been good and one I walked out of after 20 minutes!
Let's start with the one I set out to see:
Now both my husband and I had really wanted to see this film as we have been starved of good sci-fi films (yes we are star-trek addicts – for a very long time0.
But we watched this independently in the plane at different times and both stopped at the same point in the film. So just 1 star for this film. The characters were not well formed and the story of the earth's disaster seemed to b too long drawn out. What was the structure of the story? What was the significance of the gravity signs? And the daughter? May be explained later in the film but we couldn't be bothered to find out…
The Rewrite was my second choice of film on the long haul flight and interestingly it proposed its own story line and explained the significance of the three act structure and outlining as the way to start your writing. Now I know from my author interviews that some authors don't write in a structured way and thus the ideas of Davies in terms of how a story unfolds – the five part story – which the classic fairy tales follow – are not followed by all authors. As a uni lecturer who loves to teach I empathised with the final choice of the main character in this film. 3.5 stars.
This film I gave 4 stars to. Much the best of all the recent films I have seen except for Still Alice and Selma, but more of that later.
This film is about Turing and his life and work at the Bletchley Park. I have know about Turing for a very long time – since I first started learning about computers, as he devised a test for self-awareness in a computer. That is a computer that thinks for itself. As far as I am aware, no computer has yet passed the Turing test but we are certainly coming very close as our artificial Intelligence capabilities grow.
Bletchley Park still exists as a museum and you can go and see the computer that was developed – and which now works – in the original huts hat people worked for code breaking and the Enigma machine.
When I was last there, we have coffee in the original canteen area – still decorated in World War Two posters etc.
The film did play down the fact that Turing was homosexual which caused him an amount of grief and that he later committed suicide – some say because of the way in which he was treated after the war.
This was definitely a 4.- 4.5 star film.
Again a 4.5 star film about how voting rights were protested and obtained through the women of Selma and the actions of Martin Luther King and other pastors he was linked to in his movement for equality between races.
The famous march from Selma to Montgomery was the main action of this film and the characters we well portrayed in all their foibles and faults and yet sympathetically.
You cheered them on and really wished you could have been there on this march. It certainly reminded us of the marches we had been on, which were not as fraught as this one by any means and yet were actions of which we were proud to have participated in.
The Second Best Marigold Hotel
Nothing like as good as the first film. A poor follow on event though it had the sae stars plus Richard Gere. He wasn't necessary to the story and only confused it. In fact there were too many story lines this time but the Bollywood dancing was good!
It's not often we walk out of films as mentioned above, but at least we stayed longer in this one – but this hit both my husband and I at the same time. At 1.5 hours in we turned to each other and said. 'I'm bored'. And s we both were.
This is a film that is attempting to start a James |bond franchise no doubt but failing. We have the steely upper class English gents, we have the fancy weaponry . The hidden and multi-sited facility with loyal servants and dogs no less as the faithful companions. We have the intensive training of Oxbridge students and the plucky not so Oxbridge hero and remote locations and secret and complex deadly fighting abilities. But boring. None of that is new. Even the evil villain isn't new.
So what was worth making a film of 2.5 hours? We failed to see.
This was so good my husband actually saw it twice! But Margate really doesn't look like that now…
We also made sure we saw the Tate collection of Turner paintings that are regularly shown as well as the special exhibition to remind us of what we love about his painting..
Timothy Spall was brilliant as Turner.
This entry was posted in Ageing, art, films, Knowledge, law enforcement, Older women, overseas, Random and interesting items, review, travel, writing and tagged 2nd Best Marigold Hotel, film review, Imitation Game, Interstellar, Kingsman, Rewrite, Selma, Turner on June 1, 2015 by ukgardenfiend.


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Q: Xamarin Realm DB Delete All Records I have a very short question, I have a project built with Xamarin. I am using realm db in this project. And what I want to do is delete all data on realm db whenever I press a button. I can do this in listview with item selected, but I want to delete all data with a single button.
Thank you in advance for your help. Stackoverflow has taught me a lot.

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I am using realm db in this project. And what I want to do is delete all data on realm db whenever I press a button. I can do this in listview with item selected, but I want to delete all data with a single button.

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Volunteers are being sought to take part in a survey that will play a crucial role in shaping the Isle of Man's future finances.
Data collected from the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) will be used to calculate the Island's indirect tax share under the VAT sharing arrangement with the United Kingdom.
Ensuring a fair deal is vital to the Island's finances and the funding of the essential public services all Islanders rely on.
Treasury Minister Alfred Cannan MHK emphasised the 'critical importance' of the survey in his 2018 Budget speech and urged people to get involved.
The HIES is scheduled to start in April when invitations will be sent to a random sample of Island households. People can also volunteer to participate by visiting the Government website.
After a short initial interview at their home, participants will be required to keep a diary over a two-week period to monitor the entire household's expenditure (excluding under 16s). All the information collected will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Everyone aged 16 or over who takes part in the survey will receive a one-off payment of £15, while participating households will also be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win £1,000.
The Cabinet Office is encouraging a wide cross-section of the Manx public to take part in the survey.
The survey is also used to determine the basket of goods included in the consumer and retail price indices, measures of Island inflation.


Grade level: K-8. By popular demand, we've taken our best selling Top 10 posters and created exciting, full-color bookmarks using the same child-friendly graphics. This bookmark is an inexpensive way to promote ways to build good character. Ways to build good character include: treat others fairly, don't be a quitter, help others in need, and more.
Sold in packs of 100 bookmarks of the same title.


I bought the lamp set two months ago. They look like brand new, perfect condition!The price is for two lamps( incl. lamp bulbs)PS. Only accept pick up on Thursday. The exact time can be discussed!
Remote controlled mini alarm with 2 remote controls and batteries. Still in the original package sealed, never used. Please call after 5pm or email.
2 x 150W halogen floodlights with movement sensor electronic for outdoor use.Still in the original package, never used. Please call after 5pm or email.


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Vanadinite. Unknown origin.
Vanadinite Pb5(VO4)3Cl is a mineral which forms in the oxidation zones of lead deposits, and is commonly referred to as a secondary mineral of lead. It is in a series of minerals which include mimetite and pyromorphite. The crystals in this specimen are orange and hexagonal. but sadly the origin of this specimen is unknown.
Manganese ore.
Manganese ore can be quite complex in composition, however the known location and origin of these specimens is helpful. The specimens were collected from Hozatel mine, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Ore from this mine is described as Hozatel super grade, which has a manganese content of approximately 38% together with finely intergrown braunite and manganese carbonate. The pinkish areas in the specimens are the carbonate, and one specimen has an obvious iron content. Manganese ore was mined here till the 1980s when zones of ferruginization made it become economically unviable. The specimens were collected by a club member at about this time.
I offer no apology for including carborundum in my collection. I saw the specimen on a market stall amidst the bric a brac priced at £10, and I could not resist buying it. Carborundum is of course a manufactured mineral made from silicon and carbon. and is also known as silicon carbide. SiC. The method for producing carborundum was patented in 1893 by Edward Goodrich Acherson, and since then it has been one of the most important minerals in many production processes. The life of Acherson is fascinating, and I recommend that the reader should take a close look at his activities. The irridescence is the result of a silicon coating on the mineral surface.
Malachite with Chrysocolla
Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide with a formula of Cu2CO3(OH)2. Chrysocolla is a hydrated copper phyllosilicate mineral, and mineraloid. The formula is highly complex, and so it is omitted. This specimen of unknown origin is composed of a bed of very dark green microcystalline crystals of malachite, overlain with an encrustation of mineraloid chrysocolla in very small botriodal form.
Ferroan dolomite
Ferroan dolomite is a way of describing dolomite which has an iron content, which imparts a rusty brown colour. There is a running discussion on whether a particular specimen is either Ferroan dolomite, or Ankerite. A true analysis can only be conducted in a laboratory. I am inclined to believe that this specimen is Ferroan dolomite, both from appearance, and because it is recorded as being present at the location by the National Museum of Wales. I collected the specimen from Henfwlch mine, Nant y Moch reservoir, in central Wales. It is composed entirely of Ferroan dolomite, Ca(Mg,Fe)(CO3)2 with inclusions of fractured wall rock, and would be described as an example of hydraulic brecciation.
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