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Jubilee MP bereaved
by brian orutaCondolences to the family
Embakasi West Member of Parliament George Theuri is mourning the death of his father.
In a post on Facebook, the Jubilee elected MP announced that his father had passed on, Monday morning.
He went on to say that he is broken by the passing of his dad and can’t believe that his hero is no more.
 I celebrate u my hero. I may try to look strong on the outside but I'm so broken,” wrote Theuri.
Yusuf Hassan mourns Khadija
The passing of George Theuri’s father comes a few days after another Jubilee MP, Yusuf Hassan announced the death of his aunt, Khadija, who was the last remaining matriarch of their family.
The Kamukunji Member of Parliament (MP) in a tweet revealed that the relative had passed on in Garissa County.
"Lost my aunty Khadija today. She passed on in Garissa. Also an end of era for my family, she was the last surviving child of my grandfather Sultan Osman ‘Gelle’ Yusuf Magan," the MP disclosed.


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ACT OF BETRAYAL A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1996 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ** 1/2
ACT OF BETRAYAL is a 1988 Australian movie about Northern Ireland and how its troubles are not confined to its own part of the globe. Although the film was made almost a decade ago and many of the actors have aged since then, the story seems fresh out of this morning's newspaper. Elliott Gould stars in it and gives one of the best performances of his career.
The only other movie I have seen about Northern Ireland is the excellent, and better, film CAL from 1984. I am sure there may have been many others, but I do not recall them. At any rate, ACT OF BETRAYAL is too long and too slow, but manages nevertheless is to teach and to mesmerize. If I could just get my hands on the editing table, I could craft a great film by throwing away all of the extraneous material. With a finger poised on the fast forward button, you can attempt to simulate this in your own home. Don't give up on the show because the second half features a great performance by Gould and turns the show into an excellent thriller.
The plot is that after another senseless bombing of innocent victims including children, IRA terrorist Michael McGurk (Patrick Bergin from SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY) decides to turn himself in and to tell whom the five leaders of the Belfast wing of the IRA are. The British army whisks away his family, wife Eileen (Lisa Harrow) and young teenage son Sean (Krister Greer), to a safe haven in some army barracks.
Michael testifies against the IRA leaders in court, and they vow to see that he and his family are murdered in cold blood. His family does not understand why he has turned against his old friends. Michael is alone. They are given a new identity and sent to Australia to hide for the rest of their lives. The original policeman, Brian Kennedy (Bryan Marshall), whom Michael turned himself in, accompanies them to get them established in their new life. The show is about whether they will be found out and whether retire sleeper IRA agent Callaghan (Elliott Gould) will be able to find and kill them.
The director Lawrence Gordon Clark goes for the understated approach which works well with the inherently sad material. Too bad his sense of pace isn't better. One can be low key and still have proper movement.
The acting is all good. Gould is great as a hit man who should have retired years ago. He is excellent as an overweight man trying to chase his prey. You feel exhausted just watching him. The movie is at its best when showing the tedium of the hunt. Most of Callaghan's job is mundane. Also good is the strong but sentimental performance by Bryan Marshall as the caring cop. Patrick Bergin is a bit reserved, but effective as the IRA agent turned confessor.
The film is a good mixture of gritty and lush cinematography by Breffni Byme and Peter Hendry, but the background sound is unrealistic and bothersome, and the music (Bruce Smeaton) is pretty lackluster.
Overall the story and the acting carry the show. Still, too many scenes in the first half are pointless and interminable so that it may drive you nuts watching it. Hang in there because the second half is worth it. The writers (Michael Chaplin and Nick Evans) do paint themselves in a corner toward the end, but manage to extricate themselves better than I thought they would.
ACT OF BETRAYAL runs over three hours. It is not rated, but would be PG-13 for its subject matter. There is no sex or nudity and the violence is not graphic. The movie would be fine for any kid 10 and up. I recommend the show to you flaws and all and give it ** 1/2.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show.  Totally unbearable.
REVIEW WRITTEN ON: August 11, 1996
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Mothercare announce Black Friday sale with further discounts to clearance stock
Stores have already commenced 'all stock must go' clearance sales but the retailer say they've now added even further reductions.
by Sheena McstravickRetailer Mothercare has announced a huge Black Friday Sale - days after going into administration.
The popular nursery and children's retailer announced earlier this month that it had appointed administrators which will eventually result in the closure of all 75 stores across the UK.
Stores have already commenced 'all stock must go' clearance sales but the retailer say they've now added even further reductions for the Black Friday sales, Belfast Live reports.
A spokesperson said: "The bargains at Mothercare just keep getting bigger, just in time for Black Friday! From Thursday 21 November, a selection of nursery products will be available at Black Friday discounts.
"With Christmas just around the corner, it’s the perfect opportunity to pick up some bargain, as prices are reduced across all ranges."
Among the reduced items are Chicco Next2Me crib, Tommee Tippee Perfect Prep machine and Mothercare chrome travel system.


Reading Python, a formatted table
22 Jan 2016After finshing the Python Fundamentals course on Pluralsight, the next step was the follow-up course, Python - Beyond the Basics. I recently went over the module about string and representations, which covered str()
and repr()
. Both methods when called on, provide information about the object instance. str()
providing a general description (contents) while repr()
provides a fuller description (type and other small details). The module was short and sweet, about 20 minutes long. However, near the end of the course, a program was introduced that created tables based on provided lists. And this Table class had str()
and repr()
methods defined. The str()
method provided the table contents in a nice formatted output, while repr()
simply provided the type and column titles.
```python #Defining columns and data lists header = [‘First Name’, ‘Last Name’] first = [‘Daniel’, ‘Ronnie’, ‘Vanessa’] last = [‘Chia’, ‘Hernandez’, ‘Luka’]
t = Table(header, first, last)
print(str(t)) print(repr(t))
Output
#a formatted table for str()
First Name Last Name
========== =========
Daniel Chia
Ronnie Hernandez
Vanessa Luka
type and column titles for repr()
Table(header=[‘First Name’, ‘Last Name’]) ```
As an exercise I decided to dive into the code and attempt to decipher what was being written. What followed was a painful time trying to understand the code. I don’t know Pluralsight’s policy on putting their content out in the open, so I won’t put up all the code, only snippets of it. Explaining whatever stumped me, so this post is to:
- reinforce my learning
- show insight to those who haven’t seen these practices
Without further ado, let’s begin:
As you can see above, we’re passing a couple of lists (a header for the column titles, followed by lists of data) to the the Table class. This data is then manipulated in the str()
method to provide the formatted output shown.
The breakdown of the str()
function was actually quite simple:
First, a few variables are defined:
- number of columns
- widths of the colums, placed in a list
- compare the longest string in a column vs. column title, the higher of the two becomes the width for that column
- string formatters, to provide space padding for strings
The 3rd defined variable, provides a list of the string formatters, [{:column_width}, {:column_width_2}, .. ]
```python #padding, example first_name = ‘‘.format(‘Daniel’)
’’’ output -> ‘Daniel ‘ ‘’’ ```
After setting up those variables, the table is built row by row.
First an empty list is created, then 3 append calls are made, one for the header, one for the = line separators and lastly pair up the data lists and place them row by row. Each row is then tied together with a space (column divider), and returned with new line separators for a tabular display.
I provide the code to create the table, you can get it from:
sh
git clone https://gist.github.com/9840c91f8e94e5177aec.git table
python3 table/table.py
First the empty list,
python
#empyt list
result = []
Next, append the headers,
```python #append header, a generator expression #formatters is the list with {:col_width} #ie. {:10} #header is a list of column titles #ie. [‘First name’, ‘Last name’] ‘’’ outputs -> (‘First name’, ‘Last Name’) note: You don’t actually see this, it is hidden in a generator expression, unless you decide to iterate over it. Note that the expression is inside the result list, [(gen. expr), ..] ‘’’ result.append( formatters[i].format(header[i]) for i in range(col_count))
```
the line separators (=),
```python #append = line separator, also a generator expression #grab the widths, ie. [10, 9] ‘’’ outputs -> (‘==========’, ‘=========’) note: can’t see this either ‘’’ result.append( (‘=’ * col_widths[i] for i in range(col_count)))
```
creating the rows based on the provided data lists,
```python #append data from lists (first and last names), tricky part #data is a tuple of lists #ie. ( [first_names], [last_names], etc ) #by using zip and the * operator, we’re unpacking this tuple and creating the pairs #we end up with [(first_name, last_name), (another_fn, another_ln), ..], which are the rows themselves! #we’re giving the appropiate padding to each string ‘’’ outputs -> [‘Daniel ‘, ‘Chia ‘], [‘Ronnie ‘, ‘Hernandez’], [‘Vanessa ‘, ‘Luka ‘] ‘’’
for row in zip(*data): result.append( [formatters[i].format(row[i]) for i in range(col_count)]) ```
and tying everything together.
```python #at this point our result list is almost complete #it looks like this, printing the items inside it
’’’ [ (‘First name’, ‘Last Name’) (‘==========’, ‘=========’) [‘Daniel ‘, ‘Chia ‘] [‘Ronnie ‘, ‘Hernandez’] [‘Vanessa ‘, ‘Luka ‘] ] ‘’’
join the rows with spaces
result = (‘ ‘.join(r) for r in result)
return the list with line separators added
#voila! the list is done return ‘\n’.join(rslt) ```
Looking back at the code, it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s often lack of understanding that brings those ‘wat’ moments, so it’s worthwhile to spend the time understading concepts. Read and read more code. Narrowing down on the concepts that threw me off a bit, there are:
- lists comprehensions
[]
vs. generator expressions()
- these are similar in providing a group a values
- some differences are that gen. expressions take less memory and cannot be accessed by index
- usage, for several iterations use a list, one time use, a generator expression
- zip function, unpacking arguments with *
- passing the * operator to
zip()
, unpacks whatever arguments you throw at it - in the example above, data is a tuple of lists (first, last) and we want to create rows out of that data. Without *, the lists would have been needed to be passed indidually to zip,
zip(list1, list2, ...)
- passing the * operator to
- escaping the
{}
on format method- in order to create a list of formatters
{:col_widths}
, the{
character needed to be escaped - more info in the official docs
- in order to create a list of formatters
Conclusion
Reading someone else’s code can be a humbling experience. It can be tough to break down the complexity of the code or peeling the layers, but at the same time, it is extremely rewarding. The Aha, I GOT IT! moment. Using pen and paper to draw out the problem definitely helped in reducing the logic that I had to wrestle with in my mind.


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