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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. A Judgment Day Fable
Old Bathos
Jeff Zucker of CNN, Dean Baquet of the New York Times, and Martin Baron of the Washington Post are all killed in a tragic accident at a gathering of leading news executives.
They find themselves standing together before shining heavenly gates and a pleasant young man at a desk greets them. "Hello, I am the senior assistant to the admissions committee, and I am here to guide you through the process. Here is your life record which will be the basis upon which you will be evaluated. Please look it over carefully." He hands each of them an enormous bound stack of hundreds of pages.
Baron reacts angrily: "The first pages are nothing but false horrible accusations!"
Baquet and Zucker also complain that their records also open with terrible falsehoods.
The young man smiles and says, "No problem." He takes a fresh stack of paper and an ornate feathered quill pen and writes "Retraction" in large letters on the top of each page, copies and edits each offensive item to a retraction page and then carefully adds the pages to the bottom of each man's record and rebinds each record with an enormous heavenly stapler.
"You can go in and present your life résumés to the committee now."
Dean Baquet objects. "But the false horrible stuff is still on the top pages. No one is going to read down to the bottom where you put the retractions."
"Exactly," said the assistant. "Best of luck in there."
Another fine bit of imagining. You obviously have too much time on your hands. 😁
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September 27, 2019, at 10:51 AM PDT
Arahant (View Comment):
I imagine pretty fast so it does not take that much time. It's the reality crap that takes longer to deal with.
Wondering how many likes are based solely on enjoyment of the first sentence alone…
Old Bathos (View Comment):
Good point. That is a rather happy one.
September 27, 2019, at 12:29 PM PDT
Yeah. Excellent hook, too. I bet nobody stops reading after that.
September 27, 2019, at 1:27 PM PDT
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In Niven and Pournelle's modern updating of Dante's Inferno, two senators are arguing in Hell. One had voted for an ABM missile defense system while the other had voted against it, so how could they both be in the Ninth Circle where traitors are consigned? But the one who voted for it believed it was useless and only supported it because it would funnel money to companies that had contributed to his campaigns, while the other believed it would be effective but voted against it because that was his party's position. Neither could see that they both had betrayed their constituents, while their colleagues who voted from sincere if mistaken belief were not there with them.
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Stella Creasy: England Football Team Has Too Many Privately Educated Players
'Accounts for their performance'.
Martha Gill
Political Reporter, The Huffington Post UK
22/11/2016 05:13pm GMT | Updated November 23, 2016
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A Labour MP has claimed that the England football team has too many privately educated players to perform well.
Stella Creasy made the remarks in a Commons debate on social mobility after Tory MP John Redwood likened grammar schools to elite sports, which he said had to select talented people "at a very young age".
In response, Creasy suggested the performance of the England team was damaged because 13% of its players who went to private schools.
"13% of our national football team went to a private school, which is double the number of people who go to those private schools nationally", she told ministers.
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"Does he think that might account for the performance of our national football team, if we're missing out on the talent that exists in the comprehensive sector?"
"And will he recognise that that is precisely the problem that we're looking at today? We're missing out on talent as a result of too narrow a focus."
Redwood called her remarks "obtuse", and said "I don't think we are going to get a better team by training them less, and no longer giving them any kind of elite education.
Creasy took to Twitter to defend her remarks, claiming sport was a bad analogy to use for education in the first place.
Pop music is more open than sport or media interestingly - if @johnredwood had used that example may have been more compelling... https://t.co/reCl77RmFn
— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) November 22, 2016
On Twitter the Labour MP also referred readers to a 2014 report into social mobility, which finds public schools are overrepresented in professional sport.
Oh ladz ladz, try reading page 54 of this before getting cross with me re England team and private school: https://t.co/5WRPhuvt85
The report states that 13% of the England national team went to independent schools, "double the proportion of UK pupils attending these schools", whereas 83% are from comprehensives, compared to 88% of the population as a whole.
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Maison Lancôme announced the traditional fashion collaboration of the year. The Fall 2016 make-up collection 2016 was entrusted to Sonia Rykiel. A collaboration in keeping with those regularly initiated by Lancôme since its very beginnings, with personalities from the world of art, fashion and high jewellery.
Associated with a very French heritage and a shared vision of a vibrant, liberated femininity, the two French houses have designed an autumn range full of colour, resolutely joyful with genuine freedom of tone inspired by the spirit of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the birthplace of the Rykiel fashion house. Rykiel is, indeed, all about freedom of tone, the freedom of the label's founder and her desire to contribute in her own way to emancipate women from what was, until then, imposed upon them. Women who find their body liberated in the designer's ultra-flowing cuts and their frank, optimistic colour palette…the emblematic shape of a new lifestyle.
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After escaping from his prison psychiatrist, King Tut heads for the Rosetta Stone Company and has his "Tutlings" steal $47,000, though $76,000 is available for the taking. It seems that Tut has a specific use for the money in mind. He's actually after a large supply of the world's strongest metal, nileanium. He's located some that just so happens to buried under property adjacent to Stately Wayne Manor and owned by Bruce Wayne. It also just so happens that Bruce is selling a portion of his property to "help alleviate the property shortage." Tut ends up going straight to the real estate broker Bruce has hired and makes the purchase. Luckily, Barbara Gordon is visiting the Broker at the time(her father is thinking of moving to the suburbs) and witnesses the transaction. She later calls Bruce as Batgirl to let him know what has happened.
Our heroes are now keen to Tut's scheme, problem is he has already started drilling in an abandoned mine on the property he purchased. Batman soon realizes that the path being dug leads directly to the Batcave. In an effort to stop Tut, the three heroes all converge on the mine. Batman and Robin follow Tut down the shaft and instruct Batgirl to stand guard (they don't want to risk her seeing the Batcave). Believe it or not Tut actually manages to make it into the Batcave….and thus figures out the secret identities of the Caped Crusaders. When the heroes arrive, a fight breaks out, making an absolute mess of the Batcave. As Tut tries to escape back up the shaft, Batman uses some Batnesia Spray on the minions so they will forget what they have learned. They soon run out, though, with Tut about to blab everything to Batgirl, Commissioner Gordon, and Chief O'Hara. However, as he raises his voice to shout, "Batman and Robin are…" part of the ceiling comes loose and drops on Tut's head. Batman later explains this happened due to the increased volume of Tut's voice. This causes him to return to his normal personality and forget everything about Batman's true identity.
Why can't all the season three episodes be like this? With so many lackluster outings in this final season, this episode is a breath of fresh air. It has so many of the things I love about this series: a goofy scheme, an over-the-top villain, some weird gadgets, and so on. But what's really great about this episode is that there are some real stakes! After all, a villain is about to discover the location of the Batcave! Not only that, he actually succeeds! What a great moment it is, too, when we see Tut start to put the pieces together. He parades around the Batcave hardly believing his own eyes. It may be one of the character's best moments out of all his appearances.
Once again, what makes King Tut work so well is the wonderful performance of Victor Buono. It's part megalomania, part W.C. Fields. King Tut is certainly not one of the most menacing of Gotham's villains, but he is consistently one of the funniest. Tut also has a fun bunch of "tutlings" helping him out this time. His right-hand man is kind of a weird beatnik type who always wears sunglasses. Tut's main squeeze, Florence of Arabia, is played by Victoria Vetri, who could almost pass for being the twin of Dawn Wells…Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island. One-time Tarzan Jock Mahoney also shows up as the miner hired by Tut, Joe E. Tata, future owner of 90210's Peach Pit plays another one of Tut's men, and comic Henny Youngman portrays the slightly crooked real estate man who sells Tut the land. It's a fun cast, to say the least.
There are a few weak spots with the episode, chief among them being that Batgirl barely factors into things. During the episode's best moments, she is stuck guarding the entrance to the mine shaft. All-in-all, though, I'm glad to say that this episode is a real standout here in the otherwise disappointing third season. Sadly, though, we must bid farewell to King Tut. In our next episode we will do the same with one of the most famous Batman villains. As the teaser at the end of this episode indicates we're going to be dealing with a plot involving flying saucers concocted by none other than the Joker. Cesar Romero makes his final appearance on the show next time in The Joker's Flying Saucer. Same bat-time, same bat-channel (superhero).


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The whole experience becomes ABOUT the Insurance…NOT the Patient.So let's step back, you didn't spend tens of thousands (more?!) of dollars on your education and put countless hours into becoming an expert in your field to allow a third party payer determine what's best for YOUR patients.
You have a vision for your practice, a set of goals for what you want to accomplish for your patients and you know there has to be another way….and you're right, there is….
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Q: get-buffer-window-list throws error in Emacs 24 if name not found I have code which looks for an open window with one of three commonly used names, "*shell*", "*stata*", "stata".
I am running the following elisp code to check for each name:
(setq stata-win (get-buffer-window-list "*shell*"))
(if (eq (length stata-win) 0) (setq stata-win (get-buffer-window-list "*stata*")))
(if (eq (length stata-win) 0) (setq stata-win (get-buffer-window-list "stata")))

(car stata-win)

This previously worked, but the first line now triggers an error if a window with the name shell is not found. How can I test for the existence of an open window matching a name without triggering an error if the name is not found?

A: get-buffer-window-list errors out only if the buffer does not exist.
If the buffer exists but is not displayed in any window, the function returns nil.
You can check for buffer existence using get-buffer.
Thus, what you want is:
(defun get-buffers-window (buffer-names)
  (let (found buf)
    (while (and (null found)
                (setq buf (pop buffer-names)))
      (setq found
            (and (get-buffer buf)
                 (car (get-buffer-window-list buf)))))
    found))
(get-buffers-window '("*shell*" "stata" "*stata*"))

Note that for lists foo the forms
(if foo ...)

and
(if (< 0 (length foo)) ...)

are equivalent, but the former does not traverse the list (and thus faster) and also more idiomatic.

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Superb for the 'Burbs
Jen Karetnick February 5, 1998 4:00AM
Weston freaks me out: the subdivisions, the shopping plazas, the hordes of race walkers. Pink stucco buildings notwithstanding, the unrelenting conformity gives me unwelcome flashbacks to my New Jersey childhood. The rock group Rush said it best: "The suburbs have no charm to soothe the restless dreams of youth." Insert shudder, and don't make me go back there.
But what really gives me the willies, now that I'm technically no longer a youth (though I don't mind hanging on to the adjective "youthful"), is Weston's anemic restaurant scene. At least we had Greek diners and Chinese food in New Jersey. Here you're pretty much stuck with cardboard pizza parlors and chain restaurants. As for fine dining, well, there's always Fort Lauderdale.
Of course most people don't think about the restaurant scene when they're looking for a place to live. They consider the school system (good, if overcrowded, in Weston), the streets (safe, if dull), and the commute to their jobs (bearable, if long). Restaurateurs Antonello and Rosaria Catinella, who'd sold their Tamarac eatery, L'Hostaria, after running it for fifteen years, were certainly pleased with the prospect of living in such a friendly city. They were also comfortable with their decision to get out of the restaurant business. But a couple years after they'd settled in, the lack of fine dining in Weston began to frustrate them. Their solution: Get back in the business.
Hence Antonello, an eight-month-old Italian restaurant operated by Catinella, his wife, and his mom, Gabriella. "Good thing they get along," Catinella jokes about the two women in his life. But they do more than merely get along; they're experts in preparing dishes and overseeing the kitchen and dining room, making Antonello a notable front-runner in the area and well beyond.
The 110-seat restaurant, located in a new shopping plaza on the corner of Indian Trace and State Road 84, is at once classy and homey but more formal than you might think (reservations, by the way, are a good idea). The dining room features faux Roman columns and strings of white lights, which make it look like a banquet hall dressed up for an Italian wedding reception. The impression is reinforced by a three-tiered antipasto cart and a four-tiered dessert cart, which the servers, though polite and knowledgeable to the extreme, navigate like racecars.
Between the extensive menu and the antipasto cart, the choices seemed limitless. So, rather than choose from among them, we requested all four of the cold antipasto dishes presented. The waiter suggested a mixed plate, for which we were charged only $6.95. The mixed seafood salad alone -- lemony mussels, shrimp, scallops, and calamari, accented with scallions -- would have justified the price tag. We also enjoyed a tangy caponata, or eggplant sauteed with tomatoes and onions, and a tricolored roasted-pepper salad redolent with garlic and olive oil. Slices of fresh, soft mozzarella and juicy tomatoes, garnished with basil and laced with balsamic vinegar, were a refreshingly simple complement to the robust flavors of the three other antipasti.
Despite the success of the cold appetizers, we didn't ignore the hot ones. Stracci al prezzemolo was outstanding, providing pieces of wide, flat noodles interspersed with sweet, chopped shrimp. A fragrant, balanced pesto sauce united the ingredients. The spiedino di gamberi, or shrimp on a stick, was delectable. Dipped in an egg batter and fried, the four jumbo shrimp were skewered and placed in a pool of foresty black truffle sauce, which was just a bit too salty but rich and pungent nonetheless.
A special starter that evening, clams casino, consisted of sweet little mollusks topped with bacon, bread crumbs, and bits of red pepper. Baked to a golden finish and juicy under their covering, the clams, like the other seafood, were unquestionably fresh.
Half orders of pasta are also available as appetizers or, if you have an especially healthy appetite, side dishes. But keep in mind that a house salad accompanies each meat, poultry, and fish entree. The plate of mixed lettuces and plum tomatoes, brightened by a garlicky vinaigrette, was large, but we ordered two half-portions of pasta anyway to accompany our meal. We were glad we did; the ravioli al granchio, four al dente sachets stuffed with minced stone crab, was outstanding in a delicate tomato-cream sauce. Pennette arrabbiate was also beautifully prepared, the short penne noodles coated with a piquant tomato sauce.
A pasta side order is a luxury at Antonello. Most main courses are already garnished with a starch, and fresh vegetables of the day, served alongside, are likely to include quartered white potatoes roasted with garlic. (We were also served baby carrots and sauteed kale, both overcooked.) Even the individually Lilliputian lamb chops, a special that evening, were satisfying, given that there were five. The lamb was a bit overcooked -- no trace of pink remained -- but the musky meat was fat-free and still tender. Baby potatoes, crisp as home fries, complemented the chops' tiny proportions.
Filet mignon was underdone, more rare than the medium we'd requested, but it was superb nonetheless. Sauteed in a red wine demi-glace and finished with rosemary and balsamic vinegar, the supple beef exuded aroma and hearty flavor. A square of polenta partnered the filet and also garnished a terrific veal dish, vitello ripieno all'Antonello. The pounded fillet of veal was rolled around lean prosciutto, mushrooms, provolone cheese, and spinach, then doused with a dark, Marsala-mushroom sauce. Out of the half-dozen veal scaloppine dishes Antonello offers, the waiter recommended this one, and so do I.
If your stomach doesn't stretch quite that far, you might consider a lighter meal. The restaurant carries Dover sole (always a treat when you can find it), flounder, salmon, and snapper. We appreciated the red snapper fillet, which was flaky, sweet, and gently sauteed in a buttery lemon sauce. While baby artichoke hearts and asparagus added flair, the asparagus were soggy to the point of disintegration.
Just as we were considering how full we were, the waiter tempted us with the dessert cart. We suddenly found room for a hunk of sinful chocolate mousse cake, a slice of caramel pastry laced with cream puffs, and flan so creamy it tasted like creme brulee. My guests immediately demanded that we order another one (which we did, pronto).
Not since my eat-anything-and-stay-slim teenage years have I indulged in two rounds of dessert, let alone what amounted to a seven-course meal. But then I rarely go as far west as Weston in search of outstanding Italian fare. Suburbia flashbacks notwithstanding, I guess the time had come to do both.
Antonello. 74 Indian Trace, Weston, 954-349-7110. Dinner nightly from 5 to 11 p.m.
Stracci al prezzemolo
Ravioli al granchio (full order)
Vitello ripieno all'Antonello
Jen Karetnick is an award-winning dining critic, food-travel writer, and author of the books Ice Cube Tray Recipes, Mango, and The 500 Hidden Secrets of Miami.
Contact: Jen Karetnick
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So, as an overview, here are three ways to get an Amazon Prime Membership with benefits.
Ebates: I just discovered this a few months ago, and I can't believe I haven't been using it. Ebates gives you cash back for certain purchases online, and almost every place I've shopped in the past few months has been on Ebates. Right now I have 26 dollars that will deposited to be me through PayPal sometime this month — partly because of purchases I made, and partly because of their awesome referral program. The cash back may not always look substantial, but if you do a lot of shopping online, it adds up. And even if you are shopping at a kind of random place, be sure to see if you can use Ebates. I found that PersonalizationMall.com had 16 percent cash back when I bought an ornament from there! I also wrote a post over here about different ways to earn cash back online!
Google Shopping: This is probably the best way to comparison shop. It brings up just about every option available for your search, where it's available, and different prices. You can also change the search options, so if you want something in a certain price range, that will show up. I've found this to be the most affective way to shop online — it brings up just about every webpage, and also tells you if it is in stock nearby. I've used Google Shopping on my phone when I am at a store that price matches, in order to make sure I get the best price.
Shoprunner: While I never would pay full price for this, if you can find it on a discount, it's definitely worth it. I was lucky enough to get a year free of it last year, and it's been well-used. Basically, it gives you free shipping and delivery for tons of different websites and companies — I think I used it most often on Toys/Babies R Us, and for Dominos. At full price, it is $8.95 for month, or $79 for a year, but quite often, it is available for half price memberships (or if you are lucky like me, free!) On the website, you will see the option to try it out for 30 days, and see if it's worth it. I don't think I'll continue it after my free year runs up, mainly because I buy most things on Amazon, but I know a lot of people love the service.
I never make an online purchase without first searching for a coupon code. 9 times out of 10, I am able to find one, and it's worth the extra few seconds it takes to find it. My go-to coupon finder is RetailMeNot.com, but there's any number that you can find while searching on Google.
Swagbucks: This is probably one of the most well-known programs out there, and the easiest way I have found to get Amazon Gift Cards. You earn sSagbucks by completing searches through the Swagbucks search engine (you can download a toolbar if you want, or set your search engine to it) — not for every search, but a decent amount. Admittedly, I don't use Swagbucks a lot, mainly because I don't really like the search engine, but I know many people who have earned a lot. You can also earn Swagbucks by completing surveys or making purchases online.
Plink: I saw this on The Thrifty Couple a few months ago, and have used it a little bit. You get points for using your debate card at certain restaurants, which then can be turned in for gift cards. You really don't have to do much beyond the initial setting up of your account. It has restaurants like Burger King and Red Robin, and you do have to spend a certain amount to get points. But if you you are going out with more than just yourself, that limit isn't hard to meet!
Surveys: I talked about this last week, but I just have to re-emphasize what a great way this is to make some extra money!
We live in a world where you can do just about everything digitally – sometimes that's not such a good thing! Fortunately, saving money on groceries is always a good thing. I've come across two awesome resources that you can use online to save money on your groceries.
I love this website! They create weekly meal plans based off of the deals for that week. All you have to do is login each week, print off the deals for your preferred store, and your meal plans are ready to go!
This is basically a big box store like Costco or Sam's Club – but there's no membership fee! You can get great prices on bulk products, sent straight to your front door.
And, last, but certainly not least, there are so many ways to make money with your smartphone! Be sure to check out my list here.


Tokyo (CNN) -- Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have discovered a radioactive hot spot far more lethal than anything previously recorded at the damaged facility, the plant's owner reported Tuesday.
The reading at the base of a ventilation tower between the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors Monday afternoon was 10,000 millisieverts per hour, the Tokyo Electric Power Company announced -- high enough that a 60-minute exposure could kill a man or woman within weeks. A U.S. expert told CNN that radioactive particles most likely concentrated in that area in the first days of the disaster, as plant operators tried to vent the damaged reactors.
By comparison, the average resident of an industrialized country receives 3 millisieverts of background radiation per year, while the highest level reported in the days following the disaster was about 400 millisieverts.
Tokyo Electric immediately cordoned off the area and is investigating both the cause of the high radiation and how it will affect the recovery work, company spokesman Naoki Tsunoda said. None of the workers who made the discovery have been injured, the company said.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant, located about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Tokyo, was flooded by the tsunami that followed Japan's March 11 earthquake. The result was the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, as the plant's three operating reactors melted down and spewed vast quantities of radioactive particles across the surrounding area.
The disaster has caused Japan to rethink its commitment to nuclear energy, and Germany has since announced plans to abandon atomic power entirely by 2022.
Gary Was, a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan, said the location of the hot spot suggests the radioactive material was filtered from air and steam released to relieve pressure inside the reactors during the meltdowns.
"As they were venting, either intentionally or unintentionally, the building air was being sent through filters," Was said. Those filters may have been concentrating radioactive particles "into one spot," he said.
Was said the use of a gamma-ray camera could help identify whether the source of the radioactivity was reactor waste products, bits of nuclear fuel or both. Tokyo Electric mounted a gamma-ray camera on a three-meter (9.75-foot) pole to capture images of the hot spot Monday, the company said.
Tokyo Electric says it expects to fully wind down the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi sometime between October and January. Engineers are struggling to manage an estimated 100,000 tons of highly contaminated water that was used to cool the reactors during the emergency, and Was said workers may face issues similar to the one discovered Monday as they try to decontaminate that fluid.
"Those filters are going to be screaming hot," he said. "As bad as the water is, those filters are going to be worse."


Anyone who is dieting, or at least trying to watch what they eat, is familiar with the wide variety of sugar substitutes available in the marketplace today. However, most people remain mystified regarding the origin and safety issues attached to all these sugar substitutes. Worse yet, they have no idea which one to choose or if one is even better than another. Let's try to take away some of that mystery and pull back the veil to uncover the many options available.
The purpose of a sugar substitute is to sweeten like a sugar without delivering too much food energy, which can result in mild to severe insulin spike. With diabetes at epidemic proportions, cutting sugar intake has become a necessity in today's world.
The sugar substitutes with which people are most familiar are synthetic or "artificial" in nature. However, there are some that are natural, coming from Mother Nature, very much like sugar itself. Many of these sweeteners are concentrated and require less of the product to achieve the desired sweetness level. A few can be used across the board either to sweeten food or drink as well as for cooking. Others are tricky and vary greatly according to the type of sweetener. Some lose their composition or sweetness when heated and are therefore not recommended for use in baking.
There are roughly six sugar substitutes that have been widely accepted for use. They are acesulfame potassium, aspartame, neotame, saccharin, stevia and sucralose. There are several other sweeteners currently going through the approval process in some countries. These include, but are not necessarily limited to, alitame, cyclamate and glycyrrhizin.
Acesulfame potassium is an intense artificial sweetening agent that is usually marketed as Sunett or Sweet One. Acesulfame potassium is roughly 200 times sweeter than standard sugar. Sometimes called acesulfame K, it is roughly as sweet as aspartame. Unfortunately, like many artificial sweeteners, acesulfame potassium has an unpleasant aftertaste. It is that taste that makes it less mainstream than some of the other options available today.
On the flip side, since this sugar substitute holds up well under heat, it can be used for baking. That is particularly true when it is blended with other substitutes like aspartame or sucralose. For that reason, this option is rarely used alone for sweetening candies, gums, or sodas. It is used regularly in medications that require a sweetened taste in order to mask unpleasant chemicals and other ingredients.
Probably the most controversial of all artificial sweeteners, a great deal has been discovered and discussed about aspartame since it became a mainstream sugar substitute in the 80s. Actually discovered in the mid-60s, it took this artificial alternative about 15 years to receive approval for wide distribution. It has been marketed under the brand names of Equal, Equal Measure, NutraSweet and Spoonful. Nearly 200 times sweeter than regular sugar, aspartame gained fame quickly and became used for everything from diet drinks to yogurt.
However, almost from the outset, the sweetener came under fire. Many labeled it carcinogenic in nature. Additional studies suggested it could also have a significant negative impact on the brain, sometimes leading to brain tumors. Now, some believe they have traced the use of this sweetener to other serious neurological conditions including multiple sclerosis, lupus, epilepsy and migraine or cluster headaches. Research continues while more and more people attempt to steer clear of this notorious sugar substitute.
Very little is really known about neotame, a cousin of aspartame other than the fact that it is perhaps the sweetest of the sugar substitutes available today. It is believed to be around 10,000 times sweeter than regular sugar. However, unlike aspartame, neotame seems to be reasonably heat stable. Because of that, more and more food manufacturers are beginning to look at this artificial sweetener as the wave of the future.
Another great factor of neotame is that it appears to metabolize well within the human body. So little of it is required for sweetening purposes that it is easily dispersed. It simply does not accumulate like many of the other sugar substitutes. But like many other artificial sweeteners it does suffer from that bitter aftertaste that turns off many consumers. Finally, its relationship - albeit distant - to aspartame may color, or at least slow, its worldwide acceptance.
People have had a love/hate relationship with saccharin for decades. Primarily marketed under the names Sweet 'N Low and Sweet Twin, saccharin is the oldest of the recognizable artificial sweeteners marketed today. Dating back to the early 1900's studies of this sugar substitute have always been mixed. Many scientists early on proclaimed it safe for consumption. However, in the 1970's other studies caused concern that it could result in cancer. For nearly 30 years warnings were issued on each saccharin product proclaiming such dangers. However, by the turn of the century those warnings disappeared when earlier studies proved unfounded.
While saccharin can be used for sweetening some things, it has no heat tolerance and has proven a poor choice for cooking and baking. Additionally, its metallic taste, that lingers long after the sweetener is consumed, has caused this alternative to lose supporters in favor of some of the newer sugar substitutes.
Stevia is a plant based sugar substitute sometimes referred to as sweet leaf. The plant's leaves provide a natural sweetener that is roughly 300 times sweeter than regular sugar. Stevia has, over the course of a decade, gained wide attention in the food industry. It is becoming widely used in low-carb and low-sugar foods.
That has proven helpful for patients with obesity and high blood pressure issues since research indicates that this sweet plant might actually have a positive effect in treating these issues. Unlike many other sugar substitutes, stevia does not spike blood sugar or cause a glucose increase.
Unfortunately, the availability of stevia is somewhat limited. While it has been widely accepted, grown and used in Japan for decades, other countries are only now accepting it. A few, like the United States, have banned its usage for a time because of the lack of research conducted concerning the plant's safety. However, each year more and more countries are jumping aboard the stevia wagon, finding it to be the greatest hope available today when it comes to an artificial sugar that operates like the real thing.
Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than regular table sugar and is more than three times sweeter than aspartame. Unlike many of the sugar substitutes on the market, Sucralose remains stable when heated. It also keeps it compositional structure intact under a lot of varying pH conditions. Because of that, it is widely accepted as one of the best sugar substitutes for cooking and baking.
Used with other bulk ingredients like dextrose and maltodextrin, it generally takes a very small amount of sucralose to sweeten food and drink. Additionally, because it looks a lot like sugar, it has a great deal of commercial appeal. Some of the brand names under which sucralose is packaged include Nevella, Splenda and SucraPlus.
Alitame, marketed as Aclame, is one of the newer sugar substitutes available. It is an aspartic acid much like aspartame. However, it is more than 10 times sweeter than its cousin and more than 2000 times sweeter than standard sugar. Countries like Australia, New Zealand and China are using Alitame, but it is not approved for use in the USA or Great Britain at this time.
Cyclamate is only 40 time more sweet than sucrose (standard sugar), giving it the least appeal as a stand-alone sugar substitute. It works better when mixed with other artificial sweeteners such as acesulfame potassium or saccharin. On the other hand, cyclamate is inexpensive and may eventually find it has a commercial appeal to those who cannot afford the more expensive brands.
Glycyrrhizin comes from liquorice root. It is roughly 40 times sweeter than standard sugar. The taste of glycyrrhizin is significantly different than sugar as well. The sweetness is not apparent at first bite but, once there, lingers longer on the palate than many of the other substitutes available today. It is also stable when heated, making it a good option for use in cooking and baking.
Glycyrrhizin is recognized in some countries, like the U.S. and Great Britain, as an acceptable agent for flavoring in candies and medicines. However, it is not well accepted at this time as a sweetener.
Sugar substitutes derived from alcohol, like mannitol and sorbitol, are often used to flavor foods and drinks because they convert well to fructose and do not cause an insulin spike. On the flip side, unfortunately, they linger in the intestines often causing gas or acting like a laxative if absorbed in large quantities.
While no one is 100 percent certain that artificial sweeteners are safe for consumption, most agree they must be measured against the negative effects of too much sugar intake. Used in small quantities, many believe these substitutes are acceptable. But as ever, too much of a good thing is rarely advisable.


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Q: Creating Columns for Hour of Day and date based on datetime column How can I create a new column that has the day only, and hour of day only based of a column that has a datetime timestamp?
DF has column such as:
   Timestamp
2019-05-31 21:11:43
2018-11-21 18:01:00
2017-11-21 22:01:04
2020-04-15 11:01:00
2017-04-20 04:00:33

I want two new columns that look like below:
   Day      | Hour of Day
2019-05-31     21:00
2018-11-21     18:00
2017-11-21     22:00
2020-04-15     11:00
2017-04-20     04:00

I tried something like below but it only gives me a # for hour of day,
df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Timestamp'], format='%H:%M:%S').dt.hour

where output would be 9 for 9:32:00 which isnt what I want to calculate
Thanks!

A: Please try dt.strftime(format+string)
df['hour'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Timestamp']).dt.strftime("%H"+":00")

Following your comments below. Lets Try use df.assign and extract hour and date separately
df=df.assign(hour=pd.to_datetime(df['Timestamp']).dt.strftime("%H"+":00"), Day=pd.to_datetime(df['Timestamp']).dt.date)

A: You could convert time to string and then just select substrings by index.
df = pd.DataFrame({'Timestamp': ['2019-05-31 21:11:43', '2018-11-21 18:01:00',
                             '2017-11-21 22:01:04', '2020-04-15 11:01:00',
                             '2017-04-20 04:00:33']})
df['Day'], df['Hour of Day'] = zip(*df.Timestamp.apply(lambda x: [str(x)[:10], str(x)[11:13]+':00']))


The Spirit is holy. I know that seems obvious from the name Holy Spirit, but don't gloss over it. We're warned in Scripture not to believe every spirit, in fact to only trust the Holy Spirit, which is why God sent Him to live in us. Holy means "set apart" or "sacred," so while there are other spirits that exist, the one true God is the Holy one.
If He's Holy, and He lives in you, then you are a temple. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. He lives in you, speaks to you, guides you, prompts you, comforts you, and empowers you. You have the power to overcome anything that you face because you walk in the Spirit. Embrace that and be confident that God is always with you. Don't ever doubt His presence.
Do you treat your body as the dwelling place for a completely holy God? Are there any sins you need to repent of, as they have abused His holy sanctuary?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
The Church is not a building. God's people, however, are a temple for the living God. Did I lose you?
In Ephesians 2:18-22, we're told that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone for the Church and that the foundation was laid by the Apostles. That's construction talk, but it's not literally talking about a church building. We, together, are the temple of the Lord. You're not the temple, I'm not the temple. WE are the temple.
How can God's temple be holy (v.17) if we're each so sinful? How can we be the dwelling place of our Lord if we're stained and tainted? We're unworthy to be called His people, let alone His dwelling. The Spirit dwells in us collectively, though. It's because of His presence, because of the righteousness instilled by Christ, that we're given the privilege of being a home for God.
The holiness of Jesus is the starting point of this Church, laid upon the foundation which came with God's commission to His people. And I'll let Paul finish by saying, "In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit." (Ephesians 2:22) Find comfort in the fact that all together we make up the temple of God, which He swears to protect.
1 Peter 2:5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Where does God dwell? Is He confined to the walls of a church? Limited to operating on Sunday mornings? Or is God's house a spiritual one, made of living stones?
In the Old Testament, the Lord had the people of Israel construct a temple, that He might dwell among them there (see Exodus). For generations, the tradition was that the temple was God's dwelling place. Jesus came and turned everything upside down. On several occasions, Jesus made reference to destroying the temple and rebuilding it. He did this to illustrate how He would be killed and rise from the dead.
He, the stone that the builders (religious leaders) rejected, became the cornerstone (foundation) to the Church. Now we are the living stones that make up the Church, it's no longer about a building, but a people. The church is alive and continuously growing and being built up. Each Christian is part of the priesthood and through their lives offering up spiritual sacrifices. We have direct access to God.
We are the Church, the body of Christ. We will bring about His kingdom, regardless of building or location.


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Lori Laughlin And Mossimo Giannulli Receive Prison Sentences For Admissions Scheme
Brakkton Booker | August 21, 2020
Steven Senne, AP
Actress Lori Loughlin enters a federal court hearing about the scheme in Boston in August 2019.
Two of the most prominent figures in the college admissions scheme uncovered by the Justice Department last year are headed to prison.
Lori Loughlin, the actress best known as Aunt Becky on Full House, will serve two months in prison. Her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, was sentenced on Friday to five months.
"I am truly and profoundly and deeply sorry," Loughlin said, choking up as she apologized to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton, Reuters reports.
They pleaded guilty in May to fraud charges related to their efforts to have their daughters admitted to the University of Southern California as rowing recruits, despite not practicing the sport.
The U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts announced the sentences on Twitter. Both sentences followed the terms of plea agreements between federal prosecutors and attorneys for the defendants.
Giannulli must also serve two years of supervised release following his sentence, complete 250 hours of community service and pay a fine of $250,000. Loughlin must serve two years of supervised release, pay a $150,000 fine and complete 100 hours of community service.
"I deeply regret the harm that my actions have caused my daughters, my wife and others," Giannulli said in a short statement during the hearing, according to the AP.
"I take full responsibility for my conduct. I am ready to accept the consequences and move forward with the lessons I've learned from this experience," he added.
At the sentencing, Gorton chastised Giannulli for taking part in the admissions scheme.
"You were not stealing bread to feed your family," Gorton said, according to the AP. "You have no excuse for your crime and that makes it all the more blameworthy."
The wire service reported that Giannulli was ordered to surrender on Nov. 19.
The couple entered plea agreements with the U.S. attorney's office in May. For her part, Loughlin pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.
Her husband pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud.
They were the 23rd and 24th parents to plead guilty in the case, according to federal officials.
Loughlin became the face of the admissions scandal, in part because of her celebrity, and in part because unlike other parents accused in the elaborate scheme, she and Giannulli long maintained their innocence.
In April 2019, the couple pleaded not guilty in federal court after being accused of paying a bribe worth $500,000 in exchange for securing their daughters' admission into USC.
The bribes were paid to William "Rick" Singer, the mastermind of the wide-ranging enterprise, which included creating bogus sports profiles for well-off parents hoping to shirk the traditional admissions process to get their children accepted to prestigious schools.
Singer is awaiting sentencing. He has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice — and now faces a prison sentence of more than 50 years. However, Justice Department officials said he is cooperating with the government's investigation, and they have recommended a prison sentence at the lower end of the sentencing guideline range.
In all, 55 people have been charged in connection with the admissions scheme, which federal officials first announced in March 2019 in Boston.
The Justice Department framed the venture as a multimillion-dollar scheme to cheat college admissions standards.
In addition to creating sham athletic profiles, the scheme included "bribing SAT and ACT exam administrators to allow a test taker … to secretly take college entrance exams in place of students or to correct the students' answers after they had taken the exam."
The scam has also swept up a number of collegiate coaches.
Former USC soccer coach Laura Janke pleaded guilty in May 2019 to a racketeering conspiracy charge related to the scandal, including $130,000 in illegal payouts. Like Loughlin and Giannulli, she had previously said she did not take part in the scheme.
As NPR reported, Janke helped create a number of bogus sports profiles, including ones for Loughlin and Giannulli's daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose.
Another well-known actress, Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives fame, was also convicted in the scheme. She was handed a 14-day prison sentence in September for paying thousands of dollars in exchange for having one of her children's SAT scores boosted.


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Q: Dropdown-List - Multi-Selection should add text to Textbox in several Lines Hello everybody! :)
I've made an easy random Drop-Down-list on our "Price-Request-Site" with all the Items in the List that we sell to our Customers.http://i.imgur.com/qg5jj0p.jpg
And because they need to request Prices for those items, they can select one or more items from the Dropdown-List and the Output goes to a "simple Textbox"
You have to Select one or more Items from that DropDown-list and the JavaScript should "paste" the selected List-items to the Textbox.
The Textbox is already a part of a "Formular" to send the Textbox-input as an E-mail.

My JavaScript does the following at the moment:
If click an Item from the List, the Item-name appears in the Text-box in the first Line.
If I click a Second OR/AND another item, the JavaScript will overwrite the now existing "Item/Textline" from the first Line in the Textbox.
http://i.imgur.com/9DoY7cS.jpg"
I need the following solution to my JavaScript and it should be easy as possible:
When I click to another Item from the List, it should be added to the Second Line, When I click another Item, it should be added in the next (3rd) Line...
Background-information:
This Script should make it easier for the Customer to write a Price-Request-EMail to us.
(Without searching through the Shop and looking for or Article-Numbers, instead he can choose Products from the Dropdown-list with an Output to this Email-form/textbox)
function favsports()
{
var mylist=document.getElementById("mylist");
document.getElementById("favorite").value=mylist.options[mylist.selectedIndex].text;
}

I would be very Happy if someone could help me with my issue, i'am really new to JS :D


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Improve prenatal care and health care in the first years of life.
Increase visits to at-risk pregnant mothers and families with young children by nurses, social workers, parent educators and other well-trained staff.
Expand needs-based high quality childcare from skilled, educated staff in settings with low child-to-teacher ratios.
Expand high quality, half-day, affordable preschool for more Minnesota children by age 4.
Use small class sizes for the early education years.
Improve effective instruction in reading and other critical skills.
Increase parent involvement and family support initiatives that encourage partnerships between schools and families.
Provide intensive tutoring assistance targeted to low-performing students.
Offer quality academic preparation through good instruction, strong curriculum and meaningful assessments of student progress.
Improve both school-based and out-of-school support efforts that better connect students to teachers, parents and other adults.
Initiate in-school programs and reforms aimed at helping students achieve, preventing problems with academic progress, and intervening with students when problems occur.
Offer rigorous coursework matched with ongoing assessments to ensure progress.
Allow students to earn college credits while in high school.
Institute high school reforms and improvement initiatives that establish small learning communities within schools, offer academic support when needed, and better connect teachers with students and schools with parents.
Hire more high school counselors to reduce Minnesota's very high student-counselor ratio.
Improve out-of-school support for high school students, including tutoring initiatives, mentoring programs, and efforts to reduce teen pregnancy rates.
Ramp up concerted, in-school efforts to prevent students from dropping out and to boost graduation rates using proven initiatives to monitor student progress, offer remediation and feedback, build relationships, and link schools to families and students.
Increase need-based financial aid to make higher education affordable to students with limited means.
Expand counseling and academic preparation for college readiness, with a focus on promising, low-income students.
Other groups have made important policy recommendations that target educational equity issues, with strong, notable proposals from the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership and the Organizing Apprenticeship Project.


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I thought it existed again, but my bookmark doesn't seem to be working.
Is it somewhere else? It could be my browser screwing up, too.
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A Stiff onshore breeze rendered the three to four foot surf bumpy and unpredictable for the IW Surf Club's 17th annual competition at Compton Bay on Sunday, but an increasingly high standard of surfing was displayed as the competition progressed.
A close first heat saw Clive Richardson, Graham Skelley and Steve Williams proceed to the next stage in favour of Wayne Bradley, Mike Smith and Gail Streets, the only lady competitor.
Heat two produced and clear winner in Ray Hutchings. Barney Barnes and Dave Downer knocked out Roger Butler, Colin Graham and Dave Jacobs, thereby joining Hutchings in the final.
Meanwhile, a thriving junior section enabled the club to stage a special event for the under 16's in which they demonstrated the rapid progress made this summer.
A worthy winner of this section was Paul Blackley who was presented with a trophy.
Conditions for the senior final improved with the diminishing wind, making for smoother if slightly smaller waves.
Hutchings, Richardson and Williams quickly established themselves with good, solid surfing in the available action., and a close result became likely.
Barnes, Skelley and Downer all surfed with competence but were eventually outclasse.
Richardson consolidated his earlier success with several long, left and right breaking waves which earned him thrid place.
Williams, riding a conventional single-fin board, and Hutchings, on a tri-fin design, were closely matched throughout the event.
It was Hutchings , however who edged ahead in the closing stages with a right-breaking wave, tightly ridden earning him a high score.
It was a day when you surfed until you just couldn't surf anymore and your arms were like jelly. You would come up to the car park and grab something to eat and drink and talk about your waves until you couldn't watch the swell rolling in anymore and go in again. It never seemed busy, only about 15 people in the line up at any one time but people surfed all day and into the night. Keith Williams as I remember was one of the guys who surfed all day on his Chapter Longboard and was catching wave after wave right from outside the wreck right upto the beach where there used to be a couple of lumps of concrete just under the waters edge at high tide. Steve Williams also stood out and seemed a master a riding Compton. Ray Hutchings was doing amazing cutbacks and just knew exactly where to put his board staying right in the critical part of the wave. Clive Richardson togot his fair share of waves too, going left or right seeming to always pick a perfect wall. Jason Matthews was about my age and started surfing at the same time as me, but was a much better surfer than me. Jason was a goofy foot and would smash the lip on his back hand through the inside at Compton.
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Over 6,000 bank officials held for bad loans in FY18: Jaitley
In cases of lapses that led to bad loans, action has been taken against more than 6,000 officers of nationalised banks in fiscal year 2018, the government said.
In a written reply on Friday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that minor and major penalties have been imposed against erring officials- including dismissal, compulsory retirement and demotion.
Jaitley said "As per the inputs received from nationalised banks, in the Fiscal Year 2017-18, 6,049 officers have been held responsible on account of staff delinquency in NPA accounts."
The 19 nationalised banks, including PNB and Canara Bank, reported a net loss of Rs 21,388 crore in the first half of the fiscal. This compares with a combined loss Rs 6,861 crore in the similar period of 2017-18.
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Q: Creating NSDictionary with Initial Name to Sort I'm trying to merge the code from this link into my own application while using my own dictionary. I have had several problems, however.
My code produces this kind of dictionary (because I'm using a web service to get this data from a MySQL database):
{audiences = ({
            name = ABDUL;
            id = 1;
        },{
            name = ELSA;
            id = 2;
        },...etc)}

However, I want a dictionary like this:
audiences = @{@"B" : @[@"Bear", @"Black Swan", @"Buffalo"],
              @"C" : @[@"Camel", @"Cockatoo"],
              @"D" : @[@"Dog", @"Donkey"]};

Which, in my case, would appear like this:
audience = @{@"A":@[@"Abdul"],
             @"E":@[@"Elsa"]};

To summarize my problems:
1) How can I create an NSDictionary using only the names (no id)?
2) The dictionary including initial in it
Thanks for your help, I'm a newbie in Xcode and Objective-C, so please forgive me if I'm asking a noob question. Also, please bear with my bad English. Thanks in advance.

A: So, your initial data structure received from the web service is (re-expressed in Cocoa):
NSDictionary* data = @{ @"audiences" : @[
                                          @{ @"name" : @"ABDUL",
                                             @"id" : @1 },
                                          @{ @"name" : @"ELSA",
                                             @"id" : @2 },
                                        ] };

You can build the data structure you describe like this:
NSMutableDictionary* audience = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
for (NSDictionary* person in data[@"audiences"])
{
    NSString* name = person[@"name"];
    if (![name length])
        continue;

    NSRange range = [name rangeOfComposedCharacterSequenceAtIndex:0];
    NSString* key = [[name substringWithRange:range] uppercaseString];
    NSMutableArray* list = audience[key];
    if (!list)
    {
        list = [NSMutableArray array];
        [audience setObject:list forKey:key];
    }
    [list addObject:name];
}

A: I'm going to assume that you don't want the initials to be case sensitive.
NSArray *audiences = @[
                        @{ @"name" : @"ABDUL", @"id" : @1 },
                        @{ @"name" : @"ELSA", @"id" : @2 },
                        @{ @"name" : @"erik erikson", @"id" : @3 },
                        @{ @"name" : @"Leeroy Jenkins", @"id" : @-1 },
                        @{ @"name" : @"", @"id" : @4 },
                      ];

NSMutableDictionary *audienceMembersByInitial = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
for (NSDictionary *audienceMember in audiences) {
    NSString *name = audienceMember[@"name"];
    if (name.length > 0) {
        NSString *initial = [[name substringToIndex:1] uppercaseString];
        NSArray *audienceMembersWithInitial = audienceMembersByInitial[initial] ?: @[];
        audienceMembersByInitial[initial] = [audienceMembersWithInitial arrayByAddingObject:name];
    }
}
return [audienceMembersByInitial copy];

Output is...
@{
  @"A" : @[ @"ABDUL" ],
  @"E" : @[ @"ELSA", @"erik erikson" ],
  @"L" : @[ @"Leeroy Jenkins" ],
};


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import os
import optparse
import uuid
import time
import tornado
import scipy.io as sio
import scipy.sparse as sparse
from msmbuilder import tpt
from msmbuilder.msm import MarkovStateModel
from msmbuilder.msm._markovstatemodel import _transmat_mle_prinz
import networkx as nx
from networkx.readwrite import json_graph
from StringIO import StringIO
from pymongo import Connection
import newrelic.agent
import tornado.ioloop
from tornado.web import (RequestHandler, StaticFileHandler)
from tornado.httpclient import AsyncHTTPClient

# Set up NEWRELIC
newrelic.agent.initialize('newrelic.ini')

# Set up MONGO CLIENT
__DB__ = 'MONGOHQ_URL'

# Dict of Available Network Metrics
resize = {
    'pagerank': lambda x, y, z:
    nx.pagerank_scipy(x),
    '1st eigenvector': lambda x, y, z:
    dict(zip(range(z.shape[0]), y.populations_)),
    '2nd eigenvector': lambda x, y, z:
    dict(zip(range(z.shape[0]), y.left_eigenvectors_[:, 1])),
    'closeness centrality': lambda x, y, z:
    nx.closeness_centrality(x),
    'flow betweenness': lambda x, y, z:
    nx.approximate_current_flow_betweenness_centrality(x)
    }

# Declare async
HTTP_CLIENT = AsyncHTTPClient()

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# TASKS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Connect to MONGODB
def connect_to_mongo():
    if __DB__ in os.environ:
        c = Connection(os.environ[__DB__])
    else:
        print "if youre developing locally, you need to get the MONGOLAB_URI"
        print 'env variable. run "heroku config" at the command line and'
        print 'it should give you the right string'
        c = Connection()
    # THIS IS APP SPECIFIC. PLEASE CHANGE APPLICATION ID.
    return c.app22870053

# MAKES MSM GRAPH AND RETURNS JSON
def make_json_graph(msm, request):
    c = float(request.get_argument('cutoff'))
    e = str(request.get_argument('resize'))
    t = sparse.csr_matrix(msm.transmat_.copy())
    t.data[t.data < c] = 0.0
    t.eliminate_zeros()
    G = nx.from_scipy_sparse_matrix(t, create_using=nx.DiGraph())
    metric = resize[e](G, msm, t)
    nx.set_node_attributes(G, 'size', metric)
    G.remove_nodes_from(nx.isolates(G))
    return json_graph.node_link_data(G)

# MAKES TRANSITIONS PATHWAYS AND RETURNS JSON
def make_json_paths(msm, request):
    sources = map(int,
                  request.get_argument('sources').replace(" ", "").split(","))
    sinks = map(int, request.get_argument('sinks').replace(" ", "").split(","))
    n = int(request.get_argument('num_paths'))
    net_flux = tpt.net_fluxes(sources, sinks, msm)
    paths = tpt.paths(sources, sinks, net_flux, num_paths=n)
    G = nx.DiGraph()
    for j, i in enumerate(paths[0][::-1]):
        G.add_node(i[0], type="source")
        for k in range(1, len(i)):
            G.add_node(i[k], type="none")
            G.add_edge(i[k-1], i[k], weight=paths[1][::-1][j])
        G.add_node(i[-1], type="sink")
    return json_graph.node_link_data(G)

DATABASE = connect_to_mongo()
print DATABASE.collection_names()

# GET USER OPTIONS
def parse_cmdln():
    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
    parser.add_option('-p', '--port', dest='port', type='int', default=5000)
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    return (options, args)

# CREATES HOST SESSION AND LOGS USER IP INFO
class Session(object):
    """REALLLY CRAPPY SESSIONS FOR TORNADO VIA MONGODB
    """
    collection = DATABASE.sessions

    def __init__(self, request):
        data = {
            'ip_address': request.remote_ip,
            'user_agent':  request.headers.get('User-Agent')
        }
        result = self.collection.find_one(data)
        if result is None:
            # create new data
            self.collection.insert(data)
            self.data = data
        else:
            self.data = result

    def get(self, attr, default=None):
        return self.data.get(attr, default)

    def put(self, attr, value):
        self.collection.remove(self.data)
        self.data[attr] = value
        self.collection.insert(self.data)

    def __repr__(self):
        return str(self.data)

# PREVENTS FREQUENT REQUESTS
class RunHandler(RequestHandler):
    # how often should we allow execution
    max_request_frequency = 10  # seconds

    def log(self, msg):
        print msg

    def get(self):
        if self.validate_request_frequency():
            request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
            HTTP_CLIENT.fetch('localhost', method='POST', callback=self.log)
            self.write(request_id)

    def validate_request_frequency(self):
        """Check that the user isn't requesting to run too often"""
        session = Session(self.request)
        last_run = session.get('last_run')
        if last_run is not None:
            if (time.time() - last_run) < self.max_request_frequency:
                self.write("You're being a little too eager, no?")
                return False
        session.put('last_run', time.time())

        return True

# COUNTS REQUESTS
class IndexHandler(StaticFileHandler):
    def get(self):
        session = Session(self.request)
        session.put('indexcounts', session.get('indexcounts', 0) + 1)
        return super(IndexHandler, self).get('index.html')

# HANDLES UPLOADED CONTENT
class UploadHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        io = StringIO(self.get_argument('matrix'))
        w = sio.mmread(io)
        msm = MarkovStateModel()
        msm.transmat_, msm.populations_ = _transmat_mle_prinz(w)
        msm.n_states_ = msm.populations_.shape[0]
        if bool(int(self.get_argument('mode'))):
            self.write(make_json_paths(msm, self))  # TP
        else:
            self.write(make_json_graph(msm, self))  # MSM

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# STATIC CONTENT DECLARATIONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r'/run', RunHandler),
    (r"/process", UploadHandler),
    (r'/', IndexHandler, {'path': 'public'}),
    (r'/js/(.*)', StaticFileHandler, {'path': 'public/js'}),
    (r'/css/(.*)', StaticFileHandler, {'path': 'public/css'}),
    (r'/images/(.*)', StaticFileHandler, {'path': 'public/images'}),
    (r'/help/(.*)', StaticFileHandler, {'path': 'public/help'}),
    ], debug=True)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# MAIN
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    (options, args) = parse_cmdln()
    port = int(os.environ.get('PORT', options.port))
    application.listen(port)
    print "MSMExplorer is starting on port %s" % options.port
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()


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1-800-Flowers - Houston is located at 9516 Jones Road Suite A, Houston TX 77065 . The data in this listing is believed to be accurate in our florist directory at the time of posting. To find out more information about 1-800-Flowers - Houston, give them a call at (713) 686-6447.
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Address: 9516 Jones Road Suite A
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How She Made Daughters Beyonce and Solange Feel 'Special' as KidsFather of 4-year-old Maleah Davis, whose body was recently found after she went missing last month, leads thousands in a march through Houston in her honor. https://t.co/X0TIUJDt65 pic.twitter.com/1clYsDh8gB— ABC News (@ABC) June 10, 2019Maleah's remains were found in Arkansas and according to community activist Quanell X, Vence confessed to him that he had dumped her body and that her death was the result of an accident. Meanwhile, the cause and manner of Maleah's death remain under investigation. Vence is the prime suspect in connection with her disappearace. Here's how to contribute to her funeral:In related news, teddy bears and toys are being collected for the child's funeral, ABC reports.A sign displayed at the apartment complex where Maleah lived with her family goes on to say the toys will then be given to the Houston Fire Department. There's also a painted mural honoring the little girl on the apartment's fence.Maleah Davis – Derion VenceMeanwhile, in related news, a Harris County jail inmate claims he gave Houston investigators the location of Maleah Davis' body May 26, five days before community activist Quanell X spoke with suspect Derion Vence in jail.David Chalfant, 50, said he spoke with Vence and convinced him to reveal the location where he dumped a garbage bag containing Maleah's remains.Chalfant told the Houston Chronicle he was among a few inmates on the 6th floor who weren't yelling threats at Vence.On May 22nd, Vence wandered over to Chalfant's cell begging for extra food. Chalfant handed him crackers and soup, and the two men talked about Maleah's final hours alive.Chalfant said Vence told him M... https://eurweb.com/2019/06/13/heres-how-you-can-send-cards-and-flowers-to-maleah-davis-private-funeral/
The 3 best florists in Houston - Hoodline
Looking to check out the top florists around?Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top florists in Houston, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to venture next time you're in the market for florists.1. Valentine FloristPhoto: ika r./YelpTopping the list is Valentine Florist. Located at 6009 Richmond Ave., Suite 125, in Mid West, the florist is the highest rated florist in Houston, boasting five stars out of 136 reviews on Yelp.2. The Cutting GardenPhoto: taylor m./YelpNext up is The Cutting Garden, situated at 9039 Katy Freeway, Suite 211. With five stars out of 66 reviews on Yelp, the florist has proven to be a local favorite.3. Blomma Flower ShopPhoto: blomma flower shop/YelpBlomma Flower Shop, a florist in Washington Avenue Coalition / Memorial Park, is another much-loved go-to, with 4.5 stars out of 74 Yelp reviews. Head over to 1602 Patterson St. to see for yourself. https://hoodline.com/2019/02/the-3-best-florists-in-houston
This Popular Flower Truck In Atlanta Is Opening An All-New Store This Summer - Narcity
We all have wondered where those girls on Instagram get those cute flowers in the brown paper wrapping and we all have wanted some. There is a trendy mobile florist that rolls around Atlanta to different markets and events, and this flower truck will be opening a new store in Ponce City Market. JJ's Flower Truck is known for their beautiful, fresh flowers that you can pick out yourself, and the florists will make it into a bouquet for you. The best part about this company is that it is named after Jaxon Jones, a miniature golden doodle. He is the mascot for the truck and is the cutest ever. The flower-mobile is a 1968 Volkswagon van turned into a truck so it makes it that much more adorable and picture worthy. There are new flowers on the truck each week and their team always has suggestions on how to make the perfect bunch to take home.Each flower is priced by the stem, so they are all different prices on the truck. Usually, you have to catch the truck at local festivals, weekend markets, or at Avalon on certain weekdays. Make sure to follow and keep track of where they will be on their social media.&nbs... https://www.narcity.com/things-to-do/us/ga/atlanta/atlantas-popular-flower-truck-is-opening-a-new-store-in-ponce-city-market
Carrollwood Florist Offers Custom Hand-crafted Floral Arrangements that Suit Every Occasion - Press Release - Digital Journal
Tampa Flower Delivery - OFFICIAL Carrollwood Florist WebsiteBeing in the floral industry since 1992, Carrollwood Florist has been delivering long-lasting premium flower arrangements that are handcrafted to suit any occasion. They help you to make a lasting impression with a creative bouquet delivered on time.Tampa, Florida - June 25, 2019 - Located in Tampa, Florida, Carrollwood Florist, the best florist in Tampa has been specializing in the supply of long-lasting premium flowers that can be customized to suit any occasion since 1992. They supply flowers for different events including weddings, birthdays, newborn baby bouquets, sympathy, and more."We are your local, full-service Tampa florist, and take pride in providing our customers with quality flowers, artfully designed arrangements and gifts for all occasions. From birthday flowers to holiday flowers to sympathy flowers, our long-lasting relationships with you and your family are what keep us growing," commented the spokesperson of Carrollwood Florist. Their catalog for... http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4357325
Meet the Denver Florist Who Owns the Bright Pink House on South Pearl Street - 303 Magazine
Her lawn has to be watered and manicured too.303 Magazine: How did you get started as a florist and open The Ruffly Rose?Emily Rodriguez: I always knew I wanted to have a store of some kind in high school, but I didn't know what. I was living in Fort Collins and going to CSU (Colorado State University) and I started working at a flower shop there and it was such an awesome experience. The ladies took me under their wing and I knew this was what I wanted to do. After I got married, I moved back to Denver and worked at another store for about a year and it was still a dream of mine and I just told myself, "If it's meant to be, it's meant to be." I knew that if a store were to open, it had to be on South Pearl. I've always loved this street ever since I was a little. There's something just about it — its charm. Then something opened up on Pearl and it just all worked out.303: Was the address for The Ruffly Rose a store originally or just a house you acquired?ER: So the house was built in 1880. It was a farmhouse. There was a family that lived here for a really, really long time and then it was a chiropractor I think before I moved in. It was set up like a doctor's office.303: Did you paint the exterior pink and green?ER: Yep. We wanted to let people know we were here!Photo by Karson Hallaway.303: What was the first professional bouquet you ever made and who was it for?ER: I've done a lot of weddings for people. They're all just so fun. I love doing those. It's fun to just meet with the couples and hear their vision and we just feel so honored that they trust us to execute that vision. We get to see how excited they are the day of their wedding and they get to see it all come to life. It's also always fun when you get orders for the Broncos or Nuggets. It's random and mostly seasonal [bouquets]. We take it pretty seriously.303: What appeals to you most about the flower industry?ER: Flowers bring ... https://303magazine.com/2019/07/denver-florist-emily-rodriguez-ruffly-rose/
New flower business blooms in Huron - Sandusky Register
HURON — A new florist business is blossoming under the care of its owners.Sarah Lazette Gilbert, a 2000 Huron graduate, opened the Sweet Pea Flower Truck in May, but she's been peddling petals since high school."I got into the industry when I was in high school and started working with a friend of my mother's, Lisa Fantozzi, after she branched out and started the Enchanted Florist," Gilbert said. "She was a good friend and a mentor to me."Fantozzi was diagnosed with cancer and died in 2008, at which point the Enchanted Florist closed and there hasn't been a floral shop in the city since. Gilbert always wanted to open a floral business of her own and spent a year looking for a location with her husband."A brick-and-mortar location really wouldn't fit into my life as a new mother. I needed to be able to be at home more," Gilbert said.The couple started to brainstorm alternative ways she could open her own business and decided to try to do for florists what food trucks did for restaurants.The busi... http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201906120022
She drives a tiny flower truck, and business is blooming - CBC.ca
Crawley said."I've had this in my dream box for quite a few years now and just decided that now is the time to put it into play." She has no formal training as a florist. A former stay-at home mom to her three children, she spent seven years working as a secretary at a local elementary school.After a string of family illnesses and mishaps last year, Crawley felt overwhelmed and craved change.Then she realized being a florist on the move was her dream job."You really try to sit back and try to figure out things that really make you tick, the things that you really love."If you could pick anything in the world to do, what would those things be? For a long time, it was really hard to make that list. "And then I came across that picture and I thought, 'You know what? I think I'm ready to try this.'" It just makes people smile, which was exactly what I needed.- Laura CrawleyShortly after, Crawley quit her steady job at the school, found the perfect tiny truck for sale in Lacombe, and hit the road. Selling flowers by the stem or bouquet out of her flatbed has been a challenge, Crawley said.She had to customize the truck's bed to ensure the flowers are well protected from the elements and don't wilt en route. Some varieties fare better on the road than others. But business appears to be blooming and it's a rewarding job. The perfect bloom bring can brighten a home or a bad mood, Crawley said. And that's why she got into the business. To spread a little happiness."It gives me more than I give to it," she said. "It just makes people smile, which was exactly what I needed and I think what everybody needs."... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-flower-truck-business-1.5197252
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