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Affordable Housing Units Prone to Floods Could Triple by 2050
Without swift action to reduce carbon emissions, nearly 25,000 low-income houses will face annual flooding in the next 30 years
Rasha Aridi
Daily Correspondent
In the U.S., affordable housing units along the coast tend to be built in flood-prone areas where the land is cheaper and developers cannot build. Vicky Somma via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
The amount of affordable housing in the United States that is susceptible to damage and destruction caused by coastal flooding will triple by 2050, reports Daniel Cusick for E&E News.
A new study, published yesterday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests that around 7,668 affordable housing units in the U.S. flood annually. Without swift action to reduce carbon emissions, that number could reach nearly 25,000 units by 2050, reports Oliver Milman for the Guardian. This is the first study of its kind to assess how vulnerable affordable housing units are to flooding and rising sea levels, according to a press release.
According to Reuters, previous studies have forecasted how houses along the coasts will be affected by climate change, but "there's been much less attention put on these lower-income communities," says computational scientist Scott Kulp of Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators researching climate change.
The team of researchers used maps of low-cost and federally subsidized housing units and coupled them with flood projections to forecast how communities will be affected in the future, reports the Guardian. They found that states like New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York are expected to have the highest number of units at risk of flooding at least once a year by 2050, according to the press release.
The U.S. is already facing an affordable housing shortage—there are only "35 units available for every 100 extremely low-income renters," reports Patrick Sisson for Bloomberg. That amounts to a shortage of 7 million units, so losing any more units will add to the deficit. For example, almost half of the available affordable housing units in New Jersey are projected to flood at least four times per year by 2050.
Within the next 30 years, coastal flooding will affect 4,774 affordable housing units in New York City, 3,167 in Atlantic City and 3,042 in Boston. Other cities will see a huge jump in the number of at-risk units: Miami Beach will see a 1,074 percent increase in at-risk units and Charleston, South Carolina, will see a 526 percent hike by 2050, according to the press release.
Climate change is wreaking havoc on coastal communities all over the world, but people with low incomes are being disproportionately affected by the ensuing hurricanes, floods and rising sea levels.
"The point here is that two neighbors can suffer from the same flood, one living in affordable housing and one in a home they own, and experience a very different outcome," study co-author Benjamin Strauss, the CEO and chief scientist at Climate Central, tells Bloomberg. "Many more people in the general population will be affected by sea level rise than the affordable housing population. But the affordable population group is the one likely to hurt the most, who can't afford to find a remedy on their own and tend to not have the voice needed to change the allocation of public resources."
In the U.S., affordable housing units along the coast tend to be built in flood-prone areas where land is cheaper and developers cannot build, leaving low-income families to contend with expensive reconstruction when their homes are damaged, reports E&E News. Most floods don't destroy homes altogether, but they inflict damage slowly over time and creates persistent problems, reports the Guardian. For example, basements that regularly flood can become infested with mold, posing a health risk.
"There are people who would say any buildings in the floodplain shouldn't exist," Priya Jayachandran, president of the National Housing Trust, tells Bloomberg. "It's not necessarily fair to pit the climate and housing crisis against each other. The housing crisis is severe. We need to both save existing stock and make it more resilient."
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Discover Lessons from Leaders with Host Mike Lyons Season 1, Episode 5: Jimmy Brogan
Season 1, Episode 5: Jimmy Brogan
PLEASE NOTE: This interview was conducted right before the outbreak of COVID-19 across the U.S. As we all grapple with the severity of this pandemic, we hope that this podcast will help to nourish your soul and make you laugh a little as we navigate these uncharted waters together. Stay healthy and safe!
Our guest on this episode is legendary stand-up comedian and actor Jimmy Brogan. Jimmy is revered in the comedy profession as one of the all-time greats - a witty, clever innovator who has a legion of followers. Jimmy's impressive background includes numerous appearances on the talk show circuit including multiple performances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman.
He has hosted Laffathon on Showtime, Comic Strip Live on Fox, and hosted The Late Show on Fox after Joan Rivers left the show. For 9 years he was a writer and talent coordinator for the Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno and appeared many times on the show with Jay doing stand-up routines, in written comedy pieces and in remote segments. As an actor, he starred in his own ABC sitcom Out of the Blue and has appeared in major films such as Punchline with Tom Hanks, The Informant with Matt Damon and Bridesmaids with Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig.
Jimmy is well known in the comedy clubs for his off the cuff ad lib-style act. The Los Angeles Times has called him "an absolute master at interacting with the crowd" and says, "he elevates crowd interaction to a high art."
In this podcast, Jimmy shares memories from his early career days and peppers the conversation with fascinating and funny stories about the comedy business, famous friends he has worked with along the way, and his views on how to find your passion.
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Just a Spoonful of Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!
I've been dying to tell you guys some big news.
As I was sitting in the terminal about to board the plane to Altitude Summit, I received an email from Babble.com/Disney Interactive Blogs inviting me to become a regular contributor on the new Disney Family site, Spoonful.com.
I was so surprised/humbled/completelyfreakingout that I was even on the Babble/Disney radar!
But I have to admit that I was a little nervous about signing on–they would like at least 3 posts a week from me. That's a whole lotta creative juice that needs pumping. But when I saw that Spoonful focuses on four family-friendly ideas: Cook, Create, Play and Celebrate, I realized that Spoonful is a perfect fit for me. Plus, my boys are already crazy for Disney! So you'll be seeing a whole lot more from me!
Which brings me to today. This, right now, is my Spoonful debut! Please visit my very first post about the king & queen of hearts valentines I made for Huck's kindergarten class. If you stop by the post, please say hello in the comments! I'd love to know that you visited me!


There's no better indicator of the new era of corporate transparency in the pharmaceutical business than this FDA warning letter sent to Braintree Labs, citing 21 consumer complaints about "insects, insect parts, and spiders" in its drugs.
Your firm received 21 consumer complaints in 2008-2009 for the presence of foreign materials in five finished products (e.g., insects, insect parts, and spiders). Upon receipt of these complaints, you concluded that the foreign material could not be attributed to your firm's manufacturing practices. However, you did not conduct a thorough investigation to assess whether facility or raw material quality problems were at the root of these complaints.
There may once have been a time when companies could chug along in quiet little niches where sunlight rarely reached. Braintree was one of those companies. Its products are so dominant in the "whole bowel irrigation" category that they're the only brands anyone ever mentions for this purpose. Check out Braintree's press release page: It engaged with the public so rarely that all its statements going back to July 1984 can fit onto a single browser screen.
It's not just drugs. There are lots of tiny categories where single players, privately owned, reign over regional or category monopolies. I worked at one once. We were a regional supplier of oddly shaped cardboard boxes to food and drug companies in rural Northern England. And because we were the only game in town, we delivered those boxes when it was convenient to us. I know. I was the truck driver. I could arrive hours late and no one cared -- they just needed their boxes.
In that kind of business you could get away with ignoring your customers -- until the Internet came along and spoiled everything with its "news" and "information."
Those days are over. As I noted recently, the FDA is a much more active beast than it used to be. And it's much more transparent -- the agency will shortly enforce a plan where "complete response letters" (the rejections drug companies get when their proposed new meds don't pass muster) will be published, so the public and investors can see where companies went wrong.
Conduct thorough investigations of foreign matter complaints.
Increase pest control monitoring at your firm.
Identify foreign matter to determine origin.
Here's a fifth suggestion: Let some sunlight in. It's a good disinfectant.
How J&J Allowed Its Tylenol Factory to Rage "Out of Control"
Hat tip to Pharmalot. Image by Flickr user lucjonis, CC.


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Q: Number of different arrays from a given array I have an array, say
{2, 3, 2, 3, 3}

I can swap exactly 2 items, e.g.
{2, 3, 2, 3, 3} => {3, 3, 2, 2, 3}
 ^        ^
 swap these

How many different arrays can I produce this way? For the example above, the answer is 7, these arrays are:
{2, 3, 2, 3, 3} // swap 2nd and 4th
{2, 2, 3, 3, 3} // swap 2nd and 3rd
{2, 3, 3, 2, 3} // swap 3rd and 4th
{2, 3, 3, 3, 2} // swap 3rd and 5th
{3, 2, 2, 3, 3} // swap 1st and 2nd
{3, 3, 2, 2, 3} // swap 1st and 4th
{3, 3, 2, 3, 2} // swap 1st and 5th

If I have {5, 5} array (note, this is degenerated case), the answer is 1: the only possibility is {5, 5} after swapping 5s.
How to start this task? I am thinking about nested for loops, but I was told that I should do this in O(NLog(N)) time.
This is my method signature:
public int process(List<Long> arr) {

}

A: You can solve the problem in O(n) time. Let me explain the algorithm, and you'll implement it in Java.
Count each item occurence, organize them in a map. Here we have
  map = {
    {2, 2},  // number 2 appears 2 times
    {3, 3},  // number 3 appears 3 times
  }

If any number appears 2 or more times, start summation from 1 otherwise from 0.
  Here we have number 2 appears 2 times, so we should start from 1

  sum = 1;

Then we loop over array and update both map and sum:
  v = array[i];
  sum += array.length - i - map[v];
  map[v] -= 1;

Let's have a look what's going on:
  i : v :       sum :            map
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  0 : 2 : 1 + 3 = 4 : {{2, 1} {3, 3}}
  1 : 3 : 4 + 1 = 5 : {{2, 1} {3, 2}}
  2 : 2 : 5 + 2 = 7 : {{2, 0} {3, 2}}
  3 : 3 : 7 + 0 = 7 : {{2, 0} {3, 1}}
  4 : 3 : 7 + 0 = 7 : {{2, 0} {3, 0}}

Finally, return the sum.
Edit: Brief logics explanation:
If we have two or more equal items, then we can swap them and have the array unchanged. This is a special solution so we start summing from 1 in this case.
Now let's count all the swaps which change the array. Note, that when swapping we sould not count a swap twice:
 ... a ... b ...
     ^     ^
    swap(a, b) == swap(b, a)

To prevent this double count let operate with swap(a, b) only (b to the right of a). How many swap (array[i], ...) do we have?
 swap(array[i], array[i + 1])
 swap(array[i], array[i + 2])
 ...
 swap(array[i], array[length - 1])

we have length - 1 - i swaps. However, we should subtract the number of items to the right of array[i] which are equal to array[i] (swapping equal items doesn't produce a new array). With a help of map we can easily subtract the required number:
 map[array[i]] -= 1; // array[i] is not to the right of itself
 sum += length - 1 - i - map[array[i]]

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460 F. 2d 661 - Murphy v. Erwin-Wasey Inc
Federal Reporter, Second Series
460 F.2d.
460 F2d 661 Murphy v. Erwin-Wasey Inc
Paul I. MURPHY, Plaintiff, Appellant,
ERWIN-WASEY, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.
First Circuit.
Argued April 5, 1972.
J. Chester Webb, Waltham, Mass., with whom Webb, Webb & Martin, Waltham, Mass., was on brief, for appellant.
Edward N. Costikyan, New York City, with whom Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, was on brief, for appellees.
Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.
McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court's order dismissing a complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction over the defendants and for failure to join an indispensable party. The plaintiff, appellant here, is an advertising consultant. The principal defendants are Erwin-Wasey, Inc., an advertising agency, and Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., Erwin-Wasey's parent corporation. The other defendants are formal parties, it being alleged that they are indebted to Erwin-Wasey and Interpublic. The plaintiff claims that he and Erwin-Wasey entered into a contract in 1954-55 under the terms of which Erwin-Wasey agreed to pay him three and one-third percent of its commissionable billings to the Compana Corporation for a product known as AYDS; that in consideration for these payments plaintiff agreed to serve as a consultant for the marketing of AYDS; and that subsequently the contract was extended to cover other Compana products. Plaintiff alleges that Erwin-Wasey and Interpublic intentionally misrepresented the true amount of the Compana billings and thereby deceived him into accepting less than he was entitled to receive for his services. He demands an accounting and monetary damages.
This is a diversity suit. Erwin-Wasey and Interpublic are foreign corporations with no principal place of business in Massachusetts, and our threshold question is whether the district court had personal jurisdiction over the defendants. Plaintiff asserts jurisdiction under the Massachusetts long arm statute, M.G.L.A. ch. 223A, Sec. 3.1 The defendants strenuously contend that their contacts with the Commonwealth are insufficient to warrant application of this statute. They argue that the contract in issue was made in New York and that they have not committed any acts in Massachusetts which would render them amenable to the personal jurisdiction of its courts in a suit on the contract. Their argument is, however, wide of the mark because the complaint is framed as an action for fraud and deceit as well as in contract.
The full reach of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts courts under ch. 223A, Sec. 3 has yet to be delineated by the Supreme Judicial Court. We are, therefore, required to interpret that chapter without such authoritative guidance, but only with the aid of opinions of courts in other states interpreting similar statutes. We are persuaded that, in the absence of any opinion by the Massachusetts courts to the contrary, Erwin-Wasey is subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the district court under Sec. 3(c).
Plaintiff alleges, in an affidavit, that "false statements have been made by letter and orally both face to face and in telephone conversations while I was in Massachusetts and elsewhere."2 As corroboration, he offers evidence that in 1967 Erwin-Wasey caused a check to be delivered to him in Massachusetts which, he claims, by implication fraudulently misrepresented the amount due. In deciding the jurisdictional question, we are required, in the absence of convincing evidence to the contrary, to accept these allegations as true. At the least, the district court should have asked plaintiff to make his allegations more specific, since, if plaintiff alleges that defendant's agents made misrepresentations to him personally within Massachusetts, defendant would without question be within the jurisdiction of the court. See Hoard v. United States Paint, Lacquer & Chem. Co., 44 Misc.2d 72, 253 N.Y.S.2d 89 (Sup.Ct. 1964). To provide guidance for the district court, should plaintiff's allegations be limited to a claim that defendant, in New York, communicated by mail or telephone false statements to plaintiff in Massachusetts, we proceed to consider whether such allegations would provide a sufficient basis for jurisdiction.
Section 3(c) gives to the Massachusetts courts jurisdiction over parties who cause "tortious injury by an act or omission in this commonwealth." This language is derived from the Uniform Interstate and International Procedure Act and represents an effort to resolve, legislatively, the type of conflict over the meaning of the term "tortious act within this state" which has developed between the Illinois and the New York courts. Compare Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., 22 Ill.2d 432, 176 N.E.2d 761 (1961) with Feathers v. McLucas, 15 N.Y.2d 443, 261 N.Y.S.2d 8, 209 N.E.2d 68 (1965). Section 3(c) is intended to apply only when the act causing the injury occurs within the Commonwealth. St. Clair v. Righter, 250 F.Supp. 148, 150-151 (W.D.Va. 1966); Commissioners' Note, Uniform Interstate and International Procedural Act, 9B Uniform Laws Annot. Sec. 1.03. To give it any broader meaning would render Sec. 3(d) a nullity. See Beaty v. M. S. Steel Co., 276 F.Supp. 259, 262 (D. Md.1967), aff'd, 401 F.2d 157 (4th Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1049, 89 S. Ct. 686, 21 L.Ed.2d 691 (1969). The question we must decide is whether the delivery in Massachusetts by mail or telephone of a false statement originating outside the state, followed by reliance in Massachusetts, is an "act . . . within this commonwealth."
The New York courts, which have interpreted the term "commission of a tortious act" in a way that makes the New York statute synonymous with Sec. 3(c), have held that a defendant does not subject himself to jurisdiction under that language simply by shipping into New York and selling there a product defectively manufactured and mislabeled in another state which causes injury in New York. See Feathers v. McLucas, supra; Singer v. Walker, 15 N.Y.2d 443, 209 N.E.2d 68, 261 N.Y.S.2d 8, cert. denied, Estwing Mfg. Co. v. Singer, 382 U.S. 905, 86 S.Ct. 241, 15 L.Ed.2d 158 (1965). The Second Circuit, however, has held that the analogous Connecticut statute asserts jurisdiction over a New York publisher whose newspaper was distributed in Connecticut containing an article alleged to libel a Connecticut resident. Buckley v. New York Post Corp., 373 F.2d 175 (2d Cir. 1967). There the court pointed out that while sending a defective tool to a dealer as in Singer merely creates the condition from which damage might later arise, sending a libel into a state is indistinguishable from "the frequently hypothesized but rarely encountered gunman firing across a state line." Id. at 179.
We believe that the same is true of the mailing of a fraudulent misrepresentation into a state. We would be closing our eyes to the realities of modern business practices were we to hold that a corporation subjects itself to the jurisdiction of another state by sending a personal messenger into that state bearing a fraudulent misrepresentation but not when it follows the more ordinary course of employing the United States Postal Service as its messenger. See Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. v. Franklyn, 26 N.Y.2d 13, 308 N.Y.S.2d 337, 256 N.E.2d 506 (1970); R.F.D. Group Ltd. v. Rubber Fabricators, Inc., 323 F.Supp. 521 (S.D.N.Y.1971). Where a defendant knowingly sends into a state a false statement, intending that it should there be relied upon to the injury of a resident of that state, he has, for jurisdictional purposes, acted within that state.3 The element of intent also persuades us that there can be no constitutional objection to Massachusetts asserting jurisdiction over the out-of-state sender of a fraudulent misrepresentation, for such a sender has thereby "purposefully avail[ed] itself of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum State, thus invoking the benefits and protections of its laws." Hanson v. Denckla, 357 U.S. 235, 253, 78 S.Ct. 1228, 1240, 2 L.Ed.2d 1283 (1958). We note, in this connection, that, under the controlling Massachusetts choice of law rule, substantive Massachusetts law will govern the adjudication of plaintiff's tort claim, see Doody v. John Sexton & Co., 411 F.2d 1119, 1121 (1st Cir. 1969), and that, therefore, Massachusetts is not an inconvenient forum.
Jurisdiction over Interpublic is another matter. Plaintiff asserts that Interpublic also has committed tortious acts within the Commonwealth by communicating with him in Cambridge by telephone and mail and by tendering him a payment "in full & final settlement" there in October 1969. However, in view of the fact that it is clear from his allegation that plaintiff was not deceived by these acts, jurisdiction may not be asserted under Sec. 3(c) at least insofar as the 1969 events are concerned. Plaintiff contends, however, that Interpublic is subject to the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts courts under Sec. 3(a) because the cause of action arises from a transaction of business by Interpublic in Massachusetts, namely, the tender of payment for plaintiff's services. It is doubtful whether the Supreme Judicial Court would interpret "transacting any business" broadly enough to encompass a single tender of payment. New York and Illinois appear to require more. See, e. g., M. Katz & Son Billiard Products, Inc. v. G. Correale & Sons, Inc., 20 N.Y.2d 903, 285 N.Y.S.2d 871, 232 N.E. 2d 864 (1967); Kramer v. Vogl, 17 N. Y.2d 27, 267 N.Y.S.2d 900, 215 N.E.2d 159 (1966); A. Millner Co. v. Noudar, Lda., 24 A.D.2d 326, 266 N.Y.S.2d 289 (1st Dep't. 1966); Grobark v. Addo Machine Co., 16 Ill.2d 426, 158 N.E.2d 73 (1959). In the absence of any clear direction from Massachusetts case law to the contrary,4 we are not prepared to hold that a single tender of payment satisfies the requirements of Sec. 3(a). We are particularly reluctant to do so here where it appears that the tendered check was Erwin-Wasey's rather than Interpublic's.
If these were plaintiff's only possible bases of jurisdiction, we would affirm the dismissal of the action with respect to Interpublic. The record before us, however, intimates that Interpublic may have engaged in more persistent conduct in Massachusetts than the tender of a single check and that there may be a principal-agent relationship between Interpublic and Erwin-Wasey. The court below did not pursue these avenues because it appears to have expected the plaintiff to establish a strong factual basis upon which to predicate jurisdiction. In so doing it erred because all that is required at this early stage is that plaintiff plead facts sufficient to support jurisdiction. Compare United States v. Montreal Trust Co., 358 F.2d 239 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 384 U.S. 919, 86 S.Ct. 1366, 16 L.Ed.2d 440 (1966) with Alosio v. Iranian Shipping Lines, S.A., 307 F.Supp. 1117 (S.D.N.Y.1970). Since the court below did not consider these issues, we remand the case to allow it to consider them in the first instance.
Finally, we address ourselves to the district court's dismissal of the complaint for failure to join an indispensable party. Defendants assert that they contracted with Paul I. Murphy Company of 550 Fifth Avenue, New York City, and not with Paul I. Murphy, individually;5 that the Company is therefore an indispensable party; and that since the Company is "a New York entity of some sort," the case must be dismissed because its joinder would oust the court of jurisdiction. 3A Moore's Federal Practice p 19.07 n. 9 (1970). Plaintiff asserts that Paul I. Murphy Company is simply a name under which he does business, and at oral argument expressed a desire to amend his complaint to read Paul I. Murphy d/b/a Paul I. Murphy Company, plaintiff. Since there is nothing in the record to contradict plaintiff's assertion that Paul I. Murphy Company is not a distinct legal entity, it was error to hold it indispensable to this action. The interests of the absent unincorporated "Company" are adequately represented by its sole proprietor. Under Rule 17(b), Fed.R.Civ.P. capacity to sue is generally determined by the law of the forum. See generally 6 Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure, Sec. 1564. Massachusetts law requires that an unincorporated association sue not in its own name but only in the name of its owners. See Adams v. Richardson, 268 Mass. 78, 80, 167 N.E. 254 (1929). Certainly the same is true of an unincorporated sole proprietorship, which may be nothing more than a name by which the proprietor does business. Thus the action was properly commenced in the name of the individual plaintiff, the real party in interest here. There is no harm, of course, in plaintiff's filing an amendment.
The order of the district court is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
"Sec. 3. Transactions or conduct for personal jurisdiction
"A court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person, who acts directly or by an agent, as to a cause of action in law or equity arising from the person's
(a) transacting any business in this commonwealth;
(b) contracting to supply services or things in this commonwealth;
(c) causing tortious injury by an act or omission in this commonwealth;
(d) causing tortious injury in this commonwealth by an act or omission outside this commonwealth if he regularly does or solicits business, or engages in any other persistent course of conduct, or derives substantial revenue from goods used or consumed or services rendered, in this commonwealth;
(e) having an interest in, using or possessing real property in this commonwealth; or
(f) contracting to insure any person, property or risk located within this commonwealth at the time of contracting."
While this allegation appears in a context which renders it somewhat ambiguous, we consider it sufficient for our purposes
We are not persuaded by the view of one district court that the word "act" is strictly limited in meaning to physical acts, such as deposit in a mail box. St. Clair v. Righter, supra
In Wolfman v. Modern Life Ins. Co., 352 Mass. 356, 363, 225 N.E.2d 598 (1967) the Supreme Judicial Court interpreted the language "transaction of business" fairly broadly and found a foreign insurer subject to Massachusetts jurisdiction under M.G.L.A. ch. 175B, Sec. 2(a) (4). In view of the special considerations which are recognized in problems of jurisdiction over insurers, we do not consider this case applicable to the issues before us. See generally Developments in the Law-State Court Jurisdiction, 73 Harv.L.Rev. 909, 928 (1960). See also McGee v. International Life Ins. Co., 355 U.S. 220, 78 S.Ct. 199, 2 L.Ed.2d 223 (1957); M.G.L.A. ch. 175B, Sec. 1
The complaint is captioned "Paul I. Murphy, plaintiff," but much of the correspondence on which the contract is based was carried on in the name of Paul I. Murphy Company


What does "Survivorship Bias" mean?
Definition of Survivorship Bias in the context of A/B testing (online controlled experiments).
Survivorship bias is a systematic under or overestimation of an effect on a parameter of interest due to the difference in the population that is remaining at the end of an experiment versus the one which entered it. In extreme cases a result can be biased to the point that the whole observed effect size is due to it and there is no genuine effect at all.
Survivorship bias can affect an A/B test in which the primary KPI is a per user or per order metric and since most key performance indicators are (conversion rate, average revenue per user, average order value) and in which the final decision is based only on a portion of the users and user interactions. One reason to do that is to avoid learning effect. For example, in an online controlled experiment that lasted for 8 weeks, only the data from the last 4 weeks might be analyzed, allowing for 4 weeks for any learning effects to wear off or subside significantly. The result would be that users who did not like the treatment and thus are much less likely to participate in the last 4 weeks are filtered out of the treatment group which will lead to an increase in per user metrics, making it look more successful than it is.
A classic example of survivorship bias can be found in World War II where engineers were considering which parts of bombers to add additional armor to. Planes that returned from raids over Germany were examine and meticulous recording were made of each hit a plane took. Areas with the highest proportion of hits were identified and the military wanted to armor-plate those parts. The statistician Abraham Wald, however, pointed out that these would be the worst places to add armor to since the mere fact that there were so much damage on these parts and the planes made it back to Britain suggests that these are not crucial parts for the survival of the planes. In fact, armor should be added to parts that have no damage since apparently if a plane was hit there it did not made it back.


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Il sistema Nissan Ecology Oriented Variable Valve Lift and Timing (conosciuto come VVL o NEO VVL) è un sistema sviluppato dalla Nissan, questo sistema funziona in modo simile al VTEC di Honda, variando la fasatura, la durata, l'apertura, tramite l'uso di valvole idrauliche, che permettono il passaggio d'utilizzo tra due diversi tipi di albero a camme.

Caratteristiche
La caratteristica che lo differenzia dal sistema Honda è che il NEO VVL usa una gestione indipendente tra aspirazione e scarico, dove sulla SR20VE l'albero a camme d'aspirazione si commuta a 5000rpm, e l'albero a camme di scarico a 6500rpm, tuttavia quest'aspetto non è stato mantenuto nella più recente versione '20v'.

Applicazioni
Il primo motore a utilizzare tale sistema è il SR20VE, di cui ci sono state due principali versioni di questo motore, dove la prima versione da 187 CV e 145 lb/ft, utilizzato da Nissan dal 1997 al 2001 su Nissan Primera, Nissan Bluebird e la Nissan Wingroad.

La seconda versione del motore, utilizzata nel 2001 su P12 Nissan Primera, motore capace di 204 CV, e 152 lb/ft, motore conosciuto come il SR20VE'20V', dove il '20V' non è da intendere comunemente come venti valvole, il nome '20V' è il nome del trim il livello di Nissan Primera che sia trovato in È anche una versione abbreviata del nome SR20VE, difatti questo motore ha 16 valvole.
Questo nuovo '20V' è l'unico motore di SR20 a ottenere un restyling della copertura della valvola e ridisegnato in alcune parti, come il collettore d'aspirazione, che ha più corridoi e un diametro più grande (70 millimetri contro i 60 millimetri del precedente SR20VE).

Voci correlate
 Fasatura di distribuzione variabile
 VVT-i e VVT-iE, sono dei sistemi progettati da Toyota
 VTEC, è un tipo di sistema progettato da Honda e prodotto in molte varianti, tra cui il 3-stage VTEC
 MIVEC, è un tipo di sistema progettato da Mitsubishi
 VarioCam e VarioCam Plus, sono dei sistemi progettati da Porsche
 VANOS e Valvetronic, sono dei sistemi progettati da BMW
 AVCS e AVLS, sono dei sistemi progettati da Subaru
 S-VT, è un tipo di sistema progettato da Mazda
 Variable Camshaft Timing, è un tipo di sistema progettato da Ford
 Variable Valve Control, è un tipo di sistema progettato da Rover
 VFD e Multiair, è un sistema di variazione fasatura valvole progettato da FIAT
 Variatore di fase Alfa Romeo è un sistema di variazione fasatura valvole progettato da Alfa Romeo, il primo adoperato in un'autovettura di produzione di serie

Motori a combustione interna
Tecnologia automobilistica


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Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Paramount Pictures Partner to Propel Technology 250 Years Into the Future in Star Trek Beyond
HPE Film Integrations and New Ad Campaign Feature Futuristic Concept Technologies Inspired by The Machine
June 06, 2016 11:00 ET | Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 6, 2016) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has teamed with Paramount Pictures to imagine technology 250 years into the future for the upcoming Star Trek Beyond feature film from Paramount Pictures and Skydance set for worldwide release beginning July 20. The upcoming film will include several futuristic concept technologies created exclusively for the movie based on HPE's The Machine, a groundbreaking research project being developed by the company. Also in connection with the film, HPE will debut a new advertising campaign featuring The Machine, the first prototype of which is slated to launch later this year.
As the official enterprise technology partner for Star Trek Beyond, HPE designers and researchers worked closely alongside the filmmaking team to design futuristic technologies that could one day be powered by The Machine and that would contribute to bringing the world of Star Trek Beyond to life.
"This collaboration presented a unique backdrop against which we could highlight the vast potential of The Machine," said Henry Gomez, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "Star Trek has a long tradition of boldly enabling us to imagine mankind's future. The Machine will reinvent computing architecture from the ground up, so the connection to the film's exciting technologies is easy to envision."
"Planets definitely aligned for this HPE partnership with Star Trek Beyond given the timing of the launch of The Machine technology and the film's release," said LeeAnne Stables, President of Worldwide Marketing Partnerships and Licensing for Paramount Pictures. "It was exciting to see the HPE designers working in a room with our creative teams to infuse actual future world technology into this action-packed film. We know movie audiences around the world love seeing what's ahead."
HPE's The Machine project is focused on reinventing the computing architecture on which all computing is currently based -- from smart phones to data centers to super computers. It aims to break through the limitations of today's computing, enabling a massive and essential leap forward in computing performance and efficiency.
The Machine plans to use light, called photonics, for communications rather than copper wires; it aims to make the "save" button a concept of the past, instead capturing, and remembering, everything in memory as it is created and even after it's turned off; and it plans to revolutionize how security is embedded throughout a computer.
The Machine technologies are currently being designed to address technological challenges in the not-so-distant future -- from dealing with the massive quantities of data generated through connected devices to being able to translate health data from millions of people into solutions for the healthcare industry.
The new HPE advertising campaign, Accelerating Beyond, will feature Star Trek Starfleet Academy recruits in a world powered by The Machine 250 years in the future. It is designed to illustrate the progress that could one day be achieved through the lens of The Machine technology. The campaign, which will include :60 and :30 second television ads, shot in a futuristic landscape in Iceland along with digital treatments, will debut at HPE's Discover Las Vegas conference, June 7-9. It will begin rotation widely on July 1.
Star Trek Beyond will be in theaters beginning July 22.
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About Star Trek Beyond
"STAR TREK BEYOND," the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin ("The Fast and the Furious" franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her intrepid crew. In "Beyond," the Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
From Paramount Pictures and Skydance, "STAR TREK BEYOND" is a Bad Robot, Sneaky Shark, Perfect Storm Entertainment production. The film stars John Cho, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin and Idris Elba. Directed by Justin Lin, the third film in the franchise series is produced by J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Lindsey Weber, and Justin Lin; and executive produced by Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Tommy Harper. Based upon "Star Trek" created by Gene Roddenberry, the screenplay is written by Simon Pegg & Doug Jung.
"STAR TREK BEYOND" opens in U.S. theaters July 22, 2016.
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Celui qui couvre une offense recherche l'amour, celui qui la rappelle dans ses discours divise les amis. Proverbe 17.9
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Cape TimesNews
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Cop injured, 38 held after running battles in Vredenburg
By Staff Reporter Nov 14, 2018
Cape Town – Police have arrested 38 people following violent protests which brought the Vredenburg area of the Saldanha Bay Municipality to a standstill yesterday.
One officer was injured in the running battles between the about 3 000 people and the police.
Chaos broke out in the morning when the residents gathered near the provincial traffic office and burnt tyres. They were demanding the delivery of basic services.
Police spokesperson FC van Wyk said protestors pelted stones at the Vredenburg police station and damaged vehicles.
He said the 38 people arrested on charges of public violence were between the ages of 20 and 59.
"At about 5.30am the community of Ongegund (the broader informal settlement) started protesting about poor service delivery.
"They started to throw stones at the Vredenburg police station and damaged vehicles. The R45 road is closed, as well as Main Road, Vredenburg," Van Wyk said.
"A case of public violence was registered for investigation. 'One police member was injured.
"Police and other law enforcement agencies continue to monitor the situation."
The Saldanha Municipality cautioned people, saying: "An illegal march and protest action is under way in Vredenburg, perceived to be related to service delivery.
''The South African Police Service has brought in the Public Order Policing reserve units to assist, and cordoned off Main Road, leading into Vredenburg.
''The situation is under control and the safety of motorists and the community is secured.
''Saldanha Bay Municipality encourages residents to remain vigilant and to exercise caution until further notice."
Simultaneously, in Ceres, in the Witzenberg Municipality protests erupted on the R43 and R46, and a number of roads had to be closed to traffic.
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Alexandra Béni · 27/01/2017
Spanish-Hungarian cooperation in EU tenders
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Madrid (MTI) – The Hungarian Development Centre (MFK) and the Spanish project development company Inspiralia signed a representative partnership agreement on Thursday to cooperate in European Union tenders.
The agreement signed in Madrid covers seven countries in central and eastern Europe, managing director of the centre and ministerial commissioner Antal Kiss told MTI.
"Eastern Europe and central Europe are grey spots for Spain and we would like to change this by getting the knowledge and capabilities of the region, of the Carpathian Basin, to be jointly represented and promoted to successful Spanish project developers," he said.
Spain has been very successful in winning EU tenders and Inspiralia has played an important role in this, Kiss said. The Spanish company contacted MFK and proposed cooperation last year. As a result, tenders totalling 4 billion forints (EUR 12.9m) have been submitted with Hungarian participation in the past six months, he added.
He cited as examples the ELTE psychology institute's participation in an international project to assess cultural diversity and the Hungarian Academy of Science's Wigner Research Centre for Physics joining the University of Birmingham's Raman spectroscopy project.
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Let me just start by saying, I miss the first opening them. I am glad however it doesn't show any scenes for what is to come, so there is at least that. Anyway, not much else to say, other than the fact the 3 part prequel OVA's that Chise tells Elias does happen in this episode, so, now is a good time to watch those OVAs if you haven't already. So, yeah, let's start.
There is a rather ominous message before the opening theme. I mean, it makes it sound like something bad will happen. Also, it shows scenes from Volume 7, when the anime is now around volume 5 for the manga, to put that into perspective.
Anyway, where last episode left off at around the last ten seconds or so is where this episode now kicks off. Well, the little wooly things, well, they are like animals, and it is around the time of year where they need to be sheered. They are apparently very warm too and can be used well with magic. To top it off Angelica asks Elias to sheer them.
But, after shearing for some time Elias gives the ominous message that will obviously happen, where if Chise sees one that is different, to go get him. Well, she does, and it attacks her. She was sort of lost in thought about trying to find the right time and thing to say to Elias about her past and how she really feels.
Well, Elias saves her, and typical of Chise, she falls unconscious, this poor girl still cannot get a break. This time however, it is due to the cold. The bug takes the warmth from people and uses it to breed.
Anyway, Chise wakes up and has a rather interesting talk with Elias. Mostly, filling him in on what happened with Lindel. Chise nearly gets her mind erased for learning about Elias wanting to eat people, but she doesn't want that since what she learned dealt with someone she cared about. She goes onto explain about her family.
Also, I really forgot something important like how both of Chise's parents had the sight. This really brings the question on why her dad left, and why her mom killed herself. I mean I thought they left because Chise's constant whining about the scary things she sees. But if they could see them, well, they know what she was going through. There must be something else there to it. But whatever, that is a plot point for another day, probably.
Elias also reveals how he felt while Chise was gone, thus allowing him to realize the human emotion of loneliness.
Some time passes so Chise can study and the scene from the OVA happens.
It cuts back to Chise and conveniently has a rather important page in a book open that will be relevant next episode.
The episode then ends with a mysterious guy putting a fox pelt on Chise, turning her into a fox.
I am really glad for that short little scene from the OVA. So, I am glad that they have found subtle ways to include it into the anime without stating it. The previous episode had a short scene of the flashback, while this one confirmed when Chise told Elias her story.
But, that important page, well, it is going to be important for what will hopefully be the next two episodes. It will probably be just one, but, the effects it has will be a few episodes to say the very least.
This episode was rather nice, giving a sort of next step in Chise and Elias' relationship. Although both are either unsure or refusing to reveal their emotions, having them realize that the other is important to them is a nice next step.


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Q: Getting values from JSON objects I have a file named AnimalsData that has an object that consists of an array. The array consists of an object and another array. It looks like this:
var animals = {
    animalClass : [
        {
            className : "Reptiles",
            animalArray : [
                {
                    image1 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Coast_Garter_Snake.jpg/500px-Coast_Garter_Snake.jpg",
                    image2 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Nerodia_sipedon_shedding.JPG/440px-Nerodia_sipedon_shedding.JPG",
                    name : "Snake",
                    description :
                }, "blah, blah, blah"
                {
                    image1 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Crocodilia_collage.jpg/600px-Crocodilia_collage.jpg",
                    image2 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Caiman_crocodilus_Tropicario_2.JPG/440px-Caiman_crocodilus_Tropicario_2.JPG",
                    name : "Crocodilia",
                    description : "blah, blah, blah"
            },
            {
                    image1 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Bartagame_fcm.jpg/500px-Bartagame_fcm.jpg",
                    image2 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Lizard_in_Yemen.JPG/440px-Lizard_in_Yemen.JPG",
                    name : "Lizard",
                    description : "blah, blah, blah"
                },
                {
                    image1 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Chelonia_mydas_is_going_for_the_air.jpg/440px-Chelonia_mydas_is_going_for_the_air.jpg",
                    image2 : "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Turtle3m.JPG/500px-Turtle3m.JPG",
                    name : "Turtle",
                    description : "blah, blah, blah"
                },
            ]
        },
        .......etc., etc

My HTML file looks like this:

    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <title>Animal Photo Album</title>

    <link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="css/myjavascript.css" rel="stylesheet">

I'm trying to get the values of the className object from the animalClass array. I have been using the following two stackoverflow pages as a guide:
Accessing Objects in JSON Array and Access / process (nested) objects, arrays or JSON
I have another javascript file which has the following:
EDIT I changed "name" in the for in loop and the jQuery statement to className in order to reduce the confusion.
function executeObject() {
    for(var i = 0; i < animals.animalClass.length; i++) {
        for(var className in animals.animalClass[i].className) {
            $('
' + ClassName + '
').insertAfter('#content');
        }
    }
};

$(function(){
    executeObject();
});

However, this only produces numbers. I've tried various tweaks to the above but they either end up being undefined or the insert "className" and "animalArray" three times. The examples looked pretty straight forward but I'm obviously missing something.

A: You are referencing the className, not the animals array.
function executeObject() {
    for(var i = 0; i < animals.animalClass.length; i++) {
        var name = animals.animalClass[i].className;
        $('
' + name + '
').insertAfter('#content');
    }
};

A: Try this
function executeObject() {
    for(var i = 0; i < animals.animalClass.length; i++) {
     $('
' +  animals.animalClass[i].className + '
').insertAfter('#content');
    }
};

A: Do something along these lines.
for(var i=0; i<=animals.animalClass.length; i++){
    var animal_class = animals.animalClass[i];
    console.log(animal_class.animalArray);
    for(var j=0; j<=animal_class.animalArray.length; j++){
        console.log(animal_class.animalArray[j].name);
    }
}


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I wanted to like this novel, because the history rings true and the characters are sympathetic, but ultimately the main character is just too passive, only ever really doing things others have set up for her, and not following through even when she does have interests outside the laid-out-path. Luckily for her, even the people she doesn't particularly like only ever seem to push her into what's likely to be best for her. Basically, it'd be a very sweet family history to retell and read, but really doesn't have enough going for it as a novel for me to want to read it again. I didn't even much like her by the end.
In summary, Eilis is the younger daughter of an Enniscorthy family of five in the early 1950s. Her three brothers have all gone to England to work, while her elder sister Rose, the only member of the family to have found a decent job at home, keeps her and their widowed mother. Eilis is doing some bookkeeping classes, but hasn't found a job. At the beginning of the novel she is out-of-the-blue offered a few hours work in a local shop (Eilis is never proactive), and then a few months later Rose arranges for her to be offered a job in Brooklyn via a parish priest there while he's on holiday home in Enniscorthy. Father Flood not only arranges her job and accomodation, he looks after her all the time she's in New York, first suggesting she continue with her bookkeeping/accountancy training, then taking her to register for night classes when she hasn't got the gumption to do so. Seeing that she hasn't made friends or family connections he gets her volunteering in church events, and checks out the young man she meets at the Friday night dances he's arranged in the church hall. Not that I'm complaining about that – Father Flood is a caring gentleman who looks after his parishioners – but it would have been nice to see Eilis actually grow a bit. So things go well in Brooklyn, and then Eilis gets temporarily called back to Ireland, and the question is, will she be able to say she wants to go back to New York, or will she get dragged back into small town life?
It came to my notice that Bookmooch has its own system of travelling journals, or books that a self-selecting variety of contibutors create sequentially, and since there were a few available here in Israel, (so that it'd arrive faster and take one point rather than two) I thought I'd try getting one, to see was I interested in doing any more, before making a big(ish) commitment of time and effort while looking after a small baby.
Well, that first one, The Literary Guild Reader's Journal, arrived today, and it really didn't take me long to read all the previous entries and add my own, so it's now relisted and available to other Bookmoochers!
It's a collection of contributors' lists and descriptions of favourite books, and musings on preferred authors, and I enjoyed adding a few pages of my thoughts, so I've mooched a few more journals that were local. If those go well I'll have to go for some that are overseas.
We've been given a set of gorgeous board books to read to our baby, which we're enjoying doing! She's not really ready to pay attention or to get the idea of stories or anything (she's only just over a month old, after all!), but there's only one way for her to learn, right?
Oh, I'm adding these to my reading list, so I can review them, but will obviously only do so once in a given year. The fact that they'll likely get read umpteen times each validates that, I think. I may end up waiting awhile to review them in 2011, so I can give some approximation of DD's reaction, while the response now is entirely mine (and sometimes DH's).
The pictures show an anthropomorphised adult dog and puppy – thus the name of the book – but 'snuggle baby' fits the rhythm just as well, for anyone who'd prefer to recite it to their child that way.
For something so very statedly a bedtime book, this is very active in both theme and rhythm (not to mention the suggested actions). It's very good fun, however, and I can imagine many toddlers finding the pictures hilarious. I also guess that not every child or every evening is suited to the calming, soothing tale or poem.
I hadn't come across Sandra Boynton myself before we were sent these three books, but I'd happily look out for more of hers, going by these two. The illustrations are great, and fit perfectly with the text (as one might expect of an author-illustrator), and there's lots to appreciate for both adult and child.
This is definitely one of the quiet, soothing type of bedtime books. It's also the only one we have so far that is fully in prose, and because of that I sometimes try to fit a rhythm to it, unsuccessfully until now at least! Unlike the others, it's told in the voice of the child recognising that night has come, and it's time for the world to sleep, until morning comes, when Mr Night will sleep instead.
We received this one today, when I was already halfway through the draft of this post, but it certainly fits, as another beautiful board book that I hope (and expect) our DD will greatly enjoy in a short while. It certainly looks to be a classic (first published in 1947) for good reason. I had heard of it, of course, but I don't think I'd come across it directly myself. I'm getting the impression being a parent is going to be a really great excuse to appreciate the best of old and new books for young children!
I read and discussed this book back in 2008 and part of what interests me, as always, is how the context of other things I'm reading, doing, and thinking about affects my perceptions of a current book. Unfortunately I've forgotten some of what I meant to say about it this time, but I was much more focussed on Homeric literature this time, and how Atwood fit in with the tradition or not. Perhaps because of that, I noticed the modernness much more this time. Homer it's not, but it's not really trying to be, either. I still enjoy it, a lot.
52. Katie the Kitten. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
My baby is two weeks old now, and she's gorgeous, of course. I haven't got a whole lot of reading or crafting done lately, though, let alone blogging! Still, we did just join BookMooch.com, since we have a largish bag overflowing with books weeded from our shelves that we haven't got around to taking to a second-hand bookshop anytime in the last several months, and this seems like it might work for us. Hopefully so!
Above are pictured some of what we're giving away at the moment – for a variety of reasons. In many cases we liked the book, but don't expect to read it again any time soon, so want to save the space on our shelves.


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Q: Creating a generalized type for use as a table value parameter I'm finding that there are several points in the stored procedures that I'm creating where I want a stored procedure to accept a list of IDs in various tables that the SP should perform an operation on.  I'm considering using Table Value Parameters.  What I'm wondering about is whether it's a good practice to create a single Type which just contains a single "ID int" column, and use that as the data type for all of my TVP's, or whether it's a better practice to define a type for each SP, in case I end up in the future wanting to expand the values passed.
Does anyone have experience with this?
edit In case it makes any difference to your recommendation, the ID lists that I'm passing may be on the order of 150,000 entries.

A: What I can offer you in the way of experience is that if you find you need to change the definition of a user defined table type, you will need to drop every reference to the type before you can diddle with it.  Down in the Cons section mentioned that great annoyance. So for us, it was worth the code maintenance to define unique table types based on expected usage, even if it matched existing types.  YMMV

A: Why not just use an inline table-valued function that splits the list and returns a table? If you need to use it multiple times you can just call it once and stuff the results into a local table variable. To me TVP is most beneficial when you need to get complex arrays from client applications into the database - I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble for a single column containing IDs.


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Q: python numpy matrix row wise operations: columns in each row How can I loop over a matrix and get the number of columns in each row? If I have a matrix, and some elements are NaN (empty) in the matrix, e.g.: [[4,2,9,4],[3,4,8,6],[5,NaN,7,7],[Nan,8,Nan,Nan]], how can I compute the row-wise length?
I have tried:
len(matrix) # number of rows
=len(matrix[0]) # number of columns

But that gives me the total number.
So I want to get a vector saying the number of columns in each row: [4,4,3,1] e.g.
My idea is to make a loop like this:
for i in matrix:

And then a loop where it searches. But I'm not sure how to do this
EDIT: I tried @wavy's method and it worked. Can I do like this:
# empty list
Final=[]

for i in range(matrix):
    columns=np.isnan(matrix).sum(axis=1)
    result=-columns+matrix.shape[1]
    if result==1:
        Final.append(matrix[i])

    print(Final)

I also need to put other conditions, when result==2, and when result>2

A: This might be faster than David Wierichs suggestion:
import numpy as np

x = np.array([[4, 2, 9, 4], [3, 4, 8, 6], [5, np.nan, 7, 7], [np.nan, 8, np.nan, np.nan]])
y = np.isnan(x).sum(axis=1)
result = -y + x.shape[1]

A: You could loop over the rows and for each row use the (negated) numpy.isnan method:
lengths = [np.sum(~np.isnan(row)) for row in matrix]

As this builds up a boolean array in the np.isnan, there might be faster approaches.


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"The Secret" Is Worse than Bullshit. Such Positive Fantasies Kill Motivation
by James Fell | May 8, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
I'm running. The iPod is blasting. "The Spirit of Radio" by Rush comes up with its classic opening riff; my fingers twitch. Before long, I am attempting air guitar while continuing to run. Vehicles whiz by. I imagine some of the occupants are staring and thinking, What a weirdo.
Being a great guitar player is my recurring fantasy. Run after run. Bike ride after bike ride. At a concert or even in the car. I hear some amazing six string, and in my head, it's me playing, and my awesomeness causes crowds of women to spontaneously ovulate.
I played electric guitar for a bit in high school, but not well. I didn't have the determination to master it. It didn't come easily and I gave up. I have a Fender acoustic. I could tune it up and find videos on YouTube teaching me to play. I could spend an hour a day and within a couple of years be passable. A few years more and I might even be good.
And yet, the Fender gathers dust. I don't want it enough. It's sufficient to remain a fantasy.
But I've converted enough other fantasies into reality to know something of the process, that such dreaming of an idealized future hinders the ability to achieve it. If you spend a lot of time imagining how great it will be when you lose weight / start a new career / launch that business / find love, it actively damages your motivation to achieve those goals.
Dafuq? I thought we were supposed to keep our eyes on the prize?
Isn't The Secret to success—that stupid book/movie about wishing for shit millions bought into—to think positively about what you desire, and then you will "attract" it, or something? Aren't we supposed to think happy thoughts then the universe would throw cool shit at us? Ask-Believe-Receive and all that? If that's the case, I guess the millions of people who die from starvation each year didn't think positively enough to attract food.
Hopefully you don't believe the pseudoscientific "law" of how "like energy attracts like energy." But isn't positive thinking a requirement to achievement?
No. Not a requirement, a hindrance. Actual chicken soup nourishes the body. The metaphorical kind via inspiring stories doesn't do much for your soul. Because a fantasy of an idealized future, while enjoyable in the short term, depletes the mental energy necessary to prompt you to action.
In 1991, Gabriele Oettingen, a professor of psychology at NYU, first discovered that people who fantasized about a positive outcome were less likely to achieve said outcome. Published in Cognitive Therapy and Research, her study looked at 25 women with obesity, and found that "Optimistic expectations but negative fantasies favored weight loss." Conversely, "Subjects who displayed pessimistic expectations combined with positive fantasies had the poorest treatment outcome."
What does this mean? Let's look at those who weren't successful at weight loss first.
They were pessimistic about their ability to lose weight, but they fantasized about it a lot. They regularly imagined how great it would be to transform their bodies. Guess what happens when you do that. It relaxes you. It alleviates the bit of good, motivational stress you feel about not having realized your ambitions. It takes away that drive that prompts action by giving you the feeling that you already achieved that desired goal, so there isn't the desire to strive for it.
The most successful ones in Oettingen's study were confident in their ability to achieve the goal, but didn't spend much time fantasizing about the outcome.
Oettingen faced backlash from the scientific community. How dare she question the power of positive thinking?
Nevertheless, she persisted. Working with colleague Doris Mayer out of the University of Hamburg, they published a compilation of four studies in 2002. In it, they evaluated graduates seeking employment, students with a crush on a fellow student, students anticipating an upcoming exam, and patients about to undergo hip replacement surgery.
It was the same kind of study, to ascertain motivation to work toward a goal (getting a job, date, high grade, or successful rehab) based on the participant's attitudes going into it. The results? Positive expectations = good. Positive fantasies = not good.
In other words, when you "expect" to work and focus on what is needed to achieve, and have confidence in your abilities to do so, you're gonna kick some ass. Conversely, when you focus on daydreaming about how awesome life will be once said goal is achieved, it saps your willpower to do … anything.
Because in your mind, you already kind of achieved it.
In my mind, when I'm out for a run and imagining what an amazing guitar player I am, fingers twitching to that righteous solo, I'm immersed in an imaginary sense of achievement. It's relaxing, and therefore the good stress needed to do the work to achieve the goal in the first place is removed. Oettingen and Mayer explain positive fantasies "lead people to mentally enjoy the desired future in the here and now."
Without having to work for it.
The bestselling business book Good to Great has an extreme example of this, referred to as "The Stockdale Paradox." It's the tale of Admiral Jim Stockdale, the highest ranking American officer imprisoned in the "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War. Taken in 1965, he was tortured over twenty times during the next eight years. But he made it home.
Many of his fellow prisoners did not.
Author Jim Collins asked Admiral Stockdale about those who never got to come home. "The optimists," he replied. Collins was confused, because moments before Stockdale said he never lost faith he would make it home. The admiral elaborated: the "optimists" were the ones who said they'd be home by Christmas, but then Christmas would come and go. Then they would say, "Home by Easter," and that holiday would also pass, yet they remained imprisoned under horrible conditions.
Admiral Stockdale said such men died of broken hearts.
Then he offered this advice to Collins: "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
Another study Oettingen was involved in was published in 2011 in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found positive fantasies about an idealized future "sap energy" and directly relate to "poor achievement." And another study she was involved with was published in European Journal of Social Psychology in 2012 and specifically looked at academic achievement, found that positive fantasies about the outcome of their schooling was related to higher absenteeism and lower grades. From the study: "positive fantasies, which allow people to indulge in images of a bright future, predict poor achievement." Professor Oettingen has conducted many other studies in this field as well as written a book titled Rethinking Positive Thinking.
"Positive dreaming is not only not helpful for wish fulfillment, but it actually can hurt," Oettingen told me in an interview. But she was clear that it's okay to wish for an improved future, but in a manner that energizes you to action rather than glues your ass to couch.
"But I like my fantasies," you say. Yeah, so do I. I enjoy imagining being able to play guitar more than I relish the idea of endless hours of practice. I've accepted that I'll probably never learn to play. Or, at least not any time soon, while I'm so busy with my career. And it's okay because my lack of guitar-playing ability isn't affecting my health, my finances or my happiness. It's not an important goal for me to achieve.
What about when the goal is important?
"The first step is important is to come up with your wish," Professor Oettingen told me. "A real wish that is not just what you think other people are wanting you to strive for. Come up with a wish that is dear to you."
I have an MBA and was doing well in my business career. "Other people" would have told me to stay the course. But I had this overwhelming desire to be a writer. Writing was a skill I'd developed over several years that served to advance my career. I'd seen the power I could wield, but wanted to switch from writing about how to transform and grow a business to how to transform and grow individuals.
You own the controlling interest in your life. How do you maximize shareholder value and achieve "your wish"? Professor Oettingen suggests you engage in what she calls "mental contrasting" to achieve that which is "dear to you".
"We often just respond to the environment and rush through all the 'shoulds' we have in our lives," Oettingen said. "We don't let ourselves imagine the best outcome." This isn't about the fantastical daydreaming that saps energy, but imagining—using rational strategizing—what you want from your life that is achievable and where you really want to go.
How to find it? "Allow yourself a bit of calm and focus," Oettingen said. She says to relax, take some time, and just … think. Keep your wish to three or four words of what you would most desire. Think about your most positive possible outcome. "Keep it in front of your mind and allow yourself to imagine and experience the outcome," she said. "Just let your mind go and ponder that."
Next, Oettingen says, you must determine what is stopping you from achieving the wish. This is the setup for lightning to strike. You did the part of finding what you want, fantasized a little how wonderful achievement will be, but now it's time "to circumvent the calming effects of dreaming and mobilize dreams as a tool for prompting directed action." Copy that? Mobilize those dreams!
"Find the main obstacle that stands in your way," Oettingen told me. "You'll have to dig deep." She explained this with the example of "lack of time" for pursuing a specific goal, which then requires uncovering why you don't have time, and what could be reprioritized to provide it. It may be lack of organization, or anxiety over capabilities, or whether you feel as though you deserve to do something for you …
But what if the way is revealed as impossible?
Oettingen wrote in her 2012 paper that uncovering impossibility comes with its own benefits. "It de-energises people when their wishes are beyond their reach, thus promoting disengagement, freeing people for alternative pursuits."
If it's impossible, it wasn't the right goal. Not the droids you're looking for. Move along. Oettingen told me this freeing allows people to let go of a goal with a clear conscience. Because of the realization of the lack of achievability, failure to attain no longer plagues. It means you have increased clarity to focus on a more appropriate and attainable goal.
What if the goal is not impossible, but merely implausible? This can give you a giant kick in the ass. I'm a fan of chasing the implausible. Lofty goals are awesome, so long as you ground them in reality. Dolly Parton said, "You need to really believe in what you've got to offer, what your talent is—and if you believe, that gives you strength." Who are you to deny Dolly?
"When they find that main obstacle that is holding them back, people often have an epiphany," Oettingen told me. "They finally realize, 'Yes! This is it! This is what has been preventing me from fulfilling my wish.'"
She explained this is an opening of a path, where suddenly, people know what to do, where to go. The positive fantasy provides initial direction; finding the obstacle and how to overcome it—to turn it into the way forward—is what energizes so they feel compelled. When you learn how to conquer that obstacle, you come to feel as though you must.
Professor Oettingen said this "is not a rational process whatsoever." Finding the wish is emotional. It's an imagination exercise intended to generate passionate pursuit. "Once you find the obstacle and how to overcome it, this can be a very emotional experience because you finally know what's been hampering you." Sometimes, this obstacle has been in your way for years, yet you never realized it. Sometimes, it's not a flattering thing you learn about yourself, what this obstacle was. But it is unburdening.
"It's unburdening because now you know how to overcome this obstacle," Oettingen said.
It's not a "secret." It's about finding a way around barriers to get the most out of life.
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We can offer you a range of board games and you are very welcome to enjoy our garden which is regularly a part of our village Open Gardens weekend. Guests often enjoy drinking a glass of wine on the terrace next to the aviary on a warm summer's evening.
The RSPB's Snettisham Reserve is a short drive away, as are several beaches and Natural England's Dersingham Bog Nature Reserve – Deer, Owls, Nightjars etc.. It's well worth a visit. Sandringham House and Gardens (usually open from Easter till beginning of November) offer a splendid day out and we are surrounded by lots of lovely countryside with pretty villages and many other attractions.
We have two very comfortable spacious en-suite bedrooms with their own sitting areas. One has a king size double and is on the first floor, the other is twin bedded and on the ground floor. Please note that these bedrooms are not in close proximity to each other and both have their separate entrances from the outside. If you wish for any further information please contact us.
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Сребарна природни резерват (бугарски: Природен резерват Сребърна) је резерват природе у североисточној бугарској покрајини Добричка област (Добрич), поред истоименог села, 2 км од Дунава и 18 км западно од града Силистра.

Постоје три легенде о настанку његовог имена: прва каже да је језеру име дао кану Сребристу који је погинуо у неправедној бици против Печенеза крај језера; друга спомиње брод препун сребра који је наводно потонуо у језеру; а трећа, најувјерљивија, каже да је језеро добило име по сребрнастом одсјају за време пуног месеца.

Језеро Сребарна с околином се налази на миграцијском путу птица селица између Европе и Африке, Виа Понтика. Резерват је дом за 139 врста биљака од којих је 11 угрожених врста, као и 39 врсте сисара, 21 врсте рептила и амфибија, 10 врста риба, али је најпознатији као дом за 179 врсте птица које се гнезде у овом подручју као што су: Далматински пеликан, Црвенокљуни лабуд, Сивонога гуска, Плавоврати славуј, Чапље и Вранци.

Резерват природе је основан још 1948. , а Рамсарска конвенција је заштитила ово подручје 1979., да би постао УНЕСКО-ва Светска баштина 1983. године. Резерват је проширен 1992. и 2003. године и данас се простире на 6 km² заштићеног подручја око језера и 5,4 km² око тог подручја. Језеру дубина варира од 1 до 3 м, а у близини је изграђен и музеј с колекцијом препарираних животиња које живе на том подручју .

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package com.learning.problems.jukebox.model;

public class Publisher extends User{

    public Publisher(String name,long id){
        super(name, id);
    }
    @Override
    public User addUser(String name, long id) {
        return new Publisher(name, id);
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}

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Q: Extract values from xml document by xidel using xpath Trying to extract 'text and value' pairs from all lines of DNS XML output using Xidel/Xpath but have no luck with such expression:
xidel -e "/status/section[*]//item[*]@value/@text"

In fact, I am not able to extraxt any single pair nor single value :-/ Anybody know Xpath better?
BTW: Stackoverflow entering box says there are mostly code and ask me for more details, but I have no idea what kind of details could be added....
Source XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<status>

    <item id="state" text="Current state" value="1" valueText="Running" />
    <item id="uptime" text="Server uptime" value="573262" valueText="6 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes, 22 seconds" />
    <item id="zones" text="DNS zones" value="13" />
    <item id="cached" text="DNS records cached" value="88756" />

    <item id="total" text="Total" value="20810744" />
    <item id="udp" text="UDP" value="20810402" />
    <item id="tcp" text="TCP" value="342" />
    <item id="rd" text="Recursive (RD)" value="20599874" />
    <item id="OpCode0" text="OpCode 0 - Request" value="20810732" />
    <item id="OpCode5" text="OpCode 5 - Update Request" value="1" />
    <item id="OpCode10" text="OpCode 10 - unknown" value="11" />
    <item id="QType1" text="Query record type A" value="16596407" />
    <item id="QType2" text="Query record type NS" value="4425" />
    <item id="QType5" text="Query record type CNAME" value="439" />
    <item id="QType6" text="Query record type SOA" value="13101" />
    <item id="QType12" text="Query record type PTR" value="1849989" />
    <item id="QType15" text="Query record type MX" value="8529" />
    <item id="QType16" text="Query record type TXT" value="41016" />
    <item id="QType28" text="Query record type AAAA" value="2084624" />
    <item id="QType29" text="Query record type LOC" value="2" />
    <item id="QType33" text="Query record type SRV" value="104612" />
    <item id="QType35" text="Query record type NAPTR" value="90" />
    <item id="QType38" text="Query record type A6" value="49" />
    <item id="QType43" text="Query record type DS" value="654" />
    <item id="QType48" text="Query record type DNSKEY" value="14" />
    <item id="QType51" text="Query record type NSEC3PARAM" value="1" />
    <item id="QType60" text="Query record type TYPE60" value="35" />
    <item id="QType99" text="Query record type SPF" value="16" />
    <item id="QType252" text="Query record type AXFR" value="6" />
    <item id="QType255" text="Query record type *" value="106719" />
    <item id="typeOther256" text="Other query types" value="4" />
    <item id="classIN" text="Query class IN" value="20810649" />
    <item id="classCH" text="Query class CH" value="80" />
    <item id="classOther256" text="Other query classes" value="3" />

    <item id="total" text="Total" value="510261" />
    <item id="repeat" text="Repeat requests" value="510261" />
    <item id="ipblock" text="IP Blocking" value="0" />
    <item id="stealth" text="Lame request Stealth option" value="0" />
    <item id="notify" text="Notify request not matched" value="0" />
    <item id="maxrecur" text="Exceeded max. parallel recursive" value="0" />
    <item id="ignoreroot" text="Ignored UDP request for <root>" value="0" />
    <item id="ignoreudpany" text="Ignored UDP 'ANY' request" value="0" />
    <item id="ignoreplugin" text="Ignore DNS request plug-in" value="0" />

    <item id="total" text="Total" value="20300475" />
    <item id="aa" text="Authoritative (AA)" value="176020" />
    <item id="tc" text="Truncated (TC)" value="1430" />
    <item id="ra" text="Recursion Available (RA)" value="20032753" />
    <item id="rcode0" text="RCODE 0 - No Error" value="16196886" />
    <item id="rcode1" text="RCODE 1 - Format Error" value="262" />
    <item id="rcode2" text="RCODE 2 - Server Failure" value="35985" />
    <item id="rcode3" text="RCODE 3 - Non-Existent Domain" value="3943192" />
    <item id="rcode4" text="RCODE 4 - Not implemented" value="80" />
    <item id="rcode5" text="RCODE 5 - Query Refused" value="124070" />

    <item id="total" text="Total" value="5220257" />
    <item id="notify" text="Notify" value="6" />
    <item id="zt" text="Zone transfer" value="7" />
    <item id="ixfr" text="Incremental zone transfer (IXFR)" value="53" />
    <item id="soarefresh" text="Zone SOA refresh" value="0" />

    <item id="total" text="Total" value="5152878" />

  <ReqPerSec>39,42,48,40,38,36,40,41,26,31,35,18,26,31,19,32,19,32,35,45,22,24,33,18,32,35,17,34,46,37,29,25,46,55,22,36,35,36,40,34,44,34,40,36,21,17,20,36,17,33,31,26,23,27,40,51
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A: -e "//item/concat(@text,' - ',@value)"

Would return:
Current state - 1
Server uptime - 573262
DNS zones - 13

etc.
-e "//section/(let $a:=@id return item/concat('[',$a,'] ',@text,' - ',@value))"

Would add the section id in front of each line:
[general] Current state - 1
[general] Server uptime - 573262
[general] DNS zones - 13

etc.
[edit]
Although the use of a variable works just fine, it's not really necessary, because the id attribute of the
 element node, a level higher, can be accessed by prepending ../:
-e "//item/concat('[',../@id,'] ',@text,' - ',@value)"

Or with xidel's extended string syntax:
-e "//item/x'[{../@id}] {@text} - {@value}'"

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The objective of Men's Shed is to advance the health and well being of members, to encourage involvement, prevent social isolation.
Offers an inclusive group which reflects the ideas and goals of the participating men. Increases men's well-being by fostering social connections and increasing self-esteem through participation in meaningful community projects, group projects or personal tasks. Creates a safe place for men to network with others of like mind and interest. Effective in helping men combat isolation, share skills and feel valued. Provides a safe, busy environment where men can gather in an atmosphere of old-fashioned friendship.
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A 17 year old boy from Medway has died after a crash near Sittingbourne overnight.
He was a passenger in a white Mitsubishi L200 truck which was travelling along the A2 London Road in Newington at around 10pm.
The truck then crashed into a park car and a wall near to the junction of Playstool Road.
Three other people suffered injuries and were taken to hospital.
Police are urging witnesses to come forward and to contact the Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 01622 798538 quoting MC/DH/102/17.
Alternatively they can email sciu.td@kent.pnn.police.uk.
One person has died and three other people were taken to hospital after a collision involving two cars at 10pm last night in Kent.
The accident happened at Newington near Sittingbourne. Emergency crews including the police, fire service and Secamb ambulance service were called to deal with the incident on the stretch of the A2 between Callaways Lane in Newington and the A249.
The road was closed overnight - until 7am this morning. Work is underway to repair a power cable which was damaged during the collision.


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Il Tumanskij M-88, citato semplicemente anche come M-88 e nella bibliografia di settore in lingua inglese Tumansky M-88, fu un motore aeronautico radiale 14 cilindri a doppia stella raffreddato ad aria sviluppato  in Unione Sovietica al TsIAM (o CIAM), l'istituto centrale per i motori aeronautici, dall'ingegnere Sergej Konstantinovič Tumanskij nei tardi anni trenta.

Evoluzione del precedente M-87, equipaggiò alcuni modelli, principalmente di bombardieri bimotori e prototipi, di produzione sovietica in servizio durante il periodo prebellico e nella seconda guerra mondiale.

Storia del progetto

Versioni
tra parentesi la sigla in caratteri cirillici
M-88b/r (М-88б/р)
versione a presa diretta, indicata anche M-88BR (М-88БР), non avviata alla produzione in serie.
M-88
versione indicata anche come M-88R (М-88Р) dotata di riduttore epicicloidale avviata alla produzione in serie dall'autunno 1939: peso a vuoto 684 kg.
M-88NV (М-88НВ)
variante dotata di impianto di iniezione del combustibile a bassa pressione, realizzato in soli cinque esemplari.
M-88A
versione dotata di riduttore avviata alla produzione in serie.
M-88B (М-88Б)
versione migliorata, ulteriore e sostanziale sviluppo, introdotta nella seconda metà del 1940.
M-88B-NV (М-88Б-НВ)
prototipo, M-88B equipaggiato con dispositivo di alimentazione a iniezione diretta, testato nell'aprile 1944.
M-88TK
prototipo, M-88B equipaggiato con turbocompressore TK-3, esemplari installati per prove in volo dell'Ilyushin Il-4TK nel marzo 1943.
M-88B (+ ТК-М)
prototipo, M-88B equipaggiato con turbocompressore TK-M, esemplari installati per prove in volo dell'Ilyushin Il-4TK dall'agosto 1943.
М-88V (М-88В)
variante da alta quota dell'M-88B
M-88F (М-88Ф)
ulteriore sviluppo, potenza fino a 1 250 CV, prodotto in piccola serie nel 1943.
M-88F-NV (М-88Ф-НВ)
prototipo, M-88F equipaggiato con dispositivo di alimentazione a iniezione diretta, testato nel gennaio 1944.

Apparecchi utilizzatori
(lista parziale)

 Yatsenko I-28
 Ilyushin DB-3F
 Ilyushin Il-4
 Kharkov KhAI-5 (Neman R-10)
 Mikoyan-Gurevich I-220
 Nikitin-Shevchenko IS-2
 Polikarpov I-16 SPB
 Polikarpov I-180
 Polikarpov I-190
 Sukhoi Su-2
 Tairov Ta-1
 Tairov Ta-3

Note

Bibliografia

Collegamenti esterni

Motori aeronautici radiali
Motori aeronautici sovietici-russi


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