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Whole Foods says rights violated in preventing staff to wear slogans
In a court filing, Whole Foods has said that the U.S. forcing it to allow its employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks will violate the company's constitutional rights
Lawyers for the grocery chain made filings in response to claims by the NLRB that Whole Foods illegally barred employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks while working
The document was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request
AUSTIN, Texas: In a court filing, Whole Foods has said that the U.S. forcing it to allow its employees to wear Black Lives Matter masks will violate the company's constitutional rights.
Lawyers for the Amazon-owned grocery chain made filings in response to to claims by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that Whole Foods illegally barred employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks while working.
The document was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Bloomberg, which was the first to report on the filing.
In the filing, seen by Insider, Whole Foods accused the NLRB's general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, of attempting to violate the company's First Amendment rights by trying to "compel" speech.
"The General Counsel seeks to compel employer speech by Whole Foods Market (WFM) in violation of the WFM's rights under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and enforcement of any Order from the Board to compel such speech would violate the Constitution," the filing said.
The filing was released in response to a complaint made by the NLRB in early December.
A Whole Foods spokesperson told Insider that its dress-code policy was designed "to ensure we are giving Team Members a workplace and customers a shopping experience focused entirely on excellent service and high-quality food."
Some employees sued Whole Foods in July 2020, claiming the company forbade them from wearing Black Lives Matter masks at work and threatened them with termination if they did.
The lawsuit said that employees had "commonly worn Pride flags in support of their LGBTQ+ coworkers without being disciplined by Whole Foods," and that the company's "selective enforcement" of its dress code "constitutes unlawful discrimination."
Insider reported that Whole Foods announced a new dress code for all in-store workers prohibiting visible logos, slogans, messages or flags of any kind.
In a filing, the NLRB accused Whole Foods of violating federal labor law, which gives workers the right to engage in "concerted activities for their mutual aid and protection."
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Nora Fatehi's Hot Belly Dance Video Goes Viral
Celebrity, Entertainment By Bakhtawar Sheikh
Bigg Boss 9 contestant Nora Fatehi's beauty and dance talents had a big impact on the audience. Their looks and demeanor made fans all over the country. She has been a well-trained belly dancer since Bigg Boss 9 and has always made us fall in love with her. The actress also released another belly dance video from which she can see a Tiger Sindahai song.
As we all know, Tiger Zinda Hai song Swag Se Swagat, represented by Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, is all the rage on the internet. This song broke many records. For example, it has become the most popular Bollywood song on YouTube. That is why Nora Fatehi's gave all points to the selection of the songs. But even here you will be shocked when she starts to move her stomach after Arabic songs.
A post shared by Nora Fatehi (@norafatehi)
Nora can be seen in the movie "My Birthday Song". Director Samir Soni said they were the hardest to shoot and this is a surprising package in the upcoming movie. Samir said in a statement, "Nora's role is the hardest to audition for. It's complicated, but her vulnerability and sensitivity make her well-suited for the role. She will be our surprise."
He said of her role: " Nora Fatehi's part is very mysterious. It is difficult to play. It requires innocence and seduction. Nora is an elegant girl, sweet and she has a seductive element in her character. She is strong and strong. No matter how. she wins them over here over resilience." Sanjay Suri was also played in the psychological thriller "My Birthday Song". The release is scheduled for January 19.
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Alejandro Valdez–Alex to his friends–is a full- time college student at Palo Alto College. Valdez, an East Central High School graduate, is a Computer Science major.
Valdez stumbled upon that major after having an interest in different apps that are on most smart phones.
"Technology is growing, and it is the thing I am going to be good at throughout the years as it progresses and gets better," he said.
After college, Valdez said he wants to join the Microsoft Company to create software programs for them. He has always taken more of an interest in Microsoft products since the Xbox. He said one of his favorite Microsoft products to hit the market has been the newest Xbox One gaming system.
Valdez has been at PAC for one year, and he said his favorite thing about the college is the professors.
In his free time, Valdez really enjoys watching his favorite shows on Hulu Plus and playing all kinds of video games on his Xbox One. He said his favorite game right now is "Destiny," which is a new video game that had its debut on Sept. 8. He also likes to relax after a long day of school and homework to unwind.


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How hit PS4 game Ghost of Tsushima was influenced by Kurosawa and samurai cinema
Tony Stamp
23 July 20Features
Ghost of Tsushima is the latest breathtakingly cinematic PS4 production. Tony Stamp picks the brains of one of its key creators, Jason Connell, discussing the game's visual art and connections to samurai cinema.
If you're a casual observer like myself, you may have noticed a trend emerge over the last wee while: video games are looking a lot more like movies. Sure we've had cutscenes and narrative arcs for a long time, but 'cinematic' is a term that's increasingly applicable. Think of the Indiana Jones-esque escapades of the Uncharted franchise, the zombie horror of The Last Of Us, or the superheroics of Infamous. These games all hang themselves off recognisable movie frameworks, but they also look like movies. Shots are well framed; different types of light dapple the scenery; the camera moves are expressive.
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And now Ghost of Tsushima has thrown its hat in the ring: in part a tribute Japanese samurai cinema, it looks amazing. That's largely thanks to Jason Connell, the Creative/Art Director at Sucker Punch games. If you look at his social media it becomes apparent he's a guy who's deeply interesting in visual composition, and the various shots from Ghost of Tsushima that have already populated the web are testament to that passion.
"I used to paint skies," he tells me, "Matte paintings for games. When you're playing a game, 90% of the colour and mood and emotion comes from your upper hemisphere. Everything above the horizon line is going to set the mood. Is it a dark stormy sky, is it a refreshing sunrise, is it a blue day where you feel like there's no worries? It's such a great way to set up colour and mood, so I almost always start there. For example, in one section of the game, we can have it be rainy all the time, because this is an area where the stories are maybe sadder, or there's a bit less hope."
It's a very visual approach to design that he says emerged even prior to the game's narrative, asking himself "How can colour or atmosphere tell a story before the words are even written?"
When you start to appreciate all the elements that go into making a modern AAA game—performance, cinematography, music, and sound—you can imagine the effort that must go into creating what is essentially a twenty-hour animated movie. But much of this is of course playable, so there are some obvious differences.
"Movement is one big difference," explains Jason, "It manifests itself both visually and aurally in our game. Everything moves—clothes, hair, trees, bushes, grass."
He's referring to the omnipresent breeze that blows through Ghost of Tsushima, telling me "That stuff takes time, research, energy, and tech. If you look at even just a fifteen-second segment of our game with no audio or story, the wind is obviously a very important part of how it looks and feels. But it also has a huge gameplay affordance to guide you through the island. That is where true beauty happens, when gameplay functionality meshes well with some strong visual statement."
"It's technically hard. But it's also hard because it can get fatiguing. I was always telling my audio director 'I want to hear the wind more. You're on a mountaintop, it should be muffling in your ear.' And he would say 'we've got to be careful because it could be tiring on the ear'".
As Jason's role encompasses both art and creative direction, it takes him in several different directions. The artistic impulses dictate "How should the colours make you feel? How should the motion and movement make you feel? What should the landscape and characters look like?"
As Creative Director, he sums up his job as asking "What are the chief inspirations that get us excited?"
Those inspirations are largely cinematic.
"Games are heavily inspired by film. They are becoming more cinematic because that's where we take our references from. We knew we wanted to feel realistic. The lighting and the shading look realistic. But maybe we can play with the composition of the trees and the plants to make it feel more exaggerated and more memorable."
Samurai films, and in particular the landmark works of Akira Kurosawa, were a huge touchstone. I ask Jason how his team prepped to incorporate these influences into the game.
"There was a team movie night. We watched the classics like Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Takashi Miike's film 13 Assassins gave us lots of good inspiration, especially the second half of that movie, which is mostly fighting. There are parts of our game which feel very similar. Quick, bloody deaths instead of gory ones. They are not classic old school samurai, they are doing things like jumping from rooftops because they're assassins, which was also influential.
"And then eventually we paid for the rights to all these different movies, and I just flipped through the colour thumbnails and looked for good compositions and interesting colour choices. I looked at almost every samurai movie—how they began and ended, cinematography-wise. So many Kurosawa movies open with really wide expansive shots, where a person is like drowning in a sea of green. That gave us ideas on how we could depict things in our game."
Take a look at any screenshot from Ghost of Tsushima to see what he means—figures silhouetted against golden burning embers; a ray of sun through dark clouds as a figure gallops across a green field; a graveyard shrouded in mist—they're all pretty eye-popping.
It leads me to wonder what other films Jason has been influenced by.
"My favourite movie of all time is Blade Runner. And I actually liked the new one a lot. I love Ran. Good composition, good colours. I love Wes Anderson movies.
"But I think that my most transformative movies—and this is gonna sound trope-y—but when I was a kid my dad would just religiously watch Star Wars with me. As I grew up I started liking westerns, and then I found out about samurai movies, and realised that samurai movies, and The Hidden Fortress particularly, were a huge inspiration for A New Hope".
Jason's voice rises in excitement as he tells me "It's amazing how I've come full circle. My love of Star Wars has brought me here. Just look at Darth Vader's cape, or lightsabers [to see how George Lucas was borrowing from Kurosawa]. I just think it's fascinating."
Ghost of Tsushima goes a step further in paying tribute to the legendary director with its Kurosawa Mode option, where the game switches to black and white, emulates the look of film grain and ramps up the wind and rain.
"The wind we have through the game, I doubled or tripled it," says Jason.
"It's even more expressive. The flap of someone's sleeve, for example, is more exaggerated."
This sounds to me like an extraordinary effort when so much thought has already gone into the colour cinematography. Jason confirms my suspicion, telling me "Because we created a world that has multiple weather conditions, it made the black & white harder. I had to look at a tonne of different films, (mostly Kurosawa), and different parts of scenes—what do the whites look like, what do the darks look like, what does daytime look like—and try to translate that over to our variety of weather conditions.
"It takes the colour version and puts an orchestrated filter over it. We tried to really showcase the really deep blacks, which I take as a very cinematic feeling. Don't have a lot of white on the screen, and have good dark blacks. It feels more dramatic, and more cinematic.
"We also adjusted the audio output. We have internally-produced software that mimics how the game would sound going through old audio processors. We wanted to capture what it would have sounded like when Kurosawa was making movies".
As well as this abundance of cinematic influence, the Sucker Punch artists also looked to the natural world, travelling to the real island of Tsushima multiple times to document its look and feel. Jason says "I personally shot around 15,000 photos. Anything I found interesting, whether it be an insect on a plant, or a species of tree I had never seen before that was very intentionally planted at a Buddhist temple."
The team also recorded audio there, and made 3D scans of certain things, like a specific type of leaf that was incorporated into the game. All this to service a sense of immersion, and to evoke what Jason's colleague Joanna Wang calls a 'true cinematic moment'.
He tells me everyone involved hopes players will let themselves drift away from the gameplay, and simply take in the island and its sights. "If we could make it beautiful enough that people wanted to just stop and take photos, in our Photo Mode, that's the ultimate goal for me."
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Q: Datastax Cassandra PIG Running only one MAP I am using Datastax Cassandra 3.1.4 with two nodes. I am running pig with CqlStorage() with 12million rows in the table, but I find there is only one map running for a simple pig command.
I tried changing split_size in my pig relation but it didn't worked.
Here is my sample query.
x = load'cql://Mykeyspace/MyCF?split_size=1000' using CqlStorage();
y = limit x 500;
dump y

I didn't find input.split.size property in my mapred-site.xml I am assuming default split size is 64*1024
I tried set pig.splitCombination false;
Now its taking 513 maps for any no.of records, I tried same thing from Hive
I have connected to Cassandra from Hive and gave a simple select all query with where col1>value this table have only 10 records but still this is running 513 maps.
Please help me on this
Thanks

A: Try this setting:
set pig.splitCombination false;

By default, pig will combine what it considers small splits into a single map.

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All calls placed to 9-1-1 must be answered; however, phones can get busy during a major emergency or if multiple people call about the same emergency. Calls may be put in a holding queue or be rerouted to another centre that is available to take the call immediately. Be sure to indicate which municipality you are calling from to ensure that your call gets sent to the appropriate communications centre. This is especially true if calling from a cell phone.
What's the address of the emergency? If you are calling from a multi-family dwelling (e.g. senior's lodge, condominiums or apartment complex), know the name of the building and the room number.
What's the phone number you're calling from? Try to call from a land line if possible so the Emergency Communications Operator (ECO) can call you back if necessary.
If the problem is medical related, the ECO will want to know how old the casualty is (approximately), what their level of consciousness is and if the casualty is breathing.
If the problem is fire related, the ECO will want to know if you and others are safe and out of danger.
You may be put on hold, but do not hang up. The ECO will come back and may ask more questions. Try to be brief. If you don't know the answer to the question, simply say that you do not know.
If there are special instructions on how to get into the building or to the location of the emergency, this should be communicated.
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Land lines are not subject to weak signals or poor reception. The address on a land line is traceable as well, which allows the ECO to quickly determine where the call is coming from. The ECO also has the ability to call you back if necessary.
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Be sure to know where you are. If you don't have an address, identify which municipality you're in, what highway/range road/or street you're on or what highway exit you just passed. Don't assume that your call will be answered by someone who is familiar with the community you're calling from.
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Calls may be placed in a holding queue or routed to another centre that is available to take the call immediately. Therefore, be sure to indicate which muncipality you are calling from to ensure that your call gets sent to the appropriate communications centre. This is especially true when calling from a cell phone.
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Do not hang up. Simply tell the ECO that the number was called in error. If a call is placed to 9-1-1 and the caller hangs up, the police will be sent to investigate the call.
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Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP telephone service) allows customers to make voice calls using an internet connection instead of a regular or analog phone line. There may be limitations of VoIP service including reduced 9-1-1 capabilities, the inability to track where the call is coming from, and interupted service due to a power failure or disrupted internet connections.
Verify that you can access 9-1-1 with your phone and post your address near your phone for quick reference.
Further information on 9-1-1 services for traditional wireline, VoIP and wireless phone service.
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In this second week of Eastertide, we continue to find new life in the Easter miracle of our resurrection as we re-visit the Gospel readings for the Easter Octave. Today we return to the Sea of Tiberius with Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, James, John and two other disciples. Discouraged, frightened, needing employment, or wanting to go back to familiar rhythms and themes of life . . . we do not know why these followers return to the waters of Galilee. But we do know that this is where they encounter the risen Christ. It was already dawn, John tells us.
This imagery reminds us that when we believe our night of suffering and striving is endless, we – like these disciples – will look up from draining work to discover that it is already dawn. Perhaps we – like these disciples – meet Jesus when we are at our lowest. Perhaps we are the two unnamed disciples who take up nets and oars with our comrades to shove out into deep waters to see how we might survive. Perhaps we believe our lives have brought us disappointment again. First, there was the death of Jesus, and now we have been fishing through the night yet have caught nothing. Unexpectedly, a stranger calls out to us from the shoreline, urging us to cast our nets once more . . . but on the starboard side of the boat.
How could this possibly matter, we wonder? What difference can it make to change the side of the boat? We have strained ourselves to the limit and we have no more strength.
With this, Peter leaps from the boat and we question his actions as he flails his way to the shoreline; yet it is there – when the dawn is upon us – we realize that Christ has been with us all along.
We see that Jesus is already baking fish on the open fire, but we add our own fish from the new catch, finally understanding that we are to join Christ in his work. A memory flickers through our minds of the 3 fish and 5 loaves that Jesus divided so that five thousand might eat. And as we settle around the warmth of the fire to take in this meal, we realize our work, we hear Christ's call. Despite our discomfort with the unfamiliar, we know that we must return to Jerusalem to continue the discipleship Jesus has begun in us.
Regardless of our fatigue, we lean into our nets again. In spite of deep waters and dark nights, we leap from our small boat to thrash ashore so that we might share a meal with Christ. Although we have thought our suffering and fears went unnoticed, Christ has been with us, waiting with baked fish and bread to erase our exhaustion and nourish our hope. And suddenly the night slips away . . . . almost without our noticing . . . for it is already dawn.
When we compare other translations with the ones in this post, we begin to understand that despite the length of the night and the frustration of the work, Christ invites us to join him in our own renewal.
To read Matthew's accounting of how Jesus feeds 5000, read Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:31-34, Luke 9:12-17 or John 6:1-14. Matthew (15:32-39) and Mark (8:1-9) also describe the feeding of 4000.
Jesus continues to appear to his disciples, encouraging them to join him in the work of kingdom building. Still mystified by how they will fulfill this mission, they return to the profession they know . . . to their boats, their nets, and the Sea of Tiberias. It is here that we find Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee's sons John and James, and two others. They have been fishing all night . . . and they have caught nothing.
Dawn arrives and they must be wondering what they are to do next.
When they made the decision to follow Jesus they had left their work as fishermen behind them, not questioning how they would earn a living. They had followed the Teacher for several years until that sudden ending when they had last gone up to Jerusalem for Passover. Jesus has returned, risen, wounded, yet whole, and he has visited with them, shared bread with them, told them they need fear nothing. He has given them his blessing and God's peace; yet they are uncertain what to do next in this new life of following the risen Christ so they have turned to their former occupation; but this once familiar work is proving fruitless.
They must be questioning all that has happened to them in the last several years.
We, like the apostles, will find ourselves casting nets into familiar seas yet coming up empty.
We, like the disciples, will return to places and relationships we once took for granted searching for strength yet finding little.
We, like all of Christ's followers, will encounter the Christ just when and where we least expect to find him.
Let us spend some time today watching and waiting in Easter joy. Let us carry our worries and fears to the risen Christ. And let us look for the risen Lord in every detail of all that we do in his name today and all days.
In this Second Week of Easter we will examine our lives as Easter People. Tomorrow, recognizing Jesus . . .


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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
Updated November 28, 2007 at 05:00 AM EST
A former German terrorist once in cahoots with Carlos the Jackal, a gay Christian evangelical who, during his avowedly "ex-gay" period, preaches that Jesus has cured his "homosexual problem," a bank robber, and a martial-arts devotee don't walk into a bar in Protagonist. They do, however, form the four male pillars of Jessica Yu's intricate, novel, and altogether fascinating art-piece documentary. The filmmaker incorporates ancient components of drama — including the universal appeal of puppetry — to explore the shaping of character in the crucible of fanaticism. And she relates her subjects' odysseys to principles of Greek tragedy, pausing to explain such concepts as "provocation" and "catharsis." (Those puppets? They form a Greek chorus.)
If all this sounds awfully classroom-bound, it isn't — far from it. Each man's story as he tells it is riveting, truly stranger than fiction, and awesome, too, in the way of unfathomable humans. And Yu (who made In the Realms of the Unreal, about "outsider" artist Henry Darger) fits her inventive artistic choices to a rigorous, well-thought-out thesis about the tragedy of the extremist — and what makes a man a man. B+
Jessica Yu


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While evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo) has had a big impact upon our understanding and study of morphological evolution, the uptake of the EvoDevo perspective more broadly has been patchy. Discussions of evolvability, evolutionary innovation, and evolutionary novelty beyond the morphological realm remain few and far between. While this is the case, there is no in-principle impediment to applications of the EvoDevo perspective to other domains, for example, behavioral, cultural, and cognitive evolution (Brown 2014). In this light, here, I offer a preliminary analysis of cultural evolution from an EvoDevo perspective. In the first half of the paper, I outline two approaches to understanding cultural traits from an EvoDevo perspective. In the second half, I use one of these approaches to develop a number of general hypotheses regarding the features of populations indicative of "cultural evolvability."
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Rachael Brown works primarily at the intersection of the philosophy of biology, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of science. Her research todate has focused on methodological and theoretical issues in evolutionary biology and the study of animal behavior. Rachael holds a BA (Hons) and BSc from the University of Melbourne and a PhD (2013) from the Australian National University. She was a Writing-Up Fellow at the KLI in 2011 and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Philosophy at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In July 2014 will take up a lectureship in Mind & Metaphysics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Rachael's full CV and publications are available at her website: http://rachaelbrown.net


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Misconception about the help of divine chariot. Since Karna fans like to cover up the facts and hide the true story about his defeats by saying that Satyaki had a special chariot given to him and a special driver like Daruka.
Satyaki only had that special chariot and Daruka for less than an hour during the Jayadratha-Vadha Parva for a short amount of time. He got it after he killed Bhurishravas and lost it after the end of the battle. Satyaki still yet defeated Karna many times.
Satyaki defeated Karna even during Karna Parva when Karna had Shalya as his charioteer. When Karna was made generalissimo of the Kaurava army still he was defeated by Satyaki. Satyaki defeated Karna during the day of Drona's death as well. Satyaki defeated Karna and his son Vrishasena before Karna killed Ghatotkaca too. Satyaki even defeated Karna during the 12th day.
As that slayer of foes, viz., he of Dasharha's race, is acquainted with horselore, even so is that mighty car-warrior, viz., Shalya acquainted with horselore. There is none equal to the chief of the Madras in might of arms. As there is none equal to myself in weapons, so there is none equal to Shalya in knowledge of steeds.
A new cat was brought for Karna also, O king, unto which were yoked four steeds of the best breed that were decked in trappings of gold and white as conchs or milk. Its kaksha and standard were made of gold. Furnished with banners and machines, that foremost of cars had an excellent driver. And it was furnished with a profusion of weapons of every kind. Mounting on that car, Karna also rushed against his foes.
So Karna fans really cannot talk about having a special chariot. Also any advantage Satyaki's chariot gave him would be evening out the plainfield as the same day Karna received a backup team of warriors like Aswathama, Vrishasena, Kritavarman etc. So why is this a excuse for Karna's defeat?
Don't try to say that Karna was under the influence of Krishna's illusions. Krishna only stopped Karna from using his vasavi dart not anything else. And this illusion only affected Karna up until the 14th night.
During the 15th day their was no illusion yet Satyaki defeated Karna.
During the 16th day their were two times where Satyaki fought Karna. He defeated him the first time and proved to be a better warrior than karna in the second instance.
During the 17th day their were several times where Satyaki performed better than Karna (during their encounters). Here is a screenshot from Debroy's translation of BORI Mahabharata.
Now for the question i wanna know how did Satyaki defeat a warrior like Karna? The same Karna that Bhishma labeled a Double Maharatha. The same warrior that Krishna offered everything. The same warrior who Krishna called superior to Arjuna.
Drona also defeated Satyaki, Burishravas defeated Satyaki, but the same Satyaki was able to defeat Karna countless times.
I asked this question and seeing people who love to keep spreading anti pandava posts and love to keep glorifying karna by spreading fake stories i have decided to make an answer to this question. The simple answer is that the reason Satyaki won so many times is because he was a better warrior than karna, a better archer than karna and many karna fans never decide to accept this. What to speak of karna? Satyaki even defeated Bhishma.
Desiring to do that which would bring pleasure to Bhima, Satyaki used his arrows to swiftly bring down the aged Kuru's charioteer. When his charioteer was killed, Bhishma, supreme among charioteers, was borne away from the field of battle by horses that were as fleet as the wind. O king! When the one who is great in his vows was thus carried away, Bhimasena blazed, like a fire consuming dry grass.
Analysis: Bhisma failed to reign over his horses so he was defeated by Satyaki. Bhisma as a great warrior should have been able to protect charioteer (driver) but could not, and thus he was forced to flee the battlefield. Fleeing is a defeat.
"At that instant, Satyaki, the brave descendant of the Shini lineage, devoted to the truth, attacked the grandfather. He began to kill the enemy with his firm bow and made the soldiers of your son tremble. He was borne on silver steeds and unleashed arrows from his firm bow. O descendant of the Bharata lineage! Among all those on your side, there was no second one capable of withstanding him.176"
Analysis: Satyaki tooled Bhisma in this fight, Bhisma did not even fight back. And in the next line a demon known as "Alambusha" has to save him (Bhisma) from Satyaki.
Source: Bhishma Parva Section 59 Regarding Karna defeating Satyaki he only defeated Satyaki on the 17th day, before that Karna never ever defeated Satyaki in his entire life. Even on the 16th day in Karna Parva when karna was the commander of the forces he ran away from Satyaki.
At this, Karna, leaving Satyaki quickly pierced Arjuna with three arrows and Krishna with twenty, and Partha again repeatedly. Although many were the arrows that he shot while slaying his foes in that battle, like Indra himself inspired with wrath, Karna yet felt no fatigue. Meanwhile Satyaki, coming up, pierced Karna with nine and ninety fierce arrows, and once more with a hundred.
On the 17th day Satyaki defeated Karna again.
Then Satyaki, of immeasurable soul, O Bharata, placing himself on the side of Bhima's car, began to afflict Karna who was in front of Bhima. Though exceedingly afflicted by Satyaki, Karna still approached Bhima.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m08/m08051.htm Not to mention all the times Satyaki defeated karna on the 12th day, 14th day etc. Satyaki even defeated karna on the 14th night (Ghatotkatcha's death day).
Also karna never fought Satyaki fairly, he did a group attack on Satyaki. Here is the screenshot.
It was not known later what happened, most likely the Kaurava warriors (Karna, Drona, Duryodhana and Jayadratha) defeated the Pandava warriors (Satyaki, Bhima, Dhrishtadyumna, Arjuna, Nakula, Sahadeva and Abhimanyu), because many times Sanjaya skip the narrative in some fights, when they are great victories for the Pandavas narrates the whole fight while in a fight where a Pandava warrior achieved a great feat to his enemy, does not finish telling the fight. A clear example is Kritavarma, who on the 14th defeated many Pandava warriors but Sanjaya does not narrate it. He told me that several Pandava warriors attacked him in a group. Sanjaya did not finish telling the fight but none of them crossed the defense of Kritavarma , it is obvious that he defeated all of them.
Day 12: Karna, Jayadratha, Drona and Duryodhana> Arjuna, Bhima, Dhrishtadyumna, Satyaki, Nakuka, Sahadeva and Abhimanyu.
"O great king! The best of chariots was also brought for Karna." There were well-trained horses that had a great speed and they were as white as conch shells or milk. "The harnesses were colorful and golden." The sides and standard were made There were many weapons and garments and there was a good charioteer, Ascending this chariot, Karna rushed against the enemy again.
Obviously, enemy refers to Satyaki, since there was no other Pandava warrior who was fighting against Karna. Sanjaya does not narrate again the fight between Karna and Satyaki, but if I narrate how Satyaki defeated Ashwatthama, Kritavarma, Dussasana and thousands of warriors. It is obvious that Karna defeated Satyaki, but Sanjaya does not narrate it again.
"On seeing that he was advancing, Radheya pierced him back with ten swift arrows, O great king! While all those brave ones looked on, Satyaki asked him to wait and not run away, and then pierced him with ten arrows. the powerful Satyaki and the great-souled Karna was terrible, like that between Bali and Vasava, with the slapping of his palms, Satyaki, bull among the kshatriyas, frightened all the kshatriyas and pierced the lotus-eyed Karna back. Making the earth tremble with the roar of his bow, the powerful are of a suta fought against Satyaki Karna pierced Shini's descendant back with hundreds of arrows-vipatha, karni, naracha, vatsadanta and kshurapra 190 In that way, Yuyudhana, foremost of rathas among the Vrishni lineage, showered down arrows on Karna The Karna's armored are 191 quickly pierced Satyaki from every direction with sharp ar The Lord Satyaki used his weapons to counter his weapons and those of Karna. I have angrily pierced Vrishasena between the breasts. O Lord of the earth! Pierced by that arrow, the valiant Vrishasena lost his senses. I have discarded his bow and fell down on his chariot. Karna thought that maharatha Vrishasena had been slain. He was tormented by sorrow on account of his son and afflicted Satyaki. Maharatha Yuyudhana was oppressed by Karna. But he repeatedly struck Karna back with many arrows and with force. I have pierced Karna with ten arrows and Vrishasena with seven. Satvata severed the bows and arm-guards of both. They 192 strung other bows that were capable of terrifying the enemy and pierced Yuyudhana from every direction with sharp arrows. That battle raged on and it was destructive of heroes. "
Sanjaya again, does not finish narrating the fight between Karna and Vrishasena vs Satyaki, but if he narrates how Satyaki killed his parshni, he cut his bows and left Vrishasena unconscious? Obviously, Karna and Vrishasena defeated Satyaki.
On seeing that Bhimasena's immensely strong are engaged with Alayudha, the mighty-armed Karna had attacked the Panchalas. He drew his signature bow all the way back and releasing arrows with drooping tufts, pierced Dhrishtadyumna and Shikhandi with ten arrows each. The supreme among rathas used other iron arrows and made Yudhamanyu, Uttamouja and Satyaki tremble. O Lord of Men! Both on the left and on the right, all their bows could be seen, drawn into circles as they fought. There was the twang of bowstrings, the slapping of palms and the clatter of chariot wheels. During the night, these sounds were tumultuous, like that of clouds at the end of the summer. O king! The battle was beautiful, as if between clouds. The twang of bowstrings and the clatter of wheels were the roar. The bows were drawn into circles. The standards were like peaks. The torrent of arrows was like rain. Vaikartana was like a mountain that did not tremble. I had the essence of a large mountain. Or Indra among men! In that battle, the scorcher of a large number of enemies repulsed that hail of arrows and it was wonderful. "
Night 14: Karna and Vrishasena> Satyaki.
Karna> Satyaki, Dhrishtadyumna, Shikhandi, Yudhamanyu and Uttamaujas.
Satyaki, for whom truth was his value, roamed around in the paths of the chariots and was within the reach of Drona, Karna and Kripa. On seeing this, the great-souled Vishvaksena 100 and Dhananjaya honored Varshneya 101 and applauded him, since the undecaying one had repulsed the divine weapons of all the warriors. Vishvaksena and Dhananjaya descended on the soldiers. Dhananjaya told Krishna, 'O Keshava! Behold. Satyaki, for whom truth is his value, and who is the extension of the Madhu lineage, is sporting around before the preceptor.
But what about that? Drona defeated Satyaki many other times, literally Drona's first combat as commander were many Pandava warriors including Satyaki and Arjuna, but Drona easily defeated them.
"The bull among the Shini lineage used his sharp arrows to slice down the many arrows that Karna shot. I have struck Karna with sharp and iron arrows and pierced his eldest are 711 with eight arrows. Kripa, Bhoja, 712 your sons and Karna struck him back with sharp arrows. However, the supreme one among the Yadu lineage fought with them, like the guardians of the directions fighting with the lords of the daityas. His bow roared down extremely fierce arrows. Satyaki became invincible, like the midday sun in the autumn sky. Those rathas 713 armored themselves well and again attacked, desiring to protect the foremost one from the Shini lineage. The rathas from Panchala united in that great battle, like large numbers of Marut surrounding Shakra, when he was afflicting the enemy. An extremely terrible encounter commenced between them and those on your side who were engaged in your welfare. It was like an ancient one between gods and asuras and destroyed chariots, horses and elephants. Afflicted by many types of weapons, chariots, elephants, horses and foot soldiers wandered around. They struck each other and wavered. They uttered loud wails of lamentation and fell down, deprived of their lives."
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The Dubious Logic of Stock-Market Circuit Breakers
By Paul Kedrosky
Stock-market circuit breakers, which trigger cooling-off periods in financial systems, are a good idea in theory, but they weren't in the Chinese design.Photograph by Imaginechina via AP
Many things that are supposed to make you safer don't actually do so. Taking off your shoes at airports, for example, is largely security theatre. (How many prospective shoe bombers have been nabbed since Richard Reid?) But the practice offers the impression of protection, so it stays—just to be on the safe side, you know.
Other safety devices, like bicycle helmets, may have a more subtly undermining effect, at least according to some "risk homeostasis" theorists, who hold that helmets can lead some people, feeling more secure in the knowledge that they're "safe," to ride faster, increasing the potential for accidents, or to ride less often, making them less healthy. (Studies on the subject have shown mixed results.) To take another example, people whose cars have anti-lock braking systems are sometimes said to drive less cautiously in slippery conditions.
Then there is a third class of misguided safety measure. This type creates the illusion of safety but actively makes things worse. A good example is antibacterial soap, which has been shown to be no more effective than regular soap, and which carries risks like the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Circuit breakers in financial markets, which are intended to automatically shut down trading when the market declines by a predetermined amount, arguably belong to that third group. This was evident last week in China, where new circuit breakers, put in place to prevent market crashes like the ones the country experienced last summer, were suspended on January 7th, only four days after being implemented.
The Chinese circuit breakers were designed to kick in progressively, at two levels of decline. The first threshold was a market drop of five per cent, which would cause an automatic fifteen-minute pause in trading. The second one, which would shut down trading for the day, kicked in after a seven-per-cent decline. But in practice, rather than protecting investors, the controls appear to have made the markets more crash prone, causing wholesale trading shutdowns last Monday and Thursday. On Thursday, trading stopped after only twenty-nine minutes.
The appeal of circuit breakers in financial markets is obvious: when market behavior starts to present a major risk, the breaker trips, much like a real-world fuse would, imposing a cooling-off period before anything (a toaster, an economy) gets fried. They're a good idea, at least in theory, but they weren't in the Chinese design.
To understand why circuit breakers can make markets less "safe," imagine that you're a Chinese trader on a day when markets are approaching a five-per-cent decline. What do you do? Most likely, you sell madly, trying to get your orders in before the fuse is triggered and the markets are halted for fifteen minutes. In effect, you help cause what you are trying to avoid. Then, when the exchanges open again, what's your single biggest fear? That markets will decline another two per cent, causing trading to end for the day. So what do you do now? As soon as the market reopens, you sell frantically, as do your peers, causing the seven-per-cent fuse to be tripped even faster. And once that has happened for the first time it's likely to happen again. Investors will remember previous shutdowns, so if they're leaning toward selling on a given day they'll try to do so even faster this time, to avoid being caught out. That's what happened in China on Thursday.
This sort of mess is more likely to happen when breaker systems are poorly designed. Lousy breakers have their thresholds set too low, guaranteeing that they're tripped constantly, or are set too close together, creating a kind of attraction effect that pulls investors from one break point to the next, like iron filings to a nearby magnet. Chinese regulators managed to make both mistakes. They set the levels too low—five-per-cent declines are much more common in China than they are here—and made the breakpoints too close together. The end result was that, in trying to make safer a system they didn't trust, regulators likely helped make it more volatile.
By way of comparison, in the U.S., the S&P 500 breakers have three thresholds: at seven per cent, thirteen per cent, and a total shutdown in the event of a whopping twenty-per-cent decline. But although higher triggers and wider fuses are better they don't solve all the structural problems with market circuit breakers, as the U.S. has discovered.
Our flirtation with financial-market circuit breakers is relatively recent, not to mention conflicted and entertainingly fickle. Following the crash of October, 1987, there were immediate calls to create a way of stopping market free falls. But, despite the potential economic consequences of such collapses, many people still objected to the idea of a fail-safe device, on both the technical grounds outlined above and on the principle that the markets should be allowed to find their own levels, falling as far it took to find new buyers. (This argument echoed Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's infamous call to Herbert Hoover, during the Depression era, to let stocks fall and "purge the rottenness" from the system.)
Nevertheless, market-wide U.S. circuit breakers were instituted in 1988. After producing increasingly frequent trading pauses over the next decade, as the size of the market grew, the breakers went mad in 1997, triggering constantly and causing a full shutdown on October 27th. This caused a bout of recriminations and some significant tweaks to the system, notably a shift to percentage-based thresholds. Since 1997, market-wide breakers have been triggered precisely … never. No market event since 1998—including the worst declines of the Great Recession and the "flash crash" of May, 2010, when the value of many major stocks briefly plummeted in value—has triggered a system-wide stoppage. (Stock-specific breakers, which were implemented in the U.S. after the flash crash, are routinely triggered; these don't exist in China.)
In the wake of last week's market swings, U.S. regulators and market observers were quick to chide the poor design of China's circuit breakers. ("I don't trust anything about China," CNBC's Jim Cramer said. "They had no clue, it seems, of what the circuit breakers would do in terms of the consciousness of the country.") But Americans shouldn't be too quick to judge: both countries have been kidding themselves about the extent to which their circuit breakers accomplish the goal of making the markets safer. It's true that China, which is newer to capital markets and more anxious about their volatility, made things worse by imposing harsh controls. But while the U.S. approach has become more sophisticated, over time, it has been left with an ugly mix of complex single-stock curbs and market-wide breakers that are effectively security theatre.
For now China's breakers are gone, and its markets are again trading freely; Monday saw a five-per-cent dip in the Shanghai index and a six-and-a-half-per-cent drop in the Shenzhen. But don't bet that the breakers will be gone forever. Once things settle down, and Chinese regulators have a chance to reflect on what went wrong, we will likely see their return. It's possible that China will find the right balance for its volatile markets, but it's possible, too, that it will follow the U.S.'s example, setting the breakers where they'll never be triggered at all—left in place just to be on the safe side, you know.
Paul Kedrosky is a venture investor and a former equity analyst. He lives and writes in San Diego, California.
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CBC – François Legault would invoke notwithstanding clause to ban hijabs from civil service
[…]François Legault would also move swiftly to reduce the number of immigrants allowed into the province by 20 per cent.
He made the comments Tuesday, at his first news conference since his Coalition Avenir Québec won a decisive majority in Monday's provincial election, beating out the incumbent Liberals.
[…]But when asked by reporters about the notwithstanding clause and his immigration policy, he didn't back down.
"I think that the vast majority of Quebecers, they would like to have a framework where people in an authority position must not wear a religious sign," Legault said.
[…]The right-of-centre party, which has never before held power in Quebec, opposes the wearing of religious symbols, including the hijab, by police officers and others who wield coercive state power.
Teachers would be affected
Legault said Tuesday he would offer those affected, including teachers, "jobs in offices for people who want to keep wearing a religious sign."
His pledges to ensure the religious neutrality is one of several significant changes Quebecers can expect under a CAQ government.
Legault also vowed to move forward on his vow to reduce the number of immigrants, saying more needs to be done to ensure they are integrated and learn French.
During the election campaign, Legault struggled to explain how his policy would be implemented, given that the province only controls the number of economic immigrants it takes in, while the federal government controls the number of refugees and the family reunification program.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/francois-legault-coalition-avenir-quebec-1.4846838
Incoming Que. premier ready to force ban on hijabs for teachers, police
[…]Shaheen Ashraf of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women said she was concerned by Legault's plan, calling it a human rights issue.
"If a person like me wants to be a policewoman, or wants to be a teacher or wants to be in the public service or in politics, I can't?" she said.
The premier-designate also plans to reduce Quebec's immigrant intake by 20 per cent, and kick out newcomers who cannot pass tests on Quebec values and the French language after spending three years in the province.
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Trudeau wants Legault to think carefully before invoking notwithstanding clause
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants Quebec premier-designate Francois Legault to think carefully before using the notwithstanding clause to prevent Quebecers in positions of authority — such as police officers and teachers — from wearing religious symbols at work.
The day after winning Monday's election, Legault vowed to use the powerful constitutional clause if necessary to uphold a proposal to prohibit some state employees from wearing religious symbols, including garments like the Jewish kippa and Muslim hijab.
Legault insisted the proposed ban is important enough to invoke the Constitution's nortwithstanding clause, which would override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
But Trudeau said Wednesday that the clause should be reserved for "exceptional circumstances" and only deployed after lots of deep reflection about the consequences.
"It's not something that should be done lightly because to remove or avoid defending the fundamental rights of Canadians, I think it's something with which you have to pay careful attention," Trudeau said.
"As you know very well, I'm not of the opinion that the state should be able to tell a woman what she can wear, nor what she cannot wear. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is there to protect our rights and our freedom."
Legault's centre-right Coalition Avenir Quebec won a convincing majority mandate in the provincial election after promising to carve out more autonomy for the province.
His rise to power appears destined to create fresh conflicts between Quebec and Ottawa.
In reaffirming his position Tuesday, Legault said he believes most Quebecers want to have a framework in place to prevent people in authority positions from wearing religious symbols.
"If we have to use the notwithstanding clause to apply what the majority of Quebecers want, we will do so," he said.
https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/trudeau-wants-legault-to-think-carefully-before-invoking-notwithstanding-clause-246978/


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I know, I know. Your best friend is short on an eyeliner and you're her go-to girl for all things beauty. But guess what? Letting her use even one swipe of your fave mascara allows her eye bacteria to fester on your brush! Do not share, Vixens. It's best to just stock your homegirl's supply on those shopping trips you love to take.
Always, always, always pay attention to expiration dates!
Did we leave anything out, Vixens? What other guidelines do you swear by when it come to your makeup?


Samsung Galaxy Note 9 vs Note 8. Worth getting the Note 9?
The Galaxy Note 9 has by far the biggest ever display Samsung has ever fitted into a smartphone.
There is also a fractionally higher screen-to-body ratio, due to its minimally thinner bezels. There is also a slightly lower pixel density, due to Samsung retaining the same native resolution on the larger display, although not many will notice these minute changes.
Besides the dimensions, Samsung added in stereo speakers, tuned by AKG with Dolby Atmos branding, though the latter seems silly given stereo speakers cannot truly recreate Atmos audio. The fingerprint sensor is notably and sensibly placed below the rear cameras, a move that Samsung did as well with the Galaxy S9.
One other huge change is the Bluetooth LE S Pen that comes along with the Galaxy Note 9. It comes with far greater functionality, such as camera remote shutter functions, a clicker during presentations and music playback control. The new S Pen is charges automatically from the Galaxy Note 9 via a supercapacitor so it is always ready to be used. Samsung claims that it drains very little battery from the phone itself.
IP68 water and dust resistance stays the same, as well as USB-C charging and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The microSD card slot supports cards up to 512GB, a jump from 256GB on the Note 8.
The Galaxy Note 9 has the same camera hardware as the Galaxy S9 Plus, which is dual 12MP rear cameras. A primary dual aperture lens which shifts between F2.4 (for more detail in well-lit shots) and F1.5 (for low light) while the Note 8 is stuck with a standard F1.7 sensor. The secondary module remains a 2x optical zoom, though Huawei has managed 3x with its impressive P20 Pro.
Besides the above mentioned the Galaxy Note 9 camera hardware remains the same with the Note 8. Main focus is mostly on the phone's new image processing. Samsung claims this has advanced even since the Galaxy S9.
One more difference from the Galaxy Note 8 is where Samsung added in the Galaxy S9's 'Intelligent Scan' facial recognition software. It is definitely a useful addon, other than Samsung's fingerprint reader.
Samsung lifted the Galaxy S9's boosted internals for the Galaxy Note 9, giving it a meaningful upgrade over the Note 8.
The Galaxy Note 8 used Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 which is 20% slower and 30% less power efficient than the new Snapdragon 845. Samsung also boosted RAM from the Note 8's 6GB to 8GB or the 512gb version.
Interestingly, Samsung added a 'Water Carbon Cooling system' to the Galaxy Note 9 to stop it from throttling under immense pressure usage, such as game playing.
The Galaxy Note 9 has LTE Cat.18 compared to Cat.16 on the Note 8 which means it is theoretically capable of 1.2 gigabit (1,200Mbit) 4G speeds. Although this isn't of any relevance as it has never been attainable in any real scenarios. Bluetooth 5.0 (2x speed and 4x range of Bluetooth 4.2) is also present in both phones.
One huge positive addon to The Galaxy Note 9 is the ability to connect to a monitor to create a desktop-style PC. Directly. The phone's screen will be able to work as a touchpad and virtual keyboard. This means there is no need for a separate Dex docking device.
Find out more on these Samsung products.
Having gone backward in recent years after the exploding Galaxy Note 7 saga, Samsung is finally bringing back their big battery capacity in the Galaxy Note 9. Provided it doesn't explode this time round.
Battery capacity will be increased by over 20% and Samsung promises not just full day but multi-day use from a single charge. Of course this depends on an individual's usage.
The Galaxy Note 9 passed Samsung's "8 Point Quality Check", the most rigorous in the industry, which was introduced after the Galaxy Note 7 exploded globally and was recalled. This also means Galaxy Note 9 batteries should degrade by only 5% in two years, versus over 20% from most rivals.
Samsung has certainly packed a lot into the Galaxy Note 9. The downside is obviously the high price. Other than the cost, Samsung has definitely lived up to its Note line. Everything about the Galaxy Note 9 is big: the display, battery life, expandable storage and price.
Although Galaxy Note 8 users have not much reasons to do an upgrade to the Galaxy Note 9, users of older phone models will certainly consider getting their hands on this release.


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Q: nav bar is not being showed in html I am beginner in angular.
I have three component file 1. value component 2. nav component. 3. app.component. I need to bring menu bar using the selector: 'app-value'. the value html is being showed without the menu. How can i show the menu from nav.component.html. My github code https://github.com/ppp3pol/datingapp.git
nav.component.html code

            <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="navbar">
        Toggle navigation

      </button>
            Project name

            <form class="navbar-form navbar-right">

                    <input type="text" placeholder="Email" class="form-control">

                    <input type="password" placeholder="Password" class="form-control">

                <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Sign in</button>
            </form>

nav.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-nav',
  templateUrl: './nav.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./nav.component.css']
})
export class NavComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

}

value.component.html code

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-value',
  templateUrl: './value.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./value.component.css']
})
export class ValueComponent implements OnInit {
  values: any;

  constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.getValues();
  }

  getValues() {
    this.http.get('http://localhost:8000/api/values').subscribe( response => {
      this.values = response;
    }, error => {
      console.log(error);
    })

  }

}

    {{ value.id}}, {{value.name}}

app.component code html and ts code

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'BookApp-SPA';
}
<app-nav></app-nav>

    Myapp App

<app-value></app-value>

finally my app.module

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { ValueComponent } from './value/value.component';
import { NavComponent } from './nav/nav.component';

@NgModule({
   declarations: [
      AppComponent,
      ValueComponent,
      NavComponent
   ],
   imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      HttpClientModule
   ],
   providers: [],
   bootstrap: [
      AppComponent
   ]
})
export class AppModule { }


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Stay cool while it's unbearably hot in the Valley
By: MaryEllen Resendez
With record temperatures expected this weekend, ABC15 hit the streets to find out how people plan to keep cool.
Malls and movie theaters are always top "cool spots." But for families with young kids, any of the Valley's splash pads will do just fine.
Katy Dodgen and her boys like the one at Scottsdale Quarter. "This is a really nice one. It's spacious and the kids can move around quite a bit. True Food is right there so we go in and have lunch," said Dodgen.
The fountain's water temperature is a lovely 78 degrees. Not bad when it's triple digits outside.
"Misters will be going full board and part of the architecture here is that there's nice canopies that help shade," boasts Richard Hunt, General Manager at Scottsdale Quarter.
Hunt says when the temperatures rise, so do sales at Press Coffee or Le Macaron where they serve iced coffee, tea or gelato.
"I'm from Buffalo New York so I don't know how to handle this. So I'm going to be in the pool with my kids," said Valley father Chris Cole.
Cole says he likes to keep it cool at Top Golf.
"They got this fan with the mister blowing on you, it's a nice good time very cool."
"We have a mix of indoor and outdoor places, outdoors we have our hitting bays which are climate controlled with misting fans and shade all day. Indoors we have plenty of spots inside with a full bar and pool table in the lower lounge," said Jesse Hughes, Director of Instruction at Top Golf.
Hughes says you don't even need to know how to play golf, he's around to give lessons.
This weekend the golfing gaming establishment will be offering drawstring bags and "Not Your Father's Root Beer" to the first 100 dads.
If you have no time for play, and you're running errands. everyone knows one of the coolest places is Costco.
ABC15 caught the Pruitt kids shivering at the thought and telling Mom she's going in alone.
"It's too cold," said Eva Pruitt.
"Yeah, it's really cold," agreed little sister Talia Pruitt.
Eva guessed it was 30 degrees inside and she wasn't that far off. Our temperature gage came up at 35 degrees.
Now that's cold!


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An Honor to be Honored
Joey Concepcion Founders Corners February 28, 2008
About two weeks ago, I was advised by EDSA People Power Commissioner Angie Barrera that Go Negosyo has been unanimously nominated to be a recipient of an award of recognition by the EDSA People Power Commission for its efforts in living up to the spirit of EDSA. I was a bit reluctant to receive the award since I felt there is still much to do and achieve (and the awarding ceremony was so early in the morning). Kidding aside, I decided to receive the award on behalf of all the entrepreneurs who have joined this cause to inspire people and who have shared in the same vision I have for this country in creating an entrepreneurial revolution.
While preparing to get dressed for the event, my brother Bernie sent me the statement of Balanga Bishop Socrates Villegas. Villegas is a protégé of Sin, the driving force behind the two EDSA revolts in 1986 and 2001. In his statement, Bishop Villegas said that while this government may be riddled with corruption, "we below are guilty as well". He said that the government is but a reflection of the people and even if the leaders in government get replaced, the same problems will arise as long as we do not "repent of our personal sins as dishonest and uncaring ordinary citizens". The Bishop also said that while he agrees that "the President must change or will be changed", the senators and congressmen should also resign. The people had not gone to the streets since they have realized that this is not the solution and that the solution comes from a real change within us as Filipinos.
Together with other awardees like Dylan Wilk of Gawad Kalinga, Los Baños Mayor Cesar Perez, the women who climbed Mount Everest and Alay sa Kawal Foundation, I was asked to give the response and basically told the crowd that there is no perfect government and that we cannot keep having a people power revolution. The revolution that we had twenty two years ago in the streets has to move forward. The true spirit of EDSA has to continue to live on by not having more People Power movements. The revolution of change starts from the mind. The real change should happen within ourselves. We must take control of our own destiny. The biggest problem we have is poverty and for us to get rid of this, we must have the right attitude and mindset. We must continue to give hope that we indeed can have a great nation. Go Negosyo together with other organizations like Gawad Kalinga are working to inspire many Filipino people that this country indeed has a very bright future.
This award actually goes to the over 300 entrepreneurs who have joined this advocacy and have spent time to help inspire this nation. And now we have the celebrity entrepreneurs joining this cause to inspire this nation to be enterprising. We are featuring them in our new book Go Negosyo – Celebrity Edition. The book hopes to inspire a person to set up a business, to be entrepreneurial and innovative, and be more successful, that will employ from one to thousands of people. This is part of the advocacy of Filipino entrepreneurs to inspire people to Go Negosyo, and this is our answer to poverty.
This Sunday, March 2 at 4pm at the Music Hall, SM Mall of Asia, please join us as we launch that book Go Negosyo's 50 Inspiring Stories of Entrepreneurs (Celebrity Edition) and get your book signed by the artistas and other entrepreneurs featured, even those in the first book.
Next week's column will talk about the need to move towards a parliamentary form of government, and how we can do it properly. I am not a lawyer but in principle, we can elect the members of the constitutional convention by 2010 together with the new President. The form and structure of government that will be adopted can be put to a vote and if the Parliamentary form will be the one accepted by the people, the incumbent President at that time will see through the transition process leading to the shift to Parliamentary by 2016. It is a long process but it is better to be slow but sure. This to me will bring down the cost of running for the leadership post, and will make changes in leadership constitutionally possible, simply with a vote of no confidence. No need to resort to indiscriminate use of people power, as many proponents have put it. Those who want to comment about this, please email your comments.
Tomorrow we shall also launch the Nokia Mobile Entrepreneur Awards, which is a nationwide search for the innovative and progressive entrepreneurs that use mobile services extensively in their business operations. In partnership with Nokia, Go Negosyo aims to recognize Filipino entrepreneurs that utilize mobile technology and discover new and interesting business models out there and select the best ones, based on criteria we set. Deadline of submission will be on March 31. Please log on to the Nokia website for details.
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The Men of Honor of Unity House, 2nd Edition, Chapter 29 – Saying Goodbye
Posted on May 27, 2020 by brucesmith49
Chapter 29 – Saying Goodbye
By first snow, everything we had built was gone, but not without a fight. Surprisingly, Anita Bouchart had championed our cause.
"Dave," she said to me at an emergency staff meeting in December, "I know you think I've never been a big supporter of Unity House, and perhaps you're right. I do think most kids fare better in family homes, not residences like Unity.
"But," she continued, "I've learned a lot in the past month by getting back into action here. These kids are thriving at Unity better than they have anywhere else.
"So, I want you to know that I argued hard and long with DSHS, but the fact is they're out of money. Everyone's out of money – the State, Unity, and the Feds. No one can give us another dime. Everything is going to reconstruction and military defense. Plus, we've got over three-hundred newly orphaned children in Worcester to deal with. Nobody has the $6,000 per kid for a place like this, so I don't see any other way. Although it hurts me, and I know it's going to break your heart, we have to close Unity House."
The words stung me deeper than I knew words could. I slammed my coffee mug on the table and was about to hurl it at the wall when I saw the image of Adam Peronski hanging from a memorial plaque behind Anita.
You're getting emotional, Dave, I heard him say in consciousness, and remembered how he had calmed me down during my flair-up at Unity.
I put the cup back down on the table, softly.
I shook my head and said between clenched teeth, "There's-got-to-be-a-way… We can't turn these kids loose – not after what we have done, not after what they have become. How the hell is a regular BRS bed gonna handle them? Never did in the past, that's why they are here. That's why there's a Unity House in the first place!"
I took a big sigh and leaned back in my chair, staring at the ceiling. I knew Anita was telling the truth.
"I agree, Dave," Anita replied. "I'm hoping we can get Deon, at least, into a residence in Boston. I know he's still not ready for a Behavioral Rehab bed in somebody's home. He's come a long way in a very short time, I agree, but… well… I'm keeping my fingers crossed. As you know, DSHS and everybody else is jammed. It's a new world out there and nobody has the resources they once did."
"Some of the kids, like Kevin P and Kevin A have made great strides," added TT. "They might make it in a BRS placement. I know it's gonna be toughs for them, but everything in the world is tough these days. We just have to make the best of a bad situation. Everybody in Worcester is coping the best they know how. We just have to prepare the boys as best we can for their new home."
Kevin A went to a home in Fitchburg with a family that had a good track record of working with their foster kids and owned a nice kitchen. I hoped they could handle his mood swings.
KP went to a group home in Concord run by a family of former residential counselors. Over the phone, they described it to me as a halfway- halfway house, and Kevin said he 'kinda liked it' after his initial visit.
"They have even more rules than Unity," he exclaimed, "and I didn't think that was possible! But they have a big screen TV and the school has a Junior ROTC, so it's okay."
Naleef went to a Cambodian family in South Quincy affiliated with a church ministry helping with the placement of the new orphans of Worcester. They seemed like decent people when we checked them out, but under their one roof they had five adults, three bio kids and four foster children.
I hoped Naleef wouldn't get lost in the crowd.
When we walked back to the car, Naleef put his hand on my arm and said, "I'll be okay, Dave. You don't have to worry about me."
Deon, fortunately, got a bed in a residential treatment facility in rural Newburyport. Unfortunately, Roberto ran, so Deon had two loses: Unity and his foster brother. Roberto also took his sidekicks from the pot dealing days, Tony, Trevor and Rick.
But Rick and Tony came back the next day, saying they had found Tony's long-lost grandmother in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. DSHS said she checked out, so we transferred them both to Rhode Island DCFS. The guys wore their yellow scarves and red berets getting into the Division of Child and Family Services van transporting them back to Granny's. Waving goodbye, I had a good feeling about them.
All the Men of Honor were gone by the end of the second week of January, joining in retreat the Army and all the medical personnel who had left by Christmas.
Unity House was boarded up February 1st, and I was out of a job.
I was numb. I didn't even care about the political debate raging in the country over why the government was still unable to identify the people responsible for the attack. I simply didn't give a shit.
Driving away on my last day, only Willy, Ryan, and Trey shone in my eyes. Everything else looked like a sad tragedy, with rubble and wrecked homes as far as I could see.
What a mess, I thought, driving down Grafton Street. Repair crews were tearing down half-wrecked buildings for the reconstruction soon to come. But it was beyond me to imagine.
I turned east on 20, hopped on the Mass Pike, drove and up 495. I was glad I had a home to go to because inside I was as lost as a leaf in a hurricane.
But Worcester had lost over 47,000 people and ten-square miles of downtown.
Worse though, for me, I thought our country had lost its soul turning its back on the Men of Honor and all foster kids in our country. Social programs across the country dissolved in a rush to fund Homeland Security, tax breaks, and our rebuild. But, why isn't there money for the Men of Honor?
After a few weeks, I stopped wondering and faced my own reality. I was broke.
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University Avenue lane closures through Jan. 21
From Staff Reports
LAS CRUCES - On Monday, crews began removing medians and paving detours for construction on University Avenue between Triviz Drive and the northbound Interstate 25 on-ramp. The left lane on University Avenue will be closed in each direction (east and west) during this work, which should last until Tuesday, Jan. 21.
Crews will continue work to reconstruct the shoulder of southbound I-25 through Friday, Jan. 17. During these efforts, southbound I-25 is reduced to one lane from south of University Avenue to south of Wells Street/Geothermal Drive.
Scheduled through Feb. 3, crews will continue to construct a bridge pier. During this work, northbound I-25 will have the left lane closed and will be reduced to one lane from about 500 feet north of I-25/University Avenue bridge to about 1,000 feet south of the bridge.
Motorists should expect delays, particularly during morning and afternoon rush hours. Regular work hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. All work is scheduled weather permitting, and is subject to change. For more information, visit http://www.i25-university.com or https://www.nmroads.com/mapIndex.html.
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Postcode feature to allow correct customer address information to be added correctly and efficiently.
Separate invoice and delivery addresses feature.
Customer delivery directions and customer notes information stored with delivery directions printing off on the customers order.
Additional notes on customer order to allow for additional information to be added.
Manual order reference number can be added to the Denton order to allow for quick reference to your manual order pads if required.
Fully barcode enabled with Denton or supplier barcodes.
Stock allocation from Warehouse, shop or back order.
Special order creation directly from the customer order or from the purchase ordering system individually or on mass.
Periodic cash summary gives reporting facility of all monies received by day or period.
Full customer service module to handle all your service issues.
Sold furniture reports by supplier model and range.
Sold furniture report by employee.
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Re-order stock levels. The ability for you to set levels of stock you want to to keep. This will prompt you to create new stock purchase orders.
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The folder
1. session-1 : contains code for session on Intrusion Detection, divided into R and python code folders.
2. session-2 : contains code for session on Text classification, divided into R and python code folders.

### Public dropbox folder containing data, problem description, data dictionaries
https://goo.gl/PEug5P

### For participants who will be using python
1. Anaconda distribution for python : Go to https://www.continuum.io/downloads and download the latest Anaconda distribution. Please use Python 2.7 installation.
4. Run `conda install -c anaconda seaborn`
3. Run `conda install -c glemaitre imbalanced-learn`

4. Install the libraries listed below using pip.

Steps to install a library in python.
1. Go to terminal/command-prompt.
2. Run ```pip install <library name>```
3. For instance, to install numpy, you'd run ```pip install numpy```

**List of libraries used in the hands-on session**
Session 1 :  Intrusion detection
1. numpy
2. pandas
3. matplotlib
4. seaborn
5. sklearn
6. imblearn
7. xgboost

Session 2 : News articles recommender
1. numpy
2. pandas
3. sklearn
4. nltk 3.2.4
5. Install nltk corpus and model:
   ```$ python
   > import nltk
   > nltk.download('stopwords')
   > nltk.download('punkt')
   > nltk.download('maxent_ne_chunker')
   > nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger')
   > nltk.download('words')
   ```
6. gensim 0.12.4
   ```
   conda install -c anaconda gensim
   ```

### For participants who will be using R
1. Set up R : Go to https://cran.rstudio.com/ and download R for your OS. Please download R version >=3.4.1
2. Set up R Studio : Go to  https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/ and download open source version of RStudio Desktop.
3. Install the libraries listed below.

Steps to install a library in RStudio
1. Open RStudio.
2. In the console, run ```install.packages("<library name>")```
3. For instance, to install ggplot2, you'd run ```install.packages("ggplot2")```

**List of libraries used in the hands-on session**
Session 1 :  Intrusion detection
1. ggplot2
2. randomForest
3. caret
4. rpart
5. plyr
6. gbm
7. rpart.plot
8. reshape2
9. naivebayes
10. corrplot
11. e1071

Session 2 : News articles recommender
1. tm
2. topicmodels
3. lda
4. MASS
5. devtools
5. NLP
6. R.utils
7. stringdist
8. dplyr
9. openNLP
10. rjava
11. NLP
12. openNLP
13. RWeka
14. qdap
15. magrittr
16. openNLPmodels.en
17. data.table
18. text2vec

**Note** If any issues with Rjava, make sure you have JDK and JRE installed on your system.

For Windows:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/windows/jdk-installation-windows.html

For Linux:
https://github.com/hannarud/r-best-practices/wiki/Installing-RJava-(Ubuntu)

If you are not able to setup your machine, please send an email to sourabh@tatrasdata.com

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