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The UK's sexuality gap: LGB voters remain significantly more supportive of the Labour Party
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte provides the first case study analysis of a sexuality gap between heterosexuals and self-identified lesbian, gay and bisexuals (LGB) in Britain. He finds that LGB voters are almost 10 percentage points more likely to vote for Labour and 14 percentage points more likely to vote for any socially liberal party via-à-vis their heterosexual peers.
Until David Cameron's rise as leader of the Conservative Party, there was a clear division between the UK's mainstream parties on where they stood on LGBT+ rights. On the one side were the Conservatives, whose Margaret Thatcher once said that children who were told they could be gay were being robbed of a solid start in life, and on the other side was Labour which, particularly under the Blair and Brown years, adopted a number of policies aimed at advancing LGBT+ rights. Over time, however, the Conservatives moved away from conservative positions on issues of social morality (Figure 1). Indeed, unlike their right-leaning counterparts in a number of other states, the legalisation of same-sex marriage in England and Wales was introduced under the Conservative-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
In a recent study, I sought to assess if this move has also reduced the sexuality gap in voters' electoral choices. Using data from the UK Household Panel Study (Understanding Society) I tested whether LGB voters harbour distinct electoral preferences to the heterosexual majority. Whilst transgender individuals (T) make up an integral part of the LGBT+ community, they are, unfortunately, not considered in this study as the survey data used does not ask respondents about their gender identity beyond the male-female binary, nor does it allow individuals to report if their current gender identity is the same as that assigned at birth.
Figure 1: Party position change between 2006 and 2019
Data: Chapel Hill Expert Survey; Note: Observations are scaled to vote share at time of data collection.
Figure 2 displays individuals' self-reported vote choice in the 2017 general election. The left-hand side panel displays the proportion of votes for each party (and abstentions) for heterosexual voters, and the right-hand side panel illustrates the distribution for LGB individuals. A simple comparison between the sexuality-stratified groups already displays notable differences between the two blocks – a majority of LGB voters (52%) report to have cast a ballot for the Labour Party; support for Labour amongst the heterosexual bloc was some 15 points lower. In the case of support for the Conservatives, one third of heterosexuals claim to have voted for Theresa May's party whilst Conservative support trailed 13-points behind amongst LGB voters.
Of course, this simple comparison may mask the true divergence between the stratified blocs. Given the propensity for LGB citizens to opt to live in more urban environments, it may be the case that being an urban voter, or other socio-demographic confounders, is what drives this raw comparison in behaviour. To test for this, I also compare the divergence between LGB and heterosexual citizens whilst controlling for the potential confounding effect of other predictors of vote choice such as gender, age, income, education, employment status and whether individuals live in a city or town.
Figure 2: Vote share of UK parties among heterosexual (left) and LGB (right) voters
Data: Understanding society (wave 9).
Figure 3 displays the main findings and plots the average marginal effect of identifying as LGB on the probability of voting for either Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, UKIP or abstaining when compared to voting for the Conservatives. The effects can be interpreted as the percentage-point change in the probability of voting for each of the parties associated with sexuality whilst controlling for other socio-demographic variables. As illustrated, sexuality exhibits a strong and independent effect of electoral choices, particularly in paired comparison between Labour and the Conservatives. There is a positive effect for some of the UK's smaller left-leaning and socially liberal parties, but the effect is not significant. In line with published research that shows sexual minority voters are more prone to be supportive of the EU, the findings show that UKP was significantly less supported by LGB voters in 2017.
Finally, the results show that LGB voters are far less likely to abstain on polling day. These findings are in line with our other research that shows that such voters are far more likely to be politically interested and active in politics.
Figure 3: Effect of sexuality on voting for different parties compared to the Conservatives
These findings suggest that the 'golden years' of LGBT+ rights advances under New Labour have provided the party with bolstered support amongst the primary beneficiaries of these policies. Whilst the partisan divide over issues like same-sex marriage may have dissipated with the Conservatives under Cameron's One Nation Conservatism, reputational associations, as well as a general lack of support for sexual minorities likely still play a role in shaping voters' perceptions of where parties stand on LGBT+ rights.
The results also suggest that when it comes to understanding the motivations behind voters' electoral choices in Britain, sexuality should not be ignored. Nevertheless, the Conservative Party's current leader and Prime Minister, who in 1999 described gay men as 'tank-topped bumboys', in 2000 called Labour's desire to repeal Section 28 'appalling', and in 2001 compared same-sex marriage to bestiality, may do little to remedy the party's anti-LGBT+ image and attract those citizens to cast a vote for his party at the ballot box.
Note: the above is based on the author's published work in Politics, Groups and Identities.
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (@turnbulldugarte) is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Southampton. He works on comparative politics in the Europe and researches political behaviour, political party competition, campaigns, and elections.
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Without the Labour Party, I wouldn't be able to get married, so yes, of course I am going to support them.
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First televised impeachment hearing draws 13 million viewers
Sara Fischer, author of Media Trends
State Department official George Kent and acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor. Photo: Joshua Roberts/ Pool/Getty Images
The first televised impeachment hearing drew a sizable audience of about 13 million live viewers, according to early Nielsen ratings released by Fox News on Thursday.
Yes, but: Those numbers, while big, are smaller than the viewership of other major Trump-era political hearings. About 19.5 million people tuned in live to James Comey's testimony in June 2017, and about 20 million watched the Brett Kavanaugh hearing in Sept. 2018.
By the numbers: Fox News led the cable networks in total live viewers from 10 am to 4 pm with nearly 2.9 million viewers tuning into testimony from State Department official George Kent and acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor. MSNBC followed close behind with nearly 2.7 million viewers. CNN trailed in third place for the cable networks with around 1.8 million viewers.
All the major broadcast networks veered away from their regularly scheduled programs to air the hearing. ABC drew the most viewers with a little more than 2 million, and CBS followed with almost 2 million viewers. NBC had around 1.7 million viewers.
Many other people likely watched the testimony and questioning via streaming platforms, but to-date there is no way of measuring those live views precisely.
Our thought bubble: An impeachment hearing, one might think, would be a must-see event for Americans. But several factors may have resulted in fewer people watching this hearing than other Trump-era hearings.
It's also possible that Americans have started to tune out impeachment content as the saga has dragged on.
The release of the July 25 Ukraine call transcripts ahead of the hearings could have driven viewers to think that they would glean minimal new information from the hearings.
It also seems unlikely, at this point, that the hearings will sway the minds of loyal Senate Republicans. Some Americans might have made the hearings a low priority, given that the Senate is expected to clear the president.
What's next: The second televised hearing will occur Friday morning.

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Think that documentation is wrong. Just did a quick look into the Default (Linux).sublime-keymaps (which you can access from Preferences -> Key Bindings - Default but that's besides the point), and it looks to be alt+shift+(up/down). I was going to recommend rebinding the keys (thus the reason I was looking) but this may also solve your problem. =) Not tested, just based on the keymapping file. If that doesn't work, let me know.
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Raffi Torres Gets Surgery, Out 3-5 Months
Jacob MSeptember 27, 2013
The San Jose Sharks signed Raffi Torres to a three year deal during the offseason since the front office thought he was the missing piece in the puzzle to get to the Stanley Cup. Most Sharks fans were thrilled with the signing.
During a preseason game against the Anaheim Ducks, Torres was hurt when he collided with the Ducks' Emerson Etem. The Anaheim forward was trying to stay onside by dragging his leg at the blue line, but Torres accidentally skated into Etem from behind, leaving both players on the ice. They were down for a couple of minutes each, but both managed to skate off with some help.
The Sharks were hoping that his injury wasn't too serious, but on Thursday Torres had surgery performed on his torn ACL, and will be out for at least three months.
How are players and coaches reacting to the news?
"He's kind of an irreplaceable player" says Logan Couture.
Dan Boyle thinks that, "Obviously, it's a big loss for us. I think he was a big part of our success at the end of last year."
Coach Todd McLellan stated, "It's a big hole to fill. But, there will be 29 other teams this year at some point that go through it. They will lose key people and they will find ways to recover. We want to be ahead of the curve, and do a better job than they do."
Raffi Torres tries to deflect a shot past Viktor Fasth. Torres later left this game with a knee injury.
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Now the question is who will take Torres' spot in the lineup?
This injury all but guarantees a spot for 19-year old Tomas Hertl, who has impressed everybody so far this season. Another couple of players that are on the radar to make the opening night roster are Freddie Hamilton and Matt Nieto. In the games that I have watched, Hamilton and Nieto have played exceptionally well. They are both speedy and like to bump bodies. Hamilton has the upper hand in cracking the roster because of his experience, but you never know.
Another option could be forward Anthony Stewart, who is on a tryout right now.
The coaching staff will definitely have some thinking to do. The Sharks first game of the regular season is Thursday, October 3rd against the Vancouver Canucks at SAP Center in San Jose.
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Q: Should I have flagged this answer as "Not An Answer"? Today I flagged this answer of Thread exiting message in .Net MVC console as "Not An Answer."
EDIT: the answer has since been flagged again and was subsequently deleted by a moderator.
To paraphrase both the question and the answer I flagged for those who don't want to follow the links:
Question:

What is the meaning of the unexpected messages I see output by my program?

Answer:

Turn them off by doing this...

I flagged it because the definition of "Not An Answer" given in the flagging interface is (emphasis mine):

This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It
  should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted
  altogether

To my mind, this answer does not answer the question. It is, however, helpful information, and so shouldn't be deleted and instead should probably be a comment on the question or on another answer.
My flag was deemed invalid. Please may I at this point make it very clear that I'm not protesting the flag or asking for a right of challenge in any way, shape or form and that I'm happy to accept that this flag has been marked invalid and take the flag weight hit. That's not what I came to ask (indeed, I've asked that question before and have accepted with the resounding "No!" I got).
My question:
Regardless of the outcome of that flag, why was I wrong to flag this as not an answer?
i.e. Did I get this one genuinely wrong; or was it a borderline case; or did I get it right and this was a blip of moderation?
I'm trying to understand whether I should continue to flag other "should be a comment" items in this way. I don't want to generate a swathe of invalid flags, both because (a) I'm a responsible and genuine flagger (my flag weight is a respectable 700+) who's trying to do his bit to clean up and don't want to waste moderator time, and (b) because it obviously hits my flag weight and I like badges.

A: As I understand it, the "not an answer" flag is not thought for wrong answers, but for something that has been posted as answer, and it is:

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*an edit; the OP added additional information about the question, but the OP wrote it as answer, instead of editing the question

*a comment; somebody else has the same problem reported in the question, and writes a "me too!" answer instead of commenting

*another question; somebody read the question, and thinking of being on a forum, asks a different question, additional questions about the question being asked, or additional information about the answers being given to the question as answer

*an answer for another question; this would be the case of a question about the meaning of a light on the car dashboard that gets "to avoid seeing it, hide it with a sticky" as answer

A: Here's my take, in case it wasn't obvious from the phrasing of my question:
I think this is an example of a great potential comment that was posted as an answer that didn't answer the question, and that I was correct to flag it.
Such answers should be flagged as "Not an Answer" because they meet the criteria according to the definition presented in the flagging GUI:

This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It
  should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted
  altogether.

We should flag them when they don't answer the question even when they have a subject matter link to the original question, such as the answer I flagged in this example.
We should also

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*trust the mods to spot those answers which don't address the question and are comment material (and convert them to comments),

*trust the mods to spot those that do address the question (which should be left in place for upvoting or downvoting by the community's subject matter experts on the given topic), and the flag rejected),

*have an expectation that sometimes the mods might get it wrong,  resulting in a valid flag being marked invalid, or vice-versa, and suck it up when that happens.

A: It is an wrongindirect answer, but an answer nonetheless.

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Gun violence in Queens on the rise
by Sara Krevoy and Katz touts grassroots programs as key ally in fight By Sara Krevoy Queens Ledger
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Borough President Melinda Katz (front, right) with Reverend Phil Craig (center) and community leaders.
Shooting incidents have increased by 8.6 percent in Queens since 2018, according to NYPD data released earlier this month. The borough has also seen a 6 percent jump in shooting victims since October of last year.
"For far too many young lives, we have lost them to gun violence here in Queens County," said Borough President Melinda Katz last week surrounded by southeast Queens community leaders. "We need to act and we need to act now."
Katz, who is also the Democratic candidate in the race for Queens district attorney, emphasized her goal, if elected, to make the office a community partner in the borough's fight against gun violence.
She acknowledged the many members of faith groups and civic organizations and the Cure Violence programs who consistently work to provide an example and "an infrastructure of support" for the young people faced with difficult decisions.
"The centerpiece of our plan is to implement guns as a public health issue and to treat it as such," Katz explained. "Treat violence as a contagious disease, one that can be effectively treated and prevented."
She said her focus would be on encouraging and amplifying grassroots work within high-risk communities, such as mentorship resources, drug treatment support, mental health services, job training, after-school activities and re-entry programs.
On the legal end, she would implement tough prosecution on gun trafficking, a 24/7 gun buyback policy and educating law enforcement and school officials on NY's Red Flag Law, which allows guns to be removed from individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.
Reverend Phil Craig of Greater Springfield Community Church in Jamaica stressed the importance of partnerships with the local efforts that are already a powerful presence in affected communities.
It is not only a job for social justice activists and church leaders to protect residents from gun violence, but for anyone who cares to get involved, he said.
"My mother always told me it takes a village to raise a community, to raise a child," Craig said. "And so it is a pleasure to be here with all these partners that have not taken it for granted, and are not going to sit idly by and watch these lives that are priceless go by the wayside."
The potential for support from the future Queens DA is inspiring for Kevin Livingston, who spent more than $30,000 of his own money in the first three years of his program 100 Suits, which provides business attire for those searching for a job.
"It is incredibly encouraging to see my brothers and sisters here, who I have fought with historically at crime scenes, at funerals and walking the halls of Rikers Island," he said Kevin Livingston.
Deriving its name from the six blocks and 96 buildings that make up the Queensbridge public housing development 696 Build Queensbridge works with funding from the mayor's office to provide mentorship programs and violence interruption, which can sometimes mean standing between two armed members of the community.
Staff of 696 Build live in the community, which allows them to target high-risk youth and shadow them. When a situation that has the potential to turn violent does occur, they are more likely to be there when it counts.
But with just 12 members, 696 Build is presented with the daunting task of monitoring half of the massive development. A future partnership with the DA's Office could help the program expand and reach more people.
"In order for you to be productive you have to speak the language of the community and move the way the community moves," said the program manager, who is known as Himo in the community. "That bond and the relationship is always going to be different.
"We want to see the investment of empowering the community to take ownership for itself," he added. "The reason that our program is so successful is because the people that are doing the work are from the community."
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It's Yom Ha'Atzmaut, and throughout the day the Scroll will highlight some of the gems Israeli culture has created in the past seventy years.
Written by Assi Dayan, Moshe's son and an artist as ingenuous on film as his father was on the battlefield, the movie is an uproarious farce starring Hagasash Ha'Hiver, Israel's most iconic comedy trio. It revolves around that quintessentially Israeli experience of miluim, the month or so a year of reserve duty in which most Israeli men serve until they're in their fifties. Lounging in a remote army base in the Sinai desert, a gaggle of men (and the women who love them) scheme, tell jokes, and enjoy time away from their everyday worries.
Nothing, really, happens in this movie, which stars Uri Zohar and Arik Einstein as two beach bums who sit by the water, hit on women, and behave like utterly charming troglodytes. But anyone who has ever skipped a day of school to go laze on the beach—which is to say nearly every Israeli—would immediately connect with the laid-back vibe. Einstein, of course, was Israel's most celebrated singer, and Zohar, the revered comedian and filmmaker, has since become a ba'al teshuvah and looks nothing like the shirtless bohemian immortalized on film.
Completed when its director, Amos Guttman, was dying of AIDS, this immensely moving film is one of the first Israeli movies ever to feature gay protagonists, and the first to address the AIDS epidemic. It tells the story of Yonatan, a sensitive young Tel Avivi who falls for Thomas, a New Yorker visiting Israel. Like Guttman, Thomas, too, has AIDS, and his affair with Yonatan is no less tender for being doomed.
When it premiered in 1975, the film helped launched a genre known as "Burekas Movies." It wasn't meant as a compliment, burekas being a popular pastry sold for a few shekels to hungry and not particularly discerning people. But these movies, with their reliance on broad humor and ethnic stereotypes and preposterous plots, proved infinitely popular, becoming cult-like hits that have withstood the test of time. Hagigah Ba'Snooker stars the genre's two founding father, Ze'ev Revach and Yehuda Barkan, as well as a script largely improvised on camera.
Ephraim Kishon's masterpiece is as universal as it is thoroughly Israeli. It tells the story of a madman, Kazimir Blaumilch, who takes to the street in Tel Aviv one day with a massive drill and begins to break ground. Assuming he's authorized to do so, neighbors, the police, and other officials all rush to help him, hailing his vision for digging tunnels and turning Tel Aviv into the Venice of the Middle East. The only person who dares observe that Blaumilch is mad is himself committed to the hospital, considered crazy for doubting what is so clearly an ambitious Zionist project.
When the kibbutz refuses to grant the newly deceased Savta Chaya a burial spot, it's up to her three grandsons to bring their grandmother to a final resting place. Sadly, one of them is a psychotic army officer who turns the funeral into a military operation and the film into one of the best loved Israeli comedies of all time, a parody both of life on the kibbutz and life in the army.
Dover Kosashvili's drama about the forbidden love between an Israeli man of Georgian heritage and a woman whose family came from Morocco was a surprise blockbuster, considering the fact that it largely speaks Georgian, not Hebrew. But Ronit Elkabetz's magical performance transcends all boundaries, as both Israeli movie-goers and the judges at the Cannes Film Festival agreed.


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Some uffish thoughts on the Swedish translations of "Jabberwocky"
Björn Sundmark
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2017.5.3.sundmark
Słowa kluczowe: Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll, nonsense, Swedish, Through the Looking-glass, translatability
In this article the "translatability" (and/or untranslatability) of nonsense is addressed. For this purpose, five Swedish versions of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) are examined: the vocabulary, the syntax, the metre and rhythm, as well as the poem's contextual framing, here mainly understood as the narrative in which Jabberwocky is embedded. Attention is also paid to the generic and stylistic context of the poem, and the corpus of Swedish translations. Such an exegesis is warranted by the status of Jabberwocky both as a seminal work of nonsense and as a translation showpiece. Influential critics, from Elizabeth Sewell (1952) to Jean-Paul Lecercle (1994) have used Jabberwocky as a key nonsense text. And even when it is to question whether Jabberwocky is a good example or not – Michael Heyman, for instance, argues that Jabberwocky is something of an "outlier" in the realm of nonsense since its nonsense is linguistic rather than logical (2015) – it remains a defining nonsense text. Moreover, it also a pivotal text in translation history. Indeed, because of the perceived difficulties in translating it, Jabberwocky has rightfully been called "the holy grail of translation" (Heyman 2015), something that is borne out by the large number of studies devoted to it, such as Orero Pilar's 2007 monograph of several Spanish versions of Jabberwocky. What I bring to this critical discussion is empirical material that has not been brought to light before (the Swedish translations), and a new perspective.
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Carroll, L. (1899). Bakom spegeln och hvad Alice fann där. Ill. John Tenniel. Transl. Louise Arosenius. Stockholm: Norstedt.
Carroll, L. (1945). Alice äventyr i sagolandet och Bakom spegeln och vad Alice fann där. Ill. Robert Högfeldt. Transl. Gösta Knutsson. Stockholm: Jan.
Carroll, L. (1963). Alice i Spegellandet. Ill. John Tenniel. Transl. Eva Håkanson. Stockholm: Natur & Kultur.
Carroll, L. (1977) Alice i Underlandet och Alice i Spegellandet. Ill. John Tenniel. Transl. Harry Lundin. Uddevalla: Niloë.
Carroll, L. (2015). Alice i Spegellandet. Ill. Robert Ingpen. Transl. Christina Westman & Anna Strandberg. Stockholm: Wahlströms.
Gardner, M. (ed.) (1960). The Annotated Alice. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1960.
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Lecercle, J-J. (1994). Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature. New York: Routledge.
Malcolm, N. (1997). The Origins of English Nonsense. London: Fontana/HarperCollins, 1997.
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Sewell, E. (1971). 'The Balance of Brillig' (1952), in Gray, D. (ed.), Alice in Wonderland: A Norton Critical Edition, New York: Norton, pp 380-388
Sundmark, B. (2015a). 'Emily Nonnen's Alice in Swedish: "Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice,' in Lindseth, J. (ed.), Alice in a World of Wonderlands (Vol. 1. Essays), New Castle, Delaware, USA: Oak Knoll Press and the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, pp. 573-580.
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The former Barcelona and AC Milan midfielder has still got it.
Ronaldinho may be playing in the Brasilerao, where proper defending is greeted with the same distaste as racism is in the Premier League, but the former Barcelona and AC Milan star just keeps producing the magic moments.
The 33-year-old already has 3 goals in 6 six appearances this season and helped Atletico Mineiro to a 2-0 home win over Bahia. His best moment was this sublime back-heel pass to set his teammate off on a counter attack. Never retire, Ronnie.


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Cannabis Science Groundbreaking Cancer Research Skyrockets with More Views Than 95% of all Frontiers Articles
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Cannabis Science has reported that their groundbreaking laboratory research with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute using Nanoparticle Drone technology and Cannabinoids to successfully kill cancer cells has now reached a serious level of attention. The Cannabis Science, Dana-Farber research team has now begun next level planning to bring this efficacious research to full commercialization.
At this point, this cutting-edge research has more views than 95% of all Frontiers articles.
Published in September 2017, Cannabis Science's peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Oncology, "Nanoparticle Drones to Target Lung Cancer with Radiosensitizers and Cannabinoids", has been viewed more than 9,800 times, representing an increase in views of nearly 50% since December 2017.
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2018 was a tough year for stocks.
The year started out strong, but ended very much weak. The FTSE 100 lost over 12%, and it had its worst year since the credit crisis, and the DAX was in a similar position as it registered its worst year in a decade. The Dow Jones and the S&P 500 both finished in the red for the first time in three years. Worries about global growth, trade tensions and the possibility of higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve weighed on stock market sentiment.
Overnight, the Caixin survey of Chinese manufacturing came in at 49.7, while economists were expecting 50.1. The November reading was 50.2. The Chinese economy has been cooling recently and the figure overnight confirms the economic slowdown. A reading below 50.0 indicates a contraction, and today's report was the first contraction in 19 months. Asian stocks sold-off heavily overnight on the back of the disappointing update out of China.
Gold has enjoyed a positive run recently as the dip in the greenback lifted the metal. Recently gold hit its highest level in over six months, and that is largely due to the softness in the US dollar, and the uncertainty in worldwide equity markets has played a small role too.
The US dollar index has been in a downward trend since mid-December and the change in perception about the Federal Reserve is fuelling the slide in the greenback, and the political stalemate in Washington DC isn't helping either.
The partial shutdown of the US government continues as President Trump and the Democrats are locked in a battle over the funding for the wall along the Mexican border. Some confidence in the US economy has been eroded on the back of the political fight, but investors are mainly concerned about the lack of clarity, and even though the Democrats are hoping to put a plan together, the gulf between the two sides is wide.
The UK parliament is set to vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal this month, and Prime Minister May called for MPs to back her proposal in her New Year message.
The oil market had a dreadful 2018, as WTI dropped almost 25%, while Brent Crude fall nearly 20%. In December, OPEC and partners announced plans to cut oil production in 2019, but that wasn't enough to prop-up the energy market, as traders were afraid of a slowing global economy and rising inventories in the US.
Later today we have a raft of manufacturing data released. Italy, France, Germany and the UK will all announce their reports this morning, and the consensus estimate is 48.4, 49.7, 51.5 and 52.6 respectively. The eurozone has been producing some poor economic indicators recently, in particular Italy and France. Investors are concerned the currency bloc is going through an economic malaise.
At 3pm (UK time) the US will release the ISM manufacturing and the consensus estimate is 57.9.
GBP/USD – bullish engulfing might see a move back towards the 1.3000 region. Another move lower might bring 1.2476 into play.
EUR/GBP – the bearish engulfing might drive the market to the 200-day moving average at 0.8849. If the wider rally continues, it might target 0.9100.
USD/JPY – has been edging lower since October and if the negative move continues, support might be found at 109.19. If a wider uptrend continues, it might run into resistance at 113.70.


The primrose is one of 4 similar primula species we have in the UK. The others are Cowslip, Oxlip and False Oxlip.
Primroses are what you are most likely to see and are out now (March) and continue into April.
In fact with recent milder conditions they often seem to be in flower throughout the winter months.
Primroses have one flower per stalk and are primrose yellow. That is not as daft as it sounds; most people know primrose yellow even if they have not seen a primrose. Cowslips have lots of flowers per stalk, the colour is more apricot yellow and the individual flowers are quite small. Oxlips have lots of flowers per stalk, the colour is yellow, the individual flowers look like small primroses and all the flowers point in one direction. False oxlip is a hybrid between a primrose and a cowslip. It looks like an Oxlip but the flowers on top of each stalk point in every direction. They are quite uncommon. All the species in the primrose family have a clever way to prevent self pollination. The flowers are either pin eyed or thrum eyed.This is known as heterostyly. If you look at my diagram you can see the difference. Pin eyed have the stigma near the top of the petals and thrum eyed have the stamens near the top of the petals. The effect is that when pollinating insects visit the flowers they will transfer the pollen of the thrum eyed flowers to the stigma of the pin eyed flowers and visa versa. All flowers on a particular plant are of one sort. It is controlled by a group of genes which are closely linked on one chromosome so that in effect they act as one gene which is known by the letter S. If you know your genetics you will know that there are two alleles for each gene and they can be dominant or recessive. Thrum eyed has one dominant allele and one recessive so is Ss, pin eyed is SS so the pollen from the thrum eyed will be 50% S and 50% s. All the pollen from the pin eyed will be S and so when pollination occurs 50% will be Ss and 50% will be SS.
What is the point of all this? Well, it will mean a better mix of all the other genes in the plant's offspring which means they will stand more chance of being able to colonise slightly less favourable areas or be able to fight off disease better or be able to adapt to new conditions. To use a modern phrase, they will be 'more fit for purpose'.


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Maurice de Féraudy (born in Joinville-le-Pont on December 3, 1859 - died in Paris May 12, 1932) was a French songwriter, stage and film director, and actor at the Comédie-Française. He was the father of actor Jacques de Féraudy.

Life and career
He joined the Théâtre Français in 1880, the company in 1887,  and became dean in 1929. The role of his life, which he played 1200 times in nearly thirty years and of which he had a monopoly, is that of Isidore Lechat in Business is business (French: Les affaires sont les affaires), Octave Mirbeau (1903). As part of the Comedy Francaise he toured Quebec, Montreal and New York in 1922, showing two plays by Molière.
He has been applauded in the use of comedy, his playing full of cheerfulness.

Féraudy also wrote the lyrics of many songs for Paulette Darty, including the famous Fascination, taken up by later by Suzy Delair and Diane Dufresne.

Selected filmography
1926 : The Clown as Circus director James Bunding
1929 : Ça aussi! ... c'est Paris
1928 : Two Timid Souls as Thibaudier
1927 : Fleur d'amour as Maître Sourgueil
1926 : Lady Harrington as Bréhaut
 1926 : The Clown as James Bunding
1925 : Le Cœur des gueux as le Père Larue
1923 : The Secret of Polichinelle as Mr. Jouvenel
1923 : Cousin Pons de Jacques Robert as Pons
1922 : Crainquebille de Jacques Feyder as Crainquebille
1921 : Blanchette de René Hervil as Père Rousset
1920 :  In Old Alsace as de René Hervil
1913 : The Gaieties of the Squadron1913 : The Last Pardon''

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1859 births
1932 deaths
French songwriters
Male songwriters
French male stage actors
French male film actors
French male silent film actors
French film directors
Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
20th-century French male actors

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Online platforms, which monitor and intervene in the lives of billions of people, routinely host thousands of experiments to evaluate policies, test products, and contribute to theory in the social sciences. These experiments are also powerful tools to monitor injustice and govern human and algorithm behavior. How can we do field experiments at scale, reliably, and ethically?
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In the spring of 2018, I taught this Sociology department seminar class to 10 undergraduates and gradstudents doing majors in political science, operations research, computer science, economics, and philosophy. Students developed five new field experiments and one replication in the course of a single semester, studies that we successfully launched.


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Deepening the listener's experience: I talk to Paweł Łukaszewski about his inspirations
Labels: cd news, feature article, interview
Paweł Łukaszewski
The Polish composer Paweł Łukaszewski is 50 this year and in celebration Nigel Short and Tenebrae is releasing a disc of Łukaszewski's sacred choral music, Daylight Declines, on the Signum Classics label in June this year. Whilst Paweł Łukaszewski's output includes music in a wide variety of genres, with four symphonies, it is for his choral music that he is best known in the UK. I spoke to him by telephone from Warsaw, where he is based, to find out more about his inspirations.
When I commented about Paweł's choral music being known in the UK, he commented that choral music, notably sacred music, was the goal of his life. He virtually always writes Latin settings and is aware of following on from fantastic composers of the past. He has been writing sacred music for 30 years, and clearly differentiates between sacred music (which is how he refers to a lot of his repertoire) and liturgical music.
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa with crown (Photo Robert Drózd)
Paweł's own religion is important to him, a Roman Catholic born in Częstochowa which is notable for its famous Jasna Góra Monastery with its image of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, whom Paweł refers to as the Queen of Poland, a religious image of the Virgin as famous in Poland as those of Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal. Paweł was born just a mile from the monastery and lived there until he left for Warsaw in 1987 to pursue his studies.
He has had a strong relationship with the church and was a member of the choir of the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw, a choir which gave a number of first performances including Henryk Górecki's motet Totus Tuus written for the visit of Pope John Paul I to Poland and which the choir (including Paweł) premiered at the airport for the Pope's arrival. In complete contrast, Paweł notes that there is a fantastic recording of the motet by the Kings Singers.
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010) is one of Paweł's notable predecessors; Paweł notes that Górecki did not write a lot of Latin sacred music, though there are some big titles such as Beatus Vir and Miserere. But it isn't just this variety in output which reflects the difference between the two composers, Paweł feels that he composes with a bigger difference in harmony and melody to Górecki.
Paweł adds that he takes inspiration from a lot of sources, not just the music of his great predecessors, and Gothic architecture is one notable inspiration, particularly cathedrals such as the one in Rouen. But writing sacred choral music, Paweł is aware of his big relationship with the music of great masters of the past.
St Florian's Cathedral in Warsaw,
where Paweł Łukaszewski conducts Musica Sacra
He explains that the avant-garde approach is not his way, not the goal of his compositional activity. As Professor of Composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music he feels that avant garde music is interesting for his students with such examples as the Warsaw Autumn Festival (the largest international Polish festival of contemporary music). For his own compositions, he wants his music to deepen people's experience, to help with prayer and to lead listeners to be better people.
Whilst Paweł started studying composition at the age of 17, he had been studying cello before this and initially, he finished his cello studies in Warsaw before developing his composing. Paweł's father was also a composer, Wojciech Łukaszewski (1836-1978), who had studied with Nadia Boulanger. Wojciech Łukaszewski died at the age of 42 when Paweł was 10 and Paweł thinks that the idea to compose came to him as possibly the last will of his father.
Tenebrae's new disc includes settings of the Tenebrae Responsories and Lamentations, which are both very popular Latin texts with a significant musical history behind them, but also The Beatitudes which are rarely set. The text is very important to Paweł, the selection of the text can contribute strongly to the formal structure of the resulting piece. In fact, the text can give rise to the idea for the music. Having chosen a text, he looks at the important words and will assign special intervals to particular words. And he finishes this part of the discussion by saying that it might be better to say that it was not the text, but that he began with the words. For sacred music, he always sets the Latin text, frequently taken from Liber Usualis.
The Tenebrae Responsories on the disc were in fact commissioned for the Kings Singers in 2010. Paweł describes the moment when he was in the car and heard on the phone, 'Hi, I'm David from the Kings Singers', something which Paweł calls a miracle. 40 years ago, the Kings Singers had commissioned Penderecki's Ecloga which Paweł describes as very different and a very difficult piece.
Paweł is also a conductor of the Music Sacra choir at St Florian's Cathedral in the Praga district of Warsaw and has conducted the group for 15 years. It is part of a bigger project, including an international composition competition which has Stephen Layton on the jury and also publishes CDs and music. With the choir, he conducts both his own and other music, including a number of British composers, John Taverner, John Rutter, James MacMillan and Paul Mealor.
With Paweł, conducting and composing feed into each other, he is always thinking about conducting when composing, when writing something he is thinking whether it is good for performance. And when he is conducting, he looks at the score with a composer's eye, sees what is good and what is bad; he feels that some composers are theoretical rather than practical. For Paweł, it is important to have had the experience of being a member of a choir and a conductor, important for his composing activity.
When I ask about his composer heroes, Paweł's first name is something of a surprise, Francis Poulenc whose music Paweł's likes, but also Mahler, Brahms and Mendelssohn. From the last 100 years he names Górecki, Arvo Part and John Taverner, composers whose sacred music is on his wavelength.
Nigel Short and Paweł Łukaszewski at Tenebrae recording session - May 2016 - credit Paweł Łukaszewski
Not every composer likes talking about their own music and inspirations, and English is not Paweł's first language but in the event, we had a most enjoyable telephone conversation which really illuminated the thought processes and emotions which lie behind Paweł Łukaszewski's music.
Paweł Łukaszewski's music on disc:
Daylight Declines - Choral music by Paweł Łukaszewski, Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Paweł Łukaszewski motets, Polish Chamber Choir, Jan Łukaszewski
Paweł Łukaszewski Missa e Maria a Magdala, Chor Akademii Techniczno-Humanistyczney, Śląska Orkiestra Kameralna, Jan Borowski
Paweł Łukaszewski Via Crucis, Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton
Paweł Łukaszewski choral music, choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton
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What an unalloyed joy! And if all this isn't advert enough for some sensible funding I don't know what is (★★★★) - concert review
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Seasonal summary

Systems

Tropical Cyclone Steve

Tropical Cyclone Tessa

Tessa precursor tropical depression was first noted on December 5, while it was located in the southern Line Islands of Kiribati. Over the next couple of days, the system moved southeastwards and gradually intensified, before it was named Tessa by the FMS during December 7.

During December 9, the system moved in between Puka Puka and Reao as it continued to weaken and move south-eastwards towards the Gambier Islands. The system was last noted during December 11, while it was located about  to the northeast of Adams Town in the Pitcarn Islands. As the system moved through the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia, Tessa caused significant precipitation over the islands, with the Puka Puka weather station recording a 24-hour rainfall total of  during December 8.

Tropical Cyclone Anne

For several days during the week building up to Christmas 1977, a tropical disturbance persisted about  to the northeast of Fiji and to the northwest of Samoa. A distinct cyclonic circulation subsequently started to develop during December 23, while it was located about  to the northeast of Vanua Levu. Over the next day the system moved south-westwards and passed within  of Futuna, before it was named Anne by the FMS during December 24, as satellite pictures showed that a tropical cyclone was developing. During December 25, the winds were indirectly estimated to be off gale-force, as it passed south-westwards through the Fijian Islands.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Bob

Severe Tropical Cyclone Charles

Tropical Cyclone Diana

During February 15, a tropical depression developed within the South Pacific Convergence Zone, to the west of French Polynesia's Society Islands. Over the next couple of days, the system moved eastwards towards Mopelia while gradually developing further, before it was named Diana by the FMS during February 16.

Tropical Cyclone Ernie

During February 17, the FMS started to monitor a tropical depression that had developed, about  to the northwest of Udu Point in Fiji. During that day, the system deepened as it moved south-eastwards towards Fiji before the FMS named it Ernie.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Hal

Season effects

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See also

Atlantic hurricane seasons: 1977, 1978
Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons: 1977, 1978
Western Pacific typhoon seasons: 1977, 1978
North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons: 1977, 1978

References

External links

South Pacific cyclone seasons
Articles which contain graphical timelines


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Q: How to disassemble an Acer Aspire 5730 I have an Acer Aspire 5730-4163 whose power jack has died. I'm looking for a disassembly how-to or service manual, preferably with clear pictures. Google hasn't turned up anything for me.
Anyone know of a link?

A: Maybe this is what you are looking for:
http://www.laptopguides.info/acer/acer-aspire-5730z-service-manual/


In certain networks, such as, but not limited to, financial information networks (e.g., stock market data providers), network performance information (e.g., link propagation delay) is becoming critical to data path selection.
This document describes common extensions to RFC 3630 "Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2" and RFC 5329 "Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 3" to enable network performance information to be distributed in a scalable fashion. The information distributed using OSPF TE Metric Extensions can then be used to make path selection decisions based on network performance.
Note that this document only covers the mechanisms by which network performance information is distributed. The mechanisms for measuring network performance information or using that information, once distributed, are outside the scope of this document.


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Q: Create new dataframe from selected information from another datama I have a dataframe with the following schema:
root
 |-- id: long (nullable = true)
 |-- type: string (nullable = true)
 |-- tags: map (nullable = true)
 |    |-- key: string
 |    |-- value: string (valueContainsNull = true)
 |-- lat: Long (nullable = true)
 |-- lon: Long (nullable = true)
 |-- nds: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- ref: long (nullable = true)
 |-- members: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- type: string (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- ref: long (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- role: string (nullable = true)

I want to create a new dataframe res where I select specific data from the column tags. I need the values from key=place and key=population. The new dataframe should have the following schema:
val schema = StructType(
               Array(
                 StructField("place", StringType),
                 StructField("population", LongType)
               )
             )

I have litteraly no idea how I to do this. I tried to replicate the first dataframe and then select the columns, but that didnt work.
Anyone has a solution?

A: Lets call your original dataframe df. You can extract the information you want like this
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.sql.col

val data = df
  .select("tags")
  .where(
    df("tags")("key") isin (List("place", "population"): _*)
  )
  .select(
    col("tags")("value")
  )
  .collect()
  .toList

This will give you a List[Row] which can be converted to another dataframe with your schema
import scala.collection.JavaConversions.seqAsJavaList

sparkSession.createDataFrame(seqAsJavaList[Row](data), schema)

A: You can directly apply desired key on column of type map to extract value, then cast and rename column as you wish as follows:
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.col
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.LongType

val result = dataframe.select(
  col("tags")("place").as("place"),
  col("tags")("population").cast(LongType).as("population")
)

With the following tags column:
+------------------------------------------------+
|tags                                            |
+------------------------------------------------+
|{place -> A, population -> 32, another_key -> X}|
|{place -> B, population -> 64, another_key -> Y}|
+------------------------------------------------+

You get the following result:
+-----+----------+
|place|population|
+-----+----------+
|A    |32        |
|B    |64        |
+-----+----------+

Having the following schema:
root
 |-- place: string (nullable = true)
 |-- population: long (nullable = true)

A: Given the following simplified input:
val df = Seq(
  (1L, Map("place" -> "home", "population" -> "1", "name" -> "foo")),
  (2L, Map("place" -> "home", "population" -> "4", "name" -> "foo")),
  (3L, Map("population" -> "3")),
  (4L, Map.empty[String, String])
).toDF("id", "tags")

You want to select the values using methods map_filter to filter the map to only contain the key you want, then call map_values to get those entries. map_values returns an array, so you need to use explode_outer to flatten the data. We use explode_outer here because you might have entries which have neither place nor population, or only one of the two. Once the data is in a form we can easily work with, we just select the fields we want in the desired structure.
I've left the id column in so when you run the example you can see that we don't drop entries with missing data.

val r = df.select(
    col("id"),
    explode_outer(map_values(map_filter(col("tags"), (k,_) => k === "place"))) as "place",
    map_values(map_filter(col("tags"), (k,_) => k === "population")) as "population"
  ).withColumn("population", explode_outer(col("population")))
  .select(
    col("id"),
    array(
      struct(
        col("place"),
        col("population") cast LongType as "population"
      ) as "place_and_population"
    ) as "data"
  )

Gives:
root
 |-- id: long (nullable = false)
 |-- data: array (nullable = false)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = false)
 |    |    |-- place: string (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- population: long (nullable = true)

+---+--------------+
| id|          data|
+---+--------------+
|  1|   [{home, 1}]|
|  2|   [{home, 4}]|
|  3|   [{null, 3}]|
|  4|[{null, null}]|
+---+--------------+


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Collegiate Robotics Team Gears Up For Next Competition
Collegiate's Upper School robotics team, TORCH 5804, will head to Blacksburg, Virginia, this weekend to compete in the FIRST Chesapeake District event at Blacksburg High School.
The competition, TORCH 5804's second of the season, will feature 40 of the best high school robotics teams from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The team's initial competition was March 1-3, at Deep Run High School, where they experienced some technical difficulties but reached the semifinals, earned a total of 25 points and finished in 18th place out of 37 teams.
Ninth Grader Alexander Trimmingham admitted to being nervous at the first event, but confident afterward.
"We left knowing that we were going to improve the design and move on and do well in the next competition," he said.
The week leading up to the Blacksburg event, the team did indeed fine-tune some features on its practice robot and then transferred them to their competition robot, named "Steve" in honor of Head of School Steve Hickman, who will retire in June.
Junior Avery Schebell, who drives the robot, explained that the robot's original hatch design, which worked in practice but not in competition, needed a complete overhaul.
"We changed it completely and it's much simpler now," she said. "I think it will work much better," she said.
Upper School and Middle School Steam Coordinator Dan Bartels said he feels optimistic about the team's chances moving forward.
"I wish we had earned more points at the first competition, but the adversity is what provides the opportunities," he said. "We're in a position to do much better."
At the Blacksburg event, teams will vie for spots at the FIRST Chesapeake District Championship at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, on April 10-13. Top performers will go on to compete at the FIRST World Championship in Detroit, Michigan, on April 24-27. All events can be viewed via livestream. For more information, click here.
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package de.javakaffee.kryoserializers;

import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Serializer;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Input;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.io.Output;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * A kryo {@link Serializer} for {@link List}s created via {@link Collections#singletonList(Object)}.
 *

 * Note: This serializer does not support cyclic references, if a serialized object
 * is part of a cycle this might cause an error during deserialization.
 *

 *
 * @author Martin Grotzke
 */
public class CollectionsSingletonListSerializer extends Serializer<List<?>> {

    public CollectionsSingletonListSerializer() {
    }

    @Override
    public List<?> read(final Kryo kryo, final Input input, final Class<? extends List<?>> type) {
        final Object obj = kryo.readClassAndObject( input );
        return Collections.singletonList( obj );
    }

    @Override
    public void write(final Kryo kryo, final Output output, final List<?> list) {
        kryo.writeClassAndObject(output, list.get( 0 ));
    }

    @Override
    public List<?> copy(Kryo kryo, List<?> original) {
        Object singleton = original.get(0);
        kryo.reference(singleton);
        Object newSingleton = kryo.copy(singleton);
        return Collections.singletonList(newSingleton);
    }
}

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