Dan Scheinman, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco Media Solutions Group, provided some insight about his company's ambitions in networking, the social kind rather than the infrastructure for moving digital bits. He introduced Eos (not to be confused with Cisco's IOS or EOS), an entertainment operating system, which he described as a platform for creating and managing a community-based entertainment experience.
Based on technology and teams from recent acquisitions Tribe.net and Five Across, Cisco has 40 developers in San Francisco working on the white label platform that he said would "combine the best of community, video and discovery on an integrated platform." Cisco will launch Eos next year. "We will be relevant in this marketplace," Scheinman said.
He said he was interested in what bloggers had to say about the platform, but there isn't much to comment on at this point.
Scheinman talked about the marriage of Web 2.0 and Cisco, bringing the ability to combine discovery and the networks. "We need to be in a world where content can find you, where search is predictive."
In other words, consumers will be faced with more and more Web content and traditional discovery methods are breaking down, and Cisco will be there to save users from Web pains with an end-to-end solution, from the switches, routers and set-top boxes to an "entertainment-class, community-based"user experience. A scenario that warms the heart of John Chambers.
"We believe the world is ripe for a platform where the experience of content is easy, simple and fun and people want to use it repeatedly," Scheinman concluded.
We will have to wait to see what Cisco means by an "entertainment-class, community-based" user experience. In the meantime, Cisco has the attention of Apple, Microsoft and others who want to be the entertainment platform of the future.


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DC TV PODCASTS LAUNCHES IZOMBIE RADIO – PRESS RELEASE
Posted by :Andy Behbakht On : July 1, 2016
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DC TV PODCASTS LAUNCHES
IZOMBIE RADIO
FOR THE CW'S IZOMBIE!
New Fan Podcast Dedicated to
The DC/Vertigo television series iZombie on The CW
Friday, July 1, 2016 – DC TV Podcasts, which is a podcast network for multiple high-quality DC Comics TV dedicated podcasts, is expanding with a seventh podcast, that will cross into the Vertigo territory: iZombie Radio, DC TV Podcasts' 1st Vertigo TV Podcast!
iZombie Radio is a fan podcast devoted to the popular CW series, iZombie, starring Rose McIver as Olivia "Liv" Moore, from the creators of Veronica Mars, Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright.
iZombie Radio will be helmed by a quartet of hosts featuring new voices to the DC TV Podcasts Network: Catrina Dennis (Writer of StarWars.com, Inverse and Blastrgrrls) Chris King (Staff Writer at TV Overmind; Contributor to The Marvel Report), Blaise Hopkins (Staff Writer at TV Overmind; Contributor to The Marvel Report) and Shawn Carpenter (Staff Writer at The Marvel Report), all of whom have made names for themselves individually in the world of pop culture, and will now be joining forces to cover the CW's iZombie.
This podcast will begin this summer as San Diego Comic-Con approaches, which iZombie will be taking part of with a panel in Ballroom 20. With the television series being set to return to The CW during mid-season of the 2016-2017 TV Season, iZombie Radio will go through the first two seasons of the show in its Season Zero. The podcast will start out with bi-weekly episodes as Season 3 of iZombie approaches and by then the podcast will shift into a weekly format. On each episode of iZombie Radio, there will be news coverage, reviews/analysis as well as speculation for upcoming episodes.
iZombie stars Rose McIver as Olivia "Liv" Moore", Rahul Kohli as Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, Robert Buckley as Major Lilywhite, Malcolm J Goodwin as Clive Babineaux, David Anders as Blaine McDonugh and Aly Michalka as Peyton Charles. Developed by Veronica Mars' Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright, iZombie is based on the Vertigo property of the same name.
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Four Horses of the Apocalypse 2016 US Presidential Election Sim
by Benjamin Studebaker
A few people have asked me what would happen if Bernie Sanders ran as an independent or on a joint Green Party ticket with Jill Stein, or if the Republican establishment ran their own candidate against Donald Trump. Some people want to know what happens if both parties split and we get an extremely messy 4-way race. These questions are difficult to answer, but I've put together a very basic election simulation to try to give you a sense for what might happen.
Before we begin, I want to emphasize that these simulations have a lot of simplifying assumptions and they should not be thought of in any way as an exact prediction. My guiding principle in putting this together was to minimize the extent to which I had to make subjective judgments, and to do that I had to avoid considering many factors which would change the results.
My method was to take the 2012 election results for Obama and Romney and divide the Obama results between Clinton and Sanders on the basis of their performance in the 2016 primaries and caucuses while dividing the Romney results between Trump and his hypothetical establishment opponent (I like to call him "Jitt McRomnain"). For Clinton and Sanders this was pretty straightforward, but for Trump I had to estimate the level of support he would receive from supporters of the other Republican candidates in a two-man race. I did this in three different ways:
"Trump Standard" or "Trump Ceiling" in which Trump only gets the support of the percentage of the Republicans who voted for him in the respective primaries and caucuses.
"Trump+" in which Trump also gets the votes from candidates who endorsed him (Carson and Christie) or attended his anti-debate veterans event (Huckabee and Santorum).
"Trump++" in which Trump gets all the votes in Trump+ along with half of Ted Cruz's supporters on the assumption that Cruz's support is split evenly between anti-establishment voters who would prefer Trump to a non-Cruz Republican and anti-Trump voters who would never vote for Trump.
Even with these assumptions, there's a lot that is painfully incomplete about this simulation and I want to be very up front about its limitations:
Caucus percentages are misleading because only committed party activists participate in caucuses.
Primaries that exclude independents don't give us a sense of how those independents would vote. In this sim, I use the independent percentages from the primaries where available, but where unavailable I effectively assume that every candidate will do equally well with independents, which hurts Sanders and Trump. I'm just not comfortable guessing how the independents would vote in states where they didn't get a chance to do so.
It's entirely possible that people would tactical vote in a real three-way or four-way race, and none of the data we have can tell us how many people would do that.
I am assuming that the baseline level of support for Clinton/Sanders is the same as Obama's in 2012 and that Trump/McRomnain is the same as Romney in 2012. I'm not taking into account the ways in which the electorate has changed since 2012 or the appeal of the individual 2016 candidates vis-a-vis Obama and Romney. I don't have good estimates for these variables and would have to make subjective judgments.
Turnout in general elections is higher than in primaries and that messes with the percentages people would get in the general. Primaries in general are not good at predicting the general, but they're the only hard data I have because there haven't been many three-way or four-way polls.
A lot of things could happen between now and November that would change the popularity of the individual candidates.
A lot of things have happened since the individual state primaries that have changed the popularity of the individual candidates since they participated in those primaries.
Some primaries haven't been run yet, and in those states I'm projecting based on polling data, and in some of those states the polling data is very incomplete (like Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas).
So why did I do this anyway? Because it's fun, and because it gives you a basic foundation to work from. If you think you can get around some of these limitations and do a more complete simulation or you want to look at the state by state percentages, I will happily share my data with you. E-mail me at bms47@cam.ac.uk and ask me for it.
With that out of the way, here's what you came for. Clinton is blue, Sanders is green, Trump is orange, McRomnain and a united GOP ticket are red.
3 Way Race, Clinton vs Sanders vs United Republican Ticket
That's a blowout. Clinton gets 42 electoral votes, Sanders gets 7, the Republicans get 489.
3 Way Race, Clinton vs Trump vs McRomnain
For this sim I used Trump Standard, which gives McRomnain the best shot. Trump gets nothing, McRomnain gets 78, Clinton gets 460.
4 Way Race, Trump Standard
On Trump standard, Trump just isn't strong enough to win any states. Sanders gets 63 electoral votes, Clinton gets 226, and McRomnain gets 249. No one gets the 270 required to win outright, so the election is thrown to the house, where the Republicans in the house use McRomnain's lead in total electoral votes to rationalize making him president. This sim is Lindsay Graham's dream, it's the last best hope of the Republican establishment. But it's doubtful Trump would really do this badly. The most interesting result is Mississippi, where Sanders' weakness and Trump's strength allow Clinton to poach a deep southern state.
4 Way Race, Trump+
In this sim I helped Trump out a bit by finding him favorable polls in the western states and handing him the votes that went to Carson, Christie, Huckabee, and Santorum. A stronger Trump gets Trump a few states and it also swings a few states to Clinton and Sanders. Trump ends up with 26, Sanders gets 91, Clinton gets 242, and McRomnain gets 179. Again, the election goes to the house, but this time the house Republicans would have to override Clinton's plurality to pick McRomnain, making the outcome more contentious. This would not be without precedent–the 1824 election was thrown to the house and the house decided to give the presidency to second place finisher John Quincy Adams at the expense of Andrew Jackson:
4 Way Race, Trump++
This time I threw in half of Cruz's votes for Trump, and it made a big difference. Trump takes nearly every state from McRomnain and most of those he does not take himself he hands to Clinton. Trump ends up with 195, Sanders gets 88, Clinton gets 243, and McRomnain gets 12. Again the election is thrown to the house, but this time thanks to the 12th amendment the house Republicans would be unable to choose McRomney, as they are only permitted to pick from among the top three candidates. There would be a lot of pressure on them to give the election to Clinton.
1824 isn't the only time we've had a 4-way race (in which all four win at least 5%). In 1912, Wilson ran against Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and the socialist Eugene Debs:
Debs did not carry any states, and Roosevelt and Taft split the remaining Republican vote, handing an easy win to Wilson. We also ran 4 in 1860:
Lincoln and Breckinridge were the north and south's more hardline candidates, while Douglas and Bell were the more conciliatory options, respectively. The hardliners beat the conciliators in both regions. Lincoln won because he crushed Douglas in the north and the north had more electoral votes than the south because of its much larger population.
But let's not compare this presidential election to the one immediately preceding the Civil War. Things aren't that dire…right?
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would you consider updating this with fixed animations like that ada mod? id also love adas walk over her, so elegant!
I love this mod! can you please make a version with Katherine body and hair but with Claire's head?
So is there any difference now that Katherine has her own DLC? I could be totally wrong but she looks like she has her own walk/run animations (since she's wearing heels) and her model looks better than what was previously found in game.
She uses Ada's animations for sure and I'm pretty sure the model is the exact same one as I used for this.
I guess she has her own extremely limited set of facial animations and sound clips now?
Would you be willing to add those to this mod? I haven't used it yet but I'm assuming this mod is JUST the skin, nothing else. And yea, she does have some facial animations in the DLC. Like when she gets bit, screaming when a zombie grabs her leg, makes a surprised(ish) face when grenades go off, etc.
I'll look into fixing/adding her animations soon. I have a standalone mod in the other mods section for Ada's animations which you can already download.
wow amazing!! can you please make a version with Katherine body and hair annete but with Claire's head ?
I watch youtube and she so amazing!!
Thanks ! It's possible to have Ada head with this or it's too buggy?
There's going to be some obvious holes in between the head and the body.
this doesn't include any of ada's animations and fixes.
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Suicide of Leelah Alcorn
Suicide of an American transgender girl
Leelah Alcorn in 2014
(1997-11-15)November 15, 1997
Kings Mills, Ohio, U.S.
December 28, 2014(2014-12-28) (aged 17)
Lebanon, Ohio, U.S.
Suicide by vehicular impact
Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. Alcorn had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog, writing about societal standards affecting transgender people and expressing the hope that her death would create a dialogue about discrimination, abuse and lack of support for transgender people.
Assigned male at birth, she was raised in Ohio by a family affiliated with the Churches of Christ movement. At age 14, she came out as transgender to her parents, Carla and Doug Alcorn, who refused to accept her female gender identity. When she was 16, they denied her request to undergo transition treatment, instead sending her to Christian-based conversion therapy with the intention of convincing her to reject her gender identity and accept her gender as assigned at birth. After she revealed her attraction toward males to her classmates, her parents removed her from school and revoked her access to social media. In her suicide note, Alcorn cited loneliness and alienation as key reasons for her decision to end her life and blamed her parents for causing these feelings. She killed herself by walking into traffic on the Interstate 71 highway.
Alcorn arranged for her suicide note to be posted online several hours after her death, and it soon attracted international attention across mainstream and social media. LGBT rights activists called attention to the incident as evidence of the problems faced by transgender youth, while vigils were held in her memory in the United States and United Kingdom. Petitions were formed calling for the establishment of "Leelah's Law", a ban on conversion therapy in the U.S., which received a supportive response from U.S. President Barack Obama. Within a year, the city of Cincinnati criminalized conversion therapy. Alcorn's parents were severely criticized for misgendering Leelah in comments that they made to the media, while LGBT rights activist Dan Savage blamed them for their child's death, and social media users subjected them to online harassment. Alcorn's parents defended their refusal to accept their child's identity and their use of conversion therapy by reference to their Christian values.
2 Death
3.1 Alcorn's parents
3.2 Tributes, vigils, and activism
3.3 Leelah's Law
Alcorn was one of several children.[1] She described herself as being raised in a conservative Christian environment;[2][3] she and her family attended the Northeast Church of Christ in Cincinnati, and she had been featured in a profile of that church published in a 2011 article in The Christian Chronicle.[4] As of 2014, the family lived in Kings Mills, Ohio.[5]
"When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was. I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn't make mistakes, that I am wrong. If you are reading this, parents, please don't tell this to your kids. Even if you are Christian or are against transgender people don't ever say that to someone, especially your kid. That won't do anything but make them hate them self. That's exactly what it did to me."
— Leelah Alcorn's suicide note, 2014[6]
According to her suicide note, Alcorn had felt "like a girl trapped in a boy's body" since she was four, and came to identify as a transgender girl from the age of fourteen, when she became aware of the term.[6] She rejected the name she was given by her parents, and in her suicide note signed herself "(Leelah) Josh Alcorn".[6][7] According to her note, she immediately informed her mother, who reacted "extremely negatively" by claiming that it was only a phase and that God had made her a male, so she could never be a woman.[6][7] She stated that this made her hate herself, and that she developed a form of depression.[6] Her mother sent her to Christian conversion therapists,[8][9] but Alcorn later related that there she only encountered "more Christians" telling her that she was "selfish and wrong" and "should look to God for help".[6] Aged sixteen, she requested that she be allowed to undergo transition treatment, but was denied permission: in her words, "I felt hopeless, that I was just going to look like a man in drag for the rest of my life. On my 16th birthday, when I didn't receive consent from my parents to start transitioning, I cried myself to sleep."[6]
Alcorn publicly revealed her attraction to males when she was sixteen, as she believed that identifying as a gay male at that point would be a stepping stone to coming out as a transgender female at a later date.[10][11] According to a childhood friend, Alcorn received a positive reception from many at Kings High School, although her parents were appalled.[11] In Alcorn's words, "They felt like I was attacking their image, and that I was an embarrassment to them. They wanted me to be their perfect little straight Christian boy, and that's obviously not what I wanted."[6][10] They removed her from the school, and enrolled her as an eleventh grader at an online school, Ohio Virtual Academy.[10] According to Alcorn, her parents cut her off from the outside world for five months as they denied her access to social media and many forms of communication. She described this as a significant contributing factor towards her suicide.[6] At the end of the school year, they returned her mobile phone to her and allowed her to regain contact with her friends, although by this time, according to Alcorn, her relationship with many of them had become strained, and she continued to feel isolated.[6]
Two months before her death, Alcorn sought out help on the social media website Reddit, asking users whether the treatment perpetrated by her parents constituted child abuse.[12][13] There, she revealed that while her parents had never physically assaulted her, "they always talked to me in a very derogatory tone" and "would say things like 'You'll never be a real girl' or 'What're you going to do, fuck boys?' or 'God's going to send you straight to hell'. These all made me feel awful about myself, I was Christian at the time so I thought that God hated me and that I didn't deserve to be alive."[13] Further, she explained, "I tried my absolute hardest to live up to their standards and be a straight male, but eventually I realized that I hated religion and my parents."[14] On Reddit, Alcorn also disclosed that she was prescribed increasing dosages of the anti-depressant Prozac.[13] In concluding her post, she wrote, "Please help me, I don't know what I should do and I can't take much more of this."[15]
Alcorn's computer was recovered near the site of her suicide. It contained conversations showing that she had planned to jump off the bridge that crosses Interstate 71 days before the incident, but then contacted a crisis hotline and, as told to a friend, "basically cried my eyes out for a couple of hours talking to a lady there".[16]
Prior to her death on December 28, 2014, Alcorn scheduled for her suicide note to be automatically posted on her Tumblr account at 5:30 pm.[10] In the note, she stated her intention to end her life, commenting:
I have decided I've had enough. I'm never going to transition successfully, even when I move out. I'm never going to be happy with the way I look or sound. I'm never going to have enough friends to satisfy me. I'm never going to have enough love to satisfy me. I'm never going to find a man who loves me. I'm never going to be happy. Either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself. There's no winning. There's no way out. I'm sad enough already, I don't need my life to get any worse. People say "it gets better" but that isn't true in my case. It gets worse. Each day I get worse. That's the gist of it, that's why I feel like killing myself. Sorry if that's not a good enough reason for you, it's good enough for me.[6]
She expressed her wish that all of her possessions and money be donated to a transgender advocacy charity,[6] and called for issues surrounding gender identity to be taught in schools.[6][9] The note ended with the statement: "My death needs to mean something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say 'that's fucked up' and fix it. Fix society. Please."[6][9][17] A second post appeared shortly after; titled "Sorry", it featured an apology to her close friends and siblings for the trauma that her suicide would put them through, but also contained a message to her parents: "Fuck you. You can't just control other people like that. That's messed up."[6][18][19][20] An additional, handwritten suicide note reading "I've had enough" was found on her bed, but then thrown away by Alcorn's mother after police made a copy.[16]
In the early morning of December 28, police informed news sources that she had been walking southbound on Interstate 71 near Union Township when she was struck by a semi-trailer just before 2:30 am near the South Lebanon exit.[21] She died at the scene. It is believed that Alcorn walked three to four miles from her parents' Kings Mill house, before being struck.[5] The highway was closed for more than an hour after the incident.[10] An investigation was launched by the Ohio State Highway Patrol,[21] while Alcorn's body was transported to the Montgomery County coroner, where an autopsy was scheduled.[10] The truck driver was uninjured in the incident.[22]
Within 48 hours of the posting of her suicide note, it had attracted 82,272 views,[10] and by the morning of December 31, it had been reposted on Tumblr 200,000 times.[9] Writing for the Boston Globe, the reporter Maura Johnston described it as a "passionate post".[9] The suicide note was later deleted after Alcorn's parents asked for it to be removed,[23] and the blog was made inaccessible to the public.[24] According to the family minister, the Alcorn family decided to hold the funeral privately after receiving threats.[25] Alcorn's body was reportedly cremated.[25] The Ohio State Patrol completed their investigation into Alcorn's death on April 30, 2015, officially ruling it a suicide.[16]
Alcorn's parents
On December 28 at 2:56 p.m., Alcorn's mother, Carla Wood Alcorn, posted a public message on the social media website Facebook, stating: "My sweet 16-year-old son, Joshua Ryan Alcorn, went home to Heaven this morning. He was out for an early morning walk and was hit by a truck. Thank you for the messages and kindness and concern you have sent our way. Please continue to keep us in your prayers."[10][11][22] Carla Alcorn's post was subsequently deleted, and her Facebook account was made private.[22] The Alcorn family publicly requested that they be given privacy to grieve in a statement issued by the Kings Local School District.[10] In that statement, staff from Alcorn's former school, Kings High School, declared that "Joshua Alcorn was a sweet, talented, tender-hearted 17-year-old", adding that counselors would be made available to students affected by the incident.[10] A moment of silence was held in Alcorn's memory before a Kings High basketball game on December 30.[11]
LGBT rights advocate Dan Savage called for Leelah's parents to face legal prosecution in the wake of their daughter's death.
Some of Alcorn's sympathizers publicly criticized the teen's mother, Carla Alcorn, for misgendering her daughter in the Facebook post announcing the teenager's death.[26] Some individuals—termed "the Internet's self-appointed vigilantes" in The Washington Post—subsequently doxed and harassed Carla via her Facebook account "in revenge" for Leelah's death.[27] On Twitter, American gay rights activist Dan Savage argued that Alcorn's parents should be prosecuted for their role in bringing about their daughter's death, commenting that through their actions they "threw her in front of that truck". He cited the successful prosecution of Dharun Ravi following the suicide of Tyler Clementi as a legal precedent for such an action.[28][29][30] He added that legal action should also be brought against the conversion therapists who had counseled Leelah, and suggested that the Alcorns should lose custody of their other children.[1][28]
Carla Alcorn responded to such criticism in an interview with CNN, stating "we loved him unconditionally. We loved him no matter what. I loved my son. People need to know that I loved him. He was a good kid, a good boy."[17][31][32] Although acknowledging that Leelah had requested transition surgery, Carla stated that she had never heard her child use the name "Leelah", before reiterating her refusal to accept her child's transgender status, adding "We don't support that, religiously."[17][31][32] She expressed concern that users of social media thought her to be a "horrible person", but defended her actions in dealing with her child, stating for example that she had banned internet access to prevent access to "inappropriate" things.[31] In an email to Cincinnati-based channel WCPO-TV, Leelah's father Doug Alcorn wrote, "We love our son, Joshua, very much and are devastated by his death. We have no desire to enter into a political storm or debate with people who did not know him. We wish to grieve in private. We harbor no ill will towards anyone. ... I simply do not wish our words to be used against us."[4]
Writing for Salon, Mary Elizabeth Williams commented that "it would be cruel and inaccurate to suggest that Carla Alcorn did not love her child", but added that Carla's statement that she "loved him unconditionally" revealed "a tragic lack of understanding of the word 'unconditionally', even in death".[33] People magazine quoted Johanna Olson, Medical Director for the Center of Trans Youth Health and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, as stating that "Did Leelah's parents love her? Yes, I'm sure they did. Did they support her? No, they didn't. And that's a tragedy."[30] Mara Keisling, the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, was quoted as stating that the blaming of Alcorn's parents was unhelpful, adding, "Despite the great cultural and policy advances transgender people have made, there is still a lot of disrespect, discrimination and violence aimed at us. And being a child or a teenager of any kind today is very difficult."[7]
Tributes, vigils, and activism
A memorial placed against a wall following the London vigil, January 2015
The day after Alcorn's suicide note was published online, Chris Seelbach, the first openly gay councilman on Cincinnati City Council, shared it as part of a Facebook message in which he stated that her death showed how hard it was to be transgender in the U.S. His post was shared over 4,700 times and increased public awareness of the incident.[9][10][11] By December 30, Alcorn's death had attracted worldwide attention.[10] News outlets across the world had picked up the story, and the hashtag #LeelahAlcorn had topped Twitter.[10] According to British newspaper The Independent, the incident "triggered widespread anguish and raised a debate about the rights of transgender people".[17] The U.S.-based Boston Globe stated that it "served as a flashpoint for transgender progress in 2014",[9] while The New Republic referred to it as having "sparked a national conversation about the plight of transgender kids and the scanty rights and respect our society affords them."[34]
On January 1, 2015, the Cincinnati-based LGBT rights group Support Marriage Equality Ohio hosted a vigil for Alcorn outside Kings High School.[4][35] A candlelight vigil in Goodale Park, Columbus, was held on January 2 by a group called Stand Up 4 Leelah.[35] A further vigil was organized by both The Diverse City Youth Chorus in partnership with the Cincinnati chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center for January 10.[35] The vigil location at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center was moved to the Woodward Theater, to make way for a larger setting.[36][37] The event was attended by over 500 people.[38]
A January 3 vigil was scheduled for Trafalgar Square in London; an organizer was quoted as saying that "[Alcorn's] death was a political death. When a member of our community is brutalised at the hands of oppression we must all fight back".[39] Those who spoke at the event included politician Sarah Brown and novelist and poet Roz Kaveney.[40] Marches were carried out in honor of Alcorn in both Northwest, Washington, D.C., and Queen Street, Auckland, on January 10.[41][42][43] The same day, a candlelight vigil was held in New York City's Columbus Circle.[44] A memorial protest against conversion therapy and in memory of Alcorn took place in Lynchburg, Virginia, on January 24, 2015.[45]
Among the transgender celebrities who publicly responded to the incident were Janet Mock, Andreja Pejić, and Laverne Cox,[46][47] while the musician Ray Toro released a song, "For the Lost and Brave", in dedication to Alcorn.[48][49] Jill Soloway, the writer of the television show Transparent, dedicated their Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series to Alcorn.[50] During Diane Sawyer's interview with Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce), which confirmed Jenner's transgender identity, Alcorn was mentioned by name and the message "Fix society. Please" was broadcast.[51] In June 2015, the singer Miley Cyrus founded the Happy Hippie Foundation, an organization to raise awareness of homelessness and LGBT issues among young people, partly in response to Alcorn's death.[52] To promote the organization, she released a new series of Backyard Sessions videos, the second of which, Dido's "No Freedom" was dedicated to Alcorn.[53] After reading about Alcorn's death, British musician Declan McKenna was inspired to write a song, "Paracetamol", which was included on his debut album What Do You Think About the Car? and discusses the media's representation of LGBT communities.[54]
Celebrities such as Jill Soloway (left) and Laverne Cox (right) publicly responded to Alcorn's death.
Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Ohio newspaper The Cincinnati Enquirer, stated that the incident "raises important issues we hope will prompt conversations in families throughout our region".[10] Washburn had also received letters that derided the newspaper's use of Alcorn's chosen name in covering her death.[55] When contacted by The Cincinnati Enquirer, Shane Morgan, the founder and chair of transgender advocate group TransOhio, stated that while 2014 witnessed gains for the trans rights movement, Alcorn's death illustrated how "trans people are still being victimized and still being disrespected", highlighting the high rate of transgender people who had been murdered that year.[10] Since the incident, TransOhio received letters from parents of transgender children describing how Alcorn's death had affected them.[31] Morgan stated that while he understood the anger directed toward Alcorn's parents, "there's no excuse for threats to the family."[31]
Allison Woolbert, executive director of the Transgender Human Rights Institute, informed The Independent that Alcorn's case was "not unique"; the newspaper highlighted research from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that LGBT youth are about twice as likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual, cisgender teenagers.[1] Newsweek similarly placed Alcorn's suicide within its wider context of transphobic discrimination, highlighting that the Youth Suicide Prevention Program reports that over 50 percent of transgender youths attempt suicide before the age of 20, and that the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs recently published a report indicating that 72 percent of LGBT homicide victims in 2013 were transgender women.[47] Kevin Jennings of the Arcus Foundation also situated Alcorn's death within wider problems facing young LGBT people. In his view, she became "an international symbol of the ongoing challenges faced by LGBT youth", adding that her death "reminds us of a basic lesson still being taught to young people across America: When it comes to gender identity, it's best to be cisgender; and when it comes to sexual orientation, it's best to be straight."[56]
Under the Twitter hashtag #RealLiveTransAdult, many transgender people posted encouraging tweets for their younger counterparts,[57] while other hashtags, such as #ProtectTransKids, and the term "Rest in Power", also circulated on Twitter.[58][59][60] A change.org petition was set up calling for Leelah's chosen name to be included on her gravestone,[26] which gained over 80,000 signatures.[37] On January 6, Adam Hoover of Marriage Equality Ohio remarked that, since the request of having Alcorn's chosen name on her gravestone seemed "like a slim possibility", they would be raising money for a permanent memorial arranged as a bench, tree and commemorative plaque.[37]
Under Ohio's Adopt-a-Highway program, a group adopted the interchange of Interstate 71 South and Ohio State Route 48—which was where Alcorn died—and dedicated it to her memory. As a result, the Ohio Department of Transportation erected signs stating "In Memory of Leelah Alcorn" along the road.[61] Members of the group affixed a wreath to one of these signs; group member Lisa Oravec informed press that "We don't want Leelah to be forgotten... We want people in Cincinnati, or anybody driving down 71 to see the wreath. See the highway. If they don't know who Leelah is they'll google it, educate it, and learn from what happened."[62] As of December 2018, the "Leelah Alcorn Highway Memorial" group continued to meet four times a year to clean that stretch of road.[62] The highway memorial formed the basis of a short documentary, Leelah's Highway, which was screened at the 2018 Cindependent Film Festival in Cincinnati's Woodward Theater.[63] Its creator, Elizabeth Littlejohn of Toronto, stated that "as a human rights activist who believes [in] the right for gender self-determination, I believe this story needed to be told."[64]
Leelah's Law
In the wake of Alcorn's death, President Obama pledged to support a ban on conversion therapy for minors.
A Facebook group called "Justice for Leelah Alcorn" was established,[65] while a petition calling for "Leelah's Law", a ban on conversion therapy in the United States, was created by the Transgender Human Rights Institute to raise awareness of the psychologically harmful effects of such practices; by January 24 it had 330,009 signatures,[66][67][68] and was named the fastest growing change.org petition of 2014.[69] A second appeal demanding the enactment of "Leelah's Law" was posted to the We the People section of WhiteHouse.gov on January 3, 2015, which garnered more than 100,000 signatures as of January 30.[70] In response to the petition, in April 2015 President Barack Obama called for the banning of conversion therapy for minors.[71][72][73]
In December 2015, Cincinnati became the second U.S. city after Washington, D.C., to ban the practice of conversion therapy outright; council member Chris Seelbach cited Alcorn's suicide as an influence in the decision and stated that "she challenged us to make her death matter, and we're doing just that".[74] By October 2018, four cities across Ohio had banned conversion therapy, leading journalist Nico Lang to comment that "the Buckeye State has become an unlikely leader in banning conversion therapy at the local level."[75]
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Q: Resort specific column in pandas dataframe I have a dataframe, df, of a few thousand rows and five columns: course, student_ID, assignment, teacher_comment, teacher_comment_type. Each row corresponds to unique a unique teacher_comment; there are only some 30 different courses and 100 different assignments total.
I easily used df.groupby(['assignment', 'teacher_comment_type']).count() to generate a new dataframe whereby I can see each teacher_comment_type that a given assignment ever received for any student, across the board — and also how many times that comment type was given for a certain assignment. I now want to resort the count column locally for each assignment, but I'm struggling to do so.
In other words, right now, I have:
Essay 1   | formatting error | 4
          | punctuation      | 5
          | style feedback   | 2
          | ultimate score   | 1
Project B | formatting error | 3
          | punctuation      | 5
          | style feedback   | 7
          | ultimate score   | 1

And so on. Automatically, the second column is locally alphabetized (by locally, I mean for each assignment name in the left column). But I want to reorder locally by that third column — in order from greatest to least number. Does that make sense? I've fiddled around with .sort_values to no avail (it will alter the entire structure of the dataframe, failing to maintain that "local" integrity — the organization by assignment name).
Thanks.

A: Use value_counts instead
df.groupby('assignment').teacher_comment_type.value_counts()

assignment  teacher_comment_type
Essay 1     punctuation             5
            formatting error        4
            style feedback          2
            ultimate score          1
Project B   style feedback          7
            punctuation             5
            formatting error        3
            ultimate score          1
Name: teacher_comment_type, dtype: int64

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"Being able to create a dialogue is a very important step for me"
Mona Shaikh is a naughty Muslim comedian who does not shy away from breaking taboos. Shaikh deploys comedy as a weapon to criticise religious leaders and politicians who use Islam and the Koran as an excuse to impose restrictions on women. Roma Rajpal Weiß spoke to her on growing up a Muslim in the United States in the aftermath of 9/11 and her unusual choice of profession as a Pakistani woman
Shaikh's family moved from Karachi, Pakistan, to the United States when she was 15. She started her career in New York as a stage actor and went on to become the first Pakistani stand-up comedian to headline at the largest comedy club in the United States, The Hollywood Improv.
What was it like growing up as a Muslim post 9/11 in New York?
Mona Shaikh: 9/11 changed the US forever, along with its citizens. The incident made me realise that the Americans had been shut off from the rest of the world for a long time. The sad event opened the floodgates to negative and positive things. I was a teenager back then and I found myself apologising and defending myself for something I had nothing to do with. New York ceased to feel like home for a while because I felt I was being looked at differently, even by friends. However, it opened up a dialogue.
How did you end up in such an unusual profession, especially as a Pakistani woman?
Shaikh: I was a writer and I fell into comedy. I never thought that I would be a comedy artist, but a friend insisted that I was good at it and should give it a shot. I went to the Comix club in New York and did my first five minutes open mic and killed it and never stopped from that point on. I also run a comedic website called Muslimsdoitbetter.com. The idea behind it is an attempt to separate the crazy Muslims from the average Muslims like myself.
How do you exploit this blog for comedy?
Shaikh: The blog deals with the latest developments in the Muslim world and we talk about the hypocrisy that goes on there. Most people don't want to talk about these issues because it is such a taboo. But somebody has to take a stand on all the dumb stuff propagated by religious leaders. I for one believe that muftis and clerics somehow have a lot of time on their hands and are always issuing these brain-dead fatwas such as "women should not touch bananas because they resemble a phallic symbol". When you in the West hear something like that, despite your background, you scratch your head and think that is just absurd, ignorant nonsense. This can't be faith, that's just not possible. So, for me as a comedian, this is fantastic fodder.
Are people offended by your work?
Shaikh: Recently a politician in Saudi Arabia came out and said that women shouldn't drive because sitting in a car affects their ovaries and will prevent women from having children, because, obviously, the ultimate goal in a woman's life is just to have babies. Seriously? I ask myself!
"The empowerment of women in the Muslim world is a subject very close to my heart, having grown up in an environment where I saw women being abused and not having rights or a voice. I want to be able talk about how women have it hard. [...] There are a lot of people who are scared, but they don't have a voice. And I feel that if my comedy can say that and change people's minds, or even help them open up a little bit more, I feel like I have done my job as an artist," says Mona Shaikh, pictured here performing at the Westside Comedy Theater
So, when I go out and talk about these things, I hit a nerve with some people, and I get hate mail and death threats. Making somebody laugh is a much more difficult job than making somebody cry. I am accused of insulting Islam, when the truth is that these people haven't bothered to read what I wrote. I only insult a handful of Muslims who are making the rest of us look like idiots. They are pointing a finger at me claiming to be better Muslims, and I simply don't know who gave them the authority to play God.
Muslim societies in general really haven't been given the authority, even though, in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, you were allowed to talk about something even though you disagreed with it. Now, the society no longer questions the Koran and the authority of mullahs, muftis or imams who make these dumb comments. It is wrong and I am absolutely entitled to come out and question it, because it defies logic and doesn't make any sense. So, people get very edgy and nervous when you come out and start questioning and challenging what is the norm for them or the tradition that no longer coincides with the time we live in.
The one thing that all humans don't like is change, maybe they don't understand that the change is better, but the bottom line is that change is uncomfortable, and nobody wants to be uncomfortable. And when somebody like me comes out and talks about things that really need to be talked about, people get very nervous about it.
Was it always your intention to bring about a dialogue through your work?
Shaikh: I didn't start off thinking that I was going to change things. I just wanted to perform and entertain. But, I think as an artist when you find your voice, your work automatically reflects issues that are dear to you. The empowerment of women in the Muslim world is a subject very close to my heart, having grown up in an environment where I saw women being abused and not having rights or a voice. I want to be able talk about how women have it hard. Look at Malala and Nirbhaya, women who suffered because of their gender. And it continues unfortunately. Being able to create a dialogue is a very important step for me. There are a lot of people who are scared, but they don't have a voice. And I feel that if my comedy can say that and change people's minds, or even help them open up a little bit more, I feel like I have done my job as an artist.
How does your family react to your work?
Shaikh: I grew up as a tomboy, being the only girl in a religiously conservative family in Karachi. My grandmother once told me that I, as a girl, was not allowed to wear jeans. Fortunately, we also had western influences that helped take some of the edge off. Also, my father was quite liberal. He supported me wearing jeans back then.
My four brothers are now very big supporters of work. My mom is my biggest cheerleader, but at the same time she is a very interesting dichotomy in the sense that she is a hadji, she is quite religious, but she also has a very liberal perspective; she is very open. For example, one of her dearest friends is an Israeli Jew. But obviously, there is a conflict between our worlds, I come from this western background, I have a much different perspective than she does, and there is a generational gap, but she still roots for me.
Interview conducted by Roma Rajpal Weiss
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The trade paper Washington Technology yesterday reported that officials at CGI Federal confirmed a report by Federal News Radio of a new contract with a "potential value" of $500-million that will see CGI Federal provide cybersecurity to five federal agencies under the government-wide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program.
Garcea talked about what this contract might look like.
In a research update to clients today, Garcea maintained his "Buy" rating but raised his one-year price target on CGI from $90.00 to $100.00, implying a return of 15.6 per cent at the time of publication.
Garcea thinks CGI will generate EBITDA of $2.06-billion on revenue of $11.41-billion in fiscal 2018. He thinks those numbers will improve to EBITDA of $2.19-billion on a topline of $11.64-billion the following year.
Garcea says those looking for more evidence of upside in CGI should note its disciplined buy strategy.
"CGI has stayed true to its proven formula of buying the "right acquisition" at the "right price" at the "right time". There are still many opportunities in the fragmented IT Services industry as CGI has identified 5,000+ companies in its M&A funnel, with combined revenue of US$200B+. CGI recently acquired Affecto Oyj for US$123M (valued at an EV/Sales of 0.9x and EV/EBITDA of 14.9x), Paragon, Summa and Facilite Informatique.


My Kickstarter is really all about YOU.
I've been writing a long time. Finished my first novel just after high school. As proud as I was, publishers didn't know what to do with it. "We like it, we just don't know how to sell it." My stories often mix several genres -- they can be hard to label. So I was all, "I'm gonna self publish!" We'll call that a learning experience.
Twenty years later, I'm ready for another go. Got a fresh new concept and I'd like to think my writing has matured. I've tested several drafts, had it professionally edited. I'm feeling good about the quality and execution -- I just need people to read it!
I want you to take a chance on the story, read it, love it, back it, and talk to all your friends about it. So really, this Kickstarter--is all about you.
The money raised from your backing will wrap up publishing costs and fund vital PR and Marketing. But most importantly, it's your voice that I really need to cut through all the clutter out there.
Which is why by pre-ordering through Kickstarter, you can be credited IN the final book. Your name would be printed in a special thanks section--immortalized forever as someone who backed it from the very beginning.
So--I invite you to take that chance. Go to my website, and read the preview chapters. Or, email me directly, and I'll send you an e-pub file of the first one hundred pages.
Chances are, if you've made it this far--you'll have a blast with the rest of it.


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Saumya said he could give Sangho some money.
Julianto plays the guitar almost as well as Christian does.
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Leads didn't live up to everybody's expectations.
Betty spends hours in the bathroom.
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I waited all day for Randal.
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Gregor is playing with his yo-yo.
I need to know that Kanthan can be trusted.
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There was nothing Diane could've done to prevent the accident.
Elaine won't make it in time.
While in jail, Ritchey was called the "surgeon."
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Hotta has no one to play with today.
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Mah filled the sink with water.
Michelle and I work in the same office.
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Happiness Inspirational quotes can convey big ideas in few words. Inspiration quotes lets us wander the gardens of great minds. Following are inspirational quotes from many leaders about happiness.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln.
One must put all the happiness one can into each moment.
True happiness is to . . . enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
These Inspirational Quotes indicate that joy is what most people want.
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness. . . . for most people at all times the secret motive of all they do.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.
Remember this. That very little is needed to make a happy life.
Many American leaders wrote inspirational quotes.
America is the last great experiment for human happiness.
Many inspirational quotes suggest that our emotional state is one that we choose.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on the outward circumstances.
Come to me. . . and let us be as happy as we can.
Ecstasy is a full, deep involvement in life.
The little known act of being happy.
Some inspirational quotes believe that actions are the source of happiness.
Happiness does not lie in results, but in the effort.
We are a society that finds it difficult to discover the exuberant joy and spontaneity of childhood.
Man needs for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell.
Some inspirational quotes look at qualities in the person.
Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any conditions.
Happiness is really caring and being able to do something about the caring.
Some inspirational quotes look at character of the person.
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. . . the only two unchangeable true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
Few inspirational quotes asks this question.
Who is the happiest of man? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.
Occasionally inspirational quotes give a recipe.
Ibelieve four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Seek happiness in the present, and you'll find it in the future.
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.
Almost all inspirational quotes seem to believe that we gift the world with our happiness.
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