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If the ABC didn't exist, conservatives would have to invent it
Published December 19, 2020 | By Parnell Palme McGuinness
Originally published in The Sydney Morning Herald
If the ABC didn't exist, conservatives would have to invent it. It provides two vital functions to the right side of politics: it is the foe which unites the army, as well as a decoy which distracts progressives from the main game.
The ABC once again stands accused of bias. This is a familiar pantomime. A new incident sparks conservatives to condemn ABC bias and roll out a well-worn script insisting it is time to defund the national broadcaster. The ABC denies all charges and periodically appoints a fellow traveller to conduct a review. Naturally, the review finds the ABC to be largely impartial, to the satisfaction of the ABC management and no one else.
This is more or less how events have panned out again this time, with only slight variation: in a review of 2019 election coverage, journalist and political advisor Kerry Blackburn found there was an appreciable tilt to some episodes of panel shows The Drum and Insiders, and the ABC chair made the tactical error of displaying her reluctance to publicly release the internal review, putting the ABC on the back foot. Adding weight to claims of bias is the Australian Communications and Media Authority, which found that a Four Corners investigation into the Murray Darling Basin Plan "unduly favoured one perspective". Communications Minister Paul Fletcher looks likely to refer a more recent episode of Four Corners, alleging bullying and harassment of parliamentary staff by Liberal ministers, to ACMA. The Coalition, however, would be wise to consider how far it should go in pressing this advantage and what the consequences would be if its efforts to change the ABC succeed.
The ABC management will never publicly admit to systematic bias within the broadcaster, but actions speak louder than words. In the wake of the 2019 election, the ABC launched its Australia Talks project to understand Australians – by which they of course meant, to understand how the ABC and other media outlets could have missed the mood of the electorate that ultimately voted for Scott Morrison.
When they called me, I suggested that one of the reasons the ABC had fooled itself was its own Vote Compass tool. If you recall, in the lead up to the election, the ABC invited Australians to complete the Vote Compass survey, to find out how their views aligned with the candidates and tell the ABC about their voting priorities. Hundreds of thousands of ABC-viewing Australians plugged their preferences into the online tool over the course of the election campaign. Which meant that the ABC received a majestic sample of ABC viewer priorities and very little insight into the issues that moved the wider electorate.
For instance, on May 15, 2019, just days out from the election, the ABC reported that, of half a million voters who had completed the Vote Compass survey, a "majority of Coalition, Labor and Greens voters all want more government action on climate change". Triple J Hack reported that "climate change and the environment are among the top concerns for voters heading into the federal election". The more it was repeated, the more it became gospel that Bill Shorten's massive and uncosted package of climate mitigation policies was a likely winner.
We now know that to be untrue. In echoes of the 2016 US run-off between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it looks like a case of media reporting their preferred outcome rather than seeking to understand the public. (Following that election, The New York Times also turned inward, asking "how did the media – how did we – get this wrong?".)
Both in the US and Australia, this widespread media consensus led to the party of the left becoming complacent about its chances of winning, contributing to the success of the right. If you're a progressive Friend of the ABC, do you still need enemies?
Conservative politics, meanwhile, thrives off the perceived bias of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster. Disgust with the predictability of the presented topics and perspectives has driven many to eschew the ABC altogether. Many Australians simply switch over to commercial television or tune out of mainstream media, but the politically engaged subscribe to pay TV and right-leaning newspapers, where they are treated to recaps of ABC programming without ever having to bother tuning in. Outrage over "woke" preoccupations at the ABC rallies the conservative troops and energises new recruits.
Eventually this echo chamber could cause problems for the conservative side of politics, but only if progressives begin to better understand and appeal to the cautious centrism of the electorate, and its disdain for the high dudgeon of the cultural elite at both ends of the political spectrum.
Now, you can do with that information what you will. Were I providing professional advice to any of the participants, it would be to consider the unintended consequences of winning this war. For the time being though, conservatives can thank their lucky stars – or more accurately, prime minister Joseph Lyons of the United Australia Party from which the Australian Liberal Party grew – for the existence of "Their ABC". If he hadn't presided over its invention, they'd have to do so now.
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And we expect our smartphones to become even more powerful in the future. We want them to translate language in real time, transport us to new locations via virtual reality, and connect us to the "Internet of Things".
The computing required to make these features a reality doesn't actually happen in our phones. Rather it's enabled by a huge network of mobile phone towers, Wi-Fi networks and massive, factory-sized data centres known as "server farms".
For the past five decades, our increasing need for computing was largely satisfied by incremental improvements in conventional, silicon-based computing technology: ever-smaller, ever-faster, ever-more efficient chips. We refer to this constant shrinking of silicon components as "Moore's Law".
Moore's law is named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who observed that: "the number of transistors on a chip doubles every year while the costs are halved."
But as we hit limits of basic physics and economy, Moore's law is winding down. We could see the end of efficiency gains using current, silicon-based technology as soon as 2020.
Achieving this sustainably means finding a new technology that uses less energy in computation. This is referred to as a "beyond CMOS" solution, in that it requires a radical shift from the silicon-based CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) technology that has been the backbone of computing for the last five decades.
But information processing doesn't come for free. Physics tells us that every time we perform an operation – for example, adding two numbers together – we must pay an energy cost.
And the cost of doing calculations isn't the only energy cost of running a computer. In fact, anyone who has ever used a laptop balanced on their legs will attest that most of the energy gets converted to heat. This heat comes from the resistance that electricity meets when it flows through a material.
This idea comes from a branch of mathematics called "topology". Topology tells us how to compare shapes: what makes them the same and what makes them different.
It turns out that the strange rules that govern how electricity flows in thin layers can be understood in terms of topology. This insight was the focus of the 2016 Nobel Prize, and it's driving an enormous amount of current research in physics and engineering.


When buying a network cable, we generally consider two aspects - One is the quality of the cable, and the other is the price of it. Since the price is conspicuous to us, then how to distinguish the quality of network cables is particularly important. Quality-assured Ethernet cables can avoid frequent replacement which may be caused by inferior ones. Then, how can we buy the best Ethernet cable with high quality?
Actually, to buy the best Ethernet cable, many factors can be taken into consideration. Here, we have summarized five main features that a high-quality Ethernet cable should have. Just read through the whole post and then choose the cable you want.
What Are the Features of the Best Ethernet Cable?
To buy the best Ethernet cable, five main features listed below are worth considering.
The Fluke test (issued by Fluke Networks) is now considered as the most authoritative criteria for telling the quality of an Ethernet cable. It can test the quality of an Ethernet cable according to different cable standards, such as ANSI/TIA, ISO/IEC 11801, etc. This test includes patch cord testing and channel testing for Ethernet patch cables, and permanent link testing for bulk network cables. The difference between patch cord testing and channel testing is that the former is much stricter, therefore cables passing the patch cord testing have higher performance.
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Though Fluke test is known to many vendors, not all of them can guarantee their network cables have 100% passed the fluke test. To avoid buying inferior cables, customers must buy Ethernet cables from vendors who can provide the Fluke test report proving the Ethernet cable quality. Here is an example of a Fluke patch cord testing report of a cable Cat6 provided by FS.
Normally, a cable with low crosstalk (electromagnetic interference) always has a good performance. But how to tell an Ethernet cable has low crosstalk?
For UTP (unshielded twisted pair) cables, twist rate (per twist distance, the pitch of the twisted pair) determines crosstalk greatly. Normally, the tighter the twisted pair is, the lower the crosstalk is. It should be noted that each of the four twisted pairs in a network cable should have different twist rates to minimize crosstalk between the pairs.
For shielded cables, the shielding influences the crosstalk a lot. The more shielding layer a cable has, the less crosstalk it will suffer. There are two common types of shielded cable offered on the market. They are FTP cable (foil twisted pair cable) and SFTP cable (shielded and foiled twisted pair cable). FTP cable has an additional layer of protection with shielding wrapped around the individual twisted wires, reducing the crosstalk from the neighboring copper cables. While, SFTP cable has both a foil shielding around the individual twisted wires and an overall braid screen covering of the whole cable.
Cable material, especially the copper conductor, is the one that has the greatest impact on the price of an Ethernet cable. Network cables manufactured by different vendors may differ in conductor types. While, the priority ones are copper clad aluminum wires and copper wires (including pure copper wire, oxygen-free copper wire and bare copper wire). Then, what's the difference between them? Which one should we choose? Actually, the biggest difference between them is the purity of copper, which determines the Ethernet cable quality. The purer the copper is, the less signal loss you will suffer. The purity of copper in descending order is oxygen-free copper wire > pure copper wire > bare copper wire > copper clad aluminum wire. Of course, this is the price order as well since the higher purity always has a higher price. Therefore, for high performance (less signal loss), you'd better choose oxygen-free copper wire with copper purity up to 99.95%. However, if you just want cost-saving wires, you can choose copper clad aluminum wires.
The material of the connectors or contacts in a cable plug is vital for constant signal maintaining. As is known to us all, silver has the best conductivity, followed by gold and copper, again aluminum, and then nickel and iron. However, silver and aluminum are extremely oxidizable. Gold is hardly oxidized in the natural environment. Given such situation, gold is the ideal material for achieving a strong and lasting internet connection so that you will not lose your signal and you do not have to spend more money replacing cables constantly.
What's more, the thickness of gold plating (measured in microns) is also very important. Normally, low-micron plating will actually wear out in a short amount of time. Thicker plating will last much longer. The thicker, the better. The thickest gold-plating available is 50 microns, which is the optimal thickness for maintaining a fast and stable internet connection.
Normally, Ethernet cable jacket can be made up of two kinds of materials, non-flame retardant and flame retardant jacket. Flame retardant cables are designed to resist the spread of fire into a new area, while non-flame retardant cables can't. Therefore, for safety concern, you'd better buy cables which are flame retardant. In addition, the flame retardant types and class are worthy of attention. There are many flame retardant cable types, such as CM, CMR, CMP, LSZH, etc. Normally, Ethernet cables with PVC CM and LSZH jacket are commonly used in patch cabling environment. If you need to deploy cables in the air return pressure boosting system, you should use CMP cable (Plenum Cable) in ventilation ducts or air handling equipment. For more detailed information, you can check the Ethernet Cable Jacket Ratings.
From all the above, you may find that there are many important features often neglected by users when choosing the best Ethernet cable. However, not all the vendors can meet all the good features mentioned above. For overall consideration, you can compare the price from different vendors and buy network cables with all the features mentioned in the text.


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Paxir istiora can be found in oceans all over the world, including the icy waters of the north, though they seem to prefer more temperate zones. Istiora are large, heavy creatures that can not only outgrow many boats, but also outswim them. For this reason - and because the oceans are so large - few magi have been able to study them extensively, and those that do encounter them on the open sea are often driven away by their ability to create a shockwave. Eggs are also well-hidden, but a handful of istiora have been raised by researchers, at least until they outgrow their pools and have to be released. Paxir istiora have been known to break apart ice floes with their shockwave ability, when they travel north; in warmer waters, they will occasionally break small fishing boats in order to steal the day's catch.
This shimmering viridian egg shocks anyone who touches it.
Istiora hatchlings are curious but not particularly bright, though some researchers think this might just be because they're near-sighted. Either way, a magi raising an istiora should always keep in mind both their long sharp bill and, once they're older, their ability to create a shockwave with a single poke or slash. Paxir istiora hatchlings seem to enjoy cool and windy days, and will often play in the waves created by the wind, leaping in and out of the water. However, they also seem to prefer to play alone and while not aggressively territorial, they definitely display unhappiness when confined in a small space with too many other creatures, even other istiora. As they grow, this will usually turn into hunting the other creatures, with an especial fondness for kraken hatchlings, ice octopuses, and smaller ice krakens.
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I'll also pack a bunch of less exciting things like workout clothes, swimwear, and a few big, vintage caftans (and I never go anywhere without at least one striped shirt) but these are some of the highlights. What would you add to my packing list?


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sharing is such a laudable and noble act. if one has the means to share one's fortune, surely more relief and joy will be experienced in the world.
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Russia: The Story of War
By Gregory Carleton
Read by James Cameron Stewart
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No nation is a stranger to war, but for Russians war is a central part of who they are. Their "motherland" has been the battlefield where some of the largest armies have clashed, the most savage battles have been fought, the highest death tolls paid. Having prevailed over Mongol hordes and vanquished Napoleon and Hitler, many Russians believe no other nation has sacrificed so much for the world. In Russia: The Story of War Gregory Carleton explores how this belief has produced a myth of exceptionalism that pervades Russian culture and politics and has helped forge a national identity rooted in war.
While outsiders view Russia as an aggressor, Russians themselves see a country surrounded by enemies. Time and again, history has called upon Russia to play the savior—of Europe, of Christianity, of civilization itself—and its victories have come at immense cost. In this telling, even defeats lose their sting. Isolation becomes a virtuous destiny and the whole of its bloody history a point of pride.
War is the unifying thread of Russia's national epic, one that transcends its wrenching ideological transformations. As Putin's Russia asserts itself in ever bolder ways, knowing how the story of its war-torn past shapes the present is essential to understanding its self-image and worldview.
Vividly written and clearly argued, Russia: The Story of War is scholarship at its best. —Stephen M. Norris, author of Blockbuster History in the New Russia
Author Bio: Gregory Carleton
Gregory Carleton is professor of Russian studies and chair of the Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies at Tufts University.
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Q: printing numpy timedelta64 with format() I would like to print a numpy.timedelta64() value in a formatted way. The direct method works well:
>>> import numpy as np
>>> print np.timedelta64(10,'m')
10 minutes

Which I guess comes from the __str__() method
>>> np.timedelta64(10,'m').__str__()
'10 minutes'

But when I try to print it with the format() function I get the following error:
>>> print "my delta is : {delta}".format(delta=np.timedelta64(10,'m'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: don't know how to convert scalar number to long

I would like to understand the underlying mechanism of the "string".format() function, and why it doesn't work in this particular case.

A: According to the Format String Syntax documentation:

The conversion field causes a type coercion before formatting.
  Normally, the job of formatting a value is done by the __format__()
  method of the value itself. However, in some cases it is desirable to
  force a type to be formatted as a string, overriding its own
  definition of formatting. By converting the value to a string before
  calling __format__(), the normal formatting logic is bypassed.

>>> np.timedelta64(10,'m').__format__('')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: don't know how to convert scalar number to long

By appending !s conversion flag, you can force it to use str:
>>> "my delta is : {delta!s}".format(delta=np.timedelta64(10,'m'))
'my delta is : 10 minutes'

A: falsetru mentions one aspect of the problem. The other is why this errors at all.
Looking at the code for __format__, we see that it is a generic implementation.
The important part is:
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This triggers, and tries to run:
int(numpy.timedelta64(10, "m"))

but Numpy (rightly) says that you can't convert a number with units to a raw number.
This looks like a bug.

A: %s should be fine. It calls str() on the object.


that I had a terrific workout with high intensity and even higher enthusiasm. But that is not the case. All I CAN say about today's workout is that 1) I did 50 minutes of cardio. I'm going to call it endurance training because it sounds better than saying that I didn't get my heart rate up over 65%. 2) I stretched. It felt great and awful at the same time. Probably something I should actively do every day. 3) I may change Wednesday's yoga hour to spinning with abs & stretching afterward. Seems more productive and calorie burning.
4) I really, really wanted to quit today - and I haven't even really started - but I didn't ... so I guess that's something.


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Alabama Baseball Loses To Jacksonville St.
A long season continues.
By Roger_RBR Apr 26, 2017, 12:00pm CDT
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Jacksonville State swept the season series from Alabama by winning 11-8 on Tuesday night in Tuscaloosa, following a 2-1, 10 inning victory on February 28th, in a game that was also in Tuscaloosa. The Gamecocks improved to 20-18 and the Tide fell to 15-26 on the year.
Freshman Deacon Medders got the start for 'Bama, and struggled right out of the shoot. A lead off double was followed by a one out two run home run off the bat of A.J. Reynolds. Medders also walked two batters in the inning, but trailed 2-0 before the Tide ever got to the plate. Alabama answered with two runs of their own in the bottom of the first. Chandler Avant and Kyle Kaufman singled to start the rally. Cobie Vance, the teams leading hitter at .327, was called on to sacrifice bunt, which he did successfully. Cody Henry singled in one run, and Kaufman scored on the front end of a double steal to tie the game. The first inning took 47 minutes to play, and the game lasted 3 hours, 42 minutes, about average for Tide games this season.
Medders stranded the bases loaded in the second, and departed in favor of Zac Rogers after throwing 52 pitches in two innings. Rogers allowed a run in the third on three singles and a walk, and one in the fourth on a double and two singles. With 'Bama down 4-2 in the bottom of the fourth, Henry singled again, and was followed by a Chandler Taylor bomb into the right field plaza. The long ball was Taylor's 11th of the year.
Garrett Suchey follow Rogers to the mound in the fifth and the 'Cocks scored three runs with the benefit of only one hit. After two, one out walks, Suchey threw a bunt into center field to score one run. JSU scored two more in the inning to take a 7-4 lead. In the bottom of the fifth Walker McCleney singled and Kyle Kaufman was hit by a pitch with one out. Vance hit into a force play for out two, before Henry hit his eighth home run of the year over the left field wall to tie the game at seven apiece. The Tide took the lead 8-7 in the bottom of the sixth when Alex Webb, who had singled, scored on a bases loaded walk to Kyle Kaufman.
The wheels fell off for the Tide in the top of the seventh, and the Gamecocks scored four runs to put the game away. Suchey allowed a leadoff single, but Webb threw the runner out trying to steal for out one. A strikeout followed for out two, before a walk kept the inning alive. With Andrew Naismith at the plate, Suchey struck him out with a slider in the dire. However, the ball got past Webb and Naismith reached first base on what would have been out three. Suchey was pulled in favor of Davis Vainer. Vainer faced two batters, both of which singled runs in for a 9-8 lead. Vainer was replaced by Mike Oczypok who game up two singles, allowing two more to score, before shutting the door. The Tide entered the bottom of the seventh down 11-8.
The Tide had a chance in the eighth when Connor Short lead off with a single. With two out Kaufman lined a shot in the gap, but was thrown out at second base trying to stretch to a double, ending the inning. 'Bama got a single from Vance and a walk to Taylor in the ninth, but the side struck out, leaving the Tide on the short end of an 11-8 score.
JSU had 16 hits and drew seven walks, leaving 14 runners on base. The Tide had 13 hits with four walks, struck out eight times and left seven on base. Henry had three hits, including his home run, and drove in four runs. Avant and Kaufman had two hits apiece and Taylor drove in two with his team leading 11th home run. Suchey's record fell to 2-6 with the loss. The Gamecocks had seven players with two hits each.
Next up for the Tide is a Thursday, Friday, Saturday series hosting LSU. Thursday's game is at 6:30 p.m. CT and will be shown on ESPN2. Game two is Friday at 6 p.m and Saturday's first pitch is at 2 p.m. Both can be seen on SEC Network Plus/Watch ESPN App.
Mercifully there are only 11 games left on the Tides schedule: three-game series with LSU, Auburn, Florida and Vanderbilt in conference, plus a trip to Samford and a home game with Grambling. The season has not gone as expected, and has not been pretty. The players do play hard, which is about the only positive that can be drawn. Tomorrow I will delve in to dynamics of the season.
Roll Tide, Bama Baseball Fever, Catch it
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The Stampeders – Sweet City Woman
January 17, 2021 January 11, 2021 by Eric_SFM_admin
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Song: Sweet City Woman (1971)
Artist: Stampeders
Writer: Rich Dodson
Sweet City Woman was released in 1971 by a Canadian Band out of Calgary, Alberta, the Stampeders. They were together for eight years before they had a huge number one rock hit in Canada on their debut album called Against the Grain. The song also reached number one on the Canadian country and adult contemporary charts. It caused such a stir that eight U.S. record labels got into a bidding war before the band was signed to Bell Records, who renamed the album Sweet City Woman and the release of the single in the U.S., where it reached number eight on the Billboard charts on October 23, 1971.
The song won a Juno award for Best Single in 1972. Guitarist Rich Dodson, who wrote the song, won Songwriter of the Year, and the band's producer, Mel Shaw, won Record Producer of the Year. The song was unusual for featuring the banjo as the lead instrument.
Although the band might be considered a one-hit-wonder in the U.S., they had many other Canadian hits, such as Carry Me (1971), Wild Eyes (1972), Oh My Lady (1973), Running Wild (1973), New Orleans (1975), Playing in the Band (1975), and a remake of Hit the Road Jack with featured the voice or radio DJ Wolfman Jack. The band, was, in fact, one of the first big successful bands in Canadian rock and the biggest touring band of their era. Many of their songs were squarely in the country genre.
Songwriter/guitarist Rich Dodson, in fact, was such a hitmaker that producer Lindsay Thomas Morgan turned to him for engineer and co-producer of Alanis Morissette's first demo track recordings, "Find the Right Man" and "Fate Stay With Me," which were recorded in Dodson's basement studio when Morissette was only twelve years old.
Sweet City Woman Chorus
Sweet, sweet city woman
I can see your face, I can hear your voice
I can almost touch you
Oh my banjo and me
We got a feel for singing, yeah, yeah
Listen to Sweet City Woman by the Stampeders
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va ser un empresari i escolta català. Va formar part del moviment escolta fins a l'inici de la guerra civil espanyola, cosa que li va despertar l'interès pel treball en grup i el treball solidari. Al cap dels anys es va reintegrar al moviment escolta, primer en el grup de pares i finalment com a cap de l'Agrupament Escolta Antoni Gaudí,del barri de la Sagrada Família.

Va regentar un negoci familiar de tercera generació fins a jubilar-se, i es va inscriure als cursos de català que promovia Òmnium Cultural homologats per la Universitat de Barcelona, que li atorgà el títol de mestre de català el 1979. Un cop jubilat va estudiar anglès i el 1997 va ser un dels impulsors de l'Espai de Gent Gran del Centre Cívic Sagrada Família, on va ser responsable de la Comissió de Cultura durant dos anys. Era responsable, dins d'aquesta mateixa entitat, de la Comissió de Relació i Participació, que s'encarrega d'establir vincles de contacte amb altres associacions del barri.

També era membre de la Comissió de Gent Gran del districte de l'Eixample, que el va elegir com a representat per al Consell Assessor de la Gent Gran de Barcelona. Com a membre d'aquest Consell formà part de la Comissió Cívica de Suport al Pla de Civisme, i va ser representant de la gent gran al Consell de Ciutat. Dins d'aquest òrgan consultiu, participà en la Comissió Permanent i en les comissions de treball d'Habitatge, Immigració, i Espai Públic i Convivència. A més de formar part d'aquests òrgans consultius municipals, era vicepresident de l'ACFUC, entitat tutelar de persones legalment incapacitades. El 2005 va rebre la Medalla d'Honor de Barcelona.

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Coach said find a 5k to do a heart rate threshold test so the Sycamore Island 5k & 10k, put on by San Joaquin Running was perfect timing. Most of these races are capped at very low participant numbers and the easier trail runs sell out so register early for these just in case.
I usually help with these races so the race director, Nate, was going to register me race morning. The race sold out so I was the only one registering that morning. I asked Nate for a "fun" bib number think 42 or maybe a prime number would be pretty cool…this is what he pulled out.
In the past I've been a completer just finishing new distances. This year in transitioning to "competed" and I have a handful of personal records I'm trying to beat. The purpose of today's race was to find my running heart rate threshold. Essentially I should be dizzy or throwing up at the finish line. Fun!! The test instructions were to do 2 miles as an easy warm up and the last mile all out. My heart rate should continue to increase during this test to find my threshold. Any walking will mean my heart rate will drop and recover.
I typically run 1 mile, and walk .01 miles for water breaks. I wanted to run this 5k straight through but it didn't happen. The rule was to walk no more than 10 seconds so I stuck pretty religiously to this rule. I ended up walking at mile 1, 2, and 2.5, and 3.1 since it was longer than a 5k and hit a wall at mile 2.5 and had trouble finishing. I was hoping to have a kick for the last 1/4 mile but had nothing left to give. Fastforward to the finish line I was a bit light headed after finishing but nothing too serious. I was disappointed in my execution of this test both by the amount of walking and burning out too soon. Looking at my max heart rate I hit 202, which I doubt is my running threshold, but my head mt rate did continue to increase. My coach assures my I did well for the first attempt at a 5k threshold test but we arleays the hardest on ourselves. This was an interesting experience and I'm looking forward to executing the next one better.
Two for two podiums so far this year!! It's always nice to get up on the podium but in the end it's still a competition with myself.


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Prologis Preleases 211,000 Square Feet in Japan Development to Repeat Customer
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologis, Inc. (NYSE: PLD), the leading global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, today announced a new lease agreement signed in the first quarter for 211,000 square feet (19,600 square meters) at a development in Osaka, Japan.
Koizumi Logistics, a third-party logistics provider and repeat customer, will occupy the space at Prologis Park Osaka 5, an 800,000 square foot (74,300 square meter) high-quality facility scheduled for completion in early 2015. The building's location enables Koizumi to more efficiently transport goods to and from the Osaka Port.
"The lack of supply and growing demand, coupled with rising rents, justify new development in Osaka," said Mike Yamada, president, Prologis Japan. "The quality and location of this property as well as our strong customer relationships enabled us to prelease this space to a repeat customer."
Prologis is a leading provider of industrial real estate in Japan, with approximately 22.9 million square feet (2.1 million square meters) of logistics and distribution space as of December 31, 2013.
ABOUT PROLOGIS
Prologis, Inc., is the leading owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, focused on global and regional markets across the Americas, Europe and Asia. As of December 31, 2013, Prologis owned or had investments in, on a consolidated basis or through unconsolidated joint ventures, properties and development projects expected to total approximately 569 million square feet (52.9 million square meters) in 21 countries. These properties are leased to more than 4,500 customers, including third-party logistics providers, transportation companies, retailers, manufacturers, and other enterprises.
The statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry and markets in which Prologis operates, management's beliefs and assumptions made by management. Such statements involve uncertainties that could significantly impact Prologis' financial results. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements, which generally are not historical in nature. All statements that address operating performance, events or developments that we expect or anticipate will occur in the future — including statements relating to rent and occupancy growth, development activity and changes in sales or contribution volume of properties, disposition activity, general conditions in the geographic areas where we operate, our debt and financial position, our ability to form new co-investment ventures and the availability of capital in existing or new co-investment ventures — are forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Although we believe the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained and therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that may affect outcomes and results include, but are not limited to: (i) national, international, regional and local economic climates, (ii) changes in financial markets, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, (iii) increased or unanticipated competition for our properties, (iv) risks associated with acquisitions, dispositions and development of properties, (v) maintenance of real estate investment trust ("REIT") status and tax structuring, (vi) availability of financing and capital, the levels of debt that we maintain and our credit ratings, (vii) risks related to our investments in our co-investment ventures and funds, including our ability to establish new co-investment ventures and funds, (viii) risks of doing business internationally, including currency risks, (ix) environmental uncertainties, including risks of natural disasters, and (x) those additional factors discussed in reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Prologis under the heading "Risk Factors." Prologis undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements appearing in this release.
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Littlelot celebrates the discovery of the Great Horn
I am thrilled to present the final rendition of the illustration for the cover of Petit Lot et le Grand Cor de la licorne.
© 2017 David Jones
Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil
During our biweekly progress meetings I had occasion to talk with David about his art. He quoted an early twentieth-century painter by whose work he's inspired:
"I have inherited that strange love for things remote."
"I imagine a more romantic time before the Internet," David said, "before television and the telephone—even before photographs. Characters in this environment are less distracted. They interact with the world in a more tangible way, and the interaction creates stories that transcend the setting."
David prefers to illustrate for narrative works, including book cover and interior illustrations, comics, and graphic novels, as well as articles, poems, and book excerpts. He tends to use traditional, old-school media: gouache, watercolor, acrylic, and pen and ink.
In the painting above, as in much of David's work, there is no digital rendering.
See the illustration at previous developmental stages in the category Couverture on the book's website. Tomorrow on that site I'll show the book cover for the electronic edition.
For more of David's art, browse his website.
Born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, David Jones crossed the country to study art on the West Coast. He graduated from the Academy of Art University in 2016 and makes his home now in San Francisco. David's art is influenced by John Bauer, N. C. Wyeth, and Arthur Rackham, painters from a more romantic time.
Stephen Wendell is the author of the Littlelot series of books for children and the grown-ups who read to them. The English translation of his latest title, Petit Lot et le Grand Cor de la licorne, will be the next book in the series: Littlelot and the Great Horn of the Unicorn.
et le Grand Cor de la licorne
Stephen Wendell
Electronic edition, October 27
Paperback edition, November 3
Posted by Stephen Wendell on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 in Authors & Other Artists, Littlelot, Petit Lot, Previews | Permalink
The Hammond Sketch
"The hero is a boy magician," I said. "The object of the quest is a musical instrument that grew from a unicorn horn. And there's a dragon."
I recited the legend of the Great Horn of the Unicorn and went on to describe the image I had in mind. I knew exactly what I wanted for the book cover. The difficulty lay in putting the image into another mind—one attached to an artist's hand.
The target of this latest attempt was the mind of Cris Hammond, who now pulled a graphite point across rough grain paper. As a kind gesture, he agreed to make a sketch I could show to potential illustrators.
Sketchpad on knee, Cris began to draw. He guided the pencil, held between thumb and two fingers, in smooth broad curves and quick strokes. The wrist remained fixed, the elbow supple. The artist directed the work from the shoulder. I listened to the scratching of pencil on paper and resisted the urge to peek.
Twenty minutes later, Cris held up the pad. "What do you think?"
"That's it. That's the image in my head!"
This sketch by Cris Hammond is being further developed by another artist to become the cover illustration for
Cris also gave me the name of an artist he thought capable of realizing the illustration. In October, we'll see the finished drawing by David Jones.
Friday, we'll have a sneak preview of the Prologue (French). Meanwhile, you can read la légende du Grand Cor de la licorne (French).
San Francisco Bay area artist and writer Cris Hammond earned fame as a nationally syndicated cartoonist with "Speed Walker, Private Eye" in the 1980s. After one career in special effects design at Industrial Light and Magic and another as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he navigated the rivers and canals in southern France aboard a barge with his wife, Linda, mooring for a few years at the Port de l'Arsenal in Paris. There he painted landscapes of the French countryside and wrote a memoir of the journey, From Here to Paris. Cris is also the author of Short Pours: The Stan Chronicles, a short fiction collection set on the U.S. west coast.
Returned to the homeland last year, Cris and Linda are planning their next adventure from Sausalito, California.
Posted by Stephen Wendell on Wednesday, September 06, 2017 in Authors & Other Artists, Petit Lot, Previews | Permalink
Bruce Nellsmith, Artist & Mentor
Bruce Nellsmith
Now that the statute of limitations has run out on aiding and abetting escape from an institution of higher education, I can make it generally known that Bruce Nellsmith was my mentor and art professor at Newberry College.
For three semesters, Bruce and I drank Chock full o'Nuts from the all-day pot and discussed philosophy, the nature of art, and the artist's challenges. Mixed aromas of burnt coffee, turpentine, and linseed oil filled the studio, and Lou Reed jangled lyrics over guitar rhythms, while I pushed thick paint across canvas and plotted evasion.
In those days, Bruce painted over-sized pieces, which only galleries could accommodate. The artist justified the choice, "This isn't the kind of thing somebody's going to hang on a wall over the sofa anyway."
Indeed, critics raved about the abstract images in earth tones until, looking closer, they understood the subject matter. Then they were outraged by the socio-political themes and wanton violence.
Blue Church in the Bend
Bruce's art has evolved since then. These days he spends a few weeks in France every year, touring the country and drawing inspiration from meandering streets and shady avenues, crowded markets and bridges over languid rivers. He winds up the tour in Paris, where he and I got to catch up last month over drinks at a terrace café in the Marais.
Quillan Clock Tower
hand pulled monotype
I asked him what happened to the enormous canvases and grim topics.
His reply: "Eventually, I decided to paint what appeals to me, what moves me, and let go of the political statements."
Bruce told me about his current exhibit, "A French Connection," at Ellis-Nicholson Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina, which showcases work from his tours in France. It's more colorful, less controversial, and it fits conveniently on a wall above the sofa.
The images here are from that show.
Women at Market II
Winery on the Mediterranean
Fabric Market
The Paris Wedding
Bruce Nellsmith is Professor of Visual Arts at Newberry College, South Carolina. He splits time between teaching in Newberry and working at a studio on the beach in Edisto, where he lives with his wife, Kathy.
See more of Bruce's work at www.brucenellsmith.com. Visit Bruce's current show at Ellis-Nicholson Gallery and, in February 2018, at City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC.
An art degree stuffed inside his shirt, Stephen Wendell escaped from Newberry College over 25 years ago. Now a writer, he enjoys working with more talented artists to make beautiful books. His latest collaborative endeavor, The Way to Vict'ry: Haiku Illustrated by Cristina Basile, is available this month in ebook and paperback editions.
Posted by Stephen Wendell on Wednesday, July 12, 2017 in Authors & Other Artists | Permalink
Thomas Henry Museum
Twenty year-old Jean-François Millet went to study painting in Cherbourg, where some 70 years previously Thomas Henry was born.
Though educated in commerce, Henry had a taste for art. In his early career he went to Saint-Domingue, a lucrative French colony on the island of Hispaniola. He was a merchant there until a successful slave revolt, now known as the Haitian Revolution, put an end to the colony and created the Empire of Haiti in 1804.
The Conversion of Saint Augustin by Fra Angelico, ca. 1430; donated to the town of Cherbourg by Thomas Henry, 1835
Having proved himself in business, back in France Henry went to Paris and became a painting restorer, then an accomplished artist as well as a successful art dealer. From this time onward he collected paintings and sculptures from the major movements in Western European art of the previous four centuries. He became a celebrated connoisseur, his opinion of a work's provenance and of its quality being highly regarded.
By 1831, he had lost both sons and sensed his own life's end. He began donating—anonymously—portions of his collection to his native town.
La Justice, original by Pierre Subleyras, ca. 1740 (left); copy by Jean-François Millet, 1837
After receiving a significant number of these artworks, the Cherbourg town council decided to open a museum. An investigation revealed the donor's name, and the Musée Thomas Henry opened its doors in 1835. Among its first visitors was Jean-François Millet, who came to copy the works of the masters as part of his studies.
Petit génie de la peinture (Little genius of painting), Jean-François Millet ca. 1842; part of the Ono donation, as was Millet's Justice above
A later donation, that of Millet's nephew Paul Ono in 1915, would add to the museum's collection a large number of Millet's early paintings. Among them were many of the student artist's copies, which museum visitors can see beside the original.
Today, the Thomas Henry Museum holds the third largest Millet collection in the world.
Posted by Stephen Wendell on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 in Authors & Other Artists, Barbizon, Further Afield | Permalink
Beat Generation at the Centre Pompidou
This poster caught my eye the other day in the street. Before the hippies of the 1960s, there were the Beats of the '50s. In the later half of that decade, three works emerged to become the Beat manifesto: Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (1959) and On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957).
I read the story of Kerouac's great American road trip as a young man, when we should read such stories. When there's so little of our own road behind us and so much of it stretched out before us in wide, wavy, criss-crossing lines. When we can go anywhere, do anything and meet anybody. When we have no clue what it is we want to do, so we just go to where our feet take us and we meet people and find out where they've been and what they've been doing. Like that, we make our way until one day we finally discover what it is we want to do, what we've always wanted to do. Deep down, we knew it all along. But it takes the journey to wear away the layers of our soul, to expose our true self and show us just who it is we've been traveling with all our lives.
So I hopped aboard a passing train and went to see the exposition.
"I first met Neal not long after my father died. I had just gotten over a
serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it really had some-
thing to do with my father's death and my awful feeling that everything was
dead. With the coming of Neal there really began for me that part of my life
that you could call my life on the road."
— excerpt from the manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
On the Road (Viking Press, 1957) follows Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty on their mad, wild journeys back and forth across postwar America. It's a mostly autobiographical account of Kerouac's encounters with his overexcited friend, Neal Cassady. They hitch-hike, they jump rail cars, they sleep nights under tarps or in seedy motels and sometimes at the homes of friends or acquaintances. They stay in one place just long enough to make a little cash, working odd jobs, for the next leg of their adventure. And all along the way, they sleep with girls, smoke tea and live life as fast as it will go.
I didn't think about what I might see at the show. I had heard the legend about Jack Kerouac bashing out his novel on a manual typewriter and one long scroll of tracing paper in a delirious stream of consciousness. But I had no idea the relic might yet exist and even be seen by mortal eyes.
So coming through the turnstile, I was surprised by the long narrow box table stretching to the far end of the gallery. It hit me in an instant and I let out a "Wow!"
As one does with books that grab you from the start, I had memorized its opening lines a long time ago. Reading now from the top of the scroll (excerpt above) and comparing the text to my hazy memory, two things stood out. One is that in his draft the author still uses the real name of Neal Cassady, the real-life person who becomes Dean Moriarty in the book. The other is the cause of the serious illness. In the published version, it isn't his father's death but "after my wife and I split up" that his serious illness has something to do with. I remember thinking when I first read the book that "feeling that everything was dead" was unusually drastic for a break-up.
I learned from the display tag on the box table that the scroll is, in fact, the second draft of the novel and, perusing the 120-foot length of the thing, I noticed that it's actually eight shorter scrolls, taped together.
Some sections have pencil notes written at the bottom. Of which I could make out not a single word.
Note the left margin. Apparently, a sheet of paper 15 feet long necessitates occasional adjustment in the typewriting machine.
Beat Philosophy
Excerpt from the introductory text to the exposition (photo right):
"Rejecting consumerism, social conventions, racism and homophobia; defending a libertarian ethic and resolutely pacifist but emancipated from any doctrinal commitment; nurturing a profound attachment for big open spaces and shamanic spirituality through which man becomes an integral part of the Cosmos, the Beat Generation inspired not only the hippy way of life and the psychedelic culture, but also opposition to the Vietnam war, support for civil rights movements, and the revolts of young people during the Sixties in Berkeley, Flint, Columbia, Chicago and Watts."
Couldn't we have another go at this?
Beat Art
Drawings by Beats, including Gregory Corso, Philip Whalen, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky
What stuck me as I wandered through the sizable exposition: The Beats weren't just writers and poets. They were also photographers and film-makers, sculptors and musicians. They made drawings, illustrations, collages and paintings. Mixing together these media, they created a wonderfully diverse body of work.
A Thimble of Goodbye (A Film Poem), Paul Beattie, 1960 Photographs by Fred W. McDarrah and John Cohen
Paintings by Jack Kerouac Haiku by Diane di Prima, 1967
Pull My Daisy, a film collaboration between Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, David Amram and Jack Kerouac, 1959 The Game for Angels (1963), Curve Book (1964) and Hand with Z (1960-65), Paul Beattie
The Mouse's Tale, Jess, 1951-54 Get Rid of Government Time (Poem Machine), Liliane Lijn, 1962
Scroll's End
Kerouac wrote the scroll draft in April 1951, but he began writing the first draft of the novel as early as 1948. Several revisions and several rejections from publishers later, On the Road was finally published in 1957. It was his second novel.
The end of the scroll has worn away. I could make out the words, "…ambulances merely come through at…," which corresponds to text on page 301 in my copy of the book, nine pages from the end.
Safe under glass in the box table, Kerouac's scroll seems out of context. I imagine dim yellow light on the peeling wallpaper of a New York apartment; a whiskey glass on the table, cigarette smoke hanging thick in the humid evening air as the author in sleeveless t-shirt bangs away on a noisy machine. Clack, clack, clack. The end of the novel and the author's success are far off.
And between here and there... the road.
Beat Generation through October 3 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Posted by Stephen Wendell on Friday, August 05, 2016 in Authors & Other Artists, Paris and Environs | Permalink


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Q: Rotating Feature in Vector Layer using PyQGIS I am using QGIS 3.4.  I am new in gis and I am trying to rotate a feature of a vector layer.
Code:
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    the_geom.rotate(-90, pt)
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    iface.mapCanvas().refresh()
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The geometry of the feature seems to change. However, I can not see any difference on the canvas.
Is there a better way to do this?

A: Just figured it out. For anyone who would like to check the solution:
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Q: Please add close flags, duplicate links and review data to the public data dump Over the past year, a lot of meta data has been changed or added to the system:

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*Review tasks and results

*Duplicate links (separate from close votes and ad-hoc editing conventions)

*Close votes as a distinct type of flag (previously they were stored as votes)

However, none of this is in the public data dump. There are bits and pieces - suggested edits predate the new review system, and duplicate links can be obtained from PostHistory with a bit of trouble - but not enough for any serious analysis.
Therefore, I recommend the following information be added to the public data dumps and data explorer:
Close and reopen flags
As with close votes, this information should have userIDs and exact times stripped before being made public. Suggested schema:
Id
FlagTypeId (Recommend Close: 13, Close: 14, Reopen: 15)
PostId
CreationDate (date only - no exact time)
CloseReasonId (requires the CloseReasons table)
CloseAsOffTopicReasonId (requires the CloseAsOffTopicReasons table)
DuplicateOfQuestionId
BelongsOnBaseHostAddress
ResultDate   (this and ResultTypeId are only needed if deleted flags should be included)
ResultTypeId

The question of whether or not deleted votes/flags should be included is a big one here: IMHO, it's very useful for doing historical analysis... But right now it's explicitly not included. If you can think of a good reason not to make this information public, post it below.
Links
The PostLinks table is quite useful: it contains not only duplicate links, but also ad-hoc links and even related links (the two sidebar lists next to most questions). I would like to have all of this information made available, but if this isn't feasible for some reason then ad-hoc links and duplicate links would be the most useful. Suggested schema:
Id
CreationDate
PostId
RelatedPostId
LinkTypeId (there is no LinkTypes table, but maybe there should be one)
Rank

Since all of this information is already public, I don't foresee any privacy issues with publishing it in the dump.
Review tasks
This covers everything available under /review. Nothing in this table should really be private, but I would recommend excluding information on audits for space and simplicity's sake. Suggested schema:
Id
ReviewTaskTypeId (requires the ReviewTaskTypes table)
CreationDate
DeletionDate
ReviewTaskState (requires the ReviewTaskStates table)
PostId
SuggestedEditId (this table already exists in the public data)

Note that "deleted" review tasks are still publicly visible - DeletionDate is really just the data on which the task was either completed or invalidated.
Review task results
Recommended schema:
Id
ReviewTaskId
ReviewTaskResultTypeId (requires ReviewTaskResultTypes table)
CreationDate  (date only - no exact time)
RejectionReasonId (requires ReviewRejectionReasons table)
Comment (custom rejection reasons for suggested edits)
CompletedReviewTask (bit) (this doesn't actually exist internally, but I recommend calculating it for convenience - particularly if timestamps are omitted)

This is a tricky one... Most of this information is already public in some fashion, but making it easily accessible is another matter. In particular, First Post and Late Answer reviews can involve actions that are not made public: voting and flagging. Making it too easy to correlate a FP/LA review with specific events on a post could lead to trouble. Therefore, I recommend the following:

*

*As with votes, omit the ID of the user reviewing.

*As with votes, omit the exact time that the review took place

*Omit any detailed information on the actions that contributed to the review for First Posts and Late Answers reviews.

*Omit audit information (if it is left out of ReviewTasks)

I may be over-cautious here... For instance, it's possible that including #1 would be fine as long as #3 was omitted. Post your thoughts below.
Account ID on Users rows
This is actually a very old request, but Tim Stone reminded me of it again tonight. This is public information already; at one point, the ability to disassociate accounts from your network profile may have made it problematic, but given we don't allow that anymore... I don't see any issue here.
It's another integer in each row in the Users table that corresponds to your network ID (mine is 620) and is identical on each site linked to your network account.

Please review the above suggestions. In particular, if you can envision a way in which the release of such data could be used to compromise information that is normally considered private (such as voting data), call it out now - much better to be safe than sorry.

A: So it's been pointed out that a lot of this data would be effectively worthless in a public data dump, due to the fact that they're generally months out of date. In addition, XML is huge, and the Stack Overflow data dump is already very large.
Therefore, I recommend including all of the information outlined above (with Anna's clarifications and caveats) in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, but adding only the following to the public data dump:

*

*Links but excluding Related links

*

*Also a LinkTypes table documenting the two types of links that are included

*Account ID on Users rows
That is all. Note that I'm explicitly excluding Close and Reopen flag-votes: as Anna noted, including deleted votes gives a skewed picture of what actually happens unless flags related to deleted posts are included as well... Since most close and re-open flags are deleted, this leaves very little relevant information to include in a public, months-out-of-date dump.
It would be nice to figure out a way of including some meta-data on deleted posts, as that would enable including a much larger set of information regarding flags and reviews... However, this would be a fairly major change, and as such is out of scope for this feature request.

A: If the work isn't too difficult, please consider converting NULL in denormalized count fields to a definite number (usually 0).  As I noted with CommentCount, some of these fields mean that the count has never been update.  But the distinction is rarely useful and there are some strange edge cases that mean it's not terribly reliable.  For the sake of simplifying the data and not producing misleading results, please convert nulls in these fields to 0 when exporting to the public:

*

*Posts.CommentCount

*Comments.Score
For questions (answers should remain null):

*

*Posts.ViewCount

*Posts.AnswerCount
There may be others; please feel free to suggest them.

A: Nick wrapped this up today, mostly as specified with Anna's adjustments. The one notable difference is the replacement of ReviewTaskResults.CompletedReviewTask with ReviewTask.CompletedByReviewTaskId - this is just easier to use.
Here are a couple of demos to get you started:

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*https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/179781/review-tasks-by-result

*https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/179779/pending-close-flags-by-close-reason

A: I don't think it is necessary to leave the user ID or full timestamp out of the review task results table. That information is already available and associated with a general result on the review task's web page, viewable from the history. For example, here is a recent review from the late answer queue (with the username changed):

Since this information is publicly available already, there is no need to leave it out of the data dump. It should be sufficient to leave out detailed information about the actions taken.

A: After taking a close look at the proposed schemas here, I think we need to make a few clarifications and/or adjustments.
Specifically:

*

*For CloseReasons, we should stick with the same naming conventions as the rest of the tables currently exposed through SEDE and call it CloseReasonTypes.

*CloseAsOfftopicReasons should probably also be named CloseAsOfftopicReasonTypes (say that ten times fast!), and it should explicitly include:

*

*the userids/names of the moderators involved in creating and approving the close reasons.

*all currently active and deactivated close reasons. (Unapproved close reasons should be excluded).

*Any close/reopen votes, flags, links, and review tasks should be excluded if they are related to a deleted post.

*Exclude deleted votes and flags (that is, flags where ResultDate is not null) on the grounds that because a lot of closed posts are also deleted, providing information that's guaranteed to be incomplete will only do a disservice to anyone trying to perform any sort of meaningful analysis on how folks vote or flag.

*We should generate a LinkTypes table. Don't need one internally, really, but it'd be nice to have one in the public schema for convenience/clarity.

*The CompletedReviewTask field Shog mentions will have to be calculated because there's no other way to figure out what happened to the review item once we zero out the time part of the timestamp.

As far as including information about review tasks goes, I think being more paranoid is going to pay off more in the long run. While it's true that the information like exact timestamps is available on the site, acquiring it in aggregate right now is rather painful. Exposing it via SEDE would make it far easier, and we kind of don't want to make it easier for folks to make any guesses about how others vote or act.

A: It would be great if you could add a magic link for the review tasks, like we have for the post itself, comments, and users (maybe others?). Something like review.PostID [Review Link]. Or it may be necessary to specify a specific queue, so [CloseReview Link], [FirstPostReview Link], etc.


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September 7, 2016 September 7, 2016 The Anomalous Host Film Reviews2016, Fede Alvarez, film, home invasion, horror, review, stephen lang, suspense, thriller
I'm starting to think film critics are seeing the recent competence in horror films like The Witch and Lights Out, and are beginning to confuse it with simple competence. Neither one of those films were bad, mind you, I just didn't think these movies were going to lead us to the Promised Land. — Chris Jaramillo of After Lobby
Well, it wasn't terrible. This film has been getting a lot of hype about how awesome it is, but I think it just has to do with the fact that it's one of the few horror films out there that doesn't suck. That doesn't mean it's great like The Exorcist, or Rosemary's Baby, or Halloween. It's just, well, decent, at least in my opinion.
So in case you need to know the plot, three Detroit house burglars show up at a blind ex-Gulf War veteran's house to steal a bunch of money he got from a settlement involving some rich girl running over his daughter.
So, theme, lessons, morals, etc. From what I gathered, it's all about doing whatever it takes to put yourself into a better position than the hellhole you're currently living in. All the characters are in a situation that would improve if they had some cash. The female protagonist Rocky wants money so she can move out of Detroit away from her bitch mother, and go to California; she also wants to take her younger sister with her. That's pretty much the best sympathetic background story you're going to get from this film, aside from the blind guy who lost his daughter, and wants to make his situation better by getting a new daughter. I was thinking there was going to be some compare and contrast elements between the two, but I don't think that's what the movie is going for.
I was thinking the theme would be along the lines of doing whatever it takes to improve your situation. For a town like Detroit, I have a pretty good idea. Anyway, what hurts this theme is the decision to make the blind man less sympathetic. By making him into a villain. So that way you would forget how terrible of a person Rocky is by putting someone else in there who is an even more terrible person. I mean, as far as asshooles/bitches go, she's not that bad. She lives with a shitty family (younger retard sister aside) in a shitty house and has dreams of paradise. By robbing other people's houses and making their lives as miserable as hers. The lengths one is willing to go to to achieve their dreams.
Oh, and the other two burglars who are with her? Who gives a shit? They aren't given hardly any backstory, we don't know their dreams or aspirations. Hell, the villain is more developed than those other two. They just make him a bit insane, even though there was better potential for a character like this. Just making him blind due to his experience with war, and emotionally devastated because his daughter was killed, that should be enough to make him someone angry at the world and angry at burglars. It would allow for some interesting discussions on the theme of willing to destroy someone's life, in this case a life that is already destroyed, for the sake of improving yours.
But that's not what we get. Instead, we have assholes trying to steal from an even bigger asshole. Never mind that greed is bad, it becomes ok if you're really desperate for money and you're stealing it from a bad man, never mind your own faults. Less critical thinking involved that way. And the ending isn't very satisfying, considering that despite how much of an insane bad guy the blind dude is, I couldn't really ever grow sympathetic for her plight. Throwing a retarded pre-teenage sister into the mix for sympathy is a cheap ploy that didn't work on me for this one. Plus there's some plot holes, such as how she got away at the end when there is a killer dog in the car! Personally, I think it should've ended with her killing the blind guy and then her getting arrested and charged with murder and home invasion. Although I guess the knowledge that the old guy lives is enough to not make her fully enjoy her dream paradise in the end, but that's still not that good of an ending.
That being said, there's some great thrills and tense scenes in this, and not very many cheap jump scares. It drags after the girl is captured, because her rescue seems kinda pointless. It pads out the film time at that point, and doesn't really change anything, considering that other guy should've been dead at that point, and he ended up dead anyway. But regardless, it's worth a watch. But in regards to a superior horror film made this year, I'd go for the VVitch instead, unless you want a tense slasher rather than a horror film.
Other recommended review of this movie: by After Lobby
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Rose Phan Committed To Provide Affordable Filtered Water Solutions To The World
Born in pre-war Vietnam, Rose Phan and her family took a perilous boat ride to freedom after the Communist regime rose to power, eventually settling in California. While simultaneously trying to adapt to her adopted home and process the catastrophic events that led to their escape, Phan graduated from college and, along with her husband, built multiple businesses from the ground up. One venture, Alpha Systems Lab (ASL), grew to a $40 million company in just three years. Her business success has led to features in national print and broadcast media and speaking invitations to prestigious events such as the Harvard Faculty Club's Business Expert Forum and The Leadership Speakers Academy at West Point.
A 2016 mission trip to her native Vietnam drove home the vital importance of clean drinking water, leading to Phan's latest commercial and philanthropic endeavor: BellaVieWater, a simple filter that produces natural, enhanced Alkaline water. In both her business and personal lives, Phan draws on a unique international perspective culled from her Eastern heritage, French and American studies, as well as the training and philosophy inherent in her lifelong pursuit of the martial art of Aikido. Phan and her husband have three children and reside in California.
The inspirational story of a rags-to-riches immigrant, Fire of Hope, From Victim to Victor is also a concrete action plan for everyone who wants to find meaning and purpose in their own lives. Rose Phan arrived in the U.S. as a Vietnamese boat refugee over forty years ago, her family having survived torture, a miraculous escape at sea, and attempted repatriation. Through the story of her family and her struggles as a wife, mother, and businesswoman, Phan outlines the principles that have enabled her not only to survive but thrive in her new homeland. Readers will be moved by the heroism of her father, King Win, and astounded at the series of events that took her from a homeless teen refugee to a millionaire by age 34. She also invites her audience to experience beauty in unexpected places, from a war-torn country to a drop of fresh water. The Fire of Hope, From Victim to Victor reflects Phan's deep faith and belief in the power of courage over fear, her fresh voice leaping off the page to share lessons you'll never forget.
T. Allen Hanes
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NZ businesses failing to promote their environmental and social work, says ecolabel head.
Businesses need to promote their sustainability credentials more, according to New Zealand Ecolabelling Trust general manager Francesca Lipscombe, who adds "greenwashing" is also still rife in New Zealand.
"Those are two aspects of the same issue," Lipscombe said.
"On the one hand, companies get away with unsupported claims which may not breach the Fair Trading Act but they're still misleading and unhelpful.
Lipscombe said the general failure of businesses to promote their good sustainability and environmental record was borne out by findings in the latest Colmar Brunton 'Better Futures' survey released earlier this year.
The survey polled 1000 kiwis online about their attitudes and behaviours around sustainability, and one telling finding was that 83 per cent per cent of respondents felt the way businesses talked about their social and environmental commitments was confusing, 11 per cent more than the previous survey found.
Lipscombe said the survey findings make a strong case for greater use of reputable markers of environmental good practice, such as the Environmental Choice New Zealand ecolabel, which the Trust administers on behalf of the Government.
"Part of the reason for the confusion is the under-promotion of meaningful ecolabels like ours which give verifiable reassurance that a product or service is environmentally preferable against robust standards.
"But companies can't sit back and wait till consumers ask for ecolabels – they need to lead by example and communicate this. Reputable ecolabels are now commonplace and there's generally no price premium on ecolabelled products – consumers have plenty of choice.
Lipscombe said a related survey finding was that relatively few respondents could name a brand leader in the sustainability area. Only two brands got more than 1 per cent recognition: the Malcolm Rands-founded ecostore, which has ECNZ licences, named by 5 per cent of people, while Fonterra scored 3 per cent awareness.
The survey also showed that sustainability support was still growing in New Zealand, she said.
There was a sharp increase over the previous survey in the number of kiwis who felt it was important to work for a socially and environmentally responsible company – from 72 per cent in 2018, to 86 per cent.
Lipscombe said the other strong finding from the survey was the emergence of plastic waste as the issue kiwis are most concerned about – 72 per cent rated it the number one problem, compared with 63 per cent last year.
The survey also found eight-out-of-10 kiwis had dispensed with single-use plastic supermarket bags in favour of reusable options – a huge jump on last year's figure – 30 per cent, while 85 per cent agreed reducing disposable packaging in general was the right thing to do.


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Public Video
Correlation Between Horizontal Acceleration Testing and Tilt Testing for Load Stability
Enrique de la Cruz Navarro
R&D Manager
Safe Load Testing Technologies
Transport simulation is the knowledge area which reproduces the effects of the transport hazards. The accelerations produced during transport affects the transported goods. The onboard acceleration effects could modify the load stability and it could become a risk on the road. Different techniques for transport simulation are used to evaluate the load stability subjected to those forces produced during distribution. Two of these techniques are the horizontal stability test and the tilt test. The horizontal stability test produces an acceleration trapezoidal transient equivalent to the transient recorded on transport vehicles on emergency braking situations, meanwhile the tilt test inclines the test sample using the gravity. The regulations from some countries, like U.S.A, Canada, European Union, New Zealand, Australia, and some others fix the minimum acceleration, in which a load should hold on to road transport for safety reasons. Enrique will share the requirements and boundary limits for a tilt test suitable to evaluate the stability of a unit load subjected to an emergency braking of a vehicle and the considerations that must be considered in the unit load to be analyzed and compare the results with the deformation obtained in a horizontal stability test.


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"""
cli
===
Helpful functions for dealing with the command line.
"""
import string

# Either this will create a new 'garden' logger, or it will inherit the
# pre-existing one from the importing script.
_logger = logging.getLogger('garden')

def read_until_valid(prompt, valid_inputs=None, lmbda=None):
    """Loop until a valid input has been received.

    The lambda will be applied before the input is validated, so be aware of
    any type transformation you incur.

    It is up to the caller to handle exceptions that occur outside the realm of
    calling their lambda, such as KeyboardInterrupts (^c, a.k.a C-c).

    :arg str prompt: Prompt to display.
    :kwarg ``Iterable`` valid_inputs: Acceptable inputs. If none are provided,
        then the first non-exceptional value entered will be returned.
    :arg ``func`` lmbda: Function to call on received inputs. Any errors will
        result in a re-prompting.
    """
    while True:
        user_input = input(prompt).strip(string.whitespace)
        # Apply a given function
        if lmbda is not None:
            try:
                user_input = lmbda(user_input)
            except Exception as e: # Any errors are assumed to be bad input
                _logger.warning(e)
                continue           # So keep trying
        if valid_inputs is not None:
            if user_input in valid_inputs:
                return user_input
        else:
            return user_input

def assemble_subparsers(groups, module_registry):
    """Aggregates entrypoints under a single ArgumentParser.

    Example CLI call:

        garden <action> <module> [args...]

    The alternative would be to expect each entrypoint module to provide an
    ArgumentParser, and to handle sub-commands ourselves.
    """
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='garden')

    for group in groups: # For each sub-command, like 'bump'
        # Create subparser for registration: <action>
        subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(title=subgroup)
        # For each implementing module
        for k, v in module_registry.get(group, []):
            # Which module will we be deferring to: <module>
            module_parser = subparsers.add_parser(k)
            # Consume all arguments remaining for passthrough: [args...]
            module_parser.add_argument('args', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER)
            # Set default to registered module's entrypoint function
            module_parser.set_defaults(func=v.load())

    return parser

class GardenShell(cmd.Cmd):
    """Interactive shell into Garden."""
    intro = 'Welcome, {user}'.format(user=os.getenv('USER'))
    prompt = '[garden]$ '

    def do_about(self, arg):
        """Print the 'about' statement."""
        _logger.info(__doc__)

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Paul & Tom-A-Thon
September 1, 2014 by Paul Poteet
(Originally posted September 4, 2011.)
I volunteered and donated to the Jerry Lewis Telethon before I ever appeared on TV in one of those wacky/embarrassing/sometimes-uncomfortable "local cut ins." I popped up many times as Random Radio Guy, then as Random TV Guy the first several years I was on Indy morning television. Even by then the "telethon" was a bit of a throwback, to a time when tv stations routinely did local non-news productions. And a throwback to when the audience knew Jerry Lewis for anything other than…a telethon. You could get always get a lot of mileage out of making fun of the 'Thon, but at the end of the day (days) that's a lot of money on that tacky tote board. So good for Jerry. But Show Biz is Show Biz, and no show lasts forever.
SO: if you're looking for some wacky, sometimes uncomfortable entertainment over Labor Day, stay up with Paul & Tom! Hey Lady!
PAUL&TOM-A-THON:
In #32 Tom talks pickles. Here is a man who takes time to savor the seeds, "flesh," and skin of a Claussen.
The episode opens with the Power Station & ends abruptly with a Power Failure. And Paul by himself. It's the second most dramatic exit Tom's ever made from a program.
Paul doesn't mind if you celebrate the death of Osama. He did. Tom is a bit more reserved. The boys move on from the terrorism of fanatics to the terrorism of being Tom Davis. P&T joined a bunch of other "celebrities" for a night of fun for Paul, and rejection for Tom.
Early Episode
Mrs. Poteet always turns down requests to guest star on the radio, but she's got an awesome Rodent Story to share.
Paul ran the New York City Marathon, and now he runs his mouth for a nearly non-stop hour that leaves Tom speechless. From inspirational moments in the Firehouse at New York's Ground Zero to more than you every wanted to know about Porta-lets.
Paul & Tom explain the "quad box" and bring you Team Coverage of Black Friday. You get Shopping Mall Traffic, Post-Thanksgiving Food Talk, and a call to the Butterball Hot line.
Paul explains why he is carrying Tom's career: it's "the choking thing." Tom's very good at reading people, much like The Amazing Kreskin. Paul thinks he's pretty good at reading Tom, and calls him "aloof."
Make some room in your mind. This one's deep. It all starts with Tom, who doesn't think he's crazy. Just sensitive, like a psychic. The topics of psychics and "the future" leads Paul to a rant about the pointlessness of knowing the future.
On the fourth day of the fourth month the fourth Thomas Gerald Davis arrived. Tom calls from the Hospital Parking Lot in between baby boy bonding time. You'll be happy to know the queasy, nauseous patient is fine. Oh, and so is Tammy.
Paul & Tom were going to debate the Health Care Bill or gun control, but decided to bicker about Gift Cards for an hour. Paul calls Tom unstable and petulant. Tom pegs Paul as shameless, tacky, and cheap, not necessarily in that order.
All of Tom's, uh, afflictions are on display here. Wood, Michael Jackson, Scientology. Welcome to "Brookville Top 40″ on WOCD.
A woman says she was too big for American Idol, and Tom says Drew Carey is too small for Price Is Right, and maybe some people were made to be big. Ready for an entire hour of food and fat talk? The latest P&T is Super-Sized and worth the wait.
Tom's afraid he's fooling himself by staying busy doing something close to nothing..constantly processing Wood. Paul takes no chances, and actually does the Solid Fuel Acquisition Math.
Dave Smiley of 99-5 WZPL is a special guest in a special show in a special secret room at the Conrad Hotel.
Is it ok for a potential Idol to joke about a dead Idol who had a fiery "Pepsi Moment?" Joe Jackson says no, Paul says yes. Tom seems to agree, but this is a Tough Subject for a man who once opined "Michael Jackson is part of the fabric of my life."
Tom thinks it may be time to upgrade his body-scrubbing chemicals. He's not suffering from BO, it's more of a funk. Just another reason why The Long Shower is so important. And as you will learn in excruciating detail…after the shower…he dries himself VERY thoroughly.
If you were a man, what is the WORST thing that could happen while a female nurse is performing a procedure in a sensitive area?
Is Tom Davis at The End? He's contemplating his career, or lack of it, in P&T Show #94. RANDOM QUOTES: "I can't tell you what its like to be me" "Obviously women go in cycles, but I think guys do, too."
Paul & Tom went parking one time, but it's cool–they were in a different state, and all they did was sleep. What's the strangest thing you've ever done on a Road Trip? Tom spent the night on a Rest Area sidewalk one time. That would be during the Horse Trailer Time Machine Incident.
I think Tom Davis is gonna be one of those "hovering parents." We argue about the age when a Dad should stop going to a public restroom with his daughter.
This episode is an accident you can't turn away from. Tom tells a story about what he killed, and how he killed it. But exactly what was it? Paul once created carnage with a lawn mower. And the recent death of a "Jackass" has The Boys wondering: Do you deserve a scorn-free life?
Tom had TWO social FAILS in a row at a recent celebrity-studded event. While Paul mingled his guts out, his co-host was making horrible first impressions with former Pacer Scot Pollard and Indy Car team owner Sarah Fisher.
Tom talks toilets in #49, and he talks at some length. So get comfortable. Sit down. He will, but that's just to keep the noise down. He doesn't want to be judged on the sound of his stream. Paul doesn't think there's a stream/size connection.
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