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Marple Area Committee
Wednesday, 16th December, 2020 6.00 pm
Agenda Item 4 - Ward Flexibility Funding applications PDF 4 MB
Printed minutes PDF 207 KB
Venue: Webcast - Remote Meeting. View directions
Contact: Charles Yankiah (0161 474 3206)
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To approve as a correct record and order that the Minutes of the meeting held on 11November 2020 be signed.
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The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 11 November 2020 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.
Councillors and officers to declare any interests which they have in any of the items on the agenda for the meeting.
Councillors and officers were invited to declare any interests they had in any of the items on the agenda for the meeting.
No interests were declared.
Urgent Decisions
To report any urgent action taken under the Constitution since the last meeting of the Committee.
No urgent decisions were reported.
4.(i)
Chair's Announcements
To receive any announcements from the Chair about local community events or issues.
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The Chair on behalf of the Area Committee: -
· Informed Marple residents that the new school term dates and the carers survey were available on the Council website for anybody who wished to view it.
· Informed Marple residents that there were three schemes for Marple baths that could be viewed at Marple baths or at the side of Marple library as well as being available online. Residents were also invited to contact their local Councillors or the Council direct to register their views before the consultation ends in January.
4.(ii)
Public Question Time
Members of the public are invited to put questions to the Chair of the Area Committee on any matters within the powers and duties of the Area Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice.
Questions must be submitted prior to the commencement of the meeting via the Council's website at www.stockport.gov.uk/publicquestions
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Members of the public were invited to put questions to the Chair of the Area Committee on any matters within the powers and duties of the Area Committee, subject to the exclusions set out in the Code of Practice.
One public question was submitted regarding a site off Cross Lane which had become a source of anti-social behaviour and arson over a number of years.
In response, the Committee were made aware that officers were aware the property was vacant but were satisfied it was secured and no plans were in place to intervene further.
Councillor Steve Gribbon informed the Committee that in his capacity as a Firefighter he would raise the issues with his organisation in terms of the safety of residents and request that signs are placed on the site to prevent local residents from entering.
Members supported the resident comments on the issues raised and welcomed any action that would be taken on the site.
A formal response would be shared with the questioner and the Committee.
4.(iii)
To receive petitions from members of the public and community groups.
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No petitions were submitted.
4.(iv)
In accordance with the Code of Practice no organisation has indicated that they wished to address the Area Committee as part of the Open Forum arrangements.
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In accordance with the Code of Practice no organisation had indicated that they wished to address the Area Committee as part of the Open Forum arrangements.
4.(v)
Ward Flexibility Funding - Support Garrick Theatre Limited PDF 217 KB
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To consider an application for Ward Flexibility Funding received from Support Garrick Theatre Limited for a grant of £2,350 (£100 from this Area Committee - £50 from each ward) towards the cost of completing a basement renovation project.
01 - Stockport Garrick Theatre Appendix 1 - Alarm estimate , item 4.(v) PDF 377 KB
01 - Stockport Garrick Theatre Appendix 2 - supporters' comments , item 4.(v) PDF 49 KB
01 - Stockport Garrick Theatre Appendix 3 - Customer Location by Postcode , item 4.(v) PDF 196 KB
01 - Stockport Garrick theatre Appendix 4 - basement flooring estimate , item 4.(v) PDF 34 KB
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A representative of the Strategic Head of Service (Legal & Democratic Governance and Monitoring Officer) submitted an application received on behalf of Stockport Garrick Theatre Limited for a grant from the Ward Flexibility Budget towards the cost of completing a basement renovation project.
RESOLVED - That approval be given to an application received from Stockport Garrick Theatre Limited for a grant of £100 (£50 from each ward allocation) towards the cost of completing a basement renovation project.
4.(vi)
Ward Flexibility Funding - Community Active Stockport CIC PDF 749 KB
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To consider an application for Ward Flexibility Funding received from Community Active Stockport CIC for a grant of £600 (£300 from each ward) towards the cost of establishing a "Virtual Village" in Marple to serve the older community residents, and especially those living alone and in sheltered accommodation such as Rectory Court and Queen's Court, in walking distance of the village centre.
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A representative of the Strategic Head of Service (Legal & Democratic Governance and Monitoring Officer) submitted an application received on behalf of Community Active Stockport CIC for a grant from the Ward Flexibility Budget towards the cost of establishing a "Virtual Village" in Marple to serve the older community residents, and especially those living alone and in sheltered accommodation such as Rectory Court and Queen's Court, in walking distance of the village centre.
RESOLVED - That approval be given to an application received from Community Active Stockport CIC for a grant of £600 (£300 from each ward allocation) towards the cost of establishing a "Virtual Village" in Marple to serve the older community residents, and especially those living alone and in sheltered accommodation such as Rectory Court and Queen's Court, in walking distance of the village centre.
4.(vii)
Ward Flexibility Funding - Stockport Canal Boat Trust/New Horizons PDF 406 KB
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To consider an application for Ward Flexibility Funding received from Stockport Canal Boat Trust for a grant of £250 (£125 from each ward) towards the cost of organising a full year of celebrations with events and trips accordingly. Events at the mooring, on the canal and as a part of other local activities, We have planned community trips linked to the Co-op local causes scheme and to fund the supply of banners/signage for the mooring for the 2021 season and a permanent commemorative plaque to enhance the boat.
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A representative of the Strategic Head of Service (Legal & Democratic Governance and Monitoring Officer) submitted an application received on behalf of Stockport Canal Boat Trust/New Horizons for a grant from the Ward Flexibility Budget towards the cost of organising a full year of celebrations, events and trips accordingly. Events at the mooring, on the canal and as a part of other local activities and have planned community trips linked to the Co-op local causes scheme and also to supply banners / signage for the mooring for the 2021 season and a permanent commemorative plaque to enhance the boat.
RESOLVED - That approval be given to an application received from Stockport Canal Boat Trust/New Horizons for a grant of £250 (£125 from each ward allocation) towards the cost of organising a full year of celebrations, events and trips accordingly. Events at the mooring, on the canal and as a part of other local activities and have planned community trips linked to the Co-op local causes scheme and also to supply banners / signage for the mooring for the 2021 season and a permanent commemorative plaque to enhance the boat.
4.(viii)
Ward Flexibility Funding - Kids Community Closet PDF 784 KB
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To consider an application for Ward Flexibility Funding received from Kids Community Closet Stockport for a grant of £66 (£33 from each ward) towards the cost of purchasing equipment needed for the project as follows:-
· Storage Crates – to store clean clothing, avoid risk of any pests or rodents getting access to clothes.
· Shelving and Racking - to house storage crates so clothing does not go damp.
· Stationery - labelling for crates, delivery tags for drop offs and markers.
· Basic mobile phone – I am currently using my own personal number.
· Promotional Material - posters and leaflets for outreach.
· Bags - packing and delivering bundles of clothes.
03b - Kids Community Closet WFF application - Appendix 1 , item 4.(viii) PDF 17 KB
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A representative of the Strategic Head of Service (Legal & Democratic Governance and Monitoring Officer) submitted an application received on behalf of Kids Community Closet for a grant from the Ward Flexibility Budget towards the cost of purchasing equipment needed for the project as follows:-
RESOLVED - That approval be given to an application received from Kids Community Closet for a grant of £66 (£33 from each ward allocation) towards the cost of purchasing equipment needed for the project as follows:-
4.(ix)
Ward Flexibility Funding - The CPR Group PDF 401 KB
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To consider an application for Ward Flexibility Funding received from the CPR Group for a grant of £370 (£185 from each ward) towards the cost of donating lifesaving billboards to 13 high schools in Stockport. The billboard contains Northwest Ambulance Services step by step guide to learn CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) and also features a QR code that allows pupils to download the Northwest ambulances lifesaving video onto their mobile phone.
defib group nwas poster (002) , item 4.(ix) PDF 3 MB
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A representative of the Strategic Head of Service (Legal & Democratic Governance and Monitoring Officer) submitted an application received on behalf of The CPR Group for a grant from the Ward Flexibility Budget towards the cost of donating lifesaving billboards to 13 high schools in Stockport. The billboard contains Northwest Ambulance Services step by step guide to learn CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) and also features a QR code that allows pupils to download the Northwest ambulances lifesaving video onto their mobile phone.
RESOLVED - That approval be given to an application received from The CPR Group for a grant of £370 (£185 from each ward allocation) towards the cost of donating lifesaving billboards to 13 high schools in Stockport. The billboard contains Northwest Ambulance Services step by step guide to learn CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) and also features a QR code that allows pupils to download the Northwest ambulances lifesaving video onto their mobile phone.
To consider a report of the Service Director (Place Development).
To consider the development applications where members of the public have attended the meeting in order to speak or hear the Area Committee's deliberations.
To consider the remaining development applications.
To consider consultations (if any) received by the Service Director (Place Development) on any planning issues relevant to the Marple area.
There are currently no development applications to consider.
There were no development applications to consider.
Planning Appeals, Enforcement Appeals and Enforcement Notices PDF 55 KB
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To consider a report of the Strategic Head of Service & Monitoring Officer (Legal & Democratic Governance)
The report summarises recent appeal decisions; lists current planning appeals and dates for local enquiries; informal hearings for planning appeals, and enforcement action within the Marple Area Committee area.
The Area Committee is recommended to note the report.
Officer contact: Vicki Bates, 0161 474 3219 or vicki.bates@stockport.gov.uk
A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report of the Strategic Head of Service & Monitoring Officer (Legal & Democratic Governance) (copies of which had been circulated) listing any outstanding or recently determined planning appeals and enforcements within the area represented by the Marple Area Committee.
RESOLVED – That the report be noted.
Proposed Scheme to increase parking space capacity for High Lane Car Park, High Lane PDF 277 KB
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To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration.
The report provides the details for the options available to the Area Committee as part of a feasibility study to increase the amount of parking spaces, whilst maintaining good accessibility for High Lane Car Park.
The Area Committee is recommended to comment on and approve the report.
Officer Contact: Rory Cannell, 0161 474 4890, or email rory.cannell@stockport.gov.uk
Enc. 1 for Proposed Scheme to increase parking space capacity for High Lane Car Park, High Lane , item 7. PDF 658 KB
Enc. 2 for Proposed Scheme to increase parking space capacity for High Lane Car Park, High Lane , item 7. PDF 1 MB
There are a further 3 documents.View the full list of documents for item 7.
A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing the details for the options available to the Area Committee as part of a feasibility study to increase the amount of parking spaces, whilst maintaining good accessibility for High Lane Car Park.
RESOLVED – That the Area Committee give approval following a feasibility study for Option 3 - F/4271/Opt3 to burn off existing spaces and changing layout (converting some spaces to angled bays) to increase capacity, whilst maintaining good accessibility for High Lane Car Park at a cost of £3,375 to be funded by this Area Committee's Delegated budget (Marple South & High Lane ward allocation).
Edwards Way 20mph limit PDF 319 KB
The report provides the findings from a consultation exercise with affected residents for the proposal of 20mph speed restriction on Edwards Way and surrounding streets as attached plan NM8/5138/01/001
Officer Contact: Julie Pelham, 0161 474 4846, or email Julie.pelham@stockport.gov.uk
Enc. 2 for Edwards Way 20mph limit , item 8. PDF 627 KB
A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing the findings from a consultation exercise with affected residents for the proposal of 20mph speed restriction on Edwards Way and surrounding streets as attached plan NM8/5138/01/001
RESOLVED – That the Area Committee give approval to the legal advertising of the following Traffic Regulation Order and subject to the receipt of no objections within 21 days from the advertisement date the subsequent making of the orders at a cost of £3,778.25 to be funded from the Area Committee's Delegated budget (Marple South & High Lane ward allocation):
Proposed Moving Traffic Regulation Order "20mph Speed Limit Order"
Location Measurement
Edwards Way From a point 36 metres north west of its junction with Hibbert Lane for its entire length to the junction of Cross Lane
Carver Drive For its entire Length
Edwards Close For its entire Length
Carver Road For its entire Length
Ash Grove For its entire Length
Windsor Drive For its entire Length
Leigh Avenue For its entire Length
Westbury Drive For its entire Length
Shirley Avenue For its entire Length
Avon Close For its entire Length
One Stockport Borough Plan PDF 215 KB
To consider a report of the Corporate Director (Corporate and Support Services) and Deputy Chief Executive.
This report builds on the One Stockport update presented to Area Committees in November 2020 where there was discussion about the shape of One Stockport to outline our approach to developing a shared One Stockport borough plan. This report covers how we are progressing the borough plan, our approach to capturing the views of our residents, businesses and workforce, the data and insight we are considering - and how this will inform our priorities for the future
We previously presented to Area Committees in November 2020 to outline our approach to One Stockport and our emerging borough plan. We committed to bringing an update on the progress of the borough plan and as such this report sets out our approach to engagement, data and insight that will inform our priorities for the future.
The Area Committee is recommended to comment on and note the report.
Officer contact: Holly Rae on 0161 474 3014 or email: holly.rae@stockport.gov.uk
A representative of the Corporate Director (Corporate and Support Services) and the Deputy Chief Executive submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) detailing how the Council was proposing to progress the development of the borough plan; the approach to capturing the views of residents, businesses and the workforce; the data and insight that would be considered, and how this would inform the priorities for the future.
Holly Rae (CSS Service Head, Stockport Council) attended the meeting to present the item and to respond to questions from councillors.
The following comments were made/ issues raised:-
· It was noted that while the campaign was based on a correct assessment of opportunities the Committee were of the view that many residents would identify more with their local area (e.g. High Lane) than Stockport as a whole.
· It was commented that active community groups have been established over COVID-19 such as in Marple and discussions with these groups would be useful to progress the campaign.
· It was stated that Stockport was a polarised borough and some 'One Stockport' activity may cross into what should instead be part of a local plan and there was a need to tackle inequality while still reflecting on local positions and the responsibilities of normal Council/Cabinet activity.
· Members expressed their concerns that the campaign should seek to understand local groups better and what they do as this would provide a greater understanding of what needs to be done in the Marple area for the plan to be successful.
· It was noted that the 'One Stockport' campaign should recognise that Stockport is not an all-encompassing community but was an amalgamation of many independent local areas and communities.
Holly Rae welcomed the comments from the Area Committee and reassured the Committee that the feedback would be taken on board to continue to shape the plan going forward and would seek to identify a shared place and shared identity. She also stated that the work being done by the community and mutual aid groups in Marple was great and it would be useful to link in with those local groups.
Progress on Area Committee Decisions PDF 347 KB
The report provides an update on progress since the last meeting on decisions taken by the Area Committee and details the current position on area flexibility funding. The report also includes the current position on the highway and traffic management delegated budget.
Officer contact: Charles Yankiah, 0161 474 3206 charles.yankiah@stockport.gov.uk
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A representative of the Strategic Head of Service & Monitoring Officer (Legal & Democratic Governance) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update on progress since the last meeting on decisions taken by the Area Committee and details the current position on ward flexibility funding. The report also included the current position on the highway and traffic management delegated budget.
Councillor Dowse enquired about the Ridge Avenue and whether officers would investigate a road replacement scheme with costs for the next meeting.
Members sought clarification regarding the balance of the delegated budget for the Area Committee as follows: -
· Marple South - High Lane car park spend when no work has commenced to date.
· Marple North – ward budget spend being met by the Safer Streets, Save Lives campaign, so the budget from the Marple North Ward should be reinstated as it was no longer required.
RESOLVED – (1) That the report be noted.
(2) That the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration be recommended to investigate Ridge Avenue road replacement scheme with costs and provide an update to the Area Committee.
(3) That the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration be asked to investigate balance of the Ward Delegated Budgets for both Marple South and Marple North as follows: -
· Marple South - High Lane car park spend when no work has commenced to date, meaning the balance should reflect this.
· Marple North – ward budget spend being met by the Safer Streets, Save Lives campaign, meaning the budget from the Marple North Ward should be reinstated as it was no longer required.


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Donegal: Ireland's Forgotten County
Donegal is sometimes called "Ireland's Forgotten County" and is, among all of the island's 26 counties, the most rural and least urbanized. It is considered part of the ancient and historical province of Ulster, but it is not part of the UK's Northern Ireland. The story goes that Donegal was not included by the British Government in creating Northern Ireland in 1922 because almost half the population was Catholic. So, geographically Donegal is remote, politically it is unique, and economically it is fragile with regard to Brexit. County Donegal was the worst affected part of Ulster during the 1840s Great Famine. Many areas became permanently depopulated.
A donegal tweed scarf
The world-renowned donegal tweed (with a lowercase "d" and pictured above) is a famous craft. These woolen blends are made of short threads with tiny bits of color giving a muted, stippled effect. Lamb meat from Donegal was recently cleared to be sold in the United States. Whiskey and poitin (a strong, indigenous, white spirit) are also popular products. One writer claimed that Donegal's actual top export is it's men. Scenes from the film Star Wars: Episode VIII— The Last Jedi were also shot at Malin Head in Donegal.
County Donegal shares a 5 ½-mile border with County Leitrim in the Republic of Ireland. It shares a 310-mile border with the UK: Northern Ireland's counties Derry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh.
Tullan Strand in the beach town Bundoran on the southern edge of Donegal inspires the town's claim as Surf Capital of Ireland. As a southern Californian, I'm obligated to point out that Portrush is considered the Surf Capital of Northern Ireland, and Newquay, Cornwall, England, is considered the Surf Capital of the UK. Bundoran's Fairy Bridges natural blow holes and the stone Wishing Chair are also popular tourist attractions in Donegal.
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A key result will be to find ways to smooth the tension between top-down and bottom-up approaches to self adaptation, and between individual and collective self-adaptation.
Work package 4 will address these challenges.


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/*
 * This software is distributed under BSD 3-clause license (see LICENSE file).
 *
 * Authors: Soeren Sonnenburg, Heiko Strathmann, Michele Mazzoni, Kevin Hughes,
 *          Thoralf Klein, Fernando Iglesias, Sergey Lisitsyn, Pan Deng
 */

#ifndef _QDA_H__
#define _QDA_H__

#include <shogun/lib/config.h>

#include <shogun/features/DotFeatures.h>
#include <shogun/features/DenseFeatures.h>
#include <shogun/machine/NativeMulticlassMachine.h>
#include <shogun/lib/SGNDArray.h>

namespace shogun
{

//#define DEBUG_QDA

/** @brief Class QDA implements Quadratic Discriminant Analysis.
 *
 *  QDA learns a quadratic classifier and requires examples to be CSimplefeatures.
 *  This classifier is optimal under the assumptions that the classes are normally
 *  distributed (i.e. they are Gaussians). Unlike LDA, QDA does not assume that all
 *  the classes are distributed with equal co-variance.
 *  TODO
 */
class QDA : public NativeMulticlassMachine
{
	public:
		MACHINE_PROBLEM_TYPE(PT_MULTICLASS)

		/** default constructor */
		QDA();

		/** constructor
		 *
		 * @param tolerance tolerance used in training
		 * @param store_covs whether to store the within class covariances
		 */
		QDA(float64_t tolerance, bool store_covs);

		/** constructor
		 *
		 * @param traindat training features
		 * @param trainlab labels for training features
		 */
		QDA(const std::shared_ptr<DenseFeatures<float64_t>>& traindat, std::shared_ptr<Labels> trainlab);

		/** constructor
		 *
		 * @param traindat training features
		 * @param trainlab labels for training features
		 * @param tolerance tolerance used in training
		 */
		QDA(const std::shared_ptr<DenseFeatures<float64_t>>& traindat, std::shared_ptr<Labels> trainlab, float64_t tolerance);

		/** constructor
		 *
		 * @param traindat training features
		 * @param trainlab labels for training features
		 * @param store_covs whether to store the within class covariances
		 */
		QDA(const std::shared_ptr<DenseFeatures<float64_t>>& traindat, std::shared_ptr<Labels> trainlab, bool store_covs);

		/** constructor
		 *
		 * @param traindat training features
		 * @param trainlab labels for training features
		 * @param tolerance tolerance used in training
		 * @param store_covs whether to store the within class covariances
		 */
		QDA(const std::shared_ptr<DenseFeatures<float64_t>>& traindat, std::shared_ptr<Labels> trainlab, float64_t tolerance, bool store_covs);

		~QDA() override;

		/** apply QDA to data
		 *
		 * @param data (test) data to be classified
		 * @return labels result of classification
		 */
		std::shared_ptr<MulticlassLabels> apply_multiclass(std::shared_ptr<Features> data=NULL) override;

		/** set store_covs
		 *
		 * @param store_covs whether to store the within class covariances
		 */
		inline void set_store_covs(bool store_covs) { m_store_covs = store_covs; }

		/** get store_covs
		 *
		 * @return store_covs whether the class covariances are stored
		 */
		inline bool get_store_covs() { return m_store_covs; }

		/** set tolerance
		 *
		 * @param tolerance tolerance used during training
		 */
		inline void set_tolerance(float64_t tolerance) { m_tolerance = tolerance; }

		/** get tolerance
		 *
		 * @return tolerance used during training
		 */
		inline bool get_tolerance() { return m_tolerance; }

		/** get classifier type
		 *
		 * @return classifier type QDA
		 */
		EMachineType get_classifier_type() override { return CT_QDA; }

		/** set features
		 *
		 * @param feat features to set
		 */
		virtual void set_features(std::shared_ptr<DotFeatures> feat)
		{
			if (feat->get_feature_class() != C_DENSE ||
				feat->get_feature_type() != F_DREAL)
				error("QDA requires SIMPLE REAL valued features");

			m_features = feat;
		}

		/** get features
		 *
		 * @return features
		 */
		virtual std::shared_ptr<DotFeatures> get_features() {  return m_features; }

		/** get object name
		 *
		 * @return object name
		 */
		const char* get_name() const override { return "QDA"; }

		/** get a class' mean vector
		 *
		 * @param c class index
		 *
		 * @return mean vector of class c
		 */
		inline SGVector< float64_t > get_mean(int32_t c) const
		{
			return SGVector< float64_t >(m_means.get_column_vector(c), m_dim, false);
		}

		/** get a class' covariance matrix
		 *
		 * @param c class index
		 *
		 * @return covariance matrix of class c
		 */
		inline SGMatrix< float64_t > get_cov(int32_t c) const
		{
			require(m_store_covs, "Covariance matrices were not stored. "
					"Please activate to access them subsequently.");
			return SGMatrix< float64_t >(m_covs.get_matrix(c), m_dim, m_dim, false);
		}

	protected:
		/** train QDA classifier
		 *
		 * @param data training data
		 *
		 * @return whether training was successful
		 */
		bool train_machine(std::shared_ptr<Features> data = NULL) override;

	private:
		void init();

		void cleanup();

	private:
		/** feature vectors */
		std::shared_ptr<DotFeatures> m_features;

		/** tolerance used during training */
		float64_t m_tolerance;

		/** whether to store the within class covariances */
		bool m_store_covs;

		/** number of classes */
		int32_t m_num_classes;

		/** dimension of the features space */
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Interpretable Goal-based Prediction and Planning for Autonomous Driving
Author: Cillian Brewitt
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An important problem in autonomous driving is working out the goals and intentions of other road users, and predicting what they will do next. Take the example shown in Figure 1. The blue vehicle is our vehicle, which needs to enter the the junction and turn left to reach the goal G1. Vehicle 2 has right of way over our vehicle, which at a first glance prevents us from entering the junction. However, by observing the oncoming vehicle 3, and the fact that vehicle 2 has stopped to give way to this vehicle, we can recognise that vehicle 2 is trying to each the goal G2. Given this knowledge, we can predict that the vehicle will not cross our path and we can safely enter the junction without waiting any longer.
Figure 1: Our vehicle (blue) intends to reach goal G1
There are several factors which make predicting a vehicle's trajectory a difficult problem. The predictions must be both accurate and fast to compute, based on limited amounts of information. In addition to this, the actions that different road users take can be highly coupled and interactive. Ideally, the way in which the prediction method produces the predictions should be interpretable by humans. It is also necessary to have a way of integrating the predictions into planning and decision making.
Many current prediction methods fail to solve all of these issues, or have other shortcomings. Some methods use deep neural networks to generate possible future trajectories for vehicles [2-7], however these methods are uninterpretable, require large amounts of data to train, and can be computationally expensive. Other methods simplify the problem by assuming the vehicles are executing a maneuver from a known set of maneuvers such as changing lane or turning at a junction [8-12]. These methods then try to identify the vehicle's current maneuver. However, this approach can only lead to predictions over a very short time period, until the end of the current maneuver. Such predictions would not be so useful in a situation such as the one given in Figure 1.
Our method: Integrating Goal Recognition with Monte Carlo Tree Search
In our recent paper we presented IGP2 [1], which overcomes some of these problems. An overview of the method is shown in Figure 2. As part of our prediction method we use goal recognition by inverse planning. This process is highly interpretable and can give longer term predictions than just the current maneuver. Our method infers a probability distribution over goals and a distribution over trajectories for each of these goals. We have integrated these predictions with a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) planner, which computes an appropriate sequence of maneuvers for our vehicle given the predictions. For both prediction and planning, we use a set of macro actions or predefined maneuver sequences to make the problem more tractable. Some examples of basic maneuvers are lane-follow, change lane left/right, or give way, and examples of macro actions are continue to the lane end, or exit left/right at an upcoming junction.
Figure 2: Overview of our method
When making predictions for a vehicle, we first use a classifier to obtain a probability distribution over the possible current maneuvers for the vehicle, and predict the position where the vehicle would be once the maneuver has been completed. For each of these positions, we then generate a set of possible goals based on the road layout, with the goal likelihoods obtained through inverse planning. For each goal, the inverse planning process involves using A* search to find the optimal plan from the vehicle's current position, and the optimal plan from the position where we first observed the vehicle. The goal likelihood is defined in terms of the cost difference between these two plans – a smaller cost difference leads to a higher likelihood. Through this mechanism, if the vehicle's actions are similar to the optimal actions needed to reach the goal, then the goal likelihood should be high. Once we have the goal likelihoods, we can then use these to calculate Bayesian posterior probabilities for the set of goals. We then generate a set of trajectories for each goal, with the likelihood of each trajectory based on its cost. Inverse planning is based on the assumption that the agents are "approximately rational", where plans are optimal by a given metric. This allows us to form an intuitive interpretation of why the system gives certain predictions.
We use an MCTS planner to create a plan for our vehicle. During each planning step, MCTS runs many simulations of the current traffic scenario, and iteratively builds up a tree of possible actions, along with the value of each action. We use our predictions to simulate the behaviour of other vehicles during MCTS planning. During each MCTS iteration, we sample a current maneuver, goal, and trajectory for each vehicle from the distributions that we have inferred.
Simulated Scenarios
We tested our method across four diverse simulated traffic scenarios, shown below. The coloured dots represent goals, and the corresponding coloured bars next to each vehicle show the inferred goal likelihoods. In Scenario 1, a vehicle cuts in front of our vehicle, and because of this, we can infer that the vehicle is going to slow down and turn at the junction. To avoid the need to slow down too, our vehicle switches lane. In Scenario 2, our vehicle aims to enter the junction and turn left. The vehicle coming from the west has stopped at the junction. If this vehicle's goal was to go straight on or turn left it would not need to stop. However, if its goal is to turn right, it must stop to give way to the vehicle coming from the east. Because of this, we can infer that this vehicle will stay stopped long enough for our vehicle to safely enter the junction.
Figure 3: Scenario 1
In Scenario 3, our vehicle aims to reach the green goal at the east exit of the roundabout. After we observe that the other vehicle has switched to the outer lane of the roundabout, we can infer that its goal is to take the southern exit at the roundabout, so it is safe for our vehicle to enter the roundabout. In Scenario 4, our vehicle aims to turn right at the junction, but must merge into traffic to do so. As the vehicle from the south is first coming to a stop, it is given a higher likelihood to turn to the right, as to do so it would need to give was for the oncoming vehicle. However, as the vehicle remains stopped for a longer period of time, the likelihood that its goal is to let our vehicle merge rises, until our vehicle recognises that is is safe to merge.
The scenarios are good for showing how our method can handle a set of common driving situations, but the number of possible scenarios that could occur in the real world are near infinite. To test how well our method performed in a more diverse range of situations, we used two randomly generated towns, consisting of many junctions, roundabouts, and roads with varying numbers of lanes. We tasked our vehicle to complete a set of routes in each town, while 8 other vehicles also drove nearby. While driving along these routes, our vehicle had a view radius of 50m, and there was a spawn radius further out at 75m for other vehicles. Whenever a vehicle left the spawn circle it was replaced by another vehicle.
Figure 7: Town 1
We compared our method to several baseline methods, with the resulting average time for our vehicle to reach its goal when using each method and scenario shown in Figure 9. One of these methods took the MAP estimate for goal probabilities. During MCTS simulations, the IGP2-MAP method used the most likely goal and trajectory for each vehicle, rather than sampling from the distribution of goals like the full method did. For another baseline we modified our method to assume that other vehicles will always continue at a constant velocity (CVel). CVel-Avg was a similar baseline to Cvel, but was based on the average velocity over the previous two seconds. We also included a "conservative" baseline in which our vehicle always gives way if there is any oncoming traffic. All methods were able to complete the scenarios, but the time taken to do so varied.
Figure 9: Comparison of our method with several baselines
In Scenarios 2, 3, and 4 the conservative method required more time than all other methods, as it could not enter the junction until the oncoming vehicle has passed. The CVel method is still able to enter the junctions in these scenarios as the the stopped vehicles are predicted to remain permanently stopped. In Scenario 3, however, the CVel, Cvel-Avg, and conservative methods could not enter the roundabout until the other vehicle has exited, and so they have a higher time to goal than the other methods. Another downside of the CVel, Cvel-Avg, and conservative methods is that they are unable to explain the observed behaviours of other vehicles. In Scenarios 3 and 4, IGP2-MAP has a lower time to goal than IGP2. This is because the IGP2-MAP method is more certain in its predictions, which allows it to reach the goal quicker on average. This works in our simulated test scenarios, but in real life could lead to dangerous situations.
Figure 10: Town 1 results
In the two randomly generated towns, we tested IGP2 against the conservative baseline across 10 different routes. Both methods successfully completed all routes. However, in almost every case the driving time for IGP2 was lower. The accurate predictions used in IGP2 allow the vehicle to plan around other vehicles to drive more efficiently, and allow the vehicle to safely enter roundabouts and junctions earlier when the conservative method would have waited until there were no oncoming vehicles. We also tried another short horizon baseline similar to MPDM [2], which predicts only the next maneuver for vehicles followed by a constant velocity lane following prediction. However, this method never managed to complete a single route.
Figure 12: Inferred probability of the correct goal for vehicles in each scenario
Figure 12 shows how the inferred probability for the correct goal for vehicles in each of our scenarios evolves over time. As we collect a greater number of observations of the vehicle, our certainty that this is the correct goal increases, as the possibility of other goals gets ruled out. In most cases, this approaches a probability of one until the vehicles finally reaches its goal. The method was also tested with occlusions, where a section of the trajectory could not be observed. For these cases the probability assigned to the true goal is slightly lower, but despite the occlusions the method still performs relatively well.
Conclusions and Future Work
We have presented a system for autonomous driving which is interpretable, and makes and uses predictions over a long time horizon. We have achieved this by integrating goal recognition by inverse planning with an MCTS planner, while using a set of basic manuevers and macro actions to make the problem tractable.
There are several future directions in which this work could be extended. One addition to the system could be anomaly detection, where we detect whether a vehicle has a goal or maneuver which we do not recognise. Another possibility would be to use multi-agent MCTS could be used to more accurately model interactions between vehicles, rather than having fixed predictions for other vehicles.
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Tenho as seguintes tabelas: users, jobs, projects, job_user.

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*A relação da tabela de users e jobs é de muitos pra muitos e é
feita através da tabela auxiliar job_user.

*Um job pertence a um project.

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    return $q->whereHas('users', function($q){
        $q->where('user_id', auth()->user()->id);
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}

public function project()
{
    return $this->belongsTo(Project::class);
}

public function users()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany(User::class);
}

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public function user()
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    return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}

public function jobs()
{
    return $this->hasMany(Job::class);
}

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public function jobs()
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    return $this->belongsToMany(Job::class);
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    $jobs = $this->job->authUser()->with('project.company')->get();

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Bit House Saloon was a bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. Established in 2015, the business operated in the Nathaniel West Buildings in the city's Buckman neighborhood. The high-energy squad "Team Riff-Raff" managed the bar from 2016 to 2021, hosting pop-ups and inviting other chefs to collaborate.

Bit House garnered a positive reception and was included in several lists of Portland's best bars. The business was named "Portland's 2015 Bar of the Year" by The Oregonian, and was named among Playboy fifty "Best New Bars 2016". Bit House Saloon rebranded as Bit House Collective in 2021, staying open and serving meals and drinks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The managing partnership shifted to a new bartender and chef, as well as Pono Brewing, featuring "Filipino drinking food".

In June 2021, that management was replaced by Jewan Manuel's pop-up Plant Based Papi, serving vegan entries. By early 2022, the vegan Cuban pop-up restaurant Miami Nice used the space. Bit House Collective also hosted drag brunches before closing in 2022.

Description
Bit House Saloon was housed in an 1896 building constructed by Nathaniel West, part of the National Register of Historic Places-listed Nathaniel West Buildings, in southeast Portland's Buckman neighborhood. Condé Nast Traveler described the bar as "a swanky cocktail lounge, a casual tap house, and a happy-hour destination", with "universal appeal". In Moon Oregon (2020), Judy Jewell and W. C. McRae described the business as a "large and rollicking redbrick bar with a nice patio".

Food menu
The food menu included a bologna sandwich, Rocky Mountain oysters, and biscuits. It was later changed to include crunchwraps, tacos, and tamales. The restaurant also served chicken wings with jalapeño, serrano, fresno and ancho chilies with onion, garlic, vinegar and butter. Bit House's brunch menu, launched in 2018, included "a melange of breakfast classics with a hint of Latin American flavors", such as horchata French toast, roasted poblano hash, a McMuffin-like breakfast sandwich with chorizo, and a frozen blackberry margarita.

Drinks
Cocktails included the Ace of Spades (whiskey) and the Sloe Gin Fizz 3000 (gin, cinnamon, lemon, egg white, and a sodium bicarbonate cube). The Wexter's Playground has been described as a "tiki and comic book-inspired behemoth ... starring a dinosaur, powdered sugar, and single-barrel brandy from Germain Robin". The drink included Orchard Pear liqueur, Pedro Ximenez Sherry, lime, Blackstrap bitters, and salted almond, and was garnished with a toy dinosaur, mint, and apple slices. The Boom Swagger Swagger had Cruzan Black Strap Rum, falernum, Dry Curaçao, and Stumptown cold brew nitro draft.

The K23 had rum, jasmine, mint, lemon, and beet, and the House of Bambooze had sherry, vermouth, and salted almonds. The Breakfast with Paula Deen had coffee, cherry-washed bourbon, pecan milk, and "toffee-rich chantilly French cream liqueur". One version of a boilermaker paired Angel's Envy Rye with Scrimshaw Pilsner, from North Coast Brewing Company. The restaurant also served single-barrel bourbons on tap.

Bit House Collective had a drink called the Padam, Pandan, Pandan O.F. with vodka, bourbon, pandan, blueberry, galangal root and bitters.

History

Bit House Saloon
"Bit House" is a colloquial term for a cheap saloon. The 150-seat Bit House Saloon opened on July 31, 2015, in a space previously occupied for more than three decades by East Bank Saloon. Elk Collective oversaw the remodel prior to opening. Days after opening, shelves behind the bar displaying "rare, hard-to-find and almost-impossible-to-replace imported and Japanese whiskeys" collapsed.

Bit House Saloon was named among Playboy fifty "Best New Bars 2016". The review began, "Five of Oregon's best bar managers walk into a bar. And they don't leave! Instead, they form Team Riff Raff, the high-energy squad behind Portland's Bit House Saloon." Team Riff Raff members included Jesse Card, Chris Churilla, Nick Cifuni, Brian Gilbert, and Chauncey Roach. Card left in 2017.

Ricky Bella became chef in 2017. In 2022, Brooke Jackson-Glidden of Eater Portland wrote, "To bring people into the bar on slow nights, Bella began hosting pop-ups, collaborating with chefs and line cooks from around town; people like Top Chef and fellow Imperial alumnus Doug Adams would step into the kitchen at Bit House. He remembers one particular Cinco de Mayo with other Mexican American chefs; they set up a trompo outside the bar, made with a side of pork."

Bit House hosted The Cockpit, an event described by Willamette Week as a "recurring deep house club staple", as of 2017. Vektroid unveiled a "video mixtape" at the restaurant in 2018.

Transition to Bit House Collective and closure

In 2021, Bit House Saloon was rebranded as Bit House Collective, with a changed managing partnership that included bartender Natasha Mesa, chef Carlo Lamagna of the restaurant Magna, and local brewery Pono Brewing. Characterizing it as a "long-term takeover of Bit House", Pono Brewing said that "the island influence" of its beers would pair well with "Magna's food and Natasha's cocktails". Bit House Collective began operating on March 3.

Andrea Damewood of Willamette Week noted how the business was intentional during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many restaurants operated via take-out. She recommended the waffle fries and lumpia and said Mesa's cocktails were "clearly designed to complement" Lamagna's "Filipino drinking food, which state law insists you must order along with any cocktail to go".

In June 2021, the Magna team left to open Magna Kusina and was replaced by Jewan Manuel's pop-up Plant Based Papi. For three months, Manuel served vegan tacos, pastas, and other comfort foods five days a week. Plant Based Papi also served birria tacos, jalapeño mac and cheese, fried "chicken" sandwiches, and a birria burrito.

The vegan Cuban pop-up restaurant Miami Nice used the space in early 2022. Miami Nice served "Flantastic flan", described as "a light, custard-y dessert soaked in caramel syrup", as well as "a selection of shots, non-alcoholic cocktails, and frozen drinks with a vegan Cubanito, a sandwich featuring slow-roasted jackfruit marinated in a citrus mojo". Elizabeth Delgado and Chandler Petersen included Miami Nice in Eater Portland's 2022 overview of "where to find exceptional Cuban food in Portland and beyond", during the pop-up's tenure at Bit House.

Bit House hosted a Great Gatsby-themed party for the 2021 New Year's Eve. In March 2022, Bit House Collective began hosting Fever Dream, a monthly dance event series prioritizing LGBTQ+ DJs of color. The event had "emcees, turntables, garish lights, and go-go dancers" and was staffed entirely by BIPOC individuals. Bit House also hosted drag brunches in June (Pride Month) in 2021 and 2022. In 2022, Bit House Collective closed and Swan Dive took over the space.

Reception

The Oregonian named Bit House Saloon "Portland's 2015 Bar of the Year". Playboy review said that the "old-timey feel is dialed up to 11 at Bit House, where the floors are made from old bourbon barrels, the bar is built from Oregon wine barrel staves and the room is dotted with leather armchairs and brass light fixtures. The cocktail menu has bold cocktails alongside precious ones." In his 2016 review of the bar, Willamette Week contributor Matthew Korfhage wrote:

Bit House was a runner-up in the Best New Bar category of Willamette Week's annual Best of Portland readers' poll in 2016. The business received the editor's choice award for "Bar of the Year" from Mattie John Bamman of Eater Portland, as part of Eater Awards 2016. In 2017, Bamman wrote, "Bit House Saloon offers perhaps the most comprehensive drink offerings in the city, from its in-house, single-barrel-spirits program, to well-priced, thoughtfully sourced boilermakers. Its creative cocktails even warrant hiring a full-time employee focused exclusively on bar prep."

Thoms Ross of the Portland Mercury wrote in 2017:

Lists
Emmie Martin included Bit House in Business Insider 2015 list of Portland's 16 "coolest new businesses" and said the establishment was "already making waves in the Portland bar scene". The Oregonian Michael Russell included Bit House in his 2016 list of the city's 21 "essential" bars. That year, Russell also included the business in his lists of Portland's 23 best patios and 25 "coziest restaurant and bar fireplaces". He also listed it in a 2017 overview of the city's 37 "best restaurant and bar patios".

Thrillist included the business in their 2016 lists of the city's best cocktail bars and the "best bars in Portland right now". The website's "national burger critic" also ranked Bit House eleventh in a 2016 list of the city's best burgers. Eater Portland included Bit House in a 2018 list of 25 happy hours "Portland can't live without" and a 2019 list of the city's 16 "essential" bars. In 2018, The Daily Meal ranked Bit House number 49 in a list of the best bars in the U.S., and Condé Nast Traveler included the business in a list of Portland's thirteen best bars.

See also
 List of defunct restaurants of the United States
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Southeast Portland, Oregon

References

External links

 Bit House Saloon at Portland Monthly

2015 establishments in Oregon
2022 disestablishments in Oregon
Buckman, Portland, Oregon
Defunct drinking establishments in Oregon
Defunct restaurants in Portland, Oregon
Restaurants disestablished in 2022
Restaurants established in 2015

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The Proofreader's Wife
IT had been several years now since she had begun to hate printed pages. They had grown even more loathsome than the cockroaches hidden in the crevices of the bathroom wall. Sometimes she would tear the pages up till her anger was spent. But the pages never protested. Unlike cockroaches, they never scampered away or attempted to escape, giving up their whiskers in the bargain.
Other than the soft rustle when they were being torn, the pages never raised a noise. Even that she couldn't bear. So she soaked the pages in water. As far as she was concerned, this was the worst punishment you could mete out to them. If she dunked them in the iron bucket as she started to cook in the morning, by evening they would turn to pulp.
As the pages disintegrated, where did the printed words go? Like salt dissolving in water, did they also disappear? She would stare intently at the bucket. Sometimes when she thought about it, she would wonder: What was the relationship between words and paper? Did the pages agree to have lines printed on them? Was there a gulf between the pages and the words? When her mind began to travel like this, she would often get angry with herself for entertaining such wasteful thoughts.
Her house overflowed with printed pages. Until seventeen, when she had got married to Mandiramurthy and come to Chennai, she had never seen anything other than textbooks. Also, since there was no girls' high school in her village, she had stopped at the fifth standard.
For six or seven years she had worked, either sticking labels on matches or breaking lumps of rubber. There had been a radio in the match factory. She had loved the film music that was aired on it. In those days she had so badly wanted to own a radio that she had joined a chit fund. But whenever she got the funds, there were always other expenses. So, at the time of her marriage she had insisted on getting a radio. But Mandiramurthy didn't like the radio, so it was always kept switched off.
When she came to Chennai as a new bride, she used to be scared of Mandiramurthy. At the time he was working in Royal Printing Press. There was always a pencil and an eraser in his pocket. Sometimes a red pen too could be found.
She didn't know anything about proofreading. Sometimes at night when Mandiramurthy propped himself on a pillow on the floor and marked the pages with a pencil, she would watch him intently. He would look as if he was speaking to himself. Sometimes she could even hear him laugh out loud. Till late in the night, he would proofread. Then he would open the back door, take a piss and come back to lie down.
Even when his fingers roamed over her body, the thought of proofreading would unnecessarily come to her mind. He wasn't much interested in sex. He would do it as a ritual, and after his body was spent, he would turn his face away and fall asleep—all this irritated her. Even in sleep, she had sometimes noticed his fingers moving, his face in tight concentration.
Mandiramurthy never spoke much to anyone. From six in the morning, he would proofread. When he started for work, he would put the corrected pages along with his lunchbox into his yellow bag. His office was in the Royapettah area. He didn't have many friends. He never went out either. His only habit was chewing betel leaves. He had a small leather pouch for that. Every ten minutes, he would take out a couple of leaves, pinch off the stalks and pop them into his mouth.
Once he had taken her to his office for a function. She had been awestruck when she saw a huge machine rolling out reams of paper, which slid off endlessly, as if the skin of an onion was being peeled again and again. The whole roll of paper would be printed upon. He would have to proofread the entire lot, wouldn't he? When she asked this, her husband had told her not to be silly and had taken her off to the binding section.
Four or five women of her age had been stacking the paper and sticking them. She had asked about their salary. Without replying to the question, Mandiramurthy had said that it wouldn't suit her. When she had gone to the toilet at the end of the press, she had found pages strewn everywhere. Everyone seemed to be stomping around on them.
To the south, she had found a small iron door, open. When she had peeped in, she had found it to be full of waste paper. She had been frightened. Were pages bubbling over, as if from a spring? What would happen to all this paper? Even after she went to the toilet, she couldn't wipe out the thought.
She never understood why Mandiramurthy was the lone proofreader in the office. One day she had picked up the pages that he had corrected. Every other line had mistakes, circled and corrected. When she had looked at the pages, they had seemed like the doodles of children. Sometimes she felt as if her husband was more intelligent than all the writers. Perhaps it was she who didn't understand him well enough. She had placed back the papers with trepidation and started to serve his meal.
How did Mandiramurthy's eyes spot even the smallest error? Was this trait of his confined only to paper, or did the scrutiny extend to her too? In the early days, she would sit out in the evening and watch the goings-on on the road. She had noticed his face hardening as he walked home. As soon as he entered, he would take out the pages and sit down to proofread. She never knew when he drank the coffee and ate the snacks she gave. Why he was so sunk in words puzzled her.
Mandiramurthy didn't much care about food either. Sometimes he would start for work in a wet veshti. Whenever she asked hesitantly about looking for a different job, he would reply with a glare: what was wrong with this job? She never could explain.
Mandiramurthy hadn't missed a day's work. Even when she was ill, he would make kanji for her and leave for the office. She would lie on the mat, gritting her teeth. Why had she got married to a person like this? She fumed—how could this man, who was so concerned when a single letter was misprinted, forget to look after her?
He never gave much thought to all this. Once in a blue moon he himself would offer to take her for a film. She would then hastily change her sari and come out. She had seen him look intently at the billboards and even the wrappings of groundnuts and his lips would often murmur the errors to himself.
She had never heard him laugh in a cinema hall. His face was always frozen in thought. He was always anxious to return home the minute the show ended. He never touched her the nights they saw a film. She never understood why.
It was over fifteen years since they had got married. To date they didn't have a child. She was used to staying home alone. Once in a while she would take a lime and set off to have a darshan of Lord Dakshinamurthy. She would even forget what to pray for and stand still in front of the deity.
On the days when she was livid, she would ask the lord to wipe out printed paper from the whole world. Her anger soon began to include pencils, erasers and so on.
A couple of years ago, when she had nothing to do, she had torn up, one by one, all the printed pages at home. In the evening, when Mandiramurthy had come home to a room littered with paper, he had scolded: "Thangamma, if you like tearing paper up, then go to the dustbin. You'll find plenty there. Don't do this again."
He had gone straight to his table and started to correct the pages from his bag. She had wailed loudly. He hadn't seemed to have heard her cries at all. He had gathered the proofread pages. She hadn't slept that night. She had felt as if the words had dropped off the pages and stuck to her arms, legs and all over her body.
Soon after, Mandiramurthy had taken her to the doctor. With a confused look, she had said she was scared. The doctor had given her medicines for a week to sleep. Even when she slept, her eyes tightly shut, she could faintly see him proofreading. Unable to even cry, she would fall asleep.
For a year she had to be taken every week to the general hospital. She would walk silently on the streets. Neither would utter a word till they reached the hospital. He would sit her down in the outpatient ward and would go off to gaze at the vagai tree on the opposite side.
The minute they returned home with the white and yellow capsules he would set off to his press. Even the capsules had words printed on them. She would look intently to figure out if they were proofread or not. A thought usually surfaced: as the capsules dissolved in her stomach, would the words too dissolve? She would close her eyes and swallow the capsules.
Paper too increased her hatred and anger. She became obsessed with wiping out all the printed pages in the world. So she stopped talking to him. Even when he asked for water, she just stared at him, pretending she had not heard. He himself would get up and drink the water.
At night, even if he noticed her sitting still on the mat, not wanting to sleep, he wouldn't stop working. One day she stood behind him and watched him work. Like an enraged beast mauling its prey, he kept on striking out and correcting the words with his pencil. Incensed, she asked: "What is there only in this paper?" Without turning around, he said, "I don't know."
When she looked intently at the papers, words seemed to split and break away and dance. Suddenly she embraced him and started to weep. The pencil fell from his hand and the lead broke. He prised her arms away, picked up the pencil and started sharpening it carefully. There was a one-thousand-page novel in front of him, waiting to be proofread. Thangammal's sobs rolled down, filling the entire house.
This story is taken from The Tamil Short Story: Through the Times, Through the Tides (Ed. Dilip Kumar; translated by Subashree Krishnaswamy), an anthology, in translation, of 88 short stories written between 1913 and 2000.
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A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox), in order to prove his love to a stuck-up village girl named Victoria (Sienna Miller), vows to bring her back a fallen star. Unfortunately, it has landed beyond this very long stone wall the villagers are forbidden to cross. On the other side is a very different, supernatural land. Of course, he crosses over anyways and does find the fallen star, though it is in the form of a young woman named Yvaine (Claire Danes). Also after the star is a witch named Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) and also the sons of the King of Stormhold, who simply wish to have the power.
Tristan and Yvaine meet an odd assortment of characters, there are some decent special effects, and a very predictable, very Hollywood type ending.
If you ask me to compare this to another movie I'd say it's similar to BIG FISH, without the emotional resonance. It is a very light-hearted fantasy film...that is not memorable.
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Macrotarsomys é um género de roedor da família Nesomyidae.

Espécies
Macrotarsomys bastardi Milne-Edwards & G. Grandidier, 1898
Macrotarsomys ingens Petter, 1959
Macrotarsomys petteri Goodman & Soarimalala, 2005

Referências
 MUSSER, G. G.; CARLETON, M. D. Superfamily Muroidea. In: WILSON, D. E.; REEDER, D. M. (Eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. 3. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. v. 2, p. 894-1531.
 GOODMAN, S. M., SOARIMALALA, V. (2005). A new species of Macrotarsomys (Rodentia: Muridae: Nesomyinae) from southwestern Madagascar. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118 (2), 450-464.

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import re
import time
import json
import urllib
import urllib2
import HTMLParser
from xml.etree import ElementTree
import collections
import sys

class Wolfram():
    def __init__(self, mucbot):
        self.mucbot = mucbot

    def handle(self, msg):
        if msg['body'][:8] == "!wolfram":
            q = msg['body'][9:].encode('utf-8')

            result = urllib2.urlopen("http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query?format=plaintext&input=" + urllib.quote_plus(q) + "&appid=3KEKLK-GVJTEP28YK")
            xml = result.read()
            root = ElementTree.fromstring(xml)
            pods = root.findall('pod')
            dyms = root.findall('didyoumeans')
            res = []
            body = ""

            # we got some results
            for pod in pods[:6]:
                if pod.get('id') != 'Input' and pod.findtext('subpod/plaintext') != '':
                    text = pod.findtext('subpod/plaintext')
                    res.append(pod.get('title') + ': \n' + '\n'.join(["    {0}".format(t.strip()) for t in text.split('\n')]))

            # no results but suggestions
            if len(dyms) > 0:
                res2 = []
                for d in dyms[0].findall("didyoumean"):
                    res2.append(d.text)

                res.append("Did you mean: " + ('\n' if len(res2) > 1 else '') + '\n'.join(res2))

            if len(res) > 0:
                body = ('\n' if len(pods) > 1 else '') + '\n'.join(res)

            # what is happening?!?!
            if len(pods) == 0 and len(dyms) == 0:
                body = "%s: No idea what you meant." % msg['mucnick']

            self.mucbot.send_message(mto=msg['from'].bare,
                mbody=body,
                mtype='groupchat')

    def help(self):
        return ["wolfram - return WolframAlpha result (might be slow)"]

class MUCBotMock():
    def send_message(self, mto, mbody, mtype):
        print "MUCBotMock:", mto, mbody, mtype

class FromMock():
    def __init__(self, _from):
        self.bare = _from

def do_test():
    x = Wolfram(MUCBotMock())
    msg = {"from" : FromMock("channel@example.com"), "mucnick" : "kallsse", "body" : "!wolfram 2+2"}
    x.handle(msg)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    do_test()


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The rear-facing camera was a cinch. The home button was a bit more involved. I didn't have to peel the metal frame off the case, but pretty much everything else comes apart. It did take nearly an hour to get it all apart, replaced and reassembled. It took a long time to boot, I assume because the battery had been disconnected, and I was sure I had bricked it. Surprise - it's back in service and ready to be attached to the next project!


meet a few requirements for some softwares, but no problems otherwise.
to say it's worth downloading for free and at least checking it out.
SuSE 9 is around the corner too.
We're also using Gentoo on another PE, again, little to complain about.
were done in that arena on SuSE, so you're in good company with SuSE.


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Box Office: The Sky is Pink is below average
Shonali Bose's The Sky is Pink, starring Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar, got good reviews but fared below average at the box office.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim and Rohit Saraf.
Director: Shonali Bose.
What works: Fantastic performances.
What doesn't: Rather than allow us to feel things on our own, the film tells us when to cry.
Number of weeks: New.
Box Office verdict: Below Average.
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Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff, Vaani Kapoor, Ashutosh Rana, Anupriya Goenka, Dipannita Sharma, Soni Razdan.
Director: Siddharth Anand.
What works: The Hrithik-Tiger face-off.
What doesn't: Predictable, largely influenced by Hollywood films.
Number of weeks: 1.
Box Office verdict: Hit.
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Director: Abhishek Sharma.
What works: Dulquer Salmaan.
What doesn't: A shrill Sonam, the film does not capture the book's magic.
Box Office verdict: Poor.
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Cast: Karan Deol and Sahher Bambba.
Director: Sunny Deol.
What works: Gorgeously shot.
What doesn't: Poor performances.
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What doesn't: Climax drags, action scenes are badly choreographed, Sanjay Dutt.
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What doesn't: Drags, at times.
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Director: Ajay Bahl.
What works: Engaging courtroom drama.
What doesn't: Most of the dialogues are in English.
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Director: S Krishna.
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What doesn't: The hero's abrupt transformation from wrestler to boxer.
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Director: Nitesh Tiwari.
What works: Heartwarming film, well-written.
What doesn't: Predictable.
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Reading: Editorial
Jan L. de Jong
The three papers published in this issue of Incontri were presented as lectures during a symposium of the section Italian Art Studies of the Onderzoekschool Kunstgeschiedenis (OSK; Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History) in Utrecht, on April 21, 2017. The theme of the symposium was 'Tombs and Cenotaphs in Italy, 1300-1900'. All three lectures discuss one or more tombs that were made in Rome, in the period between ca. 1480 – 1575. Furthermore, they all examine 'clerical tombs', made for popes and cardinals.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
How to Cite: de Jong, J.L., 2017. Editorial. Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 32(2), pp.5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
de Jong, J.L., 2017. Editorial. Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 32(2), pp.5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
de Jong JL. Editorial. Incontri Rivista europea di studi italiani. 2017;32(2):5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
de Jong, J. L. (2017). Editorial. Incontri. Rivista Europea Di Studi Italiani, 32(2), 5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
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de Jong, Jan L.. 2017. "Editorial". Incontri. Rivista Europea Di Studi Italiani 32 (2): 5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
de Jong, Jan L.. "Editorial". Incontri. Rivista Europea Di Studi Italiani 32, no. 2 (2017): 5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
de Jong, J. L.. "Editorial". Incontri. Rivista Europea Di Studi Italiani, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 5–7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10213
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