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.. _cwl:

CWL in Toil
===========

The Common Workflow Language (CWL) is an emerging standard for writing workflows
that are portable across multiple workflow engines and platforms.
Toil has full support for the CWL v1.0.1 specification.

Running CWL Locally
-------------------

The `toil-cwl-runner` command provides cwl-parsing functionality using cwltool, and leverages the job-scheduling and
batch system support of Toil.

To run in local batch mode, provide the CWL file and the input object file::

    $ toil-cwl-runner example.cwl example-job.yml

For a simple example of CWL with Toil see :ref:`cwlquickstart`.

Note for macOS + Docker + Toil
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

When invoking CWL documents that make use of Docker containers if you see errors that
look like
::

    docker: Error response from daemon: Mounts denied:
    The paths /var/...tmp are not shared from OS X and are not known to Docker.

you may need to add
::

    export TMPDIR=/tmp/docker_tmp

either in your startup file (``.bashrc``) or add it manually in your shell before invoking
toil.

Detailed Usage Instructions
---------------------------

Help information can be found by using this toil command:
::

    $ toil-cwl-runner -h

A more detailed example shows how we can specify both Toil and cwltool arguments for our workflow:
::

    $ toil-cwl-runner \
        --singularity \
        --jobStore my_jobStore \
        --batchSystem lsf \
        --workDir `pwd` \
        --outdir `pwd` \
        --logFile cwltoil.log \
        --writeLogs `pwd` \
        --logLevel DEBUG \
        --retryCount 2 \
        --maxLogFileSize 20000000000 \
        --stats \
        standard_bam_processing.cwl \
        inputs.yaml

In this example, we set the following options, which are all passed to Toil:

``--singularity``: Specifies that all jobs with Docker fornat containers
specified should be run using the Singularity container engine instead of the
Docker container engine.

``--jobStore``: Path to a folder that already exists, which will contain the
Toil jobstore and all related job-tracking information.

``--batchSystem``: Use the specified HPC or Cloud-based cluster platform.

``--workDir``: The directory where all temporary files will be created for the
workflow. A subdirectory of this will be set as the ``$TMPDIR`` environment
variable and this subdirectory can be referenced using the CWL parameter
reference ``$(runtime.tmpdir)`` in CWL tools and workflows.

``--outdir``: Directory where final ``File`` and ``Directory`` outputs will be
written. References to these and other output types will be in the JSON object
printed to the stdout stream after workflow execution.

``--logFile``: Path to the main logfile with logs from all jobs.

``--writeLogs``: Directory where all job logs will be stored.

``--retryCount``: How many times to retry each Toil job.

``--maxLogFileSize``: Logs that get larger than this value will be truncated.

``--stats``: Save resources usages in json files that can be collected with the
``toil stats`` command after the workflow is done.

Running CWL in the Cloud
------------------------

To run in cloud and HPC configurations, you may need to provide additional
command line parameters to select and configure the batch system to use.

To run a CWL workflow in AWS with toil see :ref:`awscwl`.

.. _File literals: http://www.commonwl.org/v1.0/CommandLineTool.html#File
.. _Directory: http://www.commonwl.org/v1.0/CommandLineTool.html#Directory
.. _secondaryFiles: http://www.commonwl.org/v1.0/CommandLineTool.html#CommandInputParameter
.. _InitialWorkDirRequirement: http://www.commonwl.org/v1.0/CommandLineTool.html#InitialWorkDirRequirement

Running CWL within Toil Scripts
------------------------------------

A CWL workflow can be run indirectly in a native Toil script. However, this is not the :ref:`standard <cwl>` way to run
CWL workflows with Toil and doing so comes at the cost of job efficiency. For some use cases, such as running one process on
multiple files, it may be useful. For example, if you want to run a CWL workflow with 3 YML files specifying different
samples inputs, it could look something like:

.. literalinclude:: ../../src/toil/test/docs/scripts/tutorial_cwlexample.py

Toil & CWL Tips
---------------

**See logs for just one job by using the full log file**

This requires knowing the job's toil-generated ID, which can be found in the log files.
::

    cat cwltoil.log | grep jobVM1fIs

**Grep for full tool commands from toil logs**

This gives you a more concise view of the commands being run (note that this information is only available from
Toil when running with `--logDebug`).
::

    pcregrep -M "\[job .*\.cwl.*$\n(.*        .*$\n)*" cwltoil.log
    #         ^allows for multiline matching

**Find Bams that have been generated for specific step while pipeline is running:**
::

    find . | grep -P '^./out_tmpdir.*_MD\.bam$'

**See what jobs have been run**
::

    cat log/cwltoil.log | grep -oP "\[job .*.cwl\]" | sort | uniq

or:
::

    cat log/cwltoil.log | grep -i "issued job"

**Get status of a workflow**
::

    $ toil status /home/johnsoni/TEST_RUNS_3/TEST_run/tmp/jobstore-09ae0acc-c800-11e8-9d09-70106fb1697e
    <hostname> 2018-10-04 15:01:44,184 MainThread INFO toil.lib.bioio: Root logger is at level 'INFO', 'toil' logger at level 'INFO'.
    <hostname> 2018-10-04 15:01:44,185 MainThread INFO toil.utils.toilStatus: Parsed arguments
    <hostname> 2018-10-04 15:01:47,081 MainThread INFO toil.utils.toilStatus: Traversing the job graph gathering jobs. This may take a couple of minutes.

    Of the 286 jobs considered, there are 179 jobs with children, 107 jobs ready to run, 0 zombie jobs, 0 jobs with services, 0 services, and 0 jobs with log files currently in file:/home/user/jobstore-09ae0acc-c800-11e8-9d09-70106fb1697e.

**Toil Stats**

You can get run statistics broken down by CWL file. This only works once the workflow is finished:
::

    $ toil stats /path/to/jobstore

The output will contain CPU, memory, and walltime information for all CWL job types:
::

    <hostname> 2018-10-15 12:06:19,003 MainThread INFO toil.lib.bioio: Root logger is at level 'INFO', 'toil' logger at level 'INFO'.
    <hostname> 2018-10-15 12:06:19,004 MainThread INFO toil.utils.toilStats: Parsed arguments
    <hostname> 2018-10-15 12:06:19,004 MainThread INFO toil.utils.toilStats: Checking if we have files for toil
    <hostname> 2018-10-15 12:06:19,004 MainThread INFO toil.utils.toilStats: Checked arguments
    Batch System: lsf
    Default Cores: 1  Default Memory: 10485760K
    Max Cores: 9.22337e+18
    Total Clock: 106608.01  Total Runtime: 86634.11
    Worker
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
         1659 |     0.00    0.80  264.87 12595.59 439424.40 |     0.00    0.46   449.05 42240.74 744968.80 |  -35336.69     0.16   -184.17  4230.65 -305544.39 |      48K    223K   1020K  40235K 1692300K
    Job
     Worker Jobs  |     min    med    ave    max
                  |    1077   1077   1077   1077
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
         1077 |     0.04    1.18  407.06 12593.43 438404.73 |     0.01    0.28   691.17 42240.35 744394.14 |  -35336.83     0.27   -284.11  4230.49 -305989.41 |     135K    268K   1633K  40235K 1759734K
     ResolveIndirect
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
          205 |     0.04    0.07    0.16     2.29     31.95 |     0.01    0.02     0.02     0.14      3.60 |       0.02     0.05      0.14     2.28      28.35 |     190K    266K    256K    314K   52487K
     CWLGather
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
           40 |     0.05    0.17    0.29     1.90     11.62 |     0.01    0.02     0.02     0.05      0.80 |       0.03     0.14      0.27     1.88      10.82 |     188K    265K    250K    316K   10039K
     CWLWorkflow
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
          205 |     0.09    0.40    0.98    13.70    200.82 |     0.04    0.15     0.16     1.08     31.78 |       0.04     0.26      0.82    12.62     169.04 |     190K    270K    257K    316K   52826K
     file:///home/johnsoni/pipeline_0.0.39/ACCESS-Pipeline/cwl_tools/expression_tools/group_waltz_files.cwl
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
           99 |     0.29    0.49    0.59     2.50     58.11 |     0.14    0.26     0.29     1.04     28.95 |       0.14     0.22      0.29     1.48      29.16 |     135K    135K    135K    136K   13459K
     file:///home/johnsoni/pipeline_0.0.39/ACCESS-Pipeline/cwl_tools/expression_tools/make_sample_output_dirs.cwl
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
           11 |     0.34    0.52    0.74     2.63      8.18 |     0.20    0.30     0.41     1.17      4.54 |       0.14     0.20      0.33     1.45       3.65 |     136K    136K    136K    136K    1496K
     file:///home/johnsoni/pipeline_0.0.39/ACCESS-Pipeline/cwl_tools/expression_tools/consolidate_files.cwl
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
            8 |     0.31    0.59    0.71     1.80      5.69 |     0.18    0.35     0.37     0.63      2.94 |       0.13     0.27      0.34     1.17       2.75 |     136K    136K    136K    136K    1091K
     file:///home/johnsoni/pipeline_0.0.39/ACCESS-Pipeline/cwl_tools/bwa-mem/bwa-mem.cwl
        Count |                                       Time* |                                        Clock |                                              Wait |                                    Memory
            n |      min    med*     ave      max     total |      min     med      ave      max     total |        min      med       ave      max      total |      min     med     ave     max    total
           22 |   895.76 3098.13 3587.34 12593.43  78921.51 |  2127.02 7910.31  8123.06 16959.13 178707.34 |  -11049.84 -3827.96  -4535.72    19.49  -99785.83 |    5659K   5950K   5854K   6128K  128807K

**Understanding toil log files**

There is a `worker_log.txt` file for each job, this file is written to while the job is running, and deleted after the job finishes. The contents are printed to the main log file and transferred to a log file in the `--logDir` folder once the job is completed successfully.

The new log file will be named something like:
::

    file:<path to cwl tool>.cwl_<job ID>.log

    file:---home-johnsoni-pipeline_1.1.14-ACCESS--Pipeline-cwl_tools-marianas-ProcessLoopUMIFastq.cwl_I-O-jobfGsQQw000.log

This is the toil job command with spaces replaced by dashes.


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'Like popping popcorn': Grasshoppers swarm town in Quebec's Mauricie region | CBC News Loaded
'Like popping popcorn': Grasshoppers swarm town in Quebec's Mauricie region
Swarms of insects in the thousands have been covering outdoor furniture, ravaging gardens, perching above door and window frames, and coating the roads.
Entomologist says the mild winter and hot spring are to blame
Spencer Van Dyk · CBC News · Posted: Aug 22, 2021 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 22, 2021
Swarms of grasshoppers have made it impossible for some residents in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to enjoy the outdoors this summer. (Submitted by Marlyne Muise)
Thousands of grasshoppers have been blanketing the small town of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Que., all summer.
Swarms of the insects have been covering outdoor furniture, ravaging gardens, perching above door and window frames and coating the roads in the community just outside Shawinigan in Quebec's Mauricie region.
Resident Marlyne Muise said after a long winter stuck inside, she was hoping to take advantage of her backyard this summer. But for more than two months, her yard has been held hostage by a large group of grasshoppers.
She said the insects ate her entire garden and destroyed her flowers, and left gaping holes in the net surrounding her gazebo.
"It was discouraging," said Muise, who added she'd put lots of time and money into a garden she hasn't been able to enjoy.
She said she was also bounced around different government ministries trying to figure out what to do and who was responsible for the invasion.
Thousands of grasshoppers have been blanketing homes and roads while also decimating gardens. (Submitted by Marlyne Muise)
"Well you would think it's one of the 10 plagues of Egypt," said Sébastien Houle, who lives nearby and witnessed the grasshopper swarm this summer.
Houle, a journalist at the regional newspaper Le Nouvelliste, said the insects were more concentrated on a couple streets when they first took over the town, but since they grew wings they've scattered.
"We've got quite a bit of them, but it's not as concentrated or as impressive as it was at first," he said.
Houle first discovered the grasshoppers when residents started posting photos and videos online, so he went to see for himself.
"You walk out of your car, or you have to jump into your car, then you walk on the ground and it's like popping popcorn," he said.
"They just appeared overnight."
Entomologist Étienne Normandin said it's the largest grasshopper infestation he's seen in his 15-year career. (Submitted by Marilyne Muise)
Entomologist Étienne Normandin said it's the largest invasion he's seen in his 15-year career, but he noted a swarm of thousands of insects was bound to happen with this year's weather.
Normandin explained that the mild winter and hot spring created the perfect conditions for the bugs to thrive.
The researcher, who's working on a list of Quebec and Canada's edible insects at the Université de Montreal, collected about 2.2 kilograms of grasshoppers in a five-hour period in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton.
Normandin found four different species of grasshopper in the town, all of which are indigenous to Quebec.
He says grasshoppers are a cyclical species, which means Muise and her neighbours likely will be stuck with the bugs for a while.
With files from Quebec AM
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Nature Scribe
Nature is home, even if we live in cities. I'm a Tasmanian-based writer who loves learning and writing about the natural world, from the smallest bugs to the broadest landscapes. That passion led me to co-found the Wildcare Tasmania International Nature Writing Prize back in 2002. It's the world's first literary award for unpublished nature writing. © All material in this blog copyright Peter Grant (unless otherwise stated)
The Shaky Isles, Part 1: The Earth Moves
[newspaper images of the Christchurch earthquake - courtesy Christchurch's Sunday Star Times]
They say 24 hours is a long time in politics. But in geology, it's the merest whisker. And that's the margin by which we missed being in Christchurch during Saturday's Canterbury earthquake. It was a whopper: 7.1 on the Richter scale, but shallow and therefore both damaging and significant.
On Friday, having made the long drive from Canterbury to west of Nelson, we were exhausted. So we slept right through Saturday morning's 'quake. I seem to make a habit of doing that, which is disappointing for someone trained in earth science. During my student days I was benighted in the Blue Mountains of NSW and had to sleep in a tent on a gravel road, high in a remote part of the mountains. Overnight there was an earthquake, centred somewhere beneath the mountains. Amazingly I slept right through it.
The only earthquake I've been conscious for was a Tasmanian "tiddler". I was woken by what I took to be a huge possum thumping onto the roof. My sleepy brain registered that he must have been a sumo-sized possum, because the bed seemed to shake. But it wasn't until the next morning that I heard on the radio that the "possum" had in fact been an earthquake.
As for the Christchurch quake, we only learned about it via a mobile call from one of our daughters in Australia. Much to their chagrin, New Zealanders find themselves on the edge of the tectonic plate known as the Australian plate. It was this that had pushed past the Pacific plate rather more vigorously than is polite. The usual slippage is something like 4mm per year, whereas this one was up to 5 metres. Two people were seriously injured, and many others received minor injuries. Many others reported to hospital with apparent heart attacks. But amazingly, at the time of writing, no fatalities have been reported.
Indeed with typical Kiwi humour, neighbours in the farming districts were light-heartedly comparing how much land they had lost or gained as a result of the earth movements. And one farmer on typical flat plains country reckoned he could now boast "rolling hills".
But the humour masks a nervousness that the earth may yet have more to deliver, as it did with fatal consequences in 1931. 256 people were killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake centred on the North Island city of Napier. And there have been many others killed before and since.
[Mountains rise sheer from the sea above Kaikoura: one result of living near the plate boundary]
Living at the pointy end of tectonic plates, where earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslips and avalanches are real threats, has created a certain level of uncertainty about life among New Zealanders. Perhaps they recognise the temporariness of life in a way that Australians don't, living as we do on a stable, old and seemingly eternal continent.
Tonight the South Island is expecting a stormy change, with wind gusts forecast to reach 130km/hour. You've gotta love this place! Hopefully I'll report more once we get through this next challenge.
Posted by Nature Scribe at 15:20
Labels: Canterbury, Christchurch, earthquake, Napier, Richter scale, tectonic plates
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As Australian poet, Les Murray, put it "I am only interested in everything." That has lead me to study Earth Science, Theology and Education; and travel widely, especially on foot and by bicycle. I'm married, and have 3 adult children and 9 grandchildren. After a career in education and communication - the last 24 with Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service - I'm now concentrating on writing, especially nature writing. My wife and I live in the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington, near Hobart, Tasmania.
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Los Angeles - Jan. 31, 2014 - Researchers in the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute discovered in pre-clinical models that dormant prostate cancer cells found in bone tissue can be reawakened, causing metastasis to other parts of the body. Understanding this mechanism of action may allow researchers to intervene prior to disease progression.
"Understanding how and why dormant cells in bone tissue metastasize will aid us in preventing the spread of disease, prolonging survival and improving overall quality of life," said Chia-Yi "Gina" Chu, PhD, a researcher and postdoctoral fellow in the Uro-Oncology Research Program and lead author of the study published in the journal Endocrine-Related Cancer.
In the study, investigators found that cancerous cells in the bone were reawakened after exposure to RANKL, a signaling molecule commonly produced by inflammatory cells. Researchers then genetically engineered cells to overproduce RANKL and found that these cells could significantly alter the gene expression of surrounding dormant cells in lab studies and in laboratory mice, causing them to transform into aggressive cancer cells.
Researchers then injected these engineered RANKL cells directly into the blood circulation of laboratory mice, which caused dormant cells within the skeleton to reawaken, creating tumors within the bone. When the RANKL receptor or its downstream targets were blocked, tumors did not form.
"After examination, these engineered tumors were found to contain both RANKL-producing prostate cancer cells and dormant cells, which had been transformed to become cancerous," said Chu. "However, the transformed cells displayed aggressive traits that would metastasize to bone and become resistant to standard hormone therapies used to treat the disease."
Though findings are preliminary, researchers plan to identify other cells known to produce RANKL that may also recruit and reprogram dormant cells to colonize bone tissue. Investigators plan to embark into clinical research with human patients in collaboration with leading Cedars-Sinai researchers, including Edwin Posadas, MD, medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program.
"Though more work must be done to understand how RANKL reprograms dormant cells to become cancerous, we look forward to examining its influence on promoting metastasis and secondary tumors, as well as the possibility of 'deprogramming' metastatic cancer cells," said Leland Chung, PhD, director of the Uro-Oncology Research Program.
Cedars-Sinai collaborators include Michael Freeman, PhD, director of cancer biology and therapeutics in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and vice chair in the Department of Surgery; Haiyen E. Zhau, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine; Ruoxiang Wang, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine; Andre Rogatko, PhD, director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core; and Sungyong You, PhD, and Jayoung Kim, PhD, both researchers in the Department of Surgery.
Xu Feng, PhD, and Majd Zayzafoon, MD, PhD, from the University of Alabama, Birmingham; Mary C. Farach-Carson, PhD, from Rice University; and Youhua Liu, PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh, contributed to the study.
This research is supported in part by grants from National Cancer Institute (P01-CA098912, R01-CA122602), the Prostate Cancer Foundation, including both a Challenge Award and a Young Investigator Award, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Board of Governors Endowed Chair in Cancer Research.
Citation: Endocrine-Related Cancer. 2014 January: RANK- and c-Met-mediated signal network promotes prostate cancer metastatic colonization.


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AP Fact Check: Trump's Hotly Debated Islamic State Speech
Jon Street
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump grimaces as he makes remarks Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016 at the Trask Coliseum on the campus of University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Wilmington, N.C. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump painted the Middle East as an oasis of stability before Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, arguing that she and President Barack Obama "launched" the Islamic State group onto the world.
In trying to outline how he would defeat the threat, Trump himself launched several other false claims on Monday.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during his campaign event at the BB&T Center on August 10, 2016 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trump continued to campaign for his run for president of the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
He said Clinton and Obama sought to install a democracy in Libya and pushed for immediate change in leadership in Syria, accusing the pair of embarking on a "nation-building" strategy that few Republicans would ascribe to Obama's intervention-averse administration.
In contrast, he advocated his own vision for U.S. foreign policy that included the suggestion of a U.S. takeover of Iraq's oil reserves.
A look at some of Trump's comments and how they adhered to the facts:
Trump:
"President Obama and Hillary Clinton should have never attempted to build a democracy in Libya, to push for immediate regime change in Syria or to support the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt."
Trump seems to be confusing Obama and Clinton's limited interventions, and sometimes non-interventions, with President George W. Bush's post-9/11 regime-change efforts.
When the U.S. led a coalition to bomb Libya in March 2011, it was sold as a humanitarian intervention. Obama vowed not to deploy U.S. troops on the ground and focused primarily on protecting Libyan civilians from dictator Moammar Gadhafi's military forces. He didn't promise a stable democracy there, like Bush did in invading Iraq.
Five months into Syria's conflict, Obama urged President Bashar Assad to step aside. But Obama did very little to realize such a result, to the great dismay of his GOP critics and even some in his own administration.
To this day, the United States maintains its call for a Syria without Assad, even as it works with the Syrian leader's closest partners to try to engineer a unity government that would keep Assad in power, perhaps indefinitely.
While Trump is right that Libya, Syria and Egypt appeared more stable seven years ago, his analysis leaves out the simmering resentment for autocratic governments that would bubble over during the 2011 Arab Spring. That cannot be ascribed to Obama and Clinton.
Trump on Clinton's role in the Libya campaign:
"With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary Clinton's policies launched ISIS onto the world stage."
The U.S.-led military campaign in Libya created a security vacuum and political chaos. But it took three years before IS emerged in Iraq and Syria, and there is no connection between those developments.
The group has its roots in a militant organization known as al-Qaida in Iraq, which found haven in Syria after being nearly decimated in Iraq in 2007-2009.
Some experts say the instability in Libya opened a door for the Islamic State to spread to North Africa, particularly after it suffered heavy losses in Syria and Iraq in 2015-16. But the group is facing severe setbacks there, too.
Trump on the Iraq war:
"I have been clear for a long time that we should not have gone in. But I have been just as clear in saying what a catastrophic mistake Hillary Clinton and President Obama made with the reckless way in which they pulled out."
Trump did publicly say he wanted U.S. troops out years earlier than Obama pulled them out.
He said in March 2007 the U.S. should declare victory and withdraw troops because Iraq was going to get further bogged down in civil strife.
He said the U.S. was "keeping a lid" on the situation by being there, but that when the U.S. leaves, "it's all going to blow up" so the U.S. might as well leave "because you just are wasting time."
"I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq ... In the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils."
While Trump argues against nation-building, he seems to be suggesting the U.S. should have seized Iraq and its natural resources as an American colony. He ignores the fact that Iraq is a sovereign country and the U.S. at no point threatened to take possession of the country.
Trump says he would have used the money from oil sales to pay for the care of wounded soldiers. But the mission would require a permanent occupation, or at least until the oil runs out, and a large presence of American soldiers to guard sometimes isolated oil fields and infrastructure.
Trump's claim that the U.S. has taken "spoils" in previous wars also raises questions.
After major wars, the 240-year-old United States has tended to pour money and aid back into countries it has fought to help re-establish governments and services.
The U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan, with the permission of those nations, but it did not take possession of their oil or other natural resources.
To achieve Trump's stated goal of destroying Islamic State militants' revenue stream, the U.S. has bombed oil facilities in Iraq. The bombing was designed to render the oil facilities inoperable, but not destroy them, with the notion that Iraq could rebuild its own economy with their oil when the conflict ended.
"Anyone who cannot name our enemy is not fit to lead our country. Anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression and violence of radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our president."
Obama doesn't use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism," but he condemns the group harshly and regularly. He has characterized IS fighters as "thugs," ''thieves" and terrorists.
Obama says he doesn't want to connect the group to the religion of Islam. Doing so, he says, would unnecessarily anger Arab allies fighting the group, alienate Muslims at home and validate the claims of the enemy. "ISIL is not 'Islamic.' he has said, using his preferred acronym for the group.
Trump's actual opponent in the presidential race, Clinton, is more comfortable with such terminology.
She has used the terms "radical jihadism" and "radical Islamism."
Trump on one of the San Bernardino shooters:
"She wanted to support very openly jihad online... A neighbor saw suspicious behavior, bombs on the floor and other things, but didn't warn authorities because they said they didn't want to be accused of racial profiling."
There is no such evidence.
Jarrod Burguan, the city's police chief, says no one reported knowing anything about what husband-and-wife shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik had been plotting, even after the Dec. 2, 2015, terror attack that killed 14 people at a luncheon for county government employees.
Instead, some neighbors told investigators after the attack that they had general concerns about people "who looked a little different" in the neighborhood and didn't feel it was appropriate to say anything.
That's a far cry from seeing bombs on the floor or identifying other suspicious behavior.
"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.
NATO established a Defense Against Terrorism program in 2004, long before Trump ran for president. And its latest efforts in Iraq were already under discussion when Trump criticized the alliance in March.
Trump's comments reflected a broader frustration of the U.S. and others that NATO members weren't playing an active role against IS in Iraq and Syria.
At a July summit, the alliance agreed to contribute aircraft and conduct training in Iraq. It also has stepped up intelligence coordination. No one has cited Trump as a motivation for such decisions.
The Islamic State "has a new base of operations" in Libya.
Islamic State militants have tried to establish such a base in the city of Sirte. But a U.S.-supported military offensive in Libya this year has all but driven the group out of its former headquarters there.
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In the book, Pontefract explains the performance advantages engaged firms have. He then champions leadership practices where employees see the need for performing better, have the courage to strive for it, and pursue it with the curiosity to learn how. All this can be enhanced with the help of technologies that accelerate the path to better.
Firms who connect with and engage their employees achieve better results, by design. They're not commanding and controlling their way to better. They're coaching, measuring, adapting, exploring, and bettering. In such firms, the culture is 'coordinate and cultivate'. It shows. Empowered employees can and will do the right thing when it counts.
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Ernst Theis – Bio (en)
Ernst Theis, a native of Upper Austria, studied in Vienna at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts (today's University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). His first appearances as a conductor were with the orchestra Österreichische Kammersymphoniker [Austrian Chamber Symphony]; as this ensemble's artistic director and general manager from 1991–2003, Theis devoted considerable attention to classical modernism, contemporary music and—later on—Viennese classicism. This period saw the recording of two CD series: one was a four-issue series for Cantate – Musicaphon Records dedicated to classical modernism with works by Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinů and Erwin Schulhoff, and later on he recorded what still remains the world's only complete recording of Joseph Haydn's piano concertos for the label ARTS MUSIC. Over the course of his activities with the Austrian Chamber Symphony, with which he maintained a concert series at Vienna's Konzerthaus for many years and appeared at various festivals, he was also asked to substitute on short notice at the Vienna Volksoper—which thereafter hired him; he subsequently spent nearly four years at this opera house as a conductor.
His career then saw him work with numerous orchestras in Austria and abroad such as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the NDR Radio Philharmonic in Hannover, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserlautern, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, and many others. This was a period during which he gathered experience with the central concert repertoire as well as with classical modernist and contemporary works.
From 2003 to 2013, Theis served as head conductor of Staatsoperette Dresden, which was embroiled in a serious crisis when he arrived. His thoroughly visionary conceptual approach to their artistic work together paved this theatre ensemble's way into the recording market; he began recording with them for the German label CPO in 2005, performed with them at renowned concert halls such as the Cologne Philharmonie, Hamburg's Laeiszhalle and the Brucknerhaus in Linz, and also took them several times to the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau. Ultimately, Staatsoperette Dresden went being a potential candidate for closure in 2003 to awaiting construction of a new theatre building in 2012.
In 2013, after 10 years at the helm, Ernst Theis left the Staatsoperette Dresden in order to have time to devote himself to new ideas. He went on to make a number of successful debuts and also frequently substituted at short notice; for the Bochum Symphony, for example, he took over a programme including Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, Remain Chicago by Mark-Anthony Turnage, and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 for an ill colleague on just 17 hours' notice. But he has also remained true to established concepts like his project RadioMusiken, in which he is producing recordings together with Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Central German Broadcasting, MDR) over a period of several years, as well continuing to pursue his focus on music of the Strauss dynasty that he developed comprehensively while in Dresden and for which he is frequently requested. Today, Ernst Theis covers an artistic range that runs from early Viennese Classicism to the avant-garde, working successfully with numerous orchestras on various continents.
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University of South Carolina Women's Perfume, I love the base notes.
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Texas!
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I would choose the NC State Women's.
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Central Florida Future, Vol. 35 No. 51, March 13, 2003
Central Florida Future; Future; Student newspapers; 2002-2003 (Vol. 35)
Vol. 35 No. 51, March 13, 2003
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Semi-weekly student newspaper of the University of Central Florida (UCF). It started in 1968 upon the opening of Florida Technological University (FTU), UCF's predecessor. Initially it was called "FuTUre" and published weekly. The words "Central Florida" were added around the time the school changed to UCF. It is available in microfilm (1968-1986, library call number LD1772.F9 A1438), online (September 2001-current, at http://www.centralfloridafuture.com) and in University Archives (1968-current).
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Jeremy Giambi
Jeremy Dean Giambi (/dʒiˈɑːmbi/; born September 30, 1974) is an American retired professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Red Sox from 1998 through 2003. He also played in the minors for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox. He is the younger brother of former baseball player Jason Giambi.
Like his older brother Jason, Jeremy Giambi attended South Hills High School, Sierra Vista Middle School in Covina, California, and Covina Elementary School in Covina, California. He attended California State University, Fullerton and played college baseball for the Cal State Fullerton Titans. The Kansas City Royals selected Giambi in the sixth round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft.
Giambi started off his Major League career playing for the Royals, for whom he played for parts of two seasons. He was mentioned in Michael Lewis' book Moneyball as one of the replacement players for his older brother, Jason and became a character in the film that starred Brad Pitt. Despite his off field troubles, Jeremy was looked at by Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, because of his plate discipline. The Athletics acquired Giambi from the Royals in exchange for Brett Laxton prior to the 2000 season.
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Kurdish fighters face resistance from IS in Iraq
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MOUNT SINJAR, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish fighters in Iraq pushed deeper Monday into the town of Sinjar, held by the Islamic State group, but are facing stiff resistance from the Sunni militants who captured it in August.
One of the fighters, Bakhil Elias, said clashes since late last night have been "fierce" and that IS militants are using snipers. At least two Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed by snipers and 25 were wounded in the latest fighting.
Large plumes of black smoke are billowing into the sky from inside the town. The Kurdish forces say the militants are burning tires and oil to create a smoke screen of thick dark clouds to obstruct airstrikes against their positions by the U.S-led coalition.
Last week, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters launched the operation to retake Sinjar and were able to reach thousands of Yazidis who were trapped on Mount Sinjar. Peshmerga fighters opened up a corridor to the mountain and are regularly bringing truckloads of aid and food to the area.
In neighboring Syria, Kurdish fighters pushed into an IS-held neighborhood in the northern town of Kobani, capturing a cultural center that they had besieged on Saturday. "The center is very important morally and militarily," said Kobani-based activist Mustafa Bali, referring to the site, located on a hill that overlooks several neighborhoods east and southeast of the town.
"This will change the military rhythm in the coming days," Bali said, adding that the aim of Kurdish fighters in Syria is to evict IS militants from Kobani and nearby villages. Kurdish fighters have been slowly advancing in Kobani over the past weeks backed by Iraqi peshmerga fighters who came to help, and airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.
The IS group began its Kobani offensive in mid-September, capturing parts of the town as well as dozens of nearby villages. Hundreds of fighters on both sides have been killed since. Idriss Nassan, a Kobani local official, said that over the past days the Syrian Kurdish force known as the People's Protection Units, or YPG, "has taken the initiative" and advanced in IS-held neighborhoods.
Nassan said peshmerga fighters usually bombard IS positions in the town while YPG fighters carry out the ground attack with the help of airstrikes that target militant positions.
Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue contributed to this report from Beirut.
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Hagel Nominated to Run Pentagon, Brennan Picked to Helm CIA
By Steven T. Dennis
Posted January 7, 2013 at 11:54am
President Barack Obama on Monday named former Sen. Chuck Hagel as his pick for Defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan to run the CIA.
The decisions would put a combat veteran in charge of the Pentagon and a longtime CIA officer in charge of the spy agency.
"To have those who have been in the field, who've been in the heat of battle, who understand the consequences of decisions that we make in this town and how it has an impact and ramifications for everybody who actually has to execute our national security strategies, that's something invaluable," Obama said Monday in announcing the nominations.
While the Hagel pick in particular has drawn strong criticism from some in Senate, the president urged Congress to act as quickly as possible to confirm the two nominees given their importance in keeping the nation safe.
"We don't like to leave a lot of gaps," he said. "We need to get moving quickly on this."
Obama noted that Hagel would be the first person of enlisted rank to serve as Pentagon chief, as well as the first Vietnam War veteran to run the department.
"Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction," Obama said at the White House, flanked by Hagel, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Brennan and acting CIA director Michael Morrell. "He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud — that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary."
Obama added, "Chuck represents the bipartisan tradition that we need more of in Washington."
Hagel faces a tough fight from the GOP, with the Senate's No. 2 Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, calling him the "worst possible message" to allies in the Middle East. But former senators are almost never rejected by the Senate, and Obama has clearly decided to pick the fight. The Nebraska Republican is sure to face questioning about past statements he has made about negotiating with Iran and other groups in the region, America's relationship with Israel and the war in Afghanistan.
Hagel did win the blessing of a key Democrat, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont. "He is a combat veteran who still carries shrapnel in his body from his wounds — he will not need on-the-job training."
"On the Appropriations Committee those of us charged with handling the Senate's work on the Pentagon budget will have to make more than a hundred billion dollars in cuts to begin with, and it will be good to work with someone like Chuck Hagel who can lead the Pentagon during a difficult time of transition," Leahy said Monday in a written statement.
And Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., called Hagel "well qualified" and promised a prompt confirmation process.
But a number of Republicans have made it clear they oppose Hagel.
"Sen. Hagel's record of opposing Iran sanctions is troubling," Roger Wicker of Mississippi said Monday in a written statement, calling it a "divisive" choice. "His views and positions on the Middle East and Israel are contrary to the administration's own stated policies, and there are concerns from members of both parties about this nomination."
The outgoing ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, John McCain of Arizona, congratulated Hagel on Monday, but said he had reservations about the choice.
"I have serious concerns about positions Senator Hagel has taken on a range of critical national security issues in recent years, which we will fully consider in the course of his confirmation process before the Senate Armed Services Committee," McCain said.
James M. Inhofe, the incoming ranking Republican on Senate Armed Services — which will hold the confirmation hearing for Hagel — said Monday the nomination deserves to be "fully vetted."
"I am aware of the serious concerns about some of his policy positions, his record, and some of his comments that have been publicly reported," Inhofe said in a written statement. "I will be seeking clarification from him about these concerns as his nomination proceeds."
An Insider for CIA
Brennan has been the president's counterterrorism adviser in his first term after spending decades at the CIA. Expect an airing of questions about the CIA's extensive use of drones as a weapon of targeted assassination of terrorist targets. His current post at the White House includes the lead role in coordinating targeting decisions for drone strikes overseas.
"He has worked to embed our efforts in a strong legal framework. He understands we are a nation of laws," Obama said. "In moments of debate and decision, he asks the tough questions and he insists on high and rigorous standards."
The president and Brennan also spoke about there desire to have transparency — up to a point — and to have a good relationship with Congress on national security.
Brennan said he would ensure the CIA upholds "the liberties, the freedoms and the values that we hold so dear."
Obama had originally contemplated naming Brennan to head the CIA at the start of his first term, but settled instead on Leon E. Panetta after some liberals who criticized Brennan's past remarks on controversial George W. Bush administration surveillance and interrogation policies.
Brennan could also face some tough questions from Republicans, who could use his confirmation hearing to attack the Obama administration on several national security issues.
"The Obama administration has an abysmal record of national security and intelligence leaks when it benefits the president's agenda," Inhofe said, reacting to Brennan's selection. "And, the tragedy in Benghazi still pose many questions that have not been adequately answered for those of us in Congress and for the American people."
But the chairwoman in the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., praised the choice.
"Clearly, Mr. Brennan has the qualifications and expertise to be the next CIA Director," she said in a written statement. "He has longstanding knowledge of the operations of this critical agency and also the strength to see that it follows the law."
If confirmed, Brennan would take over the CIA after the resignation of its previous director, David E. Petraeus, over an extramarital affair with his biographer.
Emily Cadei contributed to this report.


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        $this->assertTag(
            $tags,$this->challenge->startChallenge('git init',1)['CommandResult']
        );

        $this->assertTag(
            $tags,$this->challenge->startChallenge('git status',2)['CommandResult']
        );

        $this->assertTag(
            $tags,$this->challenge->startChallenge('git status',3)['CommandResult']
        );

        // wrong command.
        $this->assertTag(
            $tags,$this->challenge->startChallenge('git status',1)['CommandResult']
        );

        $tagsDoc = array(
            'tag'        => 'div',
            'attributes' => array('id' => 'doc-template')
        );

        $this->assertTag(
            $tagsDoc,$this->challenge->startChallenge('git init',1)['DocOfChallenge']
        );
    }

}

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Fire units responded to the Verizon Training Center located at 6000 Hadley Road for a report of smoke coming from the building. DC Delnegro arrived and advised incoming units that the fire was in the stand-alone training houses located at the far end of the complex. Access was made through the gates at the end of New World Way. The working fire signal was transmitted and Engine 5 dropped a supply line from the hydrant at the opening of the gate into the job. Truck 7 setup on side A. One line was stretched into the structure. The fire was confined to the main boiler located in the basement of the building. Moderate smoke was present throughout. All searches were negative. DC Delnegro in command.


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Troides amphrysus, the Malay birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly in the genus Troides in the family Papilionidae.

Taxonomy

Subspecies
T. a. amphrysus (Java, Bali)
T. a. ruficollis (Butler, 1879 (Peninsular Malaya, Thailand, Burma)
T. a. euthydemus (Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Sumatra)
T. a. actinotia Jordan, 1909 (southern Borneo)
T. a. flavicollis (Druce, 1873) (northern Borneo)
T. a. niasicus (Fruhstorfer, 1898) (Nias)
T. a. vistara Fruhstorfer, 1906 (Batu Island)
T. a. astrea Hayami, 1992 (Banyak Island)
T. a. arkumene Hayami, 1994 (Tioman)
T. a. chrysomelas Parrott & Schmid, 1984 (Natuna)
T. a. simeuluensis Ohya, 1985 (Simeuluë, Babi Island)
T. a. perintis Kobayashi, 1986 (Tambelan Island)
T. a. kuris Kobayashi & Hayami, 1987 (Anambas Island)
T. a. hilbert Hayami, 1992 (Karimata)
T. a. merah Kobayashi & Hayami, 1992 (Simuk, Batu Island)
T. a. zeus Kobayashi & Hayami, 1992 (Sipora, Siberut, Mentawai)
T. a. naokoae (Morita, 1996) (Langkawi)
T. a. kecilensis (Schäffler, 1999) (P. Laut Kecil)

Related species
Troides amphrysus is a member of the Troides amphrysus species group. The members of this clade are:

Troides amphrysus (Cramer, [1779])
Troides andromache (Staudinger, 1892)
Troides cuneifera (Oberthür, 1879)
Troides miranda (Butler, 1869)

Description

Male. The uppersides of the forewings are black or dark brown, with veins bordered by pale yellow. The uppersides of the hindwings are golden yellow, with black veins and black spots at the edges.

Female. The basic colour of the females is black or dark brown, with veins bordered by white. The uppersides of the hindwings have a smaller golden-yellow area at the base and several yellow spots at the edges.

In both sexes the undersides are similar to the uppersides. The abdomen is yellow, while the head and thorax are black.

Life history

The egg is large and round and a pearly colour. Eggs are deposited on the food plant and the incubation period is two weeks.
The first instar larva is black and bears numerous orange tubercles with short, black, branched spines. The intermediate instars 2, 3 and 4 are black. The thoracic segments have eight tubercles and the abdominal segments have six each. These are fleshy and lack spines. The dorsal tubercles of the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and the 7th abdominal segments, are black. All the other tubercles are bright orange. In the penultimate and final instars the head is black and the thorax and abdomen is dark coffee brown. There is no saddle mark in this species. The tubercles are largely uniform in size, shape and of the ground colour. They are incline posteriorly and the apices are bent forwards to form small hooks. This species is not monophagous. The larvae feed on Aristolochia - A. acuminata and A. foveolata and on various Thottea species.

The pupa is yellowish green and is marked with greyish veins as in a leaf. It has a broad dorsal saddle mark, this is lemon yellow transversely marked with brown streaks. The abdomen has three pairs of sharp dorsal processes, directed laterally. The pupal stage lasts from 27 to 30 days.

Distribution and habitat

This species can be found in the Australasian realm and in the Indomalayan realm, from Myanmar to Indonesia. The habitat is primary and secondary rainforest.

Behaviour
In the morning the butterflies fly at 20 to 30 m high in the canopy. Females rest on the foliage, while males glide in broad circles above them. The males perform an elaborate quivering courtship display several metres above the females, before copulation. Later in the day both sexes descend to feed on flowering trees and bushes including Lantana.

References

 Butterflycorner.net
 Biolib
 Morita, S. 1996: A new subspecies of Troides amphrysus from Langkawi Is., Malaysia. Wallace 2: 5.

Kurt Rumbucher, Béla von Knötgen and Oliver Schäffler, Knötgen 1999 Part 7, Papilionidae IV. Troides II., amphrysus-group in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers .

External links

Nagypal
Consortium for the Barcode of Life T. amphrysus amphrysus at Barcode of Life
T. amphrysus ruficollis at Barcode of Life
Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
T. amphrysus ruficollis at Butterflies of Indochina

Amphrysus
Butterflies described in 1779
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Borneo
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies of Indonesia

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So, Casper Fry. We did say we'd do a second writeup about it after visiting it on opening day, didn't we? Is there any need to do so? Not really. The spot has been remarkably consistent over the last year -- a rarity in the Spokane restaurant scene -- and you have voted it a shared number three in our tally of the area's best restaurants.
But, we did say we'd be back, and we did say we'd share our experiences, so here we are. Sharing, and happily so.
Having checked out their dinners on multiple occasions, we recently gave their lunch service a shot. The only issue I can think of having here was a relative slowness in getting our food, something that isn't the end of the world. As far as service went, it was both professional and friendly.
The food here is what it is, and during our visit it was great. I'm pretty picky as far as shrimps are concerned, and was somewhat expecting the shrimp po'boy to be a letdown. This, of course, was not the case, and I'd say the shrimp was about as good as anything I've found in Spokane. Even deep fried, they had the bite I look for in shrimps. Much respect.
You probably also want to check out the grits which, while a side dish, are rich enough to be a full meal. The "Casper Plate" -- three sides of your choosing -- is actually a pretty good avenue to walk down, with eleven options to choose from. Make your own southern buffet.
We like Casper Fry. We think it's great, and apparently so do you. South Perry has slowly turned into what might be Spokane's most interesting neighborhood. Good for you who live there, and good for Casper Fry for being part of it.
Had we not known better, we would have thought Casper Fry had been an established restaurant. This, of course, is not the case. We found ourselves there on their opening day, which, really, was as smooth of a start as anyone could reasonably expect. There's always a question if the quality will be the same a month from now, or even tomorrow, but we're looking forward to be checking up on that; Casper Fry is a restaurant that deserves multiple visits.
Menu wise, the spot seems to take more of an "upscale" twist on classic southern dishes. We started out with the pantry plate, which, for all intents and purposes, is a charcuterie plate. Served with toasted baguette, you get an assortment of sausages, a spicy pimento cheese, trout rillette, and some rather excellent pickled beets and asparagus. The combination worked well, and the plate is good for sharing.
Worth mentioning here is the well-stocked bar. The pantry plate is one of those dishes that accompany a drink well, and a fairly decent portion of Casper Fry's locale is dedicated to what I assume is 21-and-over-only bar area. The Negroni here was OK, though not mindblowing, and was probably not really worth the $9. Seeing that they have a decent beer selection, I'd probably go with that next time, though I have a feeling the mixed drinks will find their way soon.
Minor digression aside... The dinner menu had a good variety to it, with a selection of "big plates", "dinner plates", and even a whole section dedicated to side dishes. The latter might be worth considering if you want bang for your bucks. The Casper Plate is just shy of $13 and is a collection of three items from the side menu. We only tried the mac and cheese, and frankly, it might just be the best classic take on the dish we've tried so far. Expect this to be a contender for the $100 Mac & Cheese Challenge.
The pork belly was also a winner. The pork came well prepared, with a good crust and tender insides. It was accompanied by two sauces -- BBQ and Hollandaise -- both with a bit of spice to them, yet mellowed out by a cider reduction. A great combination. The ace in the hole was a poached egg, or at least it should have been. The yolk wasn't runny at all the way we had it served. The dish would have been pretty nigh perfect had it been.
The pecan pie is a good choice for dessert. It's not quite up there with what J-Walk -- may it rest in peace -- used to make, but still good. Not too sweet, and the crust was very well baked.
So we're talking niggles here, most of which would have been excusable at an established restaurant. For the first day, these things really don't matter at all, particularly with Casper Fry's great service taken into consideration. Our server was both friendly and professional.
It's still early in the game, of course, but our first impressions of Casper Fry are positive. Very positive. This spot is standing a very good chance of being a regular on our rotation. You probably should stop by and see what all the fuzz is about.
We'll be back soon, to see if Casper Fry can maintain this level of quality. We're optimistic it will.
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5 Reasons We Love Fireball Whisky!
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1. It's the Original Cinnamon Whiskey: When Fireball Whisky hit the scene in 2007, it was the lone ranger in the cinnamon whiskey category. Bars and college towns across the country started to go wild for this stuff, and the big dogs (we won't name any names) started marketing their own cinnamon whiskeys.
2. Real Cinnamon People: That's right. No fake stuff here. All Fireball Whisky is made with 100% pure cinnamon. They say the rest of the recipe is top secret!
4. 100s of Shot Combinations: Fireball is great mixed with just about anything! Tons of shot options. Mix it with flavors like amaretto, apple, or peach for some of our favorites. Or just ask your bartender at The Nodding Donkey Greenville. He or she will be happy to give you their favorites!
5. Perfect Balance of Sweet: Fireball is awesome as a shooter because it goes down smooth with sweet, warm undertones. So tasty.
Come in to the best sports bar in Dallas – The Nodding Donkey – to get your fill on Fireball Whisky today! We offer $4 Fireball ALL DAY Friday! Plus, if you join us this Friday, February 19, you'll not only get $4 Fireball, but we'll be offering our first green beer of the season too for St. PRACTICE Day! Ice luge, music, win swag, and more. Don't forget to wear green! Can't wait to see you!


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Q: Why accuracy stays zero in Keras LSTM while other metrics improve when training? I have constructed a LSTM model for binary text classification problem. Here the labels are one hot encoded. Following is my constructed model
model = Sequential()
model.add(Embedding(input_dim=dictionary_length, output_dim=60, input_length=max_word_count))
model.add(LSTM(600))
model.add(Dense(units=max_word_count, activation='tanh', kernel_regularizer=regularizers.l2(0.04), activity_regularizer=regularizers.l2(0.015)))
model.add(Dense(units=max_word_count, activation='relu', kernel_regularizer=regularizers.l2(0.01), bias_regularizer=regularizers.l2(0.01)))
model.add(Dense(2, activation='softmax', kernel_regularizer=regularizers.l2(0.001)))

adam_optimizer = Adam(lr=0.001, decay=0.0001)
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer=adam_optimizer,
              metrics=[tf.keras.metrics.Accuracy(), metrics.AUC(), metrics.Precision(), metrics.Recall()])

When I fit this model the accuracy stays 0 all the time but other matrices get improved. What is the issue here?
Epoch 1/3
94/94 [==============================] - 5s 26ms/step - loss: 3.4845 - accuracy: 0.0000e+00 - auc_4: 0.7583 - precision_4: 0.7251 - recall_4: 0.7251
Epoch 2/3
94/94 [==============================] - 2s 24ms/step - loss: 0.4772 - accuracy: 0.0000e+00 - auc_4: 0.9739 - precision_4: 0.9249 - recall_4: 0.9249
Epoch 3/3
94/94 [==============================] - 3s 27ms/step - loss: 0.1786 - accuracy: 0.0000e+00 - auc_4: 0.9985 - precision_4: 0.9860 - recall_4: 0.9860

A: Because you need CategoricalAccuracy : https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/keras/metrics/CategoricalAccuracy to mesuring the accuracy of this problem.
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer=adam_optimizer,
              metrics=[tf.keras.metrics.CategoricalAccuracy(), metrics.AUC(), metrics.Precision(), metrics.Recall()])