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Female Iranian chess referee, 32, fears returning to her homeland
A female Iranian chess referee has said she fears returning to her country after a picture of her was published which appeared to show her not wearing a headscarf at the World Championships in Shanghai.
Shohreh Bayat, 32, who is chief arbiter for the 2020 Women's World Chess Championships being shared between China and Russia, fears returning to Iran as she believes she could be imprisoned for flouting Islamic law.
An image of her overseeing a match in Shanghai, which appears to show her not wearing her scarf, has been circulated by Iranian state media after it was published online.
Ms Bayat insists she was wearing the hijab, as she always does while overseeing international competitions, but that it can't be seen because of the camera angle.
'I turned on my mobile and saw that my picture was everywhere [in Iranian media]. They were claiming I was not wearing a headscarf and that I wanted to protest against the hijab,' Ms Bayat said.
This image, taken during the World Chess Championships in Beijing earlier this month, shows chief arbiter Shohreh Bayat (centre), 32, without her headscarf covering
Bayat, chief arbiter for the match between Aleksandra Goryachkina of Russia and Ju Wenjun of China, poses for photos before the match during the 2020 International Chess Federation (FIDE) Women's World Chess Championship in Shanghai on January 11, 2020
After the offending photo was published, Bayat figured she wouldn't return to Iran and decided to keep her hair unveiled for the rest of the tournament. Pictured: Bayat overseeing a match between Aleksandra Goryachkina (left) of Russia and Ju Wenjun (right) in Shanghai last week
'There are many people in prison in Iran because of the headscarf. It's a very serious issue. Maybe they'd want to make an example of me.'
While fulfilling her high-ranking sports role abroad, which is similar to a senior referee, Iranian law dictates that Ms Bayat must continue to don the headdress in public.
In an interview with Iranian state media, Ms Bayat's father was quoted as saying the headscarf had dropped accidentally.
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Despite her insistence that it was the angle of the photograph, the 32-year-old, who is one of only a few female chief arbiters in the world, said women should have the right to choose how to dress and that the headscarf 'should not be forced on them'.
She has refused to apologise to Iranian officials after the Iranian Chess Federation advised her to do so.
Figuring that she is unable to return to her country, Ms Bayat has now decided to remove the hijab altogether and is refereeing matches unveiled for the rest of the tournament in Vladivostock.
Bayat said that despite her personal feelings towards wearing the hijab, she always ensured that her hair was covered in international competitions. Her father told Iranian state media that the head covering slipped accidentally
Shohreh Bayat,looks on before the match during the 2020 International Chess Federation (FIDE) Women's World Chess Championship in Shanghai on January 11, 2020
Iranian Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh says she has permanently left Iran, citing oppression by authorities
Ms Bayat's father told the Iranian Students News Agency earlier this month (ISNA): 'Me, her mother and even the head of the Iranian Chess Federation tried hard to convince her to come back to Iran but she says she will not because she is worried about going on with her activities in Iran and wants to continue in another country with the help of the International Chess Federation.'
According to Ms Bayat, she asked the Iranian Chess Federation to appeal to the government on her behalf but they refused.
Vice-President of the International Chess Federation (Fide) Nigel Short, praised Ms Bayat, tweeting that she is 'the first woman ever to be General Secretary of a sport federation in #Iran. The only female Category-A International Arbiter in Asia. A great ambassador for her country.'
Ms Bayat is one of a select few top-level arbiters in the world and the only one in Asia.
Iran's first female Olympic-medal winner Kimia Alizadeh defected from Iran to the Netherlands earlier this month citing the country's strict dress code as a reason.
In a blistering online letter she called herself 'one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran'.
'Whatever they said, I wore,' Taekwondo athlete Alizadeh wrote in the letter posted on Instagram last week. 'Every sentence they ordered, I repeated.'
Ms Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal in taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympics, cited oppression by authorities in the Islamic republic.
The semi-official ISNA news agency carried a report on Thursday saying: 'Shock for Iran's taekwondo. Kimia Alizadeh has emigrated to The Netherlands.'
ISNA wrote that it believed that Alizadeh, who is reportedly training in The Netherlands, is hoping to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but not under the Iranian flag.
Without saying anything of her plans, Alizadeh assured the 'dear Iranian people' that she would remain 'a child of Iran wherever' she is.
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The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) has relaunched the GADtimpala Awards as its official awards and incentives system during the 9th Anniversary Celebration of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) at the Philippine International Convention Center on August 14, 2019.
GADtimpala stands for "Gender and Development Transformation & Institutionalization through Mainstreaming of Programs, Agenda, Linkages & Advocacies." It aims to recognize deserving entities, government agencies, and local government units for their outstanding performance in gender mainstreaming and effective implementation of gender responsive programs. Such programs should have visible impacts in terms of upholding the rights of women, achieving gender equality and women's empowerment, and transforming lives of women and men.
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PCW Board of Commissioners Resolution No. 001 s. 2018 established the brand "GADtimpala" as the official GAD Incentives and Awards System of the PCW.
The resolution operationalizes the provisions of Section 42 of Republic Act No. 9710 or the MCW which mandates the establishment of "an incentives and awards system which shall be administered by a board under such rules and regulations as may be promulgated by the PCW to deserving entities, government agencies, and local government units for their outstanding performance in upholding the rights of women and effective implementation of gender-responsive programs."
The resolution further provided that the PCW reserves the right to use the acronym and coined word "GADtimpala" or "Gadtimpala" to preserve its meaning, identity, purpose, and association with the PCW. As such, the use of "GADtimpala" or "Gadtimpala" by other entities, whether public or private may be allowed provided that such undertaking shall be in partnership with the PCW and that the guidelines, rules or criteria for screening, validation and selection shall be reviewed and approved by PCW. Its use shall be guided by the provisions of Section 176.1 of Republic Act No. 8293 or the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines.
Year-long selection for National Government Agencies Starts
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The 2018 search links the selection of winners with the monitoring and validation of results of agency efforts in gender mainstreaming using the Gender Mainstreaming Evaluation Framework (GMEF). GMEF is a self-assessment tool used by PCW and government agencies to assess the agencies' overall gender-responsiveness and commitment to promote gender equality for its personnel and clients. This is a major improvement from the previous round which is based on nominations.
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Depending on the final score reached by prospective awardees after the validation process, they may be conferred with either Bronze, Silver, or Gold level award.
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A comprehensive and eloquent scientific and sociocultural history of the ubiquitous disease wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
The highly contested nonfiction category of the Pulitzer Prize is as much a measure of good writing as it is a reflection of the era's cultural concerns. The 2011 nonfiction winner was The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (public library) by Columbia professor of medicine Siddhartha Mukherjee — an intelligent and illuminating medical and sociocultural history of the ubiquitous disease, from its origin to the first recorded cases to modern medicine's ongoing struggle to find effective treatment.
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Q: A die is rolled 3 times. What is the probability that a five is rolled at least twice? The probability of not getting a five is $(\frac56)^3$, and I figure the probability of getting at least one 5 is $1-(\frac56)^3$, but I don't know how to figure out if it is rolled at least twice. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

A: The number of ways to arrange $k$ fives out of $3$ dice is $\displaystyle\binom{3}{k}$
The probability of each arrangement, $k$ fives and $3-k$ others, is $\displaystyle\left(\frac16\right)^k\left(\frac56\right)^{3-k}$
Thus, the probability of getting exactly $k$ fives out of $3$ dice is $\displaystyle\binom{3}{k}\left(\frac16\right)^k\left(\frac56\right)^{3-k}$
So the probability of getting at least $2$ fives would be
$$
\sum_{k=2}^3\binom{3}{k}\left(\frac16\right)^k\left(\frac56\right)^{3-k}
$$

A: There's a famous distribution that answers the exact question you pose; namely the binomial distribution.

A: Since you're performing multiple experiments each with exactly two outcomes (the dice is a five vs. the dice is not a five), this is a classic example of a Bernoulli trial.
The standard formula to calculate the probability is then to use (from the Binomial distribution):
$$
P\{\text{that A occurs exactly k times in n trials}\} = \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} n \\ k \\ \end{array}} \right) p^k (1 - p)^{n-k}
$$
where event $A$ is the trial and $p$ is the probability for the success of a single trial ($\frac{1}{6}$).
In your case, you want to know the probability of it happening at least twice, so you need to sum the chances for it happening exactly twice and exactly three times:
$$
P\{\text{that A occurs exactly 2 times in 3 trials}\} + P\{\text{that A occurs exactly 3 times in 3 trials}\}
$$
Therefore,
$$
\begin{align}
P&= \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} 3 \\ 2 \\ \end{array}} \right) p^2 (1 - p)^{(3-2)} + \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} 3 \\ 3 \\ \end{array}} \right) p^3 (1 - p)^{(3-3)} \\
&= \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} 3 \\ 2 \\ \end{array}} \right) \cdot \frac{1}{6}^2 \cdot \frac{5}{6}^{1} + \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}c} 3 \\ 3 \\ \end{array}} \right) \cdot \frac{1}{6}^3 \cdot \frac{5}{6}^{0}\\
&= 3 \cdot \frac{1}{36} \cdot \frac{5}{6} + 1 \cdot \frac{1}{216} \cdot 1\\
&= \frac{15}{216} + \frac{1}{216}\\
&= \frac{16}{216}\\
&= \frac{2}{27} = 0,074... = 7,41 \% \\
\end{align}
$$
As you can see, this method of calculation can unfortunately become very tedious for larger examples, but it has the advantage of being a consistent approach for any problems surrounding Bernoulli trials. The intuitive approaches mentioned in some of the other answers can be quicker for small cases where all the possible outcomes can be manually considered.

A: The long winded brute force method would be to add up the probabilities of the four outcomes that would give you the desired result. $$5,5,5\\5,5,x\\5,x,5\\x,5,5\\\text{Where x is any number other than 5.}$$
So, these outcomes would have the probabilities of $$\frac{1}{6}^3\\\frac{1}{6}\cdot\frac{1}{6}\cdot\frac{5}{6}\\\frac{1}{6}\cdot\frac{5}{6}\cdot\frac{1}{6}\\\frac{5}{6}\cdot\frac{1}{6}\cdot\frac{1}{6}$$
And you would add up these probabilities.
The more general way to look at it would be to, look into the binomial distribution, as suggested by a different answer to this question.  Also, @robjohn gives a good explanation on how to find the probabilities for three and two 5's.

A: While Lee's answer is correct, if you do not know about the Binomial distribution, you can try this:
1) The complementary event is that you get $0$ or $1$ fives.
2) Probability of getting $0$ fives has been computed by you.
3) Let's compute probability of $1$ five: It can occur in $1st$, $2nd$ or $3rd$ try: each of them have the same probability, namely: $\dfrac{1}{6}\dfrac{5}{6}\dfrac{5}{6}$.
So the total probability for this case is: $3\dfrac{1}{6}\dfrac{5}{6}\dfrac{5}{6}$.

A: $\displaystyle\frac{2}{27}$
There are $\displaystyle6^3$ ways (which is 216) to roll three dice (or to roll a dice three times, all equally probable)
There are 15 ways to get only a pair of fives and one way to get three fives, there are no other ways to get at-least two fives so the answer is
$\displaystyle\frac{16}{216}$ which is $\displaystyle\frac{2}{27}$

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It is represented in Westminster by Lucy Powell MP for Manchester Central. The first councillors for the ward were elected at the 2018 local elections.

Councillors
The current councillors for the ward are Majid Dar (Labour) and Irene Robinson (Labour), and Alan Good (Liberal Democrats).

On 24 July 2019 it was reported that Majid Dar had been suspended by the Labour party. He was readmitted to the party and to the Labour group on the council shortly after.

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perendiate (puh-REN-dih-nayt) — verb: 1. to put off until the day after tomorrow. 2. to stay at college for an extended time.
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Initially, the nose was mostly chocolate/cocoa powder. There was also a bit of an earthiness or wet wood and a slight hint of tobacco.
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The Jefferson Vineyards Cabernet Franc didn't represent the best expression of the grape ever, but this wine was more than enjoyable. At $18, this is a nice little bottle of wine. I would absolutely recommend decanting this wine before serving—probably for 2-3 hours. It got better with each sip after 90 minutes or so. The blurb on the bottle recommends pairing with game meats; I agree, provided you keep a lot of game meats around. If you enjoy Cabernet Franc (or haven't had this varietal before and would like to try something different), give this wine a go.


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Buddha There are many Buddha's in the world. The story by Ash vaghosha called The Life of Buddha talks about the original Buddha, and how he came to be. Sculptures and pictures of Buddha always have the same features. From the Art Institute in Chicago comes a sculpture of Buddha from China. These two things have a lot in common. The parts of the body in the sculptures depict certain things about a Buddha's life and the way Buddhism spread though Asia influenced the arts depicting Buddha.
Most works of art involving Buddha have features that are almost always there. Whenever a person sees Buddha, he always has most of the ten qualities or powers of a Buddha, described in Story of the Life of Buddha Sakyamuni. However there are thirty-two major characteristics and eight minor, among them is the eight-spoke lines on the soles and palms. The spot between Buddha's eyebrows, sometimes calls the third eye or wisdom bump, is a mark of wisdom. The nose has a specific length like the ears have their own characteristics. The enlightenment-elevation on the top of the head, describe by old texts as emerging from the head of a saint, symbolize Buddha's enlightenment and is a visible symbol of the "spiritual generative power that strives toward heaven and passes into the immaterial sphere." (Buddhist Art: Perfect Proportions of a Buddha, Para.
The Yoga position stemming from the pre-Buddhist tradition in India hides the lower half of Buddha's body, but show the divine meditating with the utmost concentration, soles visible. The image of Buddha expresses serenity and proportional beauty. These Measurements are laid out in the canon of Buddhist art, which corresponds to ideal physical proportions; each span has a twelve-finger breadth and has 9 breadths. If there is a background behind Buddha it usually depicts a halo around his head. For example, the Buddha in Buddhism: a Brief Introduction on page thirty-eight exhibits a fiery halo.
The Buddha statue from the Art Institute is sitting in the lotus position, have the wisdom bump, and the hair is knotted on the top of the head. Also the Buddha would have had long ear lobes if they were not broken off. The long ear lobes seem to be a symbol of his wealth and that the fact that they are now longer filled shows that he renounced wealth. At the end of the story the Prince did just the he renounced his wealth and became Buddha. He went throughout the land spreading his thoughts and teaching in a way. The hair in a knot was part of a fashion at the time and to also renounce comfort.
The halo in the back can represent a few things it can either be the sun behind him, or a symbol for Buddhist teachings. Also most images of Buddha that are created seem to depict him as being Asian or at least light skinned. Buddhism spread through China during the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty Confucianism held it back. The Tang Dynasty was the age of literature and art in China.
When it was accepted in China it spread quickly due to the invention of the block printing. This allowed written word to spread quicker then before. During this time there were lots of images of Buddha and sculptures created during this period as well. The Art Institute in Chicago has several works of art dealing with Buddhism in someway. All of the Chinese figures of Buddha exhibit the ten qualities of Buddha and most of the thirty-two characteristics. When you look at it these pieces have a lot in common.
By looking at the statue you see the things that he has given up by Buddha and the story about his life show why he is this way. I found the religion and the art somewhat strange. Some of the concepts did not grab quite right.


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Ted learned to read while still very young. By six years of age, he was already reading Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. His favorite early book, however, was The Hole, a riotous book about a gun that is shot in the house whose bullet pierces the water heater and, as the house filled with water, the bullet keeps going, piercing everything in its path, through walls and furniture and doors until, in the kitchen, it hits a cake that was so hard it stops the bullet.


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Le fleuve de Karvia (en ) est un cours d'eau du Satakunta en Finlande.

Description
Le fleuve nait dans le lac Karvianjärvi au nord-est de Satakunta, puis il coule dans les directions sud et ouest.
Le fleuve coule à travers les lacs Kirkkojärvi, Kynäsjärvi, Inhottujärvi et Isojärvi et il
traverse les municipalités de Karvia, Honkajoki et Kankaanpää et Pomarkku.

Le cours inférieur du Karvianjoki est constitué de nombreuses diffluences.
Le bras principal entre les deux lacs Inhottujärvi et Isojärvi est le Pomarkunjoki, au-dessous de l'Isojärvi le Merikarvianjoki, qui se jette au sud de Merikarvia dans la mer Baltique. L'estuaire le plus au sud porte les appellations Oravajoki, Noormarkunjoki et Eteläjoki et coule à Noormarkku.

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The hard-working search and rescue volunteers of Wanaka and Fiordland are profiled in South Pacific Pictures series High Country Rescue. This eighth episode looks at an elderly mountain biker who's taken a tumble, an injured Israeli hiker who has good fortune with some kind locals, and an embarrassed young new year's reveller who underestimates the cold of Mt Roy. Despite the trying situations the volunteers keep spirits high. One rescue turns to farce when the responders get their ute stuck up a hill and require a rescue of their own.
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South Pacific Pictures series High Country Rescue follows search and rescue volunteers as they respond to crises across Wanaka and Fiordland. Cameras follow the team from briefings at headquarters to daring recovery missions, as adventurers are rescued from remote spots on the surrounding hills. It's not all serious though: for many the worst injury is to their pride. Neither are the rescuers immune from trouble — one episode sees a rescuer getting a ute stuck up a hill, and having to be saved by a bloke who recently put his truck in a river.
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This collection celebrates the onscreen legacy of Sir Edmund Hillary — from triumphs of endurance (first atop Everest, tractors to the South Pole, boats up the Ganges) and a lifetime of humanitarian work, to priceless adventures in the NZ outdoors. Tom Scott and Mark Sainsbury — Ed's TV biographers-turned-mates — offer their own memories of the man.
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In 2012 an unusual world first won overseas media attention: Campbell Live followed two rescue dogs as they attempted to drive a car. The dog story was an example of a New Zealand story going viral around the globe. This collection offers other stories that won overseas attention: a royal baby's encounter with a Buzzy Bee; an American tourist going missing off the Cook Strait ferry; Coronation Street stars; celebrity sheep Shrek (in clip two of Eating Media Lunch) and David Lange's famous line about uranium (in clip three of Revolution).
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"Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings" and "Free Guy" to Get Exclusive Theatrical Releases
With the CDC announcing yesterday that vaccinated Americans can stop wearing masks and maintaining social distance in most situations, and as we approach a big Memorial Day Weekend that will see a slew of major movies hit theaters, the momentum for a movie theater recovery is in sight. To that end, 20th Century and Marvel Studios have decided to release two of their big titles, Free Guy and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings respectively, exclusively in theaters instead of getting a hybrid release on Disney+. Disney CEO Bob Chapek confirmed on an earnings call on Thursday that each film will spend 45 days in theaters before moving on to Disney+, a shift in the way they've approached releases for their recent slate of films.
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Q: How to prove the continuity of the functional $v \mapsto \int \vert v \vert^2$ on this function space? I am trying to prove the continuity of the functional \begin{equation} f: v \mapsto \int_{\mathbb{R}^N} \vert v \vert^2 \end{equation}
on the space \begin{align} V(\mathbb{R}^N) = \lbrace v = v_1 + i v_2 : \mathbb{R}^N \to \mathbb{C} ~ | ~ &\nabla v \in L^2(\mathbb{R}^N), \\ &v_1 \in L^2(\mathbb{R}^N), \\ &v_2 \in L^4(\mathbb{R}^N),\\ & \nabla v_1 \in L^\frac{4}{3}(\mathbb{R}^N)  \rbrace,  \end{align} equipped with the norm $$ \Vert v \Vert_{V(\mathbb{R}^N)} = \Vert \nabla v \Vert_{L^2(\mathbb{R}^N)} + \Vert v_1 \Vert_{L^2(\mathbb{R}^N)} + \Vert v_2 \Vert_{L^4(\mathbb{R}^N)} + \Vert \nabla v_1 \Vert_{L^\frac{4}{3}(\mathbb{R}^N)}.$$

Now, if I try to prove the continuity I choose $v,w \in V(\mathbb{R}^N)$ such that $$ \Vert v - w \Vert_V < \delta $$ for some $\delta>0$. In particular, $$\Vert \nabla v \Vert_{L^2(\mathbb{R}^N)} = \int \vert \nabla v_1- \nabla w_1 \vert^2+\vert \nabla v_2-\nabla w_2 \vert^2< \delta.$$  I go on to compute \begin{align} \vert f(v) - f(w) \vert &=  \left\vert \int \vert \nabla v \vert^2 - \int \vert  \nabla w \vert^2 \right\vert \\ &= \left\vert \int \vert\nabla v_1\vert^2 - \vert\nabla w_1\vert^2 + \vert \nabla v_2 \vert^2 - \vert\nabla w_2\vert^2  \right\vert \end{align} Here I'm stuck. How do I show that this is smaller than any $\varepsilon>0$ if only $\delta$ is small enough? Or is there another way to show the continuity? Any hint is much appreciated!

EDIT. In the contrary: $\vert \vert a \vert^2-\vert b \vert^2 \vert \not\leq C \vert a - b \vert^2$ in general (for $N=1$ try $b=a-\varepsilon$).

A: The $L^2$ norm of $v_1$ is obviously controlled by the $V$-norm. But the $L^2$-norm of $v_2$ is not; that is, the functional is not continuous. Indeed, let $v$ be a nonzero purely imaginary function, $v=iv_2$. For $t>0$ let $v_t=t^{-N/2}v(tx)$. By the change of variables,
$$\begin{split}\int_{\mathbb R^N} |v_t|^2 &= \int_{\mathbb R^N} |v|^2
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\int_{\mathbb R^N} |\nabla v_t|^2 &= t^{-2} \int_{\mathbb R^N} |\nabla v|^2
\\
\int_{\mathbb R^N} |v_t|^4 &= t^{-N} \int_{\mathbb R^N} |v|^4 \end{split}$$
Therefore, $\|v_t\|_V\to 0$ as $t\to\infty$, while $f(v_t)$ remains the same (nonzero) value.


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If you are wanting to try a mixture of all these products and their bamboo face cloth then it is definitely worth giving the Travel Essential kit as it is all which I have talked about. ALSO-- if you are unsure on the products there may an ambassador for Tropic Skincare in your area so check for Facebook groups or become a hostess or ambassador yourself.


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Giger: Yurcich looks like a fantastic hire for Lions
You know how you've watched Big 12 football at times over the years and thought to yourself, "Don't they play any defense in that league?" If you love offense, as I do, the high-scoring, pinball game type of attacks in the Big 12 have always been fun to watch, even if the defenses did leave you scratching your head.
Well, now Penn State has one of those guys who used to run an explosive Big 12 offense.
Mike Yurcich is the Nittany Lions' new offensive coordinator, and he brings a wealth of experience to the job. He also brings a mindset that offenses need to score a hell of a lot of points, which is what he learned as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State for six seasons from 2013-18.
This looks like a fantastic hire by James Franklin.
RELATED: Story with Franklin comments, Yurcich's career breakdown
Only time will tell, of course, but Penn State has never — and I repeat never — brought in a new offensive coordinator who has had the kind of success before arriving that Yurcich has had.
Sure, Joe Moorhead was outstanding at Penn State, a game changer who brought a modern offense to the Lions that helped win the 2016 Big Ten title. But Moorhead came from Fordham and had not enjoyed the kind of success at a high-profile school that Yurcich has.
Kirk Ciarrocca looked like a really good hire last year. He had a lot of experience as a coordinator and was good at Minnesota, but what Yurcich has accomplished is on a different level.
Let's talk about Ciarrocca for a minute. I will not pile on the guy, as some fans may do after Penn State's disappointing 4-5 season.
Yes, Ciarrocca called way too many fades in the red zone. It was ridiculous. It pretty much never worked, and it made him look bad.
But Ciarrocca expected to have Journey Brown, Noah Cain and Devyn Ford as his tailbacks. If all three had been with the team and healthy, I can guarantee you the Lions would have been much better on offense.
But Brown had to retire for medical reasons. Cain got hurt on the first series of the season. And Ford had to miss time, as well. That left true freshmen Keyvone Lee and Caziah Holmes to carry the load, and they did a very nice job, all things considered.
I also won't blame Ciarrocca for Sean Clifford's very poor start to the season. Clifford threw some absolutely terrible passes and committed very costly turnovers that helped lead to the 0-5 start. He got benched, learned his lesson and played better later in the season.
Tight end Pat Freiermuth also had to miss the final five games with a shoulder injury, taking an All-American away from Ciarrocca.
We will never truly know how good Ciarrocca could have been with more time and all of the weapons at his disposal at Penn State.
Franklin decided to make the change now, though, because in Yurcich, he surely believes he's found a coordinator who can do what Moorhead did in 2016 — oversee an offense that can score at will and from anywhere on the field.
Ciarrocca seemed unwilling or uninterested in taking a lot of deep shots down the field. We may not truly know his reasoning — maybe he just didn't have faith in Clifford after the QB's bad start — but whatever the case, that needed to happen.
Yurcich undoubtedly will let his quarterback take shots down the field. They have always done that at Oklahoma State, where Yurcich worked for Mike Gundy, and he spent the past two seasons with prolific offenses at Ohio State and Texas.
There is every reason to believe that Yurcich will come in and have great success at Penn State. He has worked with the likes of Mason Rudolph, Justin Fields and Sam Ehlinger, and he should be able to get the most out of a senior quarterback in Clifford next season.
Give him time to bring in and develop his own quarterbacks, and the sky very well could be the limit for Yurcich.
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package client

import (
	"net/url"
	"testing"

	"github.com/qingyuancloud/QingYuan/pkg/api"
	"github.com/qingyuancloud/QingYuan/pkg/api/resource"
	"github.com/qingyuancloud/QingYuan/pkg/api/testapi"
	"github.com/qingyuancloud/QingYuan/pkg/fields"
	"github.com/qingyuancloud/QingYuan/pkg/labels"
)

func getResourceQuotasResoureName() string {
	return "resourcequotas"
}

func TestResourceQuotaCreate(t *testing.T) {
	ns := api.NamespaceDefault
	resourceQuota := &api.ResourceQuota{
		ObjectMeta: api.ObjectMeta{
			Name:      "abc",
			Namespace: "foo",
		},
		Spec: api.ResourceQuotaSpec{
			Hard: api.ResourceList{
				api.ResourceCPU:                    resource.MustParse("100"),
				api.ResourceMemory:                 resource.MustParse("10000"),
				api.ResourcePods:                   resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceServices:               resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceReplicationControllers: resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceQuotas:                 resource.MustParse("10"),
			},
		},
	}
	c := &testClient{
		Request: testRequest{
			Method: "POST",
			Path:   testapi.ResourcePath(getResourceQuotasResoureName(), ns, ""),
			Query:  buildQueryValues(ns, nil),
			Body:   resourceQuota,
		},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200, Body: resourceQuota},
	}

	response, err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(ns).Create(resourceQuota)
	c.Validate(t, response, err)
}

func TestResourceQuotaGet(t *testing.T) {
	ns := api.NamespaceDefault
	resourceQuota := &api.ResourceQuota{
		ObjectMeta: api.ObjectMeta{
			Name:      "abc",
			Namespace: "foo",
		},
		Spec: api.ResourceQuotaSpec{
			Hard: api.ResourceList{
				api.ResourceCPU:                    resource.MustParse("100"),
				api.ResourceMemory:                 resource.MustParse("10000"),
				api.ResourcePods:                   resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceServices:               resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceReplicationControllers: resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceQuotas:                 resource.MustParse("10"),
			},
		},
	}
	c := &testClient{
		Request: testRequest{
			Method: "GET",
			Path:   testapi.ResourcePath(getResourceQuotasResoureName(), ns, "abc"),
			Query:  buildQueryValues(ns, nil),
			Body:   nil,
		},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200, Body: resourceQuota},
	}

	response, err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(ns).Get("abc")
	c.Validate(t, response, err)
}

func TestResourceQuotaList(t *testing.T) {
	ns := api.NamespaceDefault

	resourceQuotaList := &api.ResourceQuotaList{
		Items: []api.ResourceQuota{
			{
				ObjectMeta: api.ObjectMeta{Name: "foo"},
			},
		},
	}
	c := &testClient{
		Request: testRequest{
			Method: "GET",
			Path:   testapi.ResourcePath(getResourceQuotasResoureName(), ns, ""),
			Query:  buildQueryValues(ns, nil),
			Body:   nil,
		},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200, Body: resourceQuotaList},
	}
	response, err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(ns).List(labels.Everything())
	c.Validate(t, response, err)
}

func TestResourceQuotaUpdate(t *testing.T) {
	ns := api.NamespaceDefault
	resourceQuota := &api.ResourceQuota{
		ObjectMeta: api.ObjectMeta{
			Name:            "abc",
			Namespace:       "foo",
			ResourceVersion: "1",
		},
		Spec: api.ResourceQuotaSpec{
			Hard: api.ResourceList{
				api.ResourceCPU:                    resource.MustParse("100"),
				api.ResourceMemory:                 resource.MustParse("10000"),
				api.ResourcePods:                   resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceServices:               resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceReplicationControllers: resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceQuotas:                 resource.MustParse("10"),
			},
		},
	}
	c := &testClient{
		Request:  testRequest{Method: "PUT", Path: testapi.ResourcePath(getResourceQuotasResoureName(), ns, "abc"), Query: buildQueryValues(ns, nil)},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200, Body: resourceQuota},
	}
	response, err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(ns).Update(resourceQuota)
	c.Validate(t, response, err)
}

func TestResourceQuotaStatusUpdate(t *testing.T) {
	ns := api.NamespaceDefault
	resourceQuota := &api.ResourceQuota{
		ObjectMeta: api.ObjectMeta{
			Name:            "abc",
			Namespace:       "foo",
			ResourceVersion: "1",
		},
		Status: api.ResourceQuotaStatus{
			Hard: api.ResourceList{
				api.ResourceCPU:                    resource.MustParse("100"),
				api.ResourceMemory:                 resource.MustParse("10000"),
				api.ResourcePods:                   resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceServices:               resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceReplicationControllers: resource.MustParse("10"),
				api.ResourceQuotas:                 resource.MustParse("10"),
			},
		},
	}
	c := &testClient{
		Request: testRequest{
			Method: "PUT",
			Path:   testapi.ResourcePath(getResourceQuotasResoureName(), ns, "abc") + "/status",
			Query:  buildQueryValues(ns, nil)},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200, Body: resourceQuota},
	}
	response, err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(ns).UpdateStatus(resourceQuota)
	c.Validate(t, response, err)
}

func TestResourceQuotaDelete(t *testing.T) {
	ns := api.NamespaceDefault
	c := &testClient{
		Request:  testRequest{Method: "DELETE", Path: testapi.ResourcePath(getResourceQuotasResoureName(), ns, "foo"), Query: buildQueryValues(ns, nil)},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200},
	}
	err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(ns).Delete("foo")
	c.Validate(t, nil, err)
}

func TestResourceQuotaWatch(t *testing.T) {
	c := &testClient{
		Request: testRequest{
			Method: "GET",
			Path:   "/api/" + testapi.Version() + "/watch/" + getResourceQuotasResoureName(),
			Query:  url.Values{"resourceVersion": []string{}}},
		Response: Response{StatusCode: 200},
	}
	_, err := c.Setup().ResourceQuotas(api.NamespaceAll).Watch(labels.Everything(), fields.Everything(), "")
	c.Validate(t, nil, err)
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
namespace caf::detail {

struct behavior_stack_mover;

class CAF_CORE_EXPORT behavior_stack {
public:
  friend struct behavior_stack_mover;

  behavior_stack(const behavior_stack&) = delete;
  behavior_stack& operator=(const behavior_stack&) = delete;

  behavior_stack() = default;

  // erases the last (asynchronous) behavior
  void pop_back();

  void clear();

  bool empty() const {
    return elements_.empty();
  }

  behavior& back() {
    CAF_ASSERT(!empty());
    return elements_.back();
  }

  void push_back(behavior&& what) {
    elements_.emplace_back(std::move(what));
  }

  template <class... Ts>
  void emplace_back(Ts&&... xs) {
    elements_.emplace_back(std::forward<Ts>(xs)...);
  }

  void cleanup() {
    erased_elements_.clear();
  }

private:
  std::vector<behavior> elements_;
  std::vector<behavior> erased_elements_;
};

} // namespace caf::detail


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HDTV Movie Premieres: March 5-11
Someone Like You: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday.
Bland romantic-comedy starring Ashley Judd as a talkshow talent scout who vents her spleen on men by writing a sexist magazine column about their mating habits. Hugh Jackman, Greg Kinnear, Ellen Barkin and Marisa Tomei co-star while Judd's mother, Naomi, has a cameo as a make-up artist. Dexter vet Tony Goldwyn, who starred in The Last Samurai and the NZ-made The Last Tattoo, directs the Elizabeth Chandler (The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants) screenplay. (2001)
Waitress: TV3, 10.35pm Saturday.
Motherhood and virtually every pie except apple are at the heart of this quirky comedy/drama about a pregnant, small-town waitress (Keri Russell) who tries to win $25,000 in a pie-making contest to flee her abusive husband (Jeremy Sisto). Mixing kitchen sink concerns with light and fluffy humour, Waitress resonates warmth and truth but isn't risky or wry enough to cut it as an American pie fable. Castle's Nathan Fillion and writer/director Adrienne Shelly co-star; Shelly was murdered six months after Waitress' release. (2007)
Alice in Wonderland: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Sunday.
Alice in Wonderland looks sensational in HD. This may not be the 3D version of the theatrical release but so rich and vibrant are the colours and contrast, and so jaw-dropping the visual effects, that the 2D dimension is preferable, anyway. Yet again, director Tim Burton has created such an immersive, funny and frequently dark fairy tale for adults — it's not only youngsters who will be unsettled by some scenes — that it will have you wanting to dance "The Futterwaken" vigorously as soon as it ends. (2010)
Into the Blue 2: The Reef: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Wednesday.
Said DVD Verdict of this made-for-video sequel about the search for Christopher Columbus' treasure: "It does its best to give the audience the nudity and action it wants, even if budgetary constraints keep it from fully realising those goals." Stephen Herek, whose otherwise undistinguished credits include Mr Holland's Opus, directs; his latest is the new to Blu-ray WWE actioner, The Chaperone. The OC's Chris Carmack and Smallville's Laura Vandervoort star. (2009)
Channels, Sky, TV3
Alice in Wonderland, Hugh Jackman, Keri Russell, Tim Burton
'New' Alien Anthology Not the Mothership
HDTV Ratings: March 2


Chesebro Half Marathon is only three weeks away, so I am starting to step up my pace at half marathon distances (and I can no longer to avoid do so without including significant elevation change). During today's solo run over and around Palos Verdes, I hit 1:53:30 at 13.22 miles...my third fastest time at this distance (even faster than my first half marathon race which was on nearly flat terrain).
Even though I am wearing a fairly fresh pair of my favorite Kayano 13's, I have picked up blisters on the balls of both feet and now detect the faint hint of shin splints on my right leg (probably aggravated when I came down Hawthorne Blvd at a sub 7 minute pace). I need to be more careful. I would not want anything to throw off my training this close to a registered event.
I do not expect to top my personal record during this upcoming race, but, based on my progress, I will be very disappointed if I do not set my second fastest time.


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tags: Built Environment, Downtown, Economic Development, Tampa, Tampa International Airport, Transit, Transportation
This week HART planners, not the board, issued a report on a plan for the future:
Hillsborough transit planners have proposed a fare increase and service cuts to make up a budget deficit during the next five years.
Excellent, ridership is at record levels, so cut service and charge more. (We understand there are budget issues, but maybe they should go get more Federal money. (See "List of the Week," below)) What else?
But looking ahead, HART leaders are now considering expansion of the system to keep pace with a growing number of riders – in part, by changing where the money comes from.
In a report released Monday, HART suggests asking voters to approve a new sales tax to fund the system and eliminate the portion of the property tax now dedicated to transit.
Ok, shrink then grow using sales tax. What could go wrong? The voters rejected a sales tax in 2010, but HART wants to try again to provide buses. (Yea, we know, that was a new tax, this is a tax swap – that will raise more money [which means more tax collections]. We look forward to HART's sales pitch.) Oh, and isn't this the proposal that the Governor just rejected for Pinellas? (Good luck getting it passed.)
So what is the money for?
Their projections show the swap would boost HART revenue to help the agency buy as many as 250 more buses and several hundred miles of new routes, including more than 70 miles of bus rapid transit.
Bus rapid transit uses large buses that can resemble trains and can operate on regular streets or designated bus.
More buses, check. More routes, check. BRT, sigh. Yea, BRT "can resemble trains," but HART's BRT plan doesn't, so why even say it. (Of course, the Governor may support it if it does not resemble train, at least in Tampa Bay.). Why didn't HART consider rail?
Light rail options were not included in the scenarios HART revealed Monday because it wasn't included in a long-range plan HART produced a year ago, after voters defeated a sales tax referendum on light rail and other transportation improvements.
In other words, they did not consider rail because they did not consider rail.
"Where do we want to be in 10 years," Hillsborough County commissioner and HART board member Sandy Murman asked Monday.
Clearly, given HART's report and our urban planning, we want to live in 1974, not anywhere near our competitor metro areas.
Not to worry:
The new report is intended as a point of departure for discussion, a "what-if" plan, not an endorsement of any particular strategy, HART chief executive Philip Hale said.
So they don't really mean it anyway. Or maybe they mean it but are scared to really stand up for it – just like the 2010 referendum. In any event, not really a ringing endorsement for the proposal.
There was one interesting nugget in the article – even a little creative, while also a punt:
HART planners also devised scenarios involving only voters from the city of Tampa, including the creation of a $47 million streetcar loop, extending the line 2.7 miles north through downtown and east to Ybor City to reach current end points.
Officials have said it would cost too much to shut down the streetcar because money from $55 million in federal grants would have to be returned. But without serving more of downtown and running in a loop, ridership won't grow, officials have said.
We have not delved into the Tampa-only idea that has been raised because no one has come up with a serious proposal. If it works for a small system, fine; though transportation is a regional issue that Tampa-only plan would not solve. Fixing our transportation issues will require intellectual honesty, vision, and the will to overcome the "party of no."
Regarding expanding the streetcar, as we said last week – if the streetcar is viewed as an integral part of a greater transportation system, it stands good chance of success. Of course, if Tampa does not start planning with an urban orientation, no transportation proposal will really work.
Juxtaposition Alert
SunRail started construction this week. Enjoy riding your fancy BRT bus in traffic.
Westshore – Ya, And?
The Tribune ran an article this week which told us the following:
Welcome to the new center of Tampa: West Shore.
Although downtown Tampa may have more skyscrapers, the West Shore district a few miles west now has twice as many workers and twice the office space. It's tempting companies away from downtown as the go-to neighborhood for international brands moving to the city.
"The West Shore district has become a diverse community that serves the Tampa Bay region far better than downtown Tampa," said commercial real estate broker Lawrence Anderson.
We are not really sure what the point of the article was.
First, it is hardly news that Westshore has more office space than downtown (whether it is twice or much or a smaller ratio depends on how you measure the very elastic boundaries of "Westshore." For instance, the article mentions Hillsborough Ave – which to our mind is definitely NOT in Westshore. Nor is Dale Mabry [see Westshore Alliance maps here] ). Westshore has had more office space than downtown Tampa since at least the early 1990's.
In terms of retail, the existence of Westshore Plaza has, to put it mildly, long been known. That and International Plaza, which opened a decade ago, made Westshore the major retail center of Tampa, coincidentally, about a decade ago.
It has also long been known that there is some residential being built in Westshore (though it is all car-based).
None of this is surprising. Westshore is the geographical center of the Tampa Bay area and right next to TIA. It is logical that a major business district would grow there. As with most major cities, Tampa has more than one business district.
We have no problem with that. What we have a problem with is this:
For those looking to embrace the identity of Tampa, this means learning to love a landscape of mid-rise office buildings and parking lots scattered around the airport — a mini suburban city several miles from what many generations considered "downtown."
In other words, the problem is that Westshore is a giant office park. We do not have a problem with the mid-rise buildings. We are not concerned about the top of the buildings – their height is restricted because of the proximity of the airport. We are concerned with what is at the bottom – nothing but parking. Westshore lacks basically every urban element and is essentially unwalkable. (It is also odd that one of Tampa's main hang out spots is at the mall.) This is not just a problem from the perspective of harming Tampa's urban environment, it limits Westshore's potential. To wit:
For now, the most significant limit on West Shore's growth is sprawl itself.
Similar to far-flung suburban office parks, current construction generally is mid-rise and spread out. That means more cars will come with every new project. As construction resumes to expand I-275, more traffic will speed into the neighborhood.
Without more transit options, West Shore may fill up with cars, Rotella said, so he's pushing for more walking areas and a "circulator" system to move people about the neighborhood.
In other words, Westshore's problem is that it is not urban. To have an urban orientation does not mean that the cheap parking has to go, just that it has to go in the back, away from the street. The buildings can be built to the street (in fact some are, they just do not connect with the street in any real way.). What could be an amazingly bustling, urban area is, instead, a car dependent, sprawled, and congested area with no room to expand roads and where to have a meeting you have to drive from one semi-attached parking garage to another.
The idea of circulator trolley-buses will not change that. Buses sit in traffic, and the built environment is not pedestrian friendly. The only thing buses will do is get people to the mall. The way the buildings are built has to change, and a bus will not cause those changes nor motivate developers to invest in ways that will cause those changes.
So what about downtown Tampa?
Tampa Downtown Partnership President Christine Burdick complimented West Shore's development, noting the easy parking there, but she cautioned against direct comparisons.
"It's really apples and oranges," Burdick said. "Our place in the city and region is for unique, locally based, independently marketed companies and stores. There's an entrepreneurial spirit here that's done well for a while."
She pointed to new residential projects in the city, including several hundred units just north of Channelside and along Bayshore Boulevard, and the new Le Meridien hotel going into a renovated former federal courthouse. Downtown is seeing a rush of activity around the Glazer Children's Museum and the Tampa Museum of Art.
This is both wrong and right. The real problem with downtown is that for far too long it was not differentiated from a suburban office park except for the fact that you had to pay for parking – so a direct comparison made sense. There was no attention to street retail or urban design. There was no attention to a real walking environment. Transit is still weak. Frankly, downtown seemed (and in many ways still seems) to simply be attempting to recreate the suburban model – basically a vertical office park. In any competition of in-town office parks, Westshore wins on parking cost and accessibility.
Downtown's lack of urban-ness is starting to change to some degree, but, as we have noted, many of the recent plans for downtown still are essentially suburban.
Tampa needs to learn to be truly urban. That is a real change of its DNA. Anything else is just a little plastic surgery.
One Final Note
Here we address a pet peeve of ours – the improper use of the word "tower." The article notes in a number of places that "towers" are being built in Westshore. ("Already, three new office towers are up and more are planned.", "Seven new towers have added 1,800 new housing units from Hillsborough Avenue to Kennedy Boulevard.")
We have always found the excessive use of "tower" in the Tampa Bay area a bit odd. A "tower" is
a building or structure typically higher than its diameter and high relative to its surroundings that may stand apart (as a campanile) or be attached (as a church belfry) to a larger structure and that may be fully walled in or of skeleton framework (as an observation or transmission tower)
A few other incredibly similar definitions here and here.
Essentially a tower is taller than it is wide. By that measure, the Westshore district may have one or two "towers." A four story building must be very narrow to be a "tower." While it may be a "tower" in Waldo (though, really, even there it isn't), in cities, it is known as a "four story building" and should not be remarkable.
This week, a new section of the Riverwalk in downtown Tampa will open. (The segment adjacent to a lot where the land owners want to put a parking lot. See our discussion here [scroll down]) That is a good thing. It leaves a few (though quite large and expensive) segments of the Riverwalk to be built.
The Mayor had this to say:
"This gets us one step closer to the completion of this Riverwalk," Buckhorn said. "The development of the riverfront will be the best thing we can do for downtown Tampa."
Actually, not. The development of the Riverwalk is a good thing, but there is almost nothing along the river in terms of restaurants and retail – and not much place to put any. The buildings on the river generally do not connect to the riverfront. Moreover, there is almost nothing along south Ashley Drive in the large buildings near the river (that will not be replaced for decades) that even faces the river other than large glass walls, loading docks, and parking garages, like this) The entire way downtown is built essentially to ignore the river (as was putting the World Trade Center steel in the median of Bayshore, instead of in MacDill Park, along the river – downtown.). Maybe some day, some buildings will address the Riverwalk, but for the foreseeable future, there are other things to be done.
The best thing to do for downtown will be to ensure that downtown has proper urban design and is connected to the rest of the area through proper transit. The Riverwalk is only a piece of that. When downtown is an urban location, then the Riverwalk will be start to be truly beneficial.
Oh, and, don't allow a parking lot on the Riverwalk.
Zurich, anyone?
Today, flights between Tampa and Zurich on Edelweiss begin. We wish it success.
List of the Week – Turn off the TV and Don't Answer the Phone
Our list of the week is "The 10 counties Romney needs to win" Number 2 is Pinellas County and number 1 is Hillsborough County.
If the Tampa Bay area is so important, how come we can't seem to get money we need for our infrastructure and development? Maybe because we do not have a plan and vision.
Finally, enjoy the Memorial Day weekend and, please, take some time to remember the true purpose for the holiday.
from → Built Environment, Downtown, Economic Development, Tampa, Tampa International Airport, Transit, Transporation