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The two of them step onto the train, finding a seat as Saya sits down, Lan holding onto the strap about head height for him. She was busy with her phone, scrolling through the pictures she took at the Peace Museum.
To be honest, the formation felt comfortable for both of them – there weren't enough seats, and Lan gave her the seat without thinking about it, it was customary.
"Ah, is it insensitive to post pictures like this to Facebook?" She asks, turning the phone to Lan, flicking through some of the mangled items, a picture of the shadow.
Lan shrugs and shakes his head. "I don't think so. It's just a place you visited about a thing that happened." He grins down at her a bit, his dark humor surfacing for a moment. "So long as you didn't post something like 'Great exhibit, can't wait for the sequel!'"
Saya's lip curls up in disgust at Lan, but behind it is a smile that he knows she feels bad about almost laughing at. "That's terrible! No, I wouldn't say that."
"Oh? But you thought it. We can always take a side-trip to Nagasaki for the actual sequel."
That does elicit a chuckle from her, but she covers her mouth and looks up at Lan, frowning with her eyes – not that it meant much when there was still mirth in them.
They were headed north from downtown Hiroshima, ironically past Ushitayama to the east. They cross the Ota River again, which makes Lan think of the drive here. They must have collected the car by now, he thinks, shame.
Eventually after a half an hour or so, they arrive at Chorakuji station, both exiting out and heading to street level, the rest would take a short walk.
They pass a mall, a shrine, a park, everything in Japan was so densely occupied, but everything had a balance. You were always in a stone's throw distance of any of those things, moreso in a city.
The two of them cross another bridge as Saya finally puts her phone back into her purse, a large building coming into view. It looked a few stories tall, with wings on either side of what looked like a tremendous circular tire.
"Now this," Lan stops in his tracks, holding out his hands, "this is my kinda place."
Lan insists on paying for the both of them – the admission fee over double it was for the Peace Museum. Saya starts to protest, but he holds her ticket up between them, the deed already done.
She grumbles, but doesn't continue as she takes her ticket and both enter. The first floor was filled with restaurants, a library, and a gift shop, stairs leading up to the actual museum at the back as they walk towards them.
"Look at this!" Lan exclaims as they step onto the second floor. Saya looks around and encased in glass are thousands upon thousands of model vehicles. Scale replicas of everything from sedans to trucks and model trains, all manner of transportation.
"It's a.. Hot Wheels museum," she remarks, looking around.
"Well, yeah! I mean no, it's.. you're not wrong." He walks up to one of the display cases and looks at the older model cars from the 70s and 80s, the boxy look for production cars.
"As a kid, I loved this place. Love. I still do. Model cars are my thing. Locomotion is my thing, I mean. Not just cars." Saya looks up at him as he speaks, and he's showing a bit of that same interest he had when they first came across the rented car at the airport.
"Said the man afraid to fly," she jabs at him, grinning.
Lan spins and frowns at her, holding up a hand. "On the ground. Locomotion on the ground, please." They wander around, admittedly this type of place was interesting, but would not be Saya's preference. But Lan seemed entranced, and that was always fun to see.
Not only were there scale model cars, but memorabilia from when all locomotion first appeared. Old, sealed cans of motor oil, the first license plates, an old driver's license.
Kids were giggling and running around the two adults as Saya just keeps following Lan, until he comes up to what looks like a seated photo booth.
"Ah! The simulator!" There were kids in there already, so he peers in, looking at their progress as he turns back to Saya. "You may not have a driver's license, but how do you think you'll fare running a train?"
Saya peers around Lan at the kids that had no real interest in driving the simulator, banging on the controls and yanking levers back and forth. The simulated train wasn't going far, they were just interested in the moving parts.
"I don't.. think.." I'd be good at it, she hesitates in saying, but he shakes his head and holds out a hand to her.
"It's easier than it looks. Just give it a try, yeah?" Lan turns back and whispers to the kids in the simulator who look around him at Saya, then giggle up at the two before taking off out the other side of the booth to wreak more havoc elsewhere.
"C'mon, it's fun." He takes her hand and steps into the booth himself. She follows, both of them sitting on a bench made for two. In front of her were knobs, levers, gauges, nothing she understood.
Lan presses the reset button and the screen goes dark for a moment, before both are presented with a look out the window of the front of a passenger train.
"Now I know this doesn't.. none of this makes sense. But indulge me. You've ridden trains before, what's the order to start out?"
Saya pauses for a moment, looking across the dashboard and furrowing a brow. "It's all in--"
"Just point to something, I'll tell you," he cuts her off, already knowing that the control labels were in Japanese. She considers each button and lever carefully before focusing on the most obvious – the center throttle.
As she starts to reach for it, Lan shakes his head. "Think about what happens before the train starts. Even things you don't think about as a passenger."
Saya does, leaning back and regarding the panel and video, it all lines up with the control board, but she tried going back to basics.
The announcement, she thinks, the 'Mind the gap'. But there was no walkie-talkie, no intercom, but a button did line up with the simulation's version. She reaches out and holds her hand over it, which gets a grin from Lan.
"Now you're getting it. 'Stand clear of the doors,' and the like. Go on," he urges.
Saya pushes the button as it lights up, the corded speaker/microphone pulling free in the simulation, held by an invisible hand as a muffled voice recites the words she had always tuned out, telling them to watch the closing doors, sit down, shut up, this station next, she always interpreted it as saying.
"Now what?" He grins over at her, obviously enjoying himself. And Saya set herself to figure this control puzzle out.
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The race to space
Frank D. RoylanceThe Baltimore Sun
Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union sent thrills and shivers around the world with a brief announcement: Its rocketeers had launched a tiny, beeping artificial satellite named Sputnik into orbit.
With it, they launched a revolution.
"I still have a mental picture of the newspaper inside the vending machine on Euclid Avenue. The news was absolutely electrifying," said Robert Williams, then a schoolboy in Ontario, Calif.
Williams, now 67 and an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, could barely make out the words through the plastic cover of the newspaper box. But they were exciting. "When I got home," he recalled, "I telephoned all my friends and we talked and speculated about what it meant."
So did the rest of the world. "U.S. Scientists Quickly Hail Soviets," read one headline in The Sun. "Flights to Moon Near, Soviet Says."
For others, the news was chilling: "Russ Rockets Make Bombers Obsolete, Krushchev Says," an Evening Sun headline reported.
Even Russian scientists were caught off guard. "We had no idea about the coming launch, and our reaction was surprise, mixed with a feeling of pride," said Roald Sagdeev, a University of Maryland physicist who was working at a Soviet atomic energy institute in 1957.
All of this might be puzzling to the 210 million Americans born after Sputnik ushered in the Space Age. Today, we barely notice the sophisticated satellite technology that puts every backyard on Google Earth, that supports our demand for television, radio, telephone, Internet, e-mail, weather forecasts, GPS navigators - even global ATM access.
A half-century after Sputnik (Russian for "fellow traveler"), the Earth moves in a cloud of more than 860 working satellites - commercial, military and scientific, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. Not to mention a swarm of space junk that keeps them company.
Many satellites, including the International Space Station, are in low-Earth orbit, a couple of hundred miles up. There, uninhibited by the veil of Earth's atmosphere, orbiting telescopes are pushing the limits of the observable universe.
Beyond them, hundreds of communications satellites rub elbows in a narrow ring, 22,700 miles above the equator, orbiting once a day as the world turns, so that they "hover" over the same spot. Still farther out, a scattered fleet of robotic probes is exploring the solar system on our behalf, and even poking into interstellar space.
But all this was science fiction 50 years ago. Space was still empty of human invention and boot prints.
"For all my life, and for the lives of all astronomers of the past, the celestial apparitions that moved across the background of stars ... were the planets, comets and meteors," said Steve Maran, an astronomer, writer and press officer for the American Astronomical Society.
Suddenly, on Oct. 4, 1957, that changed. "There were these bright objects, Sputnik and the even brighter rocket stage, moving rapidly across the sky, brightening and dimming as they ... tumbled through space," Maran recalled. "An incredible thrill."
The Russians' surprise launch of the silvery, 23-inch sphere, with its insect-like whip antennas, is an indelible "flashbulb memory" for those old enough to recall it.
Ray Villard, now a science writer and information manager for the Space Telescope Science Institute, was only 7 years old at the time. But he was already thinking big.
"All the talk in the 1950s was about going to the moon. So I ... assumed we'd be exploring space. I was only disappointed that the Russian rocket could only launch a small satellite and not a whole manned spaceship," he recalled.
Americans weren't alone in their astonishment. Mario Livio, a senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope institute, was a 12-year-old growing up in Israel. His news of Sputnik's launch arrived via radio and newspapers. There was no TV. "There wasn't even a word in Hebrew for satellite," he said.
But he recalled this: "The two facts that impressed me the most were the speed at which Sputnik was moving, about ... 18,000 miles per hour, and its weight, about ... 184 pounds, which was considered extremely high."
Sputnik, which orbited for three months, was launched as part of the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958, a period of coordinated planetary studies. IGY plans included an Earth satellite, but no one expected the Russians to do it - and certainly not that soon.
"I think it was a remarkable achievement," said Lloyd Berkner, an American IGY official who was particularly impressed by the weight of the payload. "If they can launch that, they can launch much heavier ones," he said.
For many, that was cause for worry. The United States and the Soviet Union were developing long-range ballistic missiles. Sputnik convinced many American that the Russians had opened a "missile gap." That fear helped propel John F. Kennedy to the presidency in 1960.
"The sense of invulnerability, of being on a different continent, was shattered. The potential for nuclear weapon delivery through high-speed rockets was now a near-term reality for both sides in the Cold War," Stamatios M. Krimigis, former head of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's space department, wrote in a Russian Sputnik commemorative book, First Step.
Paul G. Dembling, then a 37-year-old attorney with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), recalled that the Navy, as part of the IGY effort, had been appointed to launch a 3.5-pound research satellite called Vanguard.
News of Sputnik shocked the enterprise, said Dembling, now 87. "We were in a Cold War. Many people, of course, felt that it was a weapon, or could be used as a weapon. The capability scared them. 'How were they able to send up a satellite even before we?'"
After Sputnik, the Navy was to launch Vanguard, and the Army was told to accelerate a parallel program called Explorer. President Dwight D. Eisenhower assured the nation that while Sputnik was interesting science, it was no cause for alarm.
But every month that passed without an American answer to Sputnik was an acute embarrassment. An online history of NASA recalls bars that sold Sputnik Cocktails that were hawked as "one-third vodka, two-thirds sour grapes." West Germans called the promised U.S. satellite "Spaetnik," spaet being German for "late."
It got worse.
On. Dec. 6, one month after a second Sputnik carried a dog named Laika into space, the Americans tried to launch the first Vanguard. As news cameras rolled, the rocket rose four feet, then collapsed into a volcano of flame. "Look out! Oh, God! No!" someone in the blockhouse shouted.
"I don't think they were completely ready," Dembling said. "They took a chance and the risk didn't work out." Then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson pronounced it "most humiliating" and called for congressional hearings.
Finally, on Jan. 31, 1958, after a series of delays and scrubs, the Army team successfully orbited Explorer 1 atop a modified Jupiter C ballistic missile - a direct descendant of the Nazis' V-2 rockets.
If nothing else, historians say, Sputnik convinced Eisenhower of the importance of a space program. And, despite heavy lobbying by the military, the former Allied commander of World War II insisted that it be run by a civilian agency.
"He didn't want it to appear the space program was going to take a military direction. I guess he knew the military," said Dembling, who ultimately drafted the Space Act of 1958, which created NASA.
In the Soviet Union, the military physically owned the space program, Sagdeev noted, while the Communist Party's Central Committee controlled its planning and oversight. "Sometimes this approach did bring impressive results," he said. "But as we know, [it] finally proved unsustainable."
The Sputnik surprise, meanwhile, roused America. "[It] caused a great leap in research and development that would not have occurred otherwise," APL's Krimigis wrote. "The resulting technological progress is at the foundation of today's economic development."
The United States also invested heavily in science and math education.
"I benefited from this enormously," said Howard E. Bond, an astronomer at the Space Telescope institute who was then a student at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.
Bond heard about Sputnik the day he first shaved.
"I got a really good education in math, chemistry and especially physics," he said. "In my graduating class there were three of us who went on to get Ph.D.s in astrophysics."
Anyone who grew up watching the adventures of Cmdr. Buzz Corry of the Space Patrol might have expected more progress in a half-century since then. Still, Bond said, "In the next 12 years we did make it to the moon. That ... seems so far beyond probability of success, that it is still staggeringly astounding."
"In many ways the dreams of that smooth-faced kid have come true," he said. "It is probably fair to say that the Hubble telescope would not be in orbit today if it were not for the spark provided by that little Sputnik of 50 years ago."
What's in orbit today? Visit NASA's satellite tracker at http:--science.nasa.gov/Realtime/JTrack/ and click on J-Track-3D
To hear a recording of radio beeps from original Sputnik, surf to http:--history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
frank.roylance@baltsun.com
An Associated Press graphic that accompanied yesterday's article on the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik incorrectly reported the date of the first U.S. moon landing. The landing occurred July 20, 1969.The Sun regrets the errors.

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The Original Tea Hut is situated in Epping Forest near High Beech, just off the A104 Epping New Road. It is afriendly and popular stop for walkers, cyclists horse riders and motorcyclists (for whom it's a nationally recognised destination and meet-up spot).
Visit the Original Tea Hut website to find menus and price lists and information about some of their premiere products such as speciality sausages, popular in sandwiches and rolls. You will also find information on the history of the business, the longstanding relationship built over generations with loyal customers, and the important connection of High Beech with the sport of Speedway and the famous track at High Beech.
The Original Tea Hut pride themselves on selling quality produce at reasonable prices. Their aim is to provide decent food in the best surroundings at a good price.
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Original Tea Hut is situated in High Beech, Epping at the junction of Cross Roads and Fairmead Road. If you approach along the Epping New road (A104), from either direction, at the Robin Hood pub roundabout you take the turning to High Beech and the Tea hut is a couple of hundred meters on the left hand side.
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Q: SAS HANA Date from data step in PRO A little new to SAS here.  I am using the following data step to get the first and last day of the month.
    Data _NULL_;
    begindt=IntNX("Month", Date(), 0) ;
    enddt=IntNX("Month", Date(),0,'E');
    PUT begindt=E8601DA. enddt=E8601DA.;
    Run;

The data step gets the results of begindt=2021-09-01 and enddt=2021-09-30.
However, I am having trouble converting the value to a date format to use in a where claus in a PROC SQL statement later in the program.  The commented out code works, but I can't get the date from data step in the correct format for the PROC SQL statement to work.
    /*  AND "DETAILAR"."CLEAR_DOC_POSTING_DATE" = '2021-09-01' */
    AND "DETAILAR"."CLEAR_DOC_POSTING_DATE" = begindt

A: SAS has date and time literals that make dealing with dates and times easy. SAS dates are the number of days since Jan 1 1960, and SAS datetimes are the number of seconds since Jan 1 1960. SAS automatically converts date literals to these times for you. Some examples of date and datetime literals:
'04SEP2021'd
'04SEP2021:00:00'dt

You don't have to use these all the time*, but they make debugging way easier. In your case, you simply need to feed a date literal into proc sql. If you're connecting to SAP HANA through SAS, the SAS/ACCESS engine to SAP will handle the conversion for you.
data _null_
    begindt = intnx('month', today(), 0, 'B');
    enddt   = intnx('month', today(), 0, 'E');

    call symputx('begindt', put(begindt, date9.) );
    call symputx('enddt', put(enddt, date9.) );
run;

Or, equivalently:
%let begindt = %sysfunc(intnx(month, %sysfunc(today()), 0, B), date9.);
%let enddt   = %sysfunc(intnx(month, %sysfunc(today()), 0, E), date9.);

Now you have two macro variables that you can not only easily read, but SAS will convert them for you. You can view them below:
%put &begindt;
%put &enddt;

Simply add them as date literals to your where clause in proc sql and let SAS do the rest.
proc sql;
    create table want as
        select *
        from have
        where CLEAR_DOC_POSTING_DATE BETWEEN "&begindt"d AND "&enddate"d
    ;
quit;

There are other literals too, like time literals, hex literals and name literals for variables with spaces in them.
 '10:00't - Time Literal
 '32'x - Hex literal
 'this is a var'n - Name literal

*proc timeseries, proc timedata, and proc tsmodel require date/datetime literals for the start and end options. But those are the only ones I know of.

A: If you want to generate code like '2021-09-01' then why not create a macro variable with that string in it?
In your data _null_ step use:
call symputx('begindt',quote(put(intnx('month',date(),0),yymmdd10.),"'"));

Working from the inside out that statement will:

*

*calculate today's date

*convert to the start of the month

*convert to a 10 character string representing that date

*add single quotes around the string

*store the value into a macro variable named begindt
Now you reference the macro variable to generate the code you want
and "DETAILAR"."CLEAR_DOC_POSTING_DATE" = &begindt.

Which will generate the code:
and "DETAILAR"."CLEAR_DOC_POSTING_DATE" = '2021-09-01'

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In the new Unexplored Scene, Holland's Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg's Victor Sullivan, aka Sully, are seen on a cargo plane, confronting Tati Gabrielle's Braddock. Fans of the game series will recall the scene from Uncharted 3, because the scene in the film is almost an exact replica of the epic moment.
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U.S. Team Have World Mountain Championship Medal Hopes
Gray and McLaughlin lead the senior team competing in Italy
by Justin Mock Published: Sep 12, 2014
Joe Gray and Allie McLaughlin will lead the senior U.S. men and women into this weekend's 30th annual World Mountain Running Championships, to be held in Italy. Gray and McLaughlin, both of Colorado Springs, Colo., earned U.S. mountain running championships for their wins at New Hampshire's Loon Mountain Race in July.
McLaughlin, remembered as a fast starter dating back to the 2008 Foot Locker high school championship, insists that she'll race her first world championships, an 8.4km uphill race, no differently. "This summer has been filled with all kinds of races for me, so I'm not looking at this one much differently than the last few and plan to race the same way," she reasons. "I like to think I'm just going out for a run."
That summer of new experiences most recently included her hometown race, Pikes Peak Ascent. McLaughlin won the 13.3-mile climb to the mountain's 14,115-foot summit in 2:33, the race's third-fastest finish ever. She admits to having some post-race pain, but insists that she's fully recovered from that effort and that the weeks since then have included some of her best training. "I don't do many specific workouts right now, but it feels great to just finally have some consistency these last few months. I think that gives me the most confidence going into a race," McLaughlin explained.
Indeed, McLaughlin's return to this level of racing is remarkable following years of injury. She was the fifth-place finisher at the 2009 NCAA cross country championship while a freshman at the University of Colorado. That NCAA championship performance remains the second-highest finish ever for a female freshman, trailing only Shalane Flanagan's fourth-place result from the 2000 championship.
Of these prior national-class races, McLaughlin is adamant that "being on the U.S. team pretty much tops them all." Now, at only 23 years old, she does appreciate the gravity of those events, however. "I just kind of shrugged them off like it was nothing, but after being injured for so long, I will never take a race for granted again. With that said though, I definitely haven't been putting too much emphasis on races, but more on just getting to the start line healthy and enjoying each day of training."
Morgan Arritola (Ketchum, Idaho) and Kasie Enman (Huntington, Vermont) both earned team bids by virtue of their second- and third-place finishes at Loon Mountain, immediately behind McLaughlin. Arritola was the 2012 world bronze medalist and Enman was the 2011 world champion. Both declined their spots on this year's team though and will instead compete at this weekend's The Rut 50k SkyRunning event in Montana.
Their absence allowed Megan Lizotte (La Jolla, Calif.) and Juliane Masciana (Cedar Park, Texas) to join Megan (nee Deakins) Roche (Mountain View, Calif.) on the four-woman team. While the national team selection is a first for Masciana and Roche, this will mark Lizotte's fifth appearance at the world championship race.
Lizotte's best individual performance was a 12th-place finish at the 2011 world championships. Now the mother of a two-year-old, daughter Maven, Lizotte says, "becoming a mom hasn't changed my competitive spirit. I am still super hungry for success and want to win just like all my fellow competitors."
Lizotte moved from Colorado to San Diego nearly a year ago and while her training now lacks the benefit of altitude, she has improved her leg turnover. The lone veteran on the women's team, she calls this year's team a "powerhouse" with a good chance at earning a team medal. "This race just seems to reload with talent. I just hope to be a source of information and experience for these younger ladies. Allie (McLaughlin) and Megan (Roche) are both bursting with talent and it's really fun to watch them dominate pretty much every race they enter," Lizotte says of the leading U.S. ladies.
Joe Gray at 2014 Pikes Peak Ascent
On the men's team, Joe Gray remains the face of the Americans. This year's race marks his sixth straight world championship, and he's taken part in similarly-competitive races in Europe for years. Gray, age 30, pushed global star Kilian Jornet to the line at this year's Sierre-Zinal mountain race in Switzerland, finishing a close second. He points to last year's world championships, when he was seventh, as a breakthrough.
"I think when this year started, I had more motivation to train hard after an eye-opening experience at world's last year. I wanted to do better, in everything," Gray articulates. He was the U.S. club cross country champion in December 2013, and finished fourth at the more-competitive, non-club U.S. cross country championship in February 2014.
Pressured to place a goal on this year's world championship race, he says, "I'm targeting an improvement on my last championship finish. If I could get a medal, I'm sure that wouldn't hurt my goal of securing a team medal for the U.S."
Gray underscores just how difficult the task will be however. "At the world championships, there are 15 guys, at least, who could medal on any given day. You will see a tight pack even with 4-5k (to go). The race really isn't over until the finish line."
The men will race on an 11.7km course and Gray will be joined on the six-person team by Patrick Smyth (Salt Lake City), Eric Blake (West Hartford, Conn.), Zach Miller (Manitou Springs, Colo.), Josh Eberly (Gunnison, Colo.), and David Roche (Mountain View, Calif.).
The junior teams, age 19 and under, are highlighted by Mandy Ortiz (Boulder, Colo.). The University of Colorado sophomore won last year's up-and-down race in Poland. "I definitely feel a little nervous, but am trying to focus on the experience," the defending champion conceded. She has recovered from surgery for a torn labrum and returned to running about 60 miles per week. "Generally I'm better at just uphill," she says of her preparation for this year's race.
Tabor Scholl (Kremmling, Colo.), also a member of last year's silver-medal winning American junior women's team, returns and will be joined by Marisa Rusken (Bridgewater, N.J.). The four-person junior men's team includes Erik Armes (Coronado, Calif.), Peter Howe (Gilmanton Ironworks, N.H.), Lucas Matison (Palo Alto, Calif.), and Jeff Thies (Huntington Beach, Calif.).
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Q: Beautifulsoup filter results raise KeyError in "for i" loop I am trying to minimize my codes, making it more efficient. However, I got hit by this KeyError truck, which I can't figure out what went wrong. Please Help me out Chiefs, and point me why my expression is not OK? PS I am amateur level.
With these codes:
recommended = soup.select('table:has(font:contains("推荐主题")), '
                          'table:has(font:contains("版块主题"))')
for item in recommended:
    for i in item.select(".folder:has(a)"):

I will have DOM of:

But when I add one more line,
for item in recommended:
    for i in item.select(".folder:has(a)"):
        url_tail = i['href']

I will get this KeyError of:
    return self.attrs[key]
KeyError: 'href'

What I am trying to get out of it are the href links, Thank you all.

A: .folder:has(a) is selecting the td element, as that element is the one with the class .folder and has a child of a. It is not selecting the a element, just checking that the element with .folder has a a element.
Something like .folder a is probably what you want.

A: @facelessuser has explained nicely the error (+) and given my first choice selector. It looks like there may be two other attribute = value selector possibilities as plan Bs
Either:
[href^="thread-"]

Or:
[title="新窗口打开"]

Which can be used in a list comprehension such as
links =  [item['href'] for item in soup.select('[href^='thread-']')]

Your select may be off item rather than soup. You can always throw in the parent class if that ends up too broad a match .folder [title="新窗口打开"]

A: You can try like this.

As I don't have complete HTML or Url you are hitting, I just tried to retrieve the href's values from the HTML text you have pasted.

1) Import & create BeautifulSoup object »
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>>
>>> html_text = """
...
...
... 	"""
>>>
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html_text, "html.parser")
>>>
>>> soup

>>>

2) Find all tds »
>>> tds = soup.find_all("td", class_="folder")
>>> tds
[	, 	, 	, 	]
>>>

3) Inspect (Just to test)»
>>> tds[0]

>>>
>>> tds[0].a

>>>
>>> tds[0].a.get("href")
'thread-10439294-1-1.html'
>>>

4) Finally, retrieve links (2 ways) »
>>> # Using loop
...
>>> for td in tds:
...     print(td.a.get("href"))
...
thread-10439294-1-1.html
thread-10439293-1-1.html
thread-10439292-1-1.html
thread-10439290-1-1.html
>>>
>>> for td in tds:
...     print(td.a["href"])
...
thread-10439294-1-1.html
thread-10439293-1-1.html
thread-10439292-1-1.html
thread-10439290-1-1.html
>>>
>>>


PhilosophyTalk.org, "White Privilege and Racial Justice," Feb. 14, 2016.
Interview about critique of white privilege discourse on PRI, "To the Best of Our Knowledge," Oct. 17, 2015.
Interview by George Yancy, "What 'White Privilege' Really Means," NY Times, Opinionator, Stone, November 5, 2014.
White privilege in real life is something real that exists. White privilege discourse is thought, talk, and writing about white privilege––it is not the thing itself.
Our present idea of white privilege was introduced by Peggy McIntosh in 1989: "White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks." The idea lives on in exhortations to Check your privilege! on college campuses and through broader public and social media. But the discourse of white privilege is problematic from two angles—it goes too far in blaming all whites for all forms of racism and it does not go far enough in directly addressing injustice against nonwhites. Both perspectives are worth consideration but the second is more important because it involves violations of fundamental human rights.
Whites cannot call or email or log onto a Bureau of White Privilege to check their white accounts, draw on their white assets, withdraw white funds, or use white credits to make purchases. But whites are generally better off than nonwhites––in health, wealth, freedom, education, longevity, and a host of other human goods. That is, although overt oppression expressed by an official ideology of white supremacy is largely past in our post-civil rights era of formal equality, racist historical effects persist. White (European and American) "privileges" endure. White privilege is a network of dispositions in society whereby individuals behave differently, that is, better to whites than nonwhites, solely because whites are white. Attitudes, beliefs, and emotions are the internal psychic component of white privilege and they include freedom from worrying about or suffering from racism.
However, not all whites, all of the time, enjoy privileges compared to nonwhites or are responsible for the comparative disadvantages of nonwhites. And even though some whites may be complicit with the racism of others, their expressed non-racist views and cultural contributions should not be dismissed solely on the grounds of their race. That is, to shut down speech just because it is uttered by a white person would be unfair and when racial ad hominem is robustly denounced on behalf of people of color, the fallacy should be recognized in an even-handed way. (We continue to be shocked by Kant's, "This fellow was quite black. . .a clear proof that what he said was stupid.") Still, "Check your privilege!" or white privilege discourse has more serious pitfalls than such insults to white people. The discourse seems to be incapable of addressing injustice against people of color.
In progressive, left-liberal society, it is virtuous not to exaggerate one's disadvantage or ignore unfair or unearned advantage. The motivation for white privilege discourse is that the person being asked or told to check her privilege will be ashamed after recognizing that she has unfair or unearned advantages solely due to being white––and that insight will serve social justice. It's as though the discourse of foodies about their abundant culinary choices and self-indulgent practices could correct the problems of world hunger!
White privilege discourse is largely about the facts of white racial advantage and what white people think and feel about that. Building awareness of racial imbalances is progressive. But as a leading response to contemporary injustice, white privilege discourse may miss the importance of racial injustice and degenerate into just another display of the advantages that white people have of not being required to respond to racial injustice against their racial group. After all, and for the most part, whites are treated justly, in wealthy, democratic, capitalistic societies.
Awareness by whites of their privilege, in an ongoing discourse that whites conduct, is neither cognitively nor rhetorically adequate for addressing injustice. If black people can be killed or executed by police officers, without trial or even the appearance of criminal action, while white people are left alone, this is not wholly or solely a matter of white privilege. Yes, white people are better off, but to confine resistance to the injustice done to nonwhites to discourse about how whites are privileged in being left alone (i.e., to only talk about white privilege), minimizes or trivializes the injustice against nonwhites. This injustice could only be wholly or solely a matter of white privilege if we lived in and accepted the norms of a maximally repressive totalitarian society where it was customary for government officials to execute anyone without trial or even the appearance of criminal action. Against that background, we could say that those who were not treated that way were privileged. They would be privileged in enjoying that perk of exceptional leniency. But we do not live in such a system or accept a normative totalitarian description of the system we do live in. We live in a system where everyone, regardless of race is supposed to have the same basic rights. That nonwhites are not recognized as having these rights is not a privilege of whites, but a violation of the rights of nonwhites.
Nevertheless, human rights have only an ideal status. Philosophically they are only posits and morally those who are outraged by the injustice of rights violation have little power. But, the basis for outrage concerning the recent high profile cases of summary execution of unarmed young black men by police officers is a legal issue, a matter of positive law in U.S. jurisdictions. US citizens are constitutionally protected by certain rights that most, especially whites, still correctly assume are in force for them: the right to privacy from unjustified government search and seizure (where death is a form of seizure); the right to due process; the right to equal protection by government officials.
The Fourth Amendment states that "the people" have a right "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. . . but upon probable cause." The Fourteenth Amendment reads in part that that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Police racial profiling followed by summary execution violates both amendments. However, these constitutional rights have been steadily eroded by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent decades. In Graham v. Connor in 1989, the Justices ruled that claims that police have used excessive force must be analyzed under an "objective reasonableness" standard referring to officer behavior, rather than rules of due process or probable cause. In Plumhoff et al. v. Richard (2012), the Court ruled that Fourth Amendment rights must be balanced against the "qualified immunity" of officers. These rulings and similar ones come to bear in cases like the shooting of Michael Brown, where all an officer need do to avoid indictment or conviction for manslaughter or murder is claim that he believed his life was in danger.
To protect the rights of minorities against police––really everyone's rights, but the recent killings of unarmed young men concern minorities––it will likely be necessary to revisit at least Graham and Plumhoff. The civil rights movements of the 1950s and 60s were led by impassioned and brilliant lawyers, constantly bringing cases before the courts. These days, the legal cases that get the most attention are those aimed at dismantling affirmative action. Yes, whites are privileged, but no amount of exhortation to "check" their privilege or confessional discourse in response, will correct the legal injustice of police homicide based on racial profiling.


The third round of the 17-round 2019 Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship was staged under a full moon in Angel Stadium and A2 was run in the big stakes triple crown format that fans have come to love. Three x 450 Mains provided plenty of action and each ran for a duration of 12-minutes plus 1 lap.
All the most fancied runners automatically made their way through to the mains with qualifying conducted on lap times rather than the normal Heat race format. The round points in the triple-crown format are decided on the results from across the three Mains.
Ken Roczen scored the holeshot ahead of Cooper Webb, Marvin Musquin and Eli Tomac when the first Main got underway. Musquin made a small mistake in the first rhythm section which allowed Tomac through to third place. Cole Seely was in fifth ahead of Joey Savatgy and Justin Hill while Chad Reed was in eighth.
Defending Champion Jason Anderson and A1 winner Justin Barcia were taking their time to get up to speed, the pair running 9-10 in the opening laps of the first Main. The track made passing opportunities hard to come by, and instead moves had to be somewhat forced.
With a few minutes remaining it was Roczen leading by 1.2-secs over Webb, who had another 2-secs on Tomac. Cole Seely was still in fifth but Anderson had made his way forward to sixth, Savatgy seventh, Barcia was up to eighth, Reed was in ninth and Dean Wilson was rounding out the top ten.
Glendale winner Blake Baggett was just outside the top ten but then caught up in the bunting on a tough-block and lost a number of places.
Marvin Musquin got the better of Eli Tomac with two-mins left in the allotted time.
As they got the last lap board Cooper Webb closed right on to the tail of Roczen and started to challenge for the victory. Webb got Roczen over a jump and managed to hold on to take the chequered flag and victory in the opening race of the night.
Cooper Webb shot out of the gates to claim the holeshot in the second bout over a fast starting Cole Seely. Jason Anderson and Justin Barcia both had much better starts this time around and were ahead of a sixth placed Ken Roczen in the early stages of the second Main.
Chad Reed watched on from the sidelines as he had failed to start the second Main after a problem with the Yoshimura Suzuki.
Roczen got the better of Barcia a few laps into the race and then started challenging Anderson for fourth place, the German got past Anderson with eight-minutes remaining.
Musquin then slipped past Seely for third place to make it a Red Bull KTM 1-2 at the front of the race, but Webb maintained a 2.6-second lead over his teammate.
Seely then made a mistake which allowed his Honda team-mate Ken Roczen to close in and take third place from him.
Ken Roczen then fell from third place in the whoops with five-minutes remaining, the #94 was relegated all the way back to ninth place before getting back on the bike. He quickly got back past Baggett, then Dean Wilson to move back up to seventh place behind Eli Tomac.
Tomac and Roczen then squeezed past Cole Seely before the pair chased down Jason Anderson, pushing the Husqvarna man back to sixth place.
Justin Barcia had a relatively lonely race in third place, while Cooper Webb maintained his advantage over Marvin Musquin to the flag to take his second win of the night.
Chad Reed might have missed the second moto with a mechanical problem but that obviously had fired him up for this one as the Aussie legend very nearly claimed the holeshot. Eli Tomac and Cooper Webb swept past him at turn one but Reed was right in the mix. Jason Anderson then lost more positions after making a mistake on a tabletop.
Marvin Musquin then moved past Reed for third place but Reed then managed to hold out Ken Roczen for a number of laps. Reed really made the young German battle for that fourth position before finally allowing the Honda past with six-minutes remaining.
Justin Barcia got cross-rutted and went down heavily and was being treated by the side of the circuit, the #51 would take no more part in the proceedings. The Yamaha rider was sent off for scans on his tailbone area but should be back in action when AMA Supercross heads to Oakland for round four next weekend.
Up front Tomac had pulled the pin and was looking untouchable, by half race distance the Kawasaki man already had a five-second lead over the KTM duo of Cooper Webb and Marvin Musquin. The two men KTM swapped positions late in the race with Musquin moving up to second place but Tomac was unchallenged on his way to the chequered flag.
While Tomac took the final race win it was Cooper Webb on 26-points for the night that takes the round win ahead of team-mate Musquin.
As per the premier 450 category the 250 races were also held under the triple-crown format, but with races two-minute shorter than the 450 class.
Colt Nichols landed back in Anaheim with a five-points advantage over Adam Cianciarulo but his buffer had been trimmed back to two-points by the time they left A2.
Cianciarulo though had slipped from second in the championship points standings down to fourth as Shane McElrath moved up to second place on the back of the A2 round win.
Dylan Ferrandis also gained a place on the points table, moving up to third outright by a single point over Cianciarulo.
Colt Nichols had won the first Main from Ferrandis but it was Ferrandis that took top honours in Main #2 from Shane McElrath with Nichols in third.
McElrath twon Main #3 to take the 26-points for the overall round win ahead of Ferrandis and Nichols.
Australian privateer Tomas Ravenhorst ranked 21 out of the 46 riders that participated in the qualifying sessions but with only the top 18 automatically going through to the Mains he again had to contest the LCQ. Unfortunately the Victorian missed out on the Mains after finishing seventh in the LCQ.


Scriptwriter and director for 30 years, Marie-Cécile writes and directs the story of an heritage, a company, a region or an association.
The musical soul Composer and music teacher, Cyril specialized in writing for singing. In addition to the musical tale "le fort et le faible" (2003), the oratorio "Odysseus" (2007), and the cinema concert "Oliver Twist" (2012), he signed many musical projects for children and adults' choirs.
He regularly collaborates with different authors with whom he creates a large repertoire, accessible and fitting.
In close collaboration with Marie-Cécile, he signs an original sheet music which fits perfectly to the scenario.
has been exercing the work of costume designer for about ten years.


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This is the second part of our interview with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki (twitter @knagasaki), Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo, and technical director of the SAT project. The first part, published in July, can be found here.
In this part of the interview, we ask Professor Nagasaki more specifically about Digital Humanities for Buddhist studies and about the Digital Humanities community in Japan.
DO: What do you see as the future for Digital Humanities in Buddhist Studies more generally?
KN: Now, Digital Humanities in Buddhist studies is being carried out not only by the SAT project, but also by CBETA (The Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association), the BDRC (Buddhist Digital Resource Center) and many other organizations and projects. But beyond these larger projects, with the advent of GitHub and Open Licenses, it has become possible for individuals to apply the latest methods of analysis to large-scale data and to provide new services using that data. Thus, although DH largely relies on developments in the realm of information technology, the trial-and-error process in the application of this technology can be carried out in a more democratic way. As a result, with the introduction of multiple developments in software, and the increased convenience of doing such research, I imagine that now, more than ever, new developments will appear independently from many different places.
That is to say, while such large projects will continue to be significant, I think we are moving from an era of large-scale projects aimed at providing services to a large number of people, to an era of large-scale data that can be customized and manipulated in response to the needs of individuals and smaller organizations.
Using the Word2Vec analysis software within the SAT Database to visualize relationships between different words, ideas, and texts.
DO: What is your involvement with the JADH (Japanese Association for Digital Humanities) and with DH in Japan in general?
KN: I am one of the founding members of the JADH and the current head of the executive board, and I am also the representative of the JADH to Constituent Organization Board of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
The DH community in Japan is centered on the Computers and the Humanities Special Interest Group (SIG-CH; jinbun-gaku to konpyūta kenkyūkai 人文科学とコンピュータ研究会) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ, or jōhō shori gakkai 情報処理学会), founded in 1989. I joined this organization around 2001, and have worked for them from time to time as a member of the steering committee, a general secretary, or symposium program committee member, among other positions.
The SIG-CH mainly focuses on the DH Community in Japan, working in the Japanese-language, and at the time being, runs three workshops per year for non-peer reviewed work, and one conference per year featuring peer reviewed research. For the peer-reviewed conference, as many as 160 people attend.
In addition, the JADH is affiliated with the ADHO, which was established in 2012 in response to the trend toward internationalization in the Digital Humanities. The JADH joined the ADHO soon after the founding of this organization, which has held an English-language international symposium for DH every year in Japan, involving many of the same people as the SIG-CH. Although there aren't typically as many participants in this conference as there are for the Japanese-language conferences, this conference involves many participants from overseas, and contributes to international exchange of DH in Japan.
In addition to providing Buddhist texts in their Chinese versions, the SAT platform also offers digitized translations of some works, seen here in parallel to a digitized original.
In addition, I am also the editor of our e-newsletter Digital Humanities Monthly (Jinbun jōhō gappō 人文情報学月報; ISSN:2189-1621), published monthly since 2011. For this, we ask researchers in the field of Digital Humanities, humanities scholars with an interest in digital technology, information scientists with an interest in humanities, or librarians and curators with an interest in DH to write introductions for each month's edition, and use this publication to feature a variety of information related to DH from both Japan and beyond.
The articles include, for instance, how-to guides for useful DH tools, information about upcoming DH events, reports on recent research and technical developments, etc. (Actually, our newsletter is somewhat similar to The Digital Orientalist.)
Many of these are written by graduate students and younger researchers, but we also include articles by more senior scholars. For example, we recently featured a Japanese translation of an article by the former chair of the ADHO. We have already published two books based on the articles from this newsletter, and in the future, we plan to continue producing this resource, and to carry articles that are useful in a variety of ways.
Screen capture of an annotated Mandala from the SAT Taishōzō Image DB. Originally published as an appendix to the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Canon of Buddhist Scriptures, many images within the Image DB have been annotated in detail using the IIIF standard.
In terms of specific projects, as I spoke about in the first part of the interview, the Japanese DH community is putting in efforts to propagate widely used international "defacto" standards like the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines , and the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Standards. Along with Professor Charles Muller, I established the East Asian/Japanese Language Special Interest Group (SIG East Asian/Japanese) within the TEI Consortium in 2016, and at present, am working with Prof. Kazuhiro Okada 岡田一祐 and Prof. Satoru Nakamura 中村覚 on the steering committee to promote the use of the TEI Guidelines in Japan.
In regards to IIIF, we began using this system in 2015, and had it integrated as the platform of the SAT Taishōzō Image DB from 2016.
From then, we have held seminars throughout Japan for researchers, librarians, museum curators, and engineers working for industries, to introduce not only IIIF in general but teach how to on-board and structure data in the system, through Blog posts, academic articles, essays, books etc., aiming to develop an environment that was easy to work with IIIF in.
These activities are mainly done under the auspices of the Center of Next-Generation Humanities Development at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, a member of the IIIF Consortium. In 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Akihiko Takano 高野明彦 of the National Institute of Informatics (NII), we invited about eight members of the IIIF to Japan to hold events in Fukuoka, Kyoto, and Tokyo to propagate the use of the standard.
Because the IIIF system was a good fit for Japan's cultural institutions (like libraries, archives, and museums), and because it was adopted early on and with impressive results by the National Diet Library, and the ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH), the use of this system has spread relatively quickly.
Using the IIIF System to compare multiple editions of a work to a digital edition within the SAT database.
DO: Is there work in DH that is going on in Japan that sets this community apart? Is there any work going on in the Japanese DH community that you feel deserves attention outside Japan?
KN: Well, this is only a general impression, but perhaps because the Japanese DH community is based around a Special Interest Group of the Information Processing Society, researchers with an information science background seem to make up a larger share of participants than they do in overseas DH organizations. Because of that, I feel that DH in Japan is led a bit more strongly from an informatics perspective, and as such, is a bit weaker in terms of putting issues in the humanities at the forefront than it may be in Europe or North America.
However, or rather because of that, I feel that instead of tending toward being a special field within the humanities, the DH community has aimed at developing a "methodological commons" between these different fields.
In addition, the application of digital techniques to linguistics, sociology, and social sciences, as well as the critique of digital media take place as separate fields, so one could say there are a variety of different endeavors that make up the DH community in Japan.
Although DH deals with a variety of different fields depending on the country or language group, even among such groups, my impression is that the scope of Japan's decentralized DH community is still relatively narrow.
The landing page of the Digital Hōbōgirin, a new reference resource made available by the SAT project.
As for projects that I think researchers from outside Japan should more aware of, of course there is the SAT project that I myself work on, but there is also the Minna de Honkoku みんなで翻刻 project (featured on DO last year), the Miwo みを project and app (also featured on DO) the Shiryohensan-jo Historical Information Processing System (SHIPS) from the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute and the Ritsumeikan Art Research Center, which are already somewhat well-known internationally.
Beyond that, some newer projects that are perhaps not as well-known are the Next Digital Library (Kinsedai Dejitaru raiburari 次世代デジタルライブラリ), a full-text search for the public-domain works recently made available by the National Diet Library, the Edomi project of the ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH), the Literary Maps Project (Nihon no dejitaru bungaku chizu 日本のデジタル文学地図), nihuBridge a service that connects several databases created by the National Institute for the Humanities, and in regard to Buddhist studies, the Digital Hōbōgirin 法寶義林 and, although perhaps a little older, the Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR), a project done in collaboration with researchers based in Germany, Austria and Japan.
Thank you again to Professor Nagasaki for taking the time to answer all of our questions in detail.
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According to current industry standards, OpenSea is one of the largest NFT marketplaces. It offers a variety of non-fungible token types, including art, video games, sports, censorship-resistant domain names, collectibles, and trading cards. The inclusion of ERC1155 and ERC721 token standards is an intriguing feature of OpenSea. It enables you to buy, trade, and discover rare digital assets. OpenSea hosts around 700 projects of various types, including digital art projects, trading card games, name systems like Ethereum Name Service (ENS), and collectible games.
Below mentioned are the fundamental steps to develop an NFT marketplace on the Ethereum platform:
Select the appropriate blockchain
Ethereum is a forerunner in a blockchain network with consistent, dependable, secure and reliable performance. Aside from the security of the Ethereum network, protocol developers always prefer what Application/Tooling Developers and Application Users value.
Build a UI for the NFT marketplace
The most important aspect of creating an NFT marketplace is creating a UI where actual interaction can happen. The user interface must have a search bar, a list of categories, filters, a community space, an admin panel, and a dashboard. The categories list and filter in the search bar for various NFTs essentially improves the user experience and decreases the user's search time.
Choosing interoperable wallets
Cross-chain compatibility is required for crypto-wallets, and these wallets must be able to buy or use the cryptos in the wallet. You must establish a MetaMask for Ethereum wallet while developing an NFT marketplace on Ethereum.
Smart contract protocol development
The logic of your platform is found in the back-end. Because the NFT marketplace is a decentralized system, the majority of the data flows and is validated with the help of smart contracts on a blockchain. This step of smart contract protocol development differs from other steps in typical custom NFT marketplace development. For example, Ethereum uses a group of smart contracts to implement the NFT marketplace's trading functionality.
It is the moment at which your design will come to life. After selecting the appropriate framework for your project, software developers integrate all essential client-side functionality. The primary goal here is to guarantee that the platform runs quickly, performs well, and is reliable.
Detecting and resolving issues as soon as possible ensures that your product is ready for release. Furthermore, software testing ensures that your platform functions as intended and satisfies the original project objectives. Keep in mind that a well-tested software solution delivers dependability, security, and high performance.
Launching and support
It's time to launch your NFT marketplace once you've confirmed that your platform is bug-free. Many people believe that this is the final stage, but the software is software, and it requires ongoing maintenance and updating.
NFT marketplaces are constantly gaining traction as a new asset class in the crypto world. With the NFT marketplaces, digital artists and buyers have got a user-friendly platform to trade off their unique artworks and buy unique digital items, respectively. Get in touch with an expert NFT marketplace development company like LeewayHertz if you want to develop and launch your own NFT marketplace.
Umar Nisar was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Umar Nisar has contributed to many online publications including PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Umar Nisar earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Umar Nisar follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.
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MeatSpady: An artist by the people and for the people
We make a living by what we get but, we make a life by what we give. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. There is no denying the fact that people who keep the passion of serving the community by giving back are the true leaders and beacons of hope. One such community servant and philanthropist is MeatSpady. A musician by occupation; by nature, a care giver to others. MeatSpady is the owner of the clothing brand, The Beautiful Letdown Store. Through his brand he has been consistently involved with his community by providing those less fortunate with food and free t-shirts bearing The Beautiful Letdown logo. The brand also offers two scholarships and two grants for qualifying families in the city of Philadelphia.
MeatSpady is a hip-hop artist, born and raised in North Philadelphia, whose deep real-life lyrics speaks to the very people he serves in his community. The Beautiful Letdown Store is an online store where the customers can buy a vast variety of quality apparel for a low price. The products range from t-shirts, hoodies, sweaters, sweatpants, sea moss and more. The brand came about after the 2018 release of The Beautiful Letdown mixtape. The project reflected MeatSpady taking full accountability for who he is as a human being. When the brand was created the objective was to convey the concept of having acceptance of self. Something he considers to be the highest form of self-love.
Through his brand, MeatSpady is striving to become a staple in his community. Leading by example he makes monthly visits into the community to provide food and clothing to the people, sponsoring the For The Love Basketball events with throughout the city of Philadelphia and finding various ways to give back to others.
The brand plans to offer two scholarships to Philadelphia high school graduates this year, as well as two grants to families who deal with the everyday effects of the health issues that their children are faced with. The Beautiful Letdown Store is always looking to sponsor events in the community that can help bring positive change to the people in it. "This is my way of giving back to my community until I can do so on a larger scale" says MeatSpady. When asked about the significance of the variety of colorways the brand offers, he stated "We believe everybody has a story and every story has a color. What color is your story?.
Being a musician and operating a brand to help the community is really an inspiring and appreciable action of MeatSpady. He is determined to continue to impact the lives of others as time progresses. With the continued support of his listener, fans, and customers the future is bright for MeatSpady and all his endeavors.
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How to Set up a Cardano Node?
The constant evolution of the blockchain has made it a more mainstream technology. Such improvement contributes to its rapid market growth. Blockchain technology came along with Bitcoin in 2008, the first-generation blockchain that can facilitate only cryptocurrency transactions. Later, when Ethereum (second-generation blockchain) entered the blockchain space, it set a new definition of how blockchain technology can power enterprise-grade solutions and eliminate the need for third-party authentications.
Amidst the blockchain advancement and the advent of new protocols, scalability continued to create challenges for the first and second-generation blockchain users. Besides, lack of interoperability is another reason that disrupts the global utilization of diverse blockchain use cases. Blockchain experts realized the potential adverse impact of these short flaws, and thus we had the third generation blockchain, Cardano, in 2017. This article will explore Cardano, its diverse use cases and discover how to set up Cardano node. So, let's start.
What is Cardano?
Cardano is a third-generation proof-of-stake blockchain platform designed to be open-source and decentralized. It addresses the challenges of first and second-generation blockchains. In addition, it eliminates the flaws of POS (proof-of-work) consensus mechanism such as high transaction cost, slow transaction processing, high energy consumption, etc.
Due to its open-source nature, the platform offers a range of Cardano development opportunities for worldwide developers. One can easily participate in the Cardano ecosystem and contribute to its sustainability by developing innovative solutions like a Stake pool, smart contracts, Cardano exchanges, and even a unique ecosystem.
What is a Cardano node, and how it works?
A node is the core component of the Cardano ecosystem that underpins the whole network. Ultimately, every blockchain network consists of various interconnected nodes to validate transactions and blocks via a consensus mechanism. Specifically, in Cardano, users are required to run Cardano node if they wish to join the platform and contribute to the open-source project.
So, how does a Cardano node work?
A Cardano node is a service node that imparts complete transparency across the network by validating how the pool interacts inside the network. The nodes further hold and manage the combined stake in a single entity.
Other core responsibilities:
Production of blocks
Cardano produces independently verifiable blocks across a peer-to-peer protocol through a robust block-producing system. It further adds security layers to decide which blocks should be added to extend the chain.
Validation of transactions
Nodes validate the transaction by appointing slot leaders who determine if the sender has enough funds to meet transaction parameters. Once confirmed, the slot leaders record data and assume it as an active block after the complete verification process.
We will discuss the step-by-step process of setting up the Cardano node from the source node and running the node into multiple operating systems.
For that, you need the following component setup for node installation:
The latest operating system- Windows, Linux, or macOS.
Dual-core CPU with 8GB RAM and 10GB disk space.
For Linux
Step1: Install operating system dependencies on the Linux system.
Step:2: Install GHC and Cabal using ghcup.
Step3: Download and compile a working directory to store source code and builds.
Step4: Configure the build option.
Step5: Build up and install the node.
For macOS Operating system
Here, we will explain the download, compilation, and installation process for the node.
Step1: Install operating system (OS) dependencies for MacOS.
Step2: Install homebrew packages.
The rest of the steps are the same as the node installation in Windows operating system (from step 3 to step 5).
For Windows operating system
Node installation for Windows is the same as macOS and Linux, but you need WSL (windows subsystem for Linx) that changes the windows environment into Linux.
With a highly mutative nature and the ability to embrace modern technologies, Cardano has brought significant change to the blockchain and its real-world implementations. Such overwhelming popularity has also empowered Cardano-based development & deployment services since this protocol supports scalable, interoperable, and sustainable enterprise-wide solutions at a reasonable cost.
Get ready!Beijing 2022
The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022 are an upcoming international winter multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing and venues near neighboring towns of Yanqing and Chongli in the People's Republic of China.
Beijing was elected as host city in July 2015 at the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur. The 2022 Winter Olympics will be the first Winter Olympics in China, the last of three consecutive Olympics to be held in East Asia (after the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan), and the second overall Olympics to be held in China, after the 2008 Summer Olympics also in Beijing. For the first time, the Winter Olympics will be hosted by a city that previously hosted the Summer Olympics; Four existing indoor venues that were originally constructed for the 2008 Games, as well as the Beijing National Stadium (venues of the opening and closing ceremonies), will be used.
The 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to include a record 109 events over 15 disciplines in seven sports. This represented an increase of seven events from 2018. The men's and women's big air freestyle, women's monobob, mixed team competitions in freestyle skiing aerials, ski jumping, and snowboard cross, and the mixed relay in short track speed skating were the new events added by the International Olympic Committee in July 2018.
Beijing, the city of double Olympics, has witnessed the development of China, and it also represents the traditions of the East. Let's look forward to what kind of splendor this Winter Olympics will bring or the new trend that will lead the development of the world. The Chinese culture is broad and profound and will shape the spirit of solidarity of a community with a shared future for mankind together with the Olympic spirit. It is expected that the Beijing Olympics will bring about world peace and development and share a beautiful vision for the future.
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Nobody has 'the time' to write. You have to make it yourself, carving it out of your busy days any way you can.
I steal it. Writers write, writers read, and writers steal time.
I give up time that could be spent watching TV, playing games, browsing the internet or sleeping and I use it for writing instead. This is the only way I get anything done.


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Bays de Noc—Grand Island Trail
Rapid River
Escanaba MI, 49878
This trail follows the ancient portage route of Chippewa Indians from Lake Michigan (Rapid River) to Lake Superior (Munising). It parallels the Whitefish River and offers amazing river bluff views of the Whitefish River Valley.The southern 1/4 of the trail winds along through jack pine, red pine, and aspen timber, interspersed with grassy openings. The terrain is fairly level, broken only by an occasional stream crossing. As the trail stretches northward through the maple, paper birch, and beech forest, hikers will encounter the typical glacial terrain characterized by short rounded hills scattered in a random fashion. These hilly stretches are occasionally separated by one- to five- mile stretches of flat land supporting a pine and aspen forest.The 40-mile trail overlooks the Whitefish River basin from a ridge running from Rapid River to Munising. Trail follows the ancient portage route of Chippewa Indians from Lake Michigan to Lake Superior.The Bay de Noc-to-Grand Island Trail begins from a point 2 1/2 miles east of the town of Rapid River and one mile north of US Highway 2 and extends northward for approximately 40 miles terminating at its intersection with State Highway 94 at Ackerman Lake. The three main trail heads are:Access A: Two miles east of Rapid River on US-2. Turn left onto County Road 509 and travel 1.5 miles north. Parking lot is on the west side of the road. Trail goes north 22 miles to Access B.Access B: Two miles east of Rapid River on US-2. Turn left onto County Road 509 and travel 16 miles north. Parking lot is on the east side of the road. Trail goes north 18 miles to Access C.Access C: Ten miles southwest of Munising on M-94. Parking lot is on north side of road opposite Ackerman Lake.The Bay de Noc-to-Grand Island Trail parallels the Whitefish River, starting from 1/2 to 2 miles east of the river. The trail follows the approximate location of an ancient Chippewa Indian portage route used to carry canoes and supplies between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Following the river bluff for a considerable distance, it offers the hiker many extended views to the west across the Whitefish River Valley.Other associated recreation facilities include numerous primitive access roads leading from County Road 509 to the trail.There are also three large assembly areas for horses and hikers which consist of parking lot, tethering area, water well, and vault toilets. One such area is located at the south trail head, one at the Alger-Delta County Line and one along the north side of Highway M-94. These areas are also suitable for camping. The middle assembly area is better suited for camping than the others because of its large space and quiet location off of County Road 509. While water is available at the parking areas, it is suggested that you carry a drinking water supply with you. In order to be safe, all drinking water should be boiled or disinfected with Halazone.Trail Notes
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Horse riders be aware that hikers also use the trail. Be cautious when approaching.Camping permits are not required; however, competitive events such as group races require a permit in advance.In order to protect the lakes or streams from contamination, please tether your horse at least 100 feet from the water's edge.At campsites, make sure temporary hitch rails are dismantled and manure piles are scattered to aid decomposition, discourage flies, and as a courtesy to others.Motorized Use Prohibited


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Latvian Railway History Museum () is a railway museum with expositions in Riga and in Jelgava, dedicated to the history of railway and its development in Latvia . The museum is a structural unit of the company "Latvijas dzelzceļš". The museum has the largest collection of wide-gauge vehicles in the Baltics.

Museum in Riga

The museum's Riga exposition is located in 19th century locomotive repair shops located in Pārdaugava, near the main building of the National Library of Latvia known as Castle of Light. It was established on August 30, 1994, and contains more than a thousand railway-related items.
Samples of uniforms, tickets, train schedules and other things related to the Latvian Railway can be seen in the expositions. Outside the museum premises, railway rolling stock can be seen - locomotives, wagons and other railway equipment operating in Latvia.

Jelgava Museum exposition
The Jelgava branch of the museum was opened on 24 December 1982, when the Jelgava Railway Department's Open Achievement Museum was opened in the Jelgava Railway Club. In 1991, the Railway Museum moved to the railwaymen's residential house, which was built in 1903 and is located near Jelgava railway station. The exposition includes semaphores, couplings, trolleys, locomotive wheelsets, hydrant, level crossing equipment and other things related to Latvian Railways.

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Museums in Riga
Buildings and structures in Jelgava
Railway museums in Latvia
Museums established in 1994
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Various "brand" titles flag cars that have been flooded, declared total losses, salvaged, or sold as junk. Odometer readings taken at each title transfer can reveal whether an odometer has been rolled back.
You should be aware that not all U.S. states participate fully in the NMVTIS.
So it's possible that some of a car's title history may be missing. The NMVTIS website also mentions that you can inquire with a state's Department of Motor Vehicles to request a State Vehicle Record.
Vehicle history reports also draw data from other sources, including insurance companies, auto repair service shops, and police traffic accident reports. But not all relevant data is captured. If a car is repaired without resorting (or reporting) to insurance, whoever repaired it may not report to Carfax or its competitors. Repairs may never have been made at all, yet remain hidden from easy detection.
Many used car dealers provide reports from Carfax, Autocheck, or both. The reports lend credibility to their sales pitches. But buyers should not rely on a report from a single vendor. Just as one anti-malware program may miss an infection that another catches, Carfax may reveal red flags that Autocheck doesn't, and vice versa. If a dealer won't provide reports from both leading services, take the one offered and run your own report on the other. It's easy and relatively inexpensive.
You can find more car buying tips in my related article Online Car Buying Tips. Learn how to do all your car buying research (and maybe even your purchase) online.
All you need is a car's VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) or license plate number. Punch it in at Carfax.com or Autocheck.com and you'll get a teasing summary of the car's history. Pay a fee to download the complete report, which includes vehicle registration and title information, odometer readings, recall, accident and airbag deployment history, service and repair information, and vehicle usage (taxi, rental, lease, etc.) Both services offer package deals for shoppers who plan to check out several vehicles.
A single Carfax report costs $39.95. If you researching multiple cars, you can purchase 3 reports for $59.99, or 6 reports for $99.99. Carfax does offer a few free services such as Odometer Rollback Check and Recall Check.
One Autocheck report costs $24.95, or you can purchase 25 reports within 21 days for $49.99. If you're addicted to vehicle history reports, you can also get 300 reports for $100. The price differences do not indicate which service is better. Carfax is strictly in the vehicle history business, while Autocheck is a subsidiary of credit reporting agency Experian. Autocheck may well be a subsidized lead-generator for other Experian products.
I'm certainly not saying that Carfax and similar services are dishonest or worthless. Just don't let a "clean" vehicle history report lull you into a false sense of security. The best protection against buying an expensive headache or paying too much is a hands-on inspection by an auto mechanic you trust. Vehicle history reports are just an intermediate step between a test drive and a mechanic's inspection. You can find more car buying tips in my related article Online Car Buying Tips.
Most recent comments on "[AUTO] Are Carfax Reports Reliable?"
Thanks Bob. I knew about Carfax since many of the dealers provide them. I didn't know about Autocheck. So the next time I buy a used car I will get both.
Long story, a few years ago I bought a new BMW which I eventually traded for another new car. I got a call from the dealer accusing me of trading a car that had been damaged in an accident re: a carfax report. No such thing happened. There had been hail damage to the paint only. Carfax refused to correct. I will never rely on carfax.
A few years ago when searching for a new used car, I purchased multiple Carfax reports for vehicles I was considering purchasing prior to visiting the dealerships offering them. On several occasions, I found Carfax reports already posted on the vehicles which differed markedly from those I purchased. Not surprisingly, the free Carfax reports the dealerships posted on the vehicles I was considering were much more positive and often lacked multiple (and in my opinion significant) entries which were listed in my Carfax reports. Some even noted only one prior owner when my Carfax listed multiple. When I would question a salesperson regarding the discrepancies between the reports, I was always told mine was incorrect or not as recent as their report despite the fact that I purchased each one just prior to visiting the dealership. Needless to say, I quickly left those dealerships to look elsewhere. And I agree that you should always have a mechanic you trust inspect a used car prior to purchasing.
We checked Carfax before buying a used vehicle that purportedly had rear end damage. However the car clearly had a new front quarter panel and hood that was a slightly different color and didn't line up properly. Carfax showed on the rear in damage but clearly it been in a front end accident.
Then we decided to check on our own car that we had previously traded in because it had been flooded completely-Immersed in water.
We love the car and would've kept it except for that it started to have problems with the wiring shorting out. There was nothing in the Carfax report about water damage. We will never trust Carfax.
From personal experience, CarFax and AutoCheck are unreliable at best.
As Bob noted, one should not rely on a single anti virus or malware program. It's the same with CarFax an others. They are simply one tool and they provide some information, and it's better than nothing. But don't rely on them completely.
As consumers. it's our responsibility to research our car purchases and we cannot mitigate that to a single source.
My wife drove her car off the edge of the road just barely into a ditch. We could not back it out and needed a tow truck. There was some front suspension damage and some to the A/C lines. But the air bag NEVER deployed. It was fixed at a reputable body shop and our insurance paid for it, minus the dedictible. Checking Carfax later, it reported the car as having had the air bag deployed. It NEVER happened at all!! We know the history of the car since we bought it brand new off the dealer's lot.
As Bob said, Never rely on one source. I used to use Autocheck back when it was free for car shopping. When they started to charge for every report, they became like the others. They only provide what they are given. I don't trust any of them as a sole source. If you're in the market for a car, try googling the VIN number. Sometimes you can get lucky.
Quick story; we bought our daughter a used Subaru Impreza from a local dealer who provided us with a clean Carfax report. About a year later we took the car to our mechanic for some brake work. He told us and showed us that the car was previously rear ended with substantial damage. Something that was not mentioned in the Carfax report. In the end though, our daughter drove that little Subi for years and beat it into the ground and then sold it for a good chunk of change. We learned our lesson but had a happy ending.
"... an auto mechanic you trust..."
CarFax is a private business and there is no legal requirement to report ANYTHING done to your car to your local Government, much less CarFax. For example, when my kids were young drivers my youngest Son had a couple of accidents. I paid to have them professionally repaired out of my own pocket to keep the accidents and their cost off my insurance.
So, was I breaking the law or doing anything immoral? No.
But had the cars been in accidents? Yes.
Does the next owner need to know? No, as long as the repairs were done correctly, and they were.
Bottom line is, CarFax is just a starting point and there are far more things that can go wrong with a car that are never reported to the service. Like, how often was the oil changed? Or was the car driven by a kid-racer who beat up the drive line with his driving style? Do yourself a favor and pay a good independent mechanic to look at anything you consider buying that's more than three years old or has more than 45,000 miles on the odometer.
Unfortunately, many people think Carfax is like gold. But, it is only as good as what is reported, which may be incomplete or incorrect. Shop makes errors in the paperwork? bad information. Employee of any involved entity enters data wrong? Again, bad data. This can affect not only buyers, but sellers as well. Recently, a dealership service writer made an error on the mileage of my car (5,000 miles higher than actual.) This was reported to Carfax. The dealer fixed the error and gave us new paperwork, but I don't know if Carfax will ever fix it. At some point, it's going to look hinky, because the next reported service will have lower miles than the last. This doesn't look good to potential buyers. If a VIN is incorrectly recorded when an accident is reported to Carfax, it may very well appear your car was in an accident that never took place. There goes your resale value.
For buyers, if you do want a Carfax from a dealer, don't settle for the paper one sitting in the car that's been on the lot for two months. Ask for a fresh pull. That accident the last owner was in right before trading it in probably didn't show up on the one pulled two months ago at trade in time. And, keep in mind, these a just tools. They can't replace an inspection.
Carfax is only one tool to use when considering a purchase, and it is a poor one at that. It can only contain what has been reported, thus a lot of "dirt" is kept out. I bought a used car whose Carfax shows a normal record. Any cursory exam shows dents, one back door that has to be yanked open with some strength (with both hands) and a repaint job that no doubt was hiding a lot more.
It did show a previous title from another state. That state, however, is known as a place where used car sellers often "wash" titles. Why did I buy it? It was cheap and the working innards were in great condition (probably rebuilt). Still running well.
My husband lightly bumped a cement parking divider with his older car. His airbag went off, even though it shouldn't have (the mechanic said the bump was at a weird angle that set the sensor off). Carfax forever showed airbag deployment seeming to indicate an accident. How fair is that?
"this is a fake report" because it never happened.
when where who...etc,, I just don't understand why they (dealers) still keep those Repair/Maint. Department. They can do much better without thirdparty.