Proof: First consider the following claim which is a weak type estimate of the same sort used when differentiating with respect to Lebesgue measure.
Claim 1: The following inequality holds for Nn the constant of the Besicovitch covering theorem.
22.12 follows from the above and the triangle inequality. This proves the claim.
( [ ∫ ]) ≤ μ- x∈∕Z :lim sup ----1----- |f (y)− g (y)|dμ (y) > ε r→0 μ(B (x,r)) B (x,r) 2 -( [ ε]) +μ x ∕∈ Z :|g (x )− f (x)| > 2 .
In case μ is ordinary Lebesgue measure on ℝn, the set Z = ∅ and we obtain the usual Lebesgue fundamental theorem of calculus.


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The AWS Deep Learning AMIs and the AWS Deep Learning CloudFormation Template provide the foundation for data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and research scientists to accelerate work in Deep Learning. The Deep Learning AMIs let you run deep learning in the cloud, at any scale. You can quickly launch instances of the AMIs, pre-installed with open source deep learning frameworks to train sophisticated, custom AI models, experiment with new algorithms and learn new deep learning skills and techniques. The Deep Learning AMIs let you create managed, auto-scaling clusters of GPUs for large scale training, or run inference on trained models using Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, Theano, Torch and Keras. The AMIs are provided and supported by Amazon Web Services, for use on Amazon EC2. There is no additional charge for the Deep Learning AMIs – you only pay for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications.
To train over multiple instances, the Deep Learning CloudFormation Template provides a simple way to launch these resources quickly and use the Deep Learning AMIs. AWS CloudFormation templates are an easy way to scale up multiple instances of EC2 instances for big compute jobs such as training deep neural networks. Developers can use the distributed Deep Learning CloudFormation template to spin up a scaled-out, elastic cluster of P2 or G2 instances using the Deep Learning AMI for their larger training requirements.To learn more, visit the AWS EC2 Compute Blog for information on CloudFormation usage for Deep Learning.
The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are available in the AWS Marketplace for Amazon Linux and Ubuntu 14.04, supporting Python 2 & 3.
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Caffe is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind. It is developed by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC) and by community contributors.
Torch is a scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms that puts GPUs first. It is easy to use and efficient, thanks to an easy and fast scripting language, LuaJIT, and an underlying C/CUDA implementation.
CNTK - The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit - is a unified deep-learning toolkit by Microsoft Research.


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Plus: An uproar over AI art
Tonight: It's not a great time for the meme stock set. Plus: Artists found out their work was being used to train AI, and they are furious. Let's get into it.
By CNN Business Staff
MEME HANGOVER
It's been a rough year for stock traders, what with the bear markets, the rate hikes, the inflation, the revolving door of political crises at home and abroad — all in all, quite the hangover from the Fed-fueled party that was 2021.
Everyone's hurting in their own ways, of course, but retail traders — regular people who trade on their own via apps like Robinhood — appear especially glum, CNN Business' Nicole Goodkind writes.
Let's step back: In the heyday of 2020, lots of folks were bored, scared and holed up in their living rooms with their phones. Critically, they also had stimulus checks burning a hole in their bank accounts. For many, that meant it was time to join the ranks of stock pickers.
Traffic on trading apps shot up. Meme stocks were born. An army of retail traders managed to short squeeze the life out of one Wall Street's most powerful hedge funds.
But for those who joined during in the thrilling bull market of 2020 and 2021, this year's slump appears to have soured the mood. The market downturn this year has knocked about $15 trillion off the valuations of publicly traded companies. Retail traders have had enough, and they are headed for the exits.
Robinhood's stock is has fallen about 45% this year as its user growth has slowed dramatically. The company said in August that it would cut 23% of its full-time staff, its second round of layoffs this year.
The average daily number of retail trades handled at Charles Schwab fell to 5.5 million in the third quarter, far from the 8.4 million it reported in early 2021, at the height of the GameStop mania.
Bottom line: A loss of retail investors isn't, like, the end of the world. But it's concerning because it could spell a longer downturn as regular people shun equities.
The silver lining here may be that those hordes of mostly young, green investors who'd never experienced a bear market are learning the hard way to exercise caution and make smarter choices. Like, don't just buy this stock because someone you've never met on Reddit implored you to HODL or accused you of having paper hands.
"Some are undoubtedly pulling out of the market and buying bonds, but it seems like retail investors are mostly taking a wait-and-see approach to equities, holding onto Big Tech stocks and rotating into more stable, dividend-paying sectors like energy," said Thomas Mason, senior analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
ART UPROAR
An image created by CNN's Rachel Metz with input from artist Erin Hanson, using the AI platform Stable Diffusion. It resembles Hanson's work, particularly with its colors and simulated brush strokes.
By Rachel Metz
Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. But during a recent interview with her, I showed Hanson my attempts to recreate her style with just a few keystrokes.
Using Stable Diffusion, a popular and publicly available open-source AI image generation tool, I had plugged in a series of prompts to create images in the style of some of her paintings of California poppies on an ocean cliff and a field of lupin.
"That one with the purple flowers and the sunset," she said via Zoom, peering at one of my attempts, "definitely looks like one of my paintings, you know?"
With Hanson's guidance, I then tailored another detailed prompt: "Oil painting of crystal light, in the style of Erin Hanson, light and shadows, backlit trees, strong outlines, stained glass, modern impressionist, award-winning, trending on ArtStation, vivid, high-definition, high-resolution." I fed the prompt to Stable Diffusion; within seconds it produced three images.
"Oh, wow," she said as we pored over the results, pointing out how similar the trees in one image looked to the ones in her 2021 painting "Crystalline Maples." "I would put that on my wall," she soon added.
Hanson, who's based in McMinnville, Oregon, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, which was released in August by London-based Stability AI. She's one of several artists interviewed by CNN Business who were unhappy to learn that pictures of their work were used without someone informing them, asking for consent, or paying for their use.
"Crystalline Maples", a 2021 oil painting by Erin Hanson.
Once available only to a select group of tech insiders, text-to-image AI systems are becoming increasingly popular and powerful. These systems include Stable Diffusion, from a company that recently raised more than $100 million in funding, and DALL-E, from a company that has raised $1 billion to date.
These tools, which typically offer some free credits before charging, can create all kinds of images with just a few words, including those that are clearly evocative of the works of many, many artists (if not seemingly created by the same artist). Users can invoke those artists with words such as "in the style of" or "by" along with a specific name. And the current uses for these tools can range from personal amusement to more commercial cases.
In just months, millions of people have flocked to text-to-image AI systems and they are already being used to create experimental films, magazine covers and images to illustrate news stories. An image generated with an AI system called Midjourney recently won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair, and caused an uproar among artists.
But as artists like Hanson have discovered that their work is being used to train AI, it raises an even more fundamental concern: that their own art is effectively being used to train a computer program that could one day cut into their livelihoods. Anyone who generates images with systems such as Stable Diffusion or DALL-E can then sell them (the specific terms regarding copyright and ownership of these images varies).
"I don't want to participate at all in the machine that's going to cheapen what I do," said Daniel Danger, an illustrator and print maker who learned a number of his works were used to train Stable Diffusion.
Read the full story and see more examples of AI-generated art here.

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**Residual Networks**, or **ResNets**, learn residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions. Instead of hoping each few stacked layers directly fit a desired underlying mapping, residual nets let these layers fit a residual mapping. They stack [residual blocks](https://paperswithcode.com/method/residual-block) ontop of each other to form network: e.g. a ResNet-50 has fifty layers using these blocks.

The models in this collection utilise semi-weakly supervised learning to improve the performance of the model. The approach brings important gains to standard architectures for image, video and fine-grained classification.

Please note the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license on theses weights, non-commercial use only.

{% include 'code_snippets.md' %}

## How do I train this model?

You can follow the [timm recipe scripts](https://rwightman.github.io/pytorch-image-models/scripts/) for training a new model afresh.

## Citation

```BibTeX
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1905-00546,
  author    = {I. Zeki Yalniz and
               Herv{\'{e}} J{\'{e}}gou and
               Kan Chen and
               Manohar Paluri and
               Dhruv Mahajan},
  title     = {Billion-scale semi-supervised learning for image classification},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1905.00546},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00546},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {1905.00546},
  timestamp = {Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:19:37 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/corr/abs-1905-00546.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
```

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Managing modern media is a lot like a high wire act at the circus.
Behind you is one platform – traditional media. It was safe on that platform. Things were manageable. Footing was steady. Audiences were massive, passive, and predictable. The game was stable and the rules were simple. Spend money to advertise to large audiences that belong to someone else and sell whatever it is you make to a large group of people. But then along came change and standing on the platform was no longer good enough. The people shifted. The audience fragmented. Suddenly, the world was different.
Somewhere out in front of you is another platform – new media. You've heard all about the magical utopian tomorrow of new media. You've seen the videos, read the statistics, bought the books, and understand that out there in front of you is a very different world. A world of mobile, social, digital, always on, ubiquitous connections, consumer control, active, measurable audiences, open ongoing conversation, and deep consumer relations.
Cue the spotlights. Welcome to the high wire. To effectively walk the high wire and communicate with most audiences you need the platform behind you as well as the one in front of you. You must carefully choose the mix of media that your business uses to communicate with people. It's easy to say you are going to immediately jump all the way across, but very difficult to actually do. Furthermore if your audience is not ready, your jump is pointless. It's easy to stay put in traditional media, but if your audience has left, you'll struggle to generate results. For most businesses, the high wire act needs a platform on each side. Removing either platform would cause you to plummet to your demise. Bad idea.
But why can't we just bail on traditional media? Isn't everyone on Facebook or Twitter or using Search or at least on the web?
According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, 20% of American Adults don't use the Internet at all – not at all. Half of them say there is just nothing relevant on the Web for them. People 65 and older, people with no less education, and people with lower income all tend to use the web less – typically for either lack of access or interest. That is not to say that these groups don't use digital media, they are just less likely to do so. People across all segments of society are increasingly adopting digital media, but not everyone is "out there" in the future just yet. In fact, the average American still consumes 143 hours of television per month. Paid, owned, and earned, new and tradition, however you want to categorize or classify it, getting the media mix right is complex, challenging, and critical to success.
This is why strategy is so vital. You have to know where your audience is located and have a media plan that is appropriately matched to their needs and behaviors in order to reach them. This seems simple, but according to the most recent edition of the Duke University CMO survey, 16.8% of the more than 4,000 marketing professionals surveyed said that social media was not at all integrated into their business strategy. Worse still, 15.5% say they use no form of analytics? This is the equivalent of standing on the platform, being blindfolded, spun around in circles, doing a shot of tequila and then stepping on to the tightrope. You are doomed to fall and destined to fail.
Media is a balancing act. A great media plan begins with understanding the audience, and then moving to put together an integrated strategy for connecting with them. It is about combining various forms of media to accomplish your goals. It requires attention to the future, but like a tightrope walker, it demands intense focus and constant calibration. It also helps to have some experience on your side.
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NGames lets the dogs out (and the dragons, plants, machinery, dolls, dragons, and elfs) and details the deep pet system awaiting players in upcoming magical web MMORPG.
NGames, a leading online games developer and publisher, has today unleashed new details regarding the deep pet system players can enjoy in upcoming magical web RPG, Tales of Laputa.
Combining RPG gameplay with classic anime elements, Tales of Laputa thrusts players into a brave new world where magic and machinery coexist, and the threat of demonic invasions is an ever-present danger.
Laputa is a perilous place, but a unique pet system will mean players always have a virtual friend to accompany them on their travels. Players will be able use a plethora of unique pets as battle companions - or just show them off to other players - as they quest across the game's open-world when Tales of Laputa launches later this year.
There are 6 categories of pets available in Tales of Laputa: animal, plant, machinery, doll, dragon, and elf; each available in one of two types: Baby Pet, or Wild Pet. These pets are then placed into one of five different grades of strength: white, green, blue, purple, or orange (strongest to weakest attributes).
Wild Pets are the most common creatures roaming the lands of Laputa, and some of them pack a powerful punch. Nothing burns the opponent quite like a wild dragon. However, discovering and enhancing a Baby Pet will reap many benefits for players and allow them to participate in the Colosseum, where mysterious trials can be undertaken for huge prizes.
Players can obtain pets in several ways. Pets can be earned by defeating and capturing monsters while traveling Laputa's dangerous world, or earned through time-limited events, where players might be lucky enough to stumble across a rare pet egg. Players can also earn a new pet by defeating Laputa's many dungeons – flipping cards at the end will open up the chance to steal a powerful boss pet egg.
Rumor also has it that an ancient forbidden path exists somewhere on the outskirts of Laputa, and that a powerful dragon laid its eggs there not too long ago. Worth a look for any brave adventurer.
It is possible to own multiple pets at once, and players can just simply release them back into the wild if they are no longer needed.


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Poker is an extremely popular card game around the world. Although its origins are not entirely clear, it was probably played by the French settlers in New Orleans and the Persian sailors who sailed the Mississippi River. Today, there are several different versions of the game. While some of them are more complicated than others, each of them requires a little luck and a fair amount of skill.
The game of poker is played with a standard 52-card deck, which varies depending on the game. Some variations include a wild card. This enables players to draw cards from the top of the deck to replace those that have been discarded. In addition, the dealer deals one card at a time.
The card may be dealt face down or face up. Players make bets with coins or chips. A player with a winning hand collects the pot without having to reveal his or her hand.
The most important aspect of the game is a combination of luck and strategy. Players who know the odds of winning and which cards to bet on are considered to be the smart money. If no one else makes a bet, a player can "all in" and risk all his or her chips in the hope of catching the pot. It is not uncommon for more than one player to be involved in a showdown.
There are many variations of poker, including lowball, split-pot and seven-card stud. These games vary in number of players and cards dealt and in the rules of the game. Most modern variants use a standard 52-card deck. However, other forms use short packs or a single deck.
Probably the best known variation is the Texas hold 'em game. The shortest version of this game consists of two players, with each making one or more bets in each round. During the heyday of this game, television broadcasts were a big draw, and televised tournaments became popular.
One of the most enjoyable aspects of this game is the opportunity to play it at home. For some players, this is a good way to relax and socialize. Other players may find it a great way to win money.
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Innovation or doing things differently is something that has set the momentum of the "startup scene" in India. It is because of thinking differently, the "old wine in a new bottle" syndrome that has revamped and fuelled the success of top startups in the country today. Innovation is all about bringing something new and exciting to the customer. Given the cutthroat competition in the market today, innovative products and ideas are the key to differentiating yourself from others in the race.
Successful businesses often anticipate future trends and develop an idea, product or service that allows them to meet this future demand rapidly and effectively. It is not just about fulfilling the pain points of the consumers, but also being able to preempt the future needs of the consumers before they even feel them. In essence, predicting and fulfilling a future void and working on its solution in the present, staying ahead of the curve. Innovation can help you stay ahead of your competition as markets, technologies or trends shift, thereby giving you a definite edge.
This year, India has slipped 10 places in the Global Innovation Index to a disappointing 76th position. Imagine what we can accomplish as a nation if more people were to focus on innovation. We can easily transition to become a nation of job creators than job seekers.
Renowned global brands like 3M, GE, Lego, Nestlé, Pepsi and Starbucks are all from different industries, but have been constantly innovating their products. These companies have successfully created and supported an internal innovation capability that drives new products into the marketplace year after year with remarkable success. In fact, the very reason behind their success is that they made innovation a critical capability within their organisations. These companies recognised innovation as a key driver for success by enhancing the value that the business was delivering to customers.
With Indians like Nikesh Arora and Sundar Pichai, leading the heavy weight 'innovating' companies like SoftBank and Google, we are looking at a complete change in the way India and Indians are perceived globally; whether it is Indra Nooyi, Satya Nadella, Ajay Banga or Shantanu Narayen.
Innovation helps large companies survive challenges. According to Clayton Christensen, disruptive innovation is the key to future success in business. For companies to become market leaders and retain that position, they have no choice but to innovate and disrupt an existing technology or market by recognising opportunities.
For example, Patym had revolutionised mobile commerce in India. Earlier, people were wary of storing their debit or credit card information online. The company created a secure digital wallet where a user can put in a small amount without threat of online and credit card fraud. The payment solutions provider uses an RBI approved semi-closed wallet that is being used everywhere, right from Domino's Pizza to Zivame to Uber. The company now has over 80 Mn mobile wallets and more than 15 million orders per month.
Innovation is that one thing that all successful businesses worldwide have in common. Innovation is a part of their culture… it's in their DNA.
To foster a spirit of innovation in today's youth, iSPIRT is hosting InnoFest, a daylong event focused on kick starting the next wave of innovation in the country. The event to be held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 22ndAugust 2015, will offer young innovators a platform to present their ideas and interact with like-minded people from across the country. The daylong fest is meant to celebrate innovation and bring forward ideas that can become game changers for the nation.
Disruption and disruptive innovation have been in the spotlight of late. The guru of disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen, and his famous theory were put under the scanner in a highly critical if somewhat flippant recent piece by Jill Lepore in the New Yorker. Just a few weeks earlier, the New York Times carried a provocative article titled "Business School, Disrupted," that examined the potential of MOOCs to change management education and chronicled the troubled efforts of arguably the world's strongest business school brand, Harvard Business School, to embrace MOOCs.
Is the problem with disruptive innovation or innovation itself?
Though Lepore's article is ostensibly targeted at disruptive innovation, her grouse seems to be with innovation itself. She chronicles how "progress" used to be the ideal, till the notion of "progress" got discredited because of the many negatives that came along with it (atom bombs, for instance). Today, innovation has become the holy grail even though innovation can result in several unanticipated negative consequences.
As someone who has beaten the innovation drum for close to 2 decades now, I have to admit that some of this criticism is justified. The word innovation is used quite indiscriminately these days because it's the "in thing." I remember grimacing when I once read a report on the Indian BPO industry that gushingly identified picking up and dropping employees at home as the most important innovation of the industry! But, many people are sensitized to this debate – whenever I try to define innovation in my class these days, we end up having a lively discussion about the difference between improvement and innovation. I must admit that in keeping with the times, and reflecting the importance of small changes in most business contexts, my own definition of innovation has become much broader over time (see below)!
Innovation can be criticized on several counts including a propensity to create needs that are not fundamental, being wasteful of resources, and, at times, acting as a smokescreen for other less desirable activities. The best example of this last one is the success of the pharmaceutical industry in justifying high prices for drugs in the name of innovation, when some studies have shown that what really pushes up the price of drugs is the marketing activities undertaken by these companies (that these marketing practices are often far from kosher is another dimension of this story!).
But Lepore's main target is disruptive innovation. Much of her criticism is targeted at the process of Christensen's theory-building. She cites examples from Christensen's own work to try to establish that disruptive innovation is not based on strong empirical evidence. She faults it for not being predictive, pointing out that Clayton Christensen predicted that the iPhone would not be successful! She accuses Christensen of picking and choosing data to suit his theory, and suggests that the cases he cites don't take alternative explanations into account.
Some of this criticism may be unjustified. As far as I can make out, there is no "theory" of disruptive innovation. It's an interesting concept, particularly when it is contrasted with "sustaining" innovation (for a review of disruptive innovation, see my earlier post. Incidentally, this is the post on my blog that has the highest number of hits!). Christensen advanced the concept of disruptive innovation as an explanation for why several successful companies failed.
In fact, disruptive innovation can be subject to legitimate criticism, but not along the lines of many of Lepore's arguments. Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a new way of doing things that is often inferior to the existing way, but one which advances rapidly thereafter, so much so that it can overtake the sustaining innovation trajectory at some point. One of the difficulties I have always found is identifying which (potentially) disruptive innovation will actually succeed and which will fizzle out.
MOOCs is a good example. Plain vanilla online learning has been around for some time, and the demise of education as we know it has been predicted for the last 15 years. But, the first phase of online learning proved to be a complement to conventional education rather than a substitute. It's only in the last few years that the improvement in streaming technologies and the huge increase in the availability of low-cost internet bandwidth have resulted in the take-off of MOOCs. Interestingly, MOOCs are still dependent on the teacher, only you now see her in video streamed from the MOOCs site.
However, even today, the jury is out as to whether MOOCs will replace classroom education. MOOCs seem to work well for self-motivated adult learners but there are many aspects of education that can't be achieved through MOOCs such as socialization, working in groups, and values.
Lepore is critical of the way people tend to see disruption lurking everywhere. But, there are two reasons why disruption has become a part of our everyday lexicon. The first is that the internet has been a trigger for disruption in different industries and product categories. Particularly where the product itself is digitisable (books, movies, photos, music, etc.), the internet has clearly acted as a force for disruption. The second is related to cost and reach. The focus on reaching out to price-sensitive "unserved" or "under-served" markets (the so-called "bottom of the pyramid") has led to people trying to discover ways of delivering products and services shorn of frills, and at the lowest cost possible. This has inevitably led to attempts to "disrupt" markets in the way that Christensen suggests. But, though this sounds easy, it's not so in practice as several efforts have shown (see, for example, my earlier post on chotukool).
Tailpiece: What can we learn from this episode?
There may be a lesson for would-be management gurus from the Christensen experience. He has become an easy target because he appears to be a "one-trick pony," known for disruptive innovation and nothing else. Contrast this with Michael Porter (5-forces framework, generic competitive strategies, competitive advantage of nations, clusters, CSR and shared value) and CK Prahalad (strategic intent, core competence, bottom of the pyramid) and you realize the difference. Both Prahalad and Porter moved on to other ideas, and such portfolio diversification made their reputations less vulnerable to sniper fire!


Eight of the 160 exhibits on display were recently rescued from the rubble; the exhibition was planned before the fire.
Yesterday (Jan 16), the National Museum launched its first exhibition after the fire that destroyed part of its collection. The free exhibition focuses on Antarctica and is hosted at Casa da Moeda Palace, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro - the museum's first headquarters in 1818.
Eight of the 160 exhibits on display were recently rescued from the rubble of the building. These include fragments of fossilized tree trunks which are now covered with pieces of metal, as they were kept inside a cabinet that melted in the flames.


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Joined Sumitomo Corporation in 2017. She currently works with the Infrastructure Business Unit and Human Resources, General Affairs & Legal Group at the Media Relations Team of the Corporate Communications Department. She was a sun-kissed lacrosse player at high school and university, but converted to hot yoga after becoming a working woman. Though struggling with challenges she has never before attempted in her life, she is persisting with a positive, "if we only live once, why not enjoy it" attitude.
In early May I visited two Sumitomo Corporation group companies in Gifu Prefecture. One was Belle Maison Logisco, which provides order fulfillment services for direct marketing companies. Belle Maison Logisco has distribution centers in Kani City and Minokamo City, which together employ about 1,200 people. The other company I visited was Seven Industries, headquartered in Minokamo City. The company is a leading manufacturer, distributor, and installer of laminated wood(*1) products and other wood-based home building materials.
For the trip to Gifu, I took the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line from Nagoya Station, changing to the Meitetsu Hiromi Line at Inuyama Station. Shortly after leaving Inuyama, I glanced out the window to find that the scenery had changed dramatically—it was all green paddy fields and woodlands, which had a very soothing effect.
*1 laminated wood: A type of wooden building material, laminated kiln-dried lumber
Making the work progress visible
Reached in about 10 minutes by car from Nishikani Station, the Kani Distribution Center is Belle Maison Logisco's main distribution center. The roughly 83,000 m² facility, larger than I had imagined, emerged abruptly from surroundings otherwise devoid of tall structures. The five-story building included an automated warehouse. The first thing I noticed during the guided tour of the center was the rhythmic movement of machinery. Automated distribution centers are not uncommon today, but the Kani Distribution Center was automated more than 20 years ago.
Touring each floor, I noticed numerous monitor screens installed here and there. "These are for improving throughput(*2) across the company," smiled Mr. Naoki Inuyama, Belle Maison Logisco's president and CEO. According to Mr. Inuyama, who has worked in logistics business for nearly 20 years since joining Sumitomo Corporation, the company keeps track of section-by-section output, service level attainment, and storage capacity on a daily basis. I could see that staff members were checking the monitor screens every now and then to keep abreast of work progress as they went about their tasks. The company has made its cost management more detailed, and has made output per hour visible, which is shared company-wide to encourage greater sensitivity to productivity.
*2 throughput: The amount of work a plant or machine can process in a given time
Exterior view of the Kani Distribution Center
Automation was adopted more than 20 years ago
Monitor screen keeping track of progress
Ingenuity felt throughout the distribution center
My next destination was the Minokamo Distribution Center, which mainly processes orders for merchandise only available online. Opened in late 2015, the Minokamo Distribution Center is a three-story building with approximately 46,000 m² of space. The walls inside the clean distribution center are covered with shelves stocking all sorts of products. Because Minokamo handles web-only products, inventory items change at a rapid pace. To accommodate its growing inventory, the distribution center has fitted its shelves with dividers, which have almost doubled the number of available compartments.
Perhaps uniquely for a distribution center, Minokamo produces e-commerce product photography, measurements, and descriptions (satsuei, saisun, and genko, collectively referred to as "Sasage") in-house. Belle Maison Logisco has been conducting "Sasage"tasks in-house since 2017, reducing the time it takes to upload product information to e-commerce sites, and cutting costs as a result.
The Kani and Minokamo Distribution Centers work in coordination to ensure that an order is dispatched in one shipment, even if it includes products stocked at separate centers. Such orders are packed at Minokamo, where a conveyer device (Multishuttle) combines products picked at Kani with those picked at Minokamo, and ships them after adding inserts such as catalogs and leaflets. To improve the efficiency of this work, containers for picked products are color-coded for easy identification: green for Kani and blue for Minokamo. Many other ingenious measures were in place as part of Belle Maison Logisco's ongoing drive to achieve efficiency and high-quality service.
Shelves are fitted with dividers and hanging boxes to expand the range of products they can accommodate.
Measuring a product, one of the "Sasage" tasks performed at Belle Maison Logisco
Laminated wood products by Seven Industries
About 10 minutes by car from Belle Maison Logisco, the headquarters of Seven Industries is in a mountainous location reached via narrow roads. Seven Industries is a leading laminated wood product company invested by Sumitomo Corporation. Laminated wood is a building material made from wood that is scientifically engineered and its qualities homogenized to retain the attractive look, texture, and superior properties of natural wood, yet the resulting material is stronger than wood and devoid of disadvantages such as warping and splitting. Seven Industries is one of Japan's pioneering laminated wood manufacturers, and as such has contributed to its widespread adoption. In terms of strength per unit weight, Japanese cedar wood has roughly four times the tensile strength of iron and five times the compressive strength of concrete. Laminated wood not only surpasses these other materials in strength, but can also be formed into any shape and retains the superior humidity-controlling and heat-insulating properties of wood. Using laminated wood, Seven Industries manufactures interior building materials such as staircases, countertops, and wooden components of Japanese-style interiors. It also processes and installs structural members for wooden buildings. To give a sense of the production volume of its main products, the company processes as many as 8,000 staircase units and 25,000 countertops per month. As for structural members such as pillars, joists, beams, and foundations of houses, it processes roughly 26,400 m² (200 buildings) per month. The highly mechanized factory was equipped with numerous kinds of processing machines.
Workspace for material cutting and processing
Inside the Seven Industries showroom
Mr. Taro Tanaka, Seven Industries president and CEO, gave a tour of the showroom, located about 30 minutes away from the head office. Visitors to the showroom are greeted by the pleasant smell of wood, which fills a space housing displays of staircases, tables, and other products. Staircases on display can actually be climbed up and down, and tables can be touched to gain a sense of their exquisite finish and sturdiness.
Japan is facing a shortage of carpenters. To address this problem, Seven Industries is conducting research into ways of streamlining on-site work. The company responds to the demand for off-site fabrication and processing, which save time and labor on-site, by performing more of the processing (referred to "pre-cutting") at the factory. Staircases, in particular, require advanced carpentry skills to build. Employing a special, patent-pending processing technique, Seven Industries' staircase components are designed for assembly by workers without highly advanced carpentry skills. "The technique resulted from the close coordination between production and sales," says Mr. Tanaka. By putting in place a mechanism for collecting user feedback, the company has built a unique business model, which has in turn carved out new business opportunities.
Room interiors displayed in the showroom
A designer staircase using wood from Gifu Prefecture
A staircase made of pre-cutting components employing special processing techniques
Highly driven two trading company persons in Gifu
I came back from Gifu particularly impressed by the passion the two company presidents have for their companies. Mr. Inuyama, president of Belle Maison Logisco, stated that his goal was to make it "Japan's most worker-friendly company" and "the most excellent and highly reputed order fulfillment service provider in the direct marketing industry." His energy was evident in the well-appointed canteen, lounge, and other workplace amenities, and in workspaces where Sasage and other services were performed for direct marketing clients. Enthusiasm of Mr. Tanaka, president of Seven Industries, could be felt in the attention to detail paid to the processes performed on the workshop floor, and in the beautiful finished products. "Each and every one of us engages in tasks as a professional would," was how Mr. Tanaka described the attitude. I could not help but admire Minokamo's two leaders making superb efforts in partnership with their staff.
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Gucci was everywhere last month, from New york to Paris, this one accessorie was on every outfit, defining every waist and obviously, looking very chic! Yes, we're talking about the Gucci Belt Bag that we're all loving this season.
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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review : BBC Radio 5 Live : August 27, 2016 08:00PM-09:00PM BST
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by Brew Chatt
This week Marcus is doing the podcast remotely from Spain. We decided this was the perfect time to do an episode on Spanish Cinema. We discuss Marcus's trip, cultural differences between Spain and America, as well as some of our favorite Spanish filmmakers, actors, and writers.
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by Ian Stevens and Justin Green
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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review : BBC Radio 5 Live : September 09, 2017 08:00PM-09:00PM BST
09/09/2017 Director Darren Aronofsky talks about his new film Mother! Plus the Box Office Top 10.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093lc9r
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with Andy Serkis Andy Serkis talks about War for The Planet of the Apes.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wmwcv
The Film Review : BBCNEWS : December 16, 2016 5:45pm-6:01pm GMT
Mark Kermode gives his unique take on the best and worst of the week's film and DVD releases, with Gavin Esler. Also in HD. [S]
Topics: The Film Review, Television Program
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The Big Film Review : BBC Radio Lincolnshire : August 11, 2016 06:00PM-07:00PM BST
11/08/2016 Jono Brine sits in to review the latest blockbuster movies.
Topics: BBC, Radio Program, The Big Film Review
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042xvxw
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review : BBC Radio 5 Live : December 03, 2016 08:00PM-09:00PM GMT
with Tom Hanks Tom Hanks talks about his new film Sully. Plus the week's film reviews.
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by Dollar Reviews
Sometimes you get to have your cake and eat it too, other times you settle for people crying about their diets not allowing either like in this spinoff!
Topics: film review, podcast, criticism, Judd Apatow
S2E7 - Ted 2
On Friday, June 26, 2015, two things happened: 1) The Supreme Court of the United States found gay marriage to be constitutionally protected 2) A raunchy sequel to a film about a talking teddy bear was released Join us to find out how these events fit together!
Topics: podcast, film review, movies, cinema, sequel, Seth MacFarlane
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Le Rattrapage de Mars 2019
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On rattrape tout ce qu'on a pu manquer dans le mois. On oublie des trucs aussi, comme par exemple : la bande annonce de Dora, entre autres. On t'aime Agnès.
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Episode #99: Killing Zoe
by The Cult of Matt and Mark
A podcast film review of Killing Zoe by The Cult of Matt and Mark
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Ep. 40 | Great Detective Pikachu & Comet!
by Nearly True Review
Welcome back to The Nearly True Review; the show where one of us goes on holiday and we scramble to get something together for you guys. The guys talk about where the hell they have been, what's been allowed to occur in their absence (Pokemon Go, Kenny Baker's Death, Suicide Squad e.t.c) and also have a look at Sam 'Mr. Robot' Esmail's first movie 'Comet'. We'll be back next week, it's all back to normal now! (As normal as we get anyway...) It'll be The Nice Guys from top to bottom when that...
Topics: film, comet, sam esmail, film review, comedy, humor, nearly true review, podcast, funny
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Mark Kermode joins Gavin Esler for a rundown of the final films coming out in 2016, including Rogue One
Mark Kermode joins Ben Brown to discuss Snowden, Office Christmas Party and Life, Animated. Also in HD. [S]
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with Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain talks about her new film Miss Sloane. Plus the Box Office Top 10.
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Pirates of the Caribbean Revisiting Mark's Pirates of the Caribbean reviews as the latest film is released.
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with Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield talk about their new film Breathe.
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with Stanley Tucci Edith Bowman and Robbie Collin sit in, Stanley Tucci talks about Final Portrait.
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with Margot Robbie and Domhnall Gleeson Margot Robbie and Domhnall Gleeson talk about Goodbye Christopher Robin.
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UK Film Review Podcast 9
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Episode 9 of the UK Film Review Podcast, presented by Andy Furlong.
Topics: film reviews, podcast, UK Film Review, movies, films, short films, indie films, indie cinema,...
Brew Chatt Podcast - Episode 12 - Animation
This episode we're discuss animation and try to determine just where the line between animation and CGI is drawn... no pun intended. Marcus is in Spain, so we have a guest host in his stead, so Micah is joining us. We also discuss a bit about some of the best outdoor seating in Chattanooga.
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GBG FILM CLUB SEASON 03 EPISODE 03 Hereditary
by The Good, The Bad & The Geordie Film Club
After the family matriarch passes away, a grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences, and begin to unravel dark secrets.
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UK Film Review Podcast Episode 7
Episode 7 of the UK Film Review Podcast. Hosted by Andy Furlong.
Meet Richard Shittlebob and Nathaniel Barrett Moore. Each week they will cast their eye over a movie on current release, as well as delving into the movie archives, and making acerbic comment on anything else that catches their attention. Expect arguments and vitriol and content that may be unsuitable for the wilfully offended.
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with Brendan Gleeson Brendan Gleeson talks about his new film Hampstead. Plus the Box Office Top 10.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08t43l8
with Darren Aronofsky Director Darren Aronofsky talks about his new film Mother! Plus the Box Office Top 10.
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with Chris Pratt Chris Pratt talks to Simon about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
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Ep. 16 The Force Awakens Special!
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This week Joshua and Philip abandon protocol and just go all out on Star Wars. It's wall to wall 'The Force Awakens' with a shorter review picking up from last week of the second movie in the Ewok saga 'The Battle for Endor'. Sit back, relax, listen but for the sake of all that is holy watch The Force Awakens first... We will not be held responsible for spoilers!
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Brew Chatt Podcast - Episode 10 - Movies Drinking
This week we discuss movies revolving around drinking, as well as movies that you can drink to. This leads us down the path of The Hangover Trilogy, At World's End, and Beerfest. We also get a bit trashed in this episode, but hey, it's number 10!
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Rooney, Murray, McIlroy, Khan: Who tops the 2016 Young Sportsman Rich List?
MANCHESTER UNITED ace Wayne Rooney has been named top of the 2016 Sunday Times Rich List for young Sportsmen.
The England captain has amassed a wealth of £82m - a full £24m ahead of second placed duo Andy and Jamie Murray.
The tennis stars were boosted by a successful 2015 which saw them play an instrumental role in winning the Davis Cup for Great Britain.
The list only features sports stars who are under 30 years old.
Rory McIlroy came in at third with a fortune of £56m as he continues to establish himself as one of the most talented golfers in the world.
Football is the most represented sport with no fewer than eight players making the top 11.
Real Madrid ace Gareth Bale is fourth, Manchester City's Sergio Aguero and David Silva are fifth and sixth, while Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Radamel Falcao and Eden Hazard also make the shortlist.
Boxing star Amir Khan rounds off the list with an £18m fortune, tied with last year's PFA Player of the Year, Hazard.
Rooney will be hoping to have even more success this summer when he leads his country at Euro 2016.
His £300,000-a-week deal at United and sponsorship contracts with Nike and Samsung have propelled him into a big lead over Britain's other elite sportsmen.
One Direction s Niall Horan plays a round of golf with PGA champion Rory McIlroy at Wentworth Club in England.


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Home CHARITY/ COMMUNITY SERVICE MTAANI NEWS Mjengo Ltd Offers Widow A Job Courtesy Of Thika Township MCA.
Mjengo Ltd Offers Widow A Job Courtesy Of Thika Township MCA.
From left Mjengo Ltd's Ass. HR Manager Anne Ndunda, Eunice Wanjiku, Mjengo Ltd's Public Relations Manager Mrs. Geraldine Wangia Thika Township MCA and his personal assistant during the event to accommodate Eunice into the company's workforce.
No one knows the pain of losing a loved one that he who loses the closes person in their life and the only breadwinner in the family.
That is the situation that Eunice Wanjiku found herself in after the loss of her beloved husband Benson Kamita Waithumbi on the 12th of February 2017, leaving her without anyone to look after her very young family.
So, when Thika Township MCA Kennedy heard about her plight, he promised to assist her secure a job and his request was well received by the management of Mjengo Ltd who asked her to report for work immediately.
Speaking to the press after signing Eunice in as their new employee, Mjengo Ltd Assistant Human Resource Manager Anne Ndunda reckoned that Wanjiku's case was brought to them by the MCA and after evaluating it, they immediately accepted to help so as to help her raise her two young kids without any problem.
Anne added that Eunice's case was not the only one the company had handled adding that it was the company's policy to assist members of the community in whatever way they could.
Her sentiments were echoed by the company's Public Relations Manager Mrs. Geraldine Wangia who said; "As part of the company's CSR programme to assist the deserving cases in the community, we took Wanjiku's case and offered to employ her so that she can move on with her life even after what happened. We know that the husband was the family's breadwinner so her admission to this company will go a long way in assisting the family pay their bills."
Hon. Kentams said that when they issue was brought to him, they discussed with Eunice on the best long-term solution that she was best suited for her case and they settled on seeking for her employment.
He thanked the management of Mjengo Ltd. for their kind gesture adding that by Eunice earning regularly, her kinds would not suffer greatly due to the loss of their father. He urged other companies to emulate this gesture and work with the locals for the betterment of the whole community.
"I will not take for granted the offer by Mjengo Ltd. for not many will chip in for a needy case such as this one. I would also like to appeal to all our leaders and the privileged in our midst to always keep the less privileged and the needy in mind. If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD--and he will repay you," he said.
Eunice was just speechless but managed to thank both the MCA and her new employer for coming to her aid at her time of need.
"I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I can only pray that God bless you and your families abundantly," she said.
Kamita met his death in February through a road accident at the Thika flyover near Ngoingwa Estate. At the time of his demise, he was a taxi operator in Thika.
Mjengo Ltd Offers Widow A Job Courtesy Of Thika Township MCA. Reviewed by Thika Town Today - 3T on 00:23 Rating: 5
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Q: Soql query to get all related contacts of an account in an opportunity i have SOQL query which queries for some records based on a where condition.
select id, name,account.name ... <other fields> from opportunity where eventname__c='Test Event'

i also need to get the related contact details for the account in the opportunity. ie i need to add the email ids of contact who all are part of the account in the opportunity.
For each opportunity, i need to get all the contacts emailids who are associated with the account in opportunity.
I cant really figure out how to approach this.
 referring the documentation i can get the contact info of a account using the query
SELECT Name,
(
SELECT LastName
FROM Contacts
)
FROM Account

How can i use this along with opportunity?
Thanks

A: The problem is that you are trying to traverse up from opportunity to its parent (account) and then back down to the children (contacts).
I think you will have to do it in two stages, e.g. roughly like:
id[] accountids = new id[]{};
for (opportunity opp : [select accountid from opportunity where eventname__c='Test Event'])
{
      accountids.add (opp.accountid);
}
account[] acclist = [select name, (select email from contacts) from account where id in :accountIds];

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MONTEVIDEO (AFP) - Uruguay will play at the World Cup despite its crisis-hit national football federation having been kicked out of the South American confederation (Conmebol), FIFA president Sepp Blatter insisted on Thursday.
The entire board of the Uruguayan football federation (UAF) resigned en masse on Monday following the decision by the country's president Jose Mujica to withdraw police cover from matches in the face of escalating stadium violence.
"Do you think Uruguay will be sanctioned? No, Uruguay is going to play in the World Cup and will remain in their group," said Blatter.
Uruguay, semi-finalists at the 2010 World Cup, are in Group D at this year's tournament in Brazil where they will meet Italy, England and Costa Rica.
Mujica ordered police to withdraw their presence from the Centenario stadium and the Parque Central, where the country's two biggest clubs, Penarol and Nacional, play their home games in Montevideo.
The moved came after incidents marred Nacional's meeting with Argentine side Newell's Old Boys in the Copa Libertadores, South America's leading club competition.
On Sunday, the game between Penarol and Miramar Misiones was called off at the players' request amid security concerns at the legendary Centenario stadium.
Mujica's decision came after 40 people were arrested and dozens of police and fans were injured, while more than 700 seats were ripped out, at the Nacional-Newell's encounter.
The AUF had insisted that domestic games would still go ahead only for the Penarol-Miramar clash to be postponed at the last minute.


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{
    #region Usings

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Windows;
    using System.Windows.Documents;
    using System.Windows.Media;
    using lib;
    using Models;
    using ViewModels;

    #endregion

    public static class ObjectExtensions
    {
        private static readonly Dictionary<Type, Func<Hyperlink, string>> TypeToGetName = new Dictionary
            <Type, Func<Hyperlink, string>>
        {
            {typeof (CharacterModel), x => ((CharacterModel) x.DataContext).Name},
            {typeof (MessageModel), x => ((MessageModel) x.DataContext).Poster.Name},
            {typeof (CharacterUpdateModel), x => ((CharacterUpdateModel) x.DataContext).TargetCharacter.Name}
        };

        /// <summary>
        ///     Throws an <see cref="ArgumentNullException" /> if the value provided is null.
        /// </summary>
        public static T ThrowIfNull<T>(this T x, string name) where T : class
        {
            if (x == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException(name);

            return x;
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///     Attempts to convert to an enum.
        /// </summary>
        public static T ToEnum<T>(this object obj)
        {
            var str = obj as string;
            return (T) Enum.Parse(typeof (T), str, true);
        }

        public static T FindChild<T>(this DependencyObject parent)
            where T : DependencyObject
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent); i++)
            {
                var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);

                if (child is T)
                    return child as T;

                var grandchild = FindChild<T>(child);

                if (grandchild != null)
                    return grandchild;
            }

            return default(T);
        }

        public static void TryOpenRightClickMenuCommand<T>(this object sender, int ancestorLevel)
            where T : DependencyObject
        {
            var hyperlink = (Hyperlink) sender;

            string characterName;
            Func<Hyperlink, string> nameFunc;
            if (TypeToGetName.TryGetValue(hyperlink.DataContext.GetType(), out nameFunc))
                characterName = nameFunc(hyperlink);
            else
                return;

            var parentObject = hyperlink.TryFindAncestor<T>(ancestorLevel);
            if (parentObject == null)
                return;

            ViewModelBase parentDataContext;
            var frameworkElement = parentObject as FrameworkElement;
            var contentElement = parentObject as FrameworkContentElement;
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                parentDataContext = frameworkElement.DataContext as ViewModelBase;
            else if (contentElement != null)
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            var relayCommand = parentDataContext.OpenRightClickMenuCommand;
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Q: Long to wide without temporary count column Les's say my input is:
  doc_id  label
0      a  Apple
1      b   Book
2      c   Book
3      a   Book
4      b    Cat
5      a  Apple
6      c   Book

My data ^^
df = pd.DataFrame({"doc_id": ["a", "b", "c", "a", "b", "a", "c"],
                   "label": ["Apple", "Book", "Book", "Book", "Cat", "Apple", "Book"]
                    })

And my desired output is:
label   Apple  Book  Cat
doc_id
a         2.0   1.0  NaN
b         NaN   1.0  1.0
c         NaN   2.0  NaN

Which I can get with:
df["count"] = np.ones(len(df))

new_df = df.pivot_table(index="doc_id", columns="label", values="count", aggfunc="sum")

But creating an temporary column of counts that are all ones feels redundant, what is the proper way to do this?


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Home > Insights > Blog > A Dizzying Summer in D.C. as U.S. Debt Ceiling Looms Again
A Dizzying Summer in D.C. as U.S. Debt Ceiling Looms Again
While Congress makes progress on infrastructure legislation, the specter of another debt-ceiling showdown gives investors cause for concern.
By Libby Cantrill, Jerome M. Schneider, Jerry Woytash August 2021
A busy summer on the fiscal front in Washington that's seen progress on budget and infrastructure legislation could soon give way to another showdown over the U.S. statutory debt ceiling, potentially signaling volatility for investors in the months ahead.
The Senate recently passed a $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill and a $3.5 trillion non-binding budget before leaving town for its August recess. That was followed by the House passing the budget and scheduling a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill by the end of September.
The passage of the budget marks the first step in the reconciliation process, which should ultimately allow the Senate to circumvent the filibuster rules and consider a "soft infrastructure" bill with only 50 votes, rather than the usual 60, probably later this year after several noisy months of negotiations.
Regardless, as we have pointed out (see our July blog post, "We Have a Deal"), we believe the subsequent, Democratic-only bill will be considerably smaller than the $3.5 trillion price tag headlined in the budget and will ultimately be whittled down to about $2 trillion of new spending over 10 years, and paid for by tax increases, which will also be watered down relative to what has been proposed.
Nevertheless, we do not believe failure is an option for Democrats – especially given the recent fallout from the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan – and we expect both bills to ultimately pass by the end of the year. Although we expect both fiscal packages to have a positive growth impact over the longer term, we anticipate the effect on GDP to be relatively de minimis for 2022.
And yet, the market has started to focus on another upcoming fiscal inflection point: the U.S. debt ceiling, which is the limit on how much debt the U.S. can issue to pay for previous and future spending.
Having been suspended until 31 July 2021 in August 2019, the debt ceiling will need to be raised in October or November, when the U.S. Treasury will likely run out of its "extraordinary measures" to fund government activities. Although the conventional wisdom is that, of course, Congress will raise the debt ceiling – failing to do so would be nearly unthinkable and would hurt Democrats politically – the strategy to do so remains murky at best, which may roil financial markets and could increase the chances of a policy mistake.
A distinction without a difference?
There are theoretically two ways for Democrats, who control Congress, to address the debt ceiling. They could insert an outright ceiling increase in the Democrat-only soft infrastructure bill, which would require only 50 votes, or pass a suspension for a certain period of time, which requires 60 votes.
While this may seem like a distinction without a difference, it is important for many moderate Democrats who would prefer to suspend the debt ceiling rather than be attacked for increasing it by a certain amount (which would be in the trillions). For this reason, it appears that Democrats are preparing to pursue a suspension, which would require at least 10 Republican votes to pass in the Senate.
The complication is that 46 of the 50 Senate Republicans have indicated they will not vote for any sort of increase, raising the odds of a debt ceiling showdown and potentially causing an unforced error for Democrats.
A hectic September?
At this point, we believe the most plausible way forward is that Democrats try to attach a debt ceiling suspension to a fiscal year-end (30 September) funding bill, which needs to pass to avoid a government shutdown, and effectively dare Republicans to vote against it. Depending on how it plays out, we could see Congress shut down the government before ultimately coming to a deal on the ceiling, similar to what happened in October 2013. As it did then, a shutdown could create volatility in financial markets and potentially affect the calculus of the Federal Reserve's timing on tapering its asset purchases.
Markets: all clear?
Markets have so far appeared sanguine about the outlook for avoiding a disruptive debt ceiling event this fall. However, one lesson from previous episodes is that markets cannot be relied upon as an early warning indicator.
During President Barack Obama's tenure, there were three debt ceiling showdowns that nearly resulted in the U.S. Treasury being unable to pay its commitments. One focal point of stress during these three episodes was the market for U.S. Treasury bills, due to its size and ease of facilitating U.S. government financing needs. In each case, T-bill yields did not move higher – to price a greater likelihood of default – until about one week before the so-called X date, the drop-dead date when the Treasury would run out of its funding capacity under the ceiling and begin to prioritize payments due in an effort to avoid a breach of the prescribed debt limit.
Fed facility may change dynamics
The market implications of a binding debt ceiling are complicated. Because the Treasury would have to reduce cash balances as the ceiling approaches, it would likely draw down bills. That declining supply could cause bill yields to fall – a counterintuitive move. A flight to safety into bills resulting from broader market risk aversion could further push down yields.
Still, bill yields have a key floor this time – and T-bill purchasers have an appealing alternative – in the Fed's reverse repo facility, which the central bank is using to help conduct monetary policy by providing money market funds a safe place to invest excess cash. Although this is a good thing for the T-bill market, it may not be so good for the Treasury. Under a prolonged debt ceiling standoff, investors en masse could move their exposure to the Fed, creating run-risk dynamics.
In any event, usage of the reverse repo facility will likely continue to grow beyond the current size of about $1 trillion.
As the debt ceiling draws near, it could raise questions not only about the Treasury's ability to roll over bills that mature near the X date, but also its capacity to make coupon payments around that time. That could lead to volatility in over $4.7 trillion of Treasury securities outstanding with coupon payments due in late October and mid-November. The Treasury will owe about $40 billion in interest payments mid-November to the holders of these securities.
Although resolution has come at a late hour in prior episodes, in our view it would be a mistake for investors to assume that there would not be major market ramifications if Congress failed to address the debt ceiling this time around. As we observed in both September 2019 and March 2020, funding-market liquidity is critical for market functioning, and the perceived safety of U.S. government debt is the bedrock for funding markets.
Therefore, it is important not to misinterpret the calm and patience exemplified in current market conditions as a state of diminished risks. Instead, investors should keep an eye out for pockets of volatility as we head toward the end of 2021.
For more insights into U.S. public policy, please read "We Have a Deal: U.S. Infrastructure Spending Soon, Tax Increases Likely Later."
is PIMCO's head of public policy. Jerome Schneider is a managing director and leads short-term portfolio management at PIMCO. Jerry Woytash is a portfolio manager on the short-term desk.
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Portfolio Manager, Short-Term Desk
China Steps Up Property Support: Is This the Turning Point for the Struggling Sector?
China's introduction of comprehensive support for its real estate sector could provide some cyclical relief amidst longer-term headwinds, but new COVID-19 waves cloud the outlook.
Carol Liao, Frank Chen, Stephen Chang
What to Expect From Divided Government
A split U.S. Congress in 2023 will likely limit fiscal policy, but could be positive for equity markets.
Continuity and Concrete Direction: Takeaways From China's 20th Party Congress
Stability, security and self-reliance were overarching themes from China's twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle. With few details disclosed on near-term supporting policies, we remain cautious on the Chinese market.
Carol Liao, Stephen Chang
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Long Beach State vs. Cal State Fullerton at a…
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Long Beach State vs. Cal State Fullerton at a glance
Long Beach State Dirtbags thank the crowd after a 2-1 victory over Texas in the 2017 NCAA Long Beach Regionals, at Blair Field. Monday, June 05 , 2017. ( Photo by Stephen Carr / Press Telegram / SCNG )
By Robert Morales | rmorales@scng.com | Press Telegram
PUBLISHED: June 8, 2017 at 1:06 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 5:26 am
DIRTBAGS (41-18-1) VS. TITANS (37-21)
What: NCAA Super Regional, best-of-three series
When: 3 p.m. Friday (ESPN2); noon Saturday (ESPNU); noon Sunday, if necessary (ESPN/ESPN2)
Where: Blair Field, Long Beach
The skinny: Cal State Fullerton coach Rick Vanderhook said southpaw John Gavin (7-2, 2.93 ERA) will start Saturday with Colton Eastman (1-0, 1.38 ERA) slated for Sunday if a third game is necessary. However, Troy Buckley would name only his Friday starter — Darren McCaughan – saying Friday's outcome could play a factor in who starts Saturday. Dave Smith (9-1, 1.32 ERA) pitched the first four innings of the Dirtbags' regional-clinching victory over Texas on Monday, so he'd be on short rest. … Long Beach State is 1-0 against Cal State Fullerton in the postseason. … The Titans are 141-73 lifetime against the Dirtbags — 73-34 at home, 67-38 on the road. … The longest winning streak in this series is 15 by Cal State Fullerton, from April 12, 1985 to April 10, 1988. Long Beach State won five in a row from May 24, 2002 to March 28, 2003. … Although Sahid Valenzuela led the Titans in batting average at .338, the most dangerous hitter on the team is junior outfielder Scott Hurst. He leads the team with 12 home runs, 39 RBIs, a .422 on-base percentage and .597 slugging percentage … For Long Beach State, the power bats belong to outfielder Lucas Tancas and catcher David Banuelos, with nine and seven home runs, respectively. Ramsey Romano, who has just two home runs, leads the Dirtbags with 38 RBIs. … Single-game ticket sales are on sale Friday for Friday and Saturday's games, but they figure to be very limited. … Parking is $10.
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Petraeus Breaks Silence: I Didn't Pass Classified Info
Meanwhile, report surfaces that Petraeus wanted to go public regarding Benghazi
By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
This Feb. 2, 2012 file photo shows CIA Director David Petraeus testifying on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
(Newser) – David Petraeus has finally spoken to the media, telling an HLN reporter that he had not passed any classified info to Paula Broadwell and that his resignation had nothing to do with the Benghazi attack. The interview was off-camera, but reporter Kyra Phillips says that he "told me he had engaged in something dishonorable. He sought to do the honorable thing in response—and that was come forward." He said the affair ended months ago, and that he hasn't spoken to Broadwell since the scandal broke, CNN reports.
Other recent developments in the scandal:
Before leaving the CIA, Petraeus had been at odds with National Intelligence Director James Clapper, the Pentagon, and other agencies, because Petraeus wanted to release a detailed timeline of the Benghazi attack in response to mounting criticism of the CIA, the Wall Street Journal reports. That left him with few allies in the administration when news of the affair broke.
The Journal also reports that Petraeus' military background made for an uncomfortable fit at the CIA, with agents complaining of his more controlling style, and Petraeus bristling when much younger agents raised disagreements with him.
Conspiracy theories are swirling around the dismissal. Judge Andrew Napolitano told Fox News yesterday that "someone obviously wanted to silence General Petraeus," adding that the Broadwell affair had been rumored since well before his CIA nomination, Mediaite reports.
Napolitano pointed out that the CIA does a deep background check on new arrivals. And it turns out that if they'd checked Wikipedia at the right time, they might have known what was up. For about an hour back in January, Broadwell's Wikipedia page contained the sentence, "Petraeus is reportedly one of her many conquests." An editor deleted it as "libel/vandalism," the Huffington Post reports.
(Read more David Petraeus stories.)
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HANKHILL
righttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt like he would just up and tell you if he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
humaninfinity
It seems all this affair is doing is distracting us from the issue of Benghazi and who knew what, when !!!! To allow them time to figure out how that whole area should be handled.......They are all just attempting to handle the American public through Media outlets who disseminate information in a manner in which they see fit......All in the name of National Security....We will probably never know the truth.....Patreaus is becoming the sacrificial scape goat.....THEY ALL KNEW WHAT HAPPENED AND WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING AND WHAT CAUSED THE ATTACK!!!!!
coolbreeze55
The CIA did a bang-up job on Cuba,Vietnam, the old Soviet Union and 9-11. Other then that, their record is impeccable.


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Lorna Eder, collaborative pianist, joined the music faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in January, 2011, coming from Los Angeles, California, where she lived and worked for over thirty years. She recently received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, studying with Kevin Fitz-Gerald and Dr. Alan Smith. At USC, Ms. Eder was awarded a Graduate Teaching Fellowship and the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Scholarship for all three years of her studies, as well as the Collaborative Piano Award in 2010 and 2012.
Prior to her studies at USC, Ms. Eder was a member of the piano faculty at California Institute of the Arts from the years 2000 to 2007, also working at the College of the Canyons and the California State Summer School for the Arts. She is an active performer of contemporary music and was a member of the California E.A.R. Unit, a contemporary performing ensemble, for many years. She has worked with composers such as John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Mauricio Kagel, Morton Subotnick, Elliott Carter, Stephen L. Mosko and Mel Powell. Recordings with the E.A.R. Unit include Zilver, works by Louis Andriessen (New Albion Records, 1997), and Indigenous Music, works by Stephen L. Mosko (00 Discs 39, 1998). Her most recent CD appearances are on Five Decades of Music, works by Mel Powell (Nine Winds Records, 2001) and Pope Joan by Anne LeBaron (New World Records, 2007).
Ms. Eder was active for many years in the Los Angeles area as a collaborative pianist, playing in master classes by Claus Adam, Nathaniel Rosen, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Mary Karen Clardy, Trevor Wye and Lady Jeanne Galway. She was a pianist for Jim Walker's Beyond the Master Class at the Colburn School in Los Angeles from 2009 to 2011 and was a staff pianist for the National Flute Convention in 2010.
Lorna Eder received a Bachelor of Music degree from Washington State University and a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. Her teachers were Istvan Nadas, Bruno Seidlhofer and Leonid Hambro.
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Q: Android listview inside viewpager not swiping I have a listview inside of a viewpager. I set an empty view on the listview. If this listview starts empty, when i add something to it then right or left swipes on the listview won't switch between tabs. If the listview starts with something (not empty) when i set the adapter on it, then i can swipe. If i remove the setEmptyView on the listview, it always works whether it starts with data or without it.
How can i set an empty view and still get the listview to swipe between tabs?
This is how i set the empty view:
mListview.setEmptyView(findViewById(R.id.empty_view));

the empty view is a textview directly below the listview in a linearlayout
the empty view xml:
empty_view.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:id="@+id/empty_list"
    android:textColor="@color/lighter_gray"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:text="@string/no_item"
    android:textStyle="italic">

</TextView>

A: I would suggest removing your empty view from the current layout file, and move it into its own dedicated layout file. Then inflate this new layout in your class when you want to use it as an empty view. The end result would be something like this (not compiled, coding from memory):
final View v = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.empty_view, null);
mListview.setEmptyView(v);

or maybe
final View v = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.empty_view, mListview, false);
mListview.setEmptyView(v);


When I started my own fertility journey to motherhood I didn't think it would be hard to get pregnant. Afterall, there are countless pregnant women out and about and easily seen. I was giddy with excitement. I was nervous with the anticipation of motherhood. But most of all, I was anxious to get pregnant already. Because when I decided I was ready to start a family, I was suddenly ready like yesterday.
But each month when I saw the negative pregnancy test, I began to feel disheartened. I'm a fertility practitioner…I should have this down! This should be easy. Right? Well, my journey was a long and rough one. It was difficult to conceive and then each time I did get pregnant, I miscarried. We were devastated and depressed.
I had to apply what we teach our patients for preparing for parenthood. I had to actually "Do" what we recommend. I started getting regular acupuncture treatments – often. I radically changed my diet, I practiced deep breathing and soul searching, I took my supplements and herbs, and made sure my hubby did all the same. And we had to Respect the time it took to happen.
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