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BERKELEY SYMPHONY
Joseph Young was named to lead the Berkeley Symphony.
Thursday's Briefing: Oakland council restores recent OUSD cuts; Port workers balk at A's ballpark plans
Berkeley Symphony names 37-year-old as next music director
By Steven Tavares
Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 6:00 AM
News you don't want to miss for April 18:
1. Oakland elected officials voted Tuesday to fill in cuts made recently by the Oakland Unified School District for restorative justice programs, foster care managers, and libraries, KTVU reports. The City Council will use $1.2 million in real estate transfer taxes to restore the programs.
2. Labor unions and maritime businesses at the Port of Oakland say the proposed A's ballpark on the waterfront at Howard Terminal will negatively effect the port and put union jobs at risk, ABC7 reports.
3. The convicted killer of Torian Hughes, the 17-year-old who was killed in Oakland in 2015, and who Oakland Councilmember Lynette McElhaney considered a grandson, rejected an offer of lighter sentence made by Hughes' mother, SFGate reports. The defendant's attorney declined the offer because it included giving up his client's rights to an appeal.
4. The East Bay Times issued a retraction after mistakenly including in a slideshow the wrong photo of a Catholic priest accused of child molestation. They apologized for the error. $$
5. The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra named Joseph Young, 37, as its next music director, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The choice was a surprise and came after Young filled in as conductor on 48-hours notice earlier this year. $$
6. The NFL released its 2019 schedule Wednesday. If you still care, the last Raiders game ever to be played in Oakland could be Dec. 15 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. But this might help former fans upset about the team leaving for Las Vegas in 2020. Sports Illustrated reports the Raiders have the "most unfair" schedule in the league.
7. The Mueller Report is due to be released Thursday morning. A press conference is scheduled for 6:30 a.m. PT. Will the report give East Bay presidential candidate Eric Swalwell a boost since he has spent the last two years suggesting Trump colluded with Russia?
$$ = Stories you may have to pay to read.
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I've marked two areas in the above chart that stand out to me. The first is the big bullish push (candle "1") that we saw over a week ago. Price moved decisively against the overall trend and managed to pull off a strong close, which also coincided with month-end profit-taking, the implication being that it could just be that – profit-taking with the broader trend likely to continue.
However, the EURUSD seems to have other ideas. Price looks like a stealthy predator quietly stalking its prey higher, coiled up in anticipation; it managed to close above the recent swing high on Friday and break through the capping trendline that has been in play since early May. That "coiling" after the impulse is shown by price just hugging the highs I have marked "2".
Is it time to go long? I'm always late to the party as a trend follower, so the long-party only starts if price managed to close about 1.1800. Arriving late is stylish. Also, cheaper in my experience.
I don't have too many words for you to describe the CADJPY. Most of the Yen pairs are showing similar setups with varying degrees of bullishness in the background.
I just wanted to point out the 1-2 (impulse and wait) we're seeing. It suggests a move higher.
I'm late to the Loonie party too. I like how price has managed to close below the trendline that's held it for so many days – I think this move nicely opens the way for more downside.
How to sell? I'd like to see some pause/retrace/consolidation on the 4-hour chart, suggesting that price is keen on a move lower. I don't see that yet, but I'll be keeping an eye out.


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Q: Copy, Paste and Clear a Table in Excel I have a workbook with 3 worksheets (Current Week, Meeting History, Last Week). The 'Current Week' worksheet has 3 tables in it. My goal is to copy one of the 3 tables to 'Meeting History', then clear the original table so that it can be used again the next day. The reasoning behind this is that I would like 'Meeting History' to be a hub for all the minutes throughout the week. I have a button with a macro attached to it right now that just clears the table and I'm hoping that this button can also copy the data to 'Meeting History' before it clears the table. How can this be achieved so that this can be done daily and by the end of the week I'd have a full 'Meeting History' sheet of info gathered/formatted throughout the week?
This is my current 'Clear' button macro. The information I'm trying to copy over is the information contained in G6-G12 and G14 - G18. The rest does not need to be copied but it does need to be cleared at the end of the day.
Sub Clearcells()
Range("F6", "F12").ClearContents
Range("G6", "G12").ClearContents
Range("H6", "H12").ClearContents
Range("G14", "G18").ClearContents
Range("H14", "H18").ClearContents
Range("H3", "H4").ClearContents
Range("H22", "H28").ClearContents
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Lights, Camera, Action. Time for the great costume drama
By Alex Fraser-Nash | 12th November 2021 | 0
Auctioneers and collectors have been rubbing their eyes in disbelief at some of this movie memorabilia snapped up for staggering prices.
From Star Wars to Harry Potter, from Grease to Godzilla, everyone, with money to invest and a love of the cinema, wants a piece of the action.
Most popular and highly-prized are genuine movie costumes worn by Hollywood A-listers.
Here's our focus on a high-five of the best sold at auction in recent times…
A broken zip, but Olivia's jeans still go for £405,700
Source: www.theguardian.com
1. Legend has it that Olivia Newton John had to be sewn into the jeans she wore for the You're the One That I Want duet with John Travolta in Grease.
The fact they were sold with a broken zip might lend some support to that story.
A broken zip certainly did not deter the buyer though.
He or she paid £405,700 to acquire the pants and leather jacket combo at the US auction in October.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Joker Jack's £60,000 slam-dunk
Source: www.carboncostume.com
2. Cowls and capes from the Batman movie franchise have always attracted big numbers but how about the villain of the piece?
This year, in London, Jack Nicholson's Joker out-fit from Tim Burton's classic 1989 Batman went under the hammer. Experts confidently expected it to sell for between £30,000 and £50,000 but they were slightly behind the curve. It sold for £60,000 at the Prop Store auction.
The Joker character costumes were created by Academy Award-nominated designer Bob Ringwood. The outfits were designed to express character's crazy mind-set. They became increasingly vibrant and outrageous as he descended further into madness throughout the film.
Jack Nicholson had some input into his character's appearance too. The striking purple matches are those of his favourite Basketball team – the LA Lakers. It'll be interesting to see how costumes from the latest blockbuster incarnation of The Joker, created by Joaquin Pheonix, are received when they come up for sale.
Incidentally the Batman suit worn by Michael Keaton pipped the joker at £65,000 at the auction.
Buyer shelled out £9k for De Niro's Pea Coat
Source: ukm.propstoreauction.com
3. In 1974 Robert De Niro played a young Vito "Don" Corleone in what is regarded the greatest Mafia movie ever.
In early scenes of DeNiro playing Vito as a young man preferred a 'pea coat' popular with sailors in the British Navy and later adopted by the American workmen at the time the film was set.
The actual Pea Coat (it comes from the Dutch word for coat pije which pronounced pea). It was sold in London for £9,000, slightly under its estimate, but a bargain for anyone with a sense of cinema history.
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Jurassic classic by the 'father' of the raptor
4. The late, great Richard Attenborough played John Hammond, the man who harnessed time-frozen genes to revive dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. Fortunately, the concept is still a work of fiction. Attenborough's tropical hat and costume used in the Spielberg blockbuster is very much not a work of fiction.
Hammond, the fictional visionary founder of Jurassic Park, wore his iconic all-white costume throughout the entire movie, from his first appearance inviting Doctors Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Satler (Laura Dern) to visit Jurassic Park, to the moment in the finale when he boarded the helicopter to escape.
A simple shirt and chinos they might be, but they sold for £15,000 this summer.
No rust on Iron Man's coolest suit
5. Iron Man Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) desert costume display from Jon Favreau's superhero film Iron Man was trending at the auction. Downey Jr wore the suit during a failed assassination attempt on him in Afghanistan that led to his becoming Iron Man.
The suit, consisted of a hand-made navy blue, vertically striped double-breasted David August jacket. It is graced with an interior label, which reads "Custom Styled for Robert Downey Jr".
For authenticity, the trousers with an order label for "R. DOWNEY JR. 3" with "March 7, 2007" stitched into the back-right pocket; According to the catalogue, accessories included a sky-blue-and-white striped cotton blend button-up shirt; a navy blue floral silk Valentino tie; a black leather John Varvatos belt with a steel buckle; a pair of black leather lace-up loafers and a pair of multicolour striped cotton socks. The whole package sold for £12,000.
So, do you have any rare movie props or memorabilia laying about? We'd love to hear from you.
We also have a whole range of film and TV collectibles that YOU could own. Click here to view the range >>
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The Murray Woodturners held their final meeting for 2011 on November 25 and will resume on Friday, January 27, 2012.
There have been some excellent projects made during the year with 145 articles on display at Berrigan and Finley Shows.
The points awarded for projects during the year went to G Hill and M Grover.
Thank you to all who displayed their work.
The AGM was held in October with the following members elected: president G Hill; secretary/treasurer G Batten; refreshments A Matheson.
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Looking very youthful at the age of 43 years old, our interviewee Lori is a mother of 3 and a hairstylist by profession (as evident in her great hairstyle 😀 ). Last year, she did one round of hCG and lost a total of 32 pounds!
Since losing weight with the hCG diet last year, Lori has successfully kept the weight off and is at her most comfortable size. In this interview, we discuss how hCG has helped her improve her metabolism and restart her keto diet. Lori also talks about how having the right mindset is the key to making the diet work and ensuring permanent results.
When Lori did her 40-day round of hCG, she initially went from 157 pounds down to 129 pounds. She thought she would plateau at that point, however, she was surprised that after concluding the program in August last year, her weight went down further to 125 pounds. She attributes this to the hCG diet resetting her metabolism which helped her lose even more weight. She also went from being a size 10 to being a comfortable size 2. She has been successfully maintaining her weight for almost 5 months at the time of our interview!
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Lori has struggled with weight issues for most of her life. She remembers obsessing about her weight as early as back when she was in elementary. She recalls being obsessed with both her weight and food; she was always wondering what she was going to eat next. Now, whenever she looks back at pictures of herself then, she sees what a skinny little girl she was. Back then, however, she always saw herself as being overweight.
Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, when Lori reached adulthood, she finally did become overweight.
Lori had reservations about trying hCG at first because she knew people who had tried the program and still gained their weight back afterwards. She wanted to try the diet only if she could make sure she would be able to keep the weight off. After making sure she had the right mindset that would help her succeed and maintain her results, she finally made the choice to try the hCG diet program.
Lori admitted to loading really dirty in phase 1 where she basically ate every crappy thing she craved. That was why she was prepared for P2 to be terrible thinking she would be very hungry when she transitions to it. When she did start P2, she felt the slump she expected but then she stabilized after only a couple of days after she found her comfortable, happy hCG dose of 125 IU (she used hCGchica's post on picking the right dose :D) and her hunger ceased.
It's normal to feel hunger in the first couple of days, but that does not mean that that is how you are going to feel the rest of the phase especially if you loaded with lots of sugar. You may feel very hungry during your first couple of days in P2 because it will be kind of a drastic switch. Once your body starts clearing itself of the carbs and sugar, your body will crave it, thus the hunger. Don't forget, you do have the option to do clean loading, read more about it here.
As for her meals and calorie intake, Lori said she kept it really simple. She ate the same thing everyday: chicken breast, grape tomatoes, cucumber. Although boring, she found having the same meal day after day was a good structure and she liked that she didn't have to think or fuss too much about her meal preps.
Lori tried incorporating fruits on her diet while in P2, however, she felt that it triggered a kind of insulin response in her body making her want to eat more. Besides, she felt less hungry when she didn't include fruits in her diet. When she did eat fruits, she usually only ate berries which is very low in the glycemic index.
She also sticks to low carb veggies – grape tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, and asparagus. She stays away from potatoes or sweet potatoes which trigger her bowel issues.
In the past, Lori has tried very low-calorie diets (or near-starvation diets as she referred to them) similar to being in P2, but it was completely different. Unlike with hCG, she had a rough time with them. She felt hungry all the time and was usually in a bad mood. As opposed to being hCG and VLCD, she wasn't cranky (or hangry :D) and her thoughts were clearer helping her keep her focus on her weight loss goal.
hCG definitely took the hunger off, according to Lori. there were times when she did not feel like eating because she was not hungry but ate anyway to keep her metabolism going.
Lori also feels like hCG has somehow corrected her metabolism so that her body knows at what set weight it wants to be at. Her food cravings were also more subdued, but she credits this more to her having a fixed mindset prior to starting the protocol. She was really committed to the diet and to not cheating or making excuses.
The right dose varies from person to person, so if you feel hunger while on the protocol, check your dose. Also, remember that once you lose weight, you also have to adjust your dose. As you get smaller, you may feel like you're more comfortable with a lower dose. And, as I always say, I am not a doctor. I'm just sharing what works for me and most hCGers.
Lori credits much of her success with hCG to her mindset. Her mental aspect was the absolute key to her decision to do hCG and her success with it.
Thinking back to their conversation, Lori isn't sure if her dad had implied that she was fat, but that was the idea that stuck to her. Her father's words and the idea it left her grew into a sort of monster that hounded her for decades and brought about her views about her weight.
Lori's obsessive behavior about food persisted for a long time. She had a habit of taking online quizzes and usually the results would point to her being a food addict or having a binge eating disorder. It also didn't help that the therapist she was seeing at the time for her weight issues told her that maybe she should just accept that she was always going to be chubby. Lori refused to accept that.
Lori has done a lot of research in neuroscience and has used what she has learned to help rewire her brain similar to what her mentor has done. Before she started her hCG journey, Lori got to talk to her mentor who told her how he used to struggle with his weight and this surprised Lori because she never saw him as someone who had a weight problem. Her mentor had used hCG before along with different techniques from neuroscience that helped him reprogram his mind and body so that he eventually saw himself as who he really is; someone who is not overweight. He gave Lori tips which she used to work on her own problems.
While on the diet, Lori gave her 100% focused and dedicated effort to changing herself mentally to build a new relationship with food and with her body. Her new mindset became her driving force during her 40-day round. It also helped a lot that she had guidance from her mentor (and hCGchica :D).
Another thing that Lori says helped her tremendously was keeping a journal. In one of her many research, she has read that it has been scientifically proven that when writing helps us access different parts of the brain and enables us to think in different ways. Through journaling, she was able to access that part of herself that already had the answers to her problems already and put it in writing. Keeping a journal has been transformational for Lori and she considers it her friend in need because she turns to it whenever she struggles with something or she needs answers.
Within the last year, Lori has experienced tremendous growth in so many areas of her life. She feels that hCG has been the catalyst for a lot of them. Her time on the program was a time of clarity for her. Being an introvert, she decided she would reach out to more people and will do her best to foster more relationships. This decision has greatly benefited her because she got to hear a lot of different perspectives that helped her learn more about herself.
Having battled weight issues her whole life and having given birth to 3 kids, there was a point when Lori felt that her pregnancy and her weight struggles destroyed her body and her self-esteem really took a hit. However, whenever she looks at her body now, she genuinely feels love for herself.
Before her mindset shift, she was always putting her happiness and self-love on hold and was always looking towards her goal of reaching her target weight thinking that once she reached it, she can then truly love herself and be happy. She eventually realized that it was more important to have a healthy viewpoint of herself first.
Her hCG weight loss has also positively affected her outlook, but she believes that the change in her perspective even before she went on the program is what truly allowed her to be happy with herself.
Lori has followed the ketogenic diet for about 5 years now. She got into it after reading Grain Brain by David Perlmutter, MD. Dr. Perlmutter, a neurologist, presented tons of scientific data in his book that showed how sugars and grains act upon the brain.
Lori recounts how the ketogenic diet transformed her life and helped her overcome her chronic depression which she has had since she was very young. Within 2 weeks of shifting to the keto diet, she had gone from chronically depressed to chronically happy and bursting with energy.
She also had bowel issues (she was never sure if it is IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome) that sometimes caused her to be doubled over in pain. As soon as she transitioned to the keto diet, her bowel problems went away. She also slept more peacefully and even her dreams were better when she was on keto.
However, before going on the hCG diet, Lori admitted she had kind of fallen off the wagon and was feeling depressed again. Doing the hCG protocol helped her kickstart her keto diet again and she was reminded of how great she felt when she was not eating grains and sugar.
Lori attributes her weight loss success mainly to having the right perspective before making the decision to go on the hCG diet.
Set the correct expectations which includes mourning the loss of not being able to pig out as much as you want or did before. The diet is indeed a challenge, but thinking about and focusing on the results you will achieve and how you will change your diet for the better to maintain your results is what's more important.


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Q: Installing NumPy and SciPy on 64-bit Windows (with Pip) I found out that it's impossible to install NumPy/SciPy via installers on Windows 64-bit, that's only possible on 32-bit. Because I need more memory than a 32-bit installation gives me, I need the 64-bit version of everything.
I tried to install everything via Pip and most things worked. But when I came to SciPy, it complained about missing a Fortran compiler. So I installed Fortran via MinGW/MSYS. But you can't install SciPy right away after that, you need to reinstall NumPy. So I tried that, but now it doesn't work anymore via Pip nor via easy_install. Both give these errors:

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*There are a lot of errors about LNK2019 and LNK1120,.

*I get a lot of errors in the range of C: C2065,C2054,C2085,C2143`, etc. They belong together I believe.

*There is no Fortran linker found, but I have no idea how to install that, can't find anything on it.

*And many more errors which are already out of the visible part of my cmd-windows...

*The fatal error is about LNK1120:

build\lib.win-amd64-2.7\numpy\linalg\lapack_lite.pyd : fatal error LNK1120: 7 unresolved externals
  error: Setup script exited with error: Command "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\amd64\link.exe /DLL /nologo /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:C:\BLAS /LIBPATH:C:\Python27\libs /LIBPATH:C:\Python27\PCbuild\amd64 /LIBPATH:build\temp.win-amd64-2.7 lapack.lib blas.lib /EXPORT:initlapack_lite build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\numpy\linalg\lapack_litemodule.obj /OUT:build\lib.win-amd64-2.7\numpy\linalg\lapack_lite.pyd /IMPLIB:build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\numpy\linalg\lapack_lite.lib /MANIFESTFILE:build\temp.win-amd64-2.7\Release\numpy\linalg\lapack_lite.pyd.manifest" failed with exit status 1120

What is the correct way to install the 64-bit versions NumPy and SciPy on a 64-bit Windows machine? Did I miss anything? Do I need to specify something somewhere? There is no information for Windows on these problems that I can find, only for Linux or Mac OS X, but they don't help me as I can't use their commands.

A: Best solution for this is to download and install VCforPython2.7 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
Then try pip install numpy

A: You can install scipy and numpy using their wheels.
First install wheel package if it's already not there...
pip install wheel

Just select the package you want from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scipy
Example: if you're running python3.5 32 bit on Windows choose scipy-0.18.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl then it will automatically download.
Then go to the command line and change the directory to the downloads folder and install the above wheel using pip.
Example:
cd C:\Users\[user]\Downloads
pip install scipy-0.18.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl

A: EDIT: The Numpy project now provides pre-compiled packages in the wheel format (package format enabling compiled code as binary in packages), so the installation is now as easy as with other packages.

Numpy (as also some other packages like Scipy, Pandas etc.) includes lot's of C-, Cython, and Fortran code that needs to be compiled properly, before you can use it. This is, btw, also the reason why these Python-packages provide such fast Linear Algebra.
To get precompiled packages for Windows, have a look at Gohlke's Unofficial Windows Binaries or use a distribution like Winpython (just works) or Anaconda (more complex) which provide an entire preconfigured environment with lots of packages from the scientific python stack.

A: Downloading the binaries for 64-bit from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, and installing it directly with pip in this order:
pip install numpy-1.12.0+mkl-cp36-cp36m-win64.whl
pip install scipy-0.18.1-cp36-cp36m-win64.whl
pip install matplotlib-2.0.0-cp36-cp36m-win64.whl

Note that you must place command prompt in the folder where you put the .whl files after downloading them, and you must run it as administrator,
worked for me on Windows 10 64-bit now python is up and running.

A: You can now pip install numpy on Windows!
"Note: this page has only historical relevance, you can now pip-install for windows"
Source: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Whats-with-Windows-builds

A: Installing with pip
You can install the numpy and scipy wheels on Windows with pip in one step if you use the appropriate link from Gohlke's Unofficial Windows Binaries (mentioned by sebix) and run the Windows command prompt as Administrator. For example, in Python 3.5, you would simply use something like this:
# numpy-1.9.3+mkl for Python 3.5 on Win AMD64
pip3.5 install http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/xmshzit7/numpy-1.9.3+mkl-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl

# scipy-0.16.1 for Python 3.5 on Win AMD64
pip3.5 install http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/xmshzit7/scipy-0.16.1-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl

A: You can download the needed packages from here and use pip install "Abc.whl" from the directory where you have downloaded the file.

A: Intel provides pre-compiled Python modules for free in their "Intel Distribution for Python". The modules are compiled against Intel's MKL (Math Kernel Library) and thus optimized for faster performance. The package includes NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, pandas, matplotlib, Numba, tbb, pyDAAL, Jupyter, and others. Find more information and the download link here

A: If you are on windows , you wouldn't need wheel anyway! You can directly install package by downloading the 32-bit package as win32 from this link [http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#numpy] and then move that downloaded package to cmd's current directory and open cmd and write following codepip install numpy-1.13.1+mkl-cp36-cp36m-win32.whl then do it same for scipy
For 64-bit you need to install mingw-w64 as it is gcc and compiles numpy and scipy as precompiled status.
Currently it works fine with 32-bit.So I had opted for win32 package both for numpy+mkl and scipy in that link.
Hope This works! Give a try

A: Look into python wheels to solve your problem. The best part of python wheels is that they let you install C extensions with no compilers. I just installed numpy and scipy using pip in a clean python install and they both worked fine.

A: for python 3.6, the following worked for me
launch cmd.exe as administrator
pip install numpy-1.13.0+mkl-cp36-cp36m-win32
pip install scipy-0.19.1-cp36-cp36m-win32

A: Package version are very important.
I found some stable combination that works on my Windows10 64 bit machine:
pip install numpy-1.12.0+mkl-cp36-cp36m-win64.whl
pip install scipy-0.18.1-cp36-cp36m-win64.whl
pip install matplotlib-2.0.0-cp36-cp36m-win64.whl

Source.

A: Hey I had the same issue.
You can find all the packages in the link below:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scikit-learn
And choose the package you need for your version of windows and python.
You have to download the file with whl extension. After that, you will copy the file into your python directory then run the following command:
py -3.6 -m  pip install matplotlib-2.1.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
Here is an example when I wanted to install matplolib for my python 3.6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzV4N4XUvYc
and this is the video I followed.

A: Follow these steps:

*

*Open CMD as administrator

*Enter this command : cd..

*cd..

*cd Program Files\Python38\Scripts

*Download the package you want and put it in Python38\Scripts folder.

*pip install packagename.whl

*Done

You can write your python version instead of "38"


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Арнольд I (; бл. 1100 — 3 квітня 1151, Кельн) — церковний діяч Священної Римської імперії, 25-й архієпископ Кельна у 1137—1151 роках.

Життєпис
Походив з нижньорейнського шляхетського роду Рандератів або Мерксгаймів. Перша письмо згадка про нього відноситься до 1124 року, коли Арнольд став пробстом церкви Св. Андреаса в Кельні. 1137 року супроводжував імператора Лотаря II в його другому поході до Італії, під час якого послідовно померло два Кельнських архієпископа — Бруно II фон Берг і Гуго фон Шпонгайм. Після цього Арнольда було обрано новим очільником Кельнської єпархії. Невдовзі після цього помер сам імператор, тому новообраний архієпископ повернувся до Німеччини.

1138 року підтримав обрання Конрад Гогенштауфена королем Німеччини, що відбулося на рейхстазі в Кобленці. Невдовзі за цим отримав визнання архієпископом з боку Папського престолу. Того ж року на горі Драхенфельс (частина гірського масиву Зібенгебірге) звів замок з цією ж назвою.

1146 року чернець Радульф став закликати до влаштування погромів жидів в Кельні. Щоб захистити останніх Арнольд I звернувся до Бернарда Клервоського, який відкликав Радульфа до себе в Клерво. Водночас з огляду на підготовку німецьких князів до нового хрестового походу архієпископ надав замок Волкенбург як місце сховку жидів від нападів.

1147 року брав участь у соборі в Трірі під головуванням папи римського Євгена III. 1149 року останній відсторонив Арнольда I від його обов'язків через звинувачення в симонії та нехтуванні церковними обов'язками. Втім зрештою той залишився на кафедрі, можливо зумів виправдатися.

Помер 1151 року. Поховано в церкві Св. Андреаса в Кельні. Його наступником став Арнольд фон Від.

Примітки

Джерела
 S. Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol 2, 1952
 W. Grebe: Erzbischof Arnold I. von Köln in der Reichs- und Territorialpolitik. In: Kölnischer Geschichtsverein: Jahrbuch (JbKGV) 42, 1968, S. 1–80.

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AtoZChallenge# on Favourite Authors: Tan
Date: February 23, 2017Author: Indu Muralidharan 0 Comments
'the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true.'
― Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
Amy Tan is well known for her novels about mother-daughter relationships. I had not read about this when I first picked up The Hundred Secret Senses a few years ago and so did not have a preconceived notion of what to expect from the book. However, I was so enchanted when I finished it that I ordered all her other novels the very next day, and read through them in the next few weeks with a great deal of pleasure. I remember writing a short review stating that THSS reminded me all over again as to why some of us call literature our religion.
'I know what love is. It's a trick on the brain, the adrenal glands releasing endorphins. It floods the cells that transmit worry and better sense, drowns them with biochemical bliss. You can know all these things about love, yet it remains irresistible, as beguiling as the floating arms of long sleep.'
The Hundred Secret Senses
The Hundred Secret senses remains my favourite novel by Tan. A compelling book that pulls the reader in from the very first page, it narrates the story of Olivia and her Chinese born half sister Kwan who has yin eyes that help her to see ghosts. Olivia is half affectionate, half condescending to Kwan – she tolerates her endless questions and finds her stories about
ghosts and past lives mildly entertaining. But when Olivia, her estranged husband Simon and Kwan take a trip to Kwan's village in China and get lost while exploring the ruins outside the village, the real stories connecting Olivia and Kwan across lifetimes are revealed in a chain of events from the past and the present that culminate in a gripping, haunting climax. The reader comes away with the feeling of having used a hundred secret senses to assimilate the ideas and stories within the novel.
"It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want."
Said to be among the most popular of her books, The Joy Luck Club interconnects stories of four Chinese women immigrants in San Francisco and their struggles to keep their culture and their stories alive in their children. I found it less compelling than Tan's full-length novels. As in most of her other work, the position of women in Chinese society of that period and intense mother-daughter relationships of tiger mothers who wield absolute control over their daughters are some of the major themes that go into building the plot structure.
"'Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.'"
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
The Bonesetter's Daughter returns to the mother-daughter theme across generations and evokes the importance of names and the need to preserve stories, and the significance of writing and its links to memory, between the characters of Ruth Young, her widowed mother LuLing and LuLing's mysterious past with Precious Auntie. One can almost imagine the ink flowing from the author's pen in a ceaseless stream as the stories flow back and forth across the present and the past, connecting a contemporary narrative with fragments of history, of the characters as well as the period. The Kitchen God's Wife is a similar novel but one which I found difficult to read for the graphic scenes and extreme situations of abuse and domestic violence.
"That is the problem with modern ink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn. But when you push an inkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart. You push and you ask yourself, What are my intentions? What is in my heart that matches my mind?"
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter
Saving Fish from Drowning is perhaps my least favourite among the lot. Though it had an intriguing opening and setting of the literal adventure of a jungle trek as well as an omniscient ghostly narrator, the novel somehow did not quite hold together, maybe due to the large number of characters whose voices kept jarring against each other. Likewise I did not enjoy The Valley of Amazement, both the story as well as its premise of a courtesan in Shanghai in the beginning of the twentieth century. It is painful and disturbing to read about the blatant commodification of women, in any period.
"I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts."
― Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
My favourite of all among Tan's books is her memoir The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life which provides a fascinating glimpse into her early life as the child of Chinese immigrants in the United States, her love of literature and growth as a writer.
"In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story."
Tan's novels are page-turners which hold layers of wisdom between their lines. They belong to that elusive genre that many authors spend a lifetime trying to reach – of literary fiction that is equally accessible to readers and critics. I deeply admire her as a writer.
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The die, it seems, is cast for a rapid end to the United States mission in Syria – and, with it, the chances of a peaceful and sustainable resolution to that country's brutal seven-year civil war. The chemical attack allegedly carried out last week by President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Douma, the last rebel-held town in the Eastern Ghouta region, shows just how dangerous that prospect is for Syria and the world.
With Trump's withdrawal implying that the US and its allies have lost the war, Assad already feels emboldened to forge ahead – with Russian and Iranian support – with his plan to recapture the remaining rebel-held territories at all costs. After establishing "facts on the ground," Assad and his allies would be able to present the world with a fait accompli: Assad remains in power, without making any real concessions to the opposition.Local and regional actors that placed their faith in America's commitments will pay a bloody price. In particular, the Kurds – America's most reliable and effective ally in the fight against ISIS – are likely to be left out in the cold, despite official US assurances about security arrangements after the US withdrawal.


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"""Context for storing options for loading a SavedModel."""

import contextlib
import threading

class LoadContext(threading.local):
  """A context for loading a model."""

  def __init__(self):
    super(LoadContext, self).__init__()
    self._load_options = None

  def set_load_options(self, load_options):
    self._load_options = load_options

  def clear_load_options(self):
    self._load_options = None

  def load_options(self):
    return self._load_options

_load_context = LoadContext()

@contextlib.contextmanager
def load_context(load_options):
  _load_context.set_load_options(load_options)
  try:
    yield
  finally:
    _load_context.clear_load_options()

def get_load_options():
  """Returns whether under a load context."""
  return _load_context.load_options()

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Q: AES decryption does not return original value I have written a SecurityExtensions static class to deal with encryption using AES CBC 128 Bit
    public static class SecurityExtensions
    {
        private static Aes GetAes(string keyText, byte[] iv)
        {
            var key = keyText.ToByteArray();
            using var result = Aes.Create();
            result.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
            result.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros;
            result.KeySize = 128;
            if (iv.Length > 0)
            {
                result.IV = iv;
            }

            result.Key = key;

            return result;
        }

        public static AesEncryptionInfo EncryptWithAes(this string plainText, string keyText)
        {
            var aesAlg = GetAes(keyText, new byte[0]);
            var encryptor = aesAlg.CreateEncryptor(aesAlg.Key, aesAlg.IV);

            byte[] encrypted;
            using (var msEncrypt = new MemoryStream())
            {
                using (var csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
                {
                    using (var swEncrypt = new StreamWriter(csEncrypt))
                    {
                        swEncrypt.Write(plainText);
                    }
                    encrypted = msEncrypt.ToArray();
                }
            }

            var result = new AesEncryptionInfo(encrypted, aesAlg.IV);
            return result;
        }

        public static string DecryptFromAes(this byte[] cipherText, string keyText, byte[] iv)
        {
            var aesAlg = GetAes(keyText, iv);
            var decryptor = aesAlg.CreateDecryptor(aesAlg.Key, aesAlg.IV);

            // Create the streams used for decryption.
            using (MemoryStream msDecrypt = new MemoryStream(cipherText))
            {
                using (CryptoStream csDecrypt = new CryptoStream(msDecrypt, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
                {
                    using (StreamReader srDecrypt = new StreamReader(csDecrypt))
                    {
                        var result = srDecrypt.ReadToEnd();
                        return result;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

This crashes unless I have the result.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros line (which is not in the MS example I used as a basis)
When I use the extension as below, the original value is not returned
const string key = "test1234test1234";
var textToEncrypt = "TESTING ENCRYPTION";
var actualEncryptionInfo = textToEncrypt.EncryptWithAes(key);
var decryptedText = actualEncryptionInfo.Encrypted.DecryptFromAes(key, actualEncryptionInfo.InversionVector);

What am I doing wrong?
The AesEncryptionInfo is a simple class that holds the encrypted value and the IV
public class AesEncryptionInfo
{
public AesEncryptionInfo(byte[] encrypted, byte[] inversionVector)
{
InversionVector = inversionVector;
Encrypted = encrypted;
    }

    public byte[] InversionVector { get; set; }
    public byte[] Encrypted { get; set; }
}

Paul

A: You are disposing the Aes instance with using statement in GetAes method.
Change:
using var result = Aes.Create();

to:
var result = Aes.Create();

And dispose the Aes in DecryptFromAes and EncryptWithAes.
using var aesAlg = GetAes(keyText, new byte[0]);
using var aesAlg = GetAes(keyText, iv);


Aldi Ireland also announced a new minimum rate of pay of €11.90 an hour, matching the Living Wage rate recommended by The Living Wage Technical Group. The move reaffirms Aldi's position as Ireland's highest paying supermarket and will make Aldi the first grocery retailer to pay The Living Wage Technical Group's €11.90 rate. The new rate will be effective from the 1stFebruary 2019.


4. Spend an hour killing fish and dragging them to it, feeding it through the bars carefully or you'll open the cage and let it out.
5. You let it out, didn't you? Pick the cage up and trap it again.
6. Watch out for that ichth- It stoke your fish... and half the stuff in your inventory. Kill it.
7. Cuss in frustration at every piranha on the Ark trying to eat you, then feed them to it too.
8. Finally finish taming the dumb bird - now just remember to keep feeding it fish forever.
Oh and watch out for Argentavis in the area, they like corpses and they don't like you even if you're carrying the corpse. They'll steal your fish and then try to kill you.


Graeme Obree and team-mate Billy MacFarlane recorded a win for the host club, Fullarton Wheelers, in yesterday's two-man Ice Breaker event at Drybridge, Scotland.
The pair clocked 37min 38sec for the 18-mile event, giving them a 42-second margin over Jim Cusick and Ian Simm of Glasgow Couriers, with Kenny Girvan and Neil Campbell (Ayrodynamic) third. Could this be a comeback season from the Hour legend?
An inexperienced Great Britain team ended the World Cup in Sydney with three medals. Nineteen-year-old Ed Clancy was the top performer, taking silver in the individual pursuit on Day 1. The following day Clancy teamed up with Matt Brammier, Matthew Cavendish and Tom White to land another silver in the team pursuit behind New Zealand. Cavendish and White also won bronze in the Madison. A remarkable performance from the young squad against many experienced southern hemisphere riders who are coming off a winter of racing down under.
News from the team is that Geraint has been operated on to have his spleen removed and GB are flying his parents and brother to be with him as he recovers in hospital. After the operation Geraint was apparently okay, sitting up in bed and pleased the injury won't keep him off the bike for a long time.
Prior to the operation, not only had Geraint been quite ill because of the internal bleeding, it had also been thought before they removed his Spleen that he would be off the bike for along time to give the Spleen time to heal. As it happened, the decision was made by the doctors to remove the Spleen due to the internal bleeding and not only did Geraint feel better afterwards, its said he was sitting up in bed pleased that it shouldn't be too long before he will be back in action. A bike rider through and through is our Geraint and our best wishes go to him and his family who have been flown out to be with him.
We wish Geraint all the best with his recovery.
Pendleton's record attempt will fit into an action packed programme including a Great Britain versus Germany Team Sprint and all star Revolution Madison. Unfortunately, one absentee from the Madison will be Olympic medallist Bradley Wiggins. Due to Brad's extensive road race programme he will be unable to ride at Revolution 8 as previously announced and will be riding Het Volk instead.
For all the news and latest announcements, take a look at www.cyclingrevolution.com.
As ever tickets are available to purchase in advance from www.cyclingrevolution.com or by calling 0700 594 2579. Tickets will also be available on the door.


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Zuckerberg v Congress - how to waste four minutes of your life and miss the point
By Stuart Lauchlan April 11, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg got a couple of tougher questions on day two of his appearance before Congress, but the demands of political grandstanding let him off the hook in the main.
There was a very useful remark made by Representative Frank Pallone as the second and - for now - final day of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's appearance before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. Congress:
My great fear is that we have this hearing today, there's a lot of press attention, but if all we do is have a hearing and then nothing happens, then that's not accomplishing anything...I've just seen it over and over again — that we have the hearings, and nothing happens.
Given the criticism from all sides that the first day of questioning of Zuckerberg saw him let off the hook on a number of key points as he pleaded ignorance and waved away difficult points with a promise that his team would follow-up later, that concern was well-voiced.
Unfortunately while there was some better questioning from a few of the legislators on the Committee on day two, there was also a significant uptick in politicians grandstanding and wasting much of their allocated 4 minutes of question time to pontificating. Take Representative John Shimkus who rambled on with stuff like:
First of all, I want to thank Facebook. You streamlined our Congressional Baseball Game last year. We've got the managers here, and I was told that, because of that, we raised an additional $100,000 for D.C. literacy and feeding kids and stuff.
The other thing is, I usually put my stuff up on the TV. I don't want to do it very much, because my dad — and he'd be mad if he went international, like you are — and he's been on Facebook for a long time. He's 88. It's been good for connecting with kids and grandkids. I just got my mother involved on an iPad and — because she can't handle a keyboard. And so — and I did this last week. So the — in this world — activity — I still think there is a positive benefit for my parents to be engaged on this platform.
Zuckerberg's legal team must have struggled to contain their relief. Then there was Representative Elliot Engel who had a special request for Zuckerberg:
Mr. Zuckerberg, you have roots in my district, the 16th congressional district of New York. I know that you attended Ardsley High School and grew up in Westchester County. As you know, Westchester has a lot to offer, and I hope that you might commit to returning to Westchester County, perhaps to do a forum on this and some other things. I hope you would consider that. We'll be in touch with you. But I know that Ardsley High School's very proud of you.
That's nice to know. Then there was Representative G.K. Butterfield who decided that the best use of his 4 minutes was to take Facebook to task over its lack of African-American representation in its staff, asking Zuckerberg to commit to setting up a meeting of tech CEOs to address racial diversity:
We've got to concentrate more on board membership for African-Americans, and also minorities at the entry level within your company. I was looking at your website a few minutes ago, and it looks like you list five individuals as leadership in your company, but none of them is African-American…this does not reflect America. Can you improve the numbers on your leadership team to be more diverse?
Do you plan to add an African-American to your leadership team in the foreseeable future? And will you commit that you will continue to work with us, the Congressional Black Caucus, to increase diversity within your company that you're so proud of?
Now, diversity, in all its forms, is clearly a hugely important issue, particularly given Silicon Valley's lamentable track record here. But was yesterday's hearing really the best time to add this into an already heady mix? There was a specific agenda. As the Chair of the Committee, Representative Greg Walden, told Zuckerberg at the start of the session:
We've called you here today for two reasons. One is to examine the alarming reports regarding breaches of trust between your company, one of the biggest and most powerful in the world, and its users. And the second reason is to widen our lens to larger questions about the fundamental relationship tech companies have with their users.
Incredulous
Fortunately others were more up to speed with what needed to be done. Representative Diana Degette was on particularly sharp form as she warned Zuckerberg:
I'm going to ask you a whole series of fairly quick questions. They should only require yes-or-no answers.
Well, maybe they should, but she was out of luck as Zuckerberg obfuscated on various points. Her patience ran out when quizzing him about a class action suit that Facebook had been involved with and of which Zuckerberg claimed ignorance. Degette's incredulous response:
Do you — you're — you're the CEO of the company, correct?
But the biggest blow scored came from Representative Kathy Castor who asked:
Facebook now has evolved to a place where you are tracking everyone. You are collecting data on just about everybody. Yes, we understand the Facebook users that proactively sign in, they're in part of that platform, but you're following Facebook users even after they log off of that platform and application, and you are collecting personal information on people who do not even have Facebook accounts. Isn't that right?
It was a question which elicited the unbelievable response from Zuckerberg:
I'm not sure. I don't think that that's what we're tracking.
Well, if he doesn't know...
Pallone's concerns about this being essentially a 'show trial' with no practical outcomes may yet prove well-founded. Republican Representatives wanted to know why Facebook worked with the Obama campaign and claimed that the company censored right wing commentators; Democrats wanted to know why Facebook worked with Cambridge Analytica to support the Trump campaign and why it didn't clamp down more on hate speech. It was predictable along party lines.
The grandstanding and rambling anecdotes - "When I first got into public office, the internet was really kicking off…" etc etc - were a pointless use of valuable time. With a few notable exceptions, most of politicos on the Committee appeared not to have done their homework and relied on well-aired talking points, none of which took anyone any further on.
While I don't imagine anyone is buying the 'tech Jimmy Stewart' routine, when Mr Zuckerberg went home from Washington, Facebook's share price rose. As a short term damage limitation exercise, it's not been a bad couple of days for Facebook.
Longer term it's to be hoped that others, such as the UK government's Information Commissioner's Office are more challenging in their inquiries. Mind you, the best that tough-talking UK Digital Minister Matt Hancock could manage yesterday was an undefined threat to "hold their feet to the fire" if Facebook doesn't buck up its ideas. Scary stuff, eh? That'll learn them!
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I've been working on some pre-production art for Tragic Gadget's animated music video"Shot in the Dark" with Chinese Takeout Films. Here's some of my latest sketches, for the characters and critters that appear throughout. Its so much fun to see these drawing come to life, and have personality. Were pretty excited to be working on this, and cant wait to share it when its done.


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Rich will be providing prospect analysis at 10pm each Monday evening on SiriusXM 210/XM 89.
Also, join Rich and the boys on the #1 weekly fantasy baseball show on iTunes.
I'm a Rangers fan, so that's why I have Gallo… I noticed you weren't too fond of him!
What my real question is is can you explain the differences on your ceilings for position players, i.e. role 5, role 6? I'm new to the prospect game and I can't quite figure it out.
Well, I just saw your post on someone else's comment in regards to that. Feel free to comment with any advice for the last 10 rounds. I need 6 more minor league players. Any advice on positions to target or how many of each position to have in your minor team. Love the site and the show, keep it up!
Focus on hitters. If you want some late and really young hitters….Francy Cordero from SD, Rafael Devers from Bos, and Harold Ramirez of Pit. Only get one of these guys with Cordero being the first. 3-4 years away but crazy upside and way under the radar.
The grades are based on the 20-80 scouting scale. 50 is average, 40/60 is one Std Dev(67% of population falls into this range); 30/70 are two Std dev (93 percent of population) and 20/80 are three Std dev (99.7% fall within the range).
Hey Rich, I'm new to the site… where can i find what you mean 'Role 6' and others ceilings labels mean for hitters?
I am in a 10 team keeper league (7 keepers). Head to head, 11 categories (6 hitting, 5 pitching). We can only protect players for 3 years after acquiring. I am keeping Kershaw, ellsbury, freeman, marte and mauer. I need to keep 2 of the following: worth, minor, Teheran, Nathan or weaver. Any suggestions?
Teheran for sure. Hmmm…he's older, and I'm assuming it's Jayson Werth, that's where I'm going.
Tim would be proud, just got Cowboy Kole in the 3rd round of my ML Keeper Draft.
It is currently baffling me and had no where else to share.
Tim and I are not eye-to-eye on Calhoun. I see an ok major league player who eventually becomes a fourth outfielder. Maybe can hit 12-15 home runs with a handful of steals.
Hope all is well with you. Was wondering if you can post your show notes on the Deeper Prospects Episode #216. While I'm not going to be "that guy" who drafts all of these prospects – there were a few I was interested. I'm listening to it again and will take copius notes – but if I missed a couple, I'd like to be able to reference them in the future. Again — appreciate your stuff and let me know. Thanks.
Hey Ed, I just wrote the names down and stats and went mostly off my knowledge of the player. Not a lot notes to publish.
I'm leaning towards Braun, Cargo, Trout, M.Scherzer and either Fernandez or Strasburg.
I brought this up on Facebook Dynasty site with mixed opinions. Tim Mc thought I should stick with the five offensive players and pick pitchers in the snake draft starting with Rd. six. What do you think? I won five of six categories last year with my pitching. Is this something you could bring up on Sunday Night's show. Help!
Just responded via email…Trout, Cargo, Braun, JF, and Stras. Slightly risky but to me, those are the best with the most upside.
This was a great explanation. Thanks.
I'm looking for a definition for the ceiling for prospect batters, and I haven't spotted it on your website. Role 7-8, 6-7, or 5-6, what do these mean? What are the top and bottom ends of the scale? Is Role 7-8 very good? Is Role 5-6 average? What would be considered poor?
Just got back into the swing of things with fantasy baseball. Are there are slots open in the Head to Head point league you set up back on the Jan. 5 podcast?
I stumbled upon BlogTalk last night while looking for the podcast. I finally past out around 6am this morning with ear buds in. Great stuff. The only problem is I want to do you the favor of introducing the site to my baseball buddies, but the content is too good to relay at the moment. Right after the drafts they'll hear all about it. I was just curious on the ad stuff. I have to say listening to the Podcasts, it is refreshing just hearing you and Tim just chat. No commercial breaks no pressing issues. Some of the other Podcasts there are producers pushing the hosts along when they get into some really good conversation, only trying to pack the hour with content. Guys just sitting around talking ball is lost.
When can we expect another mock? I archived the old four man draft when Tim was knighted to Sir Tim–hilarious, but now some of the free agents have settled. Maybe after the position primers?
Don't get me wrong. I'm a capitalist and wouldn't mind making money, but that's not the point of why I do the things I do. Once you listen to more of the shows, you'll get a better sense. I've done a few free commercials for sites they have done favors for us, but it's rare.
Yes, we will do a mock after the positional players are done: 3B and C on Sunday, then OF, then SP and then the mock. We usually get the hosts and a bunch of listeners and it's a crazy time.
I'd like to start off by saying the information on your site is some of the best I've found. I've already reordered my cheat sheets based on your advice, and I look forward to upcoming fantasy drafts. The information here is really valuable. I really appreciate the free knowledge, truly a gift. I don't know how you find the time for all the personal responses. There are plenty of SABR sites that compile the stats, but this kind of insight is hard to find. My question to you is, why not market this service? No fee. No adds. Crazy. Also just curious, why you don't just have the Podcast on your site? Thanks again. Your work is very much appreciated.
Thanks for the very kind thoughts.
It actually doesn't take long to write a response and if people take the time to send me a note, they deserve a response.
At some point, will I charge for the information? Possibly, but I haven't decided how I will ultimately monetize what I'm doing; if I ever do. For now, it's fun for me to do and it doesn't feel like work. In the end, I go to a ton of games and the capsules I write are many times, just adding narratives to my notes with comments embedded from industry people that I have met.
I've also been approached by numerous advertisers but the amount they are willing to pay isn't worth the clutter that it will cause to the site. While my site isn't at the level of facebook, I get enough traffic to matter.
Finally, the podcast. We are one of the Top 10 most popular sites on Blogtalkradio.com and have had a long-term relationship with them. While our sound quality would improve if we did it ourselves, the chat room is great and people love it and therefore, we will stay.
It's a place where people can talk about our show and interact. I tweet it out before each show. It's been a little slow lately but when it's on, it's really good. Join the facebook group as well. It's terrific. One of our listener manages it and does a great job.


These are great gift ideas, they are made from leather with a choice of either a plain top, a snaffle bit top or for the shooting enthusiasts empty cartridges.
It can hold either wine bottles or beer bottles, these are made to order so please allow 14 days for delivery. They come in brown leather, if requested I could do them in black, please message if required.


At C2E2, the Marvel's True Believers panel was open only to Marvel Mastercard holders and Marvel Unlimited Plus members, but You Don't Read Comics was there to bring you all of the latest reveals.
Guests of the panel were given copies of Thor #11, Astonishing X-Men #11, and Avengers #1 with exclusive variant covers.
The panel was moderated by Ryan Penagos, and featured Matthew Rosenberg (writer Uncanny X-Men), Tini Howard (writer Thanos, Belit), and Nick Spencer (writer of The Amazing Spider-Man).
Nick Spencer discussed the current arc in The Amazing Spider-Man, "Hunted." Asked how to choose which characters to include, Spencer expressed the challenge--"Wikipedia was a thing." In April, Marvel will be releasing The Amazing Spider-Man #18.HU by Spencer with art by Ken Lashley, featuring The Gibbon. "It's a tear-jerker," Spencer said. "This is kind of the story of his experience in the park. There will be more .HU issues, featuring Black Cat and The Vulture.
Next, Matthew Rosenberg discussed his upcoming issue of War of the Realms: X-Men #1, with art by Pere Perez. "The X-Men are going to be dealing with the upcoming crisis of the War of the Realms," said Rosenberg. Penagos noted that the Distinguished Competition doesn't own the word "crisis." "The X-Men have an odd history of dealing with Asgardian stuff," Rosenberg continued, discussing Dani Moonstar's time as a Valkyrie and other Mutant/Asgardian entaglements. Rosenberg and Penagos discussed the story's roots in classic Walter Simonson/Arthur Adams run on Thor.
The panel included sneak peeks at some terrific new art. Unfortunately, photos were not allowed.
Penagos asked Rosenberg when he decided to put Wolverine and Cyclops in their classic costumes. "Real early," Rosenberg responded. "We wanted to do a looking back so we could honor the [sixty-something] years of X-Men that we've all loved." He added "There's a middle point between nostalgia and forging a new path." He reasoned that since both Scott and Logan are coming back from the dead, they are rediscovering who they are so they are wearing classic costumes rather than the costumes they wore when they died. Rosenberg reasoned that Cyclops has softened, and Wolverine has become harder. "Also they're real awesome," Rosenberg added about the classic costumes.
Penagos asked the panel who are their favorite animal-themed characters (aside from Spider-Man). Howard chose The Lizard. Rosenberg chose The Vulture; "I like him because he's the only villain in the Marvel Universe that I'm like, I could take him in a fight." Nick Spencer chose The Beetle, and referenced his classic run on The Superior Foes of Spider-Man.
The panel went on to discuss Uncanny X-Men #16, which comes out in April. Rosenberg discussed the appearance of Dani Moonstar in both Uncanny X-Men and the currently-running alternate universe Age of X-Man event, and revealed that Magneto will also be appearing in both continuities. The issue will also feature the return of Kwana (?), the assassin who spent years being inhabited by Betsy Braddock aka Psylocke.
Penagos asked the panel for their favorite obscure X-Men character. Howard chose Rictor. "I'm also a depressed kid who grew up Catholic, so I relate to Rictor a lot," said Howard. Rosenberg chose Skids. "In my head I have like this Skids vs Boom Boom rivalry which isn't really on the page," said Rosenberg. Spencer chose Emma Frost.
Penagos went on to discuss Rosenberg's run on The Punisher with Szymon Kudranski. "Frank...has decided to hunt Baron Zemo and kill him," Rosenberg explained. "Frank ended up in prison [in Bagalia]...Frank likes going to prison, because there are plenty of people to murder." This is a problem because in Bagalia the people in prison are good people, who are missionaries and aid workers, so The Punisher leads a big jailbreak.
"The first glimpses of Thanos that we get are through the eyes of other people," she said. "It's hard to write Thanos vulnerable, because the audience has to believe it." The series will also involve Thanos' infatuation with Death, and Gamora's involvement with that. "You'll see the Black Order when they were all assistant managers," Howard joked. "I'm so intensely proud of this book...it is pure doom metal and the loneliness of space," she added. Penagos recommends Venom Space Knight for more Ariel Olivetti art.
Penagos showed a clip from the season 2 of Marvel's Cloak & Dagger TV show, exclusive to the panel. The clip began with Cloak practicing basketball while Dagger practiced ballet, set to hip-hop music. Following this was a confrontation between Cloak and Dagger, as Ty apologized to Tandy for something and then asked for her help. Marvel's Cloak and Dagger premieres in April on Freeform.
Penagos shared an exclusive code for 10,000 Marvel Insider points, followed by a Q&A section.
Q: In canon, what do your characters keep in their pouches?
Rosenberg: Cyclops is the ultimate boy scout. He's got wet wipes, and a compass, granola bars, toys in case he meets a child, a folding poncho. I wanted to do a whole series about that, here's Cyclops fixing your plumbing because he's got a workman tool in there, but they said no.
Spencer: Spider-Man doesn't even have somewhere to put a wallet.
Howard: I imagine there's nothing in those pouches, he just put an empty belt pouch on to close his robe so he can go kill people.
Rosenberg: I like to think Thanos' pouches are just full of ashes.
Q: In a world where people in the real world put on body armor and kill people, why does the Punisher still exist?
Rosenberg: The Punisher is villain. He's not a good guy...He's not an aspirational character...I want his feet planted in the Marvel Universe so that we can see how much the Marvel Universe doesn't like him. He is a bad guy who hunts bad guys. This is not something we endorse. It's a study in the same way Friday the 13th is a study of Freddy Kreuger. The Punisher is a man who broke. He's a cautionary tale. He's a complicated and difficult question to wrestle with. We don't want people wanting to be him. He's not someone that the Armed Forces or anyone should think is great. He's terrifying.


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Family of Stanford football star who killed himself files wrongful-death lawsuit against school
The family of Stanford soccer star Katie Meyer filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the school nine months after she took her own life.
Meyer's family argues that Meyer, who was 22 at the time of her death on February 28, was distraught about facing school discipline over an incident that occurred six months earlier.
The lawsuit says Meyer spilled coffee on a football player at the school who had allegedly sexually assaulted one of Meyer's teammates.
Stanford Cardinal goalie Katie Meyer during a game.
(John Todd/ISI Photos/Getty Images)
Meyer, according to the lawsuit, received formal written notice charging her with a «fundamental rule violation» on the day of her death.
Gina and Steven Meyer argue that their daughter had «an acute stress reaction that led her impulsively» to commit suicide. Meyer was being threatened to «withdraw her from the university» and she would not receive her diploma on time.
Stanford goalie Katie Meyer shakes hands with her teammates before a game.
(Lyndsay Radnedge/Stanford Athletics via AP)
STANFORD GOALIE SUICIDE HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR PARENTS TO TALK TO THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Her parents argue in the lawsuit that the notice came «after hours» while Meyer was «alone in her bedroom with no support or resources.»
"We're just, we're struggling right now," Gina Meyer said in March. "We are struggling to find out what happened and why it happened. We are heartbroken, very heartbroken.»
Stanford Cardinal goalie Katie Meyer (19) lifts the trophy after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels during the Division I women's soccer championship at Avaya Stadium on December 8, 2019 in San Jose, California.
(Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)
Meyer won the 2019 national title with the Cardinal after making two great saves on penalty kicks.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Si definisce stato etico quella forma istituzionale, teorizzata, ad esempio, dai filosofi Hobbes ed Hegel, in cui è l'istituzione statale il fine ultimo a cui devono tendere le azioni dei singoli individui, nonché la realizzazione concreta del bene universale.

Il Leviatano di Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes viene considerato il padre della filosofia politica moderna, a partire dalla sua chiara e netta presa di distanza dalla riflessione del mondo classico sulla socialità e politicità dell'uomo. Secondo Hobbes, non c'è ragione plausibile per cui un uomo, anche se più saggio, debba comandare, e un altro debba obbedire, poiché questa presunzione di un'originaria ineguaglianza, se istituita a priori come teoria antropologica di fondo, consentirebbe agli uomini di costruirsi rapporti di gerarchia sociale ingiusta e immediatamente smentibile dai fatti.

Hobbes, inoltre, inaugura il metodo contrattualista: gli uomini troveranno regole comuni, sacrificheranno parte della loro libertà in cambio della tutela e del rispetto delle regole stabilite, stilate nero su bianco su un contratto sottoscritto, e faranno riferimento a un unico grande rappresentante istituzionale, il Leviatano. Questo rappresenta per Hobbes la forza gigantesca di tutti coloro che hanno sottoscritto il contratto e che formano lo Stato; essi sono l'unità corporale del Leviatano. Per questo Hobbes è anche considerato il principale teorico dello Stato assoluto o assolutismo. Il sovrano infatti è considerato al di sopra della legge naturale, a cui tutti gli altri cittadini sono sottoposti.

Lo Stato nasce da un compromesso in cui ognuno accetta di limitare la propria libertà fin dove non sconfina nella sfera altrui, per poter esercitare delle altre libertà che senza lo Stato resterebbero, di diritto ma non di fatto, soltanto sulla carta del contratto sociale.

Lo Stato etico secondo Hegel

Il filosofo idealista Hegel aveva definito lo Stato "sostanza etica consapevole di sé". Lo Stato è infatti l'espressione più elevata dell'eticità, essendo unità di diritto astratto e moralità. Questa teoria hegeliana dello Stato era in netto contrasto con il giusnaturalismo e il contrattualismo della filosofia politica moderna, soprattutto quella dei filosofi illuministi.

La dottrina hegeliana affermava che lo Stato è fonte di libertà e norma etica per il singolo. La condotta dello Stato, quindi, non può essere oggetto di valutazioni morali da parte dell'individuo: lo Stato si pone fine supremo e arbitro assoluto del bene e del male.

Lo Stato etico hegeliano non è però ancora uno Stato totalitario vero e proprio, ma una totalità organica vivente. La separazione dei poteri, secondo quanto si evince dai testi di Hegel, non può essere perfetta al punto di compromettere la governabilità e l'unità dello Stato, né - come riteneva Montesquieu - è fondata su un sistema di pesi e contrappesi a garanzia del singolo contro la tirannide. I poteri piuttosto vengono separati e resi autonomi in base ad un fondamento più forte, ontologico prima che morale, dal fatto che lo Stato, come qualsiasi cosa vivente, totale o particolare, vive solo se segue i tre momenti della dialettica hegeliana, sia nella contrapposizione dei tre poteri, che nella loro contrapposizione e sintesi interna.

Questo ruolo di fine supremo e arbitro assoluto dello Stato può coprire l'intera durata di una vita umana, ma è comunque solo un momento temporaneo di passaggio nei Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto (1820).

Lo Stato etico è infatti l'ultimo momento dello Spirito oggettivo, ed è poi superato dai tre momenti dello Spirito assoluto, sintesi di Spirito soggettivo e di Spirito oggettivo: l'arte, la religione e la filosofia come punto massimo della conoscenza in cui lo "spirito sa sé stesso", vede ed è visto dagli uomini come completo e compiuto nella storia. Hegel afferma che la libertà è e resta in ogni tempo la condizione storica della filosofia, a partire dall'antica Grecia.

Nello Stato etico si realizza la fusione senza residui degli individui nello Stato, nel quale i fini particolari trovavano piena realizzazione. L'unico motore che spinge e si realizza – oltre allo Stato etico – è la piena conoscenza dello Spirito e della verità, come Spirito assoluto.

Lo Spirito oggettivo si sostanzia dapprima nel singolo individuo, nella coincidenza fra diritto privato e dovere morale, poi nella famiglia e infine nello Stato etico, che è una sintesi fra la famiglia e la società civile. Nello Stato infatti il singolo individuo trova la propria "oggettività", "verità"ed "eticità".

Hegel contrappone la libertà del singolo non tanto all'istituzione familiare tradizionale, quanto il singolo che sceglie una vita etica, coerente col suo dovere morale, ad una famiglia etica. La situazione di contrasto tra singolo e famiglia è riproposta nello Stato etico, che può chiedere al singolo la rinuncia anche della vita familiare, ad avere una propria vita privata, se non la rinuncia della vita stessa.
Dopo la celebre critica di Karl Popper, lo Stato etico è considerato l'emblema della "società chiusa", in contrapposizione allo Stato di diritto, che è proprio della "società aperta".

Seguiti novecenteschi
La teoria dello "Stato etico" fu poi ripresa nel Novecento: essendo in antitesi con la teoria liberale dello Stato di diritto, è stata usata per spiegare il fondamento della concezione dello Stato fascista di Benito Mussolini e dello Stato comunista sviluppatosi nell'Unione Sovietica. In particolare il filosofo neoidealista Giovanni Gentile la riprese e la rielaborò nei Fondamenti della filosofia del diritto (1916).

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Voci correlate
 Ragion di Stato
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Filosofia politica
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Q: What would be the best way to program a board game controlled by one person? My dad wants me to program a board game. This board game will be used in a classroom setting, where the teacher will control the board game for the class. So, if a student gets a question right, the teacher presses one of the buttons and the board game advances.
The game state must also be savable as a file that the teacher can save on a USB drive.
To me, the backend sounds beyond simple, including storing the data in a file. In my opinion, I don't need a database for something this simple.
However, I'm more concerned about the front end, and which programming language to use in general. From what I've discerned from the computers he needs it to run on, they are all running Windows 7. I do have all of the graphics required. It will basically be the pieces moving from one square to the next in a linear fashion, with each piece having its own path.
Now, I was considering doing it in HTML5/JS, but I am worried that the computers do not support it. My dad is looking into it, including if they could install Chrome on the computers. I believe this would be ideal, as he also expressed interest in an iPad version, which would just work as a web page then.
But if these computers could not support HTML5/JS, or you more experience people tell me that HTML5/JS would be a terrible choice, what would you recommend for this project?
Thank you very much for your help.

A: You might want to consider Adobe Flash. It publishes to the web using the flash plugin, and pblishes to Windows, Mac OS, Android, and iOS as an Adobe AIR app. Plus it has really good handling of animation, and media, should you want to include sound and video, or animations.
If you don;t want to buy Flash from adobe, you might be able to publish it at least partiallu with other tools such as Stencyl.

A: Considering your requirements for graphics, you don't even need HTML5 advanced features, and everything that browsers were supporting for decade already with CSS2/HTML4 will do just fine. Simplify state saving to just outputing serialized dump for user to copy or generating data: URL for download or even prompt'ing serealized save data and you'll have code that will work on pretty much anything that have a browser.


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Q: Jackson error : unacceptable character '' (0x0) special characters are not allowed I'm trying to parse yaml data using jackson from MySQL but I get error saying there is a special character. I get error something like this :
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: special characters are not allowed
[Source: java.io.StringReader@5528a42c; line: 13, column: 68] (through reference chain: com.app.ResultContentModel["opinion"])
...
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.snakeyaml.error.YAMLException: special characters are not allowed
 at [Source: java.io.StringReader@5528a42c; line: 13, column: 68]
...
Caused by: unacceptable character '' (0x0) special characters are not allowed
in "'reader'", position 1027

My dependencies file look like this :
<dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <version>5.1.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
        <version>2.8.1</version>
</dependency>

I'm trying to replace it using regex :
Pattern nonASCII = Pattern.compile("[^\\x00-\\x7f]");//("[^\\x00-\\x7f]");
resultContent = Normalizer.normalize(nonASCII.matcher(resultContent).replaceAll("");
ResultContentModel rc = mapper.readValue(resultContent, ResultContentModel.class);

But still didn't work. What should I do?

A: It seems you want to match any non-ASCII + all characters with hex codes from 00 till 20 (space).
Use
Pattern nonASCII = Pattern.compile("[^\\x00-\\x7f]+|[\\x00-\\x20]+");

The \x00-\x20 will match all the control characters you need to remove and the [^\x00-\x7f] will match non-ASCII chars.
The + quantifier will match 1 or more occurrences, so as to remove/replace the character chunks matched in one go.


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Ayrton Müller (Antônio Carlos, ) é um comerciante, empresário e político brasileiro.

Filho de Júlio João Müller e de Otília Júlia Goederth. Casou com Ubaldina de Carvalho Müller.

Foi candidato a deputado estadual para a Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina nas eleições de 1958, pelo Partido Social Democrático (PSD), obtendo 3.290 votos. Ficou na 12ª suplência, sendo convocado em 19 de agosto de 1959, por um período de 60 dias, devido à licença do deputado Ivo Reis Montenegro, tomando posse na 4ª Legislatura (1959-1963).

Deputados estaduais de Santa Catarina
Naturais de Antônio Carlos (Santa Catarina)


eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there's Merit.
learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.
with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves.
tears and this book doesn't stray from that. This story is so powerful and has so many layers to it.
but manages to put it together by the end of the last page.
to punch at times, and live with the general ups & downs of life.
mental issues regarding family and one's own self.
the fuss is definitely true about this one!


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G T Shopfitters & Builders is in Commerce Street Glasgow. You can view a list of neighbouring businesses by going to the Commerce Street page.
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Q: How come all my seaborn plots melt into one plot? I need 8 separate graphs. Is there a way to do this without using #%% and clicking 8 times?
I do this
Nplot130317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", hue_norm=(0,130), data=Ndata130317, s=2, linewidth=0)
Nplot210317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Ndata210317, s=2, linewidth=0)
Nplot290317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Ndata290317, s=2, linewidth=0)
Nplot060417 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Ndata060417, s=2, linewidth=0)
Iplot130317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Idata130317_2, s=10, linewidth=0)
Iplot210317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Idata210317_2, s=10, linewidth=0)
Iplot290317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Idata290317_2, s=10, linewidth=0)
Iplot060417 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Idata060417_2, s=10, linewidth=0)

And this happens:

A: One option would be to create a set of axes/subplots and specify the ax parameter for each call to seaborn.scatterplot. Per the documentation,

ax : matplotlib Axes, optional
  Axes object to draw the plot onto, otherwise uses the current Axes.

In the question code this could be done as
fig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 4, figsize=(16,6))
Nplot130317 = sns.scatterplot(x="NewID", y="Time", hue="Speed", data=Ndata130317, ax=axs[0,0])
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Home » World » 'If US summit held, it will be used as boring boasting', says North Korea
'If US summit held, it will be used as boring boasting', says North Korea
Pyongyang insists that it needs its nuclear arsenal to deter against a possible US invasion.
AFP | Seoul | July 10, 2020 3:31 pm
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (Photo: AFP)
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Friday there was "no need" for another summit with the United States unless Washington offered a "decisive change" in approach.
Kim and US President Donald Trump first met in Singapore two years ago but talks over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal have been stalled since their Hanoi summit collapsed in early 2019 over what the North would be willing to give up in exchange for sanctions relief.
Trump said this week he would "certainly" meet with Kim again "if I thought it was going to be helpful", after speculation that he might pursue another summit if it could help his re-election chances in November.
But in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Yo Jong — who has emerged as one of her brother's closest advisers — said: "There is no need for us to sit across with the US right now."
If a summit was held, she said, "it is too obvious that it will only be used as boring boasting coming from someone's pride".
Denuclearisation, she added, was "not possible at this point", and could only happen alongside parallel "irreversible simultaneous major steps" by the other side — which she emphasised did not refer to sanctions lifting.
She did not go into specifics, but Washington stations 28,500 troops in the South to defend it against its neighbour, and has a range of military assets in Japan and the wider Pacific region.
Kim Yo Jong's statement was only her personal view, she said, but the lengthy declaration appeared intended to send multiple messages.
She said she had watched the July 4 Independence Day celebrations in the US on television and had been given permission by her brother to "personally obtain, for sure, the DVD of the celebrations… in the future".
Her brother had "entrusted me with conveying his wishes to President Trump that he would certainly achieve great successes in his work", she added.
Kim Jong Un declared in December an end to moratoriums on nuclear and ballistic missile tests, and Pyongyang has repeatedly said it has no intention to continue talks unless Washington drops what it describes as "hostile" policies towards the North.
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