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Mandela's legacy for Australia?
Why Indigenous justice matters
On 6 December 2013, the world paused to reflect on the passing of perhaps the greatest leader and changemaker of our time. My Facebook feed became an outpouring of love and respect for Mandela and of grief for the loss to humankind of a true father. One friend offered this memorialisation: 'His heart may have come to rest, but it set a beat that continues to echo through all of our spirits.'
This got me thinking. Certainly the world has lost one of its great figureheads of justice and fairness. But it needn't be the case that Madiba is lost to us. We can take into our hearts the principles that he stood for, and make them live and breathe in our own country, in our own time.
One of Mandela's defining character traits is said to have been that he could not abide injustice, and it is surely this that underpinned his lifelong struggle to achieve racial equality in South Africa.
The thing is, we have entrenched racial inequality in Australia as well. Our Indigenous people may be less demographically visible than the black South Africans, but our issues here are no less urgent and no less shameful.
I am not Indigenous and I wasn't even born in this country (my parents brought me to Australia, from South Africa, when I was not yet two years old). But I feel very strongly that the disadvantage that besets black Australia is my problem too. It's my problem because I have built my life here, in a beautiful country with a very dark history – one which resonates inter-generationally into the present. Indigenous people have paid a very high price for white Australians to live in the lucky country.
In Australia, I believe we have suffered from an ongoing and widespread failure to imagine ourselves into the situations of Indigenous families. It was a point powerfully made by Paul Keating in his 1992 Redfern Address, where the then Prime Minister reflected on how we had discriminated against and excluded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over generations:
We failed to make the most basic human response and enter into their hearts and minds. We failed to ask – how would I feel if this were done to me?
The 2008 apology for the evils perpetrated against members of the Stolen Generations was an important moment of acknowledgement of past wrongs, but for most Australians, issues around justice and equity for Indigenous people is probably a case of 'out of sight, out of mind.'
Doubtless it is not easy to understand the impact of past law and policy on the status quo. Some (including a former Prime Minister) have argued that Indigenous disadvantage is not the business, 'problem,' or responsibility of the current generation: we weren't the colonialists. And that's true, I wasn't a colonialist, but it doesn't mean it's not our concern.
I believe that our collective, ongoing failure to give proper priority to issues of Indigenous justice is our greatest national shame. The failure is less budgetary and more because government consistently works with Indigenous communities in ways that are ineffective or counterproductive. These practical failures should reflect poorly on government, but instead they tend to create in the public a kind of compassion fatigue or a vague hostility towards Indigenous issues. This, along with the often 'hidden from sight' nature of these issues, and low levels of knowledge about the effects of colonisation, means that our collective response to Indigenous justice issues is overwhelming under-reaction.
We should be outraged beyond words that little boys growing up in Wilcannia in remote New South Wales can expect to live, on average, for 36.7 years. We should lose sleep over the fact that Indigenous young people in some locations are more likely to be returned to prison than finish high school. We should be appalled that our Indigenous children are the most imprisoned young people in the world, and moved to urgent action at the recently announced federal government funding cuts to already stretched, vitally important Aboriginal Legal Services.
Paul Keating asked Australians to consider how it might feel, as a community, to carry the burden of colonial history:
Imagine if our spiritual life was denied and ridiculed.
Imagine if we had suffered the injustice and then were blamed for it.
For Jews, the imaginative leap is not so great. So it is fitting that for eight years, the Derech Eretz program has been quietly working on helping young Jews make that leap. The program takes its place among a small cohort of other strong partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people, such as the AIME mentoring program between university students and Indigenous high school students, and the Aspiration Initiative, which also works with Indigenous high school students looking to transition to tertiary studies.
Derech Eretz is a partnership with the communities in Toomelah and Boggabilla, on the NSW/QLD border, and started as an annual school holiday program for children in those communities. For about a week, a dozen or so Jewish university students (from study fields spanning medicine to social work, law to arts) provide play, friendship and good food to as many kids as want to join in. The bonds developed with the children and the community grew so strong that within a couple of years of inception, an annual alumni trip was developed to allow previous participants to return. Last year, at the communities' request, the program ran its first leadership development camp for young adults from the communities. Many participants were kids who have known 'The Jewish Mob' through school holiday programs right through their childhood. Through 2014, Derech Eretz – now the flagship Indigenous partnership program at Jewish Aid Australia – will send six groups to Toomelah/Boggabilla. This 'little program that could' continues to deepen its relationships and provide what support it can.
It has always been clear to me that participants on Derech Eretz gain more than they give. Throughout the program, time is set aside for participants to hear from a range of people – elders, community workers, politicians, school teachers, government agencies, health workers – about the history of 'The Mish' (Toomelah was a mission until the mid-1970s) and the range of challenges that the residents Toomelah and Boggabilla face day in, day out. They learn about the resilience of the leaders of the community and the humour and belly-fire that has kept them fighting for their people over the years.
I think that the greatest achievement of this program is not necessarily the contributions that it makes to community, but the inroads that it makes into our collective failure to imagine what it would be like to walk in the shoes of our first people. Derech Eretz is building a small army of passionate, vocal, soon-to-be professionals who have been moved and changed by the time spent in community. They teach their families and their friends, and they take their new knowledge and sensitivity into their jobs and lives. They return to Toomelah and Boggabilla (or seek out opportunities to live and work in other Indigenous communities) and they become advocates for community-owned, community-controlled solutions. Australia at large may still have a great deal to do in coming to terms with the legacy of its colonial policies, but programs like Derech Eretz are creating – in microcosm – the conditions in which national healing can occur. From little things, big things grow.
You may remember Mandela's 90th birthday celebration in Hyde Park, London, where the musicians, film stars and politicians turned out to honour him. But you may not remember Mandela's words to the crowd that day. They are not unlike the exhortation in our own Pirkei Avot, the Ethics of the Fathers: 'Yours is not to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.' Mandela told the world on that day: 'It is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It's in your hands now.' The greatest honour we can pay the memory of Mandela, and the only path of integrity as Australians living on this land, is to stand up and become an advocate for change in our own contexts.
Last year, an office bearer in the owner's corporation in my apartment block told me I wasn't permitted the small Aboriginal flag that sits above the peephole on the outside of my front door, because it was an unauthorized use of common property. I explained to him that when he took down his mezuzah, I would take down my flag. That's my flag. It speaks to who I am on this land as much as the precious mezuzah that sits next to it.
The story of this land is the story of all of us who live here. The wrongs that need righting, the people who cry out for justice, weigh on all of us. It's all of our work. Those kids in Wilcannia fighting against that statistical life expectancy of 36 years – they're my kids. They're your kids too.

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'Blue economy' provides about $373 billion of nation's gross domestic product
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The United States' marine economy contributed about $373 billion to the nation's gross domestic product in 2018 and grew faster than the nation's economy as a whole, according to statistics released Tuesday.
The statistics come from research conducted by two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) — on 10 sectors representing businesses dependent on the nation's oceans, coasts and Great Lakes from 2014 to 2018.
The agencies said marine-related GDP grew 5.8% from 2017 to 2018, faster than the 5.4% growth of the total U.S. GDP. Businesses included in the report also supported 2.3 million jobs in 2018.
"The information shows that the blue economy products and services were worth $617 billion in 2018," said Nicole LeBoeuf, acting director of NOAA's National Ocean Service, of the statistics hailed as the first of their kind highlighting the economic contributions of U.S. marine industries.
"It is nearly impossible for most of us to go a single day without eating, wearing or using items that come from or through our ports and coastal communities. This clear picture of our marine economy will help national policymakers, marine industries and investors make informed decisions about how to plan for the future, protecting our people, our economy and our environment for future generations," LeBoeuf said during a press conference Tuesday.
Marine transportation and warehousing contributed $25 billion to GDP in 2018, up from $22.8 billion in 2014, according to the report.
BEA economist Ted Morgan said the economic impact of U.S. ports was embedded in the transportation and warehousing data but that their contribution had grown from about $10 billion to $11.5 billion from 2014 to 2018.
The marine transportation sector contributed $59 billion in total production in 2018, up 7.8% from 2017, the report said.
NOAA and BEA said the marine sectors making the largest contributions to the nation's GDP were:
Tourism and recreation, including recreational fishing, $143 billion.
National defense and public administration, $124 billion.
Offshore minerals, $49 billion.
Transportation and warehousing, $25 billion.
Living resources, including commercial fishing and aquaculture, $13 billion.
Ship and boat building, $9 billion.
Power generation, $4 billion.
Research and education, $3 billion.
Construction, $2.5 billion.
Professional and technical services, $31 million.
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What was the primary COLOR of the Hawk-like bird you saw in Ohio?
Mississippi Kite: Small kite, dark gray upperparts, pale gray underparts and head. Eyes are red. Upperwings are dark gray with pale gray patches. Tail is long and black. Feeds on large flying insects. Bouyant flight with steady wing beats, alternates several wing strokes with short to long glides.
Swainson's Hawk: Large hawk, dark brown upperparts, white throat, rufous upper breast, pale buff underparts. Tail is gray with faint bars, dark terminal band, and white trailing edge. Yellow legs, feet. Alternates series of powerful deep wing beats with long glides. Soars on thermals and updrafts.
Harris's Hawk: Large hawk, dark brown head, neck, back, belly and rust-brown shoulders, underwing coverts and flanks. Tail is dark brown to almost black with white base and terminal band. Undertail coverts are white. Legs and feet are yellow. Flies close to ground or soars on thermals and updrafts.
Swallow-tailed Kite: The largest of North America kites, has black upperparts which contrast with white head and underparts. In flight it shows long pointed wings with black flight feathers and white wing linings. Has a 15-16 inch-long black tail with deep fork. The neck, breast and belly are white.


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2014 Preseason Review: Bears 34, Eagles 28
Friday night was full of celebrating and crazed applause… but it wasn't because I was watching the Bears' first preseason game of the year. I was seeing Katy Perry. AND I LOVED IT. But, Saturday morning I sat down and fired up the DVR, anxious to see what I had missed during my pop spree. So without any more distractions, it's time to run through my scatter-brained notes on this fairly entertaining game and recap some Bears football!
(1-0)* Chicago Bears 34
(0-1)* Philadelphia Eagles 28
*These are preseason records and therefore, utterly meaningless.
-It was a solid first test for Mel Tucker's defense. They were forced to react to the unique speed of the Eagle offense, something that certainly gave them fits last season. Picking off Nick Foles twice is certainly nothing to sneeze at, as Foles only had two interceptions all of last season. We saw some pressure up the middle, even as the first team defense was without Jared Allen on the line.
-The Chicago quarterbacks were all pretty effing accurate and on-point. Cutler did his damage early after a lackluster first series, thanks to his continued love of Brandon Marshall. (Seriously. Marshall had five catches. Why is he even out there for five plays???) After Cutler's longer-than-necessary start to the preseason, Jordan Palmer came out with a sluggish start, nearly being strip-sacked. But hey, he did throw a shitty ball to Zach Miller, who caught his second touchdown of the night. Jimmy Clausen got some lengthy work in as well, completing a bomb to some scrub who promptly pulled his hammy on the way to the endzone. He will now be cut. (I mean, probably.) Congratulations no-name!
-Special teams managed to shit the bed a bit, didn't they? That deflection on the first field goal was deflating, but that 102-yard kickoff return touchdown to end the first half was delightfully debilitating. Thank DITKA we weren't playing in a real game.
-Hey, 'member how I made fun of Zach Miller in the preview? Well, he's earned 46% less shit from me for next week, thanks to his two touchdown grabs. (It's complex math.) The first catch was a gorgeous throw from Jay that split two defenders perfectly. But he actually had to work in order to grab the throw from Palmer. Makes sense, as Palmer is like, mediocre.
-We made Mark Sanchez and Zac Ertz look like Drew Brees and Jimmy Graham for a drive. That doesn't scare me at all coming off 2013's terrible defensive showing.
Nope, not scared at all.
-The injury to back-up center Brian de la Puente, otherwise known as Captain Depth is only a grade 2 MCL sprain, meaning he'll be back in a few weeks. That's great news, because right guard Kyle Long has only now started practicing and right tackle Jordan Mills is still in a walking boot. Oh, and Eben Britton has a hamstring issue. That's cool. We don't need an offensive line this season.
-Sam Rosen is a terrible play-by-play guy. He is constantly getting players mixed up with each other. I know this is preseason Sam, but get it together.
-We also got this seduction from Chip Kelly. Thanks to Deadspin for the GIF.
-Khaseem Greene had a lovely fumble recovery after Eagle RB Matthew Tucker was so kind as to put it on the ground, where he fell, untouched. YAY FOR GIFTS.
And that's when I sorta checked out mentally. I saw David Fales come in and throw the bizall and stuff, but I'm not taking much away from his decent performance against third and fourth-stringers. I can't wait for the Fales show in the second half of the fourth preseason game though. FUTURE OF THE FRANCHISE.
Did you like what you saw from the Bears on Friday night? I did! It was a crisp offensive performance from our stars and a promising start for the defense (mostly). But honestly, preseason football could never compete with this:
And that's it! I'm going to keep on prepping for the start of the NFL season! No more Katy Perry concerts for at least a year. Be on the look-out for more Bear preseason previews, as well as predictions for the entire league! SOON. FOOTBALL. BEARS.
Happy Jay Cutler Day!
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The front of the quilt is a quirky variation on a traditional log cabin block. The back of the quilt is also beautifully pieced together in a soft denim chambray, green linen and a pink floral print. I machine quilted the quilt, using a geometric, linear pattern overall and bound the edges with a fun, red gingham check.
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Q: Make Flippy links available in page.html.twig (Drupal 8) Using the Flippy Module I would like to make the links that it prints in its theme file available in page.html.twig because I want to print them in a different region from where the node content gets printed.
The module states: "If you turn on Flippy for a content type, but hide the pager in the Manage Display page, its links will still be available in the theme layer when it comes time to output node.tpl.php"
That's correct, using Devel Module enter link description here I used dpm(content) on my node.html.twigtemplate.

Doing {{ content.flippy_pager}} allows me to print the links, but it's all within node.html.twig.
How could I possible pass that information on to page.html.twig since my goal is to print it in a different region from where the node's main content gets printed.

A: The module provides a "Flippy" block.
Go to the "Block layout page", click "Place block" for the region you want and add the "Flippy Block" block.

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Q: Copy Formulas and data from worksheet to another workbook without links I am trying to copy cells from a workbook called old.xlsm and paste them into the workbook that is currently open. With the following code I can copy the data over but it is then linked to the old.xlsm workbook:
Workbooks("Old.xlsm").Worksheets("Bookings").Cells.Copy ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Bookings").Range ("A1")

also tried:
Workbooks("Old.xlsm").Worksheets("Bookings").Cells.Copy

ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Bookings").Range("A1").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormulas, _
Operation:=xlNone, SkipBlanks:=False, Transpose:=False

It pastes in the data but adds the links like this:
=INDEX('H:\01-Work\Flex & Time keeping\[old.xlsm]Flexi Planner'!C:C,$B12)

How do I paste into the current workbook without the links ?
I have seen code to break the links in the workbook but this then leaves only values in the cells and not formulas.
TYIA

A: Remove Workbook References When Copying to Another Workbook
Sub CopyBookings()

    Dim srg As Range
    With Workbooks("Old.xlsm").Worksheets("Bookings")
        ' This covers the case when the used range doesn't start with 'A1'.
        Set srg = .Range("A1", _
            .UsedRange.Cells(.UsedRange.Rows.Count, .UsedRange.Columns.Count))
    End With

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Recently, in Travel Sentry, Inc. v. Tropp, No. 16-2386, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 25548 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 19, 2017), the Federal Circuit revisited and reviewed the legal framework for direct infringement established in Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc. (Akamai V), 797 F. 3d 1020 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc). In Travel Sentry, appellant David A. Tropp alleged that Travel Sentry infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 7,021,537 (the '537 patent) and 7,036,728 (the '728 patent), which relate to methods of improving airline luggage inspection by using dual-access locks, through the actions of the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA"). Specifically, TSA had used master keys provided by Travel Sentry to access and inspect luggage secured by Travel Sentry's dual access locks. The Court held that a reasonable jury could conclude that TSA's actions are attributable to Travel Sentry such that Travel Sentry is liable for direct infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a). Based on this finding, the Court remanded the case to the Eastern District of New York for further proceedings.
In deciding Travel Sentry, the Court reviewed its findings in Akamai V. In Akamai V, the Federal Circuit held that "[w]here more than one actor is involved in practicing the steps [of a method claim], a court must determine whether the acts of one are attributable to the other such that a single entity is responsible for the infringement." The Akamai V court provided a two-prong test for deciding whether the actions of a third party are "attributable" to an alleged infringer. Under the two-prong test, a third party's conduct will be attributable to an alleged infringer, if the alleged infringer 1) conditions the third party's participation in an activity or receipt of a benefit upon performance of a step or steps of a patented method, and 2) establishes the manner or timing of that performance.
In reviewing Akamai V, the Court noted the importance of correctly identifying the relevant activity or benefit that is being conditioned upon performance of the claim steps. According to the Court, the context of the claims and the conduct in each case will inform whether attribution is proper under the Akamai V two-prong test.
Here, Travel Sentry and TSA had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU"), which defined the relationship between the two parties. The terms of the MOU led the Court to determine that the relevant activity at issue was "screening luggage that TSA knows can be opened with the passkeys provided by Travel Sentry." The Court reasoned that if an alleged infringer and a third party enter into an agreement to engage in only limited aspects of an activity, the relevant activity will be defined in a way that is consistent with the specific objectives of the agreement, rather than with the entire activity undertaken by the third party.
With regard to identifying the benefit to a third party, the Court pointed out that both tangible and intangible benefits should be considered. In analyzing the benefit to TSA, the district court had reasoned that TSA screened luggage because of a screening mandate from Congress rather than because of any purported intangible benefit from Travel Sentry. The Federal Circuit considered the lower court's understanding of the benefit to TSA to be impermissibly narrow, explaining that a reasonable jury could conclude that the "benefit" to TSA was the ability to open identifiable luggage using a master key, which would obviate the need to break open the lock. According to the Court, ". . . it is irrelevant that TSA screens luggage pursuant [to] a mandate from Congress—what matters is how the agency accomplishes its luggage screening objective, and whether a benefit flows to TSA from the particular screening method it has chosen."
Moreover, the Court made clear that conditioning participation in an activity or receipt of a benefit is not limited to legal obligations or technological prerequisites. The facts indicated that Travel Sentry supplied TSA with passkeys and training that enabled TSA to screen luggage bearing Travel Sentry certified locks. The Court observed: "What is critical is that TSA must perform the . . . claim steps if it wishes to participate in the activity of screening luggage bearing Travel Sentry certified locks by opening such locks with the passkeys Travel Sentry provided." Thus, the Court held that a reasonable jury could conclude that Travel Sentry conditioned TSA's participation in the relevant activity or receipt of the relevant benefits on TSA's performance of the claim steps.
As to the second prong, the Court considered whether Travel Sentry established the manner or timing of performance of the claimed steps. While there was no evidence that Travel Sentry supervised TSA's conduct or had employees or other resources dedicated to resolve issues TSA encountered, the Court reasoned that if TSA did not follow the precise steps of identifying luggage bearing a Travel Sentry certified lock, and, where necessary, using the passkey provided by Travel Sentry to open the lock, then Travel Sentry's service would not be available. Thus, the Court concluded that a reasonable jury could find that Travel Sentry had established the manner or timing of TSA's performance of the claim steps.
As the Court's analysis in Travel Sentry makes clear, determining whether the actions of a third party are "attributable" to an alleged infringer using the two-prong test of Akamai V requires a thorough and fact specific investigation of the conduct of the relevant parties. In situations where the evidence suggests that a third party hoping to obtain access to certain benefits can only do so if it performs steps identified by an alleged infringer and does so under terms prescribed by the alleged infringer, the actions of the third party may be attributable to the alleged infringer for purposes of direct infringement.
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Italy's Matteo Salvini says 'little ethnic shops' should close by 9pm
Minister calls late-night stores mostly run by foreigners 'meeting place for drug deals'
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Fri 12 Oct 2018 07.40 EDT Last modified on Fri 12 Oct 2018 08.37 EDT
A convenience store in Rome. Retail associations described the move, part of a security decree, as discriminatory. Photograph: Alamy
Italy's far-right interior minister has come under fire for a proposal that would force what he calls "little ethnic shops" to close by 9pm.
Matteo Salvini added the measure to his immigrant-targeting security decree, arguing late-night grocery stores, mostly run by foreigners, are "a meeting place for drug deals and people who raise hell".
He claimed the initiative was not specifically aimed at foreigners and was merely a way to "limit the abuses of certain shops".
Thousands of grocery stores across Italy are run by immigrants, mainly people from Bangladesh and India, many of whom bought premises for a low price during the financial crisis.
Mauro Bussoni, the general secretary of Confesercenti, a retail association, said: "You can't make a law that discriminates some entrepreneurs over others.
How Matteo Salvini pulled Italy to the far right
"Those who have a commercial activity have rights and duties: the duty to respect rules and the right to remain open, whether the activity is managed by a foreigner or an Italian."
Carlo Rienzi, the president of Codacons, a consumer association, said it was unfair to "generalise", while noting shops that stayed open late were essential for people seeking "last-minute" purchases. But he agreed there should be a clampdown on outlets that have "created disorder" or "degraded" historical town centres.
Andrea Marcucci, a politician from the centre-left Democratic party, said imposing curfews was among the premises of "a regime".
If the proposal became law, an industry source said, it should also apply to Italian-owned outlets, including bars, while security measures must also extend to foreign business owners.
"Some say that Italian people go into their shop late at night and try to extort money from them," said the source. "But they are too afraid to report such incidents to the police."
Salvini's security decree, unveiled in September, includes plans to abolish key protections for immigrants and make it easier for them to be deported.
On Thursday, he reiterated a plan to hire 10,000 more police officers, an initiative funded by money that previously paid for migrant reception and integration projects. Parliament has until mid-November to debate and modify the decree before it becomes law.
Salvini's latest proposal comes after Luigi Di Maio, his coalition partner, said measures would be introduced by the end of the year to limit Sunday trading in an attempt to preserve family traditions.
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import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf
import h5py
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import time

# Download data from .mat file into numpy array
print('==> Experiment 5b_FullyConnected')
filepath = 'exp5b_taylorswift_d7_1s_C1C8.mat'
print('==> Loading data from {}'.format(filepath))
f = h5py.File(filepath)
X_train = np.array(f.get('trainingFeatures'))
y_train = np.array(f.get('trainingLabels'))
X_val = np.array(f.get('validationFeatures'))
y_val = np.array(f.get('validationLabels'))
window_X_train = np.array(f.get('window_trainFeatures'))
window_y_train = np.array(f.get('window_trainLabels'))
window_X_test = np.array(f.get('window_testFeatures'))
window_y_test = np.array(f.get('window_testLabels'))
del f
print('==> Data sizes:',X_train.shape, y_train.shape, X_val.shape, y_val.shape)

# Transform labels into on-hot encoding form
enc = OneHotEncoder()
y_train = enc.fit_transform(y_train.copy()).astype(int).toarray()
y_val = enc.fit_transform(y_val.copy()).astype(int).toarray()
window_y_train = enc.fit_transform(window_y_train.copy()).astype(int).toarray()
window_y_test = enc.fit_transform(window_y_test.copy()).astype(int).toarray()

# Functions for initializing neural nets parameters
def weight_variable(shape):
    initial = tf.truncated_normal(shape, stddev=0.1, dtype=tf.float32)
    return tf.Variable(initial)

def bias_variable(shape):
    initial = tf.constant(0, shape=shape, dtype=tf.float32)
    return tf.Variable(initial)

def conv2d(x, W):
	return tf.nn.conv2d(x, W, [1, 1, 1, 1], 'VALID')

def reshape_window(A, frames, features):
    A_byFrame = np.reshape(A,(-1, frames))
    A_trans = np.transpose(A_byFrame)
    A_byFeatures = np.reshape(A_trans, (-1, features))
    return A_byFeatures

'''
    NN config parameters
'''
num_features = 169
num_frames = 34
hidden_layer_size = 800
num_classes = y_val.shape[1]
print("Number of features:", num_features)
print("Number of songs:",num_classes)

 # Set-up NN layers
x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, num_features])
W1 = weight_variable([num_features, hidden_layer_size])
b1 = bias_variable([hidden_layer_size])

# Hidden layer activation function: ReLU
h1 = tf.nn.relu(tf.matmul(x, W1) + b1)

W2 = weight_variable([hidden_layer_size, num_classes])
b2 = bias_variable([num_classes])

# Softmax layer (Output), dtype = float64
y = tf.matmul(h1, W2) + b2

# Each row = 1 window
y_window_flat = tf.reshape(y, [-1, num_classes*num_frames])

# Convolutional Layer
x_window = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, num_classes*num_frames])
x_window_image = tf.reshape(x_window, [-1, num_frames, num_classes, 1])
W_conv = weight_variable([num_frames, 1, 1, 1])
b_conv = bias_variable([1])
y_conv = tf.reshape(tf.nn.relu(conv2d(x_window_image, W_conv) + b_conv), [-1, num_classes])

# NN desired value (labels)
y_ = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, num_classes])

# Loss function
cross_entropy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(labels=y_, logits=y))
cross_entropy_window = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(labels=y_, logits=y_conv))

train_step = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(1e-4).minimize(cross_entropy)
train_step_window = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(1e-4).minimize(cross_entropy_window)

correct_prediction = tf.equal(tf.argmax(y, 1), tf.argmax(y_, 1))
correct_prediction_window = tf.equal(tf.argmax(y_conv, 1), tf.argmax(y_, 1))

accuracy = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_prediction, tf.float32))
accuracy_window = tf.reduce_mean(tf.cast(correct_prediction_window, tf.float32))

sess = tf.InteractiveSession()
sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())

# Training
numTrainingVec = len(X_train)
batchSize = 500
numEpochs = 100

startTime = time.time()
for epoch in range(numEpochs):
    for i in range(0,numTrainingVec,batchSize):

        # Batch Data
        batchEndPoint = min(i+batchSize, numTrainingVec)
        trainBatchData = X_train[i:batchEndPoint]
        trainBatchLabel = y_train[i:batchEndPoint]

        train_step.run(feed_dict={x: trainBatchData, y_: trainBatchLabel})

endTime = time.time()
print("Finished Training 1 - Elapse Time:", endTime - startTime)

# Validation Training 1
train_accuracy = accuracy.eval(feed_dict={x:X_train, y_: y_train})
validation_accuracy = accuracy.eval(feed_dict={x:X_val, y_: y_val})
train_error = cross_entropy.eval(feed_dict={x:X_train, y_: y_train})
validation_error = cross_entropy.eval(feed_dict={x:X_val, y_: y_val})

print("Train accuracy:",train_accuracy)
print("Validation accuracy:",validation_accuracy)
print("Train error:", train_error)
print("Validation error:", validation_error)
print("============================================")

# Training 2: Convolutional Layer with Vertical Kernel
# Preprocess test data with trained MLP
def reshape_window(A, frames, features):
    A_byFrame = np.reshape(A,(-1, frames))
    A_trans = np.transpose(A_byFrame)
    A_byFeatures = np.reshape(A_trans, (-1, features))
    return A_byFeatures

window_X_train = reshape_window(window_X_train[:len(window_X_train)/2], num_frames, num_features)
window_X_test = reshape_window(window_X_test[:len(window_X_test)/2], num_frames, num_features)
window_y_train = window_y_train[:len(window_y_train)/2]
window_y_test = window_y_test[:len(window_y_test)/2]
print(window_X_train.shape, window_X_test.shape)

window_X_train_processed = y_window_flat.eval(feed_dict={x:window_X_train})
window_X_test_processed = y_window_flat.eval(feed_dict={x:window_X_test})
print(window_X_train_processed.shape, window_X_test_processed.shape)

num_train_window_vec = len(window_X_train_processed)

plotx = []
ploty_train = []
ploty_val = []
ploty_test = []

numEpochs = 1000
noisy = True
startTime = time.time()
for epoch in range(numEpochs):
    for i in range(0, num_train_window_vec, batchSize):

        # Batch Data
        batchEndPoint = min(i+batchSize, num_train_window_vec)
        trainBatchData = window_X_train_processed[i:batchEndPoint]
        trainBatchLabel = window_y_train[i:batchEndPoint]

        train_step_window.run(feed_dict={x_window: trainBatchData, y_: trainBatchLabel})

    # Print accuracy
    if epoch%50 == 0 or epoch == numEpochs-1:
        plotx.append(epoch)
        train_error = cross_entropy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window :window_X_train_processed, y_: window_y_train})
        validation_error = cross_entropy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_test_processed, y_: window_y_test})
        train_acc = accuracy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_train_processed, y_: window_y_train})
        val_acc = accuracy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_test_processed, y_: window_y_test})
        ploty_train.append(train_error)
        ploty_val.append(validation_error)
        print("epoch: %d, train acc %g, val acc %g, train error %g, val error %g"%(epoch, train_acc, val_acc, train_error, validation_error))

endTime = time.time()
print("Finished Training 2 - Elapse Time:", endTime - startTime)

# Validation

train_error = cross_entropy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_train_processed, y_: window_y_train})
validation_error = cross_entropy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_test_processed, y_: window_y_test})
train_acc = accuracy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_train_processed, y_: window_y_train})
val_acc = accuracy_window.eval(feed_dict={x_window:window_X_test_processed, y_: window_y_test})

print("Train accuracy:",train_acc)
print("Validation accuracy:",val_acc)
print("Train error:", train_error)
print("Validation error:", validation_error)
print("============================================")

print('==> Generating error plot...')
errfig = plt.figure()
trainErrPlot = errfig.add_subplot(111)
trainErrPlot.set_xlabel('Number of Epochs')
trainErrPlot.set_ylabel('Cross-Entropy Error')
trainErrPlot.set_title('Error vs Number of Epochs')
trainErrPlot.scatter(plotx, ploty_train)
valErrPlot = errfig.add_subplot(111)
valErrPlot.scatter(plotx, ploty_val, c='r')
errfig.savefig('exp5b_vconv_error.png')

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Upstate Forever Staff Members Nancy Eisen Fitzer and Heather Bergerud Nix will present key initiatives in education and engagement to cultivate a stronger appreciation for our limited water resources and a fascination with the ecological richness of Upstate SC water resources and rivers. Several projects will be highlighted including Blueway Mapping and Upstate Adopt-A-Stream. We will follow the presentation with an ideation session targeting these two projects.
Nancy Eisen Fitzer has been with Upstate Forever since 2005. Her responsibilities include producing our newsletters, maintaining this website, researching and writing other publications, and monitoring state legislation.
Nancy has a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from Clemson University, a B.A. in biological anthropology from Harvard, and also studied natural resource management and rainforest ecology in Australia. Her previous experience includes organizing community service projects in partnership with schools, parks, and shelters in Columbia for City Year, a national youth corps program.Nancy lives in Greenville with her husband, Matt, and three children.
Heather Bergerud Nix joined the Upstate Forever staff in 2007 and is the Director of the Clean Air & Water Program, where she leads a variety of advocacy and outreach efforts. Heather received her B.S. in Biology from Winthrop University. Before joining Upstate Forever, Heather was a project manager at an environmental consulting firm. Her main focus was wetland delineation and permitting, construction site inspections, and industrial facility inspections. Previously, Heather gained a variety of experience working at Glacier National Park in Montana, a chemical manufacturing facility in South Carolina, and onboard commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea.
Heather is thrilled to be able to use her technical knowledge and background to help further positive changes in the Upstate. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, gardening and traveling.
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McDaniel Theatre performs "Spoon River Anthology"
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The performance was conducted on the pop-up stage (Syd Hinnant / McDaniel Free Press).
Posted By: Syd Hinnant, Contributor November 2, 2020
On Sept. 25th and 26th, McDaniel College Theatre performed "Spoon River Anthology" live on the hill near the gazebo. This performance of Spoon River Anthology features a musical adaptation by Charles Aidman and was based on Edgar Lee Masters' collection of free-form poems.
The play was directed/choreographed by Julie Herber, musically directed by Alison E. Shafer, and stage managed by senior Flannery Bendel-Simso. Six McDaniel student actors and actresses portrayed "over 70 characters" who were epitaphs, former residents of the town of Spoon River.
The story follows a variety of former residents sharing their "lives, loves, and losses," in a "humorous, poignant, malicious, and haunting" way, according to Herber. The story is set in the Spoon River Cemetery, which was referred to in the play as being on a hill. The set design was inspired by a "hipster country chic wedding," said Herber, who was thankful towards set designer Shana Josyln.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the setting of "Spoon River Anthology", which was performed outside instead of in the McDaniel theater. Herber said that the play lends itself to "the natural landscape of the McDaniel campus."
Adhering to the safety guidelines of McDaniel College caused production difficulties. The rehearsal period was shorter than previous plays. Actors and actresses had to spend late evenings on weekdays rehearsing and performing outside, staying six feet apart, and wearing masks. Herber said theatre is all about "connection and at times [is] almost intimate," but due to COVID-19 challenges, Herber and the production crew had to be creative in building the same theatrical experience as if the play was indoors.
Regular masks limited the visual expressiveness of the actors and actresses and muffled their voices. The production crew solved the problem by having the performers wear clear plastic masks, which allowed audiences to see their expressions, and microphones, which let audiences hear their voices. In the performance, there were a couple of dance numbers, and the way the dances were choreographed allowed performers to social distance while dancing together. For the audience, people brought their own blankets to sit on, the ground was marked for seating six feet apart with limited capacity.
Despite the challenges, the "Spoon River Anthology" was a successful live performance. I am looking forward to what's in store for McDaniel College Theatre's Spring Play.
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29 MIPF
15º International Poetry Festival of Medellín
The famous phrase of Borges in his short story "Ulrika", "being a Colombian is an act of faith", has become very popular in Colombia. Is it really being a Colombian an act of faith? ¿Couldn't it be something more? ¿What is being a medellinense then? What is being in and belonging to a city that came to be classified as the world capital of drug trafficking, whose inhabitants saw children die by bullets shot from war helicopters, a city that the paramilitary have gradually taken through intimidation and blackmail?
But we are not and have not being just that. And we will not be just that. Asked about the Festival and the city, the Argentine poet Esteban Moore --who had already attended the event in 1995, a year in which he was miraculously saved from the bomb that destroyed "Bird", the sculpture by Fernando Botero- answered: "…today, June 23 of 2005, I return to the Poetry Festival of Medellín. The debris of the bombed bird is still there, as a testimony of the madness of those years; near it, Botero put a replica. Past and present meet in that very place… Medellín today is a city reborn, emerged from pain and madness. A city transformed by poetry. In the memory of that festival, the fifth one, the editorial stated: "this crowd is avid of life and not of death, of peace and not of war, of beauty and not of horror, of justice and not of misery, of communion and not of bombs."
"In this XV Festival, realized under the motto "For a peace more active than all wars," I find Medellín transformed in a city where you can leisurely walk on the streets in the company of a multitude that daily celebrates life."
And how was the city and the country in 1991, the year in which was founded what is now considered the most important poetry festival of the world? It hurts to remember. The fear in which we lived. Under the rule of crime.
In the meantime, from 1991 to 2005, more than 700 poets (80 this year) from 125 countries of the five continents have come to the city, and hundreds of thousands of persons could get near to the best poetry written in the world during the last fifty years.
How do you explain this fervor? We don't know, but we do know that poetry has been a fundamental element in the changes that have taken place in the city. We also know, and this has made us stronger, that the space of our solitude has been reduced, just as we know, without the least shadow of a doubt, that although some somber forces have put their sinister arm on the city, the sense of justice and beauty that the young people of Medellín have demonstrated will finally make them move back.
Medellín, of course, is not paradise. But some sort of miracle has been happening in these last fifteen years. An evident demonstration that reality, no matter how adverse, can be transformed. But, what is more, it can also be transformed with the help of the most unsuspected but maybe the highest means: that of poetry.
In conclusion, there is no profound analysis -and certainly this is not one- of the reasons that in this city subject to a long situation of poverty and violence, in which the phenomenon of drug trafficking reached levels of violence that even today are astonishing and in which the fight for local power has taken unsuspected proportions, there is such passion for poetry. One certain thing is that International Poetry Festival of Medellín has brought to light the enormous potential of its young people to oppose barbarity and to show its leaders that the option of life, justice, dignity and beauty, amply represented by poetry, are the only alternative left to us to find an integral way of development.
Because being a man or a woman in any place of the earth is much more than an act of faith, because poetry is something more than the testimony of the changes of humanity and of history, because poetry must be, and can be one of the forces driving these changes, nothing for the time being makes us think that the experience of Medellín cannot and also should not be repeated and replicated in any place in the world, because "we are one from the bottom of the centuries", and there is one only soul of the peoples that love liberty, beauty and justice.
There are three questions that we would like to write about in this report on the XV International Poetry Festival of Medellín. The first, an extraordinary increase in the size of the audience in comparison with previous years, in which it was already very large. The second, the evident and ever greater qualification of the audience, doubtlessly achieved after its permanent contact with the best and most up-to-date world poetry, the nine consecutive years of the International School of Poetry of Medellín, and the regular publication of the review PROMETEO, with 72 issues since 1982. The third, the participation of new and key figures of contemporary poetry in the 2005 Festival, such as the winner of the 1986 Nobel Literature Prize, Wole Soyinka, the South Africans Antjie Krog and Breyten Breytenbach, the Briton James Fenton, the Japanese Shuntaro Tanikawa, the American Rita Dove, the Portuguese Casimiro de Britto, the Dutch Gerrit Komrij, the Iraqi Adnan Al-Sayegh, the Jordanian Ibrahim Nasrrallah and the Nicaraguan Ernesto Cardenal, among others.
The increase of the audience as well as its finer grade of appreciation of poetry is connected with several characteristics of the event: on the one hand, its open, plural and democratic character, and on the other, a careful and intense work of propaganda. Indeed, if you look at the program of the Festival you will notice that all social sectors were included: public and private universities, labor unions, private sector institutions, internal refugee's settlements, slums, libraries, prisons, streets and parks and Metro stations.
You cannot get around the fact that a good part of the success of the Festival is due to the strong and deep sense of local pride with respect to the event of the people of Medellín, because among other reasons the Festival has served the purpose of reducing our sensation of isolation, since in a certain way it has put the city in the world map of culture, and during these fifteen years it communicated its inhabitants with poets of 125 countries, a number that no other festival of poetry of the world can match.
We must emphasize that the Colombian press did not properly cover the event. Except for some scant information about the opening of the Festival and the honest contribution of some columnists, the papers kept a shameful silence to such an extent that they even ignored the presence of the Nobel prizewinner Wole Soyinka, who was not interviewed by them.
The International Poetry Festival of Medellín has before itself a long way to go and much to do. Poetry has an enormous future, because without it there will be no reborn world, nor will a mother country for life on earth be built without its superhuman energy.
And our persistent call to the poets, the international festivals of poetry of the whole world, the poetry publications and associations of all continents, will always be the interchange of points of view, and greater, shared efforts to make the world a luminous and habitable place, thus contributing to the materialization of that old and new dream of a fraternal humanity free from its material and spiritual needs.
The XV International Festival of Medellín was held between June 24th and July 2nd of 2005, with the participation of 80 poets of four continents.
The participant poets were: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Helmy Salem (Egypt), Quentin Ben Mongaryas (Gabon), Idris M. Tayeb (Libia), Dorian Haarhoff (Namibia), Antjie Krog, Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa), Koulsy Lamko (Tchad), Timothy Wangusa (Uganda), Layla Al-Sayed (Bahrain), Sujata Bhatt (India), Adnan Al-Sayegh, Anwar Al-Ghassani, Ali Al-Shalah (Iraq), Shuntaro Tanikawa (Japan), Joumana Hadad (Lebanon), Ibrahim Nasrallah (Jordan), Hanan Awwad (Palestine), Edwin Thumboo (Singapore), Malak Mustafá (Syria), Shin Kyong Rim (South Korea), Chiranan Pitpreecha (Thailand), Meisún Saker Al-Kasimi (United Arab Emirates), Luuk Gruwez (Belgium), James Fenton (England), Michael Augustin (Germany), Kostis Gimosoulis (Greece), Casimiro de Brito (Portugal), Dorin Popa (Rumania), Lasse Söderberg (Sweeden), Urs Allemann (Switzerland), Gerrit Komrij (The Netherlands), Esteban Moore, Celina Cámpora (Argentina), Monica Velasquez (Bolivia), Di Brandt (Canada), Sergio Badilla (Chile), Juan Manuel Roca, Nicolás Suescún, Santiago Mutis, Maruja Vieira, Fernando Rendón, Pedro Arturo Estrada, Pablo Montoya, Ana Mercedes Vivas, Meira del Mar, William Agudelo, Felipe García, Ángela García, Piedad Bonnet, Humberto Jarrín, Víctor Rojas, Ramón Cote, Víctor Raúl Jaramillo, Zabier Hernández, Rubén Darío Arroyo, Consuelo Hernández (Colombia), Hugo Jamioy (Kamsá Nation, Colombia), José Gabriel Alimako (Kogui Nation, Colombia), Bienvenido Arroyo (Arhauca Nation, Colombia), Alejandra Castro (Costa Rica), Caridad Atencio (Cuba), Ariruma Kowii (Quechua Nation, Ecuador), Alfonso Kijadurías (El Salvador), Rigoberto Paredes (Honduras), Maria Baranda (Mexico), Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua), Alvaro Lasso (Perú), Sam Hamill, Rita Dove (United States), Sherwin Bitsui (Navajo Nation, USA), Allison Hedge Coke (Cherokee Nation, USA), Ramón Palomares, William Osuna, Enrique Hernández D´Jesús, Gabriel Jiménez Eman, Tarek William Saab, Adhely Rivero, Carlos Osorio (Venezuela).
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A: As already answered, vagrant package creates a new base box out of an existing VM.
Anyway "the Vagrant way" is to use and share a Vagrantfile with provisioners. This way the installation of the software is repeatable. The downside is that initial vagrant up takes longer while it installs all the software, but on the other hand the shared base box is smaller. Depends on your use case what is the best.
If you choose to share a pre-installed image you can still benefit from automated provisioning using e.g. Packer to build the box.

A: After making your changes, use vagrant package in the directory with the Vagrantfile. It will shut the machine down and start saving it to a file.
You'll end up with a boxfile in that directory that you can share.

A: To package existing rolled out machine, do following:
1) Get list of machines by command VBoxManage list vms
2) Copy name of machine and execute command vagrant package --base {name_of_machine}
Then .box file will be created in vagrant folder


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The author fittingly uses an English example, since it was from Britain we inherited the Westminster system, which is now being widely debated throughout the Caribbean to determine its suitability for independent West Indian societies. The case of David Blunkett is the one used: Blunkett resigning over an issue in which he was not directly involved and which, in any event, was not of major proportions. Cummings speaks of our political transgressions finding "a comfortable home and welcoming host in our political, social, cultural and economic environment".
The British constitution grew out of the social norms and kind of society that existed in Britain. Unfortunately the Westminster model of government came to us minus the social values of the "mother country". So there has always been a disconnect between the practice of politics and the principles which, at least in Britain, had sustained the political system.
Cummings is right when he says that in our situation, when there is a clash between politics and ethics, politics emerges as the winner. In fact, in our societies, whenever politics clashes with anything at all it is likely to be the winner.
The call for integrity legislation is meant to embrace or at least to focus attention on, the issue of conflict of interest and ethics. These are obviously matters too that help to define corruption, for a corrupt person is really a morally depraved person.
There is seemingly no law that was contravened by Blunkett, but he took ultimate responsibility. There are many such situations in different parts of the world where political leaders, in particular, might not have been directly involved, but under the prevailing circumstances have found it necessary to resign from the positions they held. This is hardly, if ever, done in our part of the world. Conflict of interest, for instance, means very little to us. What matters is politics and power. Many of us turn a blind eye to transgressions even of a more serious kind, and this makes it easier for the politicians to proceed as if they were paragons of virtue. What is at stake and guides the process is our culture, political culture being only a subset of that broader cultural environment.
The author of the piece in question also introduces another important issue by saying that the press was unanimous in its position that the misuse of office "is not allowed in British politics". Could you imagine our press taking such a position?
For many of us, once our basic needs are met, little else matters in the short run. But man does not live by bread alone, for a society is but a totality of social relationships as defined in the dictionary. The word relationship in this sense is a key one and determines the nature of the society.
Deeply, we are aware of the significance of these matters for we are generally agreed on the need for integrity legislation. But to take that further step is the big issue. Politics and greed get in the way. It would be interesting to see if the Constitutional Review Committee considers this an important issue. It is, however, a matter that goes beyond legislation. We have to become convinced about it and ensure its applicability. That is the only way. The values that underlie the constitution are going to be as important as the actual words written into the constitution. There has to be a social and political context that gives meaning to all of this.
The Prime Minister is to some extent correct in making the point that the University of the West Indies is in danger of losing its regional focus. This is really not surprising. The Caribbean that existed when the Prime Minister was a student or even when he lectured at the University, was a completely different one from that of today. More of the countries that make up the English speaking Caribbean have achieved independence since then. The larger countries that have campuses have grown and hardened in their status as independent countries and with the trappings that come with it.
In the early years the main focus was on Mona, Jamaica and students from all parts of the region met there. Many relationships involving persons from different parts of the region developed and with them Caribbean families. A bond developed among graduates of the University scattered throughout the region in their different fields of endeavour; something that it was hoped would facilitate the move toward regional political unity.
Circumstances have changed and the challenge is how do we maintain the regional focus? Indeed, the situation will get even worse as the non-campus countries develop their own programmes and offer more full degrees. Cost is definitely a factor. Perhaps the major factor! Governments, particularly of the campus countries, would have to facilitate the movement of their students to different campuses through scholarships and the payment of economic costs. One other area worth considering is that of developing more areas of specialisation among the different campuses. At the moment all non-Barbadian students have to attend Cave Hill to complete two years of their law programme. All students have to go to Trinidad for agriculture and engineering and medicine is done mainly at Mona and St. Augustine. There are also other examples.
But on the other hand, the development of community colleges would take some of the students who might normally have gone to the University, particularly when those colleges have special relationships with UWI. Ultimately, it will be the desire of Caribbean leaders to maintain the regional focus that will matter.


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So, I made a third cycle ride in a row up to Onyu Pass the other day. The first trip on a Monday was a lazy social ride of 149km (93mi). Later that week I did a faster solo ride that topped out at 165km (103mi).
This third trip the Monday following the first ended up being 206km (128mi).
I had three goals for the ride. The first was to improve my time on the 58km (36mi) mountainous stretch from the Ichihara area of Kyoto to the top of Onyu Pass. This involves a mile of elevation gain (more precisely, 1,605m or 5,266') including the major climbs up Hanase Pass, Nomi Pass, and of course the final Onyu Pass.
It's not an uncommon route, I think, but the segment at Strava shows only 22 matching attempts. I guess one needs a high-quality GPS unit and some luck for the full 58km of mountains to actually match the segment track.
Moreover, the entire segment of three major climbs is not something one would normally try to do in one shot, but rather pause along the way between the major climbs.
I mention all this to explain why I had the KOM (the "King of the Mountain"... the fastest registered time) going into this. My time of three hours 17 minutes wasn't all that fast and included 16 minutes spent fixing a flat. Still, when I did it was better than #2 by more than half an hour.
I thought I might PR (make a new personal record) on the first and biggest climb to Hanase Pass, but I actually missed it by a whopping 10%. I didn't make PRs on any of the climbs, but did well on the connecting segments and didn't make any rest stops (or any stops at all... the wheels on the bike never stopped turning for the entire segment). I finished in just under two hours 41 minutes, improving my previous time by 37 minutes.
Any number of my friends could beat this if they made any effort to do so, but at least now it's less of a low-hanging fruit.
Anyway, I retraced my steps back down from Onyu Pass for a while to where I could take the photo that leads this post. Last year on my blog I included a summer view from the same vantage point.
Goal #2 for the ride was to explore the northern descent from Onyu Pass. I'd climbed from the south seven times, but had always returned back down the south toward Kyoto. This time I wanted to head north, toward Obama and the sea.
The road turns to gravel at the pass, and I worried about trying such a steep descent on gravel with 25mm road-bike tires, but lately had been hearing that it was doable, so I gave it a shot.
I was surprised to find that though the descent starts with gravel, there are many paved sections, so it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought.
It also appeared to suffer a lot of guardrail-crushing avalanches.
Since I had done the dash from Kyoto to Onyu Pass without stopping, I had only the one bottle of water with me, which I finished off while resting at the top. Lacking stores and vending machines in the middle of nowhere, I kept an eye out for a road-side stream I could fill up at, and finally found one 20 minutes into the descent (4½ hours into the ride).
I had scoped out the satellite photos for offshoot roads, but all were either gravel, or just sort of became nothing like this one.
This was my fourth time to ride to/through Obama from Kyoto. The first time was last July. The second time was this July. The third time was early last month, and this fourth time was last Monday.
On the way home I decided to take the road that goes over Gonami Pass, a road I took on the way to Obama on my first two trips there, but I'd not yet taken the opposite direction. I took my sweet time on it, stopping for photos and such, and generally just going slowly.
This is normally a spot to pause to rest and take photos (like this and this), but having spent a lazy hour making the climb to the top, I decided to not waste time and zip down. Got the KOM for the descent.
From there perhaps the most direct way home would have been over Sasari and Hanase Passes, but having recently climbed Sasari Pass thrice in one ride, and having recently climbed and descended Hanase Pass in the dark on two recent longer-than-expected rides (this and this), I decided to take the only other route available, through Miyama.
Another reason I didn't want to go the other direction is that it would have meant the last 20km or so would have been the same as the first 20km, resulting in the track on the map looking like this. (That's Neil Holt's ride two days before mine, resparking the idea to try the northern descent from Onyu, and giving me the idea to return via Gonami.) It's stupid to care what the track looks like on the map, but I prefer big loops instead of lollipop-shaped "loop on a stick" tracks.
Anyway, two hours later I'm descending into Kyoto from Kyomi Pass, and am surprised to see the lights of the city flickering behind a thin veil of trees for almost the entire descent. During the day, one can see the city only through one or two brief breaks in the trees.
By the time I'd rolled into the city I had about 200km (125mi) under my belt, and my legs were sore, so I stopped by Ken-chan's clinic for a wonderful (and wonderfully-painful) massage. It did wonders. While there, I developed a craving for chicken karaage, so headed off to a great hole-in-the-wall place I had been to years ago, after this wine-tasting event.
My legs felt great, but sadly, the restaurant had closed in the intervening years, so I returned to a place closer to home and ate two full portions. It was totally delicious.
My legs were killing me the next day.
So, that was three trips to Onyu Pass in a week. It looks like some friends are going next Monday, so I'll probably ride along with them.
I've been following your blog for many years for the awesome photos around Kyoto. Being an avid cyclist myself it's been really exciting to follow your foray into the sport. I would love one day to be able to ride some of the mountains around Kyoto that you have been documenting. Keep up the great work!


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By Kenneth Richardson
Passionate fans of Platinum Games' Bayonetta have some wonderfully good news. When legendary director of the original Devil May Cry (man those were the days) was asked recently about a sequel to the critically acclaimed stylish action number, he responded via his Twitter account, saying:
"I believe so"
When asked by a different fan, he said:
"She'll be back if you believe so"
I can't say I'm sure what that means, but this information comes as a tremendous shock to many of Bayonetta's devout fans. Unique games like this rarely get the sequel treatment. That being said, I certainly "believe" Bayonetta will be back. How about you?
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Protect Duty – suggested legislation to make implementation of anti-terrorist measures compulsory for venues above 100 capacity & operators at venues
This consultation by the Home Office on a proposed 'Martyn's law' – named after one of the victims of the Manchester Arena attack – would apply across all four nations of the UK and mean that any venue with a capacity of 100+ would have to assess the risk of terrorist threat in their locality and implement appropriate mitigating measures.
This would capture tens of thousands of community spaces in the UK, from churches to village halls, community and church halls, bandstands and other open spaces – in other words, all those spaces that the community uses week in week out for its activities, including leisure-time music rehearsals and performances.
Neither the theoretical capacity of a venue nor the size of the operator at that venue actually captures the risk to the general public – and surely this is about mitigating such risks. Churches and church halls, for instance, might be able to accommodate 300 people, but in reality for most of the week they will be hosting meetings by 'closed' groups with much smaller numbers, for instance choir rehearsals or AA meetings, Scout groups, toddler groups, ballet classes and coffee mornings.
Most of the spaces which would fall under the proposed legislation are run by volunteers, perhaps with one caretaker, as are the groups which use them. Imposing terrifying responsibilities, with the threat of fines and prosecution, on already ever-more difficult to find volunteers will effectively mean fewer spaces will be available in future to the community, and fewer activities will be on offer.
Making Music and many of its members have responded to the consultation which closed at 11.45pm on 2 July to show how the current plans for this legislation would affect leisure-time music and similar community-based activities, potentially decimating the cultural and community life of the UK – a clear win for terrorists without having lifted a finger or endangered their own freedom in any way.
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• Ever wonder how prize-winning pumpkins are grown? Check out Modern Farmer's interview with Leonarda Urena, pictured here, the California farmer who has raised giant pumpkins weighing in at 1,704 lbs. —Cory Baldwin
• This year, Vietnamese fish sauce—a pungent condiment, made on the island of Phu Quoc off the coast of Vietnam—became the first food from Southeast Asia to be receive Protected Designation of Origin from the European Union. In this article from The Atlantic, Elisabeth Rosen compares the Vietnamese notion of regional specialties, or dac san, to the French notion of terroir, and examines the factors that might help, or hinder, the emergence of more PDO products from the country. —Karen Shimizu
• I adore the tangy hot sauce Sriracha as much as the next capsicum freak, but I still feel for the folks of Irwindale, California, who believe that the annual jalapeño processing at the Sriracha factory there is making them suffer the way I do during pollen season in New York. The Atlantic Wire has the ongoing story. —Betsy Andrews
• In a beautifully told tale from the Oxford American, Writer Tess Taylor, a Californian with Southern roots, travels to Greensboro, North Carolina to learn a lesson about her past. In the fluorescent-lit kitchen of a ranch-style house, using Crisco and a battered Faberware electric skillet, her Great Aunt Nancy teaches her the ancestral art of making a damn fine fried chicken. —Keith Pandolfi
• We're on the way to smell-o-vision! A new app/gadget combo from Japan is introducing on-demand smell through your iPhone. Slated to come out at the end of the month, this gadget, paired with the right cartridges, disperses the smells of a variety of foods, among them short ribs and buttered potatoes. You'll be able to smell grilled meat on the subway, at the opera, or even while you work out. What a world. —Oliver Erteman
• Hailey Eber's diatribe against the proliferation of pumpkin-spiced-everything in the NY Post last week was one of the most entertaining, and in some cases spot on, rants against absurd food trends that I've read in recent memory. —Felicia Campbell
• When I was 16 my family moved from New England to Madison Wisconsin, home of Kraft Foods. While I'll always have a soft spot for the electric orange powdered cheese of my teenage years, I was excited to read on NPR's blog The Salt that Kraft is changing it's colors (quite literally) by introducing new organic flavors replacing artificial dyes with natural, spice-derived dyes in some products. —Nyanyika Banda