Somehow singer-actress Connie Stevens didn't get the memo that film directing is considered a young man's game. Sure, there are plenty of filmmakers over age 60 who are working, including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Clint Eastwood, who is turning 81 in May. But they all started directing four decades ago -- and they're all men.
In 2007, Stevens directed and cowrote her first feature film, "Saving Grace B. Jones," which played a few festivals in 2009. It screens Saturday afternoon at the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival and is set for theatrical release this year. The 72-year-old Stevens will start her second film as director in a few months.
A bouncy blond with a distinctive raspy voice, Stevens first came to fame as photographer-singer Cricket Blake on the 1959-63 ABC detective series "Hawaiian Eye." She appeared in such films as 1958's "Rock-a-Bye Baby" with Jerry Lewis and was a popular entertainer at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas for some 15 years. In between gigs, she also was a single parent to her daughters, actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, from her short-lived marriage to crooner Eddie Fisher.
Stevens had long wanted to direct a narrative feature -- she had helmed the 1997 documentary "Healing," about nurses who served in Vietnam -- but she admits she kept putting it off. Then 9/11 happened. Stevens lives in Beverly Hills, but at that time she was staying at her apartment in New York. "I watched it out my window," she said recently.
"It was very traumatic. I was stuck in my apartment for seven days, and when I came back, I drove back with Diane Ladd and her husband," she recalled. "We were on the superhighway in Missouri and it said Booneville. I said, 'I have been there. I know it.' "
So they took a detour to the small town. "On the way, I was telling them the story."
In 1951, Stevens was living in Brooklyn but one day went into Manhattan with friends for a stage show and movie. The theater was big, and she became separated from everyone else. "It was so late," she recalled. "I found a bus, and I went home."
During one of the bus' stops, she witnessed the murder of a man outside the window. "I had never seen that kind of violence. The murder made me catatonic." So her father sent her to live with the family of a friend of his in Booneville. Living with the family was the friend's sister, Grace, who had recently been released after years in an asylum. "I fictionalized certain parts, but everything Grace did [in the movie], what she said, is just verbatim of what I could remember."
After visiting Booneville and reuniting with people she knew in 1951, she came home and the script "just flowed." After she finished the script, she gave it to a friend to read. "He said: 'You have got to do this movie. It will help people and teach people about compassion.' "
The film, shot in Booneville, stars Tatum O'Neal as Grace, Michael Biehn as her brother, Penelope Ann Miller as Grace's sister-in-law and Stevens' daughter Tricia as a pregnant neighbor.
Stevens had other experience with mental illness. She bonded with actress Frances Farmer, who'd made a short-lived comeback in a low-budget 1958 film, "The Party Crashers," they'd both appeared in. Farmer had been a major star in the 1930s and early '40s but had been in and out of mental institutions. "She wouldn't talk to anybody. She would stay alone. But I think it was because I had this experience with Grace. I befriended her. People would come over to me and say, 'She seems to respond to you. Would you go over and ask Miss Farmer to come on the set?' She never finished the film...."
Stevens didn't seem nervous about directing her first feature film. "The first time I heard the actors says the words that had come out of my head, that was quite a spectacular feeling," she said.
Miller was impressed with Stevens for many reasons. "I think she has a lot of respect for actors," she said. "Certainly, there is always stuff to learn as a first-time director and knowing what is necessary to shoot. I think she was always trying to cover her bases. She is just a workhorse, that woman. Her energy is just amazing."
After her three months in Booneville 60 years ago, Stevens returned home to Brooklyn. "I was a lot stronger," Stevens said. She soon came out to California to live with her father. "I stayed and then I left home at 15. I have been working ever since. I got with [the singing group] the Three Debs and then the Four Most. That is when I was discovered by an agent. I did the movie 'Dragstrip Riot' and then they showed that to Jerry Lewis and I got "Rock-a-Bye Baby.' I sang in it, and I got a recording contract."
She did a lot of guest spots on TV shows shot at Warner Bros., including "Maverick," "Sugarfoot" and "77 Sunset Strip" before she got "Hawaiian Eye" with Robert Conrad. Stevens also had a hit record with "Sunset Strip" heartthrob Edd Byrnes called "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)."
"Recording was difficult," she recalled. "I was doing a TV show where I sang every week, but studio head Jack Warner never allowed me to sing a song on the show I recorded. 'Kookie' was done at 2 a.m.!"
For The Record Los Angeles Times Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 29 words Type of Material: Correction Connie Stevens: An article in the March 26 Calendar section about the directorial debut of singer-actress Connie Stevens misspelled the name of the film's setting, Boonville, Mo., as Booneville.


The incident took place recently at the Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve in the Town of Cheektowa in Erie County.
A pair of state Conservation Officers recently came to the rescue of bucks at a Western N.Y. nature preserved that were entangled by their antlers and unable to free themselves.
The incident took place recently at the Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve in the Town of Cheektowa in Erie County. All information below was provided by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
"At 3 p.m., Ranger John Kennedy was contacted by a Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve volunteer informing him that two male deer were entangled by their antlers and unable to free themselves.
"Ranger Kennedy notified ECO Scott Marshall for assistance. As Ranger Kennedy arrived on scene, he spotted six people with cameras taking photos of the two bucks.
"To ensure the bystanders' safety, Ranger Kennedy advised the onlookers to back away to a safe distance. The two bucks were both standing and moving left to right trying to free themselves, but to no avail.


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The site is adjacent to Salmon Harvester's 2 Glasswharf development which has recently completed and already attracted a letting of 28,445 sq.ft. to PwC. When constructed, 3 Glass Wharf will complete development fronting the floating harbour, provide a new public amenity area and is part of a wider master plan which granted outline planning consent in 2003.
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Ringgit slumps to 17-year low on 1MDB debt woes, growth concerns
Malaysia's ringgit sank to a 17-year low as concern about the finances of a state investment firm at the heart of a political scandal worsened the outlook for an economy rocked by plunging oil prices and an emerging-market sell-off.The ringgit depreciated 1.3% to 4.2680 a dollar as of 10:17 am in Kuala Lumpur, reversing Tuesday's 1.2% gain, according to prices from local banks compiled by Bloomberg. It reached 4.2990, the lowest since July 1998, and has weakened 18% in 2015.
Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Co may pull out of a plan to help restructure 1Malaysia Development Bhd's US$3.5 billion ($4.9 billion) of debt, in an earlier report by BT. China's move to cut interest rates for the fifth time since November failed to lift the ringgit, which has been battered by a slowing economy and a scandal involving fund transfers to Prime Minister Najib Razak.
"The ringgit's underperformance could be due to the report that Abu Dhabi's IPIC may pull out of 1MDB's debt plan," said Nizam Idris, Singapore-based head of foreign-exchange and fixed-income strategy at Macquarie Bank Ltd. "That could make it difficult for 1MDB to resolve its debt, which will weigh on the country's risk." The UK-based Sarawak Report and the Wall Street Journal last month reported on documents that almost US$700 million may have moved through state agencies and companies linked to 1MDB before ending up in accounts bearing Najib's name. That led to calls for the prime minister's resignation.
1MDB, oil
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's statement on Aug 3 that Najib had received 2.6 billion ringgit ($853.4 million) from donors and not 1MDB has failed to assure investors. Global funds have pulled more than US$3 billion from the local stock market this year and overseas investors' holdings of the nation's debt fell to a three-year low in July.
The 58% drop in Brent crude from a year earlier is hurting revenue for oil-exporting Malaysia and weighing on the ringgit amid an emerging-market selloff spurred by the yuan's devaluation this month. A 16% slump in palm oil prices is also hurting the world's second-biggest producer of the commodity.
"News that Abu Dhabi's IPIC could pull out of plans to help 1MDB restructure its debt likely weighed on sentiment," said Khoon Goh, a strategist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd in Singapore. "Weak commodity prices, especially crude and palm oil, are adding to the bearish tone." One-month implied volatility for the ringgit, a measure of expected exchange-rate swings used to price options, surged 2.86 percentage points to a record 18%.
Government bonds fell, with the 10-year yield rising two basis points to 4.43%, Bursa Malaysia prices show.
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RSpec.describe ExpiringJob do
  it_behaves_like "sidekiq with options" do
    let(:options) do
      {
        "lock_ttl" => 600,
        "retry" => true,
        "lock" => :until_executed,
      }
    end
  end

  it_behaves_like "a performing worker" do
    let(:args) { [1, 2] }
  end

  describe "client middleware" do
    context "when job is delayed" do
      before { described_class.perform_in(60, 1, 2) }

      it "rejects new scheduled jobs" do
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
        described_class.perform_in(3600, 1, 2)
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
        expect(1).to be_scheduled_at(Time.now.to_f + (2 * 60))
      end

      it "rejects new jobs" do
        described_class.perform_async(1, 2)
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
      end

      it "allows duplicate messages to different queues" do
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue2")
        described_class.use_options(queue: "customqueue2") do
          described_class.perform_async(1, 2)
          expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue2")
        end
      end
    end

    context "when job is pushed" do
      before { described_class.perform_async(1, 2) }

      it "rejects new scheduled jobs" do
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
        described_class.perform_in(60, 1, 2)
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
        expect(0).to be_scheduled_at(Time.now.to_f + (2 * 60))
      end

      it "rejects new jobs" do
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
        described_class.perform_async(1, 2)
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
      end

      it "allows duplicate messages to different queues" do
        expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue")
        expect(0).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue2")
        described_class.use_options(queue: "customqueue2") do
          described_class.perform_async(1, 2)
          expect(1).to be_enqueued_in("customqueue2")
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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The diversity among 40 Australian isolates and eight reference strains of Haemophilus parasuis was examined using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Thirty-four electrophoretic types (ETs) were recognized with a mean diversity per locus of 0.405. One Australian isolate was located in an ET separated by a considerable distance (> 0.8) from the rest of the isolates, suggesting that it may represent a different species or subspecies. The remaining 33 ETs formed two distinct divisions (A and B), separated from each other by a distance of 0.506. All 12 Australian isolates of serovar 5 plus the two reference strains for this serovar were included in Division A. The only other isolates present in this Division were Australian isolates of serovars 4 and 13 and two nontypeable isolates. Division B contained a diverse range of serovars -- Australian isolates of serovars 1, 2, 7/10, 9 and 13 as well as the reference strains for serovars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9. These results supported other studies which demonstrated considerable diversity, and indicate that the population of H. parasuis may contain more than a single species or subspecies. There was considerable diversity even amongst isolates of the same serovar, indicating that serotyping is not a particularly suitable technique for strain typing in epidemiological studies.


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History of projection screens
Written and researched by: Dr Samantha Holland
Graphics: Diego Israel Peralta Paredes
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Editor: Otto Tromm
Kind support from: Matt Gatton, Henc
We can now watch films on laptops, TVs and even ipods, but cinema has since its inception in 1895 been defined as the projection of films onto a screen for a (usually paying) audience. This is of course why a projection screen is essential for those of us who want to enjoy "home cinema" – and why projection screens have throughout cinema's history been crucial to people's enjoyment of films.
But screens and projected images have a far longer history than cinema does. It might amaze you to find out that projection screens were in use by a number of travelling showmen in the 1600s, for instance – and before that, screens of various types captured the projections of camera obscuras, even as far back as pre-history… Yes, it's true – even cavemen enjoyed what might be described as "home cinema"!
Natural camera obscuras
As multi-media artist Matt Gatton and others have argued, it's highly likely that small holes in animal hides used by cavemen to cover cave mouths created – if only sometimes – natural camera obscuras which projected images onto the cave walls of these people's dwellings. Indeed, Gatton challenges us to 'Imagine… a Paleolithic person waking in the morning to find the image of animals walking around on the wall, the three-dimensional world reduced to two dimensions on a surface inside the tent'!
If you want to see what that could have looked like – including the projection on the wall – have a look at his site: http://www.paleo-camera.com/reconpage.htm
This idea is really not so incredible. A camera obscura is nothing more than a dark room or other space which has a tiny hole in one side through which light reflecting off an object outside the room projects an upside-down image of that object – and this would clearly have happened in a darkened space cut off from daylight by an animal hide put up to keep in the warmth. It also helps to make sense of early cave paintings since many of them were upside-down, and also seem to suggest movement and a sort of blurriness. Both these elements might well have come from mimicking camera obscura images projected onto cave walls.
While these first projection screens were not man-made, they were in many ways more like the home cinemas we have today than were many intervening inventions, precisely because of their status in darkened living spaces – spaces not so very different from the "man caves" created by many of today's home movie enthusiasts!
However, those who did not have the luxury of a cave, would have had their first projection screen made of fabric. Though not intentionally, but through a coincindental camera obscura created by a small hole in their tent.
Below, you can see the reconstruction that Matt made and how the an image is projected onto the tent's interior. Keep in mind that the image would have been upside down in the tent. The image is rotated 180 degrees to make it easier to understand what was projected inside.
Images used with the kind permission of Matt Gatton. See http://paleo-camera.com for more camera obscuras
While camera obscuras occur in nature, photography was developed as a result of observing the phenomenon and experimenting with it throughout history. And long before the development of lenses and cameras, philosophers puzzled over the peculiar qualities of projected images – associating them, as Plato does in The Republic in 360 BC, with an imaginary and mystical realm of experience, or as Aristotle does some decades later, with more "scientific" problems about light, shadow and images.
In these very early writings, the projection screen at issue seemed to be natural rather than man-made phenomenon – usually a cave wall or something of that ilk. However, Plato's Republic does in most translations mention a "screen" similar to those used by "conjurers," so it's not impossible to imagine that shadow puppets might have been projected onto a screen as early as 360 BC.
Shadow plays
What is certain, is that around a thousand years before cinema was invented, in the eleventh century, the Chinese were projecting images of cut-out figures onto screens made from thin cloth and lit from behind. As Kao Ch'eng of the S'ung dynasty wrote:
In the time of Emperor Jen-tsung [r. 1023-63] of the Sung dynasty there were townsmen who excelled in telling tales of the Three Kingdoms, and someone adapted their stories, linking them up, and made shadow-men [ying-jen], the first of these being representations of the wars of Tripartite Division …of Wei, Shu, and Wu" (cited by Keith Rawlings, "Observations on the historical development of puppetry," at http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/definitions/historical/index.html).
In fact, shadow plays – and so the screens on which they were projected – were widely used not only in China but across India, Indonesia, Turkey, Greece and other countries from at least as early as the eleventh century. This means that projection screens were a familiar site for many people long before the birth of cinema or even its technological precursors. There is, however, one key difference between shadow plays and cinematic projection: For shadow plays light is projected from behind the screen – from the opposite side of the screen to the audience – while for films, at least since the early 1900s, projection takes place from the same side of the screen as the audience. Another difference is that while the first man-made screens in Europe and the Americas seem to have been fashioned from bed-sheets and canvas, projectionists in India and China apparently favoured saris and lengths of silk!
Camera Obscuras
While man-made camera obscuras were in regular use in the 1500s and 1600s, the first written mention of a camera obscura was made by Chinese philosopher Mo-Tzu in the fifth century BC, who 'formally recorded the creation of an inverted image formed by light rays passing through a pinhole into a darkened room' which he called 'a "collecting place" or the "locked treasure room"' (cited from Jack and Beverly Wilgus's website, "The magic mirror of life," at http://brightbytes.com/cosite/what.html).
Much later, and in far more detail, Basrah-born scholar and scientist Alhazen (Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham, c.965–1039 BC) provided a full account of how the camera obscura works, and developed his observations to produce a scientific explanation for the process of vision. His works were translated into Hebrew, Latin and European languages at least until the fifteenth century, so it's likely that some of the other scientists I mention read his early work on optics. Perhaps the most widely acknowledged early written description of a camera obscura, though, is by none other than Leonardo Da Vinci, who clearly described them in his notebooks from 1490.
Spectators of camera obscura shows would sit in a darkened room, while the bright sunshine outside was provided only one tiny point of entry through a small hole behind them. To their amazement, they would see not just light on the white sheet hung at the front of the room, but a clear reproduction of the scene outside the room – and then, very often, actors performing a play with a musical accompaniment. All of this would be in colour, with moving figures, just as in real life – the only difference being that it would all be projected onto the screen upside-down.
While this wasn't the projection of films onto a screen, it was the projection of moving images, and so surprisingly close to our contemporary experience of watching a film. This is truly remarkable when you realise we're talking about events that took place nearly 500 years ago, and some 300 years before the invention of cinema – even if the images were upside-down!
Problems with projecting images upside-down in the sixteenth century, it turned out, were at least two-fold: First, it reportedly often resulted in causing spectators to run away screaming, which was hardly good for business. And second – far worse – some showmen were charged with sorcery and 'hauled into court' for it by Pope Paul V (Clee 3). There's doubtless nothing like the threat of the Inquisition to get one experimenting with mirrors and lenses!
If not for religious reasons, Da Vinci was also frustrated and concerned that the camera obscura projected images upside-down, grappling with what this meant for the human eye and its mechanics. He ultimately proposed that the eye has multiple lenses to reverse the inversion of the image, and this idea was picked up on by the physicist Girolama Cordono in 1550, when he suggested the addition of a lens to the camera obscura to correct its projection. But it was scientist and showman Giovanni Battista della Porta (c.1535–1615) who suggested the use of a mirror to correct the image projected by camera obscuras.
However, while in 1570 a scholar named Daniel Barbaro improved the camera obscura still further by adding an adjustable diaphragm to its aperture, it's unclear from the sources whether anyone actually implemented ideas to combat the upside-down projection before 1609: At that time, though, astronomer Johannes Kepler added lenses that rectified the image and projected it the right way up on a screen. Finally, then, from 1609 images projected by camera obscuras really were true-to-life when they hit the screen, right way up!
Continue to the next era in projection screen history: magic lanterns


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In a recent release, Tive, a provider of one of the first sensor-driven tracking solutions designed to deliver full visibility into products as they move through the supply chain, has announced it has completed a new seed round of $3 million, led by VC firm Accomplice with NextView Ventures as well as existing investors Bolt and Hyperplane. The company said it will use the funds to grow the team in multiple areas including engineering, marketing and sales.
Every year, companies lose hundreds of billions of dollars due to damage and delays that occur while goods are being shipped. For example, the pharmaceutical industry spends $50 billion every year replacing drugs that get too hot or cold in transit. In the automotive world, every hour a plant shuts down (often due to late deliveries) costs more than $1 million.
Tive has designed its technology to help manufacturers and other large shippers remove surprises from their supply chain by providing real-time visibility into the location and condition of shipments. Combining cellular-connected trackers and cloud-based software, Tive enables custom alerts, reporting and analysis on inbound and outbound shipments across all modes of transport. This expanded visibility means companies are never caught off guard by damage or delays, helping them improve customer service while reducing manufacturing disruptions and logistics costs.
"When I started Tive, I was focused on building a great product without any outside financial support," said Krenar Komoni, CEO and Founder, Tive. "We successfully built the product and attracted paying pilot customers with a very limited budget. During this process, we confirmed that our customers had an urgent and real need for our solution and decided we needed to raise outside funds to scale up quickly."
"Our focus on making the technology easy to use has driven interest from companies in a variety of industries, including electronics, pharmaceutical, medical devices, industrial equipment, and automotive," said Rob Stevens, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder, Tive. "This funding will help us grow our business to match the excitement we're seeing from the market."


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Kumu Blair Sataraka, right, and Sammi Pedro perform nearly all of the music during the Hui 'O Kamalei 30th Anniversary Hula Show at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.
THE HULA LEGACY Kamalei Sataraka left behind continues to flourish.
Before she died from a stroke last year, she told her hula halau to remember one thing: "She said when we dance, no make her name shame," said son Blair Sataraka.
The halau Hui O Kamalei shows continued last week during its 30th anniversary performance and tribute to Kamalei Sataraka at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. The halau performed a Tahitian disco dance with a 19-song medley as a tribute to the past and present of the halau's rich history.
The task of moving the halau forward has taken time and effort.
Blair Sataraka's full-time job as a city bus driver meant spending the rest of his free time teaching and staying at the Makiki studio until midnight.
"You wouldn't believe how many people it took to fill my mom's shoes, and I still don't believe they're completely filled yet," the 32-year-old Sataraka said.
His mother taught everyone in the halau from age 3 to 90, but her natural patience made working with toddlers her favorite part of hula.
"She loved those babies and always knew how to make them laugh," said best friend Gloria Synder, who is continuing to help with the halau.
Keoki Ehia and Blair Sataraka arrange the numerous trophies, bowls and accolades collected by kumu hula Kamalei Sataraka throughout her 30 years of teaching hula.
Former dancers returning with their children was a welcomed surprise for Blair Sataraka since he thought dancers would leave with his mother's death.
Everyone remembered Kamalei Sataraka, 58, as being a comic hula dancer and kumu, so meeting expectations by the audience and students proved to be a challenge for her successors.
Rubber chickens, dancing menehune, baby dolls and Chinese lions crowded the stage during a typical performance, which her son believed made for a good show.
"I never realized how much she knew," her son said. He recently began reading some of his mother's books on hula history, bringing books with him to the bathroom and even to work on the bus.
Momoko Watada, from Japan, performed "Hui Hula O Leialoha" during the Hui O Kamalei 30th Anniversary Hula Show.
"I know how to dance, but I don't know the history too well," he said. "It's important to know, especially since we're trying to steer this ship."
Halau musician Sammi Pedro learned how to play the Tahitian toere drum upon Kamalei Sataraka's death.
"We needed to do this and get over any hump that comes our way," Pedro said. "I hope she's proud to know that we're carrying on her name just the way she left it."


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import numpy as np

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
import torch.nn.functional as F

from datetime import datetime
from helper.utils import TestUtils as tu

from mushroom_rl.core import Agent
from mushroom_rl.algorithms.actor_critic import SAC
from mushroom_rl.core import Core
from mushroom_rl.environments.gym_env import Gym

class CriticNetwork(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, input_shape, output_shape, **kwargs):
        super().__init__()

        n_input = input_shape[-1]
        n_output = output_shape[0]

        self._h = nn.Linear(n_input, n_output)

        nn.init.xavier_uniform_(self._h.weight,
                                gain=nn.init.calculate_gain('relu'))

    def forward(self, state, action):
        state_action = torch.cat((state.float(), action.float()), dim=1)
        q = F.relu(self._h(state_action))

        return torch.squeeze(q)

class ActorNetwork(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, input_shape, output_shape, **kwargs):
        super(ActorNetwork, self).__init__()

        n_input = input_shape[-1]
        n_output = output_shape[0]

        self._h = nn.Linear(n_input, n_output)

        nn.init.xavier_uniform_(self._h.weight,
                                gain=nn.init.calculate_gain('relu'))

    def forward(self, state):
        return F.relu(self._h(torch.squeeze(state, 1).float()))

def learn_sac():
    # MDP
    horizon = 200
    gamma = 0.99
    mdp = Gym('Pendulum-v0', horizon, gamma)
    mdp.seed(1)
    np.random.seed(1)
    torch.manual_seed(1)
    torch.cuda.manual_seed(1)

    # Settings
    initial_replay_size = 64
    max_replay_size = 50000
    batch_size = 64
    n_features = 64
    warmup_transitions = 10
    tau = 0.005
    lr_alpha = 3e-4

    # Approximator
    actor_input_shape = mdp.info.observation_space.shape
    actor_mu_params = dict(network=ActorNetwork,
                           n_features=n_features,
                           input_shape=actor_input_shape,
                           output_shape=mdp.info.action_space.shape,
                           use_cuda=False)
    actor_sigma_params = dict(network=ActorNetwork,
                              n_features=n_features,
                              input_shape=actor_input_shape,
                              output_shape=mdp.info.action_space.shape,
                              use_cuda=False)

    actor_optimizer = {'class': optim.Adam,
                       'params': {'lr': 3e-4}}

    critic_input_shape = (
    actor_input_shape[0] + mdp.info.action_space.shape[0],)
    critic_params = dict(network=CriticNetwork,
                         optimizer={'class': optim.Adam,
                                    'params': {'lr': 3e-4}},
                         loss=F.mse_loss,
                         n_features=n_features,
                         input_shape=critic_input_shape,
                         output_shape=(1,),
                         use_cuda=False)

    # Agent
    agent = SAC(mdp.info, actor_mu_params, actor_sigma_params, actor_optimizer,
                critic_params, batch_size, initial_replay_size, max_replay_size,
                warmup_transitions, tau, lr_alpha,
                critic_fit_params=None)

    # Algorithm
    core = Core(agent, mdp)

    core.learn(n_steps=2 * initial_replay_size,
               n_steps_per_fit=initial_replay_size)

    return agent

def test_sac():
    policy = learn_sac().policy
    w = policy.get_weights()
    w_test = np.array([ 1.6998193, -0.732528, 1.2986078, -0.26860124,
                        0.5094043, -0.5001421, -0.18989229, -0.30646914])

    assert np.allclose(w, w_test)

def test_sac_save(tmpdir):
    agent_path = tmpdir / 'agent_{}'.format(datetime.now().strftime("%H%M%S%f"))

    agent_save = learn_sac()

    agent_save.save(agent_path, full_save=True)
    agent_load = Agent.load(agent_path)

    for att, method in vars(agent_save).items():
        save_attr = getattr(agent_save, att)
        load_attr = getattr(agent_load, att)

        tu.assert_eq(save_attr, load_attr)


In these departments the motivation letter has to be written in German.
Please note that the GYN-OB departement in Vienna only allows European Students.
You might be invited to take part in extra lectures, depending on the department/doctor. Additionally to a full involvement in everyday clinical life during the clerkship and training of not only theoretical but practical skills, we are offering our newly implemented Educational Program with workshops (for example ultrasound, tour of anatomy lab) to ensure the best Academic Quality outcome possible in our Exchange Program.
All our clerkships start on the 1st monday of the month. We cannot accept students who want to stay from the middle of one month to the middle of the next month! Attendance on the morning of the first day of clerkship is mandatory!!!! - otherwise exchange will be cancelled and student will have to leave accomodation!
Night shifts and weekend shifts are usually possible. Please ask the dodtor/tutor in your first days.
White coat or other hospital clothes will be provided at the hospital. You will receive scrubs if you are in the OR. At the departement the dresscode is usually casual clothes with a white. You do not need special shoes but they need to be clean.
Sadly we cannot host graduated students in our hospitals.
Please note that we can only host students in cities in the months stated above.
Pre-clinical internships are only possible in the Anatomy Department.
Students can only start on the dates given above. AFs with another starting date will be sent back.
Failing to comcomply with the rules of IFMSA/AMSA Austria/NEO/LEO and or hospital/doctors/hosts at any terms might get you suspended from your exchange. You will need to sign a waiver of liability and bring it to your first meeting with the Local Officer.
You have to choose 4 different departments in your AF.
Additionally, you cannot choose 4 Internal Medicine departments, nor 4 Surgery departments. So if you apply, you can only put a maximum of 3 Internal Medicine or Surgery departments IN ADDITION TO a department from another field.
Do not expect a full-time Social Program. AMSA will organize some events (Welcome Dinner, NFDP) but Incomings are also expected to be indipendent on their own.
During summer months (July, August & September) there will be extended Social Program including sightseeing, outdoor activities and parties.
During July and August a National Social porgram (in Austria), a National weekend (in one of our cities) or an International Social Program (with neighbouring countries) might be organized.
Ad Boarding: You will get money from the Local Officer to buy food at the hospital cafeteria.
You may be sharing a room with a student of the same gender. This happens esspecially during the summer months. We cannot guarantee that there is a WIFI connection available at the lodging places.
The fee for unilateral contracts has to be paid via bank transfer before the exchange. Further information will be give to those students via email.
If you need a Visa, please contact our embassy and apply for a TOURIST VISA.
We can provide Invitation letters and other documents if required, please tell us AS SOON AS POSSIBLE but at least 8 weeks in advance.
March Meeting (Beginning of March) for July, August and September exchanges. Application Forms (inclunding documents) that are incomplete by the end of the March Meeting cannot be accepted. AFs will be sent back and student cannot come on exchange in the summer months!!
Students from some countries need a chest X-ray for TBC (not older than 2 months before start of internship), more information about that will be sent to students concerned by that after CA.
As NMO we require proof (in English or German) of a valid Health and Liability insurance that states what the insurance covers (minimum medical coverage 30 000 €). The insurances should be purchased in your country, valid for Austria.
We don't require Malpractice insurance or Liability Insurance. Travel Insurance is not required, but highly recommended to purchase in your home country.
Please try and check the stated email addresses regularly so you can receive all the additional info from the LEOs.
The immunisation must be verified by either vaccination or a positive antibody status, as stated in the document.
Please read through the "Immunisation Requirement_Medical University of Graz" document and have it filled out by your general practitioner. You have to send or upload this document until 4 weeks prior to your exchange!!
You can find the "Immunization Requirement_Medical University of Graz" document at the following links: ENGLISH VERSION, GERMAN VERSION.
The immunisation must be verified by either two vaccinations or a positive antibody status, as stated in the document.
In some departments where students will have contact with patients with immunosuppression a flu vaccination is mandatory during flu season.
Please read through the translation of "Formblatt zum Infektionsschutznachweis 1.0" document and have THE GERMAN VERSION filled out by your general practitioner. You have to send or upload this document until 4 weeks prior to your exchange!!
You need to fill this form by a general practitioner and send to the hosting NMO not later than 4 weeks before the exchange, ideally already before.
You need to fill the german form!!
Periods stated on CAs are definite periods! Lodging is only covered from one day before to one day after the exchange. Note that once the CA is received changes to the period are impossible! Details will be provided with an info-mail for incomings 4 weeks prior to the start of the clerkship. The departement stated on the CA might change.
Please send the card of confirmation 4 weeks prior to the start of your clerkship. If we do not receive your CC 4 weeks before your starting date, your exchange will be cancelled.
Refunds cannot be given in case of cancellation by the student.
Substitute Students are possible but they must have the same gender, come for the same period and willing to do their clerkship at the department that was selected by the student who is being substited for.
Please send the complete documents for substitute student to NEO Incoming AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Your exchange is not a holiday!!
We expect our exchange students to actively participate in their internship and work their hardest in the hospitals. You are taking up places, that Autrian students want (because they need them!) so please be respectful of that and show your best side at the hospital!
The dean of our university will not sign any papers or contracts for you! If incomings need signatures for their home university, they can get them from the Local Exchange Team or maybe from doctors or the secretary of the department they work in. The dean or the head of the department will never interact with you and therefore not sign any contracts with you!! If you need that for university, please consider the other options and make sure before applying, that a signature of an IFMSA representative is sufficient.


Many of the fishes currently inhabiting Texas freshwaters are not native to that location. This influx of exotic fishes is equivalent to about 20 percent of the original freshwater fish fauna.
A partial right ramus of Toxotherium contains the only known anterior cheek tooth of this genus. The geographic range of this genus is greatly extended by the occurrence of this specimen in Trans-Pecos Texas.


U.S. Postal Service wants to ship you wine and beer.
The U.S. Postal Service wants to ship you beer, wine and liquor.
In its ongoing quest to find new revenue streams, the Postal Service is hinting that Congress should make it legal to use the mail to ship beer, wine and liquor -- which competitors such as Fed Ex (FDX) and UPS (UPS) can already do.
Congress would have to overturn a 100-year-old temperance era law that bans shipping any "spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquors of any kind" by mail, said Sue Brennan, spokeswoman for the agency.
Ogling alcohol shipments is hardly a new idea for the Postal Service. Back in 2011, it worked with the Senate to get a provision a Postal Service bill, which didn't get very far.
A new House bill to help the Postal Service doesn't address postal shipments of alcohol. But the bill's author, California Republican Darrell Issa, supports the idea, his spokesman said.
What the Postal Service really wants is Congress to pass something to help it get past its major cash woes.
In 2012, the agency lost $16 billion. Last year, the agency twice defaulted on payments owed to the federal government to pre-fund retiree health care benefits totaling $11 billion. The agency has also exhausted a $15 billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury.
The Postal Service is so desperate for help that this year it tried to end Saturday delivery of mail without Congress' approval, only to reverse itself.
Most of the agency's struggle is caused by a Congressional mandate to make $5 billion annual payments toward a health care retirement fund.
The agency continues to deal with declines in the volume of first-class mail -- the kind of mail most consumers use and its biggest revenue driver -- as more Americans move to electronic billing and e-mailing.
The law banning shipments of beer and wine took effect on March 4, 1909, as the temperance movement was growing. A decade later, Prohibition was added to the Constitution by the 18th Amendment . It was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
The Associated Press first reported the news that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe wants beer and wine shipments.
Allowing shipments of alcohol would force the Postal Service to create a whole new set of rules to ensure those under 21 don't receive such shipments. Postal Service officials have said the agency would probably require an adult signature for shipments of alcohol.
The service would also have to figure out a way to comply with various state laws, such as Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma, which ban shipments of out-of-state alcohol directly to consumers.


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Machil Moorings
Like its ethereal pastures, Machil woes are endless
"As the shared cab I boarded at the main market Kupwara zoomed past picturesque Kalaroos, the ascending curves of Shamsbari mountain range culminated at Zamindar Gali."Special arrangement
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After proper verification from the concerned police station, Additional District Magistrate Kupwara issued an 'e-visa' valid for a week to visit Machil.
"What is the purpose of the visit?" The online application asked. "To know the health status of remote border belts in the aftermath of the pandemic." I responded with the theme of my assignment.
As the shared cab I boarded at the main market Kupwara zoomed past picturesque Kalaroos, the ascending curves of Shamsbari mountain range culminated at Zamindar Gali.
For security reasons,the Indian army registers all the tourists at Z-Gali.
It is the same spot where tribals from Pakistan camped for six months during the partition of India in 1947.At the gated garrison near Machil village, the army notes down all the details for their perusal.
No sooner did we reach Machil, our host, an unparalleled example of Kashmiri hospitality had arranged everything for lunch.
"Kheyiv hez hodie batti" is all he uttered.
This is the distinct feature of Kashmiris. It is a feeling and can't be translated.
Only hospitable Kashmiris know what it means. Let us move around.
Cameras fail to capture what naked eyes experience. Conifer-clothed dense forests and jaw-dropping meadows welcome visitors to Machil.
Chandankhal is a carbon copy of the Baisaran valley of Pahalgam. From Misribehak to Katwara to Chontiwari to RingiBala, Machil has great potential for border tourism.
Machil has magnetic magic.There are nine panchayats and seven revenue villages. Every village is a tourist resort. In 2022, tourists thronged Machil in droves for the first time.
Natural beauty apart, the residents face a plethora of problems.
To begin with, to douse the flames, there is no fire service station. If the students want to pursue higher studies, they have to live in rented accommodations in Kupwara and elsewhere in the valley since there is no degree college.
In digital India, only one Machil village has internet access.
Government's tall claims of digitally connecting India fall flat beyond Machil village.
Phones do not ring or beep in the remaining villages. They remain deprived of mobile telecommunications.
In most of the other villages, the residents have no idea of what is happening in the country or across the globe. They are living in a confined cocoon.
There is just one branch of Jammu and Kashmir Bank in a dilapidated building.
But there is not a single ATM in this sector.
Over 10 feet of snowfall at Z-Gali keeps it isolated for almost half a year.
To keep themselves warm, wooden houses without a thatched roof are the primary dens to survive in harsh winters. Now, in the last few years, the residents have started migrating to Kupwara during chilly winters.
There are no accommodation facilities for government employees posted in this remote border area.
J&K Government's Roads and Building (R&B) department constructed a building for this purpose but it has been abandoned.
If the households living in its locality are to be believed, the structure has become a nuisance for them;The primary point of contact for anti-social elements.
For nearly 25K civilians, one Sub District Hospital (SDH) or trauma center is the long pending demand not fulfilled by the authorities so far.
What I witnessed at Primary Health Center Dudi is unbelievable. A laboratory assistant takes care of the first aid, ward maintenance, issuance of drugs, and labour room.
Big dustbins in the wards emanate a foul smell. The health center is too unhygienic for patients to be admitted.
Not even a single sweeper is available to clean the building. The washrooms are dirty and full of filth.
And the employees on duty said that when the former deputy commissioner visited them last, they paid from their pocket to clean the rooms. No X-ray machine for Machil dwellers.
There is no technician to operate the machine provided by the Army.
Every healthcare official from docs to paramedics to health workers is annoyed and overburdened.
Does Chief Medical Officer Kupwara (CMO) care about the health and well-being of his Ri'ayah? If yes? The J&K Lieutenant Governor (LG) is expected to visit Machil on September 08, hoping he will radically reform the healthcare services delivery model.
There is not even a single gynecologist posted in Machil. To improve the menstrual health of the nomadic community, some non-governmental organizations from different parts of the country come and educate womenfolk and teenage girls about period pangs.
Many of them are using sanitary pads for the first time, is what we learned.
The panchayat representative of Machil said that the army has constructed a hospital and critical patients in need of better medical facilities are airlifted by choppers.
The road beyond Dudi is well-worn and not fit for travel.The admin has failed to bridge the digital divide.
The schools here are headless. There is no Tourist Reception Center.
The erstwhile state's Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) had dedicated one bus on this route, a great relief for these border residents. But the bus vanished from the scene for unknown reasons. The local sarpanch said that the Revenue department has made a joke of a Tehsil office because Nayabat and Girdawari circle is in Kalaroos. A person has to shuttle between Kalaroos and Machil to attest to a single paper. He expressed his remorse, "everything is done on papers here, I am highly disappointed."
Draped in dense forests, Machil is blessed with scenic beauty.
But believe it or not, electricity reached here for the first time in 2020,seventy-three years after Independence.
Machil, earlier a no-go zone, is wooing tourists as guns fall silent.
This sparsely populated areais a perfect adventure tourism destination.
Once an infiltration corridor, Machil mesmerizes its guests now. Machil woes are endless like its ethereal pastures.
The author is one of the 3 awardees of the inaugural Narendar Revelli Media Fellowship and this story is funded by Turaga Foundation and University of Hyderabad.
DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author.
The facts, analysis, assumptions and perspective appearing in the article do not reflect the views of GK.


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Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Questions: Toyota, Honda & Hyundai Respond (Part 3)
John Voelcker November 16, 2014 Comment Now!
This coming week will bring news of at least two new hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles from major global manufacturers.
They'll be offered only in small numbers for the next few years--far smaller than plug-in electric vehicle sales over the same period--but Toyota, Hyundai, and Honda fully intend to make fuel cells a viable zero-emission vehicle technology for the future.
Last month, we published our suggestions for 10 questions that carmakers will inevitably be asked as they launch hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles in the coming years.
DON'T MISS: 10 Questions On Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars To Ask Toyota, Honda & Hyundai
Toyota will give us more details about its production fuel-cell vehicle, now known just as the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sedan, this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
Meanwhile, Honda is working on its own fuel-cell car, a successor to its FCX Clarity, and we may get more details on that car as well.
2009 Honda FCX Clarity
Finally, there will be several dozen Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell crossover utility vehicles in use in Southern California by the end of next month, with more planned for next year.
Each of these three carmakers, along with the California Fuel Cell Partnership, submitted written answers to our 10 questions; this piece is the third in a series of articles summarizing and evaluating those responses.
ALSO SEE: Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Questions: Toyota, Honda & Hyundai Respond (Part 1)
MORE: Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car Questions: Toyota, Honda & Hyundai Respond (Part 2)
These articles have now generated more than 1,250 individual comments in response to the various claims, studies, and assessments. Clearly there's interest in the topic among our readers.
Below, we've summarized the four answers--rather than reproducing them in their entirety--to highlight common themes and note differences among the four responses.
Today, this third article in our series covers two questions we grouped under the heading, "Energy Balance."
2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell at hydrogen fueling station, Fountain Valley, CA
The wells-to-wheels footprint of a hydrogen-fueled vehicle appears to be generally worse than that of an electric car *IF* the analysis uses the same grid source for both alternatives. (Many studies don't use the same source.) That appears to imply that among the broad range of zero-emission vehicles, hydrogen vehicles have a higher carbon footprint than electric cars. How do you overcome this?
Interestingly, this question produced shorter answers than we'd expected.
All responses to this question were framed by noting that both types of vehicles had vastly lower carbon footprints than conventional vehicles--which is entirely true.
But none of them directly denied that hydrogen vehicles can have a higher carbon footprint than do battery electric vehicles, if carbon footprint of the energy sources used to make the hydrogen is the same as that used to recharge electric cars.
Toyota called the emissions profiles of the two vehicles types "very similar--within spitting distance, you might say" when the same primary energy source is used, offering natural gas as an example.
Honda said it's most appropriate to compare the anticipated future grid to the mix of multiple pathways expected to make up the production of hydrogen.
We would add that apparently the hydrogen produced for transport use will be quite different from industrial hydrogen in its energy footprint.
Underscoring that point, the California Fuel Cell Partnership noted that the state's mix of hydrogen used in fuel-cell cars will have a similar carbon footprint to the electricity from the grid used to recharge battery-powered vehicles in the state.
That's because the California Air Resources Board expects fully 46 percent of the hydrogen used for transportation to come from renewable sources by the end of 2015, when all hydrogen stations planned by that date are operating.
Hyundai added that California's hydrogen for vehicle use will have to be produced using at least one-third renewable energy, which will bring the per-mile emissions quite close to those of a battery-electric car.
The Korean maker also noted that using renewable energy to make and store hydrogen may offer a greater possibility to use renewable energy when it is available.
That helps utilities avoid having to manage potential mismatches between the times most renewable energy is available (e.g. solar during the day) and the times that most electric cars are recharged (e.g. overnight).
2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell at Hyundai headquarters, Fountain Valley, CA
The Partnership also noted that "most people buy a car based upon factors other than its carbon footprint, including reliability, comfort, styling, and mileage."
Absolutely true, although we might gently suggest that the question remains apropos if the goal is to minimize the carbon footprint of miles covered by a growing fleet of zero-emission vehicles projected for California by 2050.
Finally, Hyundai underscored the dangers of relying upon a single powertrain solution (meaning battery-electric vehicles) if anticipated breakthroughs in technology and cost reduction do not arrive as expected.
OUR TAKE: Hydrogen vehicles can be as low-carbon as battery-electric vehicles under some circumstances. And it appears that the few thousand that will appear on the roads of Southern California within two or three years may well hit that mark, as they will in some other locations--including Germany.
To make that the case, however, requires that the hydrogen fuel be produced using a far higher proportion of renewable energy than is used in the average grid mix anywhere in the U.S.
Photovoltaic solar power field at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Imagine how the numbers might look if electric cars in California were all recharged on grid electricity that was 33 percent or 46 percent renewable. If that came to pass, hydrogen vehicles would consistently have a higher carbon footprint than their battery-electric competitors.
That said, there's some validity to the notion that two zero-emission vehicle technologies are probably a safer way to proceed than one--at least until global manufacturing capacity exists for millions of electric cars a year powered by batteries cheap enough that the cars can be bought at the same price as gasoline vehicles in the same segment.
In other words, our respondents seem to be saying, let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good this early in the zero-emission vehicle game. Which we think is fair.
Much dispute currently exists over the carbon footprint of manufacturing batteries and electric motors for electric cars. Have you studied the lifecycle carbon emissions, including manufacturing, of the fuel-cell vehicle--and what were the results?
The California Fuel Cell Partnership succinctly provides the consensus statement here: "The short answer is that fuel-cell and battery-electric vehicles have a similar footprint."
Toyota Fuel Cell Sedan at Aspen Ideas Festival [photo: Riccardo Savi]
The group suggests the GREET model developed for the U.S. Department of Energy by Argonne National Laboratory to estimate total wells-to-wheels calculations over the vehicle's entire lifecycle, cradle to grave.
Manufacturing: 10 to 15 percent
Toyota adds that the manufacturing phase of a fuel-cell vehicle represents a small portion of its lifetime carbon, approximately 10 to 15 percent.
Honda agrees, saying it is "less than 15 percent," and notes that as production of both types ramps up, "the supply chain will evolve and the manufacturing footprint will be reduced."
Both types of vehicle have a slightly higher carbon footprint than gasoline cars during their manufacturing phase, Toyota says.
However, their lower energy consumption on the road more than makes up for the deficit--and means their lifetime carbon emissions are far, far lower than any vehicle powered by a combustion engine.
A longer and more detailed answer, the Partnership suggests, can be found in a report issued by the DoE this past March, Cradle to Grave Lifecycle Analysis of Vehicle and Fuel Pathways (PDF).
As it did for other questions, Hyundai answer in more detail and included additional points that highlight the drawbacks of electric cars.
It referred to a study published by the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California--Irvine, which concluded that the carbon emissions of manufacturing a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle are lower than those for a battery-electric vehicle.
First 2015 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell delivered to lessee at Tustin Hyundai, June 2014
Issues around batteries
Hyundai says that most of the platinum can be recovered from a fuel-cell stack, while, it says, recycling of lithium-ion batteries from electric cars faces the following hurdles:
multiple chemical processes
no standardized recycling process or regulation
materials with low market value, for which it quoted a Frost & Sullivan study saying recycled lithium costs "as much as five times the cost of lithium from the least costly brine-based process"
It quotes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggesting that some battery recycling processes may have the potential for high environmental impact, "which could potentially be mitigated."
In particular, Hyundai notes that cathodes including nickel or cobalt pose questions of toxicity, human health, and overall greenhouse-gas emissions.
Finally, the company points to potential lithium supply risks as demand for batteries grows, possibly raising battery cost in the short term.
OUR TAKE: The higher carbon footprint of manufacturing for both hydrogen fuel-cell and battery-electric vehicles is roughly comparable, but it's more than offset by their vastly lower carbon emissions when running. And that's the important point here.
We'd note that Hyundai has listed many potential concerns over battery-electric vehicles, without listing some similar concerns for fuel-cell vehicles.
Lithium is an abundant mineral found on at least four continents, for instance, while the platinum required for fuel cells is scarce, expensive, and also in demand for tens of millions of catalytic converters in new cars every year.
The auto industry is quite good at reducing the quantity of expensive components in its cars over time--the first catalytic converters of 1975 used something like 20 times the amount of platinum that today's converters do--but we might suggest that more worry is due over the supply of platinum for fuel cell cars produced at scale than for the supply of lithium.
(Our final articles will cover the questions we listed under the topic of Volume and Sales Terms of the fuel-cell vehicles each manufacturer will offer over the next two years.)
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"""Test construction of the implicitly provided JinjaEnvironment,
in the common.py module.
"""

from coffin.common import get_env
from django.test.utils import override_settings

def test_i18n():
    with override_settings(USE_I18N=True):
        assert get_env().from_string('{{ _("test") }}').render() == 'test'

class TestLoaders:

    def test_django_loader_replace(self):
        from coffin.template.loaders import jinja_loader_from_django_loader
        from jinja2 import loaders

        # Test replacement of filesystem loader
        l = jinja_loader_from_django_loader('django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader')
        assert isinstance(l, loaders.FileSystemLoader)

        # Since we don't do exact matches for the loader string, make sure we
        # are not replacing loaders that are outside the Django namespace.
        l = jinja_loader_from_django_loader('djangoaddon.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader')
        assert not isinstance(l, loaders.FileSystemLoader)

    def test_cached_loader(self):
        from jinja2 import loaders

        with override_settings(TEMPLATE_LOADERS=[
            ('django.template.loaders.cached.Loader', (
                'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
                'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
            )),]):
            env = get_env()
            assert len(env.loader.loaders) == 1
            cached_loader = get_env().loader.loaders[0]
            assert hasattr(cached_loader, 'template_cache')
            assert len(cached_loader.loader.loaders) == 2
            assert isinstance(cached_loader.loader.loaders[0], loaders.FileSystemLoader)

            # the cached loader can find a template too.
            assert env.loader.load(env, 'render-x.html').render({'x': 'foo'}) == 'foo'


Mumbai, July 04 (PTI) Government bonds (G-Secs) surged following rising demand from corporates and banks. The overnight call money rates also turned higher due to good demand from borrowing banks amid tight liquidity in the banking system.
The 7.17 per cent 10-year benchmark bond maturing in 2028 went-up to Rs 95.49 from Rs 95.2875, while its yield moved down to 7.85 per cent from 7.88 per cent.
The 6.68 per cent government security maturing in 2031 gained to Rs 89.02 from Rs 88.75, while its yield edged down to 8.04 per cent from 8.08 per cent.
The 6.84 per cent government security maturing in 2022 firmed up to Rs 96.00 from Rs 95.94, while its yield eased to 7.92 per cent from 7.94 per cent.
The 7.59 per cent government security maturing in 2026, the 7.35 per cent government security maturing in 2024 and the 8.79 per cent government security maturing in 2021 were also quoted higher at Rs 97.07, Rs 96.65 and Rs 102.75 respectively.
The overnight call money rates ended higher at 6.05 per cent from Tuesday's level of 6.00 per cent. It resumed higher at 6.25 per cent and moved in a range of 6.25 per cent and 5.95 per cent.
Meanwhile, Reserve Bank of India, under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility, purchased securities worth Rs 38.97 billion in 5-bids at the overnight repo operations at a fixed rate of 6.25 per cent as on today, while, its sold securities worth Rs 452.91 billion in 71-bids at the overnight reverse repo auction at a fixed rate of 6.00 per cent as on July 03.


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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger opens up on retiring from football
ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has admitted he is scared to retire one day.
Luke GardenerAssistant Sports Editor
The long-time Gunners boss believes football is his 'addiction' and is not sure how he will cope when he has to leave the Emirates.
Wenger took over at Arsenal in October 1996 and is coming up to his 20th anniversary at the club.
"It's been my life and, honestly, I'm quite scared of the day," he said in a new book, Game Changers, by former Charlton boss Alan Curbishley, serialised by the Daily Telegraph.
Alexis Sanchez returns for Arsenal against Manchester City
"The longer I wait the more difficult it will be and the more difficult it will be to lose the addiction.
"After Alex retired and we played them over there [at Manchester United] he sent a message to me to come up and have a drink with him. I asked: "Do you miss it?" He said: "Not at all."
"I didn't understand that. It's an emptiness in your life, especially when you've lived your whole life waiting for the next game and trying to win it."
SCARED: Arsene Wenger is concerned about retiring from football one day (Image: GETTY)
Wenger will be hoping to win his first Premier League title since 2004 this season which could further prolong his career at the club.
The 66-year-old's contract expires at the end of the current campaign.
Arsenal begin their new season against Liverpool this Sunday at the Emirates but will be missing several of their first-team starts through injury.


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Aditi Rao Hydari Net Worth, Age, Height, Relationship Status
Aditi Rao Hydari is an Indian actress and model who works in the Indian film industry, especially in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films. She is best known for the role of Princess Mehrunisa in the 2018 big play Padmaavat.
He also starred in many critically acclaimed Bollywood movies including Rock Star (2011), Murder 3 (2013), and Wazir (2016). She also received praise for her performance in Sudhir Mishra's Ye Saali Zindagi. This movie was a romantic thriller. Aditi Rao Hydari is active on social media and has a large following on social media.
Full Name Aditi Rao Hydari
Birth Place Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Profession Actress and Model
Hometown Hyderabad, Telangana
School Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India
College / University Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi, India
Aditi Rao Hydari Wiki/Biography
Aditi Rao Hydari was born on October 28, 1978 and will be 42 years old in 2021. She was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Childhood photo of Aditi Rao Hydari
She received her primary education at Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh and later continued her education at Lady Shri Ram Women's College in Delhi.
Aditi is a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and started learning the same when she was six years old. She is a student of legendary ballet dancer Leela Samson.
family, friends and relationships
Aditi Rao Hydari belongs to the royal family of Hyderabad. He has an eclectic background that is a mix of Bori, Chitrapur Saraswat and Telugu. She is Indian by nationality.
His father's name was Ehsaan Khidari. She was a Bori Muslim and died in 2013. Aditi was the paternal great-granddaughter of Mohammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, a former Minister of Hyderabad.
His mother's name is Vidya Rao. She is a famous classical singer who specializes in the thumri and dadra genres. Maternal Aditi is the granddaughter of Raja J. Rameshwar Rao, head of the Vanaparthi royal family.
Mother of Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Rao Hydari's parents separated when she was just two years old. He was raised by both parents. After the breakup, her mother moved from Hyderabad to New Delhi, so Aditi moved around a lot.
Aditi Rao Hydari's marital status is single. She married actor Satyadeep Mishra when he was seventeen, but they eventually separated. Aditi kept their marriage a secret, but approved of their marriage and subsequent separation in 2013.
Aditi Rao Hydari is a beautiful girl with a charming personality. She has a well built physique. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs approximately 53 kg. She has brown hair and hazel eyes.
Aditi Rao Hydari began her career as a dancer when she became a member of Leela Samson Spanda's Bharatanatyam dance team. In 2007 she signed her first Tamil film with director Sharada Ramanathan. This film was called Shringaram. One of the reasons Aditi was cast in her role was her uncanny resemblance to the Shobana dancer Chandrakumar Pillai.
In 2011, he starred in a movie called Yeh Saali Zindagi directed by Sudhir Mishra. There were many sexy scenes between Aditi Rao Hydari and Arunodai Singh in this movie. Aditi was praised for her performance in the film. That same year, she played a supporting role in Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar. In 2012, she starred in Anu Menon's London, Paris, New York. She was paired with Pakistani singer and actor Ali Zafar. In the same year, Aditi also sang for the American animated film Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. In the movie, she sang the Hindi version of the song "We are family". In 2013, she starred in Vishesh Bhatt's crime film Murder 3 alongside Randeep Hooda. She was highly praised for her performance in the movie. The same year, she starred opposite Akshay Kumar and Shiv Pandit in Anthony D'Souza's The Boss.
Aditi Rao Hydari claimed that she was sexually harassed in the film industry and was home without a job for eight months. Her sexual harassment complaint allegedly filed against her was not as serious as that of some of her classmates.
facts and information
Rao Hydari was nominated for 14 awards and won 6.
Aditi and Aamir Khan's wife, Kiran Rao, are maternal first cousins.
He practices the Malaysian martial art Kalaripayattu.
His lineage belongs to not one, but two royal families.
His fortune is estimated at about 8 million dollars.
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Interactive Smartboard powered by ChromeOS, changing the future of Smart Classroom
Cloud PR Wire June 24, 2022
Selangor, Malaysia Jun 23, 2022 (Issuewire.com) – Israk Solutions Sdn. Bhd. has announced its new generation of interactive smartboard which now is powered by ChromeOS. The smartboard with ChromeOS, being the first in the world and assembled in Malaysia, is expected to become the pioneer in the digital classroom and become a standard to be followed in local and worldwide education institutions.
The brand Arvia is revolutionizing education by providing a beneficial fusion and integration of a high demanding operating system, ChromeOS is an advanced technology in the smartboard. This fastly-emerging operating system is all about simplicity; works fast and boots up in mere seconds. Because of its simplicity, ChromeOS is much more secure than others with frequent and automatic ChromeOS updates available and built-in virus protection.
Mohd Khamarul Idzwan bin Othman, Leader of Google Educator Group Malaysia and the Asia Pacific, after using the product during a visit said, "The usage of Arvia Smartboard with ChromeOS is parallel with the latest educational technology trend and Industrial Revolution 4.0. With a large screen and smooth annotation capability, it offers a perfect teaching experience ."
This innovation is complementing the initiative of the Ministry of Education (MOE) in the G Suite Enterprise for Education (GSEfE) subscription service that starts from July 9th, 2021 until July 6th, 2024 for all the schools under MOE. The G Suite Enterprise for Education is a full-featured, ChromeOS user-friendly productivity suite such as Google Meet, Google Drive, and Jamboard which enables schools to fully utilize the smartboard to meet their needs.
The smartboard is revolutionizing the educational system with easy-to-use communication tools, real-time data, note-sharing, and many other useful features. The students may study more easily while pursuing their passions in a real-life learning environment. Many educational institutions have switched from a traditional learning environment to an integrated centralized learning environment as a result of the worldwide pandemic and its impacts.
"Our new generation of Arvia smartboard for a classroom with ChromeOS is designed to provide users with the best possible experience using Google Workspace for Education. Among the key features are responsive touch capability on any Google apps, teachers can choose from thousands of apps in the Google Playstore and the system will be updated automatically," said Najib Habeb, Managing Director of Israk Solutions Sdn. Bhd.
This organization works to encourage educational innovation, paving the road for smart courses and educational technology. A wireless collaboration system, audio and video studio with a PTZ camera, webinar management system, display management system, lecture tracking, and recording system, and more are all examples of smart classroom technology.
These smartboards can be included in customized smart classrooms, including the basic package, which can accommodate up to 10 students, the standard package, which can accommodate up to 20 students, and last but not least, the advanced package, which can accommodate up to 30 students. The features and price structures of each of these packages vary.
Known for its trustworthiness and dependability, Arvia also supports the use of smart classrooms and provides seamless chances to educators all over the world by providing carefully selected and personalized learning materials. While playing a crucial role in contemporary enterprises, smart and advanced technology is embracing greater variety. With its sophisticated technology, extensive expertise, and ten years of industry experience, the agency continuously expands the spheres of cooperation, communication, and customization.
Starting from Digital Signage, Video Wall, LED Display, Touchscreen Kiosk, Smartboard, Video conference, and live streaming to smart classrooms; the agency provides a complete solution for audio-visual technology. Hailing from Malaysia, this organization only offers high-quality and prestigious solutions that can adapt to every situation. Arvia offers 100% transparency and satisfaction to its clients as the agency aims to empower the world. Get to know more at https://www.israk.my.
Israk Solutions Sdn. Bhd.
info@israk.my
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Source :Israk Solutions Sdn. Bhd.
This article was originally published by IssueWire. Read the original article here.
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We always recommend that players set aside a sum of money that they are willing to spend. Once you have lost that sum simply walk away from the bingo website. For example if you tell youself that you can only afford to lose $50 then you can allow yourself to wager up to $50. Once those funds are gone do not allow yourself to attempt to win the money back. Simply play again another day when hopefully you are luckier.
You are gambling with real money so why gamble with the currency exchange? Only play in Australian dollars and you will avoid paying currency exchange fees when you deposit funds and when you cash out. Furthermore you will avoid gambling on whether or not the Australian dollar chooses to move up or down this week.
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Course of Study is a program of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, administered by the seminary, for the purpose of educating licensed local pastors in the United Methodist Church.
The Saint Paul Course of Study School offers a variety of formats. Full-time and Part-time students may attend ANY of the sessions.
Foundational and functional classes are taught, exposing students to both theory and application.
Course of Study School is designed to be a year-round learning experience. Registered students receive advance assignments and book lists from which to prepare. Students who do not complete and submit the assignments by the published deadlines will receive grade deductions. Students also receive further assignments during class sessions.
2018 Registration Forms are now available! Please note that there are multiple changes to the 2018 forms including cost increase, Summer term schedule, course withdrawal deadline and payment deadline.
If a Local Pastor wishes to take more than four courses in one year, you must obtain written approval from: The DS, LPR, the Director of the Regional School and from the Assistant General Secretary at GBHEM. All written approvals should be submitted along with your course registration form. Effective January 1, 2017, if a student enrolls in more than four (4) courses per calendar year without receiving ALL approvals listed above, any courses taken over four (4) will not be recognized on your transcript and will not be counted towards completion of the Basic Course of Study. Please complete this form to start the approval process.
Make initial contact with an elder / deacon in your local parish.
Read The Christian as Minister (available from Cokesbury).
Visit with your district superintendent.
Make contact with your district committee on ordained ministry for help with the inquiry and discernment process. A mentor will be assigned to you for guidance and supervision.
If your ministry decision is affirmed and a setting is available, you may be appointed to a part-time or full-time ministry setting. Full-time local pastors are required by the Discipline to complete four Course of Study classes per calendar year. Part-time local pastors are required to complete two classes per calendar year.
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The New Curriculum Exchange Credits document shows you how the courses you have already completed compare with the new curriculum. This will assist you in planning which courses you need to complete the program.
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Course of Study Graduation will be held this year on Thursday, August 3, 2017 at United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. The ceremony will take place from 3:00 4:30 pm with a reception to follow. This year s featured speaker will be Thomas Kemper, General Secretary and CEO of the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church.
If you are scheduled to complete basic Course of Study this year, please complete the Graduation Form to let me know so I can audit your transcript to make sure you are not missing any courses and include you on information regarding the graduation ceremony this summer. Friends and family are welcome to attend!
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SAFE-FS Coins have been created and are being held here until the crowdsale transactions are finished being recorded, calculated, verified and released to the community (9S coin was just for testing Omni).
After that the SAFE-FS coins will begin being sent out to the participating addresses. Everything going just as planned, and no delays in sight. Things should be completed within around a week's time, at current pace.
I'm not so clear as how I'll get and keep the coins. I have a BTC wallet and I keep my coins there but do I need another wallet for SAFE-FS coins for keeping and sending them?
To keep the coins any BTC address can hold them.


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Kategorien 1:18 1965 Shelby GT350-R #11 Mark Donahue *Dockery Ford*, blue with white stripes
1965 Shelby GT350-R #11 Mark Donahue *Dockery Ford*, blue with white stripes
This is one of the few original 1965 GT 350 "R" models ever produced by Shelby American. The GT350R was the first time an American manufacturer offered a strictly-for-racing competition model which could be purchased from a dealer and which would require nothing after delivery. These cars could literally be delivered directly to the track and raced the way they came off the transport. This particular "R" model was 1 of 2 sponsored by Dockery Ford of Morristown, N.J. for the 1966 season. The Dockery dealership was very involved in racing and wanted a big name driver for their car. So why not go for gold and hire Mark Donahue? Mark entered Dockery's GT350R in nine races during the 1966 season and notched four victories!