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The NBA Finals Post
After a heartbreaking Game 7 defeat, Boston Celtics guard Keyon Dooling said it best:
"Everybody should relax a little bit," Dooling said. "He is great for the game. He is our game. We need to uplift him, instead of try to tear him down. He is a guy who is the most unselfish superstar I have ever seen. He rebounds the ball, assists the ball and empowers his friends from his community. He is a model citizen. He should not have a stain on his reputation. I hope that it stops."
No, Dooling wasn't uplifting any of his teammates. He was praising his opponent, Miami Heat's Lebron James.
As a Chicagoan, a cursory glance at my Twitter feed during Heat games reveals the same old jabs and jeers at the three-time MVP: "Lebron sucks!", "Lebron will never get a ring!" "*Insert unoriginal fourth quarter joke here*". It's all non-sense. This is a new year, and frankly, I don't see where Lebron went wrong. He shut his mouth and played the best basketball of his life. The beauty of these NBA Finals is that he has the chance to quiet the noise. What's even better is that he can accomplish the feat over the greatest competition available, leaving no excuse for fans to continually deride him.
Everyone wanted Lebron to falter in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, but I did not. I wasn't ready to watch the Thunder steamroll a far inferior (and a far more dull) opponent in another unexciting Finals. This year's matchup may be will be the most exciting in a decade. When was the last time we saw the top two MVP vote-getters, the Sixth Man of the Year and five total All-Stars competing for the O'Brien trophy? I don't know if that's happened since MJ left the game. As much as you hate Lebron, trust me, you wanted him here all along. This is when you should be rooting for him to fail.
Not to take anything away from OKC's prized possession, forward Kevin Durant. He brings as much to the table as James does, but in a more reserved manner. Durant doesn't have to deal with media scrutiny, as he is the antithesis of James' public persona: beloved, uncriticized, uplifted. There's not much to say about him that is new. The clash of differences between the two stars, however, summons the cliché "good vs. evil" storyline, which just adds to the fire. You wouldn't have found that in a Thunder-Celtics matchup.
I'm going to continue the format of five thoughts for the series as I did in my NHL preview. I'll try and keep the stats to a minimum (doubtful). Here we go:
1. The Presence of Bosh
It was obvious that Miami's previous two victories couldn't have happened without the return of Bosh. It may have taken an epic Game 7 80% shooting performance that included knocking down a career high three of four three pointers for fans to realize that he's an undervalued asset to the Heat's success. During the regular season, the Heat were 42-15 with Bosh on the floor and a mere 4-5 without him. In the playoffs, they are 7-2 with Bosh playing 5-4 without Bosh seeing action. If Bosh continues red-hot shooting from outside, this series can end a game or two early as defense will have to respect him and stretch the floor, opening lanes for Lebron and Wade to penetrate.
2. Turnovers
An overlooked factor all playoffs has been OKC's atypical ball protection. During the regular season, the Thunder led the league in turnover ratio, but was able to improve vastly upon that throughout the playoffs, by becoming the second best team in protecting the ball. This can be attributed to the Thunder playing opposition that weren't exactly huge generators of turnovers, which the Heat are. The Heat, however, didn't force many turnovers against a usually turnover-prone Boston team. It's safe to say that PG Russell Westbrook is much more reckless with the ball than Rajon Rondo, though, so the stats may fluctuate back to their norms.
3. Heat X-Factor: Dwyane Wade
Wade has been surprisingly inconsistent in this year's playoffs. The absence of Bosh may have had a huge affect on that, allowing teams like the Celtics to double-team him constantly, turning him into a jump shooter (one skill he does not excel at). The Thunder do not have the quickness on the perimeter to close out space as the Celtics could do, so we may see more of those patented 25-5-5 games.
4. Thunder X-Factor: Russell Westbrook
I feel as if the Thunder live and die by Westbrook's play. When the Thunder drop games, you can't help but look towards Westbrook to see a sub-35% shooting night coupled with a near one-to-one assist-to-turnover ratio. On the other hand, Westbrook has the capability of taking control of the game and scoring at will. The Heat defense will be his toughest task to date, and I really don't see him breaking it more than one time all series.
5. Thoughts & Predictions
I think this series will mirror the Thunder-Spurs series. Pundits all around will assume the Thunder have the edge, and they will look good… for two games. Lebron will turn on his "Game 6 face" and go off for another spectacular 40+ point-near-triple-double performance in a win to tie the series or take the lead. Durant will be impossible to quiet, as usual, but will not be able to close out the series thanks to a few careless Westbrook games. Like the Spurs, the Thunder won't know what's coming after facing three teams with mediocre defending. The Heat will suffocate Westbrook and Harden and force turnovers which will lead to dozens of fast break buckets. Bosh will render Ibaka ineffective by forcing him to the perimeter. Four to five of the games will be instant classics, possibly overtime thrillers. Most will end with only a 3-5 point disparity between the two teams. With that said…
Heat in six games
Finals MVP: Lebron James
And I'll leave you to a completely irrelevant song that has been on repeat in my Itunes 24/7 since Sunday night:
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Urban Media Archaeology
The Coffeehouse: A Communication Hotspot in Transition
My attention was first pointed at the coffeehouse as a changing hub of communication a while ago, while I was doing some fieldwork of observing the street intersection of Grand Avenue and Clifton Place in Clinton Hill, from the window of the Urban Vintage café. Urban Vintage opened about six months ago and is rather spacious, however packed with chairs and tables occupied by locals. Since the opening, the crowd of regular visitors has grown into a group of local laptop users, predominantly. The wi-fi is "borrowed" from the Grand Dakar restaurant across the street, and in peak time, around three or four o'clock, extra sockets are provided for the busy visitors in the café. Only few groups of people meet to talk, quietly. The owners let me know one day that they are considering to get their own Internet, although they might choose not to. My observation of the Urban Vintage café, from its start-up and transformation into 'a place where people work', has let me to wonder what is really at stake in this transformation of the café as a cultural institution. What are we winning and/or loosing with the current reinvented role of the café as a wireless "social" hotspot, and how does the current state of café culture differ from, or align with, café culture throughout history, as this has shaped with the introduction of new media in the past? Overall, what I aim to examine is how the urban cultural role of the American café as a communications hotspot is changing in New York with changing habits in public media consumption.
The coffeehouse's cultural role as a hotspot for communication has developed throughout history, from a hotspot of speech between the learned, as an information destination of 'runners' moving from café to café to spread the latest news, of consumption of newsprint and magazines, and latest as a wireless hotspot for laptop owners (Idov 2009).
The history of the coffeehouse in New York goes back to 1696 when the first "Penny University", the King's Arms Cafe (King's Arms), appeared as a copy of the British model, as a forum for discussion of politics and current affairs for the entry price of a penny (Baskerville 2009). The significance of this original role of the coffeehouse, as a gathering place for discussion, shows its potential about a hundred years later, when The Tontine Coffee House opened in New York in 1792 and became the original location for the New York Stock Exchange, for ten years (Paajanen 2009). This urban cultural role as a forum for debate and information exchange, which characterized the American coffeehouse in the 18th Century, has since then changed throughout history. The 'standard American model' of the coffeehouse has changed in architecture, aesthetics and decoration, as has the form of communication consumption and (social) interaction that the café environment invites for. For the past fifteen years, the change is influenced by the installation of wireless hotspots that enable coffeehouse guests to use the café not only as an office outside of home, but as a connected gateway for the individual to a different social dimension in the world wide web. In our technological age, café culture represents one of the few remaining opportunities for public sociability, however with free wi-fi, this sense of sociability is changing its social significance. Although the development of new media seems to have 'caused' the change, the change of physical decoration that enabled for laptop use in cafes must be considered as a significant factor as well. This is why the institution of the Starbucks Coffee, who has produced the American café model as 'an extension of people's living room', with comfortable couches and individual tables, must be considered for a significant role player in the development of the American coffeehouse. Since its appearance in Seattle in 1971, the Starbucks Coffee has grown into becoming the standard American answer to café culture.
As I have begun my initial research, I have come across a temporary counter reaction in New York to the development of the café as it has shaped into a 'wireless office': Newly opened cafes are decorated like the original coffeehouses with bar chairs instead of sofa lounges and small tables, to prevent laptop users to settle down. In the summer of 2009, the Bluebird Coffee Shop in the East Village replaced half of its tables and most of its chairs with two counters and a few stools, and Café Grumpy recently abandoned laptops in their East Village branch and have chosen to design their newest branch in Park Slop as non-laptop friendly, without any lounge furniture and personal coffee tables (Strand 2010). This current countertrend might be a sign of a cultural reclaim of the café as a social space, which brings this project to temporary significance.
For my research design process, I will study the historic development of coffeehouses in New York City from looking into archives of business/coffee licenses. This is for the purpose of studying the 'coffeehouse culture', that, beside from historic descriptions of famous coffeehouses, can be studied from the architecture and decoration of the coffeehouses. I will visit still-existing coffeehouses in New York City and analyze the interior design, keeping in mind that this might have changed since the time of origin of the particular coffeehouse. I will also study the historic development in communication practices and media, to compare this timeline with the development of the coffeehouse-timeline, and look for coherencies between media use and coffeehouse interior design. I will thus have to conduct empirical fieldwork on spatial decoration and communications practices of coffeehouses, to examine how 'types' of cafés relate to ways of producing social space (Lefebvre 1991). This will be done in a categorization of the type of interior decoration of a number of cafes (from different time periods) into types of spaces of social practices. With my particular emphasis on the past 15 years where free wi-fi hotspots has been build into the architecture and concept of the coffeehouse, I will map the arrival of wi-fi cafés around New York City. This is to add the growth of wireless hotspots to my findings on the development of the café as a communication hotspot. Finally, I will study the ideals behind recently opened non-wireless cafés from interviews with the owners, to reflect on the current direction of the café as a cultural institution.
Peter Baskerville; "The Historic Coffee House: A history of the most significant and famous coffee houses", [internet], (Guild (KPG), Knol Publishing, August 31), 2009
Manuel Castells: "An Introduction to the Information Age", in: City analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, (London: Routledge) 2007
Elizabeth Ellsworth: "Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy", (New York: Routledge), 2005
Michael Idov: "Bringing the Buzz Back to the Café" (The Wall Street Journal, December 1), 2009
Henri Lefebvre, "The Production of Space", (Carlton: Donald Nicholson Smith), (1974) 1991
Sandy Miller, Juliana Spear: "Café Life New York: An Insider's Guide to the City's Neighborhood Cafes", (Northampton: Interlink Books), 2008
David Morley: "Belongings: Place, Space and Identity in a Mediated World", (European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 4 No. 4), 2001
Constantin Petcou: "Media-polis/media-city", in: Neil Leach, The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis, (London and New York: Routledge), 2002
Kim Sawchuk, Barbara A. Crow, Michael Longford: "The wireless spectrum: the politics, practices, and poetics of mobile media" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 2010
Bryant Simon: "Everything but the coffee: learning about America from Starbucks", (Berkeley: University of California Press), 2009
Oliver Strand: "The New Coffee Bars: Unplug, Drink, Go", (The New York Times, August 24), 2010
Sean Paajanen: "The Evolution of the Coffee House. The origins and history of the humble coffee shop", [Internet], 2010 http://coffeetea.about.com/od/history1/a/shophistory.htm
Hotspots New York, community listings of Wifi cafes in Manhattan
http://hotspotr.com/wifi/map/115-new-york-ny
Individual Project Proposal
Written by tanyatoft.
Posted on October 6, 2010.
Filed under Process Blogs, Project Proposal.
1 SteveTaylor wrote:
This project sounds really great.
I came across these postings, which you may find helpful: http://www.anthropologyinpractice.com/2010/07/manufacturing-coffee-culture.html
Also, in terms of thinking about how to potentially represent how various spaces function, and how people interact with those spaces, I would recommend taking a look at William H. Whyte's work, especially "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces". It is both a book and a film; the film is great because it combines scientific observations (he shoots timelapses of particular urban spaces and charts what people do, where they do it, and for how long they do it) with more anecdotal observations of peoples' idiosyncracies. The film is hard to find (though maybe you can get it at Bobst Library) but you can get a taste of it here (and Whyte's nice blend of seriousness adn humor): http://vimeo.com/6821934
October 7, 2010 at 11:43 am Permalink
2 Tanya Toft wrote:
Thank you Steve, that is a great comment! I am familiar with Whyte, read an abstract of the book you mention last semester and saw a bite of the film, but as I used it in a different setting for a different topic, I hadn't thought of its potential for this project:) So thanks! And also for the link, I can use it for sure!
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Getting Fuzzied
About once every 5-10 years a truly great comic strip comes along. My list may not exactly match yours but I bet it comes close. Note that some of these comic strips were great in their prime then quickly became stale, mediocre or evolved into something downright bad. Sometimes they emerge with new flashes of brilliance then disappear again into mediocrity. Some like Calvin and Hobbes just disappear – the artists knew they had no more to give.
Starting arbitrarily around 1970 I would say these great comic strips were (in chronological order): Doonesbury, The Far Side, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes and Dilbert.
Of course there have been lots of other really terrific strips. Current strips that I really enjoy include Zits, The Piranha Club, The Boondocks, For Better or For Worse, Tank McNamara (and I don't even like sports), Mutts, and Rhymes with Orange (not for the artwork, but for the ideas). Even when I am very busy I will make the time to read these strips.
I am amazed by how some strips have withstood the test of time and how others haven't. Classic Peanuts, for example, shows Peanuts strips from the 1970s and 1980s when the strip was no longer funny. Truly classic Peanuts cartoons can only now be found in anthologies. Between 1955 and 1965 the strip was brilliant. Unfortunately back then the daily strips were in four panels. Newspapers won't show four panel strips anymore … they consume too much real estate. On the other hand Blondie should have flamed out at least thirty years ago. Yet I still find it regularly funny even though the original artist died long ago. It is the same yet always fresh. Amazing.
I think a new comic strip has joined the league of truly great comic strips. A few more years will tell for sure. The strip is Get Fuzzy.
It's almost in every newspaper now so chances are you are already reading it. If you aren't reading it you can read the daily strip online. You won't want to miss a single day.
The humor of Get Fuzzy is hard to explain. A lot of people don't get Zippy the Pinhead. (Frankly even I am sick of Zippy's talking to statues and fascination with diners.) Get Fuzzy grew on me. I read it for weeks and thought, "What's with that weird cat Bucky Katt and that dopey dog Satchel Pooch? Why does their owner Rob Wilco always wear a backwards baseball cap on his head? What does he do for a living anyhow? He hardly ever goes anywhere. He looks like some college guy whose apartment consists of stacks of pizza boxes." (According to the web site Rob is an ad executive … go figure!)
And then one day I tittered a little bit. The next day I tittered a little more. Then I started laughing. Then it became hilarious. There were times when I laughed so hard I really was ROTFLMAO. Now it's a home run out of the ballpark at least three days out of five.
Why do I love Get Fuzzy? Mostly it's because of the cat Bucky: the heart of the comic strip. Readers may remember my reminisces about our difficult cat Squeaky who passed away in June. There was something inherently evil in Squeaky — something very disturbing. But occasionally she could be a sweet cat. There is none of this ambiguity in Bucky. Bucky is the sort of cat you are grateful is not a human being. If Bucky were a human being it would make Hitler look like an amateur. But Bucky is not just a nasty and evil cat. Bucky is cat with an acid tongue that makes the most startling observations.
Satchel the dog is Bucky's polar opposite: sweet, unassuming, wholly trusting, so naive that if it were run over by a car once it would gladly do it again if so directed. Satch is totally transparent. Bucky is diabolical. It lives to sin. But Bucky cannot sin in an ordinary manner. It must sin in extraordinary ways. Everything Bucky does is to bring more and more attention back on itself and demonstrate it is the nastiest, orneriest, meanest, most twisted cat that ever lived. Both Dogbert and Catbert can take lessons from Bucky.
Rob plays the "whatever" pet owner who seems to accept his fate with these two animals. He carries a look of resignation on his face most of the time. Satch of course utterly adores Rob and Bucky. Bucky wants to see both of them dead in the most horrific way possible and for no reason whatsoever … it is never treated meanly. Rob though knows how to return zingers to Bucky's comments that skews this bizarre little world inside their apartment in a compelling kaleidoscope of weirdness. It's a synergy of a sort between the man, the dog and the cat that ricochets in the oddest directions.
The author and artist Darby Conley can pull humor from the most mundane things. Rob's precious collection of Star Wars figurines, for example, is of course sold by Bucky behind Rob's back to some ferrets it hates down the hall. Bucky does it for money but the ferrets start turning the action figures into little Bucky voodoo dolls. Hilarity ensues. Bucky of course has the attitude from Galaxy Quest: "Never give up! Never surrender!" And so it tries to compound the evil deed, always with a kicker rejoinder than often has me ROTFLMAO.
It is my considered opinion though that this is not a Republican comic strip. This is a Democratic comic strip. Although both parties can be very evil a good Republican would be too sanctimonious to read the strip, let alone enjoy it. Democrats though are allowed to be multidimensional. It's okay for us to revel a bit in our evil side. And what better way to do so than to project our nasty feelings into Bucky, our innocent sides into Satchel, and our weary "I don't give a flying f***" sides into Rob.
I hope Darby Conley can keep it up. I have a feeling he won't be able to sustain this level of energy very long. That's often the way it is with the best comic strips. So perhaps we must enjoy this spectacular firework of a comic strip while we can. Its ascent may be into the stratosphere but it may flame out quickly.
Comics, Get Fuzzy


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Q: Is it possible to use a converter within a style? Is it possible to use a converter within a style? For instance I am trying to create a styled TextBlock whose text resizes based on the ActualHeight property of the TextBlock. The resizing would be done via a converter.

A: Yes, this is possible. For example:
<Style TargetType="TextBlock">
    <Setter Property="FontSize">
        <Setter.Value>
            <Binding Path="ActualHeight" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource Self}">
                <Binding.Converter>
                    <MyConverter/>
                </Binding.Converter>
            </Binding>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

Depending on your exact scenario, you might also be able to use the more succinct:
<Style TargetType="TextBlock">
    <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="{Binding ActualHeight, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self}, Converter={StaticResource MyConverter}}"/>
</Style>

A: I managed to get something similar to work by using:
<Setter Property="Text">
  <Setter.Value>
    <Binding Path="CompanyName">
      <Binding.Converter>
        <conv:UppercaseConverter/>
      </Binding.Converter>
    </Binding>
  </Setter.Value>
</Setter>

Hope it works for you too.
Yann
PS - CompanyName is the name of the actual ViewModel property I was binding the textblock to

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Just Hired
Geiger Promotes Dawn Ruler to Division Sales Vice President
Geiger, Lewiston, Maine, has promoted Dawn Ruler, MAS, to the position of division sales vice president for Geiger Midwest effective Dec. 1, 2017. Ruler joined Geiger in 2015 as an independent sales partner, excelling in providing branding solutions for her client base.
Ruler has worked in the promotional products industry for more than 17 years. She serves as a current board member of PPA Chicago, and has served in volunteer roles for PPAI, including the Distributor Committee and the Women's Leadership Work Group.
At the 2017 Geiger Galleria, Ruler earned the GEM award recognizing marketing excellence. She is also a finalist to receive a Pyramid Award at the 2018 PPAI Expo in the category of Image Awards.
In addition to her industry service, she has been involved with the Friends of Jason Gould Foundation, raising money for cancer research. Ruler holds a bachelor's degree in Marketing from Illinois State University, and is a certified holistic coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
In her spare time, she has a passion for fitness, having completed seven marathons to date, and enjoys gardening and cooking. She and her husband, Ted, make their home in Oswego, Ill.
"I am thrilled to have Dawn as a member of our field sales management team," said Jim Habzda, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Geiger. "Dawn's solid sales experience and impressive results will truly benefit her sales region."
For more information on Geiger, visit www.geiger.com.
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Q: TypeError: first argument must be callable fs = codecs.open('grammar_new.txt', encoding='utf-8')
unidata=[]
d={}
fr=codecs.open('rule.txt', 'w')
for line in fs:
    line_data=line.split()
    for i in range(0,len(line_data)):
       unidata.append(line_data[i])

d = defaultdict(unidata)

while executing this code will generate error as  d = defaultdict(unidata)
TypeError: first argument must be callable..I want to store duplicate keys in dictionary

A: The first argument to defaultdict must be callable.  You've passed an instance of list which isn't callable.  You want to pass the 'list' type instead.
Typical use would be something like:
d = defaultdict(list)
for k, v in something:
    d[k].append(v)

Based on the unidata you seem to have provided in your comment, I think you want:
>>> from collections import defaultdict
>>> unidata = [[u'NP--->', u'N_NNP'], [u'NP--->', u'N_NN_S_NU'], [u'NP--->', u'N_NNP'], [u'NP--->', u'N_NNP'], [u'VGF--->', u'V_VM_VF'], [u'NP--->', u'N_NN']]
>>> d = defaultdict(list)
>>> for k, v in unidata:
...     d[k].append(v)
...
>>> d
defaultdict(<type 'list'>, {u'VGF--->': [u'V_VM_VF'], u'NP--->': [u'N_NNP', u'N_NN_S_NU', u'N_NNP', u'N_NNP', u'N_NN']})

A:
I want to store duplicate keys in dictionary

This is simply not possible. Keys in dictionaries are unique. I think what you want is this:
d = defaultdict(list)
with codecs.open('grammar_new.txt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
   for line in f:
      if len(line.rstrip()):
          key,value = line.rstrip().split()
          d[key].append(value)

print(d)

Now d will contain for each key a list that contains the corresponding values. Each key must be unique, but it can have any number of values, which can be duplicates.


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Q: Huawei Account Kit not working, how to implement? trying to implement Account Kit into our app and it is not working.
Using com.huawei.hms:hwid:5.0.3.301 and on signin, blank activity is shown.  Hitting back button from this blank activity, log would show onActivityResult 1002 0.
Tried building the demo project from https://github.com/HMS-Core/huawei-account-demo.  It is the same thing, clicking on login nothing shows, clicking back button would show signin failed.
What could be the issue?
#UPDATE:
ags file was missing from demo, hence the blank activity.  Adding the AGS file fixed it.
After verifying that the native android SDK build does work on my device, continued trying to implement on Unity.
Downloaded 4.0.4.300 AccountSDK with 4.0.4.301 Core. Ran the APK and the following error occured:
     Caused by: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.activity.BridgeActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
        at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1950)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1622)
        at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:4564)
        at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:4522)
        at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:4883)
        at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:4851)
        at com.huawei.hms.adapter.AvailableAdapter.startResolution(AvailableAdapter.java:155)
        at com.huawei.hms.hwid.a.a.a(HmsAPKVersionCheckUtil.java:46)
        at com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity.a(HwIdSignInHubActivity.java:212)
        at com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity.onCreate(HwIdSignInHubActivity.java:106)
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7174)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1220)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2908)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3030)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1696)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6938)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:327)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1374)

So then I copied the bridge activity from the HMSSdkUI's manifest into my manifest and the the app built:
        <activity
            android:name="com.huawei.hms.activity.BridgeActivity"
            android:configChanges="orientation|locale|layoutDirection|fontScale|screenSize|smallestScreenSize|screenLayout"
            android:excludeFromRecents="true"
            android:exported="false"
            android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
            android:screenOrientation="behind"
            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" >
            <meta-data
                android:name="hwc-theme"
                android:value="androidhwext:style/Theme.Emui.Translucent" />
        </activity>

However, requesting sign in still results in blank activity.  Here is the log:  I am suspecting it has to do with the BridgeActivity??
2020-10-09 16:02:17.063 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_HMSBIInitializer: Builder->biInitFlag :false
2020-10-09 16:02:17.064 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_HMSBIInitializer: Builder->biSetting :false
2020-10-09 16:02:17.065 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_CountryCodeBean: getCountryCode get country code from SIM_COUNTRY
2020-10-09 16:02:17.068 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_CountryCodeBean: getCountryCode get country code from SIM_COUNTRY
2020-10-09 16:02:17.070 20598-20598/? W/NetworkKit_AbstractLocalManager: 20598-20598|null|com.huawei.hms.framework.network.grs.local.a|a|16|addresses not found by routeby in local config{com.huawei.cloud.opensdkhianalytics}
2020-10-09 16:02:17.072 20598-23397/? E/HMSSDK_HMSBIInitializer: get grs failed, the errorcode is -3
2020-10-09 16:02:17.075 1565-3643/? I/ActivityManager: START u0 {act=com.huawei.hms.jos.signIn typ=null flg=0x0 cmp=ComponentInfo{com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity}} from uid 10935
2020-10-09 16:02:17.100 1565-2477/? D/GameManagerService: handleForegroundChange(). pkgName: com.test.test.huawei, clsName: com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity,FgActivityName:com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity
2020-10-09 16:02:17.140 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_[HUAWEIIDSDK]HwIdSignInClientHub: onCreate
2020-10-09 16:02:17.143 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_HiAnalyticsUtil: not ChinaROM
2020-10-09 16:02:17.144 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_HiAnalyticsUtil: Get OOBE failed
2020-10-09 16:02:17.144 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_HmsAPKVersionCheckUtil: ====== HMSSDK version: 40004300 ======
2020-10-09 16:02:17.144 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_HmsAPKVersionCheckUtil: check minVersion:30000000
2020-10-09 16:02:17.148 20598-20598/? E/HMSSDK_X509CertUtil: exception:updatesdkcas.bks
2020-10-09 16:02:17.148 20598-20598/? E/HMSSDK_X509CertUtil: rootCert is null,verify failed
2020-10-09 16:02:17.149 20598-20598/? E/HMSSDK_HMSPackageManager: failed to verify cert chain
2020-10-09 16:02:17.149 20598-20598/? E/HMSSDK_HMSPackageManager: checkSinger failed
2020-10-09 16:02:17.149 20598-20598/? E/HMSSDK_HMSPackageManager: Failed to find HMS apk
2020-10-09 16:02:17.150 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_AvailableAdapter: HMS is not installed
2020-10-09 16:02:17.151 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_AvailableAdapter: enter 4.0 HmsCore upgrade process
2020-10-09 16:02:17.151 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_AvailableAdapter: Start to resolution for the 1st time.
2020-10-09 16:02:17.151 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_AvailableAdapter: startResolution
2020-10-09 16:02:17.156 1565-4083/? I/ActivityManager: START u0 {act=null typ=null flg=0x0 cmp=ComponentInfo{com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.activity.BridgeActivity}} from uid 10935
2020-10-09 16:02:17.184 1565-4083/? V/WindowManager: Relayout Window{fd32694 u0 com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity}: viewVisibility=0 req=720x1336 WM.LayoutParams{(0,0)(fillxfill) sim=#120 ty=1 fl=#1810100 pfl=0x1020000 fmt=-2 wanim=0x1030000 vsysui=0x410 needsMenuKey=2 colorMode=0 naviIconColor=0}
2020-10-09 16:02:17.185 655-655/? I/SurfaceFlinger: id=14264 createSurf (720x1480),1 flag=4, com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity#0
2020-10-09 16:02:17.231 1565-2477/? D/GameManagerService: handleForegroundChange(). pkgName: com.test.test.huawei, clsName: com.huawei.hms.activity.BridgeActivity,FgActivityName:com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.activity.BridgeActivity
2020-10-09 16:02:17.239 1565-3643/? V/WindowManager: finishDrawingLocked: mDrawState=COMMIT_DRAW_PENDING Window{fd32694 u0 com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity} in Surface(name=com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity)
2020-10-09 16:02:17.279 20598-20598/? E/HMSSDK_BridgeActivity: Run time Exception.String resource ID #0x0
2020-10-09 16:02:17.279 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_BridgeActivity: Enter finish.
2020-10-09 16:02:17.301 1565-2477/? D/GameManagerService: handleForegroundChange(). pkgName: com.test.test.huawei, clsName: com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity,FgActivityName:com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity
2020-10-09 16:02:17.316 1565-8502/? V/WindowManager: Relayout Window{fd32694 u0 com.test.test.huawei/com.huawei.hms.hwid.internal.ui.activity.HwIdSignInHubActivity}: viewVisibility=0 req=720x1384 WM.LayoutParams{(0,0)(fillxfill) sim=#120 ty=1 fl=#1810100 pfl=0x1020000 fmt=-2 wanim=0x1030000 vsysui=0x410 needsMenuKey=2 colorMode=0 naviIconColor=0}
2020-10-09 16:02:17.334 20598-20598/? I/HMSSDK_UpdateAdapter: onBridgeActivityDestroy

A: Error code 10020 means invalid parameters.
Can you check if you are adding correct parameter.
Refer Huawei official document on how to sign in using huawei id.

A: Are you using HMS Analytics kit because 10020 code is the error code of analytics kit. Check out error codes of analytics kit:
https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/development/HMSCore-References-V5/android-api-error-code-0000001050987233-V5
If you want to implement Account kit, below are the links which can help you out and may be you will be able to figure it out your problem:

*

*https://forums.developer.huawei.com/forumPortal/en/topicview?tid=0201272938220820099&fid=0101187876626530001

*https://forums.developer.huawei.com/forumPortal/en/topicview?tid=0201206040914750083&fid=0101187876626530001

A: in your sample you are implementing combination of account kit and analytics kit ,analytics kit will return this 10020 Code ,check below URl for you're Implementation purpose Account kit reference
https://forums.developer.huawei.com/forumPortal/en/topicview?tid=0201231030637780065&fid=0101187876626530001

A: In the demo, if you click signin, app will try to get authorization to your Huawei Account. Please check whether you are running on the HMS phone and Huawei account is log in.
The demo in the github is a little old, you can download the code from the official page directly. The github demo will be updated ASAP.

Update:

*

*Please modify the xxx.jks info in the build.gradle file in the app directory.

*Please create a project on the AGC platform and set the SHA256 information in the xxx.jks file on the AGC platform.

*Please download the agconnect-services.json file from the AGC platform and place the file in the app directory of the project.


text:
"""Controllers for fetching the features Oppia provides to its users."""

from __future__ import annotations

from core import feconf
from core.constants import constants
from core.controllers import acl_decorators
from core.controllers import base
from core.domain import config_domain

class ExplorationFeaturesHandler(base.BaseHandler):
    """Returns features the given exploration is configured to support."""

    GET_HANDLER_ERROR_RETURN_TYPE = feconf.HANDLER_TYPE_JSON
    URL_PATH_ARGS_SCHEMAS = {
        'exploration_id': {
            'schema': {
                'type': 'basestring',
                'validators': [{
                    'id': 'is_regex_matched',
                    'regex_pattern': constants.ENTITY_ID_REGEX
                }]
            }
        }
    }
    HANDLER_ARGS_SCHEMAS = {
        'GET': {}
    }

    @acl_decorators.can_play_exploration
    def get(self, exploration_id):
        """Handles GET requests for an exploration's features.

        Args:
            exploration_id: str. The ID of the exploration.
        """
        whitelisted_exploration_ids_for_playthroughs = (
            config_domain.WHITELISTED_EXPLORATION_IDS_FOR_PLAYTHROUGHS.value)
        self.render_json({
            'is_exploration_whitelisted':
                exploration_id in whitelisted_exploration_ids_for_playthroughs,
            'always_ask_learners_for_answer_details':
                config_domain.ALWAYS_ASK_LEARNERS_FOR_ANSWER_DETAILS.value
        })

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
THE CANBERRA TIMES, Canberra, ACT, Australia,
14 June 2002.
One in five kids suffers anxiety
BRISBANE: One in five Australian children suffers from serious anxiety and risk turning into depressed, suicidal teenagers, a conference heard yesterday.
In a keynote address to an international child and adolescent mental health conference in Brisbane, Professor Paula Barrett, of Queensland's Griffith University, said the figures represented a world-wide trend in childhood anxiety.
"We know from studies both in Australia, the US and a variety of countries in Europe that approximately one in every five children will experience a significant degree of impediment as a result of anxiety," she said.
Childhood anxiety was a major psychological risk factor for depression and could lead to suicide - particularly in young males - without early intervention.
Professor Barrett said schools should consider introducing "anti-anxiety" lessons as part of the curriculum to help turn the tide. "Early intervention or prevention of anxiety may be critical in the prevention of depression and suicide, and the school setting is obviously the best window of opportunity," she said.
Professor Barrett said family factors during early childhood and experiences in late primary school, such as bullying and lack of acceptance by peers, played a key role in childhood anxiety and depression.
Some children also became particularly distressed by traumatic events that didn't touch them directly, such as reporting of the September 11 terrorist attacks, or the death of a classmate.
She said there was evidence that some children were born more prone to stress and anxiety than others.
She said if five children - as young as six months old - are taken into a room and the light is switched off, or a strange person enters the room, on average one will experience longer and more severe symptoms of stress such as increased heart rate, sweating and crying.
However, this sensitivity could be mitigated by a stable, nurturing relationship with family and peers.
"Being born sensitive seems to be a risk factor, but if you've got a supportive family and a supportive peer network, these are protective factors that help the child cope quite well with life," she said.
Professor Barrett said sleep deprivation and over-stimulation could increase a child's sensitivity to stress.
Beginning school too early, when a child was not socially or emotionally ready, could also cause anxiety problems, she said.
The professor had devised a program for teaching primary and high school children how to become "emotionally articulate" in 1999.
The program has gained international recognition and been successfully introduced into some Queensland schools.
Evidence is mounting that circumcision of baby boys can cause life-long psychological distress, according to a Queensland academic.
Professor Gregory Boyle, of Bond University, said circumcised boys could suffer long-term symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
Professor Boyle reviewed recent studies and concluded that many children who were circumcised for non-medical reasons were traumatised by the experience. "PTSD-like symptoms may even persist well into adult years," he told the conference.
Young people who play sport are more likely to practise safe sex than those who go to church, according to new research.
The research into the sexual well-being of young Australians also found that people in the 17-19 age bracket who were sexually active were likely to be better adjusted than their virginal peers. The study, presented at the conference, said virgins had the lowest sense of sexual well-being - even below sexually active people who had experienced sexual harassment.
One in five kids suffers anxiety. Canberra Times, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 14 June 2002.
(File prepared 18 June 2002)
http://www.cirp.org/news/canberratimes06-14-02/


text:
Q: how to get access and read message_t data tinyos hello every one i want to ask you if you know a way to extract data from message_t
in the oldest version of TinyOs there are TOS_Msg and TOS_MsgPtr but in message_t i could't find a way please help me
and i want to know if there is any data type to store data like table or array list
typedef nx_struct message_localization{
    nx_uint8_t   NodeId;
    bool       ancre_nature;
    nx_uint8_t   x_coordinate;
    nx_uint8_t   y_coordinate;
    x_uint8_t   energie_transmited;

 } message_localization_t;

A: The Packet interface has a command getPayload which does want you want:
command void *getPayload(message_t *msg, uint8_t len);

See the documentation for more information.
To access the data field, you may do as follows:
message_t msg;
message_localization_t *payload =
    (message_localization_t *)call Packet.getPayload(
        &msg, sizeof(message_localization_t));
payload->x_coordinate = x;
payload->y_coordinate = y;
/* and so on */

The same command is for convenience included in interfaces Send and AMSend. Packet and AMSend are provided by the ActiveMessageC configuration.


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A key strategic objective for BBC England is to transform our offer to serve current and future audiences better. To be England's guarantor of local news; to optimise regional TV news, increase the impact of regional TV politics programmes and reinvent our digital offer and strengthen digital expertise within local teams.
The Head of TV & Online News, England role reports to the Director of BBC England, Helen Thomas, and will be responsible for developing and delivering this strategy, working closely with the other members of the BBC England leadership team, and network colleagues across the BBC, to improve our audience proposition.


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One of our favorite things we get to do as we travel is spend time with friends. This evening we had dinner at some friends' house in New Jersey. Our girls had a blast playing with their two similar aged boys.
Before we arrived at their house, we stopped by Panera Bread and picked up some muffins. The girl behind the counter put them in a gift box and we gave them to our friends when we arrived.
Our friends gave us the greater gift by visiting with us and providing dinner, but we wanted to give a small token of appreciation as well.
What host/hostess gift do you like to give when you are a guest for dinner?
Those look yummy. I might need to make some muffins today!
Did you make your muffins?
And we enjoyed those muffins for our *late* breakfast this morning :). Thank you!
Thanks again for dinner! I imaging your "late" breakfast was still on the early side compared to us. Of course, it was pushing 1am when we got back home.
We like to bring a bottle of wine (if appropriate) or some nice dessert. Those muffins look splendid!
I just clicked over from Musings of a Housewife. So glad you and Jo-Lynne were able to meet in person. I like to stock up on cocktail napkins/small candles/good-smeling handsoaps to give as gifts when someone invites us over.
My favorite things to bring over are homemade treats, homemade bread or some of my homemade apple butter.


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Kennard-Dale beat Gettysburg in overtime on Saturday in girls' basketball.
That win clinched the outright York-Adams Division II title for the Rams.
Dallastown beat Central on Saturday to clinch a tie for D-I girls' crown.
The Kennard-Dale girls' basketball team is the York-Adams League Division II champion.
The road to that championship on Saturday night, however, was anything but easy.
The Rams first had to make the 90-minute bus ride to Gettysburg and then they had to work a little overtime.
In the end, however, K-D emerged with the 49-41 OT triumph and the program's first division title since 2010, when K-D shared the crown with Spring Grove. It's the Rams' first outright division championship since 2002.
The Rams trailed by eight points in the fourth quarter before rallying to tie it at 36-36 on a late basket by Megan Halczuk. The Rams dominated in overtime, outscoring Gettysburg 13-5.
Halczuk, Lexie Kopko and Jaedyn McKeon paced a balanced K-D attack with 10 points, while Chadler Swanson added nine and Megan Thomas chipped in eight.
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K-D improved to 19-2 overall and 12-1 in Y-A D-II. Second-place Gettysburg fell to 17-4 and 10-3.
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Dallastown sits at No. 2 in the latest District 3 6-A power ratings.
Delone takes outright D-III championship: Delone captured the outright D-III championship on Saturday with a 56-40 win over Bermudian Springs.
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This lady tried to arrest a Latino couple for using a park near her house.
With the proliferation of camera phones, we get to see a lot more of the world that used to be relegated to "swear to God"-style stories. You know, the sort of thing that we all believed happened, in some respects, but everyone exaggerates for the sake of a good story, right?
The ability of just about everyone to record video means we can confirm our wildest tales, from the sickest drunken backflips to the the weirdest strangers. And that definitely includes random drunk biddies going peak wypipo. When we last checked in with this sub-genre of viral video, the internet was going wild over a racist old lady in a hotel lobby learning that punks jump up to get beat down. While this latest instance is less immediately satisfying, it does confirm the theory that well-manicured subdivisions have as much trash as anywhere else. In the case of tonier addresses, they've just replaced broken glass with racist SUV drivers.
That's how we end up with this walking embodiment of Pensacola trying to make a citizen's arrest on a Mexican family trying to go to the park. Apparently, she thought they were in the neighborhood to "do drugs" — y'all remember driving to the local cul-de-sac to gear up? — and decided to flop on their car rather than letting them pass.
The confrontation starts in media res, with the woman already yelling at the family for daring to drive on a public street near her. She's sitting on the hood of the family's car to keep them from moving.
Agitated, but wanting to end the situation, the passenger asks if she wants to check them. As all idiots do when they're given a chance to see they're wrong, the woman starts arguing about something else.
She then seems confused about who was driving, asking the passenger for his license and insisting that he was the driver. When he points out that he's the passenger she accuses him of lying.
Meanwhile, the actual driver is on the phone with her mom, clearly freaked and trying to figure out how to get out of the situation. She keeps calling the cameraman back into to the car, concerned about what the crazy lady who has decided to make a citizen's arrest for the offense of using the park near her house might do.
Unfortunately, the video cuts out before we get any sort of resolution. My guess is mom came through with the clutch "remember, your car can go in reverse" advice. At least that would have been my advice. Roll backward and let her eat dirt, just call me Abby.
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Smith featured in 'Meet the Rookies' series
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The first of ChicagoBears.com's four-part series "Meet the Rookies" features first-round draft pick Roquan Smith, an inside linebacker from Georgia.
Growing up in Montezuma, Ga, a tiny town with a population of 3,500, Smith learned the values that helped him earn his way to the NFL.
"The neighborhood and the community I grew up in, you fight for everything and everything you get you pretty much have to earn it," Smith said. "I feel like what my family instilled in me was not to take anything lightly and just to take advantage of everything because you never know."
Smith also discusses how he first started playing football at the age of six and fell in love with the game immediately. In high school, his determination and drive were evident to head coach Larry Harold.
"He's worked relentlessly," Harold said. "People always wonder what makes successful people successful. I've had a front row seat to watch. He's different. He's going to work in the classroom and at the practice field. He's the hardest worker. There's nothing that he won't do to be successful."
The "Meet the Rookies" series will continue the rest of the week, featuring inside linebacker Joel Iyiegbuniwe Tuesday, receiver Anthony Miller Wednesday and offensive lineman James Daniels Thursday. The series, brought to you by PNC, tells the story of each player's journey to the NFL in their own words.
The episodes will be released on ChicagoBears.com, the free Chicago Bears Official App brought to you by Verizon and Bears social media channels, including Facebook Watch.
This marks the fourth year of the Bears "Meet the Rookies" series.
The series will culminate with a 30-minute special hosted by Bears radio play-by-play announcer Jeff Joniak featuring all four episodes on WFLD FOX 32 on Saturday, June 30, at 9:30 p.m.
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A few notes from last night's Trinity River symposium.
Driving to work on Wednesday along a neighborhood street in North Oak Cliff, I saw a hawk hovering over a dead squirrel, a piece of flesh hanging from the bird's mouth. I steered around it and drove past, not thinking much of it. Dr. Robert Moon, the Nasher's horticulturist, had a similar anecdote at D Magazine's Wednesday night symposium on what to do about the Trinity River. One of his clients had called him, he told an audience of about 275 people in an auditorium at Cityplace. There was a red-tailed hawk in the client's tree, and animal parts were tumbling down.
The wild is part of the fabric of Dallas. Neighborhood Facebook groups light up with alerts about coyote and fox sightings, urging residents to bring pets inside at night. When we walk along the banks at White Rock, or between the levees on the Trinity, we're mindful that there could be snakes beneath our feet. We don't notice the white ibis birds on the water as we're driving along an interstate near the river; they look like white blurs, just part of the landscape. No matter how hard we've tried to bend the river to our desires—by damming it, by sticking concrete in it to create sham rapids—its influence sneaks in between our freeways and our skyscrapers and our condominiums. The sunflowers bloom in the summer. The native blackland prairie grasses near White Rock that were mowed for decades grow back. There's evidence of nature in plenty of places if we'd just look; bending the river to our will has not worked.
That existential conflict—how Dallas has failed for generations to appreciate the Trinity River, what we should do going forward—was the heart of the symposium. Over the decades, we've seen nine different plans for the Trinity and not much else. The park has been used as a bargaining chip, its promise tied directly to a toll road or, as former councilwoman Angela Hunt dug up in the central library, a canal. If you want to see how close the road came to being built, drive over the Sylvan Avenue Bridge. There's not a better place in Dallas to see the skyline, but it's built so high that something like a toll road could easily fit under it. The street previously was at grade.
In 2015, the Army Corps of Engineers okayed the Balanced Vision Plan, a $14 million project that attempted to do just that. It included two versions of the plan, one with a road and one without. It spanned the 2,300 acres in the floodway, from where the east and west forks of the Trinity meet to the Trinity Forest. Don Raines, the Balanced Vision Plan's landscape designer, joined lead architect Ignacio Bunster-Ossa in urging the crowd to realize just how unique an opportunity this is. It shouldn't be approached like Central Park; it shouldn't even be Houston's Buffalo Bayou.
We can begin building the plan without a road immediately. Listening to three panels—the first with the lead designers and consultants of the plan, the next with three naturalists, and the final one with current and former elected officials—the Trinity is a story of unintended consequences. The city meddles, and the environment falters. For instance: despite assurances from Mayor Mike Rawlings and then City Manager Mary Suhm that this wouldn't happen, developers whacked down hundreds of trees to dig a borrow pit for dirt used in the construction of a golf course in the Trinity Forest to lure the Byron Nelson tournament from Irving. That borrow pit has been out of compliance with state environmental regulations since January.
Anyone paying attention knows what came next—a so-called Dream Team of urban planners and designers coalesced under famed landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh's $250 million proposal to again attempt to morph the Trinity into an amenity-packed attraction, complete with water mazes and grand promenades. Anchia referred to Van Valkenburgh as Van Helsing ("I can never pronounce the last name … I'm a first generation American citizen!"), and noted his concern that it's another example of Dallas over-engineering.
"I would hate to see that happen," he said.


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Year 9 students showcase entrepreneurial and digital skills in annual #UnitedApp2016 competition
In its second year, the #UnitedApp2016 competition saw Year 9 students from around the country develop their business skills, critical thinking and digital development in a contest to design the best concept for an educational application.
This year, 1,500 students competed for the chance to create an educational app designed to address one of their learning needs, which would then be transformed into an actual real application on the app store for future students to download and use.
"Who better to understand student education needs than the students themselves?" Victoria Russell-Robbins, enrichments lead at United Learning, asked. "We hoped with this competition to tap into the unique perspectives of today digitally native students, and engage them in the learning process."
Kicking off in October, 2015, the competition began with a school roadshow tour by 7billionideas – a company who help individuals, businesses and students realise the full potential in their ideas. Over the course of just 21 days, the 7 billionideas team visited 38 United Learning schools around the country to present the competition, and teach students about how to brainstorm for ideas, how to find their true voice, and self-confidence and business skills.
"We used the roadshow as an opportunity to get students really engaged with the competition concept, and give them a sense of empowerment so they were able to take their ideas, and translate them into something that could be real," explained David Harkin, group CEO of 7billionideas.
This roadshow very successfully inspired student teams to take action. In total, 444 teams, which represented 1,500 Year 9 students from around the UK submitted initial ideas, and the 50 best entries made it through to the competition's video round. These totals essentially doubled the interest of the competition's inaugural year, which achieved 181 team entries from 700 students.
During the video round, 10 final teams were selected. At this stage, judges looked for teams who presented a clear idea and showed a passion for their app design. They also looked for uniqueness of the ideas and teamwork visible in their video entries.
In the months that followed, the ten finalists were mentored by school and industry professionals from United Learning and 7billionideas, competition sponsors IDNS, Casio Projectors, and Clevertouch, and IBM, who hosted the final event.
The finale event
The ten final teams represented the best and brightest of the countries students, with all regions being represented for real diversity of ideas in the presentation room. The day began with an icebreaking presentation from Harkin, who imparted the teams with final advice before the presentations began.
They kept student spirits high by breaking down into a team-building 'Marshmallow Challenge' – where students were challenged to build the tallest possible tower with string, spaghetti, tape, and one marshmallow. This was to help encourage teamwork and create a relaxed atmosphere ahead of the presentations.
We were blown away by the quality of the ideas, and the solutions which #UnitedApp2016's student's created as part of the competition. In all honesty, we could have left the final event with 10 workable apps, and we are so excited to see where our student teams take their ideas in the future
Over lunchtime, student teams met for one final time with their mentors from United Learning and sponsors IDNS, Clevertouch, and Casio Projectors, as well as a graduate student mentor from IBM Careers. Within these groups, they finessed their presentations and prepared for judges questions. The 10 teams had an inspiring set of app ideas that they brought to the table during the competition presentations, which gave the judges and mentors real insight into the educational challenges these students faced.
Students at Northampton Academy designed "Xperience Learning", an app to help 6th form, college and university students find work experience and internship opportunities through gamification. A Buzzfeed-style quiz would match student interests and career aspirations with jobs and work placement opportunities.
Sheffield Park Academy students created an education bucket list of outings or experiences – such as trips to museums or heritage sites of interest – that students can "earn" through good behaviour or academic performance. Based on their own experiences of moving and transitioning schools, Surbiton High School students created "SKL4U" to help students moving schools research where to go to help them make their choice. It would pull data from websites, newsletters and Ofsted reports into a single interface for students.
The Wye School designed an app called "The World Changers" to promote global understanding, helping students to stop focussing on selfies, and think about 'everybody elsesies'. Their idea would see information on development goals and global issues combined with cultural and historical stats, to create a learning portal. This would then provide information on charities, activism ideas, and weekly challenges based around issues students found interesting.
Richard Rose Morton Academy chose to focus on a reality for Year 9 students – their impending GCSE's. Their app, "Y9FE" would use psychometric testing to highlight different GCSE pathways for students based on their interests and academic strengths to ease some of the stress of selecting GCSE subjects.
Responding to the fact that finance and money is not taught as a priority in schools, yet is fundamentally important in university and business life, Greenacre School for Girls designed "Financial Helper" to teach students aged 11-18 core financial concepts. To cover off all stages and uses for money for young people the app is broken down into parts. Your Money covers the basics, Buying Stuff focuses on purchasing power, tax and credit cards, and The Future prepares students for loans, mortgages and other mature financial concepts.
Glenmoor and Winton Academy created an exercise and tracking app called "Fitness Pro", centred around boosting self-esteem and making exercise more accessible. A short quiz would determine their users age, ability, and goals to suggest ideal exercises, and the app would then visually guide them through the training sequence to help them achieve their desired result.
"Bully No More" by Swindon Academy provided students a reporting app for bullying incidences which allows student to send reports – either anonymously or not – directly to schools. Setting it apart from other bullying apps, access would be free and not require log-ins, providing a welcome atmosphere for students to share their concerns.
John Smeaton Academy designed an e-praise app which would develop a feedback loop on student performance directly between parents and teachers. Through pictures and scans of student work, as well as their own feedback, teachers can help parents become more involved with their children's education.
Wrapping up the presentations, Guildford High School presented "Chemmotion", a curriculum based virtual science lab for students to participate in set practicals, regardless of access to lab facilities. The students discovered that 70% of UK schools don't have equipped lab facilities, and there is unequal funding of science per student (from £80 to .04p) leading in poor science results, and low uptake in engineering and maths degrees and careers. The app would also allow for a bit of fun in its 'free mode' where students would be able to mix any virtual chemicals to learn their reactions, without risk.
These ideas were presented in front of a panel of four industry professionals, who analysed the entries based on if they demonstrated a clear description of the idea, the impact the idea would have, the uniqueness of the idea, the plans to promote the idea, the teamwork and passion in the idea and how the team answered questions. The esteemed judges were Charlotte Wallis from 7billionideas, Dominic Norrish from United Learning, Darren Clayman from IDNS and Jez Brooks from IBM.
The student teams each did a fantastic job and clearly demonstrated how far they had come over the course of the competition, so several awards were handed out. Richard Rose Morton Academy & Y9FE were awarded "Best Video" for their silent movie-themed presentation. Guildford High School & Chemmotion were awarded "Best Presentation" for their research, composure, preparation and presenting skills.
Third place was awarded to The Wye School and The World Changers, and Northampton Academy's Xperience Learning took home second place. The winning application though, which will see sponsors IDNS, Clevertouch and Casio transform into an app store offering in the next six months was Greenacre School for Girls' entry, Financial Helper, addressing the real problems around financial education young people face.
Phil Clark, head of projection at Casio UK explained, "We were blown away by the quality of the ideas, and the solutions which #UnitedApp2016's student's created as part of the competition. In all honesty, we could have left the final event with 10 workable apps, and we are so excited to see where our student teams take their ideas in the future."
Myles, student at Glenmoor and Winton Academy perfectly summed up the event: "The #UnitedApp2016 competition was a good way to learn how to express our ideas effectively. Most of the time, you have loads of ideas, but nothing ever comes of them – they stay in your mind. This competition taught us how to elaborate on those ideas, as it helps people build their confidence to see things through. It helped to give us all confidence, taught us teamwork, and how most of all to have faith in our own ideas."
The #UnitedApp2016 Final took place on 10 March at IBM Warwick. Learn more about the competition at https://unitedlearning.org.uk/News/ArtMID/476/ArticleID/497/Greenacre-Students-are-Crowned-UnitedApp2016-Winners
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Noonan, worked to allow some processing of email reviews.
and comments returned to authors via the postal system.
Overall, the paper submission and reviewing process was dictated, largely, by paper-based technology, with papers and reviews transmitted by postal mail.
1999, Walker worked with two students, Weichao Ma and Dorene Mboya, and two technical consultants, Wayne Twitchell and Theresa P. Walker, to develop a system that allowed either online or paper submissions. (At this stage, electronic submission was encouraged, but paper served as an alternative for those accustomed to the traditional approach or those with limited internet access.) The next year, almost all papers were submitted electronically, and with SIGCSE 2002, electronic submission was required.
Within a few years, John Dooley joined the collaborative team, and this system was used extensively for over a decade. Pragmatically, the introduction of an online system had several anticipated and important consequences.
Logistics of submission, paper handling, reviewer assignment, paper distribution to reviewers, recording of reviews, paper selection, and feedback to reviewers were greatly streamlined.
The number of reviewers per paper could be expanded, since paper duplication and mailing were no longer required.
After reviews were completed, they could be distributed easily to authors, allowing efficient refining of accepted papers based on feedback.
posium were evaluated and selected through a peer-review process, and, as previously reported, only about one-third of submissions have been accepted for almost three decades. Details of the review and selection process, however, have evolved substantially through this period, following at least two challenging principles.
• Program committees have encouraged all interested SIGCSE members to collaborate in the reviewing process. In contrast to many conferences, in which reviewers are screened by conference leaders, SIGCSE has valued the wide range of perspectives of its full membership.
• Program committees, of course, sought to accept the papers most appropriate, based both on overall quality and on the desire to organize a wide-ranging program. For example, if numerous papers discussed CS1/CS2 and few considered operating systems, a balanced program might include the best of both CS1/CS2 and operating systems, even if overall ratings for one area might be higher or lower than those for papers in the other area.
As an example of the challenges of paper selection, SIGCSE 2000 received 219 submissions, and each paper was distributed to at least four of 482 reviewers. With the scope of this process, attention needed to be paid to different perspectives and priorities among the many reviews received—altogether a challenging task for symposium leadership.
As might be expected, details of the submission and reviewing process have evolved substantially over the years, often reflecting practical opportunities and limitations of technology as it evolved. Although program committees refined the submission and review process regularly over the years, logistics, policies, and procedures may be divided into roughly three main phases.
• Reviewing in the 1990s: Throughout the 1990s, paper submission and review primarily utilized physical paper.
• An author would print n copies of a paper and mail the copies to the program chair. The submission deadline might be based on when the mail was postmarked, when the submission was received, or some combination.
• The program chair would retain one copy for later processing, assign reviewers, and mail the remaining n − 1 copies to reviewers.
• Reviewers would send reviews to the program chair.


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Many U.S. companies looking to strengthen their position in the Mexican market will choose to incorporate a Mexican subsidiary sales office. Having a local subsidiary offers many advantages not otherwise available to companies exporting or doing business in Mexico, including:
Delivering goods and services directly to Mexican customers supported by a Mexican invoices (factura)
Contracting local sales personnel on a full-time basis
Bidding on government contracts otherwise reserved for Mexican suppliers
Contracting and developing an in-house network of distributors
Once a U.S. exporter decides to incorporate in Mexico, the next step is to choose the appropriate business entity. Mexican law recognizes the following:
(1) Limited liability stock corporation or "sociedad anonima"
(2) Limited liability company or "sociedad de responsabilidad limitada"
(3) General partnership or "sociedad en nombre colectivo"
(4) Limited partnership or "sociedad en comandita simple"
(5) Limited partnership with shares or "sociedad en comandita por acciones"
(6) Cooperative association or "sociedad cooperativa"
Each of these entities may be organized as a variable capital company (sociedad de capital variable).
LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATIONS
One choice for U.S. companies is to create a limited liability stock corporation or "sociedad anonima" with variable capital ("S.A. de C.V."), parallel to a typical closely-held U.S. corporation.
The steps to incorporate an S.A. de C.V. are the following:
A permit from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must be obtained for the use of the corporate name. Three names are provided to the Ministry in order of preference, and the name is authorized on that basis. If all three choices are unavailable, a new list must be submitted. The name authorization takes one or two days to process. Once authorized, the interested party has 90 business days to incorporate or the authorization expires.
Each shareholder must grant a special power of attorney to the individual(s) in Mexico designated to carry out the incorporation tasks (usually the company's Mexican attorney or attorneys). The powers of attorney must be notarized by a local notary public in the United States, and apostilled by the State Secretary of State's office or in accordance with the Hague Convention. Then the power of attorney must be translated into Spanish by an official translator, and notarized by a notary public in Mexico (notario público).
The company's articles of incorporation must be formalized before a Mexican notario público and registered in the Public Registry of Commerce that corresponds to the company address. The company's articles and bylaws will generally include:
a) The name and type of company
b) The number of shareholders and their names, nationalities, and percentages of ownership
c) The company's corporate address; that is, its principal place of business in Mexico
d) The company's specific corporate purpose (a statement of "any lawful business activity" is not acceptable)
e) The duration of the company, which may be for an indefinite period of time or a certain number of years
f) The type and amount of stock or ownership interests
g) Management rules and powers of attorney enjoyed by managers
h) Appointment of managers, and designation of individuals who will sign in the company's representation
i) Method of dividing profits and losses among partners/shareholders
j) Amount of the reserve fund
k) Causes for premature dissolution of the company
l) Procedure for dissolving the company
m) Method for appointing liquidators
n) The designation of the examiner, who is responsible for overseeing the company officers' compliance with corporate law. The examiner may be a shareholder but not a company employee or board member. Usually, the company's external auditor in Mexico is the appointed examiner.
o) The names of the individuals to receive powers of attorney from the company and the types of power granted. There are three types of general powers of attorney: acts of administration, lawsuits and collections, and acts of dominion. All three powers are granted to the board of directors to be exercised jointly by all of its members. However, powers of attorney for claims and collections, acts of administration, and authority to open and close bank accounts are granted individually to the general manager or to the person who will be handling the company's normal business activities.
p) Procedure for transferring shares and increasing and decreasing capital
Another vehicle available under the Company Law is a sociedad de responsabilidad limitada, or a limited liability company ("SRL"). An SRL is formed by a minimum of two members and a maximum of fifty. The members' obligations are limited to the payment of their equity contributions, but their interest cannot be represented by negotiable certificates. Unless otherwise agreed, members share in profits and losses in proportion to their ownership interest.
The main reason many U.S. investors choose an SRL is that the company is treated as a partnership for U.S. tax purposes, and the taxation of both the members and the company/partnership in the United States is avoided. Moreover, when filing their U.S. tax returns, the individual members may offset the SRL's gains and losses with their other gains and losses from similar partnerships in the U.S. or abroad.
The procedures for organizing a limited liability company are basically the same as the procedures for a corporation.
Under Mexican corporate law, a foreign company may conduct business in Mexico by registering a branch office. Since registered branches are legal entities in Mexico, they may open bank accounts and issue invoices. Branches are considered a permanent establishment in Mexico for tax purposes.
A branch office, however, does not have a separate legal existence from the foreign company, which may be liable for acts performed by the branch in Mexico. On the other hand, if a Mexican company is established, it will have limited liability and the foreign parent cannot not be held liable for the acts or omissions of the Mexican subsidiary. In other words, the corporate veil of a Mexican entity cannot be pierced to reach its shareholders' assets.
Branch offices are also rather uncommon in Mexico and may encounter a degree of general resistance in doing business.
OTHER CORPORATE START-UP REGISTRATIONS
Regardless of the chosen vehicle, once the incorporation is complete the new entity must carry out the following actions before becoming operational:
Obtain a federal taxpayer identification number from the Federal Taxpayers' Registry. This number permits the company to conduct business, open bank accounts, invoice customers, pay employees, and deduct taxes from employees' wages. To obtain a taxpayer number, the company must have a corporate address.
Enroll in the National Registry of Foreign Investment. Under the Foreign Investment Law (FIL), all foreign firms and Mexican firms with foreign participation must register and file annual reports on the nature of the investment and its results. The FIL also spells out the specific sectors in which foreign investment is restricted or limited. Thus, prior to incorporating in Mexico, U.S. firms are advised to consult with their legal advisor about the FIL regulation of their proposed Mexican activity.
Obtain an importer's license (prior to importing raw materials, equipment, machinery or any other goods).
Ensure that foreign shareholders (companies and individuals) in the company notify Hacienda that they have acquired shares in a Mexican company.
Enroll both the company and the workers in Mexico's Social Security Institute (IMSS), Workers' Housing Fund (INFONAVIT), Retirement Savings Fund (SAR), and related institutions.
Prepare and execute employment agreements or a collective bargaining agreement between the Mexican subsidiary and its Mexican employees, in accordance with Mexican labor law.
Last Update: September 2006.


Other Close Contact. Touching distance within 3 feet (1 meter) of person with flu. Close contact includes kissing, hugging or sharing eating and drinking utensils. It also includes close conversations. Direct contact with secretions of a person with flu is also close contact. Includes being in the same child care center room or carpool.
Not Close Contact – In same building. Walking by a person or sitting in a room briefly is not close contact. Being in the same school, church, workplace or building also is not close contact.
Not Close Contact – In same town. Living in a town where there are people with the flu is not close contact. Living in the same state or country (such as Mexico) carries no added risk.
The AAP recommends they be used for any patient with severe symptoms. They also recommend the drugs for most HIGH-RISK children. See that list.
The AAP doesn't recommend antiviral drugs for LOW-RISK children with mild flu symptoms.
Influenza Close Contact within last 7 days AND your child is HIGH-RISK. See the list of children at High-Risk for complications of flu.
For most healthy people, the symptoms of influenza are like those of a common cold.
The treatment of influenza depends on your child's main symptoms. It is no different from treatment used for other viral colds and coughs.
Your child doesn't need any special tests.
You should call your doctor if your child is HIGH-RISK for complications of flu. These are children with chronic diseases. Examples of such diseases are asthma or a weak immune system. See the HIGH-RISK list. Also, healthy children under 2 years of age are HIGH-RISK.
For LOW-RISK children, you don't need to see your child's doctor. If your child develops a complication of the flu, then call your child's doctor. Examples of complications are an earache or trouble breathing. These problems are included in the "When to Call Your Doctor" section.
Tamiflu is the main antiviral drug used to treat influenza in children.
The AAP recommends it be used for any patient with severe symptoms. They also recommend the drug for most HIGH-RISK children. See that list. Mainly, it is used for children in the hospital or those with chronic diseases.
Your child can return to school after the fever is gone. (CDC 2009).
Avoid ERs and urgent care clinics if you don't need to go. These are places where you are more likely to be exposed to flu.
Stay home from school or work while sick with fever. Your child can return to school after the fever is gone for 24 hours. (CDC 2009).
Tamiflu can be used to prevent the flu. It may be prescribed after close contact with a person who has flu.
But, it is only advised for HIGH-RISK patients (CDC). See that list.
Tamiflu is a prescription anti-viral drug. It is helpful in treating the flu virus.
For best results, these drugs should be started within 48 hours of flu symptoms.
For HIGH-RISK children, call your child's doctor at the start of flu symptoms.
The drug Tamiflu may help prevent flu.
It may be prescribed after close contact with a person who has flu.
But, it is only advised for HIGH-RISK patients (CDC). The HIGH-RISK group includes chronic diseases. It also includes children with health problems, such as heart or lung disease. See the HIGH-RISK list. It also includes healthy children under 2 years.
It is helpful only while your child is taking it. It won't prevent flu once your child stops taking it.
Your child should only take Tamiflu if your child's doctor advises it.
If a HIGH-RISK adult has close contact with flu, call their doctor. Do this within 24 hours. The HIGH-RISK adult group includes chronic disease, pregnant, or over 65. Reason: May need anti-viral medicine.
Doctors and the CDC are opposed to this practice. The AAP and your State's Public Health Department also do not support this.
Close contact includes kissing, hugging, or sharing eating or drinking utensils. It also includes close conversations within 3 feet (1 meter). Being in the same child care group or car pool is also close contact.