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Q: Liferay: Is it possible to define initialization dependency by portlets? I have two portlets: Portlet-A and Portlet-B.
Portlet-A make some data initialization and stores this in shared scope.
Portlet-B during initialization requires this data (from Portlet-A) from shared scope.
However, I need to define that Portlet-A has to be started (rendered) before the Portlet-B.
Is it possible by Liferay to define some order of initialization, or something like portlet dependency?

A: If I understand correctly, you require Portlet-A to be rendered before Portlet-B on the same page.
Then you can define this in the liferay-portlet.xml: <render-weight>50</render-weight> the more the render-weight the more quickly the portlet will render or in other words if the render-weight of Portlet-B is less than Portlet-A then it will render after Portlet-A.
More explanation regarding render-weight in the DTD
Hope this helps.

A: As per my knowledge, Liferay does lazy loading for portlets, so you cannot gurantee the order of the portlet initialization as well as portlet doView() calling.
The problem you are facing is the common issue whenever you are working with multiple portlets on a single page.
Here, the common workaround is that, the setter portlet (in your case portlet A) should set the property in the processAction() method and getter portlet( portlet B) should take that from doView().
The reason is because, you cannot gurantee the order of the doView() but, if you are firing actionURL, the processAction() will always be called before doView().
So, the attribute will be available to all other portlet while rendering UI. Guranteed!

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Q: How can I change the format of an IMEI number list to include spaces? Ok, so basically I have a CSV file with a list of phones and their IMEI numbers which consists of a 15 digit number - currently formatted like so "000000000000000"  and I need take that list from the csv and generate ouput IMEI format to "00 000000 000000 0" A space after the first 2 digits, one space after the next six, and finally a space before the last, but I am not sure how to go about it :(
import csv

file_csv = input("enter file name: \n")
phone_imei=[]

with open(file_csv, "r") as f:
reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter = ',')
for row in reader:
    phone_imei.append(row[3])  # list of IMEI in this row#
location_file.close()

print(phone_imei)

A: My starting assumption is you are able to get a list of strings from your csv file into list phone_imei.
For the string format you desire, you need to use string slicing / indexing. Conveniently, this is the same as for lists, so see Understanding Python's slice notation.
Here is one example:
x = "123456789123456"
res = x[:2] + ' ' + x[2:8] + ' ' + x[8:14] + ' ' + x[14]

'12 345678 912345 6'

You can incorporate this logic in a couple of ways.
As you go along...
def string_formatter(x):
    """Format telephone number with spaces."""
    return x[:2] + ' ' + x[2:8] + ' ' + x[8:14] + ' ' + x[14]

for row in reader:
    phone_imei.append(string_formatter(row[3]))

At the end...
phone_imei = list(map(string_formatter, phone_imei))
# equivalently, phone_imei = [string_formatter(i) for i in phone_imei]


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Haley's Poker Blog
No bad beats, but still a poker blog... hence the anguish.
Just Conjecturin', Part 3: The 56% Solution
Author's note: This piece is a combination of known facts and conjecture based on the best available public information. Anyone with concrete facts related to these matters is welcome to submit those facts to me, with documentation, so any errors contained herein can be corrected.
One thing about legal maneuvers is that they always leave a paper trail… somewhere. Such was the case when the assets of the original Excapsa, the holding company for online site UltimateBet, were scheduled for liquidation as part of the plan for moving forward after the late 2006 passage of the United States' Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). While the question of whether Internet poker is or is not legal remains legally untested in the US, the people behind Excapsa decided that a restructuring and sale of the firm was in order, to better shield it from the potential threat of US prosecution or seizure. The signing of the UIGEA also meant that Excapsa had to abandon a public stock offering made just months earlier on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Excapsa itself would soon go away, at least in name.
The plan the owners came up with seems to have been two-pronged. Prong one was to sell the various portions of the business – already split into several international firms and holding companies – into a brand new holding company, picking up new investment and a new management structure that would further shield UB from the ominous threat of the US. The second prong involved getting rid of the "Excapsa" name entirely and drawing down some of the excess capital held by the firm, to be returned as a capital gains dividend to shareholders. For this purpose a Canadian legal firm, Mintz and Partners, was subsequently retained.
Moving operational control of UB farther from US reach was, of course, vital to UB's interests moving forward. What was needed was a "white knight" to create plausible distance. This white knight, the new investment group, was named Blast-Off Limited, and was officially owned and operated by Tokwiro Enterprises, the firm created by Joseph Tokwiro Norton. More on Norton and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission in a future post, but for this tale Norton's interest in Blast-Off is the topic. Norton has been represented in Blast-Off Ltd. press releases as the sole owner of the firm, though numbers associated with the public sale of Excapsa's "sale" to Blast-Off suggest that the "sole ownership" claim made by Norton is highly debatable. Instead it seems likely that Tokwiro purchased a minority share in the entity responsible for distributing dividends, along with operational control, with the original Excapsa owners set up with some form of irrevocable "consultant" status tied in percentage terms to the previous Excapsa shareholdings. After all, it matters not who owns something on paper; instead, it matters wholly who gets paid what.
The sale, announced on October 14, 2006, stated that the total purchase price was $130 million, with only $10 million of that paid at the time of purchase, and the rest of the purchase price to be made in deferred payment installments. In fact, that press release was partially a lie: court documents later showed that the initial cash payment made by Tokwiro's Blast-Off firm was for only $5 million, not $10 million, with the figure perhaps doubled to at least make it sound a little bit less than the panic move most onlookers thought it was. The real remainder of the purchase, $125 million, was subject to be paid mostly through monthly installments of $1 million, to be accelerated to $2 million monthly one year later, and to be paid off in its entirety by December 31, 2012. The sale itself was decried by British stock market onlookers as being illegal, in part because of the deferred payments.
Illegal or not, the sale went into effect, and as part of the sale itself, Excapsa "went away". Even though the folks behind Excapsa were still in line to be paid, Excapsa's name was changed to the far more anonymous "6356095 Canada, Ltd." Phone number? Canadian government-assigned, sequential incorporation number? Who knows?
As the dust settled following the passage of the UIGEA, operations continued to move forward at UB and sister firm Absolute Poker. The two firms had grown ever closer through the years, and one of three major merger rumors floating when the UIGEA became law was that UB would be purchased by Absolute. This rumor can now be seen as being partly true. According to letters later made public, the management team from Absolute was brought in to oversee operations at UB following the official sale, and two years later the firms were joined together into the CEREUS Network.
Meanwhile, there was the matter of cashing out that $47 million in liquid assets. Mintz and Partners was brought on in early 2007, and one of the liquidator's first moves was to shift $40 million of relatively fluid investments from funds in Canadian and US dollars over to British pounds. As this occurred roughly in the timeframe of the massive US seizure of roughly $150 million from online payment processor NETeller, it seems plausible that these transfers were done to move the assets away from any possible US seizure. $27 million was soon distributed to 6356095 Canada (formerly Excapsa) shareholders in the first part of 2007, but trouble was brewing; there would be no dividends in 2008.
The trouble, of course, was the explosion of the online cheating scandals, first at Absolute Poker and then UltimateBet. Absolute Poker's scandal will be another "future posts" topic, though it's worth noting that the earlier insider cheating occurred at UltimateBet, even though Absolute's scandal broke first.
While allegations of insider cheating had dogged both rooms for some time, it was in September of 2007 that the first insurmountable evidence in the Absolute scandal emerged, that being the notorious "Potripper" tournament spreadsheet, plus statistical analyses of high-end cash-game play that showed impossible profits.
Over at UltimateBet, the accusations began to heat up in November, 2007, but it wasn't until January of 2008 that a similar impossible-results analysis showed that the UB account "NioNio" was almost certainly involved in insider cheating. And after a delay of a couple weeks, UltimateBet finally issued a release in February, 2008, admitting that the site had been affected – perhaps infected – by inside cheaters.
But here's where it gets snaky: Blast-Off Limited suspended its monthly payments to 6356095 Canada, but not in February 2008, when the UB scandal was officially acknowledged. Instead, Blast-Off stopped its payments in September, 2007, when only the AP scandal was officially on the radar.
The AP scandal rocked the poker world, and blame was eventually assigned to a single anonymous "consultant," whose identity has long since been widely distributed and who was likely only a "consultant" for legal and tax purposes, much as the consultant example conjectured above. But if the AP management was also responsible for UB day-to-day control during 2007, then why would Blast-Off have stopped making payments in September of 2007? One would think a firm exposed as having at least one rotten egg would be more than eager to keep its proverbial ducks in a row, but instead the opposite seems to have been true… with the likeliest reason being that the cheating at UB had also been uncovered at the same time, though it wasn't publicly acknowledged until the poker world slapped irrefutable evidence at the company's virtual feet over the next several months.
This is one of the reasons why it remains difficult to have any confidence in things stated by or on behalf of UltimateBet. The poker world has been told "new owners, new management," though this and other obfuscations have been done under the aegis of at least some of that new management.
Meanwhile, negotiations were on. Blast-Off, which officially held Joe Norton's newly acquired interest in UB, was exposed to fraud claims and refunds which might eventually reach tens of millions of dollars, and it had evidence that the fraud was enabled through software code long buried in the software it had purchased. Failing to issue refunds would result in the company going under and leave Blast-Off with nothing to show for its investments. Therefore, along with the original Excapsa ownership bloc, the two sides needed to hammer out a way to keep the company operational and restructure payments due to the "damaged" nature of the company, all while trying to manage the ongoing liquidation of the original Excapsa holding company. Blast-Off filed against Excapsa/6356095 Canada to protect its newly acquired interest, though court documents regarding the later dumping of liquidator Mintz and Partners show that the two sides also tried to work out a loan deal, wherein Excapsa reinvested some of their liquid assets back into Blast-Off to help get the company through the rough patch that 2008 promised to be.
But as far as I can tell from the available documents, while both the Blast-Off and Excapsa sides were fine with the proposed loan deal, it was the liquidation attorneys, Mintz and Partners, who refused to go along with it. Therefore, to reinvest some of the liquid assets back into the firm and prepare for the pending wave of refunds, the UB folks had to dump the liquidator. Mintz and Partners had also been acquired by North American accounting giant Deloitte and Touche by this time, which may have been an additional complication.
Replacing the liquidator required a majority vote of all original Excapsa shareholders, along with Canadian court approval, and it was in the paperwork and appendices for this removal, filed by then-CEO James Ryan (also an inspector in the liquidation process), that the rough details of these other agreements became part of the public record. Ryan himself was soon discharged as an inspector because of his move to PartyGaming, but in July of 2008, a majority bloc of 56.4% of the original Excapsa stock submitted signed forms voting for the removal of Mintz and Partners. That firm was replaced the following month with another, XMT Liquidations, Inc., which oversees the official liquidation of "6356095 Canada" (formerly Excapsa) to this day.
In the process, that 56.4% ownership share in Excapsa became publicly known, even if not all of the people behind the blind trusts and foreign registrations can be confirmed. In addition, other documents from the change in liquidators identified additional shareholders, if not necessarily the amount of shares held by those entities.
Next "Just Conjecturing'": Inside the Excapsa Ownership Bloc
Posted by Haley at 6:19 PM 1 comment:
Just Conjecturin', Part 2.5: Oh, Those UB Hand Histories
Not "The 56% Solution" this time out, since the UB situation continues its next stage of development rather independent of onlookers' more general commentary. It's good to see that UB, via new signee Joe Sebok, has finally unveiled a two-stage plan to get hand histories out to affected players. The first part of the plan will be a spreadsheet of hands played against cheating accounts sent to affected players; there's no reason to expect that these spreadsheets will show anything different from the tallies created to generate the $22 million in refunds already distributed.
A couple of weeks after that, the hand histories themselves are supposed to go out, which should be followed by a smattering of comments by players who make note of specific hands in either a pro- or anti- fashion regarding these hands' inclusion among the cheating counts.
All good if it comes to pass, since anything that increases the openness of the facts behind the scandal also increases the chance for its eventual, proper resolution.
There remains no excuse for UB to have sat on these hand histories for roughly two years, though I'll say now that I believe the early part of the delay was due to the lawsuit that went on between Blast-Off and Excapsa. While there are reasons to believe that much of the ownership on both sides is the same, the Blast-Off side includes the new ownership bloc (Joe Tokwiro Norton's interests), and also the new management. Forcing the filing of that lawsuit was the only way that Norton had to protect his new interests, and the lawsuit was very dependent on exactly the hand histories long withheld from the public. It also had to be done via a formal lawsuit, thanks to the planned liquidation of original holding company Excapsa and the unwillingness of the original liquidator to play footsie with the situation. For at least the first part of this past two years, not releasing the hand histories was likely done on the advice of lawyers, pending the resolution of that lawsuit. After that, from November 2008 on, there seems to be less good reason to have withheld the hand histories from players.
But all that is speculation in one direction, when the real reason for this post lies elsewhere. It's hilarious to think that a non-ownership, new endorser such as Joe Sebok could force the hand histories to be released, if such powerful UB player/owners as Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke didn't want it to happen. (Yes, there are public records strongly indicating ownership; it's not idle conjecture.) The question then is not what Seebs gets from the deal, but how does it benefit UB? The site didn't really need the introduction of a "white knight" to go ahead with releasing the hand histories, did it?
Given my inquisitive, Machiavellian nature, I think it's more part of an ongoing divide-and-conquer strategy to sway public sentiment and opinion about UltimateBet itself by compromising possible points of confrontation. PokerRoad was one of the largest "independent" voices out there, and the Sebok deal effectively neutralizes that site. It's not that Joe wouldn't speak his mind -- he will -- but the existence of the deal itself will now cast anything that appears on PokerRoad, pro or con, in a new light. It'll also likely put partial clamps on Barry Greenstein talking on the topic, which might be a political bonus for UB moving forward. Given Barry's outspoken nature, his interaction with these matters over the next few months will be interesting.
Posted by Haley at 10:12 AM 1 comment:
Just Conjecturin', Part 2: Sebok Signing (Update)
Saw this morning that Joe Sebok's signing with UB was finally announced. Back in July there were several "rumor" stories on a handful of sites, such as this one. It was one of those open secrets. Now we can ascertain that UB was likely waiting for the official KGC release on the UB insider cheating scandal to drop (and settle down a hair) before going forward with the official Sebok signing.
I also think Pauly was aware of it but was just teasin' his readers a bit over at Casa TaoPauly this morning. Seems as though Pauly is channeling Iggy and has disabled comments, too.
As for Joe, he's a great guy and I wish him the best, even though it looks like he's already been caught a bit by likely having signed off on an official announcement some time ago and then having UB veer off in a different direction. To me the signing reads as though UB has purchased Joe's good name, and we'll have to see how it all plays out. But from the release, quoting Joe:
"The first order of business with my position at UB has been to help aid in the release of not only ALL of the hand histories from the super-user scandal, but also the accounts that were used to perpetuate the scandal itself and the actual physical names of those individuals who we believe to have been directly involved in disparate ways with the actual cheating. As most of you know, two-thirds of this has now been accomplished."
Make that one third, not two. Sometime between Joe signing off on this release and its official distribution, UB seems to have found itself unable to pull the trigger on sending out the hand histories. If they can't send out those histories and allow people to begin to assemble pictures of their own exposure to the scandal, then there's less reason to believe that Joe's announced plan to help make those 31 names public will succeed. Still, I wish him the best. It's possible there will be a very quick move here by UB to begin sending out those histories, too.
Meanwhile, since idle hands are the devil's tools, I've been playing around a bit, assembling my own list of who might be among those 31 people actively connected to Russ Hamilton in the scandal. I've identified seven probables to date, but I've barely started this stuff. Only two of the seven I think the list will contain are recognizable poker names, and neither Annie Duke nor Phil Hellmuth are among them. I think Duke and Hellmuth have acted to preserve their own financial interests in the manner they thought, right or wrong, was best, but it seems clear they were not among the cheaters.
UPDATE: I've been following the 2+2 thread on Joe's signing today, and as expected, the consensus opinion is negative. Perhaps the most interesting thing within the thread is a post from Barry Greenstein (a PokerStars "A"-lister, and also Joe's stepdad) confirming that Barry was against Joe's signing and that it was a highly risky move.
Barry's statement is a typical Barry post, detailing several items and not dodging the hard points. Barry's a pretty straight shooter and generally considered to be one of the game's good guys. That said, there's one eyebrow-raiser in Barry's post today: "3. I'm pretty sure the Ub cheaters who were with the company are gone, and also the company has been sold since the cheating occurred...."
If Barry has one blind spot, it seems to be a willingness to faithfully accept what other people tell him, those people being somewhat less trustworthy than he. He did it once by originally stating that he though Russ H. was innocent -- since retracted in the face of increasing evidence against Hamilton being made public -- and he's done it here by accepting at face value the party line about UB being sold, with the implied continuation that the sale was to new ownership. The company was sold, surely, but [seemingly] mostly to itself, based on Canadian court documents on related matters. There's also no public evidence yet that all those complicit in the scandal have been removed, even though we know that Hamilton's shares in the company were revoked in 2008, though well after the "sale" of the firm in late 2006. The revocation was also based on the KGC investigation, which was concurrent with but not identical to the freezing of payments made in connection with the sale/restructuring to Tokwiro.
Think of it this way: If the company had been sold from one set of owners to an entirely different and new set of owners, and the original owners were therefore no longer involved, then Hamilton's shares would have been worthless and there would have been no need for any revocation. At the time of the settlement between Excapsa and Tokwiro (the ownership bloc added to the overall UB umbrella), the money flowed to Tokwiro from the old Excapsa bloc, not the other way. The Hamilton revocation was a show pony.
It all means that Barry's line above just doesn't hold up under any real scrutiny. But when one accepts and retells what one's friends are saying, these things happen. Barry wants to protect his friends, as any good friend should, and he certainly wants to look out for both his stepson and his business interests.
I'll be looking at that ownership structure in a future post. Fortunately for interested observers, a good portion (but not all) of UB's original ownership structure was laid bare during the dissolution of the original holding company, and it's a learning experience to see how a company such as UB came together. It's a shame that a lot of good and honest UB owners lost quantifiable chunks of money settling up for the messes that the cheaters made, but a couple of old saws apply: Saw #1: Ya dance with who brung ya. Saw #2: You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Next time: The 56% Solution.
Posted by Haley at 6:56 AM 2 comments:
Back from the Pack
(Warning: No poker content.)
Despite having owned a share of Packers stock for many years, Sunday night was the first game I'd been to in perhaps half a decade. It was also the first chance I'd had to visit the rebuilt, improved Club section, as my sister and I made the trip over for the annual battle against Da Bears. Way too many Bears jerseys in the crowd, by the way; it's obvious the FIB patrols on US 41 and 43 need to pick up the pace.
More seriously, the Packers new 3-4 defense continues to show itself to be a much better choice then the bend-bend-bend-break 4-3 of recent Green Bay seasons. The player of the game was obviously Brandon Chillar (though the idiots voting in for the radio version selected Aaron Rodgers).
Rodgers really sucked last night, but Bears QB Jay Cutler was even worse. Cutler's yardage looked better because he connected on two long passes, but he just heaved the ball wildly into coverage every time he was under pressure and his right arm remained free. Hilarious stuff from the player Chicagoland has anointed the second coming of Jesus. I live there; that's what it sounds like.
But while both quarterbacks stank last night, the two true "F" grades went to Packers OT Allen Barbre and Bears head coach Lovie Smith. Smith's decision to call a fake punt on 4th on 11 deep in his own Bears territory was an unexpected gift, the sort of bizarrely bad decision that can come back and cost a coach a job down the road. And Barbre... he was just awful against an aging Adewale Ogunleye. Barbre was Tony Mandarich bad, that is, the Mandarich-sans-steroids version.
Still, a win's a win.
Posted by Haley at 7:47 PM 2 comments:
KGC Releases Final Report on UltimateBet Cheating Scandal
A Kahnawake Gaming Commission representative called me this afternoon to let me know that the KGC report on UltimateBet was forthcoming. If you want to read it yourself, click here. I was aware of the ongoing KGC process in pulling together the report, including complications that delayed it significantly from when it was originally promised. There was the lengthier than expected Kahnawake nation investigation that painstakingly examined the various claims made regarding the scandal, and sifted through recreated records to help assemble the final report. I'd even bet a nickel they don't have it 100% right yet, as it turned out to be a highly complicated matter.
After reading the findings, I don't think there was a ton of new stuff here, except for the further expansion earlier as to when the cheating at UB began (now dated back to 2003), and a further expansion in the total number of screen names involved (now up to 117). The KGC listed both account numbers and screen names within its report, which does serve a purpose in that online players who allege they were cheated and didn't receive refunds can now search through their own hand histories -- if they retained them -- and see if these screen names appear.
One thing I noticed is that while most of the screen names implicated in earlier postings across the web were carried forward here, a couple or three seem to have been omitted from the latest version. Why that is I can't say; it could be simple typos, or it could be that accounts once thought to be involved were cleared after further investigation.
It's also worth noting that 31 other people, besides Russ Hamilton. were noted in the KGC report as being connected in some way to the scandal, though the KGC doesn't name them. There is already a boatload of conjecture as to why, though the KGC claims that it is to protect ongoing investigations and to protect itself from civil liability. The KGC has already forwarded its findings to various and sundry law enforcement entities that may have interest in the matter. Three or four names have already been identified in connection with a few of the screen names in the past, and those folks are almost certainly among the 31 additionally claimed to be involved by the KGC. But as to whether they were active participants remains an open topic for conjecture. I'd guess the 31 are comprised of a mix of online players and one-time workers from the UB offices, the latter centered mainly in Costa Rica.
In light of this, the recent, publicized twitter from Phil Hellmuth agent Brian Balsbaugh about the other names eventually leaking out makes a whole lot more sense. As the bloodhunt begins against those screen names and the real people behind them, a lot of people on the periphery are likely to do some finger-pointing in an effort to remain clear of the carnage. That's where a lot of that "leakage" is likely to come from, the "every man for himself" attitude that we'll be likely to see ahead. There's also the lingering chance that Russ Hamilton himself will spill details about the affair upon continuing pressure from authorities, assuming he is indeed guilty, though I'll save that for another "Just Conjecturin'" post.
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Just Conjecturin', Part 1
Did you ever wonder how the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker insider scandals unfolded? Those that know all the answers won't say, so it's left to the rest of us to offer conjecture. Since UB/AP/KGC/Tokwiro/whoever feel little need to publish all the gory details, I figure it falls into the "fair game" category for ongoing comment. Note that I could be full of it on some of the details, but here's the start of my best guess as to how it all unfolded. Guess = opinion. To anyone reading this who might become unhappy, spare me the silly libel threats, a separate topic to which I'll return in the weeks ahead. I countersue, baby.
If the historical accounts are correct, the insider cheating occurred first at UB, then later on over at Absolute. I figure the groundwork was laid for this to occur almost as soon as original owner Greg Pierson was on the scene, looking to become a part of the online poker industry.
Now, I don't think Pierson was in any way a part of the actual cheating itself. Pierson was the presumably well-to-do CEO of ieLogic, and he looked for a way to use his blossoming internet-security software firm's products within the equally blossoming online gaming world. Pierson also had a hankering for poker, and I'd guess that back in 2001-03, he began to make connections within the American poker scene. It was out of those contacts that UltimateBet was formed, with Pierson as one of the company's principals. Published columns from the 2004-05 timeframe cited Pierson as an UltimateBet owner, even if more recent pieces on UB eschew that sort of mention.
Anyhow, I figure Pierson was the big bucks source for UB's launch, partnered up with a handful or recognizable industry names -- Phil Hellmuth, Russ Hamilton, Annie Duke, Ted Forrest, several others. His software; their industry connections. Maybe not all of those notable players at that time, but Russ Hamilton was surely involved early on. Hamilton, of course, would prove to be the key, as he was cited as the primary inside cheater at the time the UB scandal was, at last, officially acknowledged.
The question, of course, is "Do you believe Russ Hamilton did it?" I do, Hamilton's protestations of innocence notwithstanding. But how did it originate?
Well, Hamilton's never had what one would call a squeaky clean reputation. Certainly, when the software platform was designed, there had to be some sort of testing capability to monitor hands in progress as they unfolded, to make sure that hands were played out appropriately, pots awarded to the winners, rake collected in appropriate amounts, and so on. In theory, the pro players should never had had access to such a tool, even if they knew it existed.
If one believes the reports, however, then the cheating occurred after Hamilton gained access to the software tool used for monitoring and testing live game action as it unfolded. This leads to a second question: "How did Russ Hamilton gain access to the software?"
My guess is that Hamilton got himself into some kind of financial jam in the early '00s, and went to Pierson with a cock-and-bull story about needing to check out reports of cheating going on during the games, under the pretense that only a "pro player" would be able to recognize more subtle forms of cheating. Understand that Pierson's firm, ieLogic -- later spun off and reformed to become Iovation -- claimed to be experts in Internet security, but that was a different form of Internet security, more related to credit-card fraud and such things. As to cheating in online poker (or poker in general), one can presume that Pierson would have tended to believe stories that his experienced pro-player partners told him.
Pierson bought the story, according to my interpretation of the events. Pandora's box was unlocked. At some point the cheating spread internally within UltimateBet... and I don't believe for an instant the fairy tale that Russ Hamilton was the only one involved. It's this hilarious fallacy, in fact, that prevents me from offering UB any support or giving them any business moving forward. For Russ Hamilton to have been the -only- cheat makes no sense, so quit trying to peddle that bullshit. Oh, wait, they have quit; now they just pretend it never happened, seemingly.
There are three reasonable scenarios for how the cheating spread, as spread it surely did:
1) One or more software engineers working on the UB code recognized the illicit profit potential for themselves, and also began to slice money from the games;
2) Hamilton himself recruited one or more Costa Rican workers to assist him in the cheating, as a way of expanding the total money being stolen; (Update: the disclosure in the just-published KGC report supports this hypothesis. If the sequence of events as outlined by the KGC is correct, Hamilton also recruited other players.)
3) Someone at UB caught Hamilton -- probably noticing unusual withdrawal amounts relative to the amount of play Hamilton was logging -- and decided to cut himself in for a slice of the action.
From some time in 2006, I believe, it was game on in a big way for the cheats. I'd heard whispers as far back as 2005 that something was wrong with the cash games at UB, but I played there very little, only at small stakes, and couldn't really speak to it. (Update: the start date for the cheating was moved earlier in the recent report, all the way to 2003.)
It wasn't too many months after the UB cheating began, we've learned, that a similar form of insider cheating began at Absolute Poker. Though at that time Absolute and UB had different owners, the two companies grew close in the middle part of the '00s and, according to reports, eventually shared a corporate facility in Costa Rica. It's an odd coincidence that the only two online poker firms proven to have had large-scale insider cheating scandals shared such a good relationship. The cheating at Absolute has also been assigned to a senior, high-ranking individual, that being Allen Grimard (a/k/a "A.J. Green"), even if Grimard has never been named in an official Kahnawake Gaming Commission report, unlike Hamilton.
But that's so much bullshit, too. More next time.
An Unintended WCOOP Tradition... and a Mea Culpa
A Major Apology Here: The stuff I said about young toolboxes at the tables still stands, but a major apology here by me. It wasn't Elie Doft. It was some imitator using the handle "What is 7+6", whereas Elie uses "What is 7x6". I didn't pick up on the difference. Elie also thought I was attacking Mickey, but I wasn't; Mickey's one of the hardest, best live workers I've seen in the poker world. Meanwhile, Elie apparently has a toolbox using a variation of his screen name, ad homage.)
One of the funniest things about WCOOP time each year is watching the annual parade of one- and two-game ponies showing up in regular HORSE tourneys running on Stars, thinking that they're suddenly going to translate their NHLE or PLO aggro games into a quick win and lots of HORSE glory.
It's a different game, kiddies.
I was playing the late-night $33 HORSE tourney when I was reminded of this funny stuff yet again, with the most recent example of this a player on Stars called 'What is 7+6'. This player didn't do too well in this one, crashing out barely into the second rotation. I knew it would be a quick night for him when I saw him calling along with an up board of 9-8-6-5 in stud hi/lo, with three of the 7's already accounted for elsewhere and two of the other three opponents with solid-looking low boards, including aces. He didn't have the case 7, nor much of anything, it seemed, and mucked in this hand as expected. He might have had a hidden draw or been hoping to hit an 8-low, but it was a hand where an 8-low was unlikely to win.
I do find it entertaining that so many of these kids wait until the last minute to try to learn new games in time for the WCOOP.
In the meantime, it's more EV for the rest of us.
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Although mind is supposed to be obedient to the intelligence yet it is so strong and adamant that it sometimes overcomes the intelligence. Mind under control is a source of positive power and energy but causes troubles if uncontrolled.
There are two key words here in Lord Krishna's reply viz. Practice and Detachment. It means practicing through some way or technique, which enables us from detaching the mind from negative or undesired thoughts and actions.
There are a few techniques towards achieving this and the ancient technique of "Hong-Saw" is very effective.
(1) Close your eyes and breathe normally.
(2) Just watch your breath, whether it is going in (inhalation) or coming out (exhalation).
(3) Only watch passively and do not modify the natural flow of your breath.
(4) Mentally say 'Hong' over the total length of inhaling breath and mentally say 'Saw' over the total length of exhaling breath.
(5) If after an inhalation or exhalation there is a gap and the exhalation or inhalation does not take place then do not do anything just stay passive and only be aware of this.
Note: The natural occurrence of gaps between inhalation and exhalation are normal occurrence and happen due to physical inactivity and resulting deep relaxation which lowers the metabolic rate and then even one breath is sufficient to last over a longer period of time.
(6) You may carry on this technique for as long as you enjoy in one sitting.
• Improvement of relations with others.
• Experience of bliss and contentment in life.


On these web-pages recently, an oversight may have been committed or an injustice done.
Willson observed drily, "it takes just about thirty-seven seconds on a limited research tool–the internet–to find out that a non-warrior culture in New England defined gun-control by requiring households to…OWN GUNS!" But was it completely so? Bellesiles's misbehaviour is undeniable, but might there still have been a kinder and gentler Early America? One which was less eager to own, brandish and use firearms to intimidate and even to kill? The Plymouth Fathers may have been portrayed inaccurately as coming ashore, in 1620, bristling with black-powder muzzle-loading doglocks, matchlocks, wheellocks, arquebusses, blunderbusses and scores of various pistols; they were devout Christians after all, and so possibly they were pacifists.
There are rumours (unsubstantiated) of a version of the Mayflower Compact banning all weapons apart from "rounded-edged scissers and tweesors" (sic), and William Bradford is (sometimes) said to have told John Carver, "We shell eschew Violense in order to Reason with the Native Inhabitants and the Beastes of the Forest Wilde, as behoves our Faith in the Lord." Carver's reply is unknown. Later sketches of the Pilgrims purportedly show Mary Brewster and the 13-year-old Mary Chilton knitting meditation mats, and Humility Cooper making small clay pots which might have been used to contain (organic) yoghurt.
It may be grasping at straws to believe that local laws mandating household gun-ownership referred to squirt-guns (those fun-loving Pilgrims), but then maybe not; Progressives must be allowed to hope.
Decades later, The Rev. Cotton Mather wrote (perhaps) that "owning gunnes is Proofe Positive of Wychcraft," and The Rev. Jonathan Edwards is (possibly) said to have condemned gun-ownership in an early draft of his most famous sermon, "Cinders in the Hands of an Angry God" (he later seems to have removed the reference to firearms and toned-down the title). The sole surviving copy of his sequel, "Smite Them Not With Gunnes, Huggeth the Enemies of the Lord and Giveth Them Counselling," has been mislaid.
American Colonists may have had no reason to own guns. They could protect themselves from the Amerindians by bribing them with rum or blankets infected with smallpox, they could scare off French interlopers by speaking to them harshly, and bears could usually be deterred by fitting (very) strong doors on log cabins.
Their lack of firearms may have put them at a disadvantage in hunting deer for meat, but most of the early settlers were presumably ovo-lacto vegetarians (and even pure vegetarians, vegans, or followers of a Macrobiotic Diet with its healthy balance of Yin and Yang). Wrought-iron spits, often seen in museums of Early Americana, were probably used for roasting nut-loaves rather than portions of (innocent) animals.
Owning no guns may have put Early Americans at a similar disadvantage against the French in the fur trade, but (some) experts believe that the colonial hunters sang their traditional folksongs and the distressed beavers killed themselves without further encouragement. Having heard the songs, it is at least possible.
This is not to say that there was absolutely no demand for firearms in the Thirteen Colonies; a few brutal colonists may have wanted them to assist in smuggling or urban gang warfare (i.e., King George's Crips versus The Boston Bloods). But as part of Britain's protectionist legislation, The Molasses Act of 1733 may have originally been titled "The Molasses and Gun Control Act," with the latter well-meaning portion tabled in committee.
These colonist farmer-chappies were unarmed of course – they abhorred firearms and violence and so our boys figured that we'd make short work of them with our Brown Bess muskets. Were not we a bunch of silly-billies! Oh, I say! Two hundred or so turned their backs to us and dropped their breeches. Behind the rows of colonial backsides, others began to make rude noises. That sort of thing is simply never done! My shocked adjutant dropped his knitting. Then one of the savage blighters blew a handful of black pepper onto my horse, which sneezed and bucked me into a rather unpleasant mud-puddle. Of course we had to retreat! What completely unsporting fellows!
Almost two months later, at The Battle of Bunker Hill, British troops suffered 226 killed and around 800 wounded; many say caused by the patriots' firearms without which the enemy casualties would have been impossible. Yet there was a well-known organic whole-food shop at the foot of nearby Breed's Hill, and who is to say for certain that the rebels did not attack the British with tofu? Many of the original Redcoat uniforms, in British regimental museums and never dry-cleaned, show suspicious stains and not all of them could have been worn by sloppy eaters.
It is well enough known already that the voluntarily gunless American patriots conquered Montreal in the winter of 1775, armed only with hockey-sticks and cans of Molson's. Then in March of 1776, George Washington's unarmed Continental Army forced the British to evacuate Boston, chiefly by waving copies of the Dhammapada and exhibiting statues of the Buddha. An entire British army surrendered at Saratoga after being reasoned into non-violence, and French support inspired General Lafayette to deliver his stirring pacifist speech "Les Tuer Avec Gentillesse" (Let Us Kill Them With Kindness). Finally, in 1781, the British army was cornered at Yorktown and Cornwallis surrendered to meditating revolutionaries: when the enemy muskets were confiscated by the victors, General Washington is alleged (by some) to have asked, "I wonder what these things do. Guns, you call them?" Pacifist historians believe that he had never seen one up close before.
The English Bill of Rights, in 1688, declared that "Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defense," and that clearly meant owning guns. Yet America's Second Amendment, in the 1791 Bill of Rights, is unlikely to have enshrined gun ownership if nobody had guns or wanted them in the first place. In such a case, Americans would have been granted the right to raise one or more of their two arms in lawful surrender to the authorities; a civilised and suitably Progressive arrangement.
Granted there are some problems with the theory of a gunless Early America. It is hard to reconcile an unarmed Dan'l Boone, who in the famous song "killed a 'bar' when he was only three," unless he distracted the bear by waving a salmon and it toppled from a tree to its death. Neither is it easy to account for the vast number of surviving Pennsylvania rifles, Kentucky rifles and squirrel guns, often so lovingly crafted and brass-inlaid by hand from figured maple, were they only intended to be decorations over a mantelpiece; but they might have been built as a pastime, perhaps to spare their clever makers from the dull sermons, hideous square-dances and dead-boring quilting-bees endemic to the period.
Aaron Burr may have shot Alexander Hamilton with a crossbow and not a duelling pistol, or the US Treasury Secretary may have died from a convenient myocardial infarction. Pacifists stand on even stronger ground with a weapons-free Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, where Louisiana cuisine alone could defeat an army of Britishers more than a century before the invention of Imodium. It is harder to explain how Samuel Colt made his fortune peddling his patented revolvers in the 1840s; and to whom if Americans did not wish to own guns. One supposes that a gun-free America, pre-Civil War, can explain how cleverly armed Mexicans conquered the Alamo.
But, one must admit, it is also possible that some of us are out of our tiny minds, and that we live in a land of Progressive make-believe and self-deception cohabited with the Tooth Fairy, Bunny Heaven, man-made global warming, socialised medicine and Keynesian economics. Only such wishful thinking could account for the multitudes of pundits, and even a few real-but-gullible historians, who gave rave reviews to Bellesiles's book before critical scholars tore it to pieces.
On the gun issue and much else, we should be happy to let our real historians work it out for us. Meanwhile, everybody, own firearms and store them safely.
Steve, I am so glad to know that by practicing yoga, eating yogurt, and hugging people, I am participating in the ethos of the Founding Fathers. I had felt so countercultural as a conservative practicing such things. I blush to admit that I have also spent time firing a lovely Glock, and if I could post here the photo of my target when I qualified for a concealed handgun license, I would. My instructor was a former Navy Seal who also served in the Venezuelan Army. I also shot a buffalo from half a mile away. (Well, it was a buffalo-shaped target, which cost $5,000 less than shooting the real thing, which was grazing nearby.) I will try target practice pelting with tofu next time.
Willson observes (drily), Marilyn was of course dead some year and three months before JFK was shot from various angles, else she would gladly have been there. Dallas, one knows, is a place Eric Holder stays away from. He prefers Chicago.
Rats! Another illusion shattered by a fine historian!
Steve, in my doctoral dissertation I had FDR giving a press release in September, 1945, which would have been quite a feat even for him, having died in April. Six distinguished members of my committee missed it. My sainted aunt Bocca pointed it out to me after the degree was awarded, drily.


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Hans Memling:
Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1435-1494 Born in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt in the Middle Rhein region, it is believed that Memling served his apprenticeship at Mainz or Cologne, and later worked in the Netherlands under Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1455?C1460). He then went to Bruges around 1465. There is an apocryphical story that he was a wounded at the Battle of Nancy, sheltered and cured by the Hospitallers at Bruges, and that to show his gratitude he refused payment for a picture he had painted for them. Memling did indeed paint for the Hospitallers, but he painted several pictures for them, in 1479 and 1480, and it is likely that he was known to his patrons of St John, prior to the Battle of Nancy. Memling is connected with military operations only in a distant sense. His name appears on a list of subscribers to the loan which was raised by Maximilian I of Austria, to defend against hostilities towards France in 1480. In 1477, when he was incorrectly claimed to have been killed, he was under contract to create an altarpiece for the gild-chapel of the booksellers of Bruges. This altarpiece, under the name of the Seven Griefs of Mary, is now in the Gallery of Turin. It is one of the fine creations of his more mature period. It is not inferior in any way to those of 1479 in the hospital of St. John, which for their part are hardly less interesting as illustrative of the master's power than The Last Judgment which can be found since the 1470s in the St. Mary's Church, Gda??sk. Critical opinion has been unanimous in assigning this altarpiece to Memling. This affirms that Memling was a resident and a skilled artist at Bruges in 1473; for the Last Judgment was undoubtedly painted and sold to a merchant at Bruges, who shipped it there on board of a vessel bound to the Mediterranean, which was captured by Danzig privateer Paul Beneke in that very year. This purchase of his pictures by an agent of the Medici demonstrates that he had a considerable reputation.
Related Paintings to Hans Memling :.
| Oil painting in Sweden | Sir John Goss from NPG | Bolognese Peasant Girl with a Distaff | Montmartre | Camille Pissarro, French, 1830-1903 -- The Field and the Great Walnut Tree in Winter, Eragny | Tintoretto, Domenico-Joven veneciana-65 cm x 51 cm | Andrei Ryabushkin-In der wundertatigen Ikone | Mashkov, Ilya-Portrait of Z. D. R | unknow artist-Interior from Sainte-Chapelle | Bernardo Bellotto-Piazza della Signoria in Florence | Sir Godfrey Kneller-Duchess of Dorset |


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Holly Henry's unique, ethereal voice first caught the public's eye last fall as a contestant on The Voice. While she may be best known for her cover of "The Scientist" on the show, Henry is also a gifted songwriter and talented multi-instrumentalist. Her original songs - so far released on The Immigrant EP and a new single "Hide and Seek" - transport listeners to hauntingly beautiful, folksy worlds, and at only 20 years old, her abilities are only going to get more powerful.


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National model lowering Minnesota's death toll estimate for 1st wave of coronavirus pandemic
"Minnesotans should consult a variety of sources to reach their conclusions," said a health official.
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Based on the declining death toll estimates from a national COVID-19 model, Minnesotans are excelling at social distancing.
The model, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington's School of Medicine, has gradually lowered the number of deaths estimated for Minnesota – attributable to the novel coronavirus – over the next four months.
What was an original projection March 26 of more than 1,900 deaths in Minnesota, the latest model simulation from April 5 estimates that 632 people will die from COVID-19 in the first wave of the pandemic by Aug. 4, with a range of 224 to 1,362 deaths.
As the makers of the model note, all estimates "assume the continuation of statewide social distancing measures," and that if "such policies are relaxed or not implemented, the US could experience a higher COVID-19 death toll and hospital burden than what our models currently predict."
Nationally, the model has has been updated five times since March 26, with the nationwide death toll estimates increasing in three consecutive updates before dropping in the latest simulation, which was released late Sunday night.
March 26 update: 81,114 deaths (range of 38,242 to 162,106)
April 1 update: 93,765 deaths (range of 41,399 to 177,381)
"Our model's increase in nationwide deaths since the March 31 release is primarily driven by increasing death tolls in states that previously had very few COVID-19 deaths," the study explained after the April 1 update. "States with more COVID-19 deaths, such as New York and Washington, show far less fluctuation across daily updates. If the number of cumulative COVID-19 deaths rise by state, we expect increasing accuracy for predictions across states."
How accurate is the model?
Depending on where you look or who you listen to, projections vary wildly when it comes to fatality projections. For example, a Mayo Clinic expert recently said that predicting anything beyond two weeks is extremely difficult, while U of M infectious disease expert Dr. Michael Osterholm continues to warn (74-minute mark of this podcast) that it's not out of the question that 1.6 million Americans die from the disease over the next 12-18 months.
Again, the University of Washington model is only looking at the next four months, which it expects to be the first wave of the pandemic. It does not elaborate on how many waves there could be.
Doug Schultz, information officer with the Minnesota Department of Health, notes that "all models are intended to be used as directional indicators or roadmaps, not as precise predictors of future outcomes or as accurate indicators of current data."
The current data in the University of Washington model is not 100% accurate in regards to Minnesota-specific data.
For starters, it doesn't recognize that Minnesota has closed non-essential businesses, nor do the number of available ICU beds match up with the numbers listed on the Minnesota Department of Health's COVID-19 dashboard that is available for the public to see right here.
The model says Minnesota has 355 available ICU beds when in reality, according to the health department, there are, as of Sunday, 313 ICU beds available with an additional 1,623 that could be readied within 72 hours. Keep in mind that the number of open ICU beds varies daily and the University of Washington model keeps that number static at 355.
The model also estimates that Minnesota will need fewer than 450 ventilators by the peak of the outbreak, which it suggests will happen around April 23, at least a month earlier than what the Minnesota Department of Health has been projecting (mid-May to mid-June peak).
The state health department data shows that there are 1,428 ventilators available right now in Minnesota, with another 888 on order.
"The models are only as good as the data and the assumptions that went into them. The MN model used the best Minnesota-specific data available at the time, and is constantly being reviewed and updated. But it's assumptions and data inputs do differ from other models, so it is not surprising to see difference occurring between them," said Schultz.
"Minnesotans should consult a variety of sources to reach their conclusions."
It's expected that the Minnesota Department of Health will update its model within the next week or so, which if revealed to the public, could give a better indication of what could happen in the coming weeks as the outbreak evolves.
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The model's findings were revealed to the public on Friday.
MN leaders call national COVID-19 model 'overly optimistic'
A University of Washington model has gotten a lot of attention.
Coronavirus: Big differences in Minnesota model, national model
Minnesota leaders are confident in the model they're developing.
Walz to modify stay-at-home order, unveil new model data Wednesday
The governor provided a glimpse of what's to come during his Tuesday media briefing.
Coronavirus death toll in Minnesota rises by 13 Sunday
The numbers represent all confirmed cases from the latest reporting period, which ended at 4 p.m. Saturday.
365 new coronavirus cases in MN; death toll surpasses 300
197 of the deaths are from Hennepin County.
11 more dead as Minnesota's coronavirus death toll reaches 50
The data is as of 4 p.m. Wednesday.
17 more deaths from coronavirus in MN is new single-day high
All confirmed cases and deaths are from the latest reporting period, which ended at 4 p.m. Thursday.


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Attitudes of Iraqi Students toward Learning English Language
Over learning foreign language process, learners may have different attitudes toward learning the targeted language. These attitudes could accelerate or weaken the acquisition process. Thus, this study conducted to identify whether students have positive or negative attitudes toward learning the English language as well as the study sought to identify if there is a significant difference among study sample in regard of their gender and college. To do this, a sample of (400) non-major English university students were chosen randomly from three different colleges, which are using English language as a medium of instruction. The study limited to the students at the University of Baghdad/ Al-Jadiriyah branch. SPSS software version (20) was used to analyze the collected data. The findings revealed that students showed positive attitudes toward learning English language. Furthermore, there is no significant difference among the study sample in term of gender and type of college.
Attitudes; Gender; Cognitive Component; Affective Component; Behavioral Component
Abidin, M. J. Z., Pour-Mohammadi, M., & Alzwari, H. (2012). EFL students' attitudes towards learning English language: The case of Libyan secondary School students. Asian Social Science, 8, 119–134.
Ahmed, H. A. (1989). The role of attitudes and motivation in teaching and learning Foreign languages: a theoretical and empirical investigation into the teaching and learning of English in Iraqi preparatory schools.
Ajzen, I. (1988). Attitudes, personality, and behaviour. Chicago: Dorsey Press.
Al Mamun, A., Rahman, M., Rahman, A. R., & Hossaim, A. A. (2012). Students' attitudes towards English: The case of life science school of Khulna University. International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities, 3(1), 200-209.
Al Samadani, H.A. & Ibnian, S.S. (2015). The Relationship between Saudi EFL Students'Attitudes towards Learning English and their Academic Achievement. International Journal of Education and Social Science, Vol. 2 No.1, pp.92-102.
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How To Become A Life Coach. Five Secrets For Success.
I recently attended a live event, The Entrepreneur Experience, in San Diego where there were more than 450 inspiring smart, and powerful entrepreneurs in all phases of their business. When I say all stages I mean some people are just starting out with an idea and others have moved well past the $500M in sales/year. The presenters were Amy Porterfield, Marie Forleo, Jasmine Star and Tarzan Kay all experts in their own right and I was honoured to be able to see them in person.
Learning and growth are important, here are five of the key perspectives I took away and will take to heart. I know they will help you too.
1. The people you look up to, "The Legends" are people too.
I know that might sound obvious at first glance but stay with me here. Most of the women spoke about their real life, their struggles, hopes, fear and determination. When a legend is sitting 10 feet from you with their eyes brimming with emotion you FEEL it. There is one thing to say, "well if they did it…then I can to" and it's an entirely different level of impact when you get to see them in all their humanity. What do you need to do to get to that level of commitment to your business?
2. Changes aren't coming, they are already here.
I've felt this for some time, there is a new style of business afoot. It's shaking the foundations of corporations as we know them. There are powerful financially successful and fulfilled solopreneurs making money and a difference.
The solopreneur pioneers are role models for all of us. And we're starting to get it! Little by little there are stay at home moms, retirees, ex C-Suite executives starting and running their own business.
Never before has this been possible. Armed with inspiration a laptop, cell phone and internet they are creating the new face of business.
Like you, many of them are coaches and consultants. When you have one of those days when you're feeling a little lonely or defeated know that there are literally thousands of these entrepreneurs working under the radar building their coaching business and redefining success. You are in the right place at the right time.
3. There are really only two currencies that are important and they are yours alone to wield.
To be successful you've got to be intentional. Where will you spend your time and what will you focus on?
I'm here to give you some tough love. You might need to get some discipline on what you do and how you do it.
You can get all techy with it and use an app to restrict your access to social media and your email or you can simply turn off the Wi-Fi in your home while you work, or on your computer, if you're working in a coffee shop.
And you will be amazed at how much you can accomplish!
To start and build a successful coaching business you must decide where you want to spend your time and your attention, or you will be pushed and pulled around by all the shiny objects.
4. There is power in decision.
Until you decide nothing happens, but once you make that decision all sorts of opportunities open up for you! What decision are you avoiding right now?
Do you want to do one on one personal coaching?
Do you want to create a group program?
Speak in front of groups?
Create and make money from your blog?
Write a book to share your message?
It's easy to ping pong back and forth but know that when you are indecisive you will never make any progress.
If you are stuck and are unsure which path to take, work with a coach to uncover what your best business looks like. Once you've chosen the kind of business you want then stick with it.
Yes, you will be pulled in many different directions but stay firm and stay true to yourself.
Build the business that's right for you.
5. Give yourself permission to make mistakes.
Let me tell you it was reassuring to hear the front of the room speakers talk about the flops they've had. It's not because they failed that is was helpful, but because they made the failures part of their journey to success. They took the mantra "fail early and fail often" to heart and continued to persevere.
They spoke about courses and coaching programs they created where NO ONE signed up. Not one person. They got honest and direct with themselves and recommitted to truly serving their clients. Then they dusted themselves off and kept moving.
Do your best, with what you have and what you know right now. Know that you will improve as you learn and get more experience. One of the best ways to learn is from mistakes and setbacks. I know that can feel a little scary to those of us who struggle with perfectionism. But I know you can do it.


Asakusa is another one of the areas I keep coming back to for some shutter therapy every once in a while. Yes, it is very touristy, and yes, the amount of people around Senso-ji temple always drives me nuts. But, despite the crowds, this is easily one of the most photogenic temples in town.
Just like many other of the areas of Tokyo on every travellers must-see list, I really prefer to come here outside peak hours, when the amount of selfie-sticks wielding visitors is more manageable, and when the side-streets with their countless izakaya and snack bars comes to life.
Although the biggest bar-street around here, Hoppy-dori, is very photogenic at night, it's on the smaller streets around it you'll actually find the restaurants worth visiting.
As you probably can tell from the photos in this series, the temple grounds are also very atmospheric after dark. Note the dramatic difference in the size of the crowds.
And of course, no visit would be complete without a few shots of the dramatic skyline on the other side of Sumida-river, with Tokyo Sky Tree being the most prominent landmark.


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Presidential Statement on United Nations Charter Day 2020
Liberato C. Bautista, CoNGO President
On June 26, 1945 a new dawn arose. On that day the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco, creating a successor to the League of Nations, and declaring unambiguously that the new United Nations Organization's goals were, inter alia,
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained,
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good
The UN Charter, from the outset, established the world organization to be at the apex of solutions to the major global challenges that are necessary conditions for building a peaceful world, including international economic and social cooperation to ensure social and economic progress for all on the basis of equal rights and self-determination of peoples. For the first time human rights was made into a central objective of a world organization.
The United Nations Charter created the prime multilateral international institution that would be the linchpin for a complex but indispensable system of interdependencies. Governments and peoples had learnt that the alternative to multilateralism—unilateralism and rote nationalism—had led the world to the disasters of two World Wars.
As civil society celebrates the values enshrined in the UN Charter—signed by governments on behalf of"We, the peoples"—and celebrates the values enshrined in the UN Charter, we cannot but ask: Why have wars between, among, and within nations so frequently recurred? Why are inequalities and uneven development between rich and poor increasing both at the international and national level? Why can the international financial institutions continue to practice policies that are at odds with the UN, while the Charter calls for the coordination of all specialized agencies? Why is unaccountable power of transnational corporations expanding? Why have the legacies of centuries of slavery, colonialism and racism not been repaired? Why have treaties and international law been so frequently neglected or undermined? Why has disarmament become a forgotten topic when the resources squandered on arms could well add needed resources to sustainable development for all?
Civil society salutes the aims and purposes of the United Nations as defined in the Charter and will continue, as it has done untiringly for 75 years, to work for their achievement. We plead and we demand that the governments of UN member states do no less: that they live up to their commitments and promises, and that they take their Charter commitments seriously and unremittingly. As it has done for 72 of those years, since its founding in 1948, the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CoNGO) pleads and demands that governments recognize that the civil society organizations in their countries and internationally are a powerful force working for the public good, acting selflessly to promote and expand those same causes for which the United Nations was established.
Article 71 of the UN Charter opened the door to non-governmental organizations, and over the years there have been innumerable beneficial interactions between the UN and NGOs—in all their operational and terminological diversity. The establishment of formal consultative status for NGOs with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was groundbreaking for the system of international relations. ECOSOC Resolution 1996/31 governs the establishment of consultative status as well as that of accreditation of a broader group of civil society to United Nations conferences and consultations. It contains principles and modalities for regular NGO participation in designated United Nations bodies that has stood the test of time and enjoys broad NGO support. It is in that context, and in furtherance of the UN Charter values, that CoNGO pleads and demands that governments take every opportunity to further incorporate into their deliberative and decision-making processes the competent voices of NGOs and all civil society. The encouragement and acceptance by governments of the input of the knowledge, competence, and experience of peoples and communities will in consequence enhance the output of governmental mechanisms, thus making treaties, conventions and other decisions more realistic and implementable. That would be wholly in line with the goals of the Charter.
It is time now to reaffirm the benefits, indeed the indispensability, of multilateralism. Renewed and reinvigorated multilateralism, especially in this year of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the UN, is fundamental to achieving two other of the UN Charter principles:
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all
The UN Charter principles are key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, which encapsulate the fundamental purpose of having an effective and reliable United Nations Organization devoted to "the advancement of all peoples", and to shaping a more just, participatory, peaceable and equitable world.
But for the United Nations System to be effective and reliable, it must be adequately resourced—in finance and personnel. CoNGO repeats its oft-expressed alarm over the negative effects of the continuous shrinking of the regular budget of the United Nations. Significantly more than in 1945, a multitude of today's world problems respect neither physical nor territorial boundaries. The unfinished agenda of decolonization and corollary issues related to self-determination cry out for attention
The United Nations System is more and more the world's "plumber" not of last but of first resort, called into service to "stop the leaks" before a deluge (climate change, a pandemic, natural disasters, weapons of mass destruction, endemic poverty, global hunger, forced migration, gender violence and injustice, racism…) overwhelms our only planet. For this, we plead and demand that governments adopt this year a sufficiently increased UN regular budget, and over the long term a generous increase. And of course, that governments then pay their contributions fully and on time!
"Building Back Better" is not just a slogan for the post-COVID-19 recovery period (long as that may yet be), but a challenge to build better on the UN Charter. Even more urgent now is to build back beyond pandemic management and into addressing the roots of our global maladies by acting justly and peaceably, and ensuring that peoples and communities reap and enjoy equitably the benefits of multilateral negotiations, foremost of which are agreements in the protection of human rights and ecological justice. And we must build back in such a way that neither war, nor poverty, nor systemic racism, are inevitable. The Charter is a tool and an opportunity. "We the peoples" plead and demand that governments work with us—in consultation, collaboration and cooperation—to save succeeding generations from the scourges of the twenty-first century.
Liberato C. Bautista, president@ngocongo.org
Conference of NGOs (CoNGO)
UN Charter Day
CoNGO Statement on COVID-19 Recovery: Building Back Better
CoNGO President Issues Statement Honoring United Nations Charter Day
CoNGO President's New Year Message, 2021
IPPNW, PEAC Institute and CoNGO welcome 50 states ratifications and imminent entry into legal force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Presidential Statement on 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to UN World Food Programme


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Q: Makefile compiling every time I just started to learn the C programming language in my University. We have a task to create a Makefile that uses the executable program (battle in my case) and compiles only when is necessary. My problem with it is that it compiles every time I use the make command and it does not show "Is up to date" as I want to. I have 2 objects to compile (quest.o and thorgrim.o and only quest.o has to be created since we have the thorgrim.o already) into "battle". Here's my code:
CC=gcc
EXE=battle
CFLAGS=-Wall

build: run
run: quest.o
     $(CC) $^ thorgrim.o -o $(EXE)
     ./$(EXE)
quest.o: quest.c
     $(CC) -c $^ -o $@
clean: rm -rf quest.o $(EXE)

What am I doing wrong? I want it to compile once and then show up to date if I won't touch the quest.c.

A: Seeing as you're new at this, I'll walk you through it, so you can learn to do it right the first time.   There's a lot of little details, that a lot of people end up missing, so hopefully this will give you a good reference:
First, lets start by defining your objects
OBJS := quest.o thorgrim.o

you can now create a pattern rule:
%.o: %.c
     $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MD -MP $< -c -o $@

The first line of this rule %.o:%.c says that anything ending with a .o depends on a file with the same name ending in .c.   Doing this prevents you from from having to write a separate rule for every object file.   Notice that there is a default pattern rule to this effect, but we'll not go into that here.
Next, you call $(CC) with $(CFALGS).   Notice that $@ now represents the name of the .o file you are generating, and $< represents the first dependency of the object (the .c file in this case).
The -MD and -MP are used to automatically generate dependency files -- for each .c file it will also create a .d file, which lists the dependencies (.h files) that your source requires to build.   You have to -include the dependency files for it to work.  (see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.1/gcc/Preprocessor-Options.html for more details on exactly what these do).    This way, if you modify a header file, it will automatically rebuild the necessary .o files.   Having said that, you have to include those .d files in your makefile:
-include $(OBJS:.o=.d)

This will include the .d files as if someone cut and paste the code into your makefile.     The $(OBJS:.o=.d) simply tells make to take the variable OBJS and replace all the .o's with .d's.   Notice the - before the include.  This tells make not to worry if the file doesn't exist (as will be the case on your first build ...).
Ok, now that you've got your .o files built, you need to build your program:
$(EXE): $(OBJS)
    $(CC) $^ -o $@

Add a default rule and comments, and you're done.   So, in summary, your makefile will look something like:
CC:=gcc
EXE:=battle
CFLAGS:=-Wall
OBJS:=quest.o thorgrim.o

%.o: %.c
     $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MD -MP $< -c -o $@

$(EXE): $(OBJS)
    $(CC) $^ -o $@

clean:
    rm -f $(OBJS) $(EXE)

-include $(OBJS:.o=.d)

EDIT: forgot the clean rule -- adding that.

A: The run target depends on files, but the build rule does not produce a file named 'run'. A better idea is to do something along these lines:
run: $(EXE)
     ./$(EXE)

$(EXE): $(OBJ)
       $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $+

A: You're not doing it properly.
Here's a "Makefile template":
CC=gcc
none: prog  #`make` -> `make prog`

#make's default rules are fine here.
prog: foo.o bar.o

foo.o: foo.c head.h

bar.o: bar.c head.h

EDIT: You need to use whatever.o, not whatever for object files, so make knows to pass -c.

A: EDIT: added $(EXE) as dependency to run target
the following makefile shows how it should be written
When generating any macro, those resulting contents will not change, always use := rather than = so the macro is only evaluated once
When generating a macro for an executable, always include the full path to the executable, so the right executable is always executed, irregardless of other changes to your system and/or environment 'PATH'
Note: however, to have multiple files in a executable, to be able to communication between the files, there should be one header file for each source file those contents need to be exposed (data and functions and data types)  Then those header files need to be listed in the dependencies when compiling.
CC := /usr/lib/gcc
RM := /usr/lib/rm -f -r

EXE := battle
CFLAGS := -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -std=gnu99 -c

# macro with all the source names
SRCS := thorgrim.c quest.c

# macro with all the object file names
OBJS := $(SRCS:.c=.o)

# always include a .PHONY statement for any targets
# that do not produce a file of the same name
.PHONY : all clean run

# 'all' is the typical first target
all: run

# implied compile rule/recipe
%.o:%.c
<tab>$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<

# the macro 'LFLAGS' is part of the default macros
# link the objects into an executable
$(EXE): $(OBJS)
<tab>$(CC) $^ -o $@ $(LFLAGS)

# execute the executable
run: $(EXE)
<tab>./$(EXE)

clean:
<tab>$(RM) quest.o $(EXE)

Note: replace the <tab> with an actual tab character


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Wednesday 25 March 2020 (other days)
The Annunciation of the Lord
The Word was made flesh; come, let us adore him.
Year: A(II). Liturgical Colour: White.
What if she had said No?
The question may strike you as irreverent. How dare I suggest that the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven, Tower of David, and all the other titles, could have left us in the lurch like that?
But what if she had?
Could she have said No? You might say that of course she couldn't, she was far too holy — but you would be guilty of demeaning and dangerous sentimentality. It is demeaning because it turns Our Lady from a free human being into a sanctified automaton. The whole glory of the Annunciation is that Mary, the second Eve, could have said No to God but she said Yes instead. That is what we celebrate, that is what we praise her for; and rightly so.
This sentimental view is dangerous too. If we believe that the most important decision in the history of the world was in fact inevitable, that it couldn't have been otherwise, then that means it was effortless. Now we have a marvellous excuse for laziness. Next time we're faced with a tough moral decision, we needn't worry about doing what is right. Just drift, and God will make sure that whatever choice we make is the right one. If God really wants us to do something he'll sweep us off our feet the way he did Mary, and if he chooses not to, it's hardly our fault, is it?
So Mary could have said No to Gabriel. What if she had? He couldn't just go and ask someone else, like some sort of charity collector. With all the genealogies and prophecies in the Bible, there was only one candidate. It's an alarming thought. Ultimately, of course, God would have done something: the history of salvation is the history of him never abandoning his people however pig-headed they were. But God has chosen to work through human history. If the first attempt at redemption took four thousand years to prepare, from the Fall to the Annunciation, how many tens of thousands of years would the next attempt have taken?
Even if the world sometimes makes us feel like cogs in a machine, each of us is unique and each of us is here for a purpose: just because it isn't as spectacular a purpose as Mary's, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. When we fail to seek our vocation, or put off fulfilling some part of it, we try to justify ourselves by saying that someone else will do it better, that God will provide, that it doesn't really matter. But we are lying. However small a part I have to play, the story of the Annunciation tells me it is my part and no-one else can do it.
Faced with the enormity of her choice, how was Mary able to decide? If she said No, unredeemed generations would toil on under the burden of sin. If she said Yes, she herself would suffer, and so would her Son; but both would be glorified. Millions of people not yet born would have Heaven open to them; but millions of others would suffer oppression and death in her son's name. The stakes were almost infinite.
You might say that Mary didn't worry about all this, just obeyed God; but I don't believe it. What God wanted was not Mary's unthinking obedience but her full and informed consent as the representative of the entire human race. The two greatest miracles of the Annunciation are these: that God gave Mary the wisdom to know the consequences of her decision, and that he gave her the grace not to be overwhelmed by that knowledge.
When we come to an important decision in our lives, we can easily find our minds clouded by the possible consequences, or, even more, by partial knowledge of them. How can we ever move, when there is so much good and evil whichever way we go? The Annunciation gives us the answer. God's grace will give us the strength to move, even if the fate of the whole world is hanging in the balance. After all, God does not demand that our decisions should be the correct ones (assuming that there even is such a thing), only that they should be rightly made.
There is one more truth that the Annunciation teaches us, and it is so appalling that I can think of nothing uplifting to say about it that will take the sting away: perhaps it is best forgotten, because it tells us more about God than we are able to understand. The Almighty Father creates heaven and earth, the sun and all the stars; but when he really wants something done, he comes, the Omnipotent and Omniscient, to one of his poor, weak creatures — and he asks.
And, day by day, he keeps on asking us.
Second Reading: Pope St Leo the Great (- 461)
Leo was born in Etruria and became Pope in 440. He was a true shepherd and father of souls. He constantly strove to keep the faith whole and strenuously defended the unity of the Church. He repelled the invasions of the barbarians or alleviated their effects, famously persuading Attila the Hun not to march on Rome in 452, and preventing the invading Vandals from massacring the population in 455.
Leo left many doctrinal and spiritual writings behind and a number of them are included in the Office of Readings to this day. He died in 461.
Ephesians 1:9-10 ©
God made this plan for when time had run its course to the end: to bring everything together under Christ, everything in the heavens and everything on earth.
1 John 4:10 ©
This is the love I mean: not our love for God, but God's love for us when he sent his Son to be the sacrifice that takes our sins away.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 ©
There is only one God, and there is only one mediator between God and mankind, himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all.


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class AddRemoteTokenToLoginAccounts < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    add_column :login_accounts, :remote_token, :string
  end
end