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Ending "Endo"
Labor & Litigation Updates
Contributors: Artemio P. Calumpong and Lorenzo Jared J. Briones (October 2016)
"Endo" is the twin brother of the drug monster that also needs to be slain, so says the Duterte administration. "Endo" is layman's term for end of employment contract. It is the date indicated on the employment contracts and is dreaded by employees as it means the end of his or her employment.
The Department of Labor and Employment ("DOLE") has long defined "endo" as a hiring practice deliberately resorted to prevent workers from acquiring regular status done through repeated short-term arrangements by one principal through the same or difference contractors, or through a service agreement of short duration under the same contractor, or different contractors.[1] When the new administration took over the reins of governance, it served notice that it will bring the fight against "endo" in the middle of the ring.
On July 25, 2016, the DOLE issued Labor Advisory No. 10, Series of 2016, pursuant to the Department's policy directive to strictly implement and enforce the workers' constitutional right to security of tenure. It reiterates the prohibition against labor-only contracting; and rightly so, since "endo" erodes the right of and employee to security of tenure. Simply, the right to security of tenure guarantees the right of employees to continue in their employment absent a just or authorized cause for termination.[2]
Where an employee may only be dismissed thru either of the two causes, first, for just cause; or second, for authorized cause, by the mere expedient of providing an "endo" date in an employee's contract, a third cause is created to terminate an employment. Not that the employer and employee cannot validly stipulate for an end of their employment contract, but "endo" has been the subject of abuse with the employer imposing the "endo" date by virtue of its superior economic standing in relation to the employee. It has come to the point that the "endo" dates imposed have no significance at all other than as a way of skirting the constitutional guarantee to security of tenure.
Endo thru Manpower Agencies
Often, "endo" is implemented under contracting and subcontracting agreements, where the employer referred to as principal farms out the performance of a part of its business to another, referred to as the contractor or subcontractor.
There are many parts of one's business that may be validly farmed out to contractors or subcontractors, examples of which are janitorial and security services. But many these parts of business have been unscrupulously contracted out so much so that manpower supply contracts have become what is known in law as "labor-only" contracting, an illegal scheme where the contractor without any capital earns from merely recruiting, supplying and placing workers to perform a job to companies.
Thus, DOLE Labor Advisory No. 10, Series of 2016 reiterates the prohibition found in Section 6 of an earlier Department Order No. 18-A, Series of 2011 which in turn implements Articles 106 to 109 of the Labor Code, provisions that specifically address contracting and subcontracting arrangements. The practice of employers requiring employees under a subcontracting arrangement to sign an employment contract fixing the period of employment to a term shorter than the term of their service agreement is forbidden.[3]
It is an open secret that repeated hiring of the same workers is resorted to because the law accords regular status to all employees who have worked for an employer for more than six (6) months. Under a scheme commonly known as "555," employees are hired for five months then dismissed by reason of "endo" and then rehired for another five months, repeating process over and over. This repeated hiring of employees is seen under the law as evidence that the employee is performing functions that is "usual and necessary" to the trade or business of the employer, which consequently makes them a regular employee who are protected by the constitutional guarantee to security of tenure. Their employment cannot be terminated thru "endo."
Valid Employment Contracts with Fixed Terms
As mentioned, there are services that may be validly contracted out like security and janitorial services. Security guards owing to their semi-military work and ability to carry firearms are regulated separately thru other government agencies. Janitorial work to clean a large area needs special equipment which may be validly contracted to an agency.
Further, there are situations where placing a fixed term or an end to an employment contract cannot be avoided. An employee who will take the place of another employee who is temporarily on maternity leave is understood to vacate his post once the latter returns; a job to construct a building will end once the building is completed; hiring of additional employees merely to meet the strong demand of the season but which employment ends at the end of the season, are some examples. These contemplated employment arrangements are called casual, project, seasonal and fixed-term employments, and are allowed by law and jurisprudence.
A casual employment is one where one is hired on occasional or temporary basis on an as-needed basis or to meet the employer's staffing needs during periods of unusual circumstances. Project employment is an arrangement where the employment has been fixed for a specific project or undertaking whose completion or termination has been determined at the time of the engagement of the employee.[4] Because the employee's services are coterminous with the project, the employments are legally and automatically terminated upon the end or completion of the project.[5]Seasonal employment operates much in the same way as project employment, albeit involving work or service that is seasonal in nature or lasting for the duration of the season.[6]
Fixed term employment, on the other hand, has its basis on jurisprudence. To be valid, a fixed-term employment must have a day certain agreed upon by the parties for the commencement and termination of their employment relationship. A day certain simply defined as a day that must necessarily come, although it may not be known when. [7]
Thus, for as long as there is a valid basis for end of employment contract s exemplified in casual, project, seasonal, and fixed-term employment arrangements, contract or employment with an end, although at first glance may fall within the proscribed "endo" practice, are valid and legal in the Philippines.
What is sought to be prevented by law is the indiscriminate fixing of a term to an employment contract. Placing a definite date to signify the end of an employment contract without a valid justification as to why such end was placed on such contract has always been prohibited. Now the prohibition is being highlighted by the new administration.
The "endo" prohibition may appear contradictory to the freedom of every person to agree to a contract. It may also have the appearance of curtailing an employer's management prerogative. However, it must be remembered that employment contracts are not ordinary contracts but are impressed with public interest. In contracts of employment, the employer and the employee are not on equal footing. Unlike an ordinary commercial contract where the signatories generally are at par with each other, the employee owing to his desire to find a job will sign any employment contract even if the terms are stacked against him. In such case the law steps in to equalize the situation. The labor force is a special class that is constitutionally protected because of the inequality between capital and labor.[8]
Although DOLE Labor Advisory No. 10, Series of 2016 does not totally ban the practice of "endo," its reiteration of the workers' security of tenure together with the strong pronouncements by the new administration that it will put an end to "endo" sends a strong signal that this dreaded practice will no longer be tolerated.
Consequences of Endo
Being a prohibited act, what then are the consequences of "endo"? For the employer, it is reinstatement of the employee to his former work and payment of back wages from the time the employee was dismissed up to his actual reinstatement. Other benefits like his proportionate service incentive leave and 13th month pay and even damages can also be recovered but the thought of actual reinstatement and payment of back wages for days that are not worked are already strong deterrents to end the practice of "endo."
[1] DOLE Department Order No. 18-A, Section 7 (7)
[2] SME Bank Inc. v. De Guzman, GR No. 184517, 8 October 2013
[3] Supra note 1, Sec. 7 (8)
[4] Labor Code of the Philippines, PD 442 as amended, Article 295
[5] Universal Robina Sugar Milling Corporation v. Acibo, GR No. 186439, 15 January 2014
[6] Maraguinot, Jr. v. NLRC, GR No. 120969, 22 January 1998
[7] Price v. Innodata Phils. Inc., GR No. 178505, 30 September 2008
[8] Jaculbe v. Silliman University, 547 Phil 352, 359 (2007)
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Multiband compression is a powerful tool that offers incredibly flexible control over a signal's dynamics. Whereas conventional compression acts on the entire frequency range of a signal, a multiband device allows the user to compress discrete frequency bands individually.
Let's use a three-band compressor as a basic example of how it works: the incoming signal is split across these bands by adjustable low-pass, band-pass and high-pass filters, similar to those used by a PA system crossover. The signals are routed to individual compressors for tailored processing, before being recombined into one signal again.
This allows us to, for example, compress just the low frequencies of a sound without the mid or high frequencies being affected - a ninja technique for taming the fundamental frequencies of synth bass, which carry lots of energy that can eat up headroom in the mix. Multiband compression can also be a winner for processing vocal takes - you can compress any overly resonant frequencies while using a lighter touch on the rest, resulting in a cleaner, more natural sound than you'd get making EQ cuts or using normal compression alone.
Most multiband compressors offer an element of control over the crossover and compressor behaviour, including digital or analogue crossover types, and sometimes even selectable compression algorithms that have differing effects on the compressor's release.
As with full-bandwidth compression, setting the attack and release times correctly can make all the difference to the overall sound quality; using slower attack and release times on low frequencies will help avoid distortion.
Step 1: Import the three files beginning "Dub". We'll be using MMultiBandDynamics for this walkthrough. You can download the demo or adapt this tutorial to your preferred multiband compressor. Take a listen to the drum track - it's ready-mixed, but it has too much low-frequency content, thanks to the kick drum.
Step 2: We could cut this with an EQ, but that would also remove the low-frequency 'body' of the other drums. By using a multiband compressor instead, we can dynamically reduce those frequencies only when they get too strong, without removing them altogether. Add an instance of MMultiBandDynamics to the DubDrums channel.
Step 3: Open the plugin and select the three-band compressor preset from the left. Click the Edit button at the top of the screen to bring up controls for the three bands, and disable Link so we can edit the settings of each band independently. Solo the low band and move the crossover frequency until you can hear the kick's low frequencies; we've set ours at 180Hz.
Step 4: Longer attack and release times can help to avoid unwanted distortion when compressing low frequencies. The controls for each band work just like a normal compressor, so set the Attack to 25ms, Release to 60ms and Ratio to 2:1, then pull down the Threshold to taste - we've gone for -21dB to give around 3dB of gain reduction.
Step 5: We can use another band on the MMultiBandComp to control the high frequencies in the drum stem - ideal for removing some attack from the overly sharp hi-hat! Select the top band and solo it, then set the crossover frequency to isolate the attack of the hat without affecting the midrange too much - about 2.4kHz does the job to our ears.
Step 6: Unsolo the top band and compress to reduce the hi-hat's initial attack - we've gone for a Threshold of -33dB and a Ratio of 3:1. On higher frequencies, we can use faster Attack and Release times than the lower bands without adding distortion - around 10ms works fine here. Bypass the unused middle band to ensure as clean a sound as possible, and to reduce the CPU load.
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The number 1 handicap hole, and rightly so, this long par 4 is has plenty of challenges. Better known as 'the orchard hole', the tee is elevated, so the tee shot needs to carry over the start of the orchard towards a narrow fairway. A thick orange grove lines both sides of the fairway, so if you miss the fairway you'll likely be spending some quality time with your caddy searching for your ball in the trees.
Even if you hit the tee shot perfectly you are sure to be left with a long approach shot. The fairway is slopes downhill to the right, so sometimes the approach will be unsighted. Adding to the challenge is the bunker in front of the green to the right. Given that you will have a long shot in to the green, stopping on the surface could be tricky.
The green is quite wide, but not very deep. The green has a split level, being higher on the left than the right. The ridge will take balls down to the lower level.


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This entry was posted in Absalom Absalom and tagged black father/son Haiti male part black South on January 1, 2014 by Cheryl Turner Elwell
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Character: Charles Bon
Source Text: Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! 1936. New York: Random House, 1951.
Entry Author: Claire McDonald
Charles Bon is the son of protagonist Thomas Sutpen and Sutpen's first wife, Eulalia Bon Sutpen. During Sutpen's time spent as a plantation overseer in Haiti, he was offered Eulalia's hand in marriage after ending a slave rebellion on the plantation. Sutpen assumes that she is of Spanish descent, but she is actually part black, meaning that their son is also part black. Sutpen cannot bear the knowledge that his wife and son are partially black, and so he abandons them and attempts to begin a new life. Eventually, Eulalia and Bon leave Haiti and move to New Orleans.As a student at the University of Mississippi, Bon is admired and practically idolized by many of his classmates, including Sutpen's recognized son, Henry Sutpen. Henry and Bon become friends at school, and Henry brings Bon to Sutpen's Hundred for Christmas; at the time, Henry is unaware that Bon is his half-brother. Bon's reunion with Sutpen poses a significant threat to Sutpen, as Bon is evidence of Sutpen's past actions. However, he refuses to acknowledge him as his son until Bon and Judith, Sutpen's daughter, express their desire to marry each other. Sutpen is furious about this, but his anger is more directed at Bon's perceived blackness than at the fact that Judith and Bon are half-siblings.Just as Sutpen disowned Bon because of his blackness, Henry eventually does the same. Henry and Bon are close friends while they are attending University of Mississippi together, and Henry initially repudiates his father when he learns that Bon is his half-brother and that Sutpen had abandoned him and his mother. He continues to support Bon's wish to marry Judith until Sutpen reveals that Bon is partially black. Henry, much like his father, is also disgusted and infuriated by the thought of Bon tainting their family's pure bloodline. Bon's death comes at the hands of Henry, who shoots him at the gate of Sutpen's Hundred.
Bon's race is important to Absalom, Absalom! because of his father and brother's response to it. Despite the fact that both Bon and Henry are Sutpen's biological sons, Sutpen rejects Bon because he cannot accept the fact that Bon is partially black. Bon's status as black also means that Sutpen's dream of becoming a Southern aristocrat cannot be achieved; Bon cannot inherit his father's plantation because of it, meaning that Sutpen's goal of creating a legacy cannot be achieved. Bon also signifies the desecration of the Sutpen bloodline's purity, which Sutpen also cannot abide by. Faulkner is able to use Bon as a way to comment on Southern perceptions of race. Because Bon is considered to be black, he brings shame upon his own father because he is seen as subordinate; the bond between father and son is severed because Sutpen refuses to accept a son who is, by the one-drop rule, black.

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Q: How do I convert an int to two bytes in C#? How do I convert an int to two bytes in C#?

A: You can use BitConverter.GetBytes to get the bytes comprising an Int32.  There will be 4 bytes in the result, however, not 2.

A: Is it an int16?
Int16 i = 7;
byte[] ba = BitConverter.GetBytes(i);

This will only have two bytes in it.

A: Another way to do it, although not as slick as other methods:
Int32 i = 38633;
byte b0 = (byte)(i % 256);
byte b1 = (byte)(i / 256);

A: Assuming you just want the low bytes:
byte b0 = (byte)i,
     b1 = (byte)(i>>8);

However, since 'int' is 'Int32' that leaves 2 more bytes uncaptured.

A: Option 1:
byte[] buffer = BitConverter.GetBytes(number);

Option 2:
byte[] buffer = new byte[2];

buffer[0] = (byte) number;
buffer[1] = (byte)(number >> 8);

I prefer option 1!

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Australian Mark Webber made Formula One history on Sunday when he steered his Red Bull to victory and claimed his first win this year and his team Red Bull's third successive Monaco Grand Prix victory.
It was Webber's second win in the race and the eighth of his career – it also meant six different drivers have won the opening six races of this season – the first time this has happened in the history of the Formula One world championship.
Webber (35) started from pole position and controlled the race almost throughout as the local micro-climate delivered its usual capricious weather, moving from sunshine and blue skies to rain for the closing laps.
But driving with great control and judgment, he finished the 78-laps race six-tenths of a second clear of second-placed German Nico Rosberg of Mercedes with two-time champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso third for Ferrari.
Double defending world champion German Sebastian Vettel was fourth for Red Bull ahead of Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren and Brazilian Felipe Massa, who came home sixth in the second Ferrari.
Webber's win lifted him to joint second in the drivers' world championship with 73 points behind leader Alonso on 76. Vettel also has 73.
Hamilton is fourth on 63 and Rosberg – son of Finland's former champion Keke – fifth with 59.
"I'm feeling incredible," said Webber, who jumped into the harbour after his maiden Monaco win.
"It was an interesting race. It was reasonably straightforward at the start, getting the gap and managing super-softs and then it was a matter of trying to build a gap before and after the pit stops.
Rosberg said: "I got a good start, but so did Mark. He was very controlled and for me it was a matter of tyre-management.
"I was a bit surprised how strong we were in qualifying and in the race.
Alonso said: "For me, the target was to try to finish in front of Sebastian and Lewis, as they are with us in the championship. If you go race by race, you aim to finish ahead of different drivers.
Briton Paul di Resta came home seventh ahead of his Force India team-mate German Nico Hulkenberg, Finn Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus and 10th placed Brazilian Bruno Senna of Williams.
On a balmy afternoon by the Mediterranean, after overnight rain, Webber made a clean and controlled start to turn the 10th pole position of his career into a comfortable early lead ahead of Rosberg with Hamilton also running clear of the field in third.
It was a different story, however, for the men behind the leading trio as Frenchman Romain Grosjean, starting fourth, was touched by the charging Mercedes of sixth-placed Michael Schumacher and spun before the first corner, Ste Devote.
This allowed the Ferraris of Alonso and Massa to move into fourth and fifth places ahead of the mayhem in Ste Devote where Pastor Maldonado crashed out in his Williams after making contact with Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa's Hispania.
The crash took both out of the race. For Maldonado, the accident completed a dreadful weekend just two weeks after he had become the first Venezuelan to win a Formula One race, triumphing in style at the Spanish Grand Prix.


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Q: Should I use the last GLSL version where it is possible? My cross-platform graphics program uses shaders written in GLSL version 1.40.
GLSL 1.40 features fully satisfy the needs of the application. In fact, very basic shaders are used for rendering textures:
vertex shader:
attribute vec2 position;
attribute vec2 textureCoordinates;

uniform mat3 transformationProjectionMatrix;

varying vec2 interpolatedTextureCoordinates;

void main() {
    interpolatedTextureCoordinates = textureCoordinates;
    gl_Position.xywz = vec4(transformationProjectionMatrix * vec3(position, 1.0), 0.0);
}

fragment shader:
precision mediump float;

uniform vec4 color;
uniform sampler2D textureData;

varying vec2 interpolatedTextureCoordinates;

void main() {
    gl_FragColor.rgba = color * texture(textureData, interpolatedTextureCoordinates).bgra;
}

Does it make sense to have several shaders in the program for different versions of GLSL that will be selected depending on the support on a specific hardware?
Is it possible to get acceleration when using more modern versions of the shader language?

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Is it possible to get acceleration when using more modern versions of the shader language?

No, as long as your code doesn't use some functions available in newer GLSL version for optimization purposes, the performance should be practically the same.

Does it make sense to have several shaders in the program for different versions of GLSL that will be selected depending on the support on a specific hardware?

Normally, there should be no benefit in duplicating shader programs for different GLSL versions. OpenGL allows mixing GLSL version for different programs (but you shouldn't mix versions for different shaders of the same program), so that it makes sense using the lowest GLSL version supported by your graphics engine, and declare higher version only for specific optional GLSL programs requiring it.
Duplicating shaders for different GLSL versions is actually not needed, as the same source code can be compiled with different GLSL version header with some additional tricks / auxiliary macros, as GLSL keeps backward compatibility (the only major breakpoint was GLSL 150 / OpenGL 3.2 removing a bunch of functionality and changing GLSL syntax).
There are, however, bugs in OpenGL drivers that might change the view. For instance, I have experienced severe misbehavior of some GLSL programs compiled as #version 300 es on devices supporting OpenGL ES 3.0 (but not higher - e.g. these were the first drivers introducing OpenGL ES 3 support, and this support was quite buggy), while the same program compiled as #version 100 es worked as expected.
Another issue may strike, when you use some newer GLSL version feature without observing it. GLSL specification is quite a thing, and you may spend a lot of time as a bookworm just to know exactly which version added this particular feature or another - and some may surprise you. Beware that many drivers actually tolerate the usage of some new features without specifying an appropriate GLSL version (as long as hardware actually supports it). So that you may be confident that your GLSL program is #version 140 compliant, while actually it doesn't - this could be revealed suddenly by testing on another OpenGL driver.
In my experience, NVIDIA driver allows most severe deviations from GLSL specification (probably, because their GLSL compiler translates code to another language - Cg). AMD driver is more strict, but still allows some deviations. So far, less tolerant / most strict GLSL validator I've seen in macOS OpenGL drivers. In such conditions, specifying a higher GLSL version might be more safe / robust for compatibility with wider range of hardware, although this would just hide errors in your lowest "supported" GLSL version definition.


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Gov. Stitt Announces $6M In CARES Act Funding Approved To Help Local Food Banks
Thursday, December 24th 2020, 7:30 am
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt said that $6 million in CARES Act funding has been approved to help local food banks provide assistance to families in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Governor Stitt, the money will support the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma and the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.
The governor's office said that both agencies need help replenishing their food supply as many Oklahomans struggle to feed their families amid the pandemic.
The two food banks have distributed 7.3 million pounds more this year than the previous year. Food banks are also seeing a 25% to 30% increase in the number of Oklahomans needing help.
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Rice powder fixes all kinds of make-up, stage make-up included. Good for oily skin with a tendency to shine during the day and for all other skin types for a mattifying finish. It optically smoothes your skin and gives it a fresh and healthy look. A must—have for every make—up artist and stylist. It blends perfectly without changing foundation color, does not whiten your skin, making your make-up last a lot longer. Despite strong mattifying properties it does not dry your skin. Rice powder nourishes, energizes, protects and counteracts skin aging.


For our second sophomore slump revisited episode of 2016, we jump in the time machine again to revisit 1996 and check out the second album from Bush, the Steve Albini-produced Razorblade Suitcase. Following up a massively successful debut with five hit singles is a tough job, but doing so in short period of time makes the job even harder. It sold half as many and failed to place as many hit singles on the charts, so we've invited back Matt Wardlaw (Ultimate Classic Rock, Lost Together Podcast) and Joe Royland (Sit And Spin VideoCast) to help us figure out if this is a true sophomore slump or an album worth redeeming.
On the surface this band sounds like a slightly edgier Bush, but dig deeper and a more complex and interesting band appears.


Jade: Combine green sun bedsheets and girl's best friend.
You make the GREEN SUN STREETSWEEPER! Aw yeah.
Ok how about one more outfit. Outfits are the best, you think.
> Jade: Combine dress of eclectica, Felt poster, and 8 ball.


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Case is the representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Case is next up for reelection in 2020.
He was previously the representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district as a Democrat from 2003 to 2006.
Look for a contact form on Rep. Ed Case's website to express your opinion.
Head over to Rep. Ed Case's website. If you are having a problem with a government agency, look for a contact link for casework to submit a request for help. Otherwise, look for a phone number on that website to call his office if you have a question.
H.R. 2030 (108th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 Baldwin Avenue in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, as the "Patsy Takemoto Mink Post Office Building".
From Jan 2003 to Apr 2019, Case missed 148 of 2,602 roll call votes, which is 5.7%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.


We can hang new doors and fit windows, repair and re-furbish existing, source the unusual, modify and make thinks fit.
They even discovered an old dry stone wall rebuilt it and made it a feature. The whole garden is now useable by Dave, me and the girls, with lots of deck area to entertain on.


Control the computer usage of your users. You can limit daily usage based on a timed access duration and configure periods of day when they can log in.
There is a timekpr-revived-bzr package for start now. I'll send you an email about the problems I get now (launchpad is not something I enjoy using).
Mjasnik Oh, now I'm blushing. This completely escaped me, I probably didn't get a notification about the issue being solved. Sorry for that. I'll try to create the package again in the near future.
SanskritFritz, You created the issue more than a year ago, true, and it's solved more than a year ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/timekpr-revived/+bug/1487883 If there is anything else I can help with, please do not hesistate to contact me via e-mail, if that's prefered.
Yes that is sadly true. My children simply measure their time, and know when they will be thrown out. It is actually an advantage.
Have you started the service via "systemctl start timekpr" and "systemctl enable timekpr" ?
happyreacer For me this package works perfectly in Plasma, but -revieved will be done as soon upstream fixes some installation problems. I've reported the problem more than a year ago.
@SanskritFritz This package doesn't work. Please, can you make a new package with the timekpr-revived? It would be very nice.
Seeing the new improvements in timekpr-revieved I'll probably create a separate package for it.


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WP1.3 Using Digital Hydraulics in Secondary Control of Cylinder Drive. PhD candidate Viktor Hristov Donkov, Started at AAU, Q1-2017.
WP1.4 Electrical and Electrohydraulic Linear Actuators. PhD Candidate Daniel Hagen at UiA, started on May 2, 2016.
WP1.5 Energy Saving Potential in Knuckle Boom Cranes Using a Novel Pump Controlled Cylinder Drive. PhD Candidate Søren Ketelsen at AAU, started Q4, 2017.


Manned lunar exploration will require extravehicular activity (EVA) suits that surpass existing technology. We propose an innovative thermal control system for EVA suits that uses an absorption heat pump with a flexible radiator that offers reduced size, lighter weight, conformability, rugged construction, and freeze tolerance. The heat pump absorbs a crew member's metabolic heat and rejects it via radiation to the environment. Innovative materials and construction enable a very lightweight and flexible system that is rugged and easily repairable. In Phase I we will prove feasibility by assessing material suitability for lunar operations, demonstrating the critical fabrication steps for key components, then testing these components to demonstrate thermal performance. In Phase II we will build, demonstrate, and deliver a complete prototype heat pump system.


OH Beans originated in Central and South America and were first cultivated in Mexico over 2,000 years ago. All beans belong to the legume family, and therefore fix nitrogen in the soil from the atmosphere, an important ingredient for plant growth. Beans are a great source of protein and go well with corn in the diet. This bean originated with the Seneca people, it is beautifully round with speckles and looks much like a miniature egg. Tan in colour with brown specks. We have grown this bean out as it was gifted to us by the Heritage Food Crops Research Trust along with many other beans as part of their Heirloom Bean Project. It is a climbing bean which can be eaten as a green bean or dry bean. Prolific producer, 10cm pods with up to 7 beans per pod.


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D E H R A D U N P L U S
Day 1 of Budget Session
Vidhan Sabha adjourned twice
Dehradun, March 14
Congress legislators did not allow the Governor to read her Address to the state Assembly on the opening day of the Budget Session here today.
Leader of the Opposition Harak Singh Rawat opposes the Address of the Governor in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
UKD lays siege to Vidhan Sabha
Workers and leaders of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) gheraoed the Vidhan Sabha on the first day of the Budget session by taking out a rally from the Gandhi Park to the Vidhan Sabha here today.
Doon reverberates with dhol beats
Fund-strapped MC mulls service tax on govt institutes
Citizens' privacy will be protected while collecting data: Nandan
Jan manch protests against proposed power tariff hike
Setback for city sanitation
CM announces sops for women
Wife's extramarital affair costs man life
GMVN cancels 10 high-level 'controversial' appointments
Flowers give each other a tough competition
In city, traffic jams order of the day
With the commencement of the Budget session of the Utarakhand state Assembly today, traffic problems and inconvenience for residents of Dehradun have also started.
With barricades put up at several places, students and the general public was inconvenienced in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
What Doctors Want
Nurses step up stir as docs go on strike
Protesting against the non-fulfilment of their demands, private and government medical staff went on a strike today, paralysing medical services in the state. Nurses too stepped up their agitation and were on duty for one shift only.
Private and government doctors hold a protest in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
Single mother hangs herself from fan
A 28-year-old single mother committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her house at Mothrowala this morning, the police said. The cops have not done the postmortem yet as her family couldn't be traced. She has left behind a seven-year-old daughter who was staying with her.
Yoga teachers seek govt jobs
Members of the Yog Prashikshit Society took out a rally from the Gandhi Park in support of their demands here yesterday.
Yoga trained teachers hold a demonstration in Dehradun on Sunday. A Tribune photograph
Bid to encroach on land of MKP College
Mussoorie, March 14
Angry MPG College students foiled the attempt to encroach the land designated for the college near Hussain Ganj yesterday.
Experts stress use of Hindi in govt offices
Haridwar, March 14
Terming national language Hindi as the one that is inscribed on the souls of Indians, experts in the language participated in a "National language coordination convention" held at Ranipur, BHEL, Haridwar.
Employees of PSUs, banking and insurance sector take part in a Hindi language contest at BHEL in Haridwar on Saturday. Tribune photo: Rameshwar Gaur
Cancer awareness, free diagnostic camp for poor
The latest report by the Population-Based Cancer Registry, which is functioning under the National Cancer Registry Programme of the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), has put the rate of the growth of cancer at 1.2 per cent per year.
State achieves 73 pc blood donation target
There has been a marked improvement in the percentage of blood donations in Uttarakhand. The state has achieved a target of 73 per cent blood donations through voluntary means.
Dance should speak about society, says Sonal Mansingh
"Today is the age of computers, television, mobile phones, I-pads, I-pods and many more gadgets that have distracted the life of a person, leaving one just with bookish knowledge about dance," said dancer Sonal Mansingh.
Ayush wrecks Doon Combined
Himalayan Cricket Club (B) beat Doon Combined by 40 runs in a twenty20 match of the Uttarakhand Cup Beehive Challenger League at the Matawala Bagh here today.
A batsman in action at the Dehradun District Cricket League Tournament at the Survey of India stadium in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
U'khand spikers beat Orissa 3-0
The Uttarakhand volleyball team won the East Zone Volleyball Championship beating Orissa 3-0 in the final held in Orissa making the state proud.
SMA Kazmi
Governor Margaret Alva being received by CM Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on the opening day of the Budget Session in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
However, Governor Margaret Alva thanked the Opposition Congress members for only disrupting her and not throwing mikes and chairs at her as seen in other Assemblies. "I had come prepared," she added.
As soon as Alva started to read her Address after the National Anthem, the Congress legislators, supported by two unattached members, started shouting slogans against the state BJP Government.
Led by Leader of the Opposition Harak Singh Rawat, they charged that the entire state government had miserably failed on all the fronts and there was no need for the Governor's Address highlighting the achievements of the state government.
The Congress legislators trooped into the well of the House shouting slogans and forced the Governor to abandon her Address. She hurriedly read out the first and the last sentences of her Address and left the House. Soon, Assembly Speaker Harbans Kapoor adjourned the House till 3 pm.
As the House reassembled after lunch, the Congress legislators were again up on their feet shouting slogans against the state BJP Government forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House for the entire day.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, later talking to mediapersons, termed the disturbances caused by the Congress legislators during the Governor's address as an insult to the constitutional office. "It was against all the parliamentary traditions to oppose the Governors' address," he added.
He further said the Congress legislators should have listened to the address and should have asked questions about the performance of the government in the parliamentary traditions. "But the Congress legislators are only creating hooliganism in the House," he said.
On the other hand, Harak Singh Rawat charged that the state government had been involved in many scandals and people wanted to know the truth.
"The state government has failed on all the fronts whether it is governance, providing relief to disaster-affected people or even spending money from Centrally sponsored schemes. The development works started by the previous Congress Government have come to a standstill during the past four years under the BJP in the state," he alleged.
"We did not mean any insult to the Governor or the office of the Governor, but we will not allow the falsehoods of this government in the shape of Governor's Address to be read out," he said.
A UKD (Panwar group) worker scales a barricade near the Assembly building in Dehradun on Monday. A Tribune photograph
District president NK Gusai and woman leader Pramila Rawat managed to reach the top of the barricade and got injured, along with many others, when the police tried to desist them with mild lathi-charge. Block vice-president from Haldwani Anand Kishore Kandpal sustained maximum injuries.
Party president Trivender Singh Panwar deprecated the state government saying that the state had badly failed in arresting unemployment in the state, implementing compulsion of knowledge of local languages for the government jobs of C and D categories and releasing the Government Order with regard to the annulment of the condtion of certificate of permanent residence.
Seeking declaration of the Gaumukh-Uttarkashi stretch as eco-zone, he demanded jobs for the unemployed in various corporations, changes in the Forest Act to make it more flexible for development, enforcement of stringent land laws, solution of long-pending problems of government employees and constitution of selection commission to bring transparency in the selection of category C and D jobs.
While reiterating their stand to shift the capital to Gairsain and restart the closed down hydro-projects in the state, he said, "In matters like Citurgia case, distribution of small hydro-power projects and gas power plant, Kashipur, where the role of the state government is dubious, a CBI inquiry must be ordered".
Party patron Kashi Singh Aeri, leader of Vidhan Mandal Pushpesh Tripathi, vice-president Narender Singh Rawat, general secretary Shish Pal Bisht, president of the Panchyat Cell Lalit Bisht, president of the youth wing Sunil Bisht, president of the technical wing JP Godiyal, women leaders Devi Thapa and Anita Saha participated in the rally.
The police has barricaded Shastri Nagar, Rispana Bridge, Praghati Vihar and tri-junction of the Vidhan Sabha to stop political parties and other organisations from gheraoing the Assembly. And traffic diversions have been made according to this.
Thus, people residing in Defence Colony, Shastri Nagar, Nehru Colony, Haridwar bypass, Jogiwala, Ajabpur and Mothrowala are the most affected with this. The residents have to travel a very long way to reach their preferred destination in the city.
Today several motorists and pedestrians were seen returning from the barricaded area. They had to follow narrow lanes, long routes and face a lot of inconvenience to reach their destination.
Besides this, the whole city reels under traffic jams during the sessions. School and college students are also a harried lot. Most affected are students who are taking the CBSE, ICSE and Uttarakhand Board examinations.
Several organisations of the areas affected have submitted their protest with the Chief Minister, Dehradun District Magistrate (DM), DGP and SSP in this regard.
"We are harassed, inconvenienced and tortured due to the ongoing Vidhan Sabha session. Various organisations have erected their tents on the road leading to Defence Colony and the occupants of the tents are bold enough to harrass local residents," Dr BK Nautiyal of the Intellectual and Technocrats' Guild of India said in his letter to the DM.
The Association of Physicians of India, Dehradun branch, has also written a letter to the DM to bring to light the problem being faced by people due to processions/dharnas.
Owing to these dharnas, traffic gets disordered which primarily affects schoolgoing students, patients and those going for important work. A place should be marked where all these processions can be held, the letter said.
Sainik Co-Operative Housing Society Limited has described the problem as horrifying, nightmarish experience and torture by so-called andolandkaris settled near the Vidhan Sabha.
On the other hand, the police has chalked out a plan to divert the traffic and appealed to the residents not to use the barricaded area between 12:30 pm to 2 pm to avoid any hassles.
It has also appealed to all political parties and agitators to use less time in their protest and hold their programmes in a peaceful manner.
Nurses demonstrate at the Doon Hospital on Monday. A Tribune photograph
More than 1,000 doctors gathered at the Gandhi Park in the morning where office-bearers of the Provincial Medical Health Services (PMHS) and the Indian Medical Association (Uttarakhand) addressed the gathering.
The doctors are demanding the implementation of the Security Act, cadre distribution to medical officials and the implementation of the Dynamic Assured Career Progression Scheme (DACP).
"From time to time the government had been feeding us on empty assurances and in the interests of patients we had toned down our stir, but to no avail. We were repeatedly assured that the Security Act would be implemented in the state, but nothing positive has come about," said Dr SD Joshi, president, PMHS.
He said as far as the implementation of the DACP went, the issue had been hanging fire for the few years past, even when the neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi had already implemented it. "The government is needlessly sitting on the issue of cadre distribution to the remaining doctors," he said.
Later, the doctors took out a rally from the Gandhi Park to the Raj Bhawan and submitted a memorandum to the Governor who assured them of full cooperation.
"In the public interest, we will go back to work tomorrow. We have again given a month's time to the government to act, otherwise we will again launch a statewide agitation," said Dr Ajit Gairola, district president of the Indian Medical Association.
Meanwhile, the nurses, too, protested against the non-fulfilment of their demands. "We had earlier called off our agitation slated for March 3 to 7 and this phase of our agitation started today, said Laxmi Punetha, media adviser to the Uttarakhand Nurses Service Association.
All the nurses in the combined hospitals, base hospitals, female hospitals and district hospitals in the state were on duty for one shift.
With doctors taking part in the agitation, the OPDs wore a desolate look. However, the emergency services were running as usual. This is the first time that the private doctors too took to the streets and the impact was felt all over the state, as almost all the health establishments were shut.
Haridwar: Doctors went on a one-day strike in the district though emergency services ran normally.
Pointing out that the incidents of violence against the doctor fraternity are on the rise, doctors from both the governmental and private sectors stayed away from medical service as a symbolic protest.
Dr Rajesh Gupta, chief of the Indian Medical Association, Haridwar, said this insecurity among the doctors was affecting their working.
"In several states like Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan, the Security Act is already in place but the Uttarakhand Government seems to be dilly-dallying on this issue, forcing us to go on a strike" said Dr Sanjay Shah.
Though the police couldn't ascertain the reason of the death, sources said she committed suicide due to family tension. After a divorce from her first marriage, she had been staying separated even from her second husband.
Victim Asha, a nurse at Vaisha Nursing Home, had a girl from her first marriage and the daughter was staying with her. The cops are trying to contact her husband.
According to Navneet Bhullar, Circle Officer, the woman had taken the step this morning when her daughter was out by bolting the door from inside. The matter came to light when neighbours knocked the door and there was no response from inside. They peeped inside the house from a window and saw her hanging. The police was informed of the matter.
The cops did the panchnama. However, the postmortem was not done yet. The CO said no suicide note or anything, which could ascertain the motive behind the suicide, could be found. "We are trying to contact the family and her husband before proceeding further," he added.
The protestors are demanding employment in government schools and other government departments as yoga teachers.
District general secretary of the society Arvind Rana said, "Despite of the fact that we have given a memorandum to the administration and gone on an indefinite fast in the past, the state government has not initiated any scheme or plan for yoga trained teachers".
On receiving information that some individuals were trying to encroach the land allotted to the college, the students, led by former-president Nitin Dutt, raised an alarm and informed Principal of the college RS Shukla, who rang up the police. The students alleged that this encroachment was being done at the behest of senior officials and certain ward members of the Mussoorie MC.
MC President OP Uniyal said after he was apprised of the situation, he directed the officials concerned to look into the matter.
Language experts-cum-coordinators from various public sector undertakings, banking sector and insurance companies took part in various sessions of the convention and competitions, including an essay-writing contest and a quiz, which were held on the sidelines of the convention.
At the inaugural session of the convention, chief guest was KR Gupta, General Manager (Engineering), BHEL. Gupta said Hindi was the mother language of billions of people residing in India and it was in their hearts and souls. "No one should need to ask oneself to either speak, write and learn or work in Hindi as it's our national language," said Gupta.
Informing the convention about an initiative of the Central Government, which aimed at making sure the national language was used in Union Government offices, public sector undertakings, banks and insurance companies, Gupta said if despite this they were unable to achieve the target to promote the usage of Hindi language, then they definitely had to change their thinking.
A multimedia presentation was also made at the session for government employees. It showed the right methodology of the reports to be filed in Hindi language to the Union Home Ministry. Shriniwas Joshi, Additional Manager (Languages), and Joint Secretary Narakash urged all the participants to contribute their bit in achieving the desired results in the programme, which had been launched with the aim of promoting the usage of the "raj bhasha" in government offices.
Discussions on various other aspects of the national language were also held, particularly on the problems faced by the authorities concerned in the implementation of the Hindi language programme.
Sandeep Rawat
It was imperative to generate mass awareness so as to lessen the rate and make sure cancer was cured by detection in the initial stage itself.
Taking this concept ahead, Haridwar-based Rotarians have initiated a long-term cancer awareness campaign to generate awareness among the people and provide a free-of-cost cancer detection facility, particularly for women who are suffering from breast cancer and cervical cancer mostly due to a lack of awareness, inadequate health care and social stigma.
The Rotary Club of Kankhal is dedicated to this aspect and its members organise free medical checkups for poor people.
Project Chairman Rakesh Aggarwal said, "This awareness campaign is an attempt to lessen the cause of cancer by making people aware of its causes. Most of the people get medical treatment at a later stage when the chances of cure are very less, but if one gets diagnosed at an early stage, the chances are increased".
He added that due to awareness, western countries had lessened the breast cancer affected patients graph, while in India such cases were increasing owing to lack of awareness among women.
The Kankhal Rotarians have tied up with New Delhi-based "Cancer Roko", a NGO which specialises in high-tech medical equipments for thedetection of cancer-affected patients. A specialised team of doctors, medical support staff with a specialised van having machines and medical lab to diagnose cervical cancer, cardiovascular diseases and TB is provided whenever a diagnostic camp is held in Haridwar.
Shabnam Praveen, a doctor associated with the NGO, while speaking to The Tribune, said, "India has almost 1/4th of total cervical cancer patients in the world as cases are diagnosed at a later stage when radiotherapy becomes imperative and survival chances are bleak. For a growing economy like ours, it is quite sad that a large percentage of women and girls are suffering from pre-cancerous lesions, lack of access to healthcare, education and information about testing treatment of these lesions which make them eve more vulnerable to breast and cervical cancer".
The Rotarians are providing free check-up facility for all, and free medical prescription is also given to the poor people. If the test report of any poor patient comes positive, aid and financial assistance is provided to the patient.
"This is a social initiative which caters to that section which is getting slowly affected with deadly cancer, but with prior information, precaution and early diagnosis many lives can be saved. Social work like these are not only laudable, appreciable, but should also be supported," said Pankaj Sehgal, Chairman, Commercial Tax Advisory Committee, Uttarakhand, at the inauguration of the free cancer diagnostic camp.
Neena Sharma
Vinita Srivastav, programme officer, NACO, addresses a workshop in Dehradun on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
However, a lot of groundwork needs to be done before voluntary blood donation activity picks up in hill districts of the state. "For 2010-2011, our target is at least 70,000 units of blood that will be collected through voluntary blood donation camps," said Additional Director, Uttarakhand State Aids Control Society (USACS), Dr PC Kapri. He was speaking at a workshop organised by USACS held at a hotel here on Friday.
"As of now, the requirement of blood is around 70,000-80,000 units in the state and there is always a probability that the demand will rise when dengue-hit patients begin thronging government hospitals for treatment," he added.
Programme Officer, National Aids Control Organisation (NACO), Vinita Srivastav said several camps were being organised in the city to increase awareness about blood donation. "We are encouraging women and social workers to donate blood," she said.
Motivator with the Rotary Blood Bank Tejinder Singh said the culture of voluntary donation should be strengthened as there was always a shortage of blood in the country. "We need to understand the psyche and generate awareness that donations at regular intervals (at least thrice a year) boosts one's immunity," said Tejinder.
She also stressed on making thalassemia testing mandatory, so that the problem was detected as early as possible, as such patients required several units of blood. Earlier, Joint Director of blood safety Meenakshi Uniyal urged the youth to participate in blood donation camps.
Sonika Bhatia
Famous dancer Sonal Mansingh during her visit to Dehradun on Sunday. A Tribune photograph
Sonal was in the state capital to perform naatya-katha at a function of Him Jyoti School.
Sharing her feelings with The Tribune, she said, "Dance is not just movement, as monkeys can dance too. It should speak about the issues concerning society and people at large. It is a medium through which one can present the viewpoint of those who often do not get a platform to speak," said the Padma Bhushan awardee.
"At the peak of my career, when I met with a serious car accident and the doctors told me that I could not dance any more, it did not deter me. It was my indomitable will that brought me back to my feet again," she said.
Exponent of Bharatnatyam and Odissi dance, Sonal Mansingh is also an expert in Kuchipudi and Chhau dance, along with classical music.
On being asked what inspires her in preparing dance forms, she stated that she got the inspiration from each and everything surrounding her. "It is not just a single person who inspires me. I get motivated from trees, birds, animals, nature, environment etc. Dancers must have love for everything as dance is a rare confluence of all," she added.
Speaking about the naatya-katha, the danseuse said, "It is an ancient form of narrative art that was widely prevalent in every part of the country. 'Katha' literally means 'to narrate' in Sanskrit".
A multifaceted personality, who is known as a dancer, philosopher, social reformer, thinker, choreographer and teacher, is accredited with many awards. She has also won Nritya Choodamani (1985), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1986), Bhai Veer Singh International Award (1990), Rajiv Gandhi International Award (1991) and Medals of Friendship from State Council of Vietnam and Cuba.
Himalayan Cricket Club (B), after deciding to bat first, set a target of 144 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs. Rajesh (43), Shristi (23), Ayush (21) and Sandeep (21) scored mainly for the team.
Vaibhav Panwar of Doon Club got three wickets.
Batting second, Doon Club were bowled all out for 103 in 17 overs. Shanky and Arvind scored an identical score of 23 runs. Ayush of Himalayan Cricket Club (B) got four wickets while Paras got two wickets.
Kumaon Club beat Vikasnagar (B)
The Kumaon Club got the better of Vikasnagar (B) by four wickets in the ongoing District Cricket League here today.
Vikasnagar batted first after winning the toss. Dinesh (49) and Love Garg (36*) played valuable knocks for the side. The team scored 173 runs in 32.1. For Kumaon, Lalit captured a maximum of four wickets.
Kumaon achieved the target at the loss of six wickets in 24.2 overs. Ashish (45*) and Sanjay (34) were the principal scorers.
The state team defeated the host side in straight sets 25-17, 25-21, 25-16. Avneesh Yadav, Mithlesh, Lalit, Umang, Gurchand and captain Ratish Nayar preformed brilliantly to help their side win the match.
Arshad Khan and Sanjeev Garg were the coaches with the team.


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Q: Number of epochs to be used in a Keras sequential model I'm building a Keras sequential model to do a binary image classification. Now when I use like 70 to 80 epochs I start getting good validation accuracy (81%). But I was told that this is a very big number to be used for epochs which would affect the performance of the network.
My question is: is there a limited number of epochs that I shouldn't exceed, note that I have 2000 training images and 800 validation images.

A: If the number of epochs are very high, your model may overfit and your training accuracy will reach 100%. In that approach you plot the error rate on training and validation data. The horizontal axis is the number of epochs and the vertical axis is the error rate. You should stop training when the error rate of validation data is minimum.
You need to have a trade-off between your regularization parameters. Major problem in Deep Learning is overfitting model. Various regularization techniques are used,as
i) Reducing batch-size
ii) Data Augmentation(only if your data is not diverse)
iii) Batch Normalization
iv) Reducing complexity in architecture(mainly convolutional layers)
v) Introducing dropout layer(only if you are using any dense layer)
vi) Reduced learning rate.
vii) Transfer learning
Batch-size vs epoch tradeoff is quite important. Also it is dependent on your data and varies from application to application. In that case, you have to play with your data a little bit to know the exact figure. Normally a batch size of 32 medium size images requires 10 epochs for good feature extraction from the convolutional layers. Again, it is relative

A: There's this Early Stopping function that Keras supply which you simply define.
EarlyStopping(patience=self.patience, verbose=self.verbose, monitor=self.monitor)

Let's say that the epochs parameter equals to 80, like you said before. When you use the EarlyStopping function the number of epochs becomes the maximum number of epochs.
You can define the EarlyStopping function to monitor the validation loss, for example, when ever this loss does not improve no more it'll give it a few last chances (the number you put in the patience parameter) and if after those last chances the monitored value didn't improve the training process will stop.
The best practice, in my opinion, is to use both EarlyStopping and ModelCheckpoint, which is another callback function supplied in Keras' API that simply saves your last best model (you decide what best means, best loss or other value that you test your results with).
This is the Keras solution for the problem your trying to deal with. In addition there is a lot of online material that you can read about how to deal with overfit.

A: Yaa! Their is a solution for your problem. Select epochs e.g 1k ,2k just use early stoping on your neural net.
Early Stopping:
Keras supports the early stopping of training via a callback called Early-stopping.
This callback allows you to specify the performance measure to monitor, the trigger, and once triggered, it will stop the training process. For example you apply a trigger that stop the training if accuracy is not increasing in previous 5 epochs. So keras will see previous 5 epochs through call backs and stop training if your accuracy is not increasing
Early Stopping link :


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Cleansing Hour, Possession Theme Redefined, Modernized -Film Review - DecayMag.
Two failed filmmakers have found success running a webcast that streams LIVE exorcisms. However, every episode is an elaborately staged hoax, created to dupe their global audience.
But, when their latest subject turns out to actually be demon-possessed, Lance and Drew are forced to reckon with their online charade- live in front of millions of viewers.
The short horror film directed by Damien LeVeck, The Cleansing Hour, starring Sam Jaeger (Parenthood, American Sniper), Heather Morris (Glee, Spring Breakers), and Neil Grayston (Daredevil, Eureka) will be featured at SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia taking place October 7-16 in Sitges, Spain, and Napa Valley Film Festival November 9-13 in Napa.
The Cleansing Hour was written by Aaron Horwitz (Roommate Wanted) and also features guitarist Jonny Radtke (Filter, Kill Hannah), YouTube star Teala Dunn (Enchanted, Expelled), John Griffin (Priest, Jersey Boys), and Catherine Marin (The Tequila Sisters, Chimera) in supporting roles.
Jesse M. Feldman (American Horror Story, Homeland) is the director of photography and Marylou Lim (Godzilla, Looper) is the costume designer.
A camera crew hosts a live exorcism show called "The Cleansing Hour". The exorcisms are staged, of course, for the sake of the show. However, the show takes a different turn with their current subject, Heather, who actually becomes possessed by an evil spirit.
Father Lance, who has never performed a real live exorcism, is suddenly forced to act quickly before Heather kills him and the crew.
When the demon is successfully driven out of Heather, things have not completely gone back to normal, as the demon only transferred from Heather's body into all of the millions of viewers who witness the live event. Now, the demon is wrecking havoc all over the world.
What makes The Cleansing Hour so successful is the suspense and intensity it holds. It shows like a real live webcast. So, that gives the film and it's charactered a sense of authenticity. The audience connects with the characters on a more personal level than just the normal actor-audience relationship.
The cast certainly does an amazing job in their roles. In a staged model, Heather is very convincing to the audience. In the demon-possessed mode, her acting is successfully chilling and intense. You can see the genuine, raging emotions and expressions on the audience faces.
When the demon transfers from Heather's body to all of the viewers across the border, everyone quickly and successfully adapts to demon-possessed mode.
While The Cleansing Hour takes its place among the countless demon possession and exorcism films, director Damien LeVeck does a superior job at the direction the film takes.
TERIFFIC! The Cleansing Hour is familiar, while fresh. It packs a genuine level of intensity that connects with its viewers. Aaron Horwitz Pens a Modern Classic.


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package voogasalad.util.paint;

import javafx.scene.paint.Color;

public class DrawingToolChooser implements DrawingGet, IDrawingToolChooser {

	private DrawRectangle dr;
	private DrawCircle dc;
	private Pen p;

	private DrawingTool currentTool;

	public DrawingToolChooser() {
		dr = new DrawRectangle();
		dc = new DrawCircle();
		p = new Pen();
		currentTool = p;
	}

	@Override
	public void setDrawingTool(DrawingToolType dtt) {
		setColors(currentTool.getColor());
		if (dtt.equals(DrawingToolType.Rectangle)) {
			currentTool = dr;
		} else if (dtt.equals(DrawingToolType.Cirlce)) {
			currentTool = dc;
		} else {
			currentTool = p;
		}
	}

	private void setColors(Color c){
		dr.setColor(c);
		dc.setColor(c);
		p.setColor(c);
	}

	@Override
	public DrawingTool getDrawingTool() {
		return currentTool;
	}

	@Override
	public void setColor(Color value) {
		setColors(value);
	}

}


In sports, in business and in life, an understanding of what it takes to be a top performer is crucial for success. As an NFL Super Bowl Champion, an elite college head football coach and an ESPN analyst, Bill Curry will share with you his understanding of what it takes to accomplish your goals.
After graduation from College Park High School, Bill received a football scholarship to Georgia Tech, where he lettered for three seasons at center for Coach Bobby Dodd. In 1964, he was drafted by the Green Bay Packers, playing for legendary coach Vince Lombardi.
Bill Curry was an integral part of the team that won the 1965 NFL Championship and Super Bowl I in 1966. He was traded to the Baltimore Colts in 1967 where he played for Hall of Fame Coach, Don Shula. Under Shula, Curry played in Super Bowls III and V and was named to the All-Pro Team in 1971 and 1972. After playing briefly with the Houston Oilers and the Los Angeles Rams, Curry's ten-year NFL career ended in 1975 when a knee injury forced him to retire.
Mr. Curry began his coaching career at Georgia Tech as an assistant coach. After a three-year stint as Offensive Line Coach with the Green Bay Packers, under Coach Bart Starr, he returned to Georgia Tech in 1980 as Head Coach. While at Georgia Tech, Curry led his team to an All-American Bowl victory and was named the "ACC Coach of the Year" in 1985. In 1987, Curry agreed to serve as Head Coach at the University of Alabama.
In his three seasons coaching the Crimson Tide, he posted a record of 26-10, including one SEC Championship and three bowl appearances. His 1989 squad shared the Southeastern Conference title, and Coach Curry received the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year Award.
Bill Curry was further honored when the Associated Press named him as the 1990 "SEC Coach of the Year."


Just as there is in the United States, there is a huge appetite in China for all manner of quackery and crackpots. Zhang Wuben, a Beijing nutritional therapist and author of a book called Cure the Diseases You Get from Eating by Eating, achieved wealth and celebrity by claiming that consuming mung beans in staggering quantities is a cure for a host of maladies. Zhang was a bit too successful, it seems; the price of mung beans tripled, and there were allegations that the health guru was hoarding the beans and engaging in market speculation. This rumor led to scrutiny of Zhang's qualifications, which, predictably, turned out to be entirely bogus. Eventually, the once popular talk show guest was completely discredited and his posh Beijing headquarters were torn down by the Chinese authorities.
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Eastern Division Routs Western Foes, 7-2, in All-Star Tilt
by Megan Kerr
SOUTH YARMOUTH — After a presentation honoring retiring Falmouth Commodores General Manager Chuck Sturtevant, the all-star festivities at Y-D's Merrill "Red" Wilson Field began in earnest with the homerun contest and Cotuit's Justin Smoak ( South Carolina ).
There were six contestants in all and the rules stood as followed: each participant would have the opportunity to hit as many homeruns as possible before registering ten outs and then the top two performers would compete in a championship round. The first round took some time as while Steffan Wilson (Harvard) from the Wareham Gatemen easily took first in the opening round with an amazing ten home runs, there was a four-way tie as Smoak, Mitch Moreland (Bourne, Mississippi St), Matt LaPorta (Brewster, Florida) and Josh Donaldson (Harwich, Harvard) all hit five home runs. A playoff round was then needed to decide who would face Wilson in the championship round, but unfortunately for Cotuit fans, Smoak was only able to come up with one homerun in the five swings allotted to him in the playoff, which was not enough to move on. Mooreland eventually defeated Laporta in a third playoff to face Wilson in the final round, where Moreland used his momentum gained in the playoff to hit sixteen homeruns to win the Home Run Rally.
After the homerun rally, it was time for the game itself where Cotuit had four players in the starting lineup. Jeff Rea ( Mississippi St , 2 for 4, 1 RBI) started in left field batting second, Smoak (0 for 3) started at first base batting third, Reese Havens ( South Carolina , 0 for 4) started at shortstop batting seventh, and Eric Farris (LMU, 2 for 4) started at second base batting ninth. Farris got the offense going for the Western all stars in the third inning as after Eastern pitching retired the first eight batters in order, Farris reached second base on a hit that the right fielder was unable to get to due to having a hard time finding the ball in the sun. After Farris moved to third on another single by the Western team, Rea then proceeded to give the West their first run of the day by singling in Farris.
Cory Gearrin (Young Harris, 1BB, 1K, 0H) came on to pitch in the fifth inning to fellow Kettleer Sean Gaston (Notre Dame, 0 for 2), who had subbed into the game in the fourth, with the West leading two to one. Gearrin was the only Cotuit pitcher to pitch in the game as both fellow all-stars James Simmons ( Cal St Riverside ) and Jay Brown (Young Harris) had pitched the day before against Falmouth . Gearrin was able to pitch a scoreless fifth inning for the West, but it fell apart in the sixth inning as Josh Satin ( California ) hit a two-run homerun to give the East the lead they wouldn't relinquish. The East continued to put pressure on Western pitching, adding another four runs in the seventh inning, but Satin's homerun was definitely the turning point of the game, earning him MVP honors. After a fun, though disappointing, seven to two loss, the eight Cotuit all-stars return to Lowell Park tomorrow to play the Brewster Whitecaps.


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Rev Major Philippines is Coming
June 26, 2017 June 26, 2017 Leandro Chan	0 Comments Bandai Namco, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2, Injustice 2, Playbook Video Game Lounge + Bookshop, Street Fighter V, Super Smash Brothers 4, tekken, Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
In less than two weeks, Rev Major Philippines will be happening in Manila! Some of you must be wondering what the fuss is all about, so Rev Major is a two-day fighting game event where the best players in the region come to Manila. They'll get to to test their mettle against the best that the Philippines has to offer.
It's ALSO home to the Tekken 7 Asia-Pacific Masters, which is part of the Tekken World Tour (TWT). That's a pretty big deal, if we do say so ourselves.
Get Hype!
The tournament is hosted by PlayBook Video Game Lounge+Bookshop, and will be happening on July 8-9 at Power Mac Center Spotlight, Circuit Lane, Circuit Makati, Makati City, Philippines.
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Seeing as the tourney is part of the Tekken World Tour, and is sponsored by Bandai Namco themselves, the prize pool for Tekken 7 is a whopping 500,00 PHP!
However, despite Tekken 7 being the main attraction, Rev Major will feature 6 other games. Namely being, Street Fighter V, Super Smash Bros. 4, Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2, The King of Fighters XIV, Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, and Injustice 2.
Considering the excitement behind the tournament, you've got to expect some international names to make a showing. Tekken pros from around the world have signed up to join the tournament; EchoFox's JDCR and Saint, and Tanukana from Team Cyclops to name a few.
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After the RageArt tournament, they're back for more!
Furthermore, famous commentators from the international fighting game community have also confirmed their attendance! Expect to see Jiyuna, Tasty Steve, Markman, and Spooky lending their voices for the commentary table.
So, is there something you're waiting for? Sign up to join or spectate! See you at Rev Major in 2 weeks!
Event Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/revmajorph/
Website: http://playbookph.com/rev-major-2017/
Tournament registration: http://playbookph.com/rev-major-2017/preregister/
Spectator pass application: http://playbookph.com/rev-major-2017/spectator-pass-application/
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Q: Github keep link in readme persistent to latest releases asset file I have an installer file in the latest release and I want to have a persistent link in the readme to it. It seems that the /releases/latest isn't an alias that I could use to construct the path as /releases/latest/mydownloader.exe
The current workarounds I have:
1) Create a tag release and always delete and recreate it:
github.com/user/project/releases/download/release/install.exe

2) Modify readme.md anytime I do a new release and update path
github.com/user/project/releases/download/20190218/install.exe

A: The tag remains the least intrusive option (you don't have to modify your README, adding a new commit on each release)
As explain in "Is there a link to GitHub for downloading a file in the latest release of a repository?", there is no API support for referencing a latest released file as a permanent link.

A: you can point to /releases/latest

A: I know this is an old question, but I needed something similar so here is the solution I found.
All we need is to reference the latest release using this path:
github.com/user/project/releases/latest
then we just need to append /download/install.exe, resulting in the following URL which should work:
github.com/user/project/releases/latest/download/install.exe
Note this is different from the path seen when downloading the file from the release page which requires the release name/tag as specified in the question.
I couldn't find documentation for this, but it seems to work.


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Fat Stores of American Redstarts Setophaga ruticilla Arriving at Northerly Breeding Grounds
Robert J. Smith, University of Southern MississippiFollow
Frank R. Moore, University of Southern MississippiFollow
Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences
Many long-distance passerine migrants arrive with more fat stores than necessary to have reached their northerly breeding grounds. Researchers have argued for adaptive advantages associated with arriving with 'surplus' migratory fat, including increased breeding performance and insurance against adverse weather, and reduced food resources during the days following arrival. The objectives of this work were to document fat stores in American redstarts Setophaga ruticilla arriving to breed in northern Michigan and to test predictions associated with the hypothesis that arrival fat serves an insurance role. Results suggest that redstarts arrived in northern Michigan with fat stores sufficient to have continued migrating an additional distance greater than 1000 km. Significant yearly variation in arrival fat corresponded in part with environmental conditions measured at the breeding grounds. Birds arrived with the most fat in the year with the coolest temperatures and the lowest food abundance at the time of arrival to the site. Further, an inverse relationship between arrival fat and arrival day in males indicated that early arrivals carried more fat than later arrivals. Birds that arrived early faced cooler temperatures and lower densities of terrestrial invertebrates, and arrival fat may have provided a mechanism to overcome poor early season foraging conditions. However, our results are not entirely consistent with the hypothesis that arrival fat serves only as insurance. Arrival fat appeared important even during the most benign year of this study. Further, evidence suggests that females may have derived more benefit from arrival fat than males. These results highlight the connection between phases of a bird's annual cycle. Migrants that do well ell route, arrive at breeding grounds in better condition, which may contribute to survival and reproductive success.
Smith, R. J., Moore, F. R. (2005). Fat Stores of American Redstarts Setophaga ruticilla Arriving at Northerly Breeding Grounds. Journal of Avian Biology, 36(2), 117-126.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/8586