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In both ID and JSOM.
Some while back, I suggested writing a JOSM plugin to help make sure one has seen the entire task area.  Without going into details, the idea was to split the task into a grid with cells (subtasks) just slightly smaller than the viewport at the user's chosen zoom level.  When user is satisfied with their work in a subtask, they mark it as done and step to the next (e.g. using the normal navigation keys).  The user could move out of the subtask without marking the task as finished if they want to chase a long feature, then snap back to where the subtask they were working on.


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import { TRANSLATIONS } from './translations'; // import our opaque token

import { Injectable, Inject, EventEmitter } from '@angular/core'; // import event emitter

@Injectable()
export class TranslateService {
    private _currentLang: string;

    public get currentLang() {
        return this._currentLang;
    }

    // inject our translations
    constructor(@Inject(TRANSLATIONS) private _translations: any) {
    }

    public use(lang: string): void {
        // set current language
        this._currentLang = lang;
        //???
        this.onLangChanged.emit(lang); // publish changes
    }

    private translate(key: string): string {
        // private perform translation
        let translation = key;

        if (this._translations[this.currentLang] && this._translations[this.currentLang][key]) {
            return this._translations[this.currentLang][key];
        }

        return translation;
    }

    public instant(key: string) {
        // call translation
        return this.translate(key);
    }
    // ???
    private PLACEHOLDER = '%'; // our placeholder

    public replace(word: string = '', words: string | string[] = '') {
        let translation: string = word;

        const values: string[] = [].concat(words);
        values.forEach((e, i) => {
            translation = translation.replace(this.PLACEHOLDER.concat(<any>i), e);
        });

        return translation;
    }
    // ???
    // add event
    public onLangChanged: EventEmitter<string> = new EventEmitter<string>();

}

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Q: how to write R function to make values close to zero to zero and leaving others as is I have a data frame with 3 columns and 40 rows. The 1st two columns contain a value range from -1 to 1, and the 3rd column contains the sum of the two columns. Therefore, I would like to change values closer to zero, such as 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, -0.1, -0.2, -0.3 in the 3rd columns to zero and the rest as it was.
library(dplyr)
set.seed(2)
D = data.frame(from = runif(40, -1,1), to = runif(40,-1,1)) %>% dplyr::mutate(weight = from + to)

I appreciate your help.

A: With replace, check if the absolute value is below a threshold:
thrs = 0.5
transform(D, weight = replace(weight, abs(weight) < thrs, 0))

Or in the dplyr framework:
D %>%
  mutate(weight = replace(weight, abs(weight) < 0.5, 0))

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Volume > Issue > Can the Human Mind Explain Itself?
Can the Human Mind Explain Itself?
Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
By Thomas Nagel
Review Author: Terry Scambray
Terry Scambray lives and writes in Fresno, California.
In Mind & Cosmos the highly regarded philosopher Thomas Nagel can't make up his mind about how to explain his own mind and the minds of the rest of us. However, he is sure that the materialist explanation of the mind is merely a mental construct and is, as he writes, "almost certainly false." Nagel, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, recounts how the "mind-body problem" arose from the scientific revolution of the 17th century, wherein men reduced things to their tiniest physical and chemical parts to discover what made them tick. Can such "scientific" reductionism be applied to the mind and consciousness? Not really, because attempting quantitative measurement of the unquantifiable is a misapplication that results in a degenerated form of science called "scientism."
It remains paradoxical that science has never been able to objectify something essential to its entire enterprise — mind or consciousness — which, as Nagel writes, is that "aspect of mental phenomena that is evident from the first person, inner point of view which tells you how sugar tastes, red looks or how anger feels," and how to evaluate a scientific experiment fairly and accurately. Of course, the mind-body conundrum is a perennial issue that thinkers have puzzled over since long before the 17th century. Nevertheless, Nagel yearns for a "unified world picture," which would necessarily have to include the mind and the cosmos, a goal he refers to oddly as "utopian." He concedes that "theories of everything" are restricted because science currently limits itself to material causes, whereas the mind is an immaterial, immeasurable, unrestricted free agent.
Despite this limitation, Nagel ambitiously remarks that "the more encompassing a theory is, the more powerful it has to be." For this reason he hopes that "a major conceptual revolution at least as radical as relativity theory or the original scientific revolution itself" will come about, making the mind and consciousness amenable to scientific inspection.
Whether quantum theory, as one example, can help explain the mind is discussed by Raymond Tallis in his exhaustive 2011 book Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. As Tallis puts it, quantum theory seems to solve problems that a classical understanding of the material world failed to solve because "with quantum theory spooky things appear to happen at a distance from one another, [and] particles have no absolute position." These features remind us of our non-material minds. But this too is a cul-de-sac, for the extraordinary behavior of matter assumes an observer who is the "object" this theorizing intends to explain in the first place. Tallis, a "humanist atheist" like Nagel, concludes that "there is at present nothing in matter as understood through natural sciences — no, not even in the wildest reaches of quantum mechanics — that would lead one to expect matter to assume forms so that it might be able to formulate universal laws that encompass its own existence."
Regardless, Nagel's hoped-for explanation of the mind, be it a revolutionary concept or science fiction, is not clarified, and one can only guess at what he has in mind. So the question remains: Can the human mind explain itself, ever? One struggles to imagine how. Only something outside and more encompassing than itself can explain it. After all, thinkers from Socrates to the present have discussed this and other human limitations; and consummate writers going back to the Old Testament and Homer, on up to Dante and Shakespeare, including such moderns as Proust and Joyce — these two in a streaming and grainy way — have tried to convey that inner mental voice each of us hears solitarily. Even at that, as we read these and other writers, we are relying, inescapably, on our own isolated minds once again.
Nagel's probes, which he consistently calls "speculations," are characteristic of much of his book: sketchy, when not downright contradictory. For example, he trashes Darwinian natural selection as a phony explanation for how minds were made, but nonetheless continues to believe that natural selection has explanatory power. And while he is grateful to individuals like Michael Behe and Stephen Meyer for showing the weaknesses in evolutionary explanations, Nagel notes that they both "are motivated at least in part by their religious beliefs." And whereas David Berlinski is also given a pat on the head for dissecting Darwin's theory without having ulterior "religious" motives, he is also commended for refraining from advocating design.
Apparently, Nagel wants to have his cake and eat it too. Take this sentence: "Those who have seriously criticized these arguments have certainly shown that there are ways to resist the design conclusion; but the general force of the negative part of the intelligent design position — skepticism about the likelihood of the orthodox reductive view, given the available evidence — does not appear to me to have been destroyed in these exchanges." Is this hard to follow? Definitely. That's because "seriously criticized" and "certainly shown" are pumped-up phrases that deflate when followed by confusing double- and triple-negatives. Such gummy syntax is representative of the book's style. Nagel follows up this sentence with this limp observation: "At least, the question should be regarded as open." Really, are there any worthwhile questions that are not open?
Yet, despite its equivocations, the book is interesting for several reasons. For one thing, Nagel offers a good, brief history of the failures of the various materialistic ways of explaining the mind, including assorted behaviorisms that try to sandwich the mind and brain together so as to analyze it as a physical, chemical entity. But, as Nagel points out, the mind and brain are not analogous in the way that water is identical to H2O. Some thinkers simply want to discard mental events, calling them illusions. Nagel disagrees; he thinks that if we want a unified picture of reality, we have to abandon materialism and face the fact that "conscious subjects and their mental lives are inescapable components of reality not describable by the physical sciences."
Nagel also correctly realizes that Darwinian materialism is incompatible with the existence of rational minds. Darwin, equivocal as he was too, never squared this circle, though he touches on this contradiction in On the Origin of Species when he wonders about the reliability of his own mind, which he thought had evolved from an ape's mind. C.S. Lewis also realized that if the mind is an accidental accretion of matter, then it could not be trusted. In our own day, Phillip Johnson, a law professor, and Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher, have also shown persuasively that materialistic determinism is self-refuting; if our brains are a stew of particles stirred around by physical forces, then we are automatons without free will and a desire for truth. Once again, our ideas would be unreliable.
Strangely, for a philosopher, Nagel does not understand that Darwinian evolution is a materialist philosophy masquerading as science. Evolution is not supported by "empirical evidence" as Nagel thinks; the findings of paleontology, embryology, and genetics contradict it. Evolution is supported by a materialist philosophy that restricts "science" to offering only material explanations for phenomena, the very same limitation Nagel sees correctly as restricting explanations for the mind and consciousness! Nagel states that "moral realism is true," but where does his faith in moral realism — which is to say, absolutes — originate if he still clings to a materialist explanation like evolution? Is his belief in absolutes something subjective, a mental construct, a premise that others can share with him only as a matter of faith?
One wonders how Nagel and his colleagues in the academy would react to this argument: "Since God is real, a materialistic, Darwinian account of origins based on natural selection must be false." This argument is stronger than Nagel's because Christianity offers a narrative, an ontology as well as a teleology, which has been particularly energized over the past hundred years by the discovery in the organic cell of millions of molecular parts whose complex, information-rich features are difficult to square with a materialistic, step-by-step mechanical explanation like Darwinian evolution. The complexity of cellular life has been addressed Alysson Muotri, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, who commented in Nature magazine (Nov. 2012) on the uniqueness of the human brain in comparison to other complex organs like the heart and liver: "We look at the brain and we think about the tissue, but actually it seems like lots of tissues in one, because the cells are so heterogeneous. It's almost like every cell was there for a purpose."
Nagel has an aversion to design, even though he understands the limitations of a materialist worldview. Perhaps that's because he wrongly associates intelligent design with "religious" belief. He also slights traditional teleology, trying as he does to wedge in "natural teleology" as an explanation for the symmetry in nature, which he heartily concedes is "biased toward the marvelous." His rationale for his neo-materialist position, that he "lacks the sensus divinitatis that enables — indeed compels — so many people to see in the world the expression of divine purpose," is a serious limitation.
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Q: Custom csv output name with variable in loop in Python I have a code like this to process all files in folder and I've got a problem with last line.
I want to save file after each iteration with custom name.
Expample:
File in folder = SX.txt
Input value = 2
New file name = SX_2.txt
import glob
import pandas as pd
import os

txtfiles = []
for file in glob.glob("*.txt"):
    txtfiles.append(file)
print(txtfiles)

name_5=input("Mode number to extract:")

for filepath in glob.glob('*.txt'):
    with open(filepath) as file:
        #data1 = pd.DataFrame(pd.np.empty((0, 5)))
        data1 = pd.read_csv(file, delim_whitespace=True , index_col=None, header=None)
        data1.columns  = ["a", "b", "c", "d","e"]

        data1['mode'] = data1.groupby(['b']).ngroup()
        data1['mode_1'] = data1['mode']+1
        data_d = data1[data1['mode_1'] == float(name_5)]
        del data_d["mode"]
        data_d["b"]=data_d["b"].round(decimals=3)
        data_d["c"]=data_d["c"].round(decimals=3)

        print(data_d)

        data_d.to_csv(f'{file} + "_" + {name_5}.csv', sep=' ', index=False)

Last line gives an error:
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '<_io.TextIOWrapper name=\'SX1.txt\' mode=\'r\' encoding=\'cp1252\'> + "_" + 2.csv'

Could you help please?
Thanks

A: Problem
data_d.to_csv(f'{file} + "_" + {name_5}.csv', sep=' ', index=False)

*

*You have confused what file is, that is a file descriptor openned on the original file,

*you use a + in a f-string, that would string like 'SX  + "_" +  5.csv'

*if you want to keep extension, don't write .csv

Fix
data_d.to_csv(f'{filename[:-4]}_{name_5}.txt', sep=' ', index=False)

To simplify your comprehension : use file descriptor for both read and write OR none (pandas handles filename string)
txtfiles = glob.glob("*.txt")
print(txtfiles)
name_5 = input("Mode number to extract:")
for filename in txtfiles:
    data1 = pd.read_csv(filename, delim_whitespace=True, index_col=None, header=None)
    data1.columns = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
    data_d = data1[data1['mode_1'] == float(name_5)]
    # ...
    data_d.to_csv(f'{filename[:-4]}_{name_5}.csv', sep=' ', index=False)


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Cautious welcome for five per cent increase in legal aid fees
Amanda Millar
Legal aid fees have increased by five per cent across the board from today, the biggest increase in more than a decade – but the Law Society of Scotland has warned that more must be done to address a "generation of underfunding".
The Scottish government unveiled its revised legal aid package in January after sharp criticism from solicitors over years of cuts. It plans another five per cent uplift next year.
However, Amanda Millar, president of the Law Society, said: "While the Scottish government has already announced a further five per cent increase in legal aid fees from next year, this does not solve the problem.
"Legal aid is a fundamental part of access to justice for many of the most deprived and vulnerable people of Scotland. Years of underinvestment can only be fixed with a comprehensive plan for what happens long term."
She added: "2023 will come around all too quickly. We need to ensure there is a robust fee review mechanism in place that means it's financially viable for solicitors to carry out legal aid work now and in the future. This needs to be a top priority for the next term of the Scottish Parliament."
In addition to the across the board legal aid fee increase, the Scottish government has also offered a support package for the sector as a result of the particular economic challenges brought by the pandemic.
However, law firms have voiced their frustration over the narrow criteria for accessing the support package.
Ian Moir, co-convenor of the Law Society's legal aid committee, told The Herald: "A very large number of firms have contacted me directly to express their dismay in having been rejected when they expected to qualify.
"One of the biggest problems is that it's extremely unclear how the payment is calculated. You get a calculation based on the number of new grants that they think you will have, compared to the work that you've done in the past, and in many cases people are being told they're better off despite the pandemic and the lack of business.
"Nobody is really clear how it is that they thought they were going to qualify for a significant grant, but the legal aid board think that they've actually made lots more money."
Ms Millar said: "Ian Moir has been steady in his commitment to ensuring that this money reaches the firms most in need of it.
"I am grateful for his efforts to raise issues with the Cabinet Secretary for Justice who confirmed over the weekend that the criteria is being reviewed on the back of the first wave of applications.
"This funding is a lifeline for firms struggling to keep the doors open, and volunteers and staff at the Law Society are committed to doing all that we can to ensure that everyone entitled to do so receives this much-needed help."
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Q: How to block a suspend function that is calling firebase In my AuthRepository I'm trying to make a login function that will run asynchronously in the main thread, I'm using firebase auth to do so and a sealed class AuthResult to handle the result state.
My problem is that when I try to return the AuthResult state it will be null because I return the var authResult: AuthResult = null variable before the .addOnCompleteListener is finished...
Here is my function:
override suspend fun login(email: String, password: String): AuthResult {
    return try {
        var authResult: AuthResult? = null

        firebaseAuth.signInWithEmailAndPassword(email, password)
            .addOnCompleteListener { task ->
                if (task.isSuccessful) {
                    task.result.user?.let {
                        authResult = AuthResult.Success(it)
                    }
                } else {
                    // exception
                    authResult = AuthResult.Error(message = "An error occurred", task.exception)
                }
            }

        authResult ?: AuthResult.Error(message = "An error occurred null")
    } catch (e: Exception) {
        AuthResult.Error("An error has occurred", e)
    }

}

I call this function using invoke usecase in my LoginViewModel:
private val _state = MutableStateFlow<AuthResult?>(null)
val state: StateFlow<AuthResult?> = _state

fun login(email: String, password: String) {
    viewModelScope.launch(Dispatchers.IO) {
        _state.value = loginUseCase(email, password)
    }
}

so considering my problem state will be:
AuthResult.Error(message = "An error occurred null")

what im trying to accomplish is blocking the suspend fun login(...) until .addOnCompleteListener{} is finished...

A: Was missing a dependency so I couldn't use await():
add this:
implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-play-services:1.6.0'

then add .await() after .addOnCompleteListener {}:
firebaseAuth.signInWithEmailAndPassword(email, password)
    .addOnCompleteListener { task ->
        ...
    }.await()


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New Occupation Lists for General Skilled Migration Australia
Some major changes that were announced last year have come into effect as of the 18 March. These changes relate to the temporary and permanent employer sponsored visas and the General Skilled Migration (GSM) programme. Under the GSM programme, there is a shiny new list called the Regional Occupations List ...
Posted by Kane on March 19, 2018, 8:38 p.m. in Australia
Some major changes that were announced last year have come into effect as of the 18 March. These changes relate to the temporary and permanent employer sponsored visas and the General Skilled Migration (GSM) programme.
Under the GSM programme, there is a shiny new list called the Regional Occupations List (ROL). This is relevant to the state/territory sponsored Subclass 489 visa.
The ROL consists of occupations only available for GSM for regional areas. Some are newly added and some have been moved to the ROL from Medium to Long Term Skills Shortage List (MTSSL) or Short Term Skills Occupation List (STSOL).
The state sponsorship lists have not yet been updated to reflect any changes to occupations they will sponsor for the skilled visa.
In GSM the three lists will apply as follows:
Subclass 189- MLTSSL
Subclass 190- MLTSSL and STSOL
Subclass 489- MLTSSL and STSOL and ROL
As a consequence of the changes, the MLTSSL has lost 4 occupations and the STSOL has lost 10 occupations. All of these have been moved to the ROL. These include:
Real Estate Representative
Electrical Linesworker
Agricultural Technician
Wine Maker
Helicopter Pilot
Aeroplane Pilot
Flying Instructor
Sports Centre Manager
Fitness Centre Manager
Amusement Centre Manager
Post Office Manager
Medical Administrator
Project Builder
Horse Breeder
New additions include occupations such as:
Caravan Park and Camping Ground Manager
Cinema or Theatre Manager
They have also added back some occupations that were removed in April 2017 or July 2017, such as:
Vocational Education Teacher
Human Resource Adviser
Temporary Skills Shortage Visa Subclass 482
The Prime Minister in April last year announced that the work visa 457 will be abolished. This has effectively just been rebadged as the subclass 482 visa.
The basis of the programme is effectively the same; i.e. businesses who cannot find talent from the local labour market can sponsor talent from overseas to fill skills shortages. However there are now a number of amendments designed to encourage employers to hire from the local labour market and make it harder to sponsor overseas workers, and to ensure that the positions that are required to be filled are in fact highly skilled.
While the ability for most medium to large businesses to sponsor an overseas employee will remain unaffected, the incentive for many workers to transition to residence after a period of time has been removed. Only those who appear on the employer sponsorship Medium to Long Term Skills Shortage List will be able to transition to residence under this programme.
Others will need to find another way to stay, such as family or GSM pathways, or be resigned to the fact that they will be in Australia for the short term.
These changes will greatly affect the number of temporary workers in Australia, however there are a number of alternatives that can now be explored, including state sponsored nomination under the GSM programme.
If you wish to know more about the changes or have a discrete 'closed' questions please don't post it below in the comments section. Here is the link to our Ask Us A Question service.
To see if you qualify for any potential residence visas, please contact kane@justimmagine.com or visit the assessment section of our page for options.
policy changes | 489 visa | 482 visa | 190 visa | 189 visa
March 19, 2018, 11:03 p.m. by Molla Md Mokbul
I like to go Australia..
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March 20, 2018, 1:35 a.m. by Hareharan
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March 20, 2018, 4:14 a.m. by Christine (Chikku)
I am a pre school teacher for past 16 years.i would like to work as a pre school teacher and migrate to Australia. Thank you! Regards Christine
March 21, 2018, 12:16 p.m. by Kane
Hi Christine Pre-school teachers are in demand in Australia as long as you have a degree qualification relevant to foundation phase teaching. I will suggest that you apply for one of our eligibility assessments and we can discuss your options in more detail. You can do this by clicking on the menu bar - Assessments - full assessment.
March 19, 2018, 11:43 p.m. by Trevayne van Niekerk
Would this include UX (User Experience) Consultants? I can't see a link to list? Many thanks!
Hi Trevayne If you are an IT professional, you can potentially qualify a some of these occupations are on the skills list. I would suggest you apply for one of our assessments to see if can qualify. Please go to Menu - Assessments to complete an eligibility assessment.
March 20, 2018, 2:24 a.m. by I would really love to live and work in New Zealand or Australia but sadly I can not afford it.
I am a recent graduate who is still unemployed, I would love to work as a primary school teacher in New Zealand or Australia. I have a Bachelor's degree and a PGCE but I struggle to find employment here in South Africa.
Can you guys please assist me with the logistics of migrating or arrange some sought of a payment plan for me to pay you guys back when I found employment.
As a teacher, you are potentially a good candidate. Teachers are in demand in both Australia and New Zealand and, depending on your qualification, you could migrate to either country. You can complete one of our eligibility assessments via Menu - Assessments
March 20, 2018, 7:56 p.m. by Sharmake Osman
I am graduate staying who is still Unemployment I am living Jakarta Indonesia i would like to migrate New Zealand or Australia.
please i am begging you and requesting you to assist me to Immigrate either New Zealand or Australia.
I would be so grateful if you consider my request.
Hi Sharmake I would certainly like to help. However we will first need to know if you can qualify. Australia is looking for specific skillsets and these are listed on the occupation lists. Can you please apply for an eligibility assessment by going to Menu - Assessments.
March 21, 2018, 1:45 p.m. by Kingsley Alozie Ndubuisi
Hi, I am a Nigeria living in Singapore for 13 year's married to Singaporean with two children. I am not a permanent Resident (PR). I had diploma in facilities management in Singapore.Workef as a property Officer in high rise condominium under management cooperation. (MCST) I have an interest to leave and work in Australia or New Zealand. Let me have your comment Thanks.
March 21, 2018, 6:19 p.m. by Iain
I have sent you an email privately to get the assessment process underway.
April 22, 2018, 8:07 a.m. by Vihari
Hi Kane,
First of all, that's a great article you presented to us, thanks for that. I am Vihari, a safety professional frpm India, currently working in UAE(Experience of 3+ years). I want to gain PR by 190 visa by profession in ANZSCO Code 251312. But I need to be an international student (one of the obligation) to attain the 190 Visa, as per http://www.migration.sa.gov.au/International-graduates/international-graduate-occupation-and-waiver-requirements clause 9.1.6 should I surely have some experience in my field to get PR or am I exempt from that experience clause?
Your response is highly appreciated.
D.G.vihari
June 4, 2018, 8:03 p.m. by maude
i have a degree in Accounting and have been teaching for the past two years,Can i qualify under skilled visa?
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Veteran Dwight Nelson's Silver Dodge finally passed a free smog test at a Tune Up event in Stockton.
Low-income families save money replacing old gas-guzzlers.
Richard Gonzales stands, stretching his legs outside his white 1992 Ford pickup in the burning hot parking lot at the San Joaquin Fairgrounds in Stockton.
Gonzales is one of 528 people who showed up before the gates to the lot opened at 6:20 a.m. on this Saturday morning for a "Tune In Tune Up" event, where Central Valley residents can get a free smog test and may qualify for smog repairs or a variety of major incentives to replace old vehicles with cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles, including plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles.
Drivers started lining up at 4:40 p.m. the day before the event and more than 50 people camped overnight. With hundreds participating and a waiting list for people who want to retire their cars, "this has to run like a well-oiled machine," remarks the cheerful Jose Marin, outreach coordinator for the non-profit Valley CAN (Valley Clean Air Now), which administers the program.
And it is extremely well coordinated. California Highway Patrol cadets volunteer to patrol both the night before and the day of the event. Mechanics in training from the local community college run the smog tests. "Our future smog testers," Jose says.
Created by the California Air Resources Board in response to laws authored by Senators Kevin de León and Fran Pavley, and funded by fees paid by polluters under California's climate justice and clean energy laws, the Central Valley pilot project provides a way for the lowest-income families to upgrade to the very cleanest cars. Under this program, for example, a family that meets the income guidelines can receive $9,500 toward the purchase of a used plug-in hybrid, like a Chevy Volt, or an all-electric car, like the Nissan LEAF. Also, in the case of either a brand new plug-in hybrid or electric car, low and moderate income consumers will be eligible for an additional $3,000 and $4,000, respectively, from a separate program, known as the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.
Drivers who scrap an old, dirty car but choose not to replace it are also eligible for vouchers for public transit passes or participating car-sharing services — between $2,500 and $4,500 in value, depending on their income level — to help achieve healthier air in one of the nation's highest air-pollution areas.
More than 500 Central Valley residents wait in line at a Tune Up event to receive vouchers to fix emissions issues on their cars. They may also qualify for rebates to purchase cleaner cars.
At 7:30 a.m. some people are sleeping in their cars in the fairgrounds parking lot waiting in line for the smog test. Surveyors go through the lines of cars in the parking lot with an iPad, capturing the driver's basic information: Name, car make and model, license plate. They survey them about their finances enough to know whether they qualify for incentives to help them replace their car with a clean vehicle. Surveyors speak fluent Spanish and can conduct the survey in Spanish or English.
Gonzales says he has failed the smog test twice, once because he didn't have a gas cap and another time because of a timing belt issue. All varieties of vehicles and their owners fill the lanes— a bright mustard colored Firebird, a beige Winnebago. Gonzales' daughter is two rows over with a van. People have their radios going and their car doors open while they wait, so it feels a bit like tailgating. "Yeah, I'm free falling," a young couple sings along, with their feet propped up on the dash.
Fernando Ruiz, in a 1989 Toyota Camry, answers the survey questions. Yes, the car is registered, he says. (Many are not because you can only register a car if it passes the smog test.) At home, Fernando has a 2008 Dodge Avenger. He drives more than 60 minutes to work and spends $60 a week on gas. Yes, he can afford a $200 a month payment and can qualify for a loan. Yes, he has a job. He has five dependents. Yes, his income is below the program threshold. As a result of his answers, Fernando gets an orange tag under his windshield wiper. This indicates that based on the survey, he can qualify to retire and replace his car. Once he's done with his smog test, if he fails, Valley CAN will talk to him about upgrading his car.
The very first car to get a smog test today is a silver Dodge that belongs to Dwight Nelson. It did not pass a smog test earlier and he got a $500 voucher to fix it. This time it passed. Dwight is a veteran who served in the Navy in 1978, stationed at Treasure Island. He's lived along the coast from Anchorage to San Diego, working construction. "It was a time of adventure," he said. He's retired now. He has neuropathy in both legs and has had surgery and regularly visits the VA hospital. He's in favor of clean vehicles because of air pollution. He heard about the Tune Up event on the radio (100.1—an oldies station). He says he enjoyed hanging out in the line waiting to get in and caught up with friends over night. "I know so many people in Stockton," he says.
Further back in the line awaiting the smog test, Harley Medin, a young, tattooed man with tufts of facial hair, giant crystal plugs in his ears and a chain attached to his wallet in his front pocket, stands outside his 1986 Cutlass Supreme smoking a Newport. The car has wine-colored crushed velvet seats. It's a "classic" car, he says, which unfortunately got impounded for not having any tags. He explains that he was on his way to the smog-testing place when he got pulled over. He now has to pay a hefty fine, but if he gets it tested and passes, the fine will drop.
Juan Sanchez drives a 1991 Tercel. His son, about nine, squirms around in the passenger seat as they near the smog test. He has four people in his household. He needs tags for the old Tercel and has to pass the test first. He drives 45 minutes round-trip for work and spends about $30-$40 a week on gas, on top of about $1,000 a year on repairs. He tells the surveyor he can afford a $200 car payment and he believes he can qualify for a $5,000 loan. He has a valid driver's license and a regular paycheck from working on a ranch. All these details mean he qualifies for the vehicle retirement program, and he's very interested in an electric vehicle for the gas savings.
Valley CAN arranged a test drive course at the fairgrounds on this particular Saturday, where Tune Up participants could test drive a Chevy Volt, Chevy Spark EV and an electric Fiat.
One family that traded in a high-emissions vehicle for a plug-in hybrid through the program, the Mendoza family from Stockton, is very happy they did. Jose Mendoza travels several times a month to University of California San Francisco for treatment for pulmonary hypertension. He and his wife Lorena have six girls, all honor students, who travel to play competitive soccer across the state. Jose drives them to school and to all their games, and until May 27th, they made their trips in a 1984 Ford Ranger that has repeatedly failed its emissions tests. The Mendozas weren't able to afford to fix the truck so that it would pass the smog test and it was contributing to Stockton's serious air pollution.
After attending a Tune In Tune Up event in February, the Mendoza family scrapped their old truck and now drive a 2013 plug-in hybrid Prius. The Mendozas can now put the $125 per month they spent for recurring repairs toward financing the clean and fuel-efficient car while their fuel costs drop from $245 to $83 a month.


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Take a hot pan, season the livers and fry in a little olive oil for 2 minutes total, remove and keep warm.
Throw the diced onion, thyme and garlic clove in a pan with a little olive oil and sweat for 20 minutes slowly until soft.
Add the drained spelt and stir about. Pour in the red wine and reduce to a syrup. Start ladling in the hot stock, one at a time until completely absorbed. Takes around 20 minutes in total.
Stir in the mascarpone, most of the Parmesan and the butter.
Season, stir in the sliced livers sprinkle over the remaining Parmesan and serve.


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Red Cross Assists Ten People Impacted by Disasters in Peoria and Watseka
Red Cross Volunteers Continue to Assist Those Impacted by Disasters Near and Far
From multiple major hurricanes and tropical storms in the south to devastating wildfires in much of the west, back-to-back massive disasters have kept thousands of Red Cross volunteers working tirelessly for weeks across the country to provide food, shelter and comfort to tens of thousands of people in need.
These nonstop massive disasters have more than 2,200 Red Cross volunteers, including 47 from the Illinois Region, working tirelessly for weeks to provide food, shelter, comfort and support to people in need. Our work is just beginning; we will be providing support for weeks to come. The Red Cross needs more people to join our volunteer workforce and assist in disaster response across the country. Volunteer positions are open for both deployed positions and some virtual responders. Please go to RedCross.org/volunteer to learn more.
Disaster Outlook: After Hurricane Sally made landfall on September 16 drenching Alabama and Florida with heavy rainfall, the Red Cross has been there to help people as they clean up their homes and communities. Hundreds of people had to be rescued from flooded homes and vehicles.
While the full extent of the damage isn't yet known, strong winds and more than 30 inches of rain damaged homes and business, roadways, bridges and other infrastructure in Florida and Alabama. Today, Red Crossers are supporting disaster relief efforts on the ground and virtually, with more needed in the days and weeks to come.
Out west, devastating wildfires continue to burn millions of acres, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate in California, Oregon and Washington. It could be weeks before evacuees can return home. Entire towns are destroyed, along with thousands of homes and businesses.
Meanwhile, Red Cross volunteers are still helping thousands of people who were impacted by category 4 Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and Texas. The Red Cross is working with partners to help hardest hit communities in their recovery process.
The devastation wrought by these disasters has been further compounded by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 has not changed the Red Cross mission, and we are still providing support as we have previously. To help keep people safe, we are following guidance from CDC and public health authorities — and have put in place additional precautions. Some of these plans include social distancing protocols, face coverings, health screenings, and opening more shelters that can support fewer people than normal.
Ensuring people have a safe place to stay during a disaster is a critical part of the Red Cross mission, but how we support sheltering efforts may be different in each community depending on local emergency operations plans.
Our work is just beginning as we'll continue to provide assistance to those impacted by these devastating disasters in weeks to come, as they figure out next steps in their recovery.
Local Volunteers Assist Ten People Impacted by Disasters this Week:
Here at home, our volunteers also worked hard to help ten people affected by a building collapse and home fire. In the past week, Disaster Action Team volunteers, responded to incidents in Peoria and Watseka.
From Tuesday, September 22 through today, the Red Cross helped five adults and five children with temporary housing and information about recovery.
If you need assistance after a local house fire or disaster, please call our dispatch line: 1-877-597-0747. You can take two easy steps to protect your home and loved ones from a fire: Get a smoke alarm and create a fire escape plan. Having a working smoke alarm cuts the risk of dying in a home fire in half.
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Q: View got hidden below UINavigationBar iOS 7 Earlier, I was using iOS 6.1 for my project. Recently I have switched to iOS 7. For, a lot of changes I knew, I updated my code.. But I have observed a strange behavior. My view on every screen gets hidden below navigation bar. Repositioning view solves the problem for iOS7, but creates problems for older iOS versions.
Can anyone explain me, what is the reason and why does it happen?? What has been changed in iOS 7 that's causing this problem??
Any help would be appreciated..

A: Point #7 on this list does the trick. You still have to wrap it in iOS 7-checking code like @null's answer:
float systemVersion = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue];
if (systemVersion >= 7.0) {
    viewController.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;
}

The whole article is useful to those transitioning to iOS 7.

A: Use this property for your VC, in-order to avoid overlap of ur statusbar with your VC Swift :
self.edgesForExtendedLayout = []

Objective C
self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;

A: You can stop your views going under the navigation bar, in your viewController:
self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;

A: Look up this key: UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance.
It's used in your app's info PLIST file and will come up as:

View controller-based status bar appearance

This will allow you to control the status bar's appearance. There's a bunch of API changes for status bars, go have a look in the documentation for new UIViewController methods such as
- (void)prefersStatusBarHidden;

A: Swift 3+:
self.edgesForExtendedLayout = []

A: In Swift 2.2, use
self.edgesForExtendedLayout = .None

A: For me the best way for transparent Navigation Bar is to change the shadowImage and backgroundImage of the bar.
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = nil
navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(named: "navBarBackground")?.resizableImage(withCapInsets: .zero, resizingMode: .stretch), for: .default)
navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()

A: Try navigationBar.translucent = NO;, It is YES by default in iOS7.
It is also good to take a look on this part of UINavigationBar documentation:

New behavior on iOS 7. Default is YES. You may force an opaque
  background by setting the property to NO. If the navigation bar has a
  custom background image, the default is inferred from the alpha values
  of the image—YES if it has any pixel with alpha < 1.0 If you send
  setTranslucent:YES to a bar with an opaque custom background image it
  will apply a system opacity less than 1.0 to the image. If you send
  setTranslucent:NO to a bar with a translucent custom background image
  it will provide an opaque background for the image using the bar's
  barTintColor if defined, or black for UIBarStyleBlack or white for
  UIBarStyleDefault if barTintColor is nil.

Edit:
Setting 'navigationBar.translucent' value causes exception if you run project in devices/simulators having older iOS versions.
So you can add a version check like this:
float systemVersion = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue];
if (systemVersion >= 7.0)
{
    navigationBar.translucent = NO;
}

Another option would be to set:
vc.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;

Swift 3:
vc.edgesForExtendedLayout = []

A: If you do not need translucent navigation bar in your app you can fix this on iOS7 and iOS6 without code changes.
In storyboard select your navigation controller and then open "Attributes Inspector". Then under "Simulated Metrics" set "Top Bar" to some value but not to "translucent":

Now your views on iOS6 and iOS7 will have the same positioning as before.


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Steam train Furka mountain track – nostalgic Swiss rack railway
Who is near the St. Gotthard pass or the winter destination Andermatt, should have a journey by train with a Swiss steam rack railway. The small village Realp in the Swiss mountains lies less than ten kilometres away from lovely Swiss Andermatt. From the railway station in Realp at about 1,500-metre height a Swiss steam road begins its about 2-hour trip to Gletsch in Valais. Snorting and hissing the Furka steam train drives uphill and downhill. Railway fans will enjoy the railway engines and carriages: Some of the steam locomotives which are put in front of the railway carriages are already more than 80 years old!
Nevertheless, they carry its passengers safely. Since what seems nostalgic to the outside and old, is equipped inside with the newest technology. The trip leads through the more than fifteen kilometre long Furka-base tunnel, crossing the Reuss and passing the Wiler-bridge it arrives at the other side of the river. The Steffenbach-bridge which leads about 36 metre over a brook is a special feature. In the cold season one folds the bridge parts away – so the snowy masses and avalanches hardly can cause harm. Soon afterwards the Furka steam train reaches the railway station Furka at 2,160-metre height the highest point of the railway line. Then the steam train continues its journey by driving trough the short Furka-Scheitel- tunnel in direction of Muttach. Soon afterwards the town Gletsch and the final destination of the journey is reached. The Rhônegletscher lies here virtually directly before the front door.
The construction of the steam train Furka mountain track
In 1911 the Furka-mountain track was started to be established. Brig-Furka-Disentis-Railway (BFD) is the former name at this time. But the First World War puts the construction work a temporary end. From 1924 the societies of Rhaetish Railway and the Furka Oberalp train together had continued the construction of the track.
One cannot pass the Furkapass because of the avalanche danger in winter and as the necessary snow shovelling works eat time and money. In the 1970s the construction of the Furka-base tunnel started connecting the towns Realp and Oberwald with each other. All year round the Matterhorn Gotthard trainuses since that time this tunnel. Also the Glacier express train is no more forced to have winter breaks. Before 1981 the lines of the Furka Oberalp train were driving only during the summer months. In 1992 the steam train carried the first time passengers from Realp to Tiefenbach, one year later to Furka. Let the railway magic fascinate you by a romantic journey on the Furka-mountain railway line!


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An Infantile Disorder
By Max Fox July 11, 2013
Hikikomori, Galia Offri
If jobs mean maturity, not everyone gets to grow up
There is nothing more desirable than a dead teenager. As soon as teenagehood was defined as distinct around the turn of the past century, nations developed industrial techniques to kill them on a mass scale. In boy form, the dead teenager is still the defense industry's flagship domestic product. Fashion houses and magazines stalk it as a girl. And why not? Teenagers established themselves as a class by negotiating a confluence of unemployment crises, consumer-society-building, and war. What could anyone do with this pool of spillover at the entrance to the labor market? Their consumptive bodies, with uncurbed capacity to work, lay just this side of receiving a wage. Dead, they are demand without demands.
But some teenagers don't die. In Japan in the early 1990s, a young psychiatrist named Saitō Tamaki began seeing patients with a cluster of strange symptoms. Actually, he barely saw them at all; more often than not, other family members would approach him about a brother or a son who was afflicted with an unfamiliar state. Mostly men on the threshold of adulthood, they were retreating to their rooms, shrinking from all social contact or communication, and closing off into themselves, often for periods of a year or more. Not wanting to kill themselves but unable to live in society, these youths folded inward in an attempt to fit themselves away. Saitō began calling them hikikomori sainen, "withdrawn young men," and in 1998 published a book with his findings called Shakaiteki hikikomori—Owaranai Shishunki, or Social Withdrawal—Adolescence Without End.
Saitō ventured a count: There were 1 million people in a state of withdrawal or hikikomori, about one percent of the Japanese population. Eighty percent of them were men; 90 percent were over 18. "Social withdrawal is not some sort of 'fad' that will just fade away," Saitō wrote. It is "a symptom, not the name of an illness," and "there has been no sign that the number of cases will decrease." His book became a best seller in weeks. Hikikomori joined otaku (a person with obsessive interests) and karoshi (death from overwork) as a loan word in English to describe a new social phenomenon that at first appeared uniquely Japanese. A few American authors have picked up on it as an enigmatic or convenient trope (in books like Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger and Hikikomori and the Rental Sister by Jeff Backhaus, most recently). But only now has Saitō's original work been translated, by Jeffrey Angles, published by University of Minnesota Press in March.
Culturally bound psychological phenomena always fascinate the press because they excite the categories of racism through a veneer of scientificity. But Saitō was explicit on this point: Though his patients' symptoms all emerged in some way through the Japanese social order, there was nothing intrinsically Japanese about the phenomenon. In fact, he had coined the term hikikomori to translate work that an American psychologist had done on similar cases of acute social withdrawal and later joined it up with the sociological category of NEETs (not in education, employment, or training) in Britain. His internationalism slyly made room for an astonishing claim: The structure of age itself was beginning to break down. Japan might have been early to the trend, but it was an effect of the market, not any particular culture.
Age is the most generic attribute a person can have, but each age is also irreducibly personal. Every 35-year-old has been 16, but no one has ever been 16 in exactly the same way. No surprise: The experience is deeply striated by gender, race, and class, and then again by the most intimate hazards of family history and endocrinology. Even so, maturation feels so natural it's hard to think about the work that it takes or that it could go any other way. But how you feel old is a historically recent development, embedded so close to our core we take it as synonymous with our selves.
The global spread of the teenager shows this. When the Sphinx had Oedipus solve the riddle of aging on his way to establishing the neurotic family, there were only three ages you could be in life: a child, adult, or old. But by the time the post-1945 social order was in place, the teenager stood apart, ready at hand to the market. Without a household of their own, they would consume and be thrown in or out of work as the business cycle demanded it. The unique teenage consciousness that accompanied this economic development gives away the tight integration of age in the structures that govern our lives and teach us how to understand ourselves. Being a teenager is not about how old you are. Age is a social form attuned to the market. And though it's unevenly distributed, it operates supernationally.
Still, Saitō was curious. With touching excitement about the new possibilities opened up by the Internet (this was back in the late 1990s), he contacted colleagues abroad to see if they were seeing the same thing. Koreans wrote back: Yes, they said, and their compulsory military service had no effect on the spread of hikikomori. One French respondent wrote, No, his society would never produce withdrawal like that; another anonymously replied that it absolutely did but that in France, these people become homeless, not homebound. Jeffrey Angles chimes in too. In the translator's note to the American edition, he shares the story of a student of his who went through a period of hikikomori, dropping out of high school in his senior year. With therapy he was later able to pull himself back into society and to college, but without a name for his experience, he had no explanation for what made him lose that time. A Thai psychiatrist wondered, "What do people in withdrawal do about their living expenses?" It was a reasonable question. Saitō found that their parents cover them.
Saitō's book was otherwise modest in scope. It aimed to establish a working definition of the condition and provide practical steps for worried parents to follow. Without pathologizing withdrawn teens, Saitō suggested that the parents were equally implicated through their relationship with their child in what he called the "hikikomori system," a self-reinforcing state of disconnection between child, family, and society. "As the individual takes shelter from the social body, it holds both the individual and the family in its grasp," he says. But even though elective solitary confinement seems like it must stem from extreme trauma if not psychosis, Saitō insists that there is no mental illness involved. Instead, he links it to our "era of adolescence" and concludes that "'social withdrawal' is the pathology that best symbolizes our moment in time."
At base, the problem is one of mounting surplus populations. This is not the eugenicist fever dream of overpopulation but a concept that Karl Marx developed alongside a critique of Thomas Malthus. Essentially, since the working day can only be extended so far, increases in productivity happen only through labor-saving innovation. Extended across time and populations, this means fewer and fewer people must be employed to make a profit. More and more people become not only unnecessary but an impediment to fleet, low-cost production.
In Capital Vol. 1, Marx argues: "The degree to which the means of production are means of employment for the workers lessens progressively as those means become more extensive, more concentrated and technically more efficient ... The working population therefore produces both the accumulation of capital and the means by which it is itself made relatively superfluous; and it does this to an extent which is always increasing."
Like excess inventory, their labor power cannot be sold, so it must be written off or destroyed.
Certain populations are written off a priori. For old people who can't work anymore, acute social withdrawal is not just expected, it's imposed. If they've been lucky, retirees will have savings to draw from, so they can keep consuming until they die. But bowing out from society isn't seen as illness or family shame. Likewise, a labor participation rate of 50 percent for Japanese women means that "people are less likely to see a woman withdrawing into the house as problematic behavior," Saitō offers. And childhood was not always a time of nonwork—it was a labor victory. Like the weekend, it had to be fought for to wrest it from bosses as time off. Child labor laws were the worker's movement's earliest wins, though they were conceded in exchange for compulsory schooling.
The problem, Saitō says, is that the hikikomori patient is not exempt, but still has no place in society. It's certainly not for discrimination or lack of qualifications: the demographic profile is overwhelmingly firstborn sons, often academically well-seated. But in their understanding, they don't, and they drop out of school; they can't hold jobs; they have no friends; they often stop speaking. They take refuge in the home because "the household is the only place they feel like they belong." But it's also where someone will feed them. (It's not uncommon for hikikomori to hole up in a kitchen. The parents will sometimes construct a new one.) Because Saitō refuses a psychogenic explanation for the behavior, and because exclusion from society is taken as a given, the hikikomori phenomenon appears in his book primarily as a disorder of the home.
But a disorder of the home, however private, is still an economic disorder. The word economy derives from the Greek for slave owner's household, and household wealth, not individual net worth, remains the metric for evaluating national economic well-being. Though we understand ourselves to be a market society, the naturalness of the exclusion of some people from the labor market—some women, children, and the elderly—depends on their staying close to home. (Their evil counterparts, people who don't work or work the wrong way, are then understood as either homeless or from bad homes.) So if the social pathology that best sums up our moment in time is coming from inside the house, it's because the economy put it there.
That's because these are still people; they have to eat and sleep somewhere. What do they do? Saitō notes that even when mute, the person in withdrawal pays extremely close attention to what his family is saying. Well, the market speaks, too: You're better dead. Hikikomori emerges as one response to the threat of destruction. It is the nightmare edge of the trend, more and more prevalent across the advanced capitalist core, which inspires so many identical think pieces on millennials and their infuriating ways. Kids these days—they live with their parents for so long! They don't make major purchases or form households! Yeah, well. One 30-year mortgage ago, the labor market was fundamentally different. The markers of aging that corresponded to a programmatic course through it no longer hold. The adolescent condition of labor is generalizing.
Saitō calls hikikomori "a pathology of adolescence," not adolescents. Teendom is spreading beyond its original cohort. The people who catch it may be in their 20s or 30s, but they're stuck with a teen's relation to the market, always at the entrance. Though he spends far more time cautioning parents to refrain from castigating their adult children as lazy, Saitō does at one point identify a cause: "The reason that the child goes into withdrawal is not because he or she does not want to work, but because he or she is unable to work, even though he or she wants to." Since a job signals adulthood, being barred from one deranges the normal course of maturation, and manifests as psychic distress.
The family was the home of age. You arrived at your job already mature, supposedly, and left before a messy senescence. But with the entire category of work in crisis and family formation in terminal decline, age too is revealed to have been left open to the whims and ravages of the market. Hikikomori is a glimpse of the new moments in the life cycle wholly integrated into a system that breaks itself down as it grows. It's not a particularly heroic response to being called into being as surplus. But if it is pathological, it is so only in having decided not to die.


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Dua Lipa – Newtown Social Club – Sydney, Australia – 2016
April 6, 2021 November 9, 2022 ~ nataliehannan
Live music is magical and often I struggle to find the words to describe the magnitude of the moments I experience in concert venues. My experience seeing Dua Lipa live for the first-time fits into this category, and still feels surreal to this day.
On July 13th, 2016, I witnessed a star being born. There's no other way to describe the night.
Dua Lipa was a powerhouse from the second she stepped foot on stage, dancing and singing her heart out, until her voice was raspy as she fare welled us goodbye. The room Dua performed in was tiny, holding a capacity of approximately 100. The venue was Newtown Social Club, and unfortunately, closed a couple of years ago. I miss it and feel an immense amount of reverence towards it. It's because of Newtown Social Club that I was able to see Dua Lipa, a now 3x Grammy award winning artist, break into the Australian music landscape. And guess how much my ticket cost. Only $40. Insanity. I still have the ticket and consider framing it every time I lay eyes on it.
With only approx. 100 people in the room, the whole gig felt intimate. There was an incredible awareness that we were the lucky few. We were seeing Dua perform live for the first time in Sydney, Australia. Little did we know, although we hoped, that it would not be the last.
At the time, "Be The One" and "Hotter Than Hell" were being added to radio rotations, slowly climbing their way up the Australian music charts. During the concert, Dua played these hits to a crowd so enthusiastic, the motion of our dancing and jumping made the floor beneath us shake. The energy was electric and our appreciation for Dua's artistry evident, as she treated us to performances of unreleased tracks. Songs like "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)" and "Thinking 'Bout You" that in the years to follow would take the world by storm and be featured on her self-titled album. Rarely am I fortunate enough to see an international artist perform before they've even released their debut album, but let me tell you, it's one of the most incredible experiences. It intensifies the attachment you have to the artist and their music. It feels like an honour.
It may sound silly, but the experience made me proud. Proud to seemingly have great judgement and a finger on the pulse of the music industry. Proud to identify a superstar before the world knew her name. Proud to see Dua Lipa in such an intimate setting, in the humblest beginnings, before growing into a global sensation and touring arenas around the world. Proud of Dua's talent, success, and passion.
In 2018, I was fortunate enough to meet Dua and see her live another two times – one in a setting even more intimate than the first, in a room of about 20 – and secondly, at Luna Park's Big Top, to one of the biggest crowds she's played to date in Australia.
But hey, they're stories for another time…and I can't wait to share them here on Lovers of Live.
UPDATE: I just attended my first post-COVID arena show (a huge deal for this immunosuppressed gal) AND OF COURSE IT WAS DUA LIPA!! Check out the Reel below to see the evolution of Be The One over all Dua's years touring in Sydney. Can't wait to write about my Future Nostalgia tour in Sydney over the next couple of days!
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New Opportunities for Control: Quantum Internal Model Principle and Decoherence Control
Lecture Details
48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009
Tzyh Jong Tarn
He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and the Director of the Center for Robotics and Automation at Washington University. He also is the director of the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. An active member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Dr. Tarn served as the President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1992-1993, the Director of the IEEE Division X (Systems and Control), 1995-1996, and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, 1995-1996. He is the first recipient of the Nakamura Prize at the 10th Anniversary of IROS in Grenoble, France, 1997, the recipient of the prestigious Joseph F. Engelberger Award of the Robotic Industries Association in 1999, the Auto Soft Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, the Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award in 2003 from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the George Saridis Leadership Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2009. He was featured in the Special Report on Engineering of the 1998 Best Graduate School issue of US News and World Report and his recent research accomplishments were reported in the Washington Times, Washington D.C., the Financial Times, London, Le Monde, Paris, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Dr. Tarn is a Fellow of IEEE and an IFAC Fellow.
Decoherence, which is caused due to the interaction of a quantum system with its environment plagues all quantum systems and leads to the loss of quantum properties that are vital for quantum computation and quantum information processing. Superficially, this problem appears to be the disturbance decoupling problem in classical control theory. In this talk first we briefly review recent advances in Quantum Control. Then we propose a novel strategy using techniques from geometric systems theory to completely eliminate decoherence and also provide conditions under which it can be done so. A novel construction employing an auxiliary system, the bait, which is instrumental to decoupling the system from the environment, is presented. This literally corresponds to the Internal Model Principle for Quantum Mechanical Systems which is quite different from the classical theory due to the quantum nature of the system. Almost all the earlier work on decoherence control employ density matrix and stochastic master equations to analyze the problem. Our approach to decoherence control involves the bilinear input affine model of quantum control system which lends itself to various techniques from classical control theory, but with non-trivial modifications to the quantum regime. This approach yields interesting results on open loop decouplability and Decoherence Free Subspaces (DFS). The results are also shown to be superior to the ones obtained via master equations. Finally, a methodology to synthesize feedback parameters itself is given, that technology permitting, could be implemented for practical 2-qubit systems performing decoherence free Quantum Computing. Open problems and future directions in quantum control also will be discussed.
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Q: XPath query on exist-db returns no hits I'm running a clean exist-db 4.5.0 on MacOS. Just installed the "shakespeare" package for testing. When im running the following request via browser I get no hits. But the he5.xml is a valid TEI file and contains in the body one text element.
http://127.0.0.1:8080/exist/rest/apps/shakespeare/data/he5.xml?_query=//text
<exist:result xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" exist:hits="0" exist:start="1" exist:count="0" exist:compilation-time="0" exist:execution-time="0"/>

Using Basic Auth credentials (user: admin, password: EMPTY) in URL doesn't change anything.
http://admin:@127.0.0.1:8080/exist/rest/apps/shakespeare/data/he5.xml?_query=//text
Only the //* XPATH seems to work (or getting ignored?) because I'm getting the whole content of the file. Other requests don't work either (correctly). Like the //text() xquery:
<exist:result xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" exist:hits="10313" exist:start="1" exist:count="10" exist:compilation-time="1" exist:execution-time="1">
The Life of King Henry the Fifth William Shakespeare Craig A. Berry, Martin Mueller, and Clifford Wulfman
</exist:result>

This is just the first hit of text...
Tried this also on Ubuntu with exist-db 4.4.0... same "result".

A: I think you have made a mistake in your query. You state that you tried:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/exist/rest/apps/shakespeare/data/he5.xml?_query=//text

That query tries to find all elements named text. I think you probably wanted to just get all the text nodes, so you would instead need:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/exist/rest/apps/shakespeare/data/he5.xml?_query=//text()

Note the additional ().
Also I think your URL path looks suspect too, if you are trying to use the REST API then you should use the full database collection path, i.e.:
    http://127.0.0.1:8080/exist/rest/db/apps/shakespeare/data/he5.xml?_query=//text()

Note the additional /db.


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Last week, we shared a heart-wrenching tale: After barely escaping recent bush fires, koalas were so badly burnt that they needed special treatment to heal their paws -- including hand-sewn cotton mittens to cover their dressings.
But because of the (unsurprising) viral nature of our post and others like it, the International Fund for Animal Welfare now has plenty of mittens. So now they ask volunteers to turn their attention to other animals displaced and injured by the fires.
Kangaroos, possums and wallabies have also been rescued, the IFAW writes on its blog, and many of the survivors are orphaned baby animals. The joeys need to be kept warm and safe in pouch-like environments (which, like diapers, need to be changed several times a day), so sewers wishing to lend a needle can use this pattern to help out.
As with the mittens, make sure to use clean 100 percent cotton. And remember that shipping to Australia is expensive! You can also just donate directly to the IFAW or another animal rescue center in the area.
And really: Stop sending mittens.
"What started off as a local campaign, just asking the Australian public has just absolutely gone global and viral," an IFAW rep told the ABC. "We're now getting offers from as far afield as Russia, Kazakhstan, China, the U.K. and the U.S."
The IFAW hasn't even gotten around to counting all of the mittens they've received, but they estimate they've gotten thousands. But they won't go to waste.
"Luckily we have a big stock room and we will keep them here and send them out to people all around the country as and when they're needed," she said.


Based on one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century, Manson's Lost Girls is based on the true account of Linda Kasabian, a former member of Charles Manson's 'family'.
After arriving at the seemingly idyllic Spahn Ranch hippie commune Linda is seduced by the group's free-love lifestyle, sisterhood and acceptance. Taken with the charismatic founder Charles Manson, she is soon drawn into his dark and twisted criminal preoccupations. Witness the month-long journey into how free love turned into burglary and ultimately, mass murder.
Starring Mackenzie Mauzy (Into The Woods) and Jeff Ward (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Mentalist).
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Source Exclusive: Christopher Bevans Takes Us "Behind the Seams" of DYNE and His Come-Up In the Fashion World
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In a world where a love and appreciation for fashion is becoming one of the primary things that brings us altogether, seasoned designer Christoper Bevans is one of the leaders in the industry that's spearheading us into a very fly future with his technical sportswear brand DYNE.
After working in the industry under many titles — he's held things down as a lead designer for both Sean John and Rocawear, director of urban apparel design for Nike, and creative director for Billionaire Boys Club — Chris is now on the path of doing things under his own leadership with a team of equally innovative players on his side. We saw this firsthand with DYNE's SS19 presentation back in July, which features a "Future Nomad" theme aimed at meshing Northwestern outdoors culture with futurism and next level tailoring. In short, it was one of the standout collections we got a chance to check out this summer.
We wanted to get a closer look at the brand and how it's helping to spearhead the future of fashion, so we went straight to the source — pun intended, of course! – for an exclusive sit-down with Mr. Bevans himself. In addition to running us through the upcoming collection, we also chopped it up about how he got started in the industry, the role each person on the team plays to make it all come together, and how DYNE will be changing the game through "near-field communication." You'll definitely want to hear about that.
Keep scrolling for our full interview with one of the hardest working men behind the seams of your next favorite clothing brand:
Happy Friday! 😜 #fbf SS '19 "Future Nomad" Presentation with @christopherbevans and squad.
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The Source: Give us a quick breakdown of how you got into the fashion game and how you worked up the ladder to now spearheading your own brand that's doing a lot of innovative stuff.
Christopher Bevans: I grew up around the fashion industry, actually. My grandmother was a well-known dressmaker in New York City in the '60s and '70s. Being around her business, fabric stores, sewing machines, clients — all of it instilled an early love for fashion, craftsmanship and hard work. My father moved us out of the city for a bit because he got a job at Kodak as an engineer. I was always around technology, design, electronics and sports. My father was a big-time soccer player from Central America. Our household was old country-style; I'm a first generation American, so I grew up on curry-goat and rice and peas [Laughs]. Brooklyn has always been home because we would go back and forth from upstate to get our beef patties and food from our family to take back home. We were always on the road and wanted to stay connected to the culture.
"A lot of The Source readers are young Black men, and there's a lot of stigma around what we say to each other, how we treat one another, how we look at what we love and putting it out there and not being ashamed of ourselves. I never felt ashamed of anything that I loved and truly cared about. Fashion has always been that vessel to express myself, be me and be fresh, and learn a craft that I could truly depend on if I could never find a real job. That carried me to where I am now."
— Christopher Bevans, DYNE
I'm an artist that loves to draw and paint, so I was always sketching and making designs for shirts and would always ask my grandmother for help. I knew she had patterns I could use and manipulate them, or buy fabric and ask her for a remnant of fabric that she might have in the cutting room, and make stuff for myself, my brother and friends. At an early age, I was instilled with tailoring and craftsmanship. Growing up in a household that was religious, we were always dressed up — it's just how we are as a people with our religion and beliefs. I was in penny loafers and dress slacks; that was me going to school with shirts and vests on. I did get bullied at times, but I was always the freshest one [Laughs]. That always spoke to my individuality and not being a trend chaser, because it was okay to make fun of me. That just meant I was doing something right. All those folks from the past are on Facebook bigging me up now!
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Things are 360 now because a lot of The Source readers are young Black men, and there's a lot of stigma around what we say to each other, how we treat one another, how we look at what we love and putting it out there and not being ashamed of ourselves. I never felt ashamed of anything that I loved and truly cared about. Fashion has always been that vessel to express myself, be me and be fresh, and learn a craft that I could truly depend on if I could never find a real job. That carried me to where I am now, because every odd job that I had while going to F.I.T. or hustling was either at a fabric store, like Mood Fabrics, or the dry cleaners — shoutout to Meurice Garment Care in the village! Everything had something to deal with fabrics, design and craftsmanship to help me focus. I didn't care how menial the job was, it provided me with the know-how and helped me build my network to get to this position.
I worked as a dresser at Bryant Park when they used to do shows there in the '90s. I was a kid being able to meet every supermodel and several designers and see how show productions went, and the timing of all of it. I learned a lot about how to put on a show just from being backstage and dressing models, tying stilettos or putting on the second-look. I experienced a lot young, and now that I'm here in this position I use the platform to offer younger creatives that are passionate and studying the craft an opportunity to collaborate with us or to learn from what we're doing. I like to share information. Thanks to the 'Gram, so many young kids hit me up directly and ask me questions about what they should be doing and I love that.
It seems like you've learned from all these worlds and everything that you grew up with, especially from the technical side with the fabrics and the experience with runway production, to create your own brand that is now doing Men's Fashion Week presentations. Let's talk a bit about how DYNE came about, the hustle you started with compared to where it is now and what you guys are currently doing.
DYNE has honestly been an idea that I've been formulating over the years. I just love technical materials and fabrics, and through the years working with Nike and different companies I was able to meet these different mills and see different techniques that I thought were very interesting. DYNE really came about from my love for fabric, technology, electronics, sports and tailoring; it's a tailored sportswear company. I came up with the name from being a fellow at MIT in Cambridge, Boston, and while at their media lab I heard the word being discussed in passing. I thought the word had a nice ring to it, so I looked it up and it meant "a unit of force" and how you measure force against objects.
I actually look at myself as a unit of force that's pushing innovation and the industry forward, so it all just came together three and a half years ago. Partnering with mills like Schoeller Textil AG in Switzerland and Bemis out of Boston, it just was a perfect marriage. Bemis really supports us in a lot of our techniques that we showcase, like the high performance bonding and another technique called Nylock. When you're quilting jackets and you're putting fill in them — we don't use animal products here — you're puncturing the fabric membrane with a needle. It compromises the actual fabric itself, so Bemis is finding ways of doing that without needle and thread and puncturing the membrane. These are the types of things I like to explore — i spend a lot of time in Bemis Hong Kong offices to implement all these things that you see us showcase on the runway. That's how it all came to be.
One of the things that I've noticed, especially after seeing how involved you are in the creative process, is the collection's color palette. That told such a story in itself, from the monochrome pieces to the more vibrant stuff, so how does that part of the process come to fruition?
Every season I have a campaign in my head — I have the story already set up where I can just see it. I have an amazing team around me who helps bring it all to life, like my right-hand guy, Ryan Bevans — yes he does have the same last name as me [Laughs] — and his wife Ayanna. We just happened to meet each other and have the same last name, so it's a crazy thing. Ryan works close with me on the seasonal story — how it will look digitally and how it should be shot. I worked with an amazing director this season who's a good friend of mine and is working on a film with me that I'm doing the costumes for. For the "Future Nomad" story, the team just clicked in. Ryan went through the art direction with me, and Eugene Tong does all my styling.
Eugene is a beast! That's such a good look.
He really is. He's a good friend and I just love what he's done over the years, from working in magazine and showcasing designers to his work with Public School and now working with us for the past four seasons. Eugene just takes it to another level and allows me to be who I am. The production is so tight, the styling as we all know is so next level and he just really turns it up. I'm looking at new styles everyday — they're basically coming from the ether — and he has the ability to say, 'Hey, step back for a second Chris! Let me put this together.' I'll style it one way for the lookbook, and he'll style it a whole different way for the show production. It's just amazing to see his point of view on it, and it's so on brand for us at the same time. It's great working with him, as well as Katie Cervini who's his right hand. We've developed a really good stride working together.
It seems like the collection comes together from innovative thoughts, actually putting in the work and then presenting it in a way that's groundbreaking, as you guys did for the NYFW presentation earlier this summer. How did you guys come up with that set-up?
That was just me — you know, in New York there's so much concrete. A lot of people here don't get the chance to just go hiking outside, or even go to the Poconos. Central Park or Prospect Park are like the main places you can even go to get some grass on your feet and trees in the backdrop. I wanted to bring nature into our environment with the juxtaposition of technology and innovation. The video that we shot spoke to all of us, and was a concept I'd been trying to do for a long time that finally came together for our Future Nomads story. Ryan was running around different greenhouses in Queens to rent trees, and I needed a specific type of tree to the northwest region because I wanted the air to be filled with pine. It lent itself to the whole nomadic theme of living in the outdoors — a type of post-apocalyptic, future tailored sportswear tech guy [Laughs]! I wanted people to come into our world and lose themselves for an hour out of their day in this little oasis in the Meatpacking District.
Mission accomplished! Any big plans for the future of DYNE?
I'm working on an accelerated checkout with Near-field Communication, or NFC chips, that are embedded into every single garment. The same way we were scanning garments at the event, you as a consumer would actually be able to buy DYNE garments on the spot through your phone.
Dope! So, the purchase link opens up in a web browser?
It opens up in your Apple Pay or your Google Pay. You just pick your size and pick your color and checkout. We ship it to you right from our office.
To shop the latest from DYNE and stay updated on all the latest news, head to the brand's official website and follow them over on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Pitch update: Work well underway
The grass comes off at the end of the 2018/19 season
Pitch renovation work at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium is well underway
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Pitch renovation works are well underway on the playing surface at the Jonny-Rocks Stadium in the build up to the 2019/20 League Two season.
Within days of the club hosting the first concert of Craig David's summer tour (pictured below), the grass has been removed and work has begun to prepare the pitch for when it will be used for the first time in pre-season when Premier League Leicester City are the visitors on 20 July.
Contractors South Wales Sports Grounds have worked to remove the grass and organic matter from the pitch. It is important to do this as there could be future issues around having a wet playing surface if it isn't taken off.
This process has involved taking 8 to 10ml away to expose the fresh sand underneath and now an additional 80 tonnes of sand are being put back on to level the surface back up again.
Watch above on iFollow to see how the pitch has been transformed in a matter of days during an important part of the renovation process.


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DHS Secretary calls on Congress to "fix" child separation policy
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen doubled down Monday on her defense of the Trump administration's extremely controversial policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border, and put the onus on Congress to take action.
Quote"Congress and the courts created this problem and Congress alone can fix it."
The big quotes
... from Nielsen on immigration:
"DHS will faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress, as we are sworn to do."
"Parents who entered illegally are by definition criminals ... by entering our country illegally often in dangerous circumstances, illegal immigrants have put their children at risk."
"The kids are being used as pawns by the smugglers and the traffickers."
"I find that offensive," in response to a suggestion that the policy is being used as a deterrent.
Despite several critics condemning the policy as "cruel" and "immoral," Nielsen maintained that: "We are a country of compassion. We are a country of heart."
"Since this time last year, there has been a 325% increase in unaccompanied alien children and a 435% increase in family units entering the country illegally."
... Addressed by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
Which immigration bill does Trump support? "There are currently two bills in process in the House. The president supports both those pieces of legislations (Bob Goodlatte's conservative bill and Paul Ryan's more moderate bill)."
Does Trump support a standalone bill fixing the child separation policy? Sanders said Trump wants a "comprehensive" bill. "We want to fix the entire system. We don't want to just tinker with it."
On Evangelical Christians opposing the policy: "Any church that feels strongly should open up their doors and facilitate some of these individuals." Sanders also encouraged them to call their members of Congress.
Whether Sanders is leaving the White House: Sanders said she was "falsely accused" of not wanting to be at the briefing.
Go deeper: Nielsen vs. the media on child separation


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Worcester's 'army of vaccinators' heads to training this weekend, front lines Monday
WORCESTER — The city's vaccine project is slated to open Monday to begin vaccinating first responders against COVID-19.
On Saturday, an "army of vaccinators" composed of more than 100 medical students will be trained by 13 graduate nursing students who've made the effort their project for the year, Worcester's Medical Director Dr. Michael Hirsh said during the weekly COVID-19 update Thursday at City Hall.
"We are very excited about this vaccination project taking off," Hirsh said, adding that after the training, the Worcester Senior Center on Providence Street will be transformed into a vaccination center.
First responders from Shrewsbury, Millbury, Leicester, Holden, Grafton and West Boylston, along with those from Worcester, will set up appointments online, city officials explained.
Police officers, firefighters, EMS personnel from public and private ambulance companies, campus police and dispatchers will be given their first dose of the Moderna vaccine and can return by appointment in 28 days for the second dose.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty said the numbers of COVID-19 patients is on the rise and he urged residents to continue to follow protocols to prevent the spread.
Petty said restrictions put into place by Gov. Charlie Baker, were set to expire on Jan. 10, but will now remain in place until at least Jan. 24.
City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. said he is reviewing the decision to close city buildings and believes that City Hall and other city buildings will likely remain closed for an additional week or more.
Augustus said 342 Worcester residents have died from the novel coronavirus since it began last year. There were 13 deaths in the past week, he said.