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Q: How to iterate over time periods in pandas Consider I have a pandas Series with a DatetimeIndex with daily frequency. I want to iterate over this Series with arbitrary frequency and an arbitrary look-back window. For example: Iterate half-yearly with a lookback window of 1y.
Something like this would be ideal:
for df_year in df.timegroup(freq='6m', lookback='1y'):
   # df_year will span one year of daily prices and be generated every 6 months

I know about TimeGrouper but haven't figured out how it could do this. Anyway, I could just code this manually but was hoping for a clever pandas one-liner.
Edit:
This is getting a bit closer:
pd.rolling_apply(df, 252, lambda s: s.sum(), freq=pd.datetools.BMonthEnd())

This doesn't quite work, because it applies a lookback window of 252*BMonthEnd() while I'd like that to be independent and have a lookback window of 252 days every end of the month.

A: This solution provides a one liner using list comprehension.  Starting from the left of the time series and iterating forward (backward iteration could also be done), the iteration returns a subset of the index equal to the loopback window and jumps in a step size equal to the frequency.  Note that the very last period is likely a stub with a length less than the lookback window.
This method uses days rather than month or week offsets.
freq = 30      # Days
lookback = 60  # Days

idx = pd.date_range('2010-01-01', '2015-01-01')
[idx[(freq * n):(lookback + freq * n)] for n in range(int(len(idx) / freq))]

Out[86]:
[<class 'pandas.tseries.index.DatetimeIndex'>
 [2010-01-01, ..., 2010-03-01]
 Length: 60, Freq: D, Timezone: None,
 <class 'pandas.tseries.index.DatetimeIndex'>
 [2010-01-31, ..., 2010-03-31]
 Length: 60, Freq: D, Timezone: None,
...
 Length: 60, Freq: D, Timezone: None,
 <class 'pandas.tseries.index.DatetimeIndex'>
 [2014-11-06, ..., 2015-01-01]
 Length: 57, Freq: D, Timezone: None]

A: I think this is what you are looking for
Construct a series of a frequency. Using 1 for clarify here.
In [77]: i = pd.date_range('20110101','20150101',freq='B')

In [78]: s = Series(1,index=i)

In [79]: s
Out[79]:
2011-01-03    1
2011-01-04    1
2011-01-05    1
2011-01-06    1
2011-01-07    1
             ..
2014-12-26    1
2014-12-29    1
2014-12-30    1
2014-12-31    1
2015-01-01    1
Freq: B, dtype: int64

In [80]: len(s)
Out[80]: 1044

Conform the index to another frequency. This makes every index element be the end-of-month here.
In [81]: s.index = s.index.to_period('M').to_timestamp('M')

In [82]: s
Out[82]:
2011-01-31    1
2011-01-31    1
2011-01-31    1
2011-01-31    1
2011-01-31    1
             ..
2014-12-31    1
2014-12-31    1
2014-12-31    1
2014-12-31    1
2015-01-31    1
dtype: int64

Then its straightforward to resample to another frequency. This gives you the number of business days in the period in this case.
In [83]: s.resample('3M',how='sum')
Out[83]:
2011-01-31    21
2011-04-30    64
2011-07-31    65
2011-10-31    66
2012-01-31    66
              ..
2014-01-31    66
2014-04-30    63
2014-07-31    66
2014-10-31    66
2015-01-31    44
Freq: 3M, dtype: int64

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Eternal Flame Pit
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Locals call it "The Door to Hell." The name does it justice. The picture, above, does not. (More pictures? Here. Satellite image? Here, via Google Maps.)
The village of Darvaza, Turkmenistan is located in the Karakum Desert and has a population in the 300 to 1,500 range — mostly members of a semi-nomadic tribe called the Teke. It is an otherwise non-descript part of the world, with one exception: it has a lot of natural gas. So much, in fact, that in 1971, a team of geologists traveled to Darvaza in hopes of capturing some of this valuable natural resource.
But their expedition did not go to plan. The cavern of natural gas below the rig was larger than anticipated, and the rig collapsed within it. With all the gas now escaping, the geologists decided to light it on fire. (This isn't a ridiculous decision. The best outcome, of course, would be to capture and collect the resource. But that not being an option, allowing the toxic gas to escape into the atmosphere was a very bad outcome. Burning it is likely an ecologically superior alternative.)
The team expected the flame to burn for a few days, perhaps a week. They were wrong. Nearly four decades later, this pit of fire still rages, with no clearly articulated plan to close it.
Bonus fact: Eternal Flame Falls, at Shale Creek Park in upstate New York, has a natural gas phenomenon of its own. Underneath a waterfall there's a small cave which emits enough natural gas to maintain a stand-alone flame for a few minutes (depending on wind conditions and water flow levels), leading to pictures of fire burning as a waterfall cascades above.
From the Archives: Underground Coal Fires: Similar, in that they're raging uncontrollably. Different, in that they're burning coal — and are in China and Pennsylvania.
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It felt to me at the time that stopping therapy was better than having others know I struggled with my mental health. This was especially so since I had just become a mother. While the worries I had also stemmed from my own fears of being judged, it's undeniable that there is still a great deal of stigma surrounding mental illness in Singapore. In a study done by the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), 9 out of 10 respondents believed that people with a mental illness "could get better if they wanted to". 50% of them also believed that mental illness is "a sign of personal weakness". Such associations often suggest that the root of the problem stems from a personal defect and leads to labeling these individuals in a derogatory light. In another local study done on 940 youths aged 14 – 18, it was found that 44.5% of these youths attached negative labels such as "crazy", "stupid", and "dangerous" to people with mental illnesses.
Pair such beliefs with The Goddess Myth, a term coined by TIME Magazine for mothers worldwide, and we can see why maternal mental health issues are an even bigger challenge to talk about. Mothers, myself included, who struggle with mental health issues are sometimes afraid to seek treatment not only because of stigma, but also because of fears that their capability as a mother would be questioned. I was worried that, despite my hardest efforts to be the perfect mother, others would only see one that was weak enough to have succumbed to a mental illness, or one that was a danger to her son.
In an article on the stigma that surrounds mental health in Asian societies, it is noted that there are "common threads of shame and honor woven in the blanket of stigma that envelopes mental health problems". It adds that this may stem from a predominantly Asian concept of "saving face" or "dignity associated with family". In the study of youths, we see this in the results that found that "Chinese respondents tended to feel more threatened by mental illness", as "having a mental illness may be a mark of "losing face" which can bring shame to oneself and one's family".
In interviews such as this, mothers have cited shame as a reason for not seeking treatment. Some others, like myself, decided to keep treatment a secret for fear that their family would be a target of questions and hurtful comments.
While we have made tremendous progress as a developed nation, certain stereotypes and traditional beliefs still remain. In this video, NTUC Income put together a list of stereotypes faced by Singaporean women that is all too familiar. While Singapore is progressively moving away from such stereotypes, a lot of people, especially those belonging to older generations, still seem to believe that women should be able to juggle multiple roles with little to no complaint or rest. Some may even fail to recognize why younger generations struggle with this and their mental health when they "had it much worse back in the day".
This was evident in my fear of letting older relatives know about my condition. I am fortunate to have both my mother and mother-in-law care for my son while I work. I have a desk-bound job in an air-conditioned office and end work in time to have dinner with my son. How hard can life be compared to what they had to go through? What right did I have to say that I was struggling with anxiety when I was already failing to meet the expectations of the stereotypical female?
Every workplace has its own set of rules. However, we also ought to pay close attention to the ones that are not in a company's written code of conduct. While companies push forward with policies to allow employees better work-life balance, there is an unwritten rule in Singapore that employees who are the "first one in and last one out" are supposedly the most hardworking and productive. The fact that Singapore clocks the highest number of paid hours a year corroborates this, even if these long hours are unnecessary and translates into low productivity.
As a mother, I am faced with having to take leave when my son falls ill or if his care arrangement breaks down. I am fortunate enough to be granted leave. However, occasions where management has expressed subtle cues of dissatisfaction when employees take too much time away from work hovered over me like a dark cloud. Eventually, I put the idea of regular therapy on the back burner so that I could minimize my absence from work and save my leave for emergencies.
It is heartening to know that an increasing number of people are coming out to share their struggles with mental health. The media has also put maternal mental health in the spotlight, especially after devastating news of a Singaporean mother's suicide in 2017. But we need not wait for tragedy to strike before we take the step to be comfortable with discussions about mental health. While we seem to have made significant progress and have built a greater awareness of mental health in Singapore, we ought to remember that stigma still lingers. And until we can eradicate that, there will still be people who will continue to suffer in silence.
This article was written by me and originally published on Sassy Mama Singapore. Read the original article here.


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SITTING ROOM 16' 5" x 11' 2" (5m x 3.4m) A good sized principal reception room having space for a dining table and suite, ceiling cornice and enjoying a dual aspect with windows to the front and side elevation having glimpse views.
KITCHEN 9' 11" x 8' 4" (3.02m x 2.54m) With a range of base and wall units incorporating cupboards, drawers, wine rack and coordinating work surfaces having a tiled splash back. Inset stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap, integrated Hygena electric oven having a four ring hob with extractor over. Space for an under counter fridge, plumbing for an automatic washing machine, cupboard housing the Ideal gas fired central heating boiler and window to the side elevation.
BEDROOM ONE 11' 1" x 9' 10" (3.38m x 3m) A double bedroom with recessed fitted wardrobe and window to the front elevation with views over Guiseley.
BEDROOM TWO 9' 10" x 8' 2" (3m x 2.49m) With recessed wardrobe and window to the rear elevation.
BATHROOM With a panelled bath having a shower attachment, low suite w.c and pedestal wash basin. Part tiled walls.
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COMMUNAL GARDENS The property stands in well kept communal grounds with an attractive mainly lawned area having flower borders with mature shrubs and trees.
TENURE We understand from our client that the property is on a 999 year lease from June 1988.
SERVICE CHARGE We understand from our client that there is a service charge of £78 per month which includes, cleaning and maintenance of communal areas, and buildings insurance.
DIRECTIONS From Dale Eddison's office in the centre of Guiseley continue on Otley Road towards Menston. After approximately 100 yards Marlowe Court is situated on the left hand side and can be approached either via the front pedestrian entrance gates or vehicular access to the side turning off Otley Road onto Renton Avenue and the first left again into Renton Drive.
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Curating Your Girl Up Bookshelf
Feb. 27 2019 by Kelsey Carroll
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Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Isabel Allende are some female authors you may have already heard of. This Women's History Month, Girl Up is shining a light on girl authors who are #MakingHERstory right now.
From writing about girls in STEM, to teen activism, to simply surviving middle school, here is a list of Girl Up leaders, Advisory Board members, and people in the Girl Up community whose books you should look up STAT.
Chanice Lee, Young Revolutionary: The Teen's Guide to Activism
Girl Up Teen Advisor (2017-2018)
Girl Up Teen Advisor Alumna Chanice Lee was featured in the Root as a "Young Futurist" for her work as a youth activist. Her book Young Revolutionary: The Teen's Guide to Activism gives young people the tools they need to tap into their voice and put their activism into practice.
"I am a strong believer in being the change I wish to see in the world," she says. "So that is what I aim to do on a daily basis in this lifetime."
Get her book here.
Nadya Okamoto, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement
Girl Up Leader
Nadya is the Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD, an organization she founded at the age of 16 — while also co-leading her high school's Girl Up chapter. PERIOD is now the largest youth-run NGO in women's health, and one of the fastest growing ones here in the United States. Since 2014 they have addressed over 400,000 periods and registered over 230 campus chapters. Nadya recently published her debut book, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement with publisher Simon & Schuster, which made the Kirkus Reviews list for Best Young Adult Nonfiction of 2018. Most recently, Nadya has become the Chief Brand Officer of JUV Consulting, a Generation Z marketing agency based in NYC. Most recently Nadya was named to InStyle Magazine's "The Badass 50: Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World" list, along with Michelle Obama, Ariana Grande, and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Aryelle Jacobsen, A is for Awkward: A Guide to Surviving Middle School
Girl Up Club Vice President
Girl Up Reynolds Vice President, Aryelle Jacobsen, published her first book as a rising senior. A Is for Awkwardis full of 'real world advice,' and is aimed at teens and encourages healthy self-esteem. Original artwork by members of the Girl Up Reynolds Club gives the book added whimsy and meaning. Aryelle hopes the book will encourage younger students and help them develop an attitude of optimism and gratitude.
Ashley Stenzel, The ABCs of Women in STEM
Girl Up Parent and Community Leader
Ashley is the mother of two girls in Girl Up, and is getting her Ph.D. in cancer science. Her book was written for people of all ages, and introduces its readers to over 100 women who hold many different roles in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
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The proceeds of this book benefit a scholarship for women in STEM. You can get her book here.
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Girl Up Advisory Board Member
Julie is an award-winning speaker for events and girls' schools and programs. She has reached over a million girls and those who care about them world-wide. Girls Lead is part of a movement to "empower those who empower girls and empower girls to empower each other." Her first book, BeYOUtiful, was an award-winning book on mind/body/self esteem for girls.
John Gerzema, The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future
John studies leadership, innovation and social responsibility. As a member of the Advisory Board for Girl Up, his book The Athena Doctrineexplores the rise of feminine competencies and their impact on leadership, policy and progress. Tom Peters says, "The Athena Doctrine is a powerful book. Extraordinary research. Great storytelling. A message both timely and of monumental importance." All proceeds of the book support Girl Up.
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Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies: Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
Curated by Scarlett Curtis, with contributions by Girl Up Leaders:
Chimwemwe Chiweza
Tapiwa Maoni
Lauren Woodhouse-Laskonis
Maryam and Nivaal Rehman
Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Liesis a collection of writing from extraordinary women, from famous actresses to teen activists, each telling the story of her relationship with feminism. The funny, surprising, and inspiring book aims to bridge the gap between the feminist hashtag and the scholarly text by giving women the space to explain how they actually feel about feminism.
Feminists Don't Wear Pinkwas published in partnership with Girl Up, and can be found here.
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Breaking ranks with his boss in the White House, . the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has cast doubt over North Korea's willingness to denuclearize.
"North Korean leaders view nuclear arms as critical to regime survival".
The DNI report said that in his 2019 New Year's address, Kim pledged that North Korea would "go toward" complete denuclearization and promised not to make, test, use, or proliferate nuclear weapons.
And Kim continues to demonstrate openness to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Coats said in testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"We continue to assess that North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its nuclear weapons and production capabilities, even as it seeks to negotiate partial denuclearization steps to obtain key USA and global concessions", Coats said in the "Worldwide Threat Assessment" report.
But on Tuesday, Coats said that the US "assessment is bolstered by our observations of some activity that is inconsistent with full denuclearization".
Trump claimed Kim agreed to that goal after their groundbreaking Singapore summit in June 2018.
USA intelligence chiefs on Tuesday contradicted President Donald Trump's statements that the Islamic State group has been defeated and that North Korea can be convinced to forego its nuclear weapons.
North Korea said on Tuesday that relations with the United States will develop "wonderfully at a fast pace" if Washington responds to its efforts on denuclearization with trustworthy measures and practical actions.
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A couple of hours later she was on her feet in the Commons declaring she was going back to Brussels to re-negotiate both. However, he suggested that he could be prepared to support it if the amendment had official Government backing.
Rail firms plan to run empty "ghost trains" at night to clear snow and ice, while Network Rail had 34 de-icing trains prepared. Motorists in Preston are being told to expect hard driving conditions from lunchtime on Tuesday.
Plans for a follow-up Trump-Kim summit are in the works, but no agenda, venue or date has been announced.
The Coats report highlighted the broad and increasing threat to the United States from China, a point of agreement across the board in the Trump administration. In May 2018, Trump withdrew the US from that accord, which he called a bad deal that would not stop Iran from going nuclear.
The report also said the Islamic State group "remains a terrorist and insurgent threat" inside Iraq, where the government faces "an increasingly disenchanted public".
He was joined by FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, Defense Intelligence Agency chief General Robert Ashley, NSA chief General Paul Nakasone, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) director Robert Cardillo.
"ISIS still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria, and it maintains eight branches, more than a dozen networks, and thousands of dispersed supporters around the world, despite significant leadership and territorial losses", Coats said.
Trump has repeatedly said in recent months that Islamic State had been defeated, justifying his abrupt announcement in December that he would pull USA troops out of Syria.
Coats told the committee that Russian Federation and perhaps other countries are likely to attempt to use social media and other means to influence the 2020 USA presidential election. He said, "Moscow's relationship with Beijing is closer than it's been in many decades".
The report specifically warned about Russia's cyberattack capabilities.


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El Saltillo Soccer Fútbol Club es un equipo del fútbol profesional de México, y disputa sus partidos de local en el Estadio Olímpico de Saltillo, en la ciudad de Saltillo, Coahuila. Fue fundado por primera ocasión en 1994 participando hasta 2001 en la Primera División 'A'. En 2015 el equipo fue refundado y desde entonces participa en la Tercera División de México.

Historia
En 1994 el club Monterrey FAAC, equipo filial de Rayados de Monterrey consiguió el campeonato de la Tercera División, un año después, Jorge Lankenau Rocha, propietario del club Monterrey, adquirió la franquicia de los Halcones de Aguascalientes, uno de los equipos fundadores de la Primera División 'A', tras este movimiento se creó el Saltillo Soccer para participar en la división de plata del fútbol mexicano. El equipo saltillense se nutrió principalmente de futbolistas juveniles del Monterrey y funcionó como un equipo filial. Durante su paso en la segunda categoría del fútbol nacional, el Saltillo tuvo una actuación discreta y su mayor logro fue el de promover futbolistas al equipo principal.

En 1999 la empresa FEMSA tomó el control de los equipos de Monterrey y Saltillo después de que Jorge Lankenau comenzara a tener problemas legales y los clubes fueran intervenidos por la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Este hecho representó el inicio del fin del equipo de Saltillo pues la nueva directiva buscaba una mayor rentabilidad, por ello, en 2001 el Monterrey y los Tigres de la UANL hicieron un préstamo de franquicias, por lo que Saltillo Soccer se convirtió en Tigrillos Saltillo, bajo administración de los felinos, mientras que el equipo Tigres de Ciudad Juárez dejó su lugar a Cobras de Ciudad Juárez, nueva filial del Monterrey, esto significó la primera desaparición de los Coyotes.

Tras la desaparición de equipo, otros clubes trataron de retomar el nombre de la institución formando nuevas escuadras en las divisiones inferiores del fútbol mexicano, como lo fue el Real Saltillo Soccer y el Atlético Saltillo Soccer.

En 2015 el Saltillo Soccer fue refundado e inscrito en la Tercera División de México, categoría en la que se mantiene desde ese año. Tras su regreso el equipo ha conseguido sus mejores actuaciones en las temporadas 2017-18 y 2018-19 en las que se alcanzó la etapa de cuartos de final.

En el Torneo Clausura 2017 de la Liga Premier de Ascenso el Saltillo Soccer tuvo una breve participación en esa categoría, debido a que administró temporalmente la franquicia que había sido utilizada por el club Titanes de Saltillo, sin embargo, al finalizar el torneo el equipo descendió a la Serie B y tras este hecho fue renovado como Atlético Saltillo Soccer, sin contar con la participación de los Coyotes, aunque estos trataron de comprar una franquicia en la nueva Serie A, liga que sustituyó a la Premier de Ascenso.

Tras el ascenso del Atlético Saltillo Soccer a la Serie A en junio de 2019 iniciaron pláticas para la creación de un equipo único en la ciudad de Saltillo que representara a la ciudad en el fútbol profesional, sin embargo, para este objetivo era necesaria la fusión de los dos clubes principales: Atlético Saltillo Soccer y Saltillo Soccer Fútbol Club.

El 24 de julio de 2019 se anunció la creación de un nuevo equipo llamado Saltillo Fútbol Club el cual se creó tras la fusión de las dos escuadras principales de la ciudad. El nuevo equipo utiliza los colores negro, dorado y blanco como propios a partir de la temporada 2019-2020, sin embargo, durante ese ciclo futbolístico el equipo fue registrado como Atlético Saltillo Soccer.

No obstante, pese a la participación del Saltillo Soccer en la creación del nuevo equipo, los Coyotes se mantuvieron compitiendo de manera independiente, sin embargo comparten propietario con la escuadra que juega en la Liga Premier.

Instalaciones
El Estadio Olímpico de Saltillo es un recinto deportivo multiusos que se encuentra ubicado en la Ciudad de Saltillo, Coahuila, México. Forma parte del complejo integrado por la Ciudad Deportiva Francisco I. Madero  y por el Estadio Francisco I. Madero de béisbol. Se ubica en el Blvd. Nazario Ortiz Garza s/n esquina con David Berlanga en la Colonia Topochico en Saltillo, Coahuila, México. Tiene capacidad para 7000 espectadores en sus gradas poniente y oriente.

Jugadores

Plantilla y cuerpo técnico

Temporadas

1: Torneo suspendido por pandemia de COVID-19, sin embargo la liga consideró los registros como oficiales y quedaron guardados en las estadísticas.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Saltillo Soccer en la página oficial de la Primera División de México

Equipos de fútbol de la Tercera división mexicana
Equipos de fútbol del estado de Coahuila
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 1994

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import argparse
import os

import pickle
import numpy as np

from ravens import utils

def main():

  # Parse command line arguments.
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  parser.add_argument('--disp', action='store_true')
  parser.add_argument('--task', default='insertion')
  parser.add_argument('--agent', default='transporter')
  parser.add_argument('--n_demos', default=100, type=int)
  args = parser.parse_args()

  name = f'{args.task}-{args.agent}-{args.n_demos}-'
  print(name)

  # Load and print results to console.
  path = os.path.join('.')
  curve = []
  for fname in sorted(os.listdir(path)):
    if name in fname and '.pkl' in fname:
      n_steps = int(fname[(fname.rfind('-') + 1):-4])
      data = pickle.load(open(fname, 'rb'))
      rewards = []
      for reward, _ in data:
        rewards.append(reward)
      rewards = np.array(rewards) * 100
      score = np.mean(rewards)
      std = np.std(rewards)
      print(f'  {n_steps} steps:\t{score:.1f}%\t± {std:.1f}%')
      curve.append((n_steps, score, std))

  # Plot results over training steps.
  title = f'{args.agent} on {args.task} w/ {args.n_demos} demos'
  ylabel = 'Testing Task Success (%)'
  xlabel = '# of Training Steps'
  if args.disp:
    logs = {}
    curve = np.array(curve)
    logs[name] = (curve[:, 0], curve[:, 1], curve[:, 2])
    fname = f'{name}-plot.png'
    utils.plot(fname, title, ylabel, xlabel, data=logs, ylim=[0, 1])
    print(f'Done. Plot image saved to: {fname}')

if __name__ == '__main__':
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New Year Honours 2016: Lynton Crosby knighthood criticised by Labour
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Image caption Sir Lynton Crosby was campaign director for the Conservatives at May's election
The knighthood awarded to Conservative general election strategist Lynton Crosby is "outrageous", shadow home secretary Andy Burnham has said.
Sir Lynton joins a number of politicians, party workers and civil servants in the New Year Honours list.
Minister Greg Hands said his award was "fully deserved" as he was "a world leader in his profession".
Ex-Lib Dem Energy Secretary Ed Davey was also knighted. Labour chief whip Rosie Winterton received a damehood.
Among the civil servants to be honoured is Lin Homer, HMRC and former UK Border Agency chief executive, who has been made a dame.
'Insensitive'
BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said it was "not exactly unknown" for those involved in politics to be given awards, with Labour's election strategist, Spencer Livermore, now in the House of Lords.
He described Sir Lynton as "one of the most powerful people in British politics who you may not have heard of".
But Mr Burnham said the strategist's knighthood suggested "the Tories think they can get away with whatever they like".
"It is a timely reminder that Labour must make it a new year's resolution to stop facing inwards and expose them for what they are," he added.
The front pages: Anger at 'tainted New Year Honours'
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Fellow Labour MP Graham Jones added: "The honours system is supposed to recognise dedicated public service, not simply be a vehicle to reward Tory cronies and donors."
Conservative MP Mark Garnier told BBC Radio 5 live the award could be seen as "insensitive", saying he felt "uncomfortable" about politicians being honoured in general.
Mr Garnier said Sir Lynton was an "outstanding individual", adding: "Were he in another area, I would say this is fine, it is a good thing, it's just that I do recognise the fact that people find it insensitive and are a bit uncomfortable about it and I do, to a certain extent, agree with that."
But Mr Hands, the chief secretary to the Treasury, told BBC News: Sir Lynton had been a "key election strategist in this country for the last 10 years" and was a "very deserving case".
Lynton Crosby profile
Born in 1956 in Kadina, South Australia
Credited with masterminding the Conservatives' 2015 general election victory
Previously worked as campaign director for Australia's Liberal Prime Minister John Howard
Worked on the Conservatives' unsuccessful 2005 election campaign, which was blamed by some for giving the Tories a "nasty party" reputation
Helped Boris Johnson win successive mayoral elections in London
Managing director and founder of lobbying and research firm Crosby Textor
Mr Davey follows fellow former Lib Dem coalition ministers Vince Cable and Danny Alexander in being knighted.
He was appointed energy secretary in 2012 following the resignation of Chris Huhne, and lost the seat of Kingston and Surbiton, which he had held since 1997, at the general election.
Image caption Ed Davey was energy and climate change minister secretary in the coalition government
Dame Rosie has been the MP for Doncaster Central since 1997, and served as a minister in the Labour government in departments including transport and health. She has been opposition chief whip since 2010, retaining the role under new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Shadow defence minister Toby Perkins said her "loyalty and commitment to the Labour Party" were "hard to match".
Henry Bellingham, the Conservative MP for North West Norfolk and a former foreign office minister, has also been knighted, as have clerk and chief executive of the Scottish Parliament Paul Grice, Robert Devereux, permanent secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, and Jon Day, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
According to the government, the honours system recognises people who have made achievements in public life and committed themselves to serving and helping Britain.
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Image caption Rosie Winterton's damehood was revealed on Twitter by Labour MPs
Image caption Conservative MP Henry Bellingham has been knighted
Anyone can nominate somebody for an honour, with nominations considered by the Honours Committee. The committee's decisions go to the prime minister and then the Queen, who awards the honours.
SNP MP Stewart Hosie criticised what he called "the Whitehall farce of honours, knighthoods and peerages".
"They devalue the real reason for these honours - to recognise public service and achievement," he added.
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1) I saw Noah almost two weeks ago and up until now, did not think it too important to get the message out.
2) Although an afternoon screening, I spent most of the first act fighting off sleep. Was I tired and fatigued? Probably, but the product on screen didn't help.
3) The biblical story of Noah has a few key tenets: Noah built an ark, there was a flood that eradicated the earth's human population (besides Noah's family), Noah saved the animals (two by two!) by housing them on the ark during the flood, and there was a dove that brought evidence of land to mark the end of the global catastrophe. You would think that an aspiring cinematic epic such as this movie that Darren Aronofsky hoped to make would at least hit all of these key points effectively. Unfortunately, the director of point-of-viewed The Fountain and Black Swan manages to gloss over most of the ark construction (in deference for angsty Ham and Shem emotional baggage) and creates one dimensional CGI animals that seem to be more alien to Noah and his family than the Giant Rock Transformer Angels were to EVERY member of the viewing audience.
4) Maybe I should have already put up a SPOILER ALERT on this one because studio publicity wants to maintain the secret for as long as possible, but the chatter seems to already have pervaded the cultural gossiper. In case you are living under the rocks that may have inspired them, in Darren Aronofsky's Noah there are Giant Rock Transformer Angels who build arks, destroy humans through CGI magic (and weirdly and uncomfortably compelling action sequences), and disappear into heavenly light. You can't make this stuff up.
5) Noah is a movie by a filmmaker (the aforementioned Aronofsky) whose incredible creativity, ambition, and vision execute story in a most fantastical way. Unfortunately, his fantastical musings often hit the wrong notes in the wrong ways and Noah is flooded with these inaccessible decisions.


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The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
Director Rob Cohen
Starring Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford
Release 1 AUG (US) 6 AUG (UK) Certificate 12A
It's hard to see any reason why this entirely unnecessary Mummy threequel got the green light, other than the fact that Indiana Jones was also pencilled in for a summer return - and where there are coattails to be ridden, you'll find Stephen Sommers. The director's first two Mummy movies were guilty pleasures of sorts; harmless, entertaining FX romps that filled a hole in the absence of any real adventures. Sadly for Sommers, now on producing duty, this has been a summer full of them. Like a fake suit hung next to a Prada original, Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor exposes The Mummy franchise for what it really is: a cheap and threadbare knock-off that doesn't feature a single original stitch in its material.
The plot is a flimsy excuse to lift the series out of its dusty desert setting and plonk it in a new exploitable environment, namely Ancient China. Retired adventurers Rick (Fraser) and Evie O'Connell (Bello) are lured to Shanghai on some colourful jaunt that sees them hook up with son Alex (Luke Ford) and Evie's brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). It's not long before Jet Li's badass Emperor is awoken from his 2,000 year sleep along with his terracotta army, so Rick and family take it upon themselves to save the world one more time and go for the hat-trick. "Here we go again..." just about says it all.
Really, the warning signs were obvious from the start. This is a Mummy movie directed by Rob Cohen, helmer of The Fast And The Furious (a movie about fast cars), xXx (a movie about extreme sports and explosions) and Stealth (a movie about an emo stealth bomber). It's dumb squared; an intelligence free zone. Characters converse in impossibly cheesy dire-logue, choking on cornball one-liners short and stupid enough to fit only in comic-book panels ("You guys are mummy magnets!" etc). John Hannah's 'comic' relief sees him playing second fiddle to a vomiting Yak. And the less said about the Yetis the better.
Cohen is a director who has little idea of what his audience expect. The very least you could hope for from a Mummy movie is some big-budget action sequences, but Cohen manages to fumble even the most straight-forward battle scenes. Fist fights are turgid and slow, lacking any sense of danger; one sequence set on a snowy mountainside is sloppily edited and hard to follow; the final showdown between two undead armies might as well have had a high score at the top of the screen - CG rarely gets better than videogame cut-scene quality.
Worse, the cast look uncomfortable throughout and actors are rarely allowed to play to their strengths. Fraser and Bello spend most of the movie as helpless bystanders, while their obnoxious son - a character without any redeeming features whatsoever - gets a god-awful love story sub-plot that eats up the runtime yet literally has no bearing on the film's story at all. Li is a commanding presence as always, but is replaced with a special effect for the most part - and not even an impressive one, the same 'burns victim' FX as the previous two movies. The final showdown between Li and nemesis Michelle Yeoh should by rights be a pulsating affair, but - like the rest of the movie - is actually a crushing let-down: plodding, predictable and ultimately pointless.
Tomb Of the Dragon Emperor is not a film completely without merit. Production design is fantastic - '40s China looks especially beautiful (can you say Temple Of Doom?) - and the early sequence of Li's Emperor coming to life sets an eerie tone that the rest of the movie fails to capitalise on. Perhaps under the direction of a more competent filmmaker, it could have been passable popcorn entertainment - where you're laughing with a film, rather than at it. But compared to Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - hell, even compared to National Treasure 2 - this Mummy comes across as a movie seriously lacking in every respect. Pray that this is a franchise that's dead for good this time. Ali
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1Assim se completou toda a obra que Salomão fez para a casa do Senhor. Então trouxe Salomão as coisas que seu pai Davi tinha consagrado, a saber, a prata, e ouro e todos os vasos, e os pôs nos tesouros da casa de Deus.

2Então Salomão congregou em Jerusalém os anciãos de Israel, e todos as cabeças das tribos, os chefes das casas paternas dos filhos de Israel, para fazerem subir da cidade de Davi, que é Sião, a arca do pacto do Senhor.

3E todos os homens de Israel se congregaram ao rei na festa, no sétimo mês.

4E, tendo chegado todos os anciãos de Israel; os levitas levantaram a arca;

5e fizeram subir a arca, a tenda da revelação e todos os utensílios sagrados que estavam na tenda; os sacerdotes levitas os levaram.

6Então o rei Salomão e toda a congregação de Israel, que se havia reunido a ele diante da arca, sacrificavam carneiros e bois, que não se podiam contar nem numerar por causa da sua multidão.

7Assim trouxeram os sacerdotes a arca do pacto do Senhor para o seu lugar, no oráculo da casa, no lugar santíssimo, debaixo das asas dos querubins.

8Porque os querubins estendiam as asas sobre o lugar da arca, cobrindo a arca e os seus varais:

9Os varais eram tão compridos que as suas pontas se viam perante o oráculo, mas não se viam de fora; e ali tem estado a arca até o dia de hoje.

10Na arca não havia coisa alguma senão as duas tábuas que Moisés ali tinha posto em Horebe, quando o Senhor fez um pacto com os filhos de Israel, ao saíram eles do Egito.

11Quando os sacerdotes saíram do lugar santo {pois todos os sacerdotes que se achavam presentes se tinham santificado, sem observarem a ordem das suas turmas;

12também os levitas que eram cantores, todos eles, a saber, Asafe, Remã, Jedútum e seus filhos, e seus irmãos, vestidos de linho fino, com címbalos, com alaúdes e com harpas, estavam em pé ao lado oriental do altar, e juntamente com eles cento e vinte sacerdotes, que tocavam as trombetas} ,

13quando os trombeteiros e os cantores estavam acordes em fazerem ouvir uma só voz, louvando ao Senhor e dando-lhe graças, e quando levantavam a voz com trombetas, e címbalos, e outros instrumentos de música, e louvavam ao Senhor, dizendo: Porque ele é bom, porque a sua benignidade dura para sempre; então se encheu duma nuvem a casa, a saber, a casa do Senhor,

14de modo que os sacerdotes não podiam ter-se em pé, para ministrar, por causa da nuvem; porque a glória do Senhor encheu a casa de Deus.

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Beurre blanc: A tasty conclusion to a very good day.
Yesterday was one of those very good days that required no vehicle and no long trips away from home. The day started groggily, and with starvation, so we walked over to Szechuan Chongqing for spicy green beans and siu mai and king crab with garlic, among other things, and to meet up with Theresa, Mick, and Corinne.
We ate until we were sure we were sure we'd explode, which is how you're supposed to do dim sum, and then waddled our separate ways, with Nick and I headed for Granville Island and patio beer.
While there, we grabbed spices and vegetables, and two thin pieces of fish, and wine. Always wine, because if you're going to eat white fish you need white wine to go with. Everyone in the entire market was smiling, Nick noted, and why wouldn't they be? The sun was trying harder than it has in a long time, and there was a man with an accordion, and everything smelled fresh and all together the fragrance of ocean and roses and bread and fudge and smoked meats and maple and fruit musk was invigorating. In this city that's smelled like wet pavement for a week, things were looking up. With the late afternoon to spare, we headed home, intent on writing and napping and that wine.
And dinner was just as easy and low-key. Nick chose the ingredients at the market – the fish and some asparagus, and in the time it took to roast the asparagus in the oven – twelve minutes – I made Julia Child's beurre blanc, two poached eggs, and the fish, pan-fried very gently in a film of melted butter. It was the kind of meal you could eat any night of the week, easy and fast, but also so delicate and elegant that you could serve it to good-quality company. The secret, of course, is the beurre blanc, which is basically an emulsion of butter and acids, lemon and/or vinegar (or wine!), some shallots, a little bit of salt, and, if you've got it, white pepper.
You can make up to a cup of this by using a bit more butter, but since it's just the two of us, I use 3/4 cup. You'll have enough for four people with the recipe below.
In a heavy bottomed sauce-pan, place salt, pepper, vinegar, lemon juice, and shallot over high heat, and reduce quickly until only about a tablespoon of the liquid remains.
Remove from heat, and turn heat down to low. Whisk in the first cube of cold butter, and then the second, until a cream forms. Return the pot to low heat, and continue whisking in cubes of butter, adding a new pat just as the last piece has melted into the sauce. Serve immediately, spooned over fish or vegetables. All in all, this takes about five minutes. Less, maybe, and you can do it as your fish cooks and your asparagus roasts and it will all be done together.
Serve with dry white wine. On a patio, if you've got one.
The acidity combined with the butter makes this a bright, surprising sauce that works well over a thin slip of fish, sole or trout, or even salmon or halibut. Also, it's fun to say. Beurre blanc. It's even more fun to eat.
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We're prepared to be good quality company; just in case you were wondering.
Yes, Mom. I know. We always have butter – you can come anytime!
Gosh, MY company is lucky if they get anything that highfalutin', ever. That's so gorgeous.
Thanks, Linda! My company mostly gets me in footie pajamas heading to bed before they've gone home, so I have to make nice dinners so that things even out.
Looks amazing, seriously, what a great dish. And you can never go wrong with Julia. Or butter.


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Amazon today launched two unlimited tiers for its Cloud Drive storage service, while prominent dance music service Beatport has revealed it will be debuting on Apple's iOS.
The Unlimited Photos tier lets users upload as many photos as they want at a cost of $12 per year. All other files are capped at 5 GB, but compatible images include the RAW formats used by professional photographers and serious hobbyists.
The other tier is Unlimited Everything, which lets subscribers upload as much of they want of any file type for $60 per year. That option is currently rare in the cloud storage world —1 TB plans from Dropbox and Google Drive cost $99 and $120, respectively.
The new Amazon plans each come with a three-month trial period, after which a person's credit card will be charged automatically. Desktop, iOS, and Android apps are available, the latter two of which can automatically upload photos for backup.
Beatport has announced that later on Thursday it will be launching new mobile apps for iOS and Android, offering access to several features previously relegated to the web. These include a free streaming service, and Beatport Shows, a calendar of events with integrated ticket purchases. Beatport is owned by SFX Entertainment, which organizes many electronic dance events.
For DJs the apps incorporate Beatport Live, which allows live streaming and gathers together social media activity from popular acts.
T-Mobile has been announced as a partner for the launch. The carrier offers a perk called Music Freedom, which excludes various music services from contributing to subscribers' data caps.
Beatport is best known for Beatport Pro, a DJ-oriented storefront for dance music, which also has a native Mac client.


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Astrology of March 2017– Happy New Astrological Year!
March is undoubtedly one of the most important and the most eventful months of the year. Intense, almost electrifying, fresh and exciting, March will bring something new in our life no matter our astrological signature. We have the Spring /Autumn equinox which brings the beginning of a new solar cycle, we have the 1st New Moon after the Equinox which will kick start the New Astrological year, we have Sun conjunct Venus bringing a new Venus synodic cycle, we have Venus retrograde, we have the 2nd Jupiter Uranus opposition and we have the 2nd Jupiter Pluto square…just to mention the major aspects.
Let's have a look at what the stars have in store for us this month:
March start with a lovely Sun Neptune conjunction on 1st of March. Our imagination will be heightened during this transit, so use this time to explore your talents and creativity and find your own sense of peace.
On March 2nd we have the 2nd Jupiter Uranus opposition. This opposition is extremely intense – we will likely feel like it is "Now or never" and we've been given the last chance to break free of limitations. Although we may feel we cannot wait any longer, keep in mind that this is only the 2nd opposition between Jupiter and Uranus. We will have the "final act" of this transit later this year.
4th of March is one of the big dates of the year. Venus stations retrograde at 13° Aries, signaling a re-evaluation of our attitudes towards love, money, and personal values. Soon after Venus turns retrograde, Mercury conjuncts Neptune adding to the general confusion. Do not fear the Venus retrograde cycle – Venus will only bring to our awareness those things that needs to be reexamined. If we've been avoiding to make some decisions, it is likely that we will make them during the Venus retrograde. But these decisions, especially those made before 25th of March will only help us prepare for the good things that WILL come after.
On the 6th of March Sun is conjunct Mercury at 16° Pisces. Our communication will become empathetic and compassionate, and we will feel an impulse to express the more creative side of our psyche.
On March 9th Mars enters Taurus. Mars in Taurus will be in mutual reception with Venus in Aries. The two lovers are now in complicity, learning from the other's actions and bringing the best in each other.
The Full Moon in Virgo takes place on 12th of March at 22°. The Full Moon is opposite Chiron and Mercury and square Saturn. This is one of the rather challenging Full Moons and will require a close examination of who we really are. We are being asked again to be disciplined and take responsibility for our lives. Nobody can help us but us.
On 13th of March Mercury enters Aries bringing a boost of enthusiasm and fresh ideas. Communication becomes less foggy and more direct.
On March 14th Sun conjuncts Chiron and 3 days later on March 17th Sun squares Saturn. We can heal our wounds if we take responsibility for them and do the necessary work on ourselves.
On the 18th of March Mercury is conjunct Venus at 9° Aries. The conjunction also trines the Moon in Sagittarius. This is one of the sweetest days when our communication can become extremely affectionate and persuasive – mark your calendars if you have a presentation to give or if you want to confess your feelings to your crush 😉 – those of us with planets between 4°- 9° in Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) are especially favored.
Happy new solar year! On the 19th of March Sun's ingress into Aries will mark the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. Confidence and energy will rise as we will feel more optimistic about life and about the future.
Between 23rd and 24th of March Mercury in Aries squares Pluto in Capricorn and then opposes Jupiter in Libra. These are highly dynamic aspects– conversations can easily get heated but also new ideas can emerge out of this cosmic chaos.
On the 25th of March Sun is meeting Venus retrograde in a so called "inferior conjunction" which basically means Venus is in between the Sun and the Earth. This conjunction, which happens in the middle of her retrograde journey, will officially start a new Venus synodic cycle. I really love this aspect and I believe it is one of the most important aspects of the year. Not only Venus starts a new cycle, but the conjunction takes place immediately after the Equinox and just before the first New Moon of the astrological year. We have a new cycle of the Sun, a new cycle of Venus, AND a New Moon.
2017 will be the YEAR OF LOVE, undoubtedly. Those of us with planets or angles around 4° in Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) will especially be blessed with love this year. For all of us this new solar cycle will bring something new in what Venus stands for: romance, relationships, beauty, money and possessions, values. Anything is possible now: a new love, a new source of income – a door will open and Venus will bring her gifts. People with Taurus or Libra rising will also benefit from this aspect.
On the 26th of March Mercury is conjunct Uranus at 23° Aries bringing some exciting (and unexpected!) news.
27th of March marks the start of a new astrological cycle with the New Moon at 7° in Aries. The New Moon is conjunct Venus, and the ruler of the New Moon, Mars, makes positive aspects to Neptune and Pluto. This is an extremely dynamic and New Moon – Jupiter is only few minutes away from a perfect square to Pluto. We have Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all activated (of course together with the Sun and the Moon) – expect DYNAMITE.
On the 30th of March we have the mighty Jupiter Pluto square. We are now in the middle of the storm – the 2nd aspect in a series of three is the most intense because both planets are retrograde and their focus is crystal clear. This is an "all or nothing" transit –major decisions will be made now. Jupiter and Pluto are in a way the most powerful planets – Jupiter "the king of all gods the sky" and Pluto "the king of the underworld" are in the midst of their epic battle that will only end at the end of the year when the two will meet for the last time for the final confrontation. It shall be seen who wins and who loses.
The month ends with Mercury's ingress in the sign of the Bull on the 31st of March. Our ideas will become less erratic and our communication will become more concrete.
If you want to know what the stars have in store for you in the upcoming months, the Astro Butterfly Calendar for March 2017 – February 2018 is available for purchase on Etsy. For details click here
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moonlovesmountain says:
Thanks for all the astrological advice! 🙂 I'm actually writing this because I had a question. I've noticed a trend that around a New Moon more of my negative tendencies come out and I do things I thought I have already handled or corrected. Is it normal or common for things to go wrong/act out around a New Moon?
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Just before the New Moon, when the Moon is in the Balsamic phase, we can experience some sort of anxiety. The Moon is rarely seen in the sky and she is very weak, being literally eclipsed by the Sun. At the time of the New Moon we experience a "merging" of the feminine (the Moon) and the masculine (the Sun) principles. That's why a New Moon is a phase of conception, a seeding stage. But because we don't know yet what will bear fruit we can often feel confused. We want to move forward, in a new direction, but we can lack the clarity where we are heading for. Everyone can experience these energies around the New Moon. However at an individual level there could be all kind of reasons why one has difficulties when the Moon is New. Cancers or Cancer risings might not like to have their ruling planet "eclipsed" by the Sun. Also, have a look at your natal chart to see what is the relationship between your Sun and your Moon. In case the Moon is far away from the Sun (in an opposition for example, or anywhere between 135° degrees ahead of the Sun or 135° behind the Sun) you might feel more at ease when the transit Moon is far away from the Sun and "free" to express herself and less at ease when the Moon is close to the Sun (e.g. at Balsamic and New Moon phases). The natal South Node in aspect to the luminaries could also trigger some compulsive behaviors.
Thanks! Im taking this and running with it 🙂
March 4th, Venus Rx in Aries =) not Pisces. Easy mistake
Thanks! Fixed 🙂
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Hello! Thank you so much for this article. My question is in regards with this phrase of yours, I quote" 2017 will be the YEAR OF LOVE, undoubtedly. Those of us with planets or angles around 4° in Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) will especially be blessed with love this year. " I have sun at 4 degrees libra and in that period I met someone. I know it's a bit old, but hope maybe you can say based on what did you affirm this? Thank you, all the best


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"He's mad, but there's method to his madness" | Hurling for Davy Fitzgerald
Arthur James O'Dea
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Few appreciate the nuanced possibilities of a post-match interview quite like Davy Fitzgerald. A quirk of character, perhaps, Fitzgerald is unerring in drawing one toward what's been partially revealed.
"You've no idea what we put [these players] through," the victorious Wexford manager told Off the Ball in the immediate aftermath of Sunday's Leinster final, "we put them through a lot mentally to be able for a day like today."
Reflecting on what he had initiated beyond prying eyes, Fitzgerald, momentarily detached from the process, seemed somewhat taken aback by whatever it was that had been carried out.
"In any Davy Fitzgerald set-up," former Clare hurler Brendan Bugler explained to Off the Ball, "he really pushes the boundaries.
"It's either all-in or nothing, and if you don't buy-in he just won't entertain you really. He expects that because he firmly believes lads have to possess a certain physical and mental toughness to succeed."
The importance Fitzgerald affords to such traits is not surprising; the two-time All-Ireland winning goalkeeper with Clare has spoken of the relentless bullying he endured and overcame during his school years.
His strength is unshakable, and he expects it to be reciprocated. How this manifests itself in practice, however, remains somewhat more shrouded in secrecy.
"There is a method to his madness," Waterford's Eoin Kelly outlined to Off the Ball of his time playing under Davy Fitzgerald, "he's not just mad."
Embarking on his first inter-county job eleven-years ago, it was perhaps with an understandable lack of foresight that Fitzgerald opted to replace Justin McCarthy at Waterford.
Intent on moving a successful team beyond McCarthy's strict diet of "hurling, hurling, hurling, hurling," Fitzgerald met the resistance of a sated panel.
"Davy was more structured and interested in game-plans, but he'd just inherited an older team that probably set too much in its ways.
"We were used to playing one way and with fellas in their late 20s and early 30s, there were just too many barriers to break down.
"The legs couldn't do what he needed them to do."
Where McCarthy's traditionalist outlook of 15-on-15 had generated success, a 36-year-old Davy Fitzgerald foresaw visions of hurling's changing tide. Physical fitness and a fresh manifestation of how it would be applied jarred with certain members of the panel.
"He was very similar to Justin in terms of his hurling drills, but then he'd have the Ger Loughnane thing of flogging lads in training.
"It was never a long session, only a little over an hour, but it was flat out. The intensity was super, and you're never allowed to drop your work-rate or effort."
An intriguing blend of two distinct styles, Loughnane, who himself played Fitzgerald's predecessor McCarthy, left an undeniable mark on his 'keeper from Clare's team of the 1990s.
"Getting into lads' heads is definitely something that Loughnane would have passed onto Davy," Brendan Bugler recalled, "but he had evolved it as well and gone onto a new level."
The hybrid approach that Fitzgerald would bring to fruition with Clare retained those rough edges at Waterford, however.
"You could be climbing up a mountain one night and doing boxing another," Eoin Kelly explained.
"He certainly kept things fresh and there could be a hundred-and-one things he'd do, but there would always be savage effort put into it.
"His style did cause a certain amount of division though. You couldn't have Dan Shanahan running up and down the field like Davy wanted. He was the bones of 30-years-old with plenty of miles in the legs.
"There's no point lying about there being a problem there, but we just weren't built that way and Davy would get frustrated because we weren't doing what we were supposed to do."
While Kelly remembers Davy Fitzgerald fondly for bringing Waterford to an All-Ireland final, he cannot imagine the Clare native departed without his share of regrets.
"He might never come out and admit that he made a mistake with this, that or the other, but he'll say it to himself.
"I think he learned an awful lot here, and when he went to Clare with lads that were only starting inter-county hurling, he could mould the kind of team he wanted."
From dealing with Waterford's successful players, Davy Fitzgerald's return to Clare in 2012 simply served as a vivid reminder that they had been anything but.
Instrumental in the county's All-Ireland wins throughout the '90s, Clare had gotten to a point where anything Fitzgerald demanded offered some respite from the numbing repetition of mediocrity at least.
"Prior to Fitzy coming in," Bugler recalled, "I'd never seen the level of commitment having to be as much. It went through the roof.
"From doing like three days a week, we were literally doing field session five or six nights a week with gym sessions on top of that.
"For any team that's looking to implement the system that he wants to play, you have to be extremely fit and extremely physical."
With willing bodies at his disposal and no culture of senior success to combat, the chastening experience of Waterford didn't deter Fitzgerald as he rigorously set about turning Clare into All-Ireland winners.
"He has 100% belief in what he does himself. Contrary to what people would be saying, even people close to him, he has unshakable belief in what he's trying to achieve and the way he's trying to achieve it.
"Others may occasionally listen to these people who don't ultimately matter, but I think he just uses it as motivation for himself.
"He'll use anything at all that would stir the pot a small bit."
Alongside the physical demands he puts on players, however, Fitzgerald's capacity to engineer success runs deeper; instilling his belief in the players' own minds a truer measure of his talent.
"If you're willing to give the commitment, bring your body to extreme places and make the sacrifices, he'll see that.
"When you're a county like we were that had had relatively little senior success, that becomes the carrot.
"He was brilliant at communicating that and explaining how being involved in a set-up like this opens up opportunities in relation to employment and other things in your personal life.
"During the tough times there around 2012 and '13, when employment was hard to come by for certain lads, he'd do his best to get on to some contacts and help lads find work around the Limerick and Clare area.
"Obviously the ultimate success is won on the field, but there are things he did behind the scenes that people just never knew about."
If mistakes made during his first inter-county role were partially rectified throughout his second, it is the third of Davy Fitzgerald's jobs with Wexford that is perhaps serving to best demonstrate his growth.
"I love doing things you're not meant to do," he remarked to Off the Ball in that same post-match interview.
The first manager to procure inter-county success in every feasible manner, the comment revealed as much about Fitzgerald's personal ambition as that of Wexford's desire to end a fifteen-year wait for provincial success.
"Take Brian Cody out of it and he's the best manager in the game," Eoin Kelly readily asserted.
"I think he's after learning an awful lot over the years."
Harmoniously intertwining his determination with the latent potential of often underrated players, it is work best saved for one who thrives on the margins.
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The PHA is instrumental in the delivery of postgraduate training for doctors who want to specialise in public health medicine in Northern Ireland. We are the primary training location and education provider for this speciality. Other approved training locations are the Centre for Public Health at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) incorporating the NI Cancer Registry, DHSSPS, and the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH).
The Public Health training programme is overseen by the NIMDTA Public Health specialty training committee and usually comprises a five-year full time programme. The first year is spent undertaking a Masters in Public Health at QUB. The next three to four years are usually spent working within the PHA or other approved training locations where training is delivered by consultants/specialists and practitioners from a range of other backgrounds.
The PHA provides trainees with the opportunities to work across all the key areas of public health practice, i.e. health protection, health improvement, screening and service development. We are well placed to deliver this training in the PHA with our multidisciplinary workforce and our networks with a wide range of external stakeholders.
Recruitment to the training programme is by competitive interview and is led by NIMDTA. Trainees entering the programme will follow the public health specialty training curriculum set by the UK Faculty of Public Health. Evidence of progress towards achieving key competencies and experience is assessed at an annual review of competence progression (ARCP). Satisfactory progress leads to a Certificate of Completion of Training and eligibility to work at consultant level.
Any queries regarding the training programme, including recruitment queries, can be addressed to the Training Programme Director by emailing denise.ohagan@hscni.net
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The Curse of Dimensionality
While applying k nearest neighbors approach in solving a problem, we can sometimes notice that there is a deterioration in the kNN performance when the number of predictors, p is large. The reason for this can be the high number of dimensions. This problem is known as the curse of dimensionality.
It means that the test error tends to increase as the dimensionality of the problem (number of predictors) increases, unless the additional features are truly associated with the response. It is opposite to the thought one might have that as the number of predictors used to fit a model increases, the quality of the fitted model will increase as well.
A quora answer best explains this:
Let's say you have a straight line 100 yards long and you dropped a penny somewhere on it. It wouldn't be too hard to find. You walk along the line and it takes two minutes.
Now let's say you have a square 100 yards on each side and you dropped a penny somewhere on it. It would be pretty hard, like searching across two football fields stuck together. It could take days.
Now a cube 100 yards across. That's like searching a 30-story building the size of a football stadium. Ugh.
The difficulty of searching through the space gets a lot harder as you have more dimensions. You might not realize this intuitively when it's just stated in mathematical formulas, since they all have the same "width". That's the curse of dimensionality. It gets to have a name because it is unintuitive, useful, and yet simple.
Non-parametric approaches like kNN often perform poorly when p is large. The decrease in performance of kNN arises from the fact that in higher dimensions there is effectively a reduction in sample size. Say, in a dataset, there are 100 training observations; when p = 1, this provides enough information for a good fit. However, spreading 100 observations over p = 20 dimensions doesn't. The k observations that are nearest to a given test observation may be very far away from in p-dimensional space, if p is large, leading to poor prediction (a poor kNN fit).
How to avoid the curse of dimensionality?
We can use various feature selection algorithms like best subset selection or stepwise selection to select a subset of predictors.
Another approach is to use PCA (principal component analysis), a dimension reduction method, which transforms the p predictors into M < p predictors. The model is fit using these M predictors. PCR (principal component regression), based on PCA, provides a way to perform regression using M < p predictors. PCA is a feature extraction method.
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Teenager set for album launch in United States
Sean Keywood
Published: 8:32 AM September 30, 2011
Updated: 9:33 AM November 7, 2020
Just eighteen months ago, Tom Andrews was an ordinary Exmouth teenager who dreamed of being a pop star.
Now he finds himself with a major record deal, a string of prime time American TV appearances, and an upcoming debut album seemingly set for big things.
It's been a meteoric rise for the 17-year-old, who only began singing four years ago.
He said "For me, singing was just a hobby, and it was a gradual progression from there to the point where I started to think about it as a career choice, because I was enjoying it so much.
"Then one day I got a call from chat show host Ellen DeGeneres, saying "I really like your music – would you like to come on my show".
"I went out to LA, and went on the show singing It's a Man's World by James Brown, which was just the start of where I am now.
"Since then I've started working with some managers, and started working with the record company to get my first album finished."
Although he is happy to sing covers, Tom writes or co-writes all of his own material.
"I'm really into writing my own music, and I'd like the album to be all my own stuff, but we'll see what the record company says about it.
"My main song writing influences are mainly old soul music, like Marvin Gaye and the Four Tops.
"I also like Freddie Mercury, and I'm influenced by a lot of the stuff in the charts at the moment."
Since being signed by Ellen, Tom has made several transatlantic trips to perform and record, and is beginning to enjoy his share of showbusiness perks.
"When I go to the US, my manager Bill Silva is always promoting gigs at the Hollywood Bowl, and I've got to see LCD Soundsystem and Kylie Minogue, which was nice.
"I also got tickets to see last year's American Idol semi-final, and the last time I went over Lady Gaga was on Ellen and I got to watch her rehearse, which was really cool."
Tom is now preparing to return to the States for another visit, during which he hopes his debut album will come together.
"I'm going to do some more writing for the album, at the moment there's lots of songs floating around that could be on it, but nothing solid yet.
"In the next trip we'll solidify it a bit more and make it more of a real thing."
Tom's single Carry Me On is available now on iTunes, and his debut album is due to be released later this year on Eleveneleven Records.


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L'Anarjohka (in norvegese Anarjokka o Anarjohka, in finlandese Inarijoki, in lingua sami settentrionale Anárjohka, in svedese Enare älv) è un fiume della Norvegia e della Finlandia. Assieme all'Karasjohka dà origine al fiume Teno nei pressi di Karigasniemi.

Corso del fiume
Il fiume nasce dal monte Lulit Bissovárri, all'interno del parco nazionale Øvre Anárjohka, nel comune di Kautokeino in territorio norvegese. Scorre dapprima verso nord-est attraversando il parco nazionale finché curva a est dove accoglie l'affluente Skiehččanjohkka in corrispondenza con il confine finlandese, sulla cui sponda si trova il parco nazionale di Lemmenjoki. Dopo il villaggio di Basevuovdi il fiume curva verso nord, raccogliendo le acque del maggiore dei suoi tributari, il Goššjohka, che proviene da ovest.

A Raidesuolu, pochi chilometri a nord dal confine e 12 km ad est dalla cittadina di Karasjok, l'Anarjohka sfocia nel fiume Karasjohka ed insieme formano il Teno.

Economia e sviluppo
Karigasniemi, con circa 300 abitanti, è l'unico insediamentodi una certa dimensione lungo il fiume. Sulla sponda norvegese, tra il ponte sul confine e la confluenza con il Karasjohka, si trovano i villaggi di Dorvonjárga e Gámehisnjárga. Il corso del fiume a sud di Karigasniemi è molto scarsamente popolato. Piccoli villaggi sono (da nord a sud) Iškorasjohka, Jorgastak e Basevuovdi sulla sponda norvegese, e Kuoppaniva, Vuobmaved e Angeli su quella finlandese. A monte di Angeli e Basevuovdi non ci sono insediamenti umani.

L'unico ponte sull'Anarjohka si trova nei pressi del villaggio finlandese di Karigasniemi.

Come il Karasjohka e il Teno, l'Anarjohka è famoso per la pesca al salmone.

Note

Voci correlate
 Fiumi dell'Europa
 Geografia della Norvegia

Altri progetti

Fiumi della Norvegia
Affluenti del Teno


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RRAN WA is currently meeting on Mondays from 6.30pm at the Activist Centre, U15/5 Aberdeen Street, Perth (just north of the McIver Train Station). For more details, send us a message via our Contact RRAN WA page, or call/text us on 0412 860 168. Fremantle RRAN meets at 6pm on the first and third Wednesday of each month. Contact Fremantle RRAN
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RRAN is currently meeting on Mondays from 6.30pm at the Activist Centre, U15/5 Aberdeen Street, Perth (just north of the McIver Train Station). For more details, send us a message via our Contact page, or call/text us on 0417 904 329.
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