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NSW taxi council pushes e-tags as Sydney airport toll proceeds
New South Wales taxis now have more reason to speed up the installation of e-tags after the NSW Taxi Council agreed with the government's decision to impose a AU$2 Sydney airport ground transport toll.The NSW government has agreed to the council's request of passing on the toll to the passengers.
By Kristyn Maslog-Levis | October 20, 2004 -- 06:46 GMT (23:46 PDT) | Topic: Government
New South Wales taxis now have more reason to speed up the installation of e-tags after the NSW Taxi Council agreed with the government's decision to impose a AU$2 Sydney airport ground transport toll.
The NSW government has agreed to the council's request of passing on the toll to the passengers. However, NSW Taxi Council spokesperson Tracy Cain said the Sydney airport has warned them that taxis without e-tags will not be able to enter the Sydney international airport from early next year.
Initially, the toll will be collected manually for the first couple of months. However, Cain said the plan is to make the international airport an "e-tags only" area.
"We've been pushing [the e-tag] fairly strongly particularly this year. We've worked with one company so drivers can pay their accounts by cash. We've also encouraged owners to get the e-tags installed and all networks have agreed to change their by-laws to include e-tag requirements in taxis," Cain said.
An e-tag is a small wireless device installed on the taxi's windscreen. Each e-tag has a unique number stored in its electronic memory that is detected by a scanner mounted on a gantry above the roadway. The tolling computer deducts the toll for that toll zone from the driver's toll account.
"Over the past 18 months, the taxi council has undertaken tough negotiations with Sydney Airport insisting that any toll would be applied on all ground transport providers, that it would be in exchange for additional facilities for taxi drivers, and that like other tolls it would be passed onto passengers. This is the last of those conditions to be met," said NSW Taxi Council chief executive officer, Howard Harrison.
The council recently announced that the new by-laws require an e-tag device be fitted on every taxi and that a driver must not drive a taxi without access to an e-tag. Electronic tolling allows drivers to use roads without slowing or stopping to pay tolls and helps to maintain a steady flow of traffic on an expressway.
"We thank the NSW government for listening to the taxi industry's request and for allowing this new toll to be passed to passengers. Whilst we do not agree with the concept of a ground transport toll, we recognise that every major airport in Australia now levies one, and in the case of Sydney the taxi industry has negotiated additional driver facilities in exchange for the charge," Harrison said.
"We hope that passengers understand that this charge is not an industry or government charge, but one levied by private enterprise," he added.
The council previously threatened to boycott the Sydney airport if the demands were not met. More than half of the 4800 Sydney cabs are now fitted with e-tags. The council is hoping that the roll out of the e-tags will be completed before Christmas period as the harbour tunnel and cross-city tunnel become "e-tags only" roads.
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Q: Visual Studio 2013 - Stop MS Test from deploying into Test Results folder I work with Coded UI Tests and Visual Studio 2013. Now I have to test if images from a folder are shown correctly inside the application. That's why I have created a folder containing the images and set build action to none and deployment to always.
Unfortunately all tests are executed in an own test results folder and my images are not deployed correctly. I know I could do this by using the DeploymentItem attribute or a testsettings file but I don't want to do this. I want to avoid the "test results" folder and run the tests from within the output folder of my test project.
I do this with the unit tests for instance. They are written with XUnit.Net which works just fine. I thought it would also work with MS Test but this only seems to work for Unit Tests but not for Coded UI Tests.
So, to sum it up again: How can I get rid of the "Test Results" folder when using Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2013 and run my tests simply from within the output directory of the project?

A: You can do this using a custom entry in the .runsettings file I think.
DeploymentItemAttribute Class

Consider running your unit tests directly in the build output
  directory, so that testing runs more rapidly. This is especially
  useful on the build server after you have checked in your tests. To do
  this, add a .runsettings file to your solution, include
  False, and select the file in
  the Test, Test Settings menu. The same effect occurs in any test run
  in which DeploymentItemAttribute is not used at all.
However, you
  might prefer not to do this if you want to be able to inspect the data
  files after a failed run.
You cannot avoid using a deployment folder
  if you are using a .testsettings file, which is required for web and
  load tests, coded UI tests, and any test in which you deploy an
  application to remote machines.

As for DeploymentItemAttribue itself I would steer clear of it unless the following issues have been fixed, Gotchas: MSTest's [DeploymentItem] attribute. +1 for xUnit in TestDriven.NET.

A: You can try deleting the LocalTestRun.testrunconfig file from the Solution Items folder (directly under the solution).  When we did that it started using the \bin\debug\ folder instead of the TestResults folder when running our unit tests using MSTest.

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When the current page of graphics and text has loaded and is ready for the player to press a key to move to the next page, a flashing animation of two images appears int he lower right of the page indicating this. By default this animation is of a dark\light green arrow. Both of these images and their location can be altered.
This patch prevents the ending sequence having its own music.
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While details of the implementation remain limited, CNH will leverage IBM Blockchain, a bespoke platform based on Hyperledger technology delivered through IBM Cloud, which has seen implementations across global industry this year.
"This agreement marks a shift in the business to extensive Cloud implementation that leverages upon IBM's Cloud Private Platform, while continuing to operate with IBM's data centers and CNH Industrial's on-premises IT infrastructure," the company added.
Supply chain enhancement is an area currently receiving particular attention from a range of players, blockchain reportedly having a key role to play in reducing costs and timings while enhancing security. In January, IBM announced it would launch a dedicated blockchain-based supply chain company in conjunction with Danish logistics giant Maersk.


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namespace ARSoft.Tools.Net.Dns
{
	public class AfsdbRecord : DnsRecordBase
	{
		public enum AfsSubType : ushort
		{
			Afs = 1, // RFC1183
			Dce = 2, // RFC1183
		}

		public AfsSubType SubType { get; private set; }
		public string Hostname { get; private set; }

		internal AfsdbRecord() {}

		public AfsdbRecord(string name, int timeToLive, AfsSubType subType, string hostname)
			: base(name, RecordType.Afsdb, RecordClass.INet, timeToLive)
		{
			SubType = subType;
			Hostname = hostname ?? String.Empty;
		}

		internal override void ParseRecordData(byte[] resultData, int startPosition, int length)
		{
			SubType = (AfsSubType) DnsMessageBase.ParseUShort(resultData, ref startPosition);
			Hostname = DnsMessageBase.ParseDomainName(resultData, ref startPosition);
		}

		internal override string RecordDataToString()
		{
			return (byte) SubType
			       + " " + Hostname;
		}

		protected internal override int MaximumRecordDataLength
		{
			get { return Hostname.Length + 4; }
		}

		protected internal override void EncodeRecordData(byte[] messageData, int offset, ref int currentPosition, Dictionary<string, ushort> domainNames)
		{
			DnsMessageBase.EncodeUShort(messageData, ref currentPosition, (ushort) SubType);
			DnsMessageBase.EncodeDomainName(messageData, offset, ref currentPosition, Hostname, false, domainNames);
		}
	}
}

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Warming up for sport is important. It prepares you for the movements you intend to undertake, getting you ready to perform to your best from the offset. Exercise warm ups are intended to safely get us ready for sport and reduce the risk of injury.
The movements of your sport: You want to replicate them in your warm up but at a lower intensity and building them in gradually. i.e. if your sport is weightlifting, you would begin with half squats, repeating several times and gradually increase the depth of the squat until you reach full squatting position.
Dynamic stretching: Your warm-up should include movements which will gradually stretch your muscles. The walking lunge is an example, starting with small lunges, repeating several times before increasing the stride length of your lunge. Static stretches where you hold a muscle in position should be avoided during the warm-up as these have been linked to injury.
Increase heart rate gradually: Start with gentle exercises which get the big muscles of the body going such as jogging. Then begin skipping or some gentle high knees exercises. Follow this by increasing the speed of each previous exercise. This will increase your heart rate steadily and safely.
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Beyond Wonderland is back again to mark the beginning of this year's festival season. For two days Insomniac will take over the familiar NOS Events Center in San Bernardino transforming it into an electronic playground for us to enjoy. This year's rendition of the event will take place on Friday March 16th and Saturday March 17th. The four main stages at Beyond Wonderland, Queen's Domain, Mad Hatter's Castle, Caterpillar's Garden, and Cheshire Woods will return with some of the biggest electronic artists around showcasing some of the best talent that each genre has to offer.
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Q: Is there a way to get list of all available projects on google code? Like in title, I would like to fetch a list of all available projects on Google Code, best if it can be list + project short description, only this, nothing more is needed.
Is it can be done in an automatic way?

A: The FLOSSmole project collects and publishes monthly data about all Google Code projects.
A listing of project info including project name and project summary is available.  For example here is a link to the dataset for November 2011:

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*http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/detail?name=gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt.bz2
The file format is one project per line, with tab-delimited fields.  The first field is the project name and the 8th field is the project summary.  So assuming you use wget to grab the file...
wget http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/detail?name=gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt.bz2
bunzip2 gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt.bz2
cut -f 1,8 gcProjectInfo2011-Nov.txt

A couple of notes:

*

*Google Code has over 200,000 projects, so even in summary form, this is a lot of data!

*Obviously this is a snapshot of Google Code projects, not a live, real-time listing.  I'm not sure if one exists.

A: You can list hosted projects via category (platform), and/or further drill down with a search, at the link below.
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(AUSTIN, Texas) – Central Health-supported CommUnityCare Health Centers announced today it is adding Saturday clinic hours at the Del Valle Health Center, located at 3518 FM 973 beginning Sept. 29, 2018.
The location also serves as the Travis County Employee Wellness Center, so CommUnityCare and Central Health worked with Travis County to accommodate the Saturday expansion. Beginning this Saturday, primary care medical services will be offered from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays, adding to the existing hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays.
"Eastern Travis County, and specifically Del Valle, is a priority area for our service expansion efforts," said Central Health President & CEO Mike Geeslin. "We're continuing to work with the community to address big challenges facing people living in this area – not just lack of health care access.
We are committed to working with all of our partners to help improve the lives of people living in Del Valle because we realize we can't do it alone." Geeslin said Central Health and its partners are working on expanding health care services in other priority areas including Elroy and surrounding communities, Creedmoor, Austin's Colony/Hornsby Bend and Colony Park.
Since the Del Valle Health Center opened for two days a week last November, the clinic has cared for 595 people, of which 45 percent were new patients at CommUnityCare.
"This demonstrates CommUnityCare's commitment to increased services in Del Valle and the surrounding communities," said CommUnityCare Vice President of Health Center Advancement Matt Balthazar. "We recognize this is one more step to try and address the needs that persist within our neighborhoods. We are thankful for our partnership with Central Health and Travis County to allow us to expand primary medical services to the Del Valle community. It takes these types of partnerships and community involvement to ensure that Travis County's growing population has access to the health care services it needs to live healthier."
The Del Valle Health Center will offer primary care on Mondays and Tuesdays from 8 a.m. – 7 p.m., and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Integral Care will offer behavioral health services during the same hours on Mondays. For information or to make an appointment, call 512-978-9015.
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Through the Travis County Health and Human Service Family Support Services Division, the county offers case management, rent and mortgage assistance, food pantry, social services, and community referrals at the Travis County Del Valle Community Center, adjacent to the Del Valle Health Center.
In 2015, Central Health, the public agency dedicated to providing access to quality health care for people with low income, formed the Eastern Travis County Health and Wellness Collaboration.
The multidisciplinary team of more than 15 community-based health care and service providers is addressing challenges faced by residents of Eastern Travis County. Central Health also created neighborhood advisory committees to ensure the community has a seat at the table when planning future access to care in their communities.
In September 2018, the Central Health Board adopted the Fiscal Year 2019 budget, which included an estimated $4.498 million for priority projects in Eastern Travis County. This includes costs for land, facilities and services in Austin Colony/Hornsby Bend, Colony Park, Elroy and Creedmoor.
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namespace browser_sync {

TestUserShare::TestUserShare() {}

TestUserShare::~TestUserShare() {
  if (user_share_.get())
    ADD_FAILURE() << "Should have called TestUserShare::TearDown()";
}

void TestUserShare::SetUp() {
  user_share_.reset(new sync_api::UserShare());
  dir_maker_.SetUp();

  // The pointer is owned by dir_maker_, we should not be storing it in a
  // scoped_ptr.  We must be careful to ensure the scoped_ptr never deletes it.
  user_share_->directory.reset(dir_maker_.directory());
}

void TestUserShare::TearDown() {
  // Ensure the scoped_ptr doesn't delete the memory we don't own.
  ignore_result(user_share_->directory.release());

  user_share_.reset();
  dir_maker_.TearDown();
}

sync_api::UserShare* TestUserShare::user_share() {
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The Right to the City: New Community Spaces Amplify the Voice of Angelenos
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An Analysis of Liturgical Jazz, Classical and Jazz Collaborations and Analytical Commentary on a Jazz Vespers for Chorus, Soloists, Orchestra and Jazz Quintet This paper presents a background on the use of jazz in the church, a historical timeline of integration of jazz and classical music, and lastly, a summary and analysis of my Jazz Vespers for Chorus, Soloists, Orchestra and Jazz Quintet. This piece reflects my desire to reconcile the various cultural aspects of my work and the components of the church's history into a single act of worship. These components include the harmonies and rhythms of jazz and gospel music, Twentieth Century Classical music, including Stravinsky and more extensively Monteverdi's Vespers, Musical Theater and Opera. The modern use of the term "Jazz Vespers" means primarily a jazz performance or service without any application of text, and/or use of the formal structure of the actual Vespers service of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, or Protestant liturgies. None the less, there are many instances of jazz music being used successfully as service music, and performances being observed within the structure of a liturgical service, such as the Vespers, with the use of either traditional Psalms or Old Testament readings and poems, literary prose, and other writings which reflect a spiritual, humanistic nature.


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[ERFC - 375] Anonymity in MACI
Marija Mikic
Goals & Methodology
Asymmetric encryption
ECDH encryption
Encryption in MACI
EC ElGamal encryption
Re-randomization
Nullifier
Results & Discussion
MACI - Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure is a collection of smart contracts, ZK circuits and ts packages that we can use to build programs on top. We have already dealt with this topic, we summarized what has been done in MACI so far. More information about MACI can be found in our previous research (MACI [1]) and blog (Can MACI really destroy the collusion? [2]).
This research is a continuation of the previous one, but with the aim of improving MACI. Namely, the problem that we saw as "burning" in MACI is that the coordinator can see how which voter voted. There is no problem if the coordinator is honest, but what if he is not?!
This research solves exactly that problem, i.e. prevents the coordinator from connecting the vote it processes with the voter itself. In this way, the anonymity of voting is completely preserved.
In order to remove the "burning" problem and fully ensure the privacy of voting, we need to mention the most important components that currently perform encryption-decryption in MACI, as well as the way in which it is achieved.
Voters vote using MACI smart contracts. Before sending their vote to the blockchain, they first encrypt their vote (actually, they encrypt the signature and the command (which contains a couple of components, one of which is the option they voted for)) using a shared key. They use an Elliptic-curve Diffie–Hellman shared key. Voters send this encrypted message to the MACI smart contract and it will be stored on-chain. Using shared keys, the coordinator decrypts each vote. It should be noted that each voter will have a different shared key, and that only the voter and the coordinator know that key.
As it is always easier to understand the matter if there is a visualization, the image below shows the way encryption-decryption works in MACI.
After decryption, the coordinator needs to prove that voting was valid and reveal the results of voting. This should be done in the way that everyone is sure in the voting results, without releasing the vote of every individual. In order that the coordinator fulfill both of the above conditions, he will make ZK proofs. In this way, the anonymity of voting is almost completely preserved, up to the coordinator.
Our recommendations for interesting articles about MACI:
MACI research [1];
Can MACI really destroy the collusion? [2];
Release Announcement: MACI 1.0 [3];
A Technical Introduction to MACI 1.0 [4].
As we already stated in the lines above, the intention of this research is to examine the possibilities and try to find a solution that would nullify the possibility of collusion in MACI. Namely, everything is hidden on-chain at the moment, but we want that coordinator not to know which user took what action.
Our proposal is to use ElGamal encryption and re-randomization. The main motivation for this is the article authored by Kobi Gurkan (MACI anonymization - using rerandomizable encryption [8]).
This potential improvement would have enormous implications for rooting out collusion. It is extremely important for the ecosystem to be able to use a decentralized voting system that is completely resistant to collusion. In the first place, it is important to protect the privacy of a certain voter in every sense (on-chain and off-chain). On the other hand, as MACI can be seen to be in use by the clr.fund, where users can vote which projects will receive funding, and for this reason the importance of this potential improvement can be additionally seen.
Therefore, in the future MACI would represent the most perfect system for voting in a decentralized system - a system completely resistant to collusion.
To be able to present the idea clearly, we need to explain how encryption works. In the following lines, we will first explain how ECDH encryption works, and how ElGamal encryption works.
The creators of asymmetric cryptography are Whitefield Diffie and Martin Hellman, who in 1976. described the idea of cryptography based on two keys: private (secret) and public key.
The difference between symmetric and asymmetric algorithms is that symmetric algorithms use the same key for encryption and decryption, while asymmetric algorithms use different keys for encryption and decryption. Information encrypted with a public key can only be decrypted with a private key, that can only the person who owns the private asymmetric key.
ECDH is very similar to the DHKE (Diffie–Hellman Key Exchange) algorithm, but it uses ECC point multiplication (consecutive addition). Our recommendation for literature related to elliptic curves in cryptography is Pairings for beginners [9].
ECDH allows two parties, each having an elliptic curve public–private key pair, to establish a shared key. Let \(G\) be a generator point on the elliptic curve over a finite field \(F_p\) (where \(p\) is a prime number). Let \(pr_A\) and \(pr_B\) be the private keys of two different people \(A\) and \(B\). Then \(pub_A = pr_A * G\) and \(pub_B = pr_B * G\) are their public keys. ECDH is based on the property of elliptic curve points:
\((pr_A * G) * pr_B = pub_A * pr_B = shared key = pub_B * pr_A = (pr_B * G) * pr_A\).
In this way, both of them know the shared key, and they get it using their private key and the other person's public key. In this way, each person's private key remains secret.
The security of the algorithm lies in the difficulty of calculating the discrete logarithm.
Now, we want to show in practice how ECDH works in MACI. First, we start with encryption. The image below shows an encryption template written in Circom (Circom [10]). In order to generate a shared key, the voter will enter as inputs: his private key and the public key of the coordinator (which is available for everyone). As you can see the output of this template will be a shared key.
In order to process all the votes after the voting is over and to prove (to make ZK proof) that voting was regular (and announce the outcome of the voting), the coordinator needs to decrypt each vote. To achieve this, the coordinator uses the Decrypt(N) template which can be seen below. Namely, as inputs he enters a message and a shared key (marked as private_key in the code). As an output, he can read the message, i.e. he can see who voted (because the public key will be visible to him) as well as the option for which the voter with that public key voted.
In order for the coordinator to update the State tree, he must read each vote (in that template). The picture below shows what it looks like. In lines 114-117, the coordinator, using his private key and public key of the voter as inputs (using the Ecdh template), derives the shared key. Then in lines 119-127 coordinator decrypts the message (from the voter) using the Decrypt template. Its input data is the shared key that he obtained in lines 114-117 and the encrypted message. The decrypt_comand_out variable contains the decrypted message that the coordinator can read.
In 1985, Taher Elgamal created an asymmetric cryptographic algorithm based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Similar to the ECDH algorithm, the security of ElGamal is based on the difficult or almost impossible computation of the discrete logarithm of a large prime number.
Let \(G\) be a generator point on the elliptic curve over a finite field \(F_p\) (where \(p\) is a prime number). Let \(pr_A\) and \(pr_B\) be the private keys of two different people \(A\) and \(B\). Then \(pub_A = a * G\) and \(pub_B = b * G\) are their public keys. Let person \(A\) be the person who will encrypt the data. For this purpose, person \(A\) should do the following:
choose an arbitrary \(x\) from the interval \((1,p)\);
calculate \(x * G =: X\);
assigns a point on the elliptic curve \(M(m,y)\) to the message \(m\), where person \(A\) choose \(y\) so that the point \(M\) is a point on the elliptic curve;
calculate \(Me := M + pub_B * x\);
send \(Me\) and \(X\) to person \(B\).
Person \(B\) needs to decrypt the data. For this purpose, person \(B\) should do the following:
calculate \(pub_B * x == pr_B * G * x == pr_B * X\);
decrypts the message \(M(m,y) == Me - pub_B * x\);
Note that when encrypting a message, person \(A\) needs to know the public key of person \(B\), while person \(B\) can decrypt the message without knowing the public key of person \(A\) (which is not possible with decryption that relies on a shared key, i.e. ECDH).
We usually use re-randomization when we want to convey the same message, but two cipher texts cannot be connected to each other. That function randomizes an existing cipher text such that it's still decryptable under the original public key it was encrypted for.
Suppose we are working with the same elliptic curve. Assume that the notation we used above holds. We want the input parameters to be \(X\) and \(Me\) and the output parameters to be \(X_1\) and \(Me_1\) to hide the same message.
For this purpose, person \(A\) should do the following:
choose an arbitrary \(z\) from the interval \((1,p)\);
calculate \(X1 :=z * G + X\);
calculate \(Me_1 := Me + pub_B * z\);
output \(Me_1\) and \(X_1\).
In the following, we will use nullifier, so for the convenience of the reader, we will define it.
The nullifier is a unique ID that is in connection with the commitment and the ZKP proves the connection, but nobody knows which nullifier is assigned to which commitment.
In order to achieve complete voter anonymity, we created required building blocks. Codes for ElGamal encryption, decryption and re-randomization are written in circom language. Below is the code for encryption, but all codes are available on github [12].
Code for encryption:
The decryption and rerandomization codes existed in a different form and can be viewed in [11].
In order to take advantage of this, the current MACI protocol needs to be modified. Here we will only give an idea of what needs to be done to achieve the desired goal.
In order to achieve the desired result, it is necessary to change the protocol. The current protocol, as we said before, allows the voter to vote and to change the public key (voter can send two types of message). For example, If the voter is blackmailed, he can create a command with the content of the option he wants to vote for and with a new public key. He can sign it with his previous public key, encrypts it (using ECDH encryption) and submits it to the MACI smart contracts. However, the same voter can then vote for the option the blackmailer wants, without that vote being valid (which the blackmailer will not know). How does it achieve this? The voter creates a command with the content of the option the blackmailer wants and the previous public key. He signs it with his previous public key, encrypts it (using ECDH encryption) and submits it to the MACI smart contracts. When the voting is over, the coordinator decrypts the first message, validates the signature, records this vote (because it is valid) and updates the voter's public key. Then the coordinator decrypts the second message, sees that the signature does not match the new public key and therefore this message is invalid. But the voter can decrypt this message too, as proof of his vote for option blackmailer wants.
We want to preserve these two nice features: first, that the voter can prove to the blackmailer that he voted for that option for which he was blackmailed (without that vote being valid), and second, that all votes are encrypted and stored on-chain. But we also want to add a feature, so that the coordinator does not know which option the voter voted for. In the current protocol, when a voter's public key is changed, the coordinator knows that the change has occurred and from there coordinator knows how the voter voted (although the public key change helped the voter to deceive the blackmailer).
As we do not want that coordinator to know who is the "owner" of the new public key, we need to disable the coordinator from seeing the link between the old and new public key of the voter. In order to achieve this, it is necessary for the voter to prove (he needs to make ZK proof) that owns the private key for the old public key and to be able to create a new public key based on that. For this purpose, we will need to create a set that will contain all deactivated public keys and his encrypted states. But here we have to be careful, we have to make sure that based on the previous public key, the voter can create exactly one new public key. For this reason we will need nullifiers and the set where we store them. Conclusion, we will need two new sets that we haven't had so far. Let's mark the first of them with \(D\) and the second with \(N\). Set \(D\) is public, while set \(N\) is private. Also, we must expand the set of states, more precisely, in that set there should be a field that says whether the voter's public key is active or inactive.
Also, we will need two new message types. The first type of message should be to deactivate the old public key. After deactivation, the coordinator adds the old public key with its encrypted state (using ElGamal encryption) to set \(D\).
Second type of message is that the voter creates a new public key proving that he is the owner of the old one. To achieve this, the voter needs to make a ZK proof that the element (old public key of voter, (\(X\), \(Me\))) belongs to the set \(D\), where (\(X\), \(Me\)) is the ElGamal encrypted message, as well he need to prove that he knows the private key for the old public key. Also the output of the circuit should be (\(X_1\), \(Me_1\)) which are obtained by rerandomization (\(X\), \(Me\)) and nullifier which is the hash of the private key. The content of the message itself should be: (\(X1\), \(Me_1\)), nullifier, the ZK proof and the new public key. Of course the message is encrypted. The coordinator decrypts the message, if the proof is valid, the nullifier doesn't already exist in the set \(N\), places the nullifier in the set \(N\), adds a new public key and updates its state. Note that in this way the coordinator does not know the old public key of the voter whose vote he is processing. In this way, complete anonymity of voting was achieved.
We now want to illustrate the entire protocol with an example. We want a person \(A\) to be a voter. Person \(A\) wants to prove to the blackmailer that she voted for option 1, even though she will vote for option 2. Also, person \(A\) wants the coordinator not to know which option she voted for. Person \(A\) can do it for example like this.
Person \(A\) accesses the vote with public key 1. Votes for option 2, changes the public key to public key 2, signs the command with public key 1, and encrypts using ElGamal encryption.
Person \(A\) then votes for option 1 and signs the vote with public key 1 and encrypts using ElGamal encryption.
Person \(A\) deactivates his public key.
Person \(A\) activates a new public key based on the old public key using ZK proof and rerandomization.
Let's see what happens when the coordinator processes the messages.
The first message will be valid and will update the state related to the public key of person 1 (a vote for option 2 will be entered and the new public key of person \(A\) will become public key 2).
The second message will not be valid and there will be no state change (because person \(A\)'s public key has become public key 2, not 1, as signed in the message).
It will change the state of public key 2 of person 1 to inactive. When the key state is inactive, that vote is not counted in the total. Therefore, the vote for option 2 is not counted at this time. Also, the coordinator updates the set \(D\) and writes to it the public key 2 and the encrypted states (using ElGamal encryption)- vote for option 2.
New key - public key 3 (of person \(A\), but the coordinator does not know that it is the public key of person \(A\)) writes to the set of public keys and registers a new state (vote for option 2 is now written and this key is considered active).
Note that person \(A\) used all 4 message types in the proposed protocol. In this way, person \(A\) voted for the desired option 2. Also, by decrypting the second message, person \(A\) can "prove" to the blackmailer that he voted for option 1. And let's note that the coordinator does not know how the person \(A\) voted.
The research showed that it is possible to achieve complete anonymity of voting, i.e. it was shown that it is possible to avoid that coordinator knows options that each individual voter voted for. Also, for this purpose, codes were made in circom language for ElGamal encryption, decryption and re-randomization. The next step could be the implementation of the presented solution.
[1] MACI, https://github.com/0x3327/3327-operations/blob/babb99c2eec36b95a84c04bde6bd9bb01851e534/_research/ERFC-291.md
[2] Can MACI really destroy the collusion?, https://3327.io/can-maci-really-destroy-the-collusion/
[3] Release Announcement: MACI 1.0, https://medium.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/release-announcement-maci-1-0-c032bddd2157
[4] A Technical Introduction to MACI 1.0, https://medium.com/privacy-scaling-explorations/a-technical-introduction-to-maci-1-0-db95c3a9439a
[5] ECDH Key Exchange, https://cryptobook.nakov.com/asymmetric-key-ciphers/ecdh-key-exchange
[6] Cryptography, http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~ezivkovm/nastava/kripto.pdf
[7] Cryptography - Notes, http://poincare.matf.bg.ac.rs/~aleksandar/files/kripto/2020/Skripta.pdf
[8] MACI anonymization - using rerandomizable encryption, https://ethresear.ch/t/maci-anonymization-using-rerandomizable-encryption/7054/1
[9] Pairings for beginners, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdbb09f31d71c1227082339/t/5ff394720493bd28278889c6/1609798774687/PairingsForBeginners.pdf
[10] Circom 2 Documentation, https://docs.circom.io/
[11] ElGamal encryption, decryption, and rerandomization, with circom support, https://ethresear.ch/t/elgamal-encryption-decryption-and-rerandomization-with-circom-support/8074
[12] ElGamal codes for encryption, decryption and re-randomization, https://github.com/MarijaMikic/ElGamal


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All hail a reborn and reinvigorated Vuyo Mere
TS Galaxy's new signing is still hungry for more despite this being his 21st season in the professional ranks. He wants to succeed because he went from near death to a complete rebirth.
By: Matshelane Mamabolo
26 October 2018: Vuyo Mere in action during the Premiership match between Bidvest Wits and Highlands Park at Bidvest Stadium in Johannesburg. (Photograph by Lefty Shivambu/ Gallo Images)
Vuyo Mere's football career – and life, for that matter – should have ended a decade ago. When Mamelodi Sundowns gave him a red card in 2011 for his wild off-the-field behaviour because they felt he was tarnishing the club's image, the rightback thought he had no future and even contemplated suicide.
But Mere, 38, held on and now, in his 21st season since turning professional, he has the honour of being the longest-serving active player in the Premier Soccer League. Having signed an 18-month contract with TS Galaxy in January, he says he is blessed to still have a club after being shown the door by Swallows FC, a club he had served with distinction and which he helped back into the elite league.
Though he feels the Birds were disingenuous in their reasons for kicking him out, Mere is grateful Galaxy owner Tim Sukazi saw in him "a young boy who can still contribute to the game" when others had written him off because of his age. That it was Sukazi who pulled the strings behind the scenes to get Mere a club after the Sundowns episode is something he only discovered in January when he signed with Galaxy.
TS Galaxy's miracle at Moses Mabhida Stadium
"I was stunned to find out that it was the chairman who initiated my move to Platinum Stars when my future seemed doomed, grootman (big brother). I remember getting a call from Susan Phala [then the events manager at Platinum Stars] telling me to come to training on Monday. Back then, Tim was Thuso Phala's agent and he spoke to his mom about my plight. I was under the impression that Stars knew I was free, hence them calling me up. And then the other day I found out from the chairman that he'd worked behind the scenes to help me. And all these years he never said anything because he didn't do it to get praise. He just wanted to help me."
At the time Mere was in a desperate situation as Sundowns not renewing his contract came as a nasty surprise. "It was painful, grootman," Mere recalls during an interview in the rarefied atmosphere of HeronBridge College's football grounds in Fourways, Johannesburg, following a training session.
"At that time I had just come back from being in the national team and we had played Equatorial Guinea. I was on top form and there I was being told it was over. And the guy who was telling me was just a messenger. I couldn't even ask him for an explanation or reason with him. He told me I could call the president [Patrice Motsepe], but said that a process had been followed and they are hearing stories about me that are not the image they want to portray as a club. It was all about my reputation as a bad boy, a party animal, and they didn't like that. They said it was bad for the club."
Silent and suicidal
Being Vuyo Mere, though, he expected that he would get calls from other clubs clamouring for his signature. None came. For three months. But what hurt the most was the reaction from his loved ones.
"You know, grootman, parents don't usually tell you when they are disappointed in you. But you see it from their facial expression and how they behave. Mine stopped going out like they used to, no doubt afraid of being pointed to as the parents of that bad boy who got kicked out of Sundowns. And suddenly those Mere Sundowns shirts that they used to wear with pride began gathering dust in the wardrobe. My dad no longer spoke to me like he used to. I was devastated."
Mere, who lived in Kelvin in the north of Johannesburg, became a recluse. "I just locked myself in the house. For months I stayed at home. I just didn't want to go out. Imagine, Vuyo Mere the party animal not wanting to go out. I said to myself this is the end of the world for me. At some point, grootman, I decided you know what, let me end it all. I began to have those suicide notions. Let me just get rid of this burden I am carrying. Let me just go."
Elite athletes struggle with mental health
And he concluded to do so one Sunday afternoon. "I had so many tablets at my house, grootman, it was like a chemist. At Sundowns you could get all types of painkillers and all tablets. You got everything you needed just to take care of the body. Whenever I went to the doctor I could ask for anything, so I had plenty. Of course, I didn't know how the suicide thing was done, but I decided I was going to try it and whatever happens, happens."
But before he could go through with it, he had something to take care of. "I had that guilty feeling, grootman. I felt let me just say something to give my parents some closure. I didn't want them to remain with unanswered questions. So I called and told them I was done with life. I said to my mom I'm sorry for what I am about to do, and as she was trying to understand what I was on about, I dropped the phone. My dad then called me and said to me he'd just spoken to my mom and he was trying to understand what was going on. He then said to me to hang tight, he would call me back."
Mere waited for his father's call, but it never came. Instead, a few hours later, he received a call from the security at the gate of his complex. "The security tells me I've got visitors and I hear my father's voice saying, 'Dis ons. Maak oop die hek (It's us, open the gate).' And I go wat gaan aan (what's going on?) and I opened the gate. I think it normally takes about four hours to drive from Bloem to Joburg. But my parents took about three hours and 15 minutes."
Rescue and revival
Mere was actually relieved that his parents came to his rescue. "Have you ever wanted to do something but you were scared, grootman? When something happens to stop you from doing it, you get so relieved. My parents and I hugged each other and I cried and they then cried. But then a few minutes later, after I'd told them what was eating me up, there was laughter in the house. Ironically, the television was showing an old Sundowns match against SuperSport United, an SAA Supa8 semifinal, and we watched it. My mother stayed with me for a few days, but my father had to go back because he had a taxi business then."
Now convinced there was something to live for, Mere started training with lower-division side Alex United. He was approached by Orlando Pirates marketing manager Nkosana Khoza, son of club chairman Irvin Khoza, to join their amateur feeder team Yebo Yes. "I flatly refused. I told him, from Sundowns to Yebo Yes? No ways, my man, you are killing me! But he tried to make me understand that I'd be making my way to the Pirates senior team. I still said no."
9 August 2014: Vuyo Mere of Platinum Stars during the Premiership match against Chippa United at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth. (Photograph by Richard Huggard/ Gallo Images)
It was then that Susan Phala called. What happened to Mere at Platinum Stars is common knowledge among discerning followers of local football. Not only did he become a much better player, he also became a consummate professional and led the North West side to Telkom Knockout glory.
"Coach Cavin Johnson got to Platinum Stars just after I'd finished my first season and said to me, 'I don't care what they say, I am going to make you captain.' I was stunned. I found senior players such as Henrico Botes, Elias Ngwepe and Robert Ng'ambi and you are choosing me to be captain? I had to ask for strength and wisdom from God to lead the team, and the senior guys were very good because they gave me their support."
That he managed to transition from being Vuyo the bad boy to captain fantastic had something to do with his new environment. The sleepy Phokeng, where Stars were based, and even Rustenburg didn't have the nightlife of Gauteng. This forced Mere to behave and he channelled his energy into his football. He arrived early at training, rested more and did extra sessions, which helped him revive his career. "My life changed because I needed to change and set an example to the other players," says Mere.
A date with destiny
Getting married changed his outlook on life and helped him become an even better footballer. "While I was still single, I'd behave and understand that I'm going to training so I must sleep early. But I had a very poor diet. I ate everything. I used to eat magwinya (vetkoek), McDonald's burgers… I was not helping myself. And then I meet this woman, she starts cooking a meal for me and she decides to be my dietician. It changed everything.
"I would stay at home with her wondering what the gents are up to because I would rather be out with them. I'd be very bored, sitting with legs elevated up on the couch watching TV, or most of the time the TV would be watching me. But, grootman, the next day at training I am a machine, I am flexi, I am not tired, I am performing like never before. All of a sudden I am outplaying the younger ones. I liked that and I knew that this had to be my new way of life."
Mere has since been blessed with two boys and says they are the centre of his life. In everything he does now, he first considers how it would have an impact on them. It is a pretty big change from his "good old" bad days at Sundowns when he used to sport blond hair and party like crazy.
Why Gabadinho Mhango blows hot and cold
"You have to remember, grootman, I joined Sundowns as a young boy from a very solid academy structure at Hellenic, where we were kept under lock and key. Even after I graduated to the pro ranks, the late David Byrne treated me like an academy kid. So to move from a club like that with its 200 supporters to a big one like Sundowns, who played in front of crowds in their thousands, was always going to be a challenge.
"And what didn't help me was that the club had just signed other youngsters such as Robyn Johannes, Paulus Masehe and later Thabiso Rammile. All of us stayed together with no parents or guardians. We had to take care of ourselves. We were all playing so well, driving nice cars, and we attracted the wrong friends – non-footballers who introduced us to the fast life of Joburg."
A religious experience
The faith-like centre of Platinum Stars, including prayer sessions, also helped Mere turn his life around. He speaks with humility and he respects everyone he interacts with regardless of their stature. He often uses grootman as a term of respect when speaking to his seniors. When talking to those his age or younger, he calls them skhokho, a friendly term of endearment. His faith has also played a role in his longevity.
"I am around, not because I am special or one of the more talented players. What helped me was that I realised that without God in my life nothing was going to be possible. So I started walking not on the straight path, but rather on the narrow path that most of us didn't want to go on. I looked in the mirror and realised that there are many people who are depending on me and many people have to eat and go to school, and they are looking at me for all that. There was no way I was going to let them down."
A long walk to cricket stardom for Keegan Petersen
He feels the same way about Sukazi and TS Galaxy: he cannot let them down. "The welcome has been brilliant here. I feel appreciated and part of the family, and all I want to do is pay them back with good performances.
"The most special part about this is that when everybody saw me like I am in a wheelchair, the chairman instead saw me as a player capable of helping his club. He remembered me from my days at the academy at Hellenic where we first met, and saw that potential. How do you disappoint a person who views you like that? How do you not give back to someone who sees the quality that no one else seems to see?"
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Q: Predictive model giving only one class on holdout set keras Currently, using a CNN to predict a model for some black and white images.  The model is working well for what I want it to do. This is the model:
lr = 0.2
Adam(lr=lr, beta_1=0.9, beta_2=0.999, epsilon=1e-08, decay=0.001)
classifier = Sequential()

# Step 1 - Convolution
classifier.add(Conv2D(32, (3, 3), input_shape = (64, 64, 3), activation = 'relu'))
dropout = 0.3
# Step 2 - Pooling
classifier.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2)))
classifier.add(Dropout(rate=dropout))
# Adding a second convolutional layer
classifier.add(Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation = 'sigmoid'))
classifier.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2)))
classifier.add(Dropout(rate=dropout))
classifier.add(Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation = 'sigmoid'))
classifier.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size = (2, 2)))
# Step 3 - Flattening
classifier.add(Flatten())

# Step 4 - Full connection
classifier.add(Dense(units = 128, activation = 'relu'))
classifier.add(Dense(units = 1, activation = 'sigmoid'))

# Compiling the CNN
classifier.compile(optimizer = 'adam', loss = 'binary_crossentropy', metrics = ['accuracy'])
epoch_number = 40
epochs = 25
steps_validation = 100
history = classifier.fit_generator(training_set,
                         steps_per_epoch = epoch_number,
                         epochs = epochs,
                         validation_data = test_set,
validation_steps = steps_validation)
classifier.save('epoch40epochs25softmax.h5')

Now, after I train this model I want to use it in the 'real world' so I have a holdout set that I use it on. The problem is it only predicts class 1 when I do a classifier.predict_classes(test_image) I figured I was doing something wrong so I tried doing a classifier.predict_classes(test_image) for all the elements in the testing set since I knew I was getting 75% accuracy on that set and still upon doing a:
for test_image in test_set_dir:
    classifier.predict_classes(test_image)

I am still only getting numbers very close to [[1]]. My question is am I using keras correctly, or if not, what is going on?  I should get some [[0]] classifications.
I am absolutely sure that the model is not predicting just class 1 since I have a 50% - 50% split on the two classes and I am getting 75% accuracy.
Edit:
I am normalizing the images thusly
train_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale = 1./255,
                                   shear_range = 0,
                                   zoom_range = 0,
                                   horizontal_flip = True)

test_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale = 1./255)

training_set = train_datagen.flow_from_directory('datasetI/training_set',
                                                 target_size = (64, 64),
                                                 batch_size = 32,
                                                 class_mode = 'binary')

test_set = test_datagen.flow_from_directory('datasetI/test_set',
                                            target_size = (64, 64),
                                            batch_size = 32,
                                            class_mode = 'binary')

If I want to get the class prediction on the test_set what should I do to get it?


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Questions abound as Oprah changes channel on TV career
Updated Apr 01, 2019; Posted Nov 21, 2009
By Alan Sepinwall/The Star-Ledger
Associated Press/Harpo ProductionsA teary Oprah Winfrey announces during a live broadcast of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that the show will end its run in 2011.
Film critic Roger Ebert has explained that he convinced Oprah Winfrey to go into the syndicated TV business back in the '80s by taking a napkin and writing down his salary for co-hosting "At the Movies," then multiplying it several times over to account for Winfrey working solo on a longer, daily show that would almost certainly get higher ratings.
Ebert did the math, and Winfrey has spent the last 24 years reaping the benefits of it. And now that Winfrey has announced that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will be coming to an end in September 2011, it only requires simple math to figure out why.
"I love this show," a tearful Winfrey insisted at the end of yesterday's taping. "This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye. Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit. It's the perfect number — the exact right time."
It's also perfect because it's when her contract with syndicator King World is up, and it's a few months after OWN — the Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint cable venture between Winfrey and Discovery — is tentatively set to launch.
Ever since Winfrey teamed up with Discovery for OWN, rumors have flown that she would take her show to her channel. What's the value of an Oprah Winfrey channel if the Oprah Winfrey talk show airs elsewhere on TV?
Earlier this month, entertainment blogger Nikki Finke reported that the head of Discovery gave Winfrey an ultimatum to "move it or lose it" — to bring her show to OWN, or else say goodbye to OWN. Oprah makes a small fortune from syndication, but a successful cable channel is a license to print money.
But will Oprah be losing in influence whatever she gains in her bank account?
Her show doesn't get the ratings it once did — nothing on television does — but she still has one of the biggest, most powerful platforms in all of television. She turns books into bestsellers (and has arguably helped keep the whole publishing industry afloat) with her Oprah's Book Club; and she can break careers just as easily as she can make them. (Just ask "A Million Little Pieces" author James Frey, whom Oprah shredded on national TV for lying to her.) Her support for the Barack Obama presidential campaign lost her many Republican viewers, but contributed mightily to Obama's journey from underdog to nominee to president.
If her show moves from broadcast — where anyone with a television can see it — to a new cable channel, will all of Oprah Nation follow her?
Some have compared the potential move to Howard Stern taking his radio show to Sirius. Stern makes more money than he ever did on terrestrial radio, but his cultural footprint has greatly diminished, as he's mainly listened to only by people who care enough about him to buy a satellite radio subscription.
But the shift from syndication to cable isn't nearly as jarring as from K-Rock to satellite radio. The vast majority of American homes subscribe to cable TV, and any channel that carried Oprah Winfrey's talk show would be a must carry for any cable company with an ounce of business sense. So an OWN-ed version of Oprah's show would be available to most of the viewers who watch the current incarnation.
And as Roger Ebert himself pointed out in a brief Chicago Sun-Times story yesterday, Winfrey may just recognize which way the wind is blowing in the TV business.
"Scheduled TV is no longer where the audience is," he wrote. "It's not the shows that are slipping; traditional television itself is slipping. I think Oprah will announce she's shifting into the new mode. I predict she'll be on OWN cable, she'll syndicate overseas, she'll have same-day reruns, she'll stream on the internet, she'll have an online archive of popular and legendary shows."
Everyone in television has been struggling to come up with a new, viable business model with the explosion of entertainment options. Oprah has made a career out of being ahead of the curve. It's entirely possible she figured out how to make this work before anyone else did.
Since news leaked that Winfrey was ending "The Oprah Winfrey Show," many media outlets have been covering it as if they were writing Winfrey's obituary. But it may just be that what we think of as Oprah being struck down is really her becoming more powerful than we could possibly imagine.
Alan Sepinwall may be reached at asepinwall@starledger.com, or at 1 Star-Ledger Plaza, Newark, N.J., 07102-1200. Include your full name and hometown.


Assistant Dean of Students for Greek Life Josh Schutts believes the university's fraternities and sororities offer invaluable opportunities for leadership and scholarly development, in addition to the chance to make friends that last a lifetime. Recently, Schutts took a few moments to reflect on his job responsibilities in a question-and-answer format.
Q: When did you take over as head of Greek Life at Southern Miss? What is your background?
A: I became the Assistant Dean of Students for Greek Life in January of 2010. I am originally from Wisconsin, and got both a masters and a bachelor's degree from Southern Miss. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. from Southern Miss as well. Prior to my return, I worked in Greek Life at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas; Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas; and Centre College in Danville, Ky.
Q: What appeals to you about working as a college administrator of Greek life programs?
A: Greek Life was a program that made me. I fundamentally and unequivocally believe I would not be the man or the leader I am today had I not experienced Greek Life at USM. Some of my best friends are those people who were Greek with me in college. Furthermore, USM staff and faculty who work every day to advocate and develop character in our students were (and are) some of my greatest mentors and friends to this day. At the very least, I owe them enough to "pay it forward" toward future generations of college student leaders.
Q: What fraternity were you in at USM, and what impact did it have on you?
A: As an undergraduate, I was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha ("Pike"). I think one of the biggest things the fraternity did was open my eyes to a group of "best friends" who – while you may not always agree with them – always have your best interest in mind. When I came to college, I really wanted to make a connection with some like-minded, and more importantly, similar-valued people. I think our fraternity offered that when I was in school – and I believe it continues offering it today.
Q: Give a brief profile of the Southern Miss Greek Life system and its membership.
A: Greek Life at Southern Miss began in 1935. We currently recognize 25 fraternities and sororities governed by three student boards, and 18 of our organizations have university-owned chapter facilities on the western edge of campus. Every one of these groups is a chapter of a larger national or international entity. This means our students have fraternity brothers and sorority sisters across the country. Our collegians represent roughly 14 percent of the full time, Hattiesburg-campus undergraduate student population.
Q: When you are trying to sell membership in a Greek Life organization on campus, what's your pitch?
A: I'll make it easy: Do you like having friends? Would you like to have more "best friends" than acquaintances? How about mentoring, networking, and some character and leadership development to help you become a more successful scholar, citizen and future graduate? Lastly, would you like college to be a fun time? If you answer yes to any of these, you should explore joining a fraternity or sorority because they offer just that – and so much more.
Q: What do you see for the future of the Greek life system at USM and for fraternities and sororities everywhere?
A: There is tremendous room for growth! Our sororities are operating at some of the best levels in their history with a positive outlook to the future. Now is the time to invest, or reinvest, in Greek Life at Southern Miss. If you're an alumnus, contact our office and find out how you can help. If you're a parent or prospective student, consider the possibilities that are open for you or your student within a fraternity or sorority. If you still have doubts, take some time and monitor our progress. If you're a Golden Eagle in any way, shape, or form, know that Greek Life provides a true enrichment to our campus, our students, and our community.


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Hugo Kayser (* 4. Januar 1953) ist ein Schweizer Politiker (CVP).

Hugo Kayser gehörte von 2006 bis 2014 dem Regierungsrat des Kantons Nidwalden an. Er amtiert als Landesstatthalter sowie als Finanzdirektor und stellvertretender Baudirektor.

Kayser wohnt in Dallenwil.

Weblinks
 Hugo Kayser auf der Website des Kantons Nidwalden

Regierungsrat (Nidwalden)
CVP-Mitglied (Schweiz)
Schweizer
Geboren 1953
Mann


text:
import * as tf from '../../index';
import {describeWithFlags} from '../../jasmine_util';
import * as util from '../../util';
import {WEBGL_ENVS} from './backend_webgl_test_registry';
import * as webgl_util from './webgl_util';

describeWithFlags('getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape', WEBGL_ENVS, () => {
  it('scalar', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([1, 1]);
  });

  it('1d', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([4]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([1, 4]);
  });

  it('2d stays same', () => {
    let texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([5, 2]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([5, 2]);

    texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([5, 1]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([5, 1]);

    texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([1, 5]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([1, 5]);
  });

  it('3d 2x3x4', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([2, 3, 4]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([6, 4]);
  });

  it('3d 3x256x256', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([3, 256, 256]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([3 * 256, 256]);
  });

  it('3d 2x1x4 got squeezed', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([2, 1, 4]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([2, 4]);
  });

  it('3d 1x8x2 got squeezed', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([1, 8, 2]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([8, 2]);
  });

  it('4d 2x2x256x256 got squeezed', () => {
    const texShape =
        webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([2, 2, 256, 256]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([2 * 2 * 256, 256]);
  });

  it('4d 1x8x1x3 got squeezed', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([1, 8, 1, 3]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([8, 3]);
  });

  it('4d 1x3x1x8 got squeezed', () => {
    const texShape = webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape([1, 3, 1, 8]);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([3, 8]);
  });
});

describeWithFlags('getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape packed', WEBGL_ENVS, () => {
  it('textures less than 2x max size of platform preserve their shapes', () => {
    const isPacked = true;
    const logicalShape = [
      2, util.nearestLargerEven(tf.ENV.getNumber('WEBGL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE') + 1)
    ];
    const texShape =
        webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape(logicalShape, isPacked);
    expect(texShape).toEqual(logicalShape);
  });

  it('rows/columns do not get squeezed', () => {
    const isPacked = true;
    const logicalShape = [1, 1, 1];
    const texShape =
        webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape(logicalShape, isPacked);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([2, 2]);
  });

  it('squarified texture shapes account for packing constraints', () => {
    const isPacked = true;
    const max = tf.ENV.getNumber('WEBGL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE');

    tf.ENV.set('WEBGL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE', 5);
    const logicalShape = [1, 12];
    const texShape =
        webgl_util.getTextureShapeFromLogicalShape(logicalShape, isPacked);

    tf.ENV.set('WEBGL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE', max);
    expect(texShape).toEqual([6, 4]);
  });
});

describeWithFlags('isReshapeFree', WEBGL_ENVS, () => {
  it('is free when shapes have the same inner dimensions', () => {
    const before = [1, 2, 3];
    const after = [5, 2, 3];
    expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is free when one of the shapes is a scalar', () => {
    const before: number[] = [];
    const after = [1, 2, 3];
    expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is free when one of the dimensions equals 0', () => {
    const before = [1, 0];
    const after = [1, 2, 3];
    expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is free when one shape is a vector and the final dimensions match',
     () => {
       const before = [9];
       const after = [1, 1, 9];
       expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(true);
     });

  it('is free when one shape is a vector and the other has 1 row' +
         'in every batch and the final dimensions are even',
     () => {
       const before = [10];
       const after = [5, 1, 2];
       expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(true);
     });

  it('is not free when one shape is a vector and the final dimensions' +
         'do not match and are not even',
     () => {
       const before = [18];
       const after = [2, 1, 9];
       expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(false);
     });

  it('is free if the rows are divisible by two and the columns are the same',
     () => {
       const before = [1, 2, 3];
       const after = [1, 4, 3];
       expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(true);
     });

  it('is not free when the inner dimensions are different and even', () => {
    const before = [1, 2, 4];
    const after = [1, 8, 10];
    expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(false);
  });

  it('is not free when the inner dimensions are different and not all even',
     () => {
       const before = [1, 2, 3];
       const after = [1, 3, 2];
       expect(webgl_util.isReshapeFree(before, after)).toBe(false);
     });
});


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<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <include layout="@layout/title_layout" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/lv_group_contactlist"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >
    </ListView>

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Take a magical journey to hell and back with Hadestown at the Winspear
Lindsey Wilson
Kevyn Morrow, Nicholas Barasch, and Kimberly Marable.
Photo by T Charles Erickson
There are several moments in the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown that feel oddly prescient, from thinly veiled mentions of climate change to a leader building a wall to "protect his people's freedom."
But creator Anaïs Mitchell first began working on Hadestown in 2006, debuting it as a concept album in 2010 before its New York Theater Workshop premiere in 2016. It finally landed on Broadway in 2019.
So any Donald Trump parallels or of-the-moment social commentaries are simply a coincidence — though you could argue that domineering leaders and the organic vs. industrial struggle are, in a way, timeless.
Based loosely around the Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone, Hadestown weaves together New Orleans jazz, modern dance, supernatural elements, and the tragic nature of love, all overseen by a fleet-footed narrator whose traditional role is as a messenger who guides souls to the underworld.
Director Rachel Chavkin, who gained notoriety for her immersive staging of The Great Comet, helps make these abstract figures relatable.
The young lovers are torn apart by the very real dangers of hunger, poverty, and inattention, while the quarreling gods wrestle with control, personal vices, and jealousy. And surrounding them all is a very talents onstage band (led by music director Cody Owen Stine) and a quintet of workers that symbolize, well, all of us.
In the national tour that's currently playing the Winspear Opera House, presented by Dallas Summer Musicals, some of these elements are more effective than others.
Kimberly Marable is effervescent as Persephone, the goddess of fruit, flowers, and abundance. Even when she descends into an alcohol-soaked depression brought on by Hades' sudden obsession with power (and not her), she's scarily chipper.
Kevyn Morrow, likewise, is smooth as silk in his portrayal of the devilish lord of the underworld. These two have the most complicated relationship onstage, and each strikes just the right balance of entertaining and truthful.
Morgan Siobhan Green and Nicholas Barasch don't have quite the same electric connection as Eurydice and Orpheus, even though their love is supposedly strong enough to escape death (at least for a little while).
And commenting on it all as Hermes is Lei Kreis, who previously won a Tony Award for his role as Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet. There's more than a little Jerry Lee to his performance here, and the overall effect is more enthralled bystander than wise guide.
The three Fates, however, bring a welcome touch of ethereal bitchiness to the two-and-a-half-hour saga, with Belén Moyano, Bex Odorisio, and Shea Renne baring their teeth in predatory grins and relishing the chaos they cause with the mere flick of a finger or whoosh of breath.
But still, to go on this magical journey to hell and back after two years of the pandemic (which is its own kind of hell) makes it, at least for a few hours and in Mitchell's own words, "easy to see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is."
The national tour ofHadestown, presented by Dallas Summer Musicals, plays at the Winspear Opera House through January 30.
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news/arts
Police seek info re: this man and monkeys missing from Dallas Zoo
Jan 31, 2023 | 12:05 pm
Dallas police are seeking information about this man.
More trouble at the Dallas Zoo: Two tamarin monkeys were reported missing on January 30, and the Dallas Police Department is now looking for the public's help in identifying an individual who is possibly connected.
The two missing animals were Emperor tamarin monkeys. The Dallas Zoo told BuzzFeed News that they'd conducted a search near the monkeys' habitat and across Zoo grounds, and did not locate them, and believed the tamarins were taken.
Tamarin monkey at Dallas Zoo.Courtesy photo
In an ensuing investigation, the Dallas Police Department suggested that the monkeys had been intentionally taken from their enclosure.
Now the police are looking to speak with the man in the photograph above in regard to the missing tamarin monkeys.
In the photo he's just eating a bag of chips, but the DPD's post also has a video that shows him walking very oddly, as if he has something in his super-baggy pants, and he also looks around furtively.
Anyone with information on the pictured individual, or in the case is asked to call Detective Edwin Saracay at 214-671-4509 or at Edwin.saracay@dallaspolice.gov.
The Dallas Zoo has experienced a series of incidents beginning in mid-January, when a clouded leopard got out of its cage. The leopard was found later that day. A DPD spokesman said the fence surrounding their enclosure had a "suspicious opening."
A week later, the Zoo found an animal dead in its enclosure: a lappet-faced vulture who they say had a mysterious wound. The zoo subsequently installed additional surveillance cameras and increased their overnight security patrols.
The Zoo was closed on January 30 due to inclement weather, and remains closed through February 1.
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Q: Search bar Autocomplete from API I'm trying to create a book search bar with autocomplete that will show relevant results dynamically with each keypress. Everything is working and I'm getting the data, but results are not showing on the dropdown menu
Using angular 8 and Material 8.2.3
I'm trying to create a book search bar with autocomplete that will show relevant results dynamically with each keypress. Everything is working and I'm getting the data, but results are not showing on the dropdown menu

    import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
    import { Store } from '@ngrx/store';
    import { AppState } from '../app.state/app.state';
    import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
    import { UserName } from '../../model/name.model';
    import { FormControl, FormGroup, FormBuilder } from '@angular/forms';
    import { MainService } from '../main.service';

    @Component({
      selector: 'app-search',
      templateUrl: './search.component.html',
      styleUrls: ['./search.component.css']
    })
    export class SearchComponent implements OnInit {
      searchForm: FormGroup;

      username: Observable<UserName[]>;
      searchTerm: string;
      searchResult: [];
      isLoading = false;
      errorMsg: string;

      constructor(private store: Store<AppState>, private searchService: MainService, private formBuilder: FormBuilder) {
        this.username = store.select('username');
       }

      ngOnInit() {
        this.searchForm = this.formBuilder.group({
          searchBar: ''
        });
        this.onChanges();
      }

      onChanges(): void {
        this.searchForm.get('searchBar').valueChanges.subscribe(val => {
          this.searchService.searchingValue(val).subscribe(function(data){
            this.searchResult = data.items;
          } );

        });

      }

      }

Book Search

    <form [formGroup]="searchForm">

                <mat-form-field>
                    <input matInput placeholder="Search" aria-label="State" [matAutocomplete]="auto"  formControlName="searchBar">
                    <mat-autocomplete #auto="matAutocomplete" [displayWith]="displayFn">
                      <mat-option *ngIf="isLoading" class="is-loading">Loading...</mat-option>
                      <ng-container *ngIf="!isLoading">
                        <mat-option *ngFor="let option of searchResult" [value]="option">
                          {{ option.volumeInfo.title }}

                        </mat-option>
                      </ng-container>
                    </mat-autocomplete>
                  </mat-form-field>

    </form>

A: Total working, example you can find out here in this StackBlitz Link
onChange() method you have to pipe () first of all rxjs operators like filter, debounceTime, switchMap. here when text input is changed you can check valueChanges first and then in switchMap() you can fire services api calling of data.
onChanges(){
   this.searchForm.get('searchBar').valueChanges.pipe(
      filter( data => data.trim().length > 0 ),
      debounceTime(500),
      switchMap(  (id: string) => {
         return id ? this.serachService.searchingValue(id.replace(/[\s]/g,'')) : of([]);
      })
   ).subscribe(data =>{
      this.searchResult = data as Array<{}>;
   })
}

here,

*

*first pipe() operator is filter(), used for filter any black spaces entering by user. so, that nothing calls for api requesting.

*second pipe() operator is debounceTime(500), used for waiting to stop user typing. and exactly after 5ms search string is passed on api request of switchMap()

*Third pipe() operator is switchMap(), used to switch to a new observable, after every valueChanges.

search.service.ts
searchingValue(value){
    return of(this.bookDetails.filter( booksName => booksName.name.replace(/[\s]/g,'').toLowerCase().indexOf(value.toLowerCase()) === 0 ));
}

A: You can directly pass the created observable to the autocomplete control :
ts
...
    searchResult: Observable;

          onChanges(): void {
                this.searchResult = this.searchForm.get('searchBar').valueChanges.pipe(
                 switchMap(val => this.searchService.searchingValue(val))
                );

              }
...

html

Book Search

<form [formGroup]="searchForm">

            <mat-form-field>
                <input matInput placeholder="Search" aria-label="State" [matAutocomplete]="auto"  formControlName="searchBar">
                <mat-autocomplete #auto="matAutocomplete" [displayWith]="displayFn">
                  <mat-option *ngIf="isLoading" class="is-loading">Loading...</mat-option>
                  <ng-container *ngIf="!isLoading">
                    <mat-option *ngFor="let option of searchResult | async" [value]="option">
                      {{ option.volumeInfo.title }}

                    </mat-option>
                  </ng-container>
                </mat-autocomplete>
              </mat-form-field>

</form>


text:
#ifndef RUNTIME_MM_THREAD_STATE_H
#define RUNTIME_MM_THREAD_STATE_H

#include <Common.h>
#include <Utils.hpp>

namespace kotlin {

// Switches the state of the given thread to `newState` and returns the previous thread state.
ALWAYS_INLINE ThreadState SwitchThreadState(mm::ThreadData* threadData, ThreadState newState) noexcept;

ALWAYS_INLINE void AssertThreadState(mm::ThreadData* threadData, ThreadState expected) noexcept;

} // namespace kotlin

#endif // RUNTIME_MM_THREAD_STATE_H