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The chart type can be used to show patterns over time and relationships between variables. This is a comprehensive introduction to making them using two common libraries.
There are a number of charting libraries and tools for Python, but the basic, original built-in library is matplotlib. Many of the other Python data libraries that support charts (such as seaborn and pandas) call matplotlib functions "under the hood" and accept the same customization arguments and keywords. If you search for how to make a chart type in Python, chances are you will run into matplotlib code, so it's a good idea to know a bit about it.
Because pandas is the default "data manipulation" library in Python, in this tutorial we'll start from simple line chart displays with pandas, and then move on to customizing our charts with lower level matplotlib controls.
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The Jobs Tunnel
This is the original Detroit / Windsor tunnel – the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel, opened in 1910. Many people dont even know its there, but it passes behind Michigan Central Station, and submerges before you get to Fort Street.
For a short time, this was called the "Jobs Tunnel" because they were going to covert it to truck traffic to relieve the current tunnel and existing Ambassador Bridge. Nobody talks about that anymore now that there are few jobs to drive any place for, and the website currently has a single ironic page:
http://www.thejobstunnel.com/
Here is what the tunnel looked like back in its heyday.
Look at that little man door at the top of the staircase between the tunnels – how creepy do you think THAT is to walk through ?
The tracks have most recently been used by Canadian National, but is now owned by something called Borealis Transportation.
The original trains that ran the tunnel were electric. It is a modern misconception that electric transportation is some near distant future technology. It was one of the original technologies for transportation.
Here is a Detroit River Tunnel Company map from 1916, showing the location of the tunnel as it crosses the river and an International border.
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rufdj on April 3, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Trains still use it on a regualr basis. On the canadian side, it is very secure. They have high barbed wire fences on both sides for miles, bright light ever 50 feet or so it looks like a landing strip, cameras on all intersections for miles and they are installing an x-ray machine a few miles from the border to scan for anything ro anyone suspicious.
MichMatters on February 24, 2009 at 8:31 am
The article posted just a post above yours answers it. Yes, trains still use the tunnel.
David A. Spitzley on February 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm
So is there actually rail traffic through this tunnel these days? If not it seems like a park-and-ride + train + bus system could help reduce current Tunnel backups for casino traffic (in either/both directions).
Mac on February 18, 2009 at 8:58 pm
"CN sells share of Detroit River Tunnel…
Canadian National Railways has agreed to sell its half stake in the Detroit River Tunnel to Borealis Transportation, a trust controlled by Ontario pension fund OMERS. Canadian Pacific Railway, which owns the other half, will become the tunnel's sole operator. By agreement, CN will still be allowed to run trains through the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. CSX and Norfolk Southern will also have access to the tunnel.
CN will concentrate on its cross-border tunnel between Sarnia and Port Huron. CP is allowed to run up to 14 trains each week through CN's tunnel."
admin on February 17, 2009 at 5:24 pm
a holding company might be a good guess – I cant find anything else on that borealis company. They are even mentioned in the Wikipedia entry, but it doesnt really go anywhere. I was stopped by a CN Rail Road police officer for taking photos of MCS while I was too close to their shit. But this was during the time this borealis company owned the land, so CN must lease it all.
The guy who stopped me was a Canadian official, and the tracks them selves are considered Canadian soil in places. It was pretty strange. The people on his radio were just FREAKING OUT, with him cutting in saying "I have him ! I have him !". Those guys must be bored out of their minds. I deleted some photos for him, he was satisfied.
It was when I was shooting photos to make the 360 spin thing at the end of this MCS video clip I made a few years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h75V84iQs8
No kidding, while the old route of the line beyond the active track is explorable (heard it called the westside cut), the thought of trying the security down the tunnel is just plain scary. I've had guards spring out of the bushes even when taking pics up close to the ambassador! Thanks for the info on CN no longer owning the track – weird. Is this just a holding company for CN or some other entity?
None who would try such a stupid thing would ever live to talk about it. I would imagine the railroad police would put you down first, and then ask questions later. It is an international border crossing point, and an active railroad line still, for CN. There are so many different authorities that would have the right to shoot you if you entered or exited that tunnel, its not even funny.
Jake on February 17, 2009 at 10:50 am
I wonder if any adventurous kids or Urban Explorers have succesfully travelled thru the tunnel. Is it used by train traffic at all anymore?
admin on February 17, 2009 at 10:18 am
Yeah – they usually have some sort of sharpshooter watching the tunnel too. It is not recommended that one try to get a closer look.
James on February 17, 2009 at 10:08 am
Is that a police car in the first pic?

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At first this shampoo worked great, but a few weeks on and it has stopped being effective. It is a really nice shampoo, you don't need to use much of it, but if you're prone to bad dandruff like me try something else.


AIE, Inc. is Southern California's avionics, instruments and electronics repair station located at the French Valley Airport, in Murrieta, CA. In 2016, we moved into our new facility, pictured above. We now offer a wider variety of services to customers including aircraft maintenance, annual inspections, and modifications. AIE, Inc. has provided excellent service in products, repairs, custom instrument panel rebuilds, and electrical retro-fit services since 1984. AIE, Inc. is an FAA, EASA, & TCCA approved repair station certified under part 145. We incorporated new on-site engineering design capabilities enabling us to utilize the latest in avionics technology.
In 2015, we expanded our scope to provide services in other countries such as Europe and All of North America. Recently, AIE, Inc. added services to include wiring and connector kits to our manufacturing capabilities. This will enhance our online sales of electrical components and improve specialized needs design specifically for individual aircraft. This added convenience will allow easier access to high quality products shipped directly from our facility.
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Ha, ha. I've eventually kicked them off my computer. Thanks for getting adware and the virus thing Ben. I had to run the gauntlet of downloading an update though.
I can now play football manager in peace.
than the both put together."
Although I didn't win all your money (£0), congratulation to Ben and Kris for sharing the pot. I think it was a success. It was a good laugh and worked well in what turned out to be a very cheap evening.
Perhaps next time we can get Dylan and Tim involved.
It's currently forecast to hit Florida. Ouch!!! It's gonna hurt.
Click on the link 'loop' underneath the ten pictures then watch the hurricane develop.
Apu (Kwik-E-Mart clerk): "Haven't I seen you on TV somewhere before?"
Homer: "Nah, you have me confused with Fred Flintstone."
Big night last night. I think I got in at around 12.
I started drinking bottled beer, then had some red wine, then some white, then went back to beer with some pints of stella, interspersed with cocktails and shots.
Good thing 1: £3 off today at Lloyd's canteen.
Good thing 2: I won the lottery last night. £10 before anyone sends me begging letters.
Good thing 3: Free beer tonight at a works do in the Gherkin.
Good film. I laughed out loud quite a few times, lots of action and explosions. What more could you want?
Just gone into Carphone Warehouse to see if I can upgrade my phone (Samsung D600) and they said it would cost £130.
Looking on-line i've noticed that I can get it for free. Bloody gits. I'm not getting it from them anymore.
Any suggestions? How easy is it to get a phone on-line and move your number over.
advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Did you all have a lovely weekend? Thankfully I managed to avoid doing anything yesterday so am almost recovered from 4 big (ish) days of drinking.
Going to try and have a week off the booze this week. Wish me luck...! My main problem is that i'm far too weak. I'll be ready to leave work, go home and have a quiet night then someone would ask if I fancied a couple before we went home. Unfortunatly "yep" is usually my answer.
On another note. Watched Hellboy last night. Not bad. Not good either. Although it help waste a couple of hours of my life, as did Firefly day on Sky (130). Oddly it didn't have the same appeal as when I first watched it.
P.S. I hate Chelsea! And to top it off Bikini Beach is no more 232 / 278. The last one was yesterday.


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Four featurettes, Director's Commentary
"Mud" Takes Southern Gothic and Gives it Near Perfect Rhythm
It may say a lot about the growth of Matthew McConaughey as an actor that Mud is considered a McConaughey motion picture despite the presence of Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon.
That's the way it should be.
Mud IS McConaughey's motion picture, a fine ensemble film that is nonetheless defined by McConaughey's mysterious figure of a man who is simultaneously a river poet and a man of menace whose danger never seems quite that far away. If Hollywood would have known all along that McConaughey had the kind of performances in him that he's been turning in lately, perhaps we could avoided all those godawful romantic comedies they thrust upon us trying desperately to turn him into a romantic leading man.
The film kicks off innocently enough with two 14-year-old best friends, Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), stumbling across the kind of discovery that 14-year-old boys go crazy for until they finally discover girls. The boys stumble across an old boat somehow fixed firmly within a tree. While their first thought turns to what a freakin' amazing treehouse this will be, it's not long before the two boys realize that this house is actually a home and its inhabitant just happens to be the aforementioned Mud (McConaughey), a fugitive who sells his story as a man who has killed another man out of love.
He can't possibly be a threat the boys manage to conclude despite an abundance of evidence that would point to a different conclusion.
Mud is written and directed by Jeff Nichols, whose two other features have been the tragic Shotgun Stories and the magnificently exhausting Take Shelter, for which Michael Shannon was robbed of an Oscar. Shannon is back here, as well, in an extended cameo as Neckbone's father while Sarah Paulson and Ray McKinnon are all stress and fire as Ellis's might as well be divorced parents.
Then, there's Reese Witherspoon. It seems somehow freakishly appropriate that America's sweetheart would get herself in legal trouble the night of Mud's premiere by mouthing off to a cop after she and her hubby allegedly had a wee bit much to drink. I'm fairly certain such an episode wasn't planned, but it sure as heck fits the persona of Witherspoon's Juniper, a flowery but mostly vacant young woman who is Mud's muse but seems utterly clueless to all that has actually meant. As is true with McConaughey, it's rather refreshing to see Witherspoon actually acting again and avoiding yet another godawful romantic comedy.
I suppose it's unfair to give all the credit to McConaughey no matter how amazing a performance he offers, because Mud does very much center around Tye Sheridan's Ellis, a young man whose place in the world is undefined and whose ability to trust anything around him seems minimal at best. He seems to be a young man who is searching, for trust or connection or just for a love that just isn't so dang muddy. Everywhere he turns, love isn't what it's supposed to be and Sheridan's performance is truly revelatory.
Mud is bathed in Southern gothic production design, with D.P. Adam Stone's lensing exudes both humanity and an almost primal awareness that everything that's going on is bigger than what we're seeing. David Wingo's original music is haunting, while one simply must give kudos to Richard Wright for a production design that is in itself stylish and suspenseful.
This is the McConaughey I love, which is saying quite a bit because he's really never been one of my favorite actors. Yet, when he's on fire like this and like he was in Paper Boy, Magic Mike and Killer Joe, he's nothing short of hypnotic. It almost pains me to think that you'd consider seeing any other film this opening weekend, most notably the stunningly average Pain & Gain.
If you really want to catch a couple of amazing performances bringing to life a story that is sort of a cross between Huck Finn meets Night of the Hunter, then Mud is simply a must see.


summary : A solar-powered water harvester that is capable of generating water using desert air alone? Take my money already!
summary : The thought of relocating humanity to a new planet has always been the stuff of science fiction, and will continue to remain so in the immediate future. We are not built for long distance space travel, but even if that were possible, what about our sustenance on a hostile planet? A new research project shows that is possible to grow potatoes in conditions that emulate the soil on Mars.
summary : A pair of contact lenses do not just let you see clearer without the hassle of spectacles or glasses, but what if they are now smarter with connectivity to your smartphone? Could the science fiction world now be a step closer to reality?
summary : Dead men don't talk, but they still have their body parts which could be replicated through the 3D printing process. These in turn could be used to access a smartphone, cranking up a notch when it comes to forensics.
summary : Who would have thought that the chocolate that melts in your mouth and not in your hands could be used as a vehicle to deliver vaccines via drones for ferrets that are close to extinction?
summary : Were you inspired by Pixar's Wall-E? If you answered in the affirmative, then you would surely be interested to know that a real-life Wall-E exists in the form of the Cozmo robot.
summary : Fancy seeing an Iron Man suit soon? Perhaps not quite, but at least a new generation of electrostatic sheets known as the Electroadhesive Clutch will be able to be used in a new range of exoskeletons that are lighter and more energy efficient than ever before.
summary : James Holden, a microbiology professor at the University of Massachusetts and devout Christian, led a discussion Tuesday at the Commonwealth Honors College, to explore how science and religion intersect.
summary : Russian researchers contributing to the journal Science state humans were in the Arctic region as early as 45,000 years ago, which is up to 15,000 years earlier than researchers always have assumed. Distinctive injuries on a frozen mammoth carcass in Siberia now represent the first known human presence in the area.
summary : The International Space station (ISS) will welcome its new crews on Tuesday. Three astronauts are poised for launch early Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to boost the lab's crew back to six.


It is with great pleasure and honor for QSV organization to have planted a seed of promising fruition here in the nearby location of NDAYANE. Chosen by Almighty GOD a secured registered Land of 200 square meters to operate humanitarian actions mentioned above and more GOD willing. Our Immediate project is located just several miles of Landmark (Hotel)Terre D'Afrique in the village of Popenguine.
In the benefit for our Women & Girls the pleasant environmental flourishing scenery was a key factor chosen in this Location for it is a inspiring upliftment in the mental senses for advancement of one's education. Where we are and what our reason for being there plays a huge influence on what we do and how we learn. A thriving environment is a powerful influence indeed and not a coincidence that it's Commune was established on the birthday of our beloved leader King Shaykh Imam Assane A Cisse (RTA), December 4.
Our interest in building/purchasing this land can be justified by its great features and a potential reality to fulfill our dreams of working for QSV organization educating and training thus making a greater role model impact in this land of Teranga and the rest of the world.
The local is in a surface of 200m2, and as we can notice it in the architectural draft plan, we adapted the activities of QSV (workshop trainings(formations), meeting, social work, etc.) to the structuring of this building. It will be established(constituted) in downstairs, of a workshop(Classes) of training(Education) (in the professional jobs(Entrepreneurship businesses)); Of a room(Chamber) to welcome children or women in difficulties; of a living- room(Recreation) which can be use as place of entertainment to the children; of a store for(Goodwill) storage of Clothing; of a Full Cuisine(Culinary)kitchen and (boys and girls) toilets.
At the first level (up stairs) there is Salon room for visitation(s), and a QSV Couture( boutique) generating funding to QSV Organization, a lounge communicating with a cabinet(office) which can serve as medical source(Pharmacy) and (community)social block; of an office(desk) Professional for the administration of QSV; of a 2nd waiting(Salon) Guest room for the visitors; Public (lavatory) men and women toilets. In the third floor and last level will serve the functions of the QSV board member meetings; and finally a compartment of relaxation (station)close by to symbolize this village of solidarity, peace and brotherhood(Zawiya).
Founder (financier), humanitarian Mother Queen Sheba is determined, envisioning and future expansion to the spiritual infusion of Grandmother Sayidah Loretta Brown and benediction of the late saint Imam Shaykh Assane Cisse RTA for Queen Sheba Village organization founded in the Medina Baye Kaolack region to serve numerous remote villages throughout Senegal offering adequate training to volunteers in future nearby African countries (QSV Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, The Gambia, Togo etc)to serve, educate and uplift their communities for the better.
QSV engages in providing assistance social welfare(public) via our programs, events and current projects fundraisers for QSV micro-credit loans and more established for women to run businesses of their own. Queen Sheba Village pioneering the model example aiding humanity in the Horn of Africa, LAND OF ALL ANCESTORS, Ameen.


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Research shows, women do not trade beauty for status when selecting male mates. A lot of previous research only examined attractiveness for women and status for men. Writing in American Sociological Review, however, Elizabeth Aura McClintock examined the role of exchange and matching in romance. When you consider both attractiveness and education traits for both partners, it turns out most people are matching on both. To collect her data, McClintock's team used a personal attractiveness index to examine how equally-matched a particular couple was, considering physical attractiveness, grooming, and personality. The researchers found that across 1,507 couples, romantic partners tended to be equally attractive, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Meanwhile, researchers David McClendon, Janet Chen-Lan Kuo, and Kelly Raley, in the journal Demography, studied why men and women tend to select equally-educated partners. Rather than finding a simple story of advantaged people choosing advantaged partners, they found evidence that the labor market is facilitating graduate-to-graduate matches: more couples meet at work now that most women are employed. Since educational level strongly correlates with occupation, individuals are generally exposed to potential partners at the same educational level. The authors also found that women in occupations with more college graduates are more likely to marry and more likely to marry instead of cohabiting than those women in occupations with few degree holders. The pattern doesn't hold for men.
These studies suggest women are wielding their own power—and standards—in the making of marriage.


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Christians marked Good Friday with a series of services in Jerusalem.
Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal officiated at the Roman Catholic rites to commemorate the suffering and death of Jesus Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where it is believed Christ was crucified and where his tomb is also believed to be located.
Believers were also due to retrace Christ's steps along the so-called Way of the Cross, or Via Dolorosa, remembering the various stages of his journey to the place of his crucifixion in what is known as the Stations of the Cross.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was erected over the site of Christ's crucifixion and burial by the early Christians, is shared by various Christian denominations, including Roman Catholics, Armenians and Greek Orthodox.
The Israeli Tourism Ministry said it expected 130,000 visitors to come to Israel for the Easter celebrations and for the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, which are celebrated about the same time every year.
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The Ghana news Agency (GNA) was established on March 5, 1957, i.e. on the eve of Ghana's independence and charged with the "dissemination of truthful unbiased news". It was the first news agency to be established in Sub-Saharan Africa. GNA was part of a comprehensive communication policy that sought to harness the information arm of the state to build a viable, united and cohesive nation-state. GNA has therefore been operating in the unique role of mobilizing the citizens for nation building, economic and social development, national unity and integration.
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The 76 Dangers of Sugar!
Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.
Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.
Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect your children's grades and cause learning disorders.
Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease. MRI studies show that adults 60 and older who have high uric acid are four to five times more likely to have vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's.
Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.Sugar can lead to dizziness.
Refined sugar may be even more addictive than cocaine!


The city's natural surroundings invite residents to take part in a vast range of outdoor and sports activities – and they certainly do, thanks to about 230 days of sunshine per year, normal average daily temperatures of about 70 degrees (and about 95 degrees in the hottest months of July and August), and an average annual rainfall of 32. 15 inches. Of course, there's a saying in Texas that if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute. It might be hot one day and freezing the next, but it's just a part of the charming dichotomy that residents have learned to love – or at least tolerate.


Here is my first entry in a new category I've been asked to start. I have kept a bunch of racing memorabilia through my career. Once a week I will showcase a new piece from my collection.
This is my first RC kit I ever built. Up till 2006 my Dad did all my mechanic work. In 2006 Team Associated came out with a new 1/10 gas truck, the GT2. The GT was race proven and had never lost a National Championship. I had won 2004 and 2005 National Championships with it, and I was nervous to debut the new truck. I was very new to working on my cars, but I managed to get it all together, and it worked pretty good. I qualified 4th, but I was able win the main. It was my 3rd gas truck National Championship in a row, and the first with me as mechanic, and the new GT2. It's a very special car to me. Check out my patented tucked back antenna. That was a trademark of mine in gas truck.
Here I am with Kurt Wenger, the man behind the new truck. After I won, we were all very happy.
All the plastic parts were boiled for 15 minutes before I built the truck. That helped give it a little more traction, and helped it give it a little flex to make it more durable.
Check out that hand made custom O'Donnell pipe.
This was also my first big race without my Dad pitting for me. I had Jason Ashton and Kazz making the calls in pit lane.
It also has one of the very first body skins from Upgrade-RC. I painted my own bodies up till that point, but doing all my wrenching was a lot of work, and I didn't have time to paint them.
That's cool!! Do you still boil plastics Jared?
Nice job on the website/blog man, like seeing this kind of stuff, keep it up! And good luck next week up in Chico, hope you bring home 2 for Kyosho!
Hi Jered. Just want to say that I really enjoy reading your blog, it just gets better and better! Love the memorabilia and anecdotes! Good luck in Chico!


Designed for students entering Grades 2-8, this week-long crash course in robotic design, construction and programming is great for beginning builders and experienced makers alike!
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Print Email digiPlay 1200x300 LgDesktop NEW EXHIBIT NOW OPEN THROUGH APRIL 2018! The Buffalo Museum of Science is proud to announce the arrival of digiPlaySpace, running now through April 22, 2018. Produced by TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), digiPlaySpace is an interactive playground for kids and grown-ups alike where they can explore new media technologies, learning-centric games and hands-on installations. Guests will engage with 14 different interactive digital activities created by artists around the world. From large-scale interactive installations and fast-paced multi-player videogames, to immersive green-screen adventures and experimenting with robotics, digiPlaySpace offers guests of all ages exciting ways to explore our increasingly interconnected world.
The 2018 Twin Tiers Mini Maker Faire is brought to you by partners Chemung County Library District, Corning Community College, Southeast Steuben County Library, and Southern Tier Library System. Our intention has always been to encourage and inspire children, teens, and adults to become Makers themselves while providing the resources they need. A Mini Maker Faire is an event that "celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the DIY mindset".
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Q: dplyr mutate does not work with column names "TRUE" and "FALSE" When I use reshape2,
I am able to obtain a data frame with columns named TRUE and FALSE.
The problem comes when I am trying to use dplyr
to compute the proportion of TRUE values,
because TRUE refers to the logical value which becomes 1,
rather than the column named TRUE.
What is a natural way to fix this problem?
require(reshape2)
require(plyr)
require(dplyr)

transplants <- data.frame(donor_region = c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2),
    recipient_region = c(1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2)) %>%
    mutate(is_self = donor_region == recipient_region)

x <- ddply(transplants, .(donor_region, is_self), summarise,
    freq = length(is_self))
x %>% print

# Compute the proportion of transplants with is_self == TRUE
y <- dcast(x, donor_region ~ is_self, value.var = 'freq') %>%
    mutate(true_proportion = TRUE / (FALSE + TRUE))
y %>% print

# What I get:
#   donor_region FALSE TRUE true_proportion
# 1            1     1    2               1
# 2            2     1    2               1

# What I want to get:
#   donor_region FALSE TRUE true_proportion
# 1            1     1    2       0.6666667
# 2            2     1    2       0.6666667

A: I have combined the answers given in the comments by @thelatemail and @jenesaisquoi since the comment section is not the best place to keep answers.

*

*Using backticks (@thelatemail):
dcast(x, donor_region ~ is_self, value.var = 'freq') %>%
  mutate(true_proportion = `TRUE` / (`FALSE` + `TRUE`))

*Using weighted mean (@jenesaisquoi):
x %>% group_by(donor_region) %>% summarise(tp = weighted.mean(is_self, freq))

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Casting Announced For Clarke Peters' Production Of Hit West End & Broadway Musical Five Guys Named Moe
Underbelly Productions have announced full casting for a brand new production of Clarke Peters' Olivier Award-winning and Tony-Award nominated musical, Five Guys Named Moe. The production will open on 14 September 2017 in a new temporary theatre in Marble Arch, London.
Nomax is down on his luck. Newly single and broke, he drinks his sorrows away. But in a wild night that he'll never forget, Five Guys Named Moe – Big Moe, Little Moe, Eat Moe, Know Moe and Four-Eyed Moe – are on hand to help him party his way back to the straight and narrow.
Edward Baruwa will play Nomax and the 'Moes' will be played by – Ian Carlyle (Four-Eyed Moe), Dex Lee (Know Moe), Idriss Kargbo (Little Moe), Timothy Martin (Big Moe) and Emile Ruddock (Eat Moe).
Underbelly have also released the first look at how the inside of the new Marble Arch Theatre will look. Specifically designed for the production will be reminiscent of 1940s New Orleans Jazz clubs, occupying the whole space. There will be cabaret table seating in the centre of the space with a drinks table service.
In addition to the theatre, there will be a connecting foyer designed in the style of a New Orleans courtyard with hanging atmospheric foliage, festoon lighting, a beautiful bespoke bar, a performance area for a jazz trio and concession stands selling popcorn, sweets, snacks and merchandise as well as a cloakroom area.
Five Guys Named Moe was first seen at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1990, it transferred to the West End and played for four years, subsequently playing on Broadway from 1992. Clarke Peters' career defining musical features the irresistible hits of trailblazing 'King of the Jukebox' Louis Jordan, including Early In The Morning, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie and Saturday Night Fish Fry. The soundtrack of soul, blues, gospel and early r 'n' b is performed on stage by a live band.
Clarke Peters said: "It's a rare and wonderful thing to have the chance to direct a show that not only you have created but also performed in. It's a show that is very close to my heart and soul and is so much of who I am. It's an honour to return to it on its 25th Anniversary and reimagine the show in this new theatre space; one which is perfect for creating a closeness and dynamic energy between the story and the audience. Further to this it's a treat to be working with a fantastic creative team and I can't wait to transport audiences into the magical world of rhythm and blues. This rhythm will lift one and all from their blues!"
Edward Baruwa's (Nomax) theatre credits include: Motown (Shaftesbury Theatre); Peter Pan in Concert (Adelphi Theatre); Dessa Rose (Trafalgar Studios); Little Shop of Horrors (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Sister Act (UK Tour); Smokey Joe's Café (Landor Theatre); Avenue Q, (Noel Coward Theatre & Gielgud Theatre); Les Miserables (Queens Theatre); Porgy and Bess; (Savoy Theatre), Dancing in the Streets; (Cambridge/Aldwych Theatre); Jerry Springer the Opera (Cambridge Theatre); Miss Saigon (Original UK Tour); The Rocky Horror Show (European Tour); and The Wiz (Hackney Empire). Feature Film credits include: Florence Foster Jenkins and London Road.
Ian Carlyle's (Four-Eyed Moe) recent theatre credits include: Showboat (Sheffield Crucible); Sister Act (National Theatre Dublin); Notre Dame de Paris (International Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK National Arena Tour); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre) Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre); Miss Saigon (UK Tour) and Disney's The Lion King (Lyceum).
Dex Lee (Know Moe) theatre credits include: Grease (Curve, Leicester); Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (Royal Court Theatre); In The Heights (King's Cross Theatre and Southwark Playhouse) Hairspray (UK Tour); Carrie (Southwark Playhouse) and The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick Theatre).
Idriss Kargbo (Little Moe) credits include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Shrek The Musical (UK Tour) Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic); Disney's The Lion King; (Lyceum); Thriller Live! (Lyric Theatre) and Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Film credits: Been So Long.
Timothy Martin (Big Moe) musical credits include: Ragtime (Bologna Opera Theatre); Sister Act (UK Tour); Candide (Florence Opera Theatre); Rent (Trainon Theatre, Naples); The Full Monty (Italian Tour); Lady Day (Italian Tour); Tony, West Side Story (Theatre Argentina) and Treemonisha (New York City Parks). Theatre includes: Moby Dick (Italian Tour); Blue/Orange (Italian Tour); Guess who's Coming to Dinner (Italian Tour); The Blacks (Italian Tour) and Driving Miss Daisy (Manzoni Theatre). Television includes: The Amanda Knox Story; Black Butterfly and Bent.
Emile Ruddock (Eat Moe) theatre credits: Crazy For You (Watermill Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (UK Tour); The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick Theatre and Young Vic Theatre); Avenue Q (Rugby Theatre); 42nd Street Gala (London Palladium and Dominion Theatre) and 42nd Street (Rugby Theatre). Film and television credits: The X Factor 2015 (Backing Dancer); The 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony and Got to Dance 2013 with 'The Pulse Collective'.
Clarke Peters has a long-established and wide-ranging career in theatre, television, radio and film. His many stage credits include: King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park), Race, Chicago, The Iceman Cometh (New York), Guys and Dolls, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Mourning Becomes Electra (National Theatre), Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre), Driving Miss Daisy, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Little Shop of Horrors, Blues in the Night and Five Guys Named Moe also written by Clarke. Films include: Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer, Notting Hill, Mona Lisa, Bad Education, Marley and Me, Freedomland, The Benefactor, Endgame, Mandela: The Prison Years and Nativity! Peters is also known for his varied television career including regular appearances in The Wire, Tremé, Jericho, The Divide, Chance and The Corner.
The ensemble cast includes: Omari Douglas, Nathaniel Morrison and Mykal Rand.
Five Guys Named Moe is currently booking from 29 August to 25 November 2017, with an Opening Night on 14 September. Find out more here.
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Atlus Wants Persona 5 Arena To Be a Thing Too
What about the obligatory spin-off rhythm game?
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Published on October 17, 2016 Zhiqing Wan
Home » News » Atlus Wants Persona 5 Arena To Be a Thing Too
Speaking at Toushinsai 2016, Persona 4 Arena director Kazuhisa Wada mentioned that he would love to make a Persona 5 fighting game as well, possibly titled Persona 5 Arena. Here's the translated excerpt, courtesy of Gematsu:
"Regarding a 'Persona 5 Arena,' because we honestly put all of our efforts into Persona 5, that's something we'll have to talk about in the future, but I really want to do another, and your voices are so important to us, so we'd really appreciate it if you keep sending your requests. Thank you!"
Persona 4 Arena and its follow-up, Ultimax, were spin-off games that explored a story which took place after the events of the original Persona 4, and featured characters from Persona 3 as well. The visual novel elements of the games were mixed in with 2D fighting gameplay where characters would fight against each other by summoning their Personas to make use of extra abilities.
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Protected, A to Z, Earth Kingdom,
Yu Dao
"Yu Dao ... the first of the Fire Nation colonies."
— Fire Lord Zuko to Kori Morishita.[1]
玉島
Northern United Republic of Nations (formerly western Earth Kingdom)
Large town
Leader in metalworking
One of the wealthiest cities in the Fire Nation (c. 30 BG - 101 AG)
Coalition government[2] (as of 102 AG)
Mayor Morishita (formerly)
Earth Kingdom (formerly)
Fire Nation (formerly)
United Republic of Nations
The Promise Part One
Yu Dao is a former Fire Nation colony located in the western Earth Kingdom. It was the scene of great tension during the decolonization efforts that followed the Hundred Year War due to the difficulty involved in handling the removal of Fire Nation colonials, many of whom had lived in the town for generations. The mayor of the town at the end of the war was Morishita.[1] Along with all the other Fire Nation colonies throughout the Earth Kingdom, Yu Dao became part of the United Republic of Nations after the end of the war.[3]
Yu Dao was originally a poor backwater village.[1] Some time before 296 BG, the settlement was visited by Rangi, the bodyguard of Yun, the latter having been falsely identified as successor to Avatar Kuruk.[4] Centuries later, when Fire Lord Sozin began his colonization of the western Earth Kingdom, Yu Dao was the first of the Fire Nation colonies to be established, and ordinary Fire Nation families were moved to the area as colonists.
The streets of Yu Dao bustled with citizens of both the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom.
Together with the Earth Kingdom civilians already living in the area, the Fire Nation settlers created a thriving metalworking industry which evolved into one of the best in the world. The tiny village grew into a thriving, cosmopolitan city. Through the unique blending of Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation culture, Yu Dao became one of the wealthiest cities in the world. According to Fire Lord Zuko, the colony of Yu Dao made the finest metal of any nation.[1]
In 100 AG, at the end of the Hundred Year War, Earth King Kuei and Fire Lord Zuko agreed to start the Harmony Restoration Movement, aimed at the removal of all Fire Nation colonies from Earth Kingdom territory. However, Yu Dao posed a particular problem due to its age, as many families had lived in the city for over one hundred years and had put down deep roots in the area. Marriage between Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation citizens was common, causing Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation citizens to feel a kinship toward one another beyond their nationality. This led to conflict among Avatar Aang, Fire Lord Zuko, and Earth King Kuei.[1]
This conflict escalated in 101 AG. The Earth Kingdom Army and the Freedom Fighters attempted to forcefully remove the Fire Nation colonists from Yu Dao. A group of Yu Dao residents had formed the Yu Dao Resistance, however, and resisted this plan. Their situation was hopeless at first, but soon after Fire Lord Zuko arrived with his troops in order to protect the city. Mediating talks quickly broke down, whereupon the opposing forces began the battle for Yu Dao. Eventually, Avatar Aang entered the Avatar State to separate the colony from the surrounding lands and ended the battle. Afterward, the involved parties agreed to resume negotiations.[5] After intensive talks,[6] it was decided to let the people of Yu Dao elect a new coalition government in 102 AG, representing both Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation citizens.[2] Eventually, the United Republic of Nations was created, which Yu Dao became a part of.[3]
Layout and description
Yu Dao is located in a wide, flat valley which is bounded by rocky terrain on all sides. The city is enclosed by a sandstone wall with one opening which serves as the gateway to the city. Yu Dao's streets are lined by predominantly low rise buildings which are built in a unique style that combines Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation architecture. The city is very compacted as the surrounding terrain limits Yu Dao's building space.
A wide, central pathway runs from Yu Dao's gate to the back of the city. The avenue serves as the main thoroughfare of the metropolis, and many smaller streets branch off of it. There is also a canal that runs through the city.
Businesses include: the Green Flame Inn, the Green Blaze Inn, Old Chen's Blacksmith Shop, Yu Dao Grocery store, Tasty Hotpot Restaurant, and the Sweet Aroma Teahouse. Other buildings include the Morishita home.
Yu Dao's combination of native Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation residents allowed the city to excel in metalwork.
Unlike most Fire Nation colonies, Yu Dao advocated a form of public equality, allowing Earth Kingdom citizens to live among Fire Nation citizens freely without any form of oppression; this appeared to be effective at a very high level, as earthbenders were able to freely practice their bending alongside firebenders without any fear of persecution. This extended to family life as well, as marriage between Fire Nation immigrants and Earth Kingdom natives was not uncommon.
Yu Dao's unique blend of Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom architecture gave it a distinct feel, as the architecture of the city represented a merging of both nations' styles of building. The Earth Kingdom citizens generally occupied a second-class position in the city's society; however, this was not universally the case, as the Fire Nation mayor's wife, Mrs. Morishita, was an earthbender, as was her daughter. Fire Lord Zuko observed that even so, the people were better off than they had been before the colony's foundation.[1]
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related to Yu Dao.
Yu Dao was heavily based on Qingdao, a city in China that was a German colony from 1898 to 1918.[7]
Gurihiru also took references from urban China and Japan for the design of Yu Dao's architecture.[8]
The town's name was first conceived in Chinese and later translated into English. Yang chose the two characters that compose the name, 玉島, for two reasons: 玉, meaning "jade", calls to mind the color green, which "explicitly [ties] the city to its Earth Kingdom roots", while 島, meaning "island", comes from the second character of Qingdao, which, as mentioned above, was a large influence on the creation of Yu Dao.[8]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). The Promise Part One (January 25, 2012), Dark Horse Comics.
↑ 2.0 2.1 DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). The Rift Part One (March 5, 2014), Dark Horse Comics.
↑ 3.0 3.1 DiMartino, Michael Dante, Konietzko, Bryan (writers) & Dos Santos, Joaquim, Ryu, Ki Hyun (directors). (April 14, 2012). "Welcome to Republic City". The Legend of Korra. Season 1. Episode 1. Nickelodeon.
↑ Yee, F. C. (author), DiMartino, Michael Dante (author). (July 16, 2019). Chapter Two, "Nine Years Later". The Rise of Kyoshi. Amulet Books.
↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). The Promise Part Three (September 26, 2012), Dark Horse Comics.
↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). The Search Part One (March 20, 2013), Dark Horse Comics.
↑ GeneYang.com "A:TLA Behind the Scenes"
↑ 8.0 8.1 DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan; Yang, Gene Luen (writer), Sasaki of Gurihiru (penciling, inking), Kawano of Gurihiru (colorist), Heisler, Michael; Comicraft (letterer). The Promise Library Edition (February 20, 2013), Dark Horse Comics.
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Neo Bahamut
Well, how long was this journey? Because the city could have expanded a lot.	 2015-09-16T08:09:37Z
Gilgamesh777
Based on what we've seen in the comics, I don't think Republic City has been built yet. I think the land where the Earthen Fire Refin...	 2016-11-08T14:40:47Z
So far we have only seen Republic City, but how urban is the United Republic? Is there other notable settlements today of similar size and notoriety, etc.?
Kubernes
DrachenRitter42 wrote:That could be the case - maybe at that point, knowing that it could be countered at any rate, Zuko simply didn't f...	 2015-10-30T21:49:40Z
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Zuko could have learned it eventually I mean why not learn it?	 2015-11-15T21:13:47Z
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Q: Customize the Airplay button's appearance I use a standard gradient overlay (done in photoshop) to make buttons look nicer in my app. I added an Airplay button, but the aesthetics are not matching.

I really want to put a gradient layer over it so it matches, but anything I can find only shows how to do this with a png, not an existing UIView. If not the gradient layer, I just need someway, any way, to change the appearance of the Apple airplay button while keeping its functionality intact.
The setup code is simple:
MPVolumeView *volumeView = [[MPVolumeView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[volumeView setShowsVolumeSlider:NO];
[bottomPanel addSubview:volumeView];

How can I get the appearance of this to match my controls?

A: Update: As of iOS 13, this method is deprecated!
I think there's a better solution to this since iOS 6:
Use
- (void)setRouteButtonImage:(UIImage *)image forState:(UIControlState)state;
on MPVolumeView.
See
https://developer.apple.com/Library/ios/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPVolumeView_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/MPVolumeView/setRouteButtonImage:forState:

A: The above code didn't work for me (as the AirPlay button is added later). As a workaround you can a standard UIButton in your UI and trigger an AirPlay in a (hidden) MPVolumeView button with
for (UIButton *button in volumeView.subviews)
{
    if ([button isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]])
    {
        [button sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    }
}

A side effect is that the button doesn't auto hide when only one route is available, which may or may not be desired behavior.

A: I finally found a bluetooth headset so that I could test the button. Changing its appearance was very simple. Here's the code:
for (UIButton *button in volumeView.subviews) {
    if ([button isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
        [button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"custom-route-button.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [button sizeToFit];
    }
}

That's all there's to it.

A: After accepting @Erik B's answer and awarding the bounty to him, I found that there was more tweaking necessary to get it to work. I am posting here for the benefit of future SO searchers.
The problem I was seeing was that the internal mechanisms of the buttons would assign the image based on the current airplay state. Thus any customizations I made during init would not stick if the Airplay receiver went away, or the state was changed somehow. To solve this, I setup a KVO observation on the button's alpha key. I noticed that the button is always faded in/out which is an animation on alpha.
MPVolumeView *volumeView = [[MPVolumeView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
[volumeView setShowsVolumeSlider:NO];
for (UIButton *button in volumeView.subviews) {
    if ([button isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
        self.airplayButton = button; // @property retain
        [self.airplayButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"airplay.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [self.airplayButton setBounds:CGRectMake(0, 0, kDefaultIconSize, kDefaultIconSize)];
        [self.airplayButton addObserver:self forKeyPath:@"alpha" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
    }
}
[volumeView sizeToFit];

Then I observe the changed value of the buttons alpha.
- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath ofObject:(id)object change:(NSDictionary *)change context:(void *)context {
    if ([object isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]] && [[change valueForKey:NSKeyValueChangeNewKey] intValue] == 1) {
        [(UIButton *)object setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"airplay.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [(UIButton *)object setBounds:CGRectMake(0, 0, kDefaultIconSize, kDefaultIconSize)];
    }
}

Don't forget to remove the observer if you destroy the button
- (void)dealloc {
    [self.airplayButton removeObserver:self forKeyPath:@"alpha"];
    …
}

Based on code observation, the button will break if Apple changes the internal view hierarchy of the MPVolumeView to add/remove/alter the views such that a different button comes up. This makes it kind of fragile, so use at your own risk, or come up with a plan b in case this happens. I have been using it for over a year in production with no issues. If you want to see it in action, check out the main player screen in Ambiance

A: I created a custom method which works perfectly...
-(void)airplayIcon:(CGRect)rect {
    UIView *aiplayView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.bounds];
    aiplayView.clipsToBounds = true;
    aiplayView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
    [self addSubview:aiplayView];

    MPVolumeView *airplayVolume = [[MPVolumeView alloc] initWithFrame:aiplayView.bounds];
    airplayVolume.showsVolumeSlider = false;
    [aiplayView addSubview:airplayVolume];

    for (UIButton *button in airplayVolume.subviews) {
        [button setFrame:self.bounds];
        if ([button isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            [button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"normal.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
            [button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"selected.png"] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
            [button sizeToFit];

        }

    }

}


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Q: Name of a Control Can I ask for help on something that has me really puzzled? I have written a small function to demonstrate:
void Test()
{
    CheckBox checkBox1 = new CheckBox();
    string temp = checkBox1.Name;
}

temp is an empty string after this has run. Since "checkBox1" is not the Name of the control what is it?

A: checkBox1 is a variable name or an instance name of the CheckBox class, e.g. I have a pet dog (class), its name is Benji (variable name).
.Name is a property of this CheckBox control, a piece of information you can store in this control. See reference.

A: As others have pointed out, the Name property of the CheckBox will have no value until one is assigned. In addition, I would recommend using the nameof keyword in this context. This way, if you refactor the variable itself to something other than checkBox1 then the Name property will follow the new name.
This code snippet in the MainForm class adds a checkbox. If you look at the temp variable now, it should contain the expected value.
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
    base.OnLoad(e);

    CheckBox checkBox1 = new CheckBox
    {
        Name = nameof(checkBox1),
        Text = "Example",
        Location = new Point(10,10),
    };
    Controls.Add(checkBox1);

    string temp = checkBox1.Name;
}


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Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Edward Kleban. Directed and Choreographed by Kurt Domoney.
A Broadway chorus audition comes to life in one of the most celebrated musicals of all time with a brilliantly complex fusion of song, dance, and drama. Exploring the inner lives and poignant ambitions of professional chorus dancers, this Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning show features one powerhouse number after another including "What I Did for Love, "One," "At the Ballet," "The Music and the Mirror," and "I Hope I Get It." Instantly recognized as a classic when it premiered in 1975, A CHORUS LINE ran for a record-breaking fifteen years and is beloved by generations as the ultimate tribute to Broadway musical theatre.


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Under pressure...🧨 October 9th 2020
Happy Friday! 💃 Here's what everyone's been talking about this week...
Big Tech gets scolded for snapping up startups
Earlier this week, the House Democrats dropped a massive 449-page document dragging Big Tech through the dirt. The report, which contained evidence collected over the past 16 months, compared Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook to "oil barons and railroad tycoons," and accused them of holding monopoly power.
Big Tech hit back, trying to defend itself -- but the walls are closing in. This report is just one of an increasing number of investigations into the companies. The FTC's investigation into Big Tech's business practices is ongoing, and the Trump administration is anticipated to launch an antitrust investigation into Google any day now.
None of the most successful startups have been founded since 2004. One hypothesis for this is that new startups have been acquired by bigger companies before they've had a chance to compete.
YouTube was founded in 2005 and acquired by YouTube in 2006 for approximately $1.65 billion. Earlier this year, Google revealed for the first time that YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business.
Instagram was founded in 2010 and acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion. By 2018, Bloomberg estimated that Instagram was worth over $100 billion.**
Less valuable startups founded since 2000 and subsequently acquired by FAAMNG include:
GitHub (acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in stock in 2018)
LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016)
WhatsApp (acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in Facebook shares -- a total of $16 billion).
🔥 Facebook's feeling the heat 🔥
It's probably just a total coincidence that right as the antitrust doc dropped, Facebook immediately announced that it will ban QAnon from all of its platforms after months of pressure. Some people have accused Facebook of purposely timing the announcement for the same hour as the most significant antitrust investigation in history.
Strangely enough, Facebook seemed to get off the lightest of all companies in the antitrust investigation. It was mentioned only 944 times (vs. 1,285 for Apple, 1,861 for Amazon, and 1,966 for Google).
Facebook was accused of holding monopoly power in online advertising and social networking, and maintaining this through "acquire, copy, or kill" threats. Interestingly, ad tech was mentioned only 15 times within the report -- despite being the basis of Facebook's monopoly.
On Wednesday, Facebook announced it will halt political ads -- but not until after the polls close. This announcement follows a similar measure by Google a couple of weeks ago.
As Charlie Warzel wrote yesterday, Facebook's recent actions "are a tacit admission that what is good for Facebook is, on the whole, destabilizing for society".
Unfortunately, Facebook is slamming the barn door long after the horse has bolted. What we're seeing now looks like a desperate attempt to reduce liability.
Wait...Microsoft has an App Store?!
Ever since Epic Games kicked up a stink about Apple's 30% payment cut earlier this year and launched its #FreeFortnite campaign, Apple has been under increasing pressure to change its App Store policies.
Last month, a group of Apple's biggest critics -- including Spotify, Basecamp, ProtonMail, and Blix -- came together to create the Coalition for App Fairness, an organisation designed to "ensure a level playing field for platforms like Apple and a consistent standard of conduct across the app ecosystem".
To add salt to Apple's wounds -- and also in an attempt to let the world know that it actually has an App Store -- Microsoft has announced '10 App Store principles' for its Windows 10 App Store.
Some of these principles include:
letting users choose their own payment system for in-app purchases
allowing competing app stores on its platform
allowing creators to choose what they want to sell within their app
Interestingly, Microsoft still takes a 30% cut of all Xbox purchases, which it has justified by claiming that this is "more specialised" and requires expensive hardware that is subsidised through game sales.
Pando's top stories this week...
Alex Coad discusses the dark side of innovation 🦹
The long-term properties of recent innovations, such as their side effects on public health or their ability to be broken down and assimilated into the environment at the end of the product's life, are mostly unknown.
Even after taking longer life expectancies and improved cancer detection into account, there remains a statistical relationship whereby cancer rates are higher in richer industrialised countries.
Allergies such as asthma are becoming more prevalent in many industrialized societies except – interestingly enough – in Amish communities that shun many modern innovations. Human sperm counts have dropped over 50% in the period 1973-2011, but we don't know why.
By the time we fully come to terms with the dark side of innovation, it may be too late.
Fake viral threads are flooding Twitter...again
A global pandemic has done little to dissuade sleazy weight-loss marketers. Their ability to hustle and ignore the consequences puts even Gary Vee to shame.
There's a new set of viral threads circling Twitter posing as a young girl named 'Erin' who is documenting a fake weight-loss transformation. Hidden within the tweet thread is a link for -- yes, you guessed it -- diet pills.
It's not the first time this has happened. In 2015, a single individual was found to have created over 750,000 fake Twitter accounts to peddle Green Coffee Bean Extract (also a type of diet pill!).
In 2018, a VICE article uncovered a fake viral tweet that had stolen a fetish model's photos and told a fake domestic abuse story just to try and sell 'skinny tea'.
Despite reporting the thread multiple times over a week ago, Twitter has so far failed to do anything about it. So far, the tweet in question has been shared over 4,500 times. Many of the accounts reposting it are fake.
This week's newsletter was written by Aimee Pearcy.
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As Halloween deadline nears, Democrats spooked over highway law
Lawmakers have until Sunday to pass the pending bipartisan infrastructure bill or another extension
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., said because his state's gubernatorial race is so tight, passing the bipartisan bill by Virginia Election Day may make a difference. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 27, 2021 at 11:44am
The House appears increasingly unlikely to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill this week, with progressives vowing not to vote for it until they can also vote on a larger package of President Joe Biden's domestic priorities.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Washington Democrat who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Tuesday that a framework alone would not suffice in convincing members of her caucus to back the bipartisan plan, which would reauthorize surface transportation programs and include $550 billion for roads, highways, water, broadband and other built infrastructure.
"If there's agreement in the Senate moving forward and the president has an ironclad commitment from all 50 senators, we will vote both of them out of the House," she said, but said any vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill has to occur concurrently with the vote on the larger domestic package.
Meanwhile, the current extension of the 2015 surface transportation law expires Oct. 31, meaning lawmakers have until Sunday to pass the overall bipartisan bill or a third short-term extension of the 2015 law.
If they don't act, the current highway law will expire, potentially causing furloughs at the Department of Transportation and stalling some state DOT work.
[Short-term highway bill extension brings anxiety to contractors]
Beyond that, Democrats see a second, potentially consequential impact. They worry that failure to pass the bill by next week will affect the Nov. 2 Virginia gubernatorial race between Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat and former governor, and Republican Glenn Youngkin.
"I think it has an impact — a limited impact, but an impact," said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va.
Connolly said because the gubernatorial race is so tight, passing the bipartisan bill by Nov. 2 may make a difference. Doing so, he said, "is a credential in (Democrats') assertion that when you give us the levers of power, we use them for the public good. And if we fail in doing that, it's just one less argument for us and one more argument against us. In a close race, that's not helpful."
The Virginia election presents an argument for urgency even as it looks increasingly likely that the House will pass another short-term extension of the current law.
Congress passed its most recent extension of the law Oct. 2 under a sword of Damocles: Lawmakers worried that if they extended the bill beyond a month, they would have to transfer money from general revenue to keep federal highway programs afloat, effectively a "bailing out" of a fund paid for through the gas tax.
Cash on hand
But that urgency abated last week when the Federal Highway Administration assured congressional offices that the Highway Account was higher than initially expected. The department projects the gas-tax-funded highway account to end the calendar year with roughly $9.4 billion.
"A General Fund transfer may not be necessary through the end of the calendar year," the FHWA wrote in guidance to Congress.
Still, lawmakers are hesitant to pass a short-term extension, saying they'd prefer instead to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill the Senate approved Aug. 10. That bill includes a full five-year reauthorization of surface transportation programs.
"Our focus is to pass in the House the bipartisan infrastructure bill," said Sen. Thomas R. Carper, the Delaware Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "That takes care of the funding for roads, highways and bridges for the next five years. And right now that's where we're putting our energy."
Progressives have said they will not pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill until they can vote on the larger bill. That legislation has been held up in the Senate, where Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are working to strike a deal with Biden and fellow Democrats on a smaller package. All 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus must support the larger bill for it to pass under budget reconciliation rules, due to Republican opposition .
But House progressives reiterated Tuesday that they want to see all 50 Democratic senators agree on a reconciliation package, approved by Biden, before they'll vote on the infrastructure package.
That doesn't necessarily mean a vote in the Senate, but does mean the House will have to take up both packages at the same time, said Jayapal.
Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., a member of the progressive caucus, said he too wants "full confidence" that whatever they vote on in the House will be supported by all 50 Democrats in the Senate.
He said he doubted the infrastructure bill's passage would have an impact on the Virginia gubernatorial race.
"I don't think a voter deciding state politics in Virginia is deciding whether or not we're doing something on a certain day that you guys are reporting," he said. "It's three-dimensional chess in a world that largely plays checkers."
Lindsey McPherson contributed to this report.


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Glenside to Get Drugs Instead of Update
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The government has once again pushed aside urgently needed upgrades at Glenside in favour of building a mega facility to house Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia (DASSA) it has been revealed in documents obtained under Freedom of Information.
The DASSA treatment facilities at Joslin, Norwood and North Adelaide which currently provide outpatient alcohol and detoxification services and inpatient services of up to 22 beds have been deemed 'inefficient' and 'old' and the document warns that without a rebuild, the services currently being delivered by DASSA are not 'financially viable'.
Shadow Health Minister Vickie Chapman said the Rann Government today admitted that it had made up its mind to sell off DASSA's lucrative real estate and move its facilities to a purpose-built mega-structure on the Glenside Campus at a cost of $9.9 million.
"The supposed consultation with the Social Inclusion Board regarding the new focus on Glenside is a sham, the government had already made up its mind to use the Glenside site for something other than mental health when they first did their back flip on the issue in February." Ms Chapman said.
"They will move DASSA's facilities to Glenside and in doing so jeopardise both the existing services currently offered by Glenside Hospital and by DASSA. This is once again proof of the government's soft approach and lack of commitment to Glenside Hospital and mental health.
"What we need to know is what is the government's plan for Glenside Hospital and can they guarantee that the facilities at the Glenside campus will be updated for the purpose of providing the State with a more effective mental health service."
Shadow Mental Health and Substance Abuse Minister Michelle Lensink said that, "Given the Rann Government's election commitment to maintain Glenside for mental health services, what the community deserves to know is whether Premier Rann will ensure that his government does not squander $9.9 million on capital works.
"Instead the government's pledge on Glenside should be honoured by upgrading what the government itself referred to as the 'outdated and really on its knees' facility of Glenside Hospital and providing this state with the best possible mental health services."
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Elgin ready to accept $250,000 grant for police body cams
By Mike Danahey
| Elgin Courier-News |
Nov 03, 2015 | 11:28 AM
Elgin Police Sgt. Rob Hartman shows a body-worn camera that can be attached to a pair of sunglasses. Because of the shape of the lens piece, the unit is called a lipstick camera. (Janelle Walker / The Courier-News)
The Elgin City Council Wednesday night is poised to accept up to $250,000 in federal grant money to set up a body-worn camera program for Elgin's police department.
Police officials on Monday, though, said it would be sometime early next year before any cameras are purchased and an effort beyond field testing models subsequently launched.
Police in September told the City Council they hoped to have a report and recommendation ready by the end of October. Police Chief Jeff Swoboda said officers just started testing another model last week, and the department is working to secure at least one more style to try in advance of any purchase.
"We're learning there are quite a few brands that might be worth investigating," Swoboda said.
The police department received notification that it would be receiving the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in September. The grant requires Elgin to match any dollar amount used, up to the $250,000, Police Cmdr. Ana Lalley said, meaning up to $500,000 could be used to start Elgin's program.
"We want to be smart about using the money," Lalley said.
"This would be a good expenditure," Elgin Mayor Dave Kaptain said. "In the wake of incidents in recent years across the country, the community brought up Elgin police having body cameras. Having them could reduce the number of such incidents across the country and potentially prevent anything from happening here. They make things safer for everybody."
"The cameras not only offer protection for citizens, but also for police and the city," Councilman Terry Gavin said. "Looking at the big picture, for the city — while we haven't had any issues like this in Elgin — the cameras have the potential for preventing unwarranted lawsuits."
Elgin's police department formed a committee of employees in 2014 to look into getting body cameras. Over the last few months, eight police officers have been field-testing five brands of cameras.
Swoboda and Lalley plan to continue testing equipment through the end of this year, then prepare a report and recommendation within the first two months of next year. Police would then seek proposals and ultimately City Council approval for the buy.
With a final decision on which to purchase yet to be made, no city expenditures are being requested Wednesday. Elgin plans to use drug asset forfeiture fund money to match the grant.
The body camera units cost $500 to $700 each, Lalley said. The cost for all 180 members of the department getting body-worn cameras would range from $90,000 — $126,000. Elgin police have had dashboard cameras for 13 years.
Lalley and Swoboda noted that other costs would include a storage and retrieval system for the recorded information and software to redact images. The department also has to decide who would oversee the collected video, who would maintain equipment and who would handle public requests for information — and if that might involve hiring one or more employees.
In Illinois, the Police and Community Relations Improvement Act sets protocols for use of the cameras for departments. Among its provisions, the act requires cameras worn by police to be capable of recording up to 10 hours of footage, and must be activated "at all times when the officer is in uniform and responding to calls for service or engaged in any law enforcement-related encounter or activity, that occurs while the officer is on-duty." The equipment must be on when police are with community members and at crime scenes, and can be off when talking to a source or at the request of witnesses or crime victims.
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Police testing the equipment have noted that in hold mode, the cameras are designed to record short clips, then erase those files a short time later. And when an officer hits record, the prior 30 seconds will be recalled and saved so police can review what happened just before the matter in question.
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Some models already tested by Elgin police have lenses attached to headgear, while others have a unit about the size of a garage door opener clipped on police vests. Information is stored locally on the camera and downloaded when police return to headquarters. Cameras also can't be charged through vehicles but have to be docked to do so.
Whatever is decided, Lalley said the plan would probably roll out camera use in waves, with police who have the most contact with the public — such as patrol officers and drug and gang enforcement detail — among the first to have the equipment.
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Huh? Oh, that's actually kind of clever.
What? Wah? Phew! [Sighs] - Done! Hey, Pan Pan.
- Aah! Look who came back with perfect teeth.
[Ting!] [Ting!] Oh, that's nice.
Okay I hate going to the dentist.
I see you bears are showing off your smiles.
[Ting!] [Ting!] Anyway, I'm ready to see you, Panda.
Clark? - Wait, you're a dentist, too? Oh, yeah.
- Grizzly: Dang, doc, that's impressive.
- Ice Bear: Ice Bear has more.
- Now let's go check those teeth, huh? - Okay.
[Chuckles] Here I go! Wish me luck, guys.
You've got perfect teeth Ah, it's a miracle! is what I would've said if that were the case.
- In fact, you need braces.
- Braces?! Although your teeth look fine now, as time goes on, your teeth will keep shifting until five years from now, you'll look like this.
Do whatever you need to do, doc.
And I was like, you put that salad on a pizza, and then I'll eat it.
And he did! Hey bears, your brother's all finished.
He had a minor tooth adjustment, and this is all your insurance would cover.
[Crackle!] [Gasps] [Stifled laugh] What is it, guys?! What's wrong?! Wha Oh my gosh! I'm hideous! [Crackle! Static!] Huh? Doc, what's going on with my phone? Hmm.
Looks like there's some electrical interference because of all the metal on you.
It's perfectly normal, although I've never put braces - on a bear before.
- Aah! I'm a monster! - Well, if anything gets out of hand - Oh, why me! [Sobbing] If anything gets out of hand, here's my card.
Well, Panda, I'll leave you to your healing.
Hey Pan Pan, it's not that bad.
- You want to watch an anime? - Anime? Yeah, let's go home, buddy.
I mean, we got a bunch of stuff.
- There's that ninja one - [Laughs] Hey, you look funny! - What? - La, la, la, la, la, la, la [Bell rings] Nice headgear, dork! - Me? - Eww.
- [Laughs] - What is he wearing? Aww.
You alright, Panda? [Groans] Gah! Curse these braces! [Crackle!] [Static!] Oh! Bro, look at this! Did your braces do this?! Ooh, see if you can turn it back on! Grizz, that's ridiculous.
Do you really think my braces did that? Come on.
No, I've already been put down Just point your head at the TV's and Grizz, get off me! [Crackle!] - Huh? - [Laughs] It worked! Yo, see if you can turn one off.
[Grunting] [Crackle!] [Music] - [Laughs] - That's bonkers! Panda, the braces are giving you powers! Ice Bear had powers once.
- What else do you think you can do? - Uh, oh, I know! Come here.
[Grunts] [Beeping] Whoa, bro, you didn't even have to touch your phone! This is crazy! Okay, let's see what else you can do with your braces.
[Laughter] [Music] - I get anything I want - [Laughs] Hooray! You might see me in the park Don't even need a remote Now you see me, now you don't I control it with my head Leave you wondering where I am Don't even need a remote And I got a billboard Ooh, hey Bears rule Bears rule, bears rule [Laughs] Remember when you ripped that [Laughs] That's hilarious! - What are you even wearing, dude?! - Hey man, cut it out.
[Laughs] I'm sending this to everyone I know my bros, my mom, my dog.
- Stop teasing me! - [Singsong voice] I'm taking pictures.
- [Grunts] Stop! - I'm taking pictures Wah?! Aah! Oh! Aah! Aah! I'm so sorry! It won't happen again! Serves him right.
[Music] - Uh, Panda? - Hey.
- Uh, careful, Pan - Panda: Red light? No problem.
- Oh, I guess that wasn't too [Horn blares] [Crash!] [All gasps] [Horns honking, sirens wailing] - Aah! - Aah! Oh, no, oh, no.
Aah! [Panting] Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, man.
Panda, this is getting out of hand, man.
[Laughing crazily] Panda? [Laughing maniacally] Dude, bro, I think those braces are messing with your head.
You don't know what it's doing to my head.
You don't know what it's like to be me.
You're just jealous of me because I'm special now! - Oh, no.
- I'm special, and you're not! - Aah! What the Panda?! [Music] Ugh, he's always so dramatic with his exits.
We'll see him back home later.
Panda will definitely feel better after an ice cream sesh.
I even got him some waffle cones, his favorite.
Ice Bear also brought Panda's favorite thing, toy blasters.
Wait, I thought toy blasters were your favorite thing.
- He said he likes it, too.
- Ow! Ah! What hit me? A flying smartphone.
What? Uh, I don't think phones can do that yet.
- Headed towards the cave.
Let's go! [Panting] Don't let it get away! What in the world? Whoa.
You're getting crazy good at using your powers, Pan Pan.
Please, Grizz, do not call me "Pan Pan" anymore.
Call me Pandaro the Powerful.
Pandaro the Powerful? Well, I am powerful.
Wouldn't you agree? Look around, Grizz.
Soon I will be strong enough - to turn dreams into reality.
I am creating a new world, Grizz.
A world without pain, without loneliness.
- And I wish for you two to join me.
Just the three of us, alone.
- Um, why would we be alone? - Why else? I'm going to destroy the city along with all the mean people in it! - Wait, what?! - Is there a problem? Bro, you can't just go and destroy the city! - You've lost your mind! - Lost my mind? Lost? Lose? Loser? Are you calling me a loser?! You're just like them, those jerks in the city! Bullies! Meanies! - Always calling me a loser! - Uhh Always looking down on me! Uh, Panda? W-What are you doing to the cave? I'll show you who's a loser, Grizz! Look, let's just calm down.
Arise my meteor! Arise! Grow bigger and stronger! Whoa, what is that? Oh, man, Panda's lost it! We got to do something! - Calling Dr.
[Cellphone ringing] Speak to me.
He, um He got powers from his braces, and he started getting stronger, but he's getting all cranky, and he made a meteor I get it.
Look, all you got to do is take off his braces.
Do you see a latch under his chin? A latch under his chin? [Laughing evilly] I see it.
Remove his braces, and his powers will fade.
We can handle it from here.
Wait, did you just say a meteor [Beep] You still got the toy blasters? [Blasters clicking] You can't control cheap plastic, Panda! [Music] Yes! Bigger! Bigger! [Whoosh!] What?! Who dares [Whoosh!] Ow! Oh, I see what you're doing! You're trying to take off my braces.
Well, I'd like to see you try.
- Huh? [Click!] This ends now, Pandaro.
[Blam!] Nooooooo! - No way.
- Huh? [Cackles] [Music] I can control plastic now! [Crunch!] Oh, no, this is bad.
Finally, the world will be as it should, without teasing or mocking or bullying! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-hah! Ice Bear thinks we should find shelter.
We can't give up on him.
He's still our little Pan Pan.
Pan Pan, please! It's not too late to stop! My name is Pandaro! Aah! No! You're Pan Pan, our brother! - You're no brothers of mine! - Aah! They sought to tear me down! I was so lonely, but now I choose to be alone.
We're sorry you had to deal with that on your own! As your brothers, we should have been there for you! It's too late now.
It's too late! No, it doesn't have to be like this! There's still good in you, Panda.
But we're here now, bro.
We're with you! - We'll always be with you! - Ice Bear loves you.
Come back to us, bro.
[Groans] You you feeling better, Panda? [Music] [Crackle] Aah! No! Wait! What are you doing, Panda? Please! Aah! Gah! Aah! Aaaaaaaah! Panda, please! We love you! We love you! No, no, noooooo! No, no, no! - Huh? - I'm so sorry, guys.
I've made a terrible mistake, and you guys are right.
[Music] [Sniffles] I'll never let anger consume me like that again, I promise.
- It's okay, Pan Pan.
The most important thing is that we're safe and unharmed.
[Rumble!] - Uh, aah! - Oh, no! Despite being crushed by a giant meteor, you guys survived with barely a scratch.
Thanks, doc! You, on the other hand you're going to need to stay here for a couple of weeks.
But hey, at least you don't need braces.
It's because I don't have any teeth! Yeah, I know.
[Rattle!] - Done! - Done!