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Keegan Lowe on fighting Lecavalier: "He wanted his lick and he got it"
Vinny Lecavalier fought the rookie, making his NHL debut, twice and got hurt.
Keegan Lowe on fighting Lecavalier: "He wanted his lick and he got it" Vinny Lecavalier fought the rookie, making his NHL debut, twice and got hurt. Check out this story on courierpostonline.com: http://on.cpsj.com/1yhBFua
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Dave Isaac, @davegisaac Published 11:31 p.m. ET April 9, 2015 | Updated 11:38 p.m. ET April 9, 2015
Vinny Lecavalier fought twice in the same game for the first time in his career. (Photo: Tom Mihalek, AP)
PHILADELPHIA — Vinny Lecavalier was waiting at the Flyers' bench instead of the penalty box, figuring he'd get the extra penalty after his second fight of the night.
After twice fighting Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Keegan Lowe, who made his NHL debut, Lecavalier was given a two-minute instigator and 10-minute misconduct, which meant he was done for the second period.
He never returned for the third period and it had nothing to do with the penalties. He suffered an "upper-body injury" that's believed to be a concussion.
It's rare enough for Lecavalier, a veteran of 1,163 games, to fight at all. Twice was unprecedented and for it to be against a kid making his NHL debut...that's really strange.
"Vinny's earned the right to get respect out there and we felt that he kind of got disrespected," goalie Ray Emery said. "He took it in his own hands and stuck up for himself."
The disrespect Emery speaks of is that Lecavalier got cross-checked in the back (where he got hurt last season) a few times before being goaded into dropping his gloves. The second time, Lecavalier made sure he initiated it.
"Well obviously I was surprised," said Lowe, the son of Edmonton Oilers president Kevin Lowe. "I mean there's no love lost there. The first time it was just a battle and it ended up happening. By no means I was like 'oh this is Lecavalier'. It ended up happening, and it's hockey right? I mean I have no love lost for him. He's a great a player and he always has been. Like I said, he wanted his lick and he got it. Game's over, we got the win."
That last line might be the real disrespect.
Lowe's father, who also fought in his NHL debut (albeit only once), made the trip to Philadelphia to watch the game.
Lecavalier left Wells Fargo Center shortly after the Flyers' 4-1 loss to the Hurricanes and wasn't available for comment. The Flyers were certainly not thrilled with Lowe, who has a reputation of being a pest in the American Hockey League, and his first fight. Matt Read said it let out Lecavalier's "wild side."
"Two fights is not bad," added Jake Voracek, who has two fights this season. "Obviously it's good to see Vinny go after (him) when the season is basically (over and) we're out of the playoffs. He shows a lot of heart, a lot of character and it's good for him."
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Q: Why does a json file behave like this? There is a function (rui) that takes the number num and returns the tenth power of num. Task: to write a decorator that will cache the outputs from this function so that if a num that has already been submitted is fed to the input, the decorator will output the value from the hash table, so as not to perform the function itself. If the number is fed to the function (rui) for the first time, then the decorator will simply add num and rui(num) to the hash table. I store cache data in a json file.
import json

def decor(func):
    def wraps(num):

        with open('inf.json') as json_file:
            dictionary = json.load(json_file)

        if num not in dictionary:
            with open('inf.json', 'w') as json_file:
                dictionary.update({num : func(num)})
                json.dump(dictionary, json_file)
        return dictionary[num]
    return wraps

@decor
def rui(num):
    return num**10

Problem:
The json file is now empty. Execute:
rui(10)
rui(11)
rui(10)

According to the idea, the json file should now be like this:
{"10" : 10000000000, "11" : 25937424601}

But the json file is like this:
{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601, "10": 10000000000}

Execute again:
rui(11)
rui(10)
rui(10)
rui(15)
rui(15)

json file:
{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601, "15": 576650390625, "15": 576650390625}

A: OK, here's the problem: when you serialize to JSON, the keys must be strings. However, your inputs are int objects. I had never noticed this before, but something like {'10': 'x', 10:'y'} will get serialized to'{"10": "x", "10": "y"}'!
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps({'10': 'x', 10:'y'})
'{"10": "x", "10": "y"}'

To me, this just seems like aberrant behavior, but it seems to be a consequence of the fact that Python allows any hashable objects as a key, but JSON only accepts strings, and the JSON implementation just naively converts to string whatever key is there.
My suggestion is to simply use another serialization format, e.g. pickle, or alternatively, so some extra work around serialization:
import json

def decor(func):
    def wraps(num):

        with open('inf.json') as json_file:
            dictionary = dict(json.load(json_file))

        if num not in dictionary:
            with open('inf.json', 'w') as json_file:
                dictionary[num] = func(num)
                json.dump(list(dictionary.items()), json_file)
        return dictionary[num]
    return wraps

As an aside, you may want to reconsider whether the deserialization/serialization should happen on each decorated function call, or rather, only once.

A: Simple, try as this, e.g. a list/dict comp to convert keys of the int to a str type:
>>> import json
>>> obj = {"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601, 10: 10000000000}
>>> json.dumps(obj)
'{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601, "10": 10000000000}'
>>> # oh no, YIKES!
>>> obj = {str(k): v for k: v in obj.items()}
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    obj = {str(k): v for k: v in obj.items()}
                          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> obj = {str(k): v for k, v in obj.items()}
>>> json.dumps(obj)
'{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601}'
>>> # oh, SNAP!

For the data that is to be deeply nested, use a recursive function would be a good as the below shows it:
import json

def dump_it_plis(o):
    return json.dumps(inner_dump_it(o))
def inner_dump_it(o):
    return {str(k): inner_dump_it(v) if isinstance(v, dict)
    else [inner_dump_it(e) for e in v] if isinstance(v, list)
    else v
     for k, v in o.items()}

obj = {"lst": [{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601, 10: 10000000000}]}
print(json.dumps(obj))
# this is print:
#  {"lst": [{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601, "10": 10000000000}]}
print(dump_it_plis(obj))
# this is print:
#  {"lst": [{"10": 10000000000, "11": 25937424601}]}

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Tanjung Selor es la capital de la provincia de Kalimantan del Norte (Indonesia) y de la regencia de Bulungan. Se encuentra entre las capitales provinciales de Indonesia que a partir de 2021 aún no tienen estatus de ciudad, junto con Mamuju en Sulawesi Occidental, Sofifi en Maluku del Norte, Nabire en Papúa Central, Wamena en Papúa del Altiplano, Merauke en Papúa Meridional y Manokwari en Papúa Occidental. El distrito tiene una superficie de 677,77 km² y una población de 39.439 habitantes en el censo de 2010 y de 56.569 en el de 2020.

Historia
Tanjung Selor era una pequeña ciudad-mercado del sultanato de Bulungan, que más tarde pasó a depender de las Indias Orientales Neerlandesas. Tras la Revolución Nacional Indonesia, pasó a formar parte de la Swapraja (Región Real Autónoma) de Bulungan en virtud del Decreto nº 186/ORB/92/14/1950 del entonces gobernador de la provincia de Kalimantan. Posteriormente volvió a transformarse en la Región Especial de Bulungan en virtud de la Ley nº 22 de 1955. En 1959, el sultanato fue abolido y se convirtió en una región administrativa de segundo nivel, ahora denominada regencia.

Tanjung Selor se separó del distrito de Tanjung Palas, en virtud de la Ley de Regencia de Bulungan nº 13 de 2002, junto con otros siete nuevos distritos tras la descentralización. Antes de la creación de la nueva provincia de Kalimantan Septentrional, escindida de Kalimantan Oriental, se decidió ubicar la capital provincial en Kalimantan continental en lugar de en la entonces mayor ciudad provincial de Tarakan, que es una isla. Así, Tanjung Selor es una de las pocas capitales de provincia indonesias creadas desde cero, junto con Sofifi y Palangka Raya. Sin embargo, por razones financieras, la moratoria del Presidente Joko Widodo sobre la creación de administraciones de segundo nivel ha impedido hasta ahora conceder a Tanjung Selor el estatus de ciudad. A partir de 2022, Kalimantan del Norte seguirá siendo una de las pocas provincias indonesias cuya capital no tenga estatus de ciudad.

Geografía
El distrito es en su mayor parte una región llana y baja con colinas cuya altura varía de 0 a 500 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Limita al norte con el distrito de Tanjung Palas Central, al este y al sur con el distrito de Tanjung Palas Oriental y al oeste con el río Kayan. El suelo del distrito es ácido, con un pH que oscila entre 4 y 6. Otro río, el Selor, también atraviesa el distrito.

Clima
Tanjung Selor tiene un clima de selva tropical (Köppen Af) con abundantes precipitaciones durante todo el año.

Economía
El uso agrícola de la tierra incluye chiles, tomates, jengibre, galangal y cúrcuma. La producción de chile fue de 337 toneladas en 2019, con 295 toneladas de tomates, 57 toneladas de jengibre, 52 toneladas de galangal y cuatro toneladas de cúrcuma. El distrito también incluye sectores de plantaciones que producen mangos, cítricos, durianes y plátanos. Hay 68 restaurantes registrados en el distrito a partir de 2019 y 12 tiendas de conveniencia. También hay 11 hoteles a partir de 2019. Doce bancos operan en el distrito, de los cuales nueve son sucursales de bancos estatales, dos son bancos privados y uno, el Banco de Crédito Popular, es un BPR de propiedad municipal. También hay 45 cooperativas registradas.

Gobernanza

Como distrito, es una región administrativa de tercer nivel dependiente de una regencia. El jefe de distrito (camat) es nombrado directamente por el regente con la recomendación del secretario de la regencia. Tanjung Selor no tiene parlamento, El distrito está dividido en nueve aldeas urbanas (kelurahan).

 Gunung Seriang
 Tanjung Selor Hulu
 Jelarai Selor
 Gunung Sari
 Bumi Rahayu
 Apung
 Tengkapak
 Tanjung Selor Este
 Tanjung Selor Hilir

A nivel de regencia, el distrito, junto con Tanjung Palas Oriental, forma parte del primer distrito electoral de Bulungan, que envía 11 representantes al parlamento a nivel de regencia. Las últimas elecciones se celebraron en 2019, y las próximas están previstas para 2024.

Infraestructuras

El distrito cuenta con el aeropuerto de Tanjung Harapan. Todas las carreteras del distrito están asfaltadas y en buen estado a partir de 2020, según Statistics Indonesia. A partir de 2019, el distrito cuenta con 35 escuelas primarias, 19 escuelas secundarias, 10 escuelas secundarias superiores, tres escuelas secundarias de formación profesional y tres instituciones de educación superior. También hay un hospital, 11 clínicas de salud gubernamentales puskesmas, tres clínicas adicionales, siete centros de atención médica y 17 farmacias. A la mayor parte del distrito llega la señal inalámbrica 4G y los servicios básicos de telecomunicaciones. El hospital del distrito, el Hospital Regional Dr. H. Soemarno Sosroatmojo, es un hospital público propiedad del gobierno de la regencia; construido en 1984, está clasificado como hospital de clase C por el Ministerio de Sanidad.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial de Bulungan Regency

Capitales de provincia de Indonesia
Localidades de Borneo Septentrional

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Biden's 'Build Back Better' is Bunk
October 11, 2020 by keichri
Michael Cutler, Dems' plans to import tens of millions of immigrant children prove it.
Despite the optimistic campaign slogan "Build Back Better," in reality, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and their Radical Leftist political cohorts are waging a war against America and Americans because they know that For Dems to Succeed, Americans Must Fail.
Not unlike most politicians, Biden and Harris promise that if they are elected they will create tens of millions of high-paying jobs.
Of course they won't tell you how they would create those jobs other than to make some vague statements about how the "Green New Deal" would create jobs as buildings, including houses, will have to be retrofitted to meet the new environmental standards that will be imposed on landlords across the U.S.
They never say who would pay for retrofitting those buildings or what would happen if the owners of the properties are unable to come up with the funding to modify their structures. (Would such property owners have the property confiscated by the Biden administration? No one is discussing this disturbing possibility.)
Meanwhile, Biden and Harris state that if elected they would defund the Border Patrol, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and decriminalize nearly every violation of our immigration laws including unlawful entry and re-entry and, presumably, immigration fraud.
Biden and Harris also insist, as did Hillary Clinton during her unsuccessful run for the Presidency inn 2016, that they would immediately create a massive legalization program for what they estimate are 11 million illegal aliens who are already present in the United States and place them on a path to U.S. citizenship.
That 11 million figure has been claimed by supposed journalists for more than a decade.
It has, however, been estimated that the number of illegal aliens who could be a population of more than 25 millions illegal aliens. I believe that even that number is much smaller than he actual number of aliens who would participate. Back in 1985 the Reagan Amnesty that was part and parcel of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 was supposed to provide roughly one million illegal aliens with lawful status. In reality the final number was between 3.5 million and 4 million.
I addressed this issue in my recent article, Comprehensive Immigration Reform Should be Renamed the "Overwhelm America Act" in which I noted that on September 21, 2018 Yale University reported Yale Study Finds Twice as Many Undocumented Immigrants as Previous Estimates. That report, published just over two years ago noted:
Using mathematical modeling on a range of demographic and immigration operations data, the researchers estimate there are 22.1 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
However, as large as the number of illegal aliens who would be eligible to participate in such an ill-conceived program, the ultimate number of aliens who would be provided with lawful status would, in reality, be a multiple of the number of illegal aliens who are present in the United States.
This is because each and every legalized alien would immediately have the absolute right to immediately petition to have their spouses and all of their minor children to be lawfully admitted to the United States.
Many families in Third World Countries have large numbers of children. If, for argument sake 25 million illegal aliens were to participate in the Biden/Harris Amnesty and if the average alien has four children, we could witness an immediate influx of 100 million alien children enter the United States!
One of the key issues for the Radical Left is the environment.
Every person in the United States has an ecological and economic footprint. Each person needs more than a place to sleep. They all need water, food, electricity, sewerage, transportation and healthcare.
As roads and transportation and infrastructure become overwhelmed, traffic will grind to a halt while pollution from cars, busses and trucks spew into the atmosphere. There are parts of the country that experience droughts and electrical brownouts. How would this massive influx of immigrants impact these struggling systems?
These tens of millions of immigrant children will all need to attend schools in the United States. In 2007, nearly 14 years ago, the Congressional Budget Office published a paper, The Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments That report estimated that there were about 12 million illegal aliens present in the United States at the time the report was published. It also noted that it costs 20% to 40% more to educate children who lack English language proficiency.
How sustainable would this situation be?
Now consider that among the proposals for Biden/Harris is that everyone in the United Stats, regardless of immigration status would be entitled to free health care and free college education.
How would our government cover the huge expenses that this would cost?
How would hospitals be able to treat all of these people? There are communities today that already lack adequate health care facilities and capabilities. Imagine how long the waiting lines in emergency rooms would stretch as seriously ill patients from around the world would flood these emergency rooms.
Add to this is Biden and Harris' stated goal of creating immigration anarchy, with the promise of free health care would turn our entire country into the world's ER!
America would become a magnate for the world's sick. Our immigration laws make no distinction about race, religion or ethnicity.
8 U.S. Code § 1182 – Inadmissible aliens enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded. Among these classes of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the United States are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable, diseases or extreme mental illness.
Additionally, convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies are to be excluded as well as aliens who would seek unlawful employment thus displacing American workers or driving down the wages of American workers who are similarly employed and aliens who would likely become public charges.
Without enforcement the concerns about the entry of aliens with dangerous communicable diseases will go unaddressed. Aliens from around the world who suffer from such dangerous communicable diseases would head for the United States to seek free treatment.
This could and would likely lead to multiple epidemics of dangerous diseases in the United States.
Hasn't the COVID-19 Pandemic from China taught Biden or Harris anything?
The loss of secure borders that would result from the Biden/Harris immigration policies would leave America vulnerable to narcotics, transnational gangs and terrorists. The 9/11 Commission. to which I provided testimony, identified multiple failures of the immigration system as being directly responsible for the ability of terrorists, and not only 9/11 hijacker terrorists, to enter the United States and embed themselves as they went about their deadly preparations.
Under the massive Biden/Harris amnesty program, national security would be irreparably undermined. Because of the huge number of illegal aliens who could apply for lawful status, in-person interviews could not be conducted and field investigation would be out of the question. Adjudications officers would have to make quick decisions based nearly entirely on the information provided in the applications for legalization. This program would suffer from massive fraud and the 9/11 Commission, to which I provided testimony, identified immigration fraud as the key method of entry and embedding for international terrorists. This issue was the predication and my focus in my extensive article, Immigration Fraud: Lies That Kill.
The obvious question that has never been asked of candidates for the President or other significant elected offices since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 is, "Have you read the 9/11 Commission Report and the companion report that was prepared by the 9/11 Commission staff, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel?"
Recently we have seen where the weapon of choice for terrorists is not airliners but motor vehicles. Yet Democrat-run states such as New York State not only provides illegal aliens with driver's licenses, but New York State Blocks ICE and Border Patrol Access to DMV Database.
Finally, let us go back to the issue of those amazing jobs Mr. Biden claims he would provide for millions of struggling Americans. In some of his campaign ads Biden speaks so wistfully about his father telling him when he was a boy that jobs not only provide money but dignity and a sense of purpose.
Of course that statement about the significance of jobs is accurate. Extremely accurate.
However- with no secure borders and a massive influx of tens of millions of immigrant children who will quickly become adults and flood the labor pool, the Biden/Harris immigration policies would drive down wages and force hapless Americans to compete with tens of millions of foreign born workers for those ever so important jobs.
Barack Obama promised "shovel ready jobs" and now Biden has come up with a "shovel ready" job, shoveling the BS that he and Kamala spew when they make promises that are nothing but bald-faced lies that would irrevocably alter America- and not for the better!
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Is One Writer Really Better than Another? Isn't It All Personal Taste?
J. Mark Bertrand points out a couple podcasts he participated in during this summer's Worldview Academy. (part 1, part 2)They are the two parts of an interesting discussion on why we should care about literature.
In the second part, I believe Mark makes a great point about the instincts of his students. Though they may question how someone can say one writer is better than another, they fully understand how someone can say one band is better than another. Personal taste does come into play a bit, but an experienced listener can make a good case that one band, even a band he doesn't enjoy, is more skilled than another. The same with writers. There's more to be said, but I'll leave it there.
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Alan of Thinklings is talking about an article in which Peter Leithart argues that Modern Protestants can't write. He says it has something to do with Zwingli. Maybe I'm in a mood tonight, but I find that I don't care. I don't care why we haven't written well in the past. Some write now, and no light-weight, commercially successful novel from an evangelical author takes away from their artist effort. God will raise up artwork to glorify himself. I don't care who complains about, heh, mere entertainment.
The Thinklings carry on part of the discussion in relation to movies.
Ensign, Read at Will. Dismissed.
Book World declares today "a reading at whim day." Reading goals are out the window.
For Independence Day, Junk Yard Blog quotes from ancient Episcopalian wisdom, which may have little to do with modern church leadership.
ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will.
Blogger SeeDubya calls the modern Episcopal church the Shasta Cola of Anglicanism.
He also points to some good parodies of the NY Times and others, including this one on Powerlineblog.com which shows the Times blowing the cover on colonial plans to announce the attack of the British.
Summary: The son of a nobleman journeys to a beautiful southern city for extensive training and is caught up in an adventure which appears to be the harbinger of an epic war.
Beyond the Summerland, the first of five in the Binding of the Blade series, is a fairly exciting story once you get into it. Joraiem, the son of one of the nobles who rule Kirthanin, is of the age to go to the Summerland for the political, physical, and academic training that all of the young nobility receive. Along the way, he meets several interesting people who will also be trained for leadership, the most interesting being a large warrior who carries an ancient sword and is mystically connected to a tiger. A dozen or so men and women train in the Summerland for weeks before the danger increases and all of them feel compelled to risk everything on what may be a doomed mission.
This is L.B. Graham's first novel, so perhaps I should ignore some stylistic matters, but those matters are the reason Beyond the Summerland takes some patience. The prologue or opening chapter should be 2/3 shorter due to needless detail. Throughout the book, the story bogs down in a few paragraphs of narrative which don't sound unnatural to me but are unneeded. For example, Joraiem may think through a situation and give the reader no more understanding than that a few story points are being made too obvious. Despite this, it's an enjoyable story, and I look forward to the rest of the series.
As a partial response to a suggestion from searider a few weeks ago, I ask you, a reader gracious (or perhaps unfortunate) enough to glance at this humble blog, why do you read literature? Why do you read good fiction as opposed to cheap or pulp fiction or non-fiction?
Here's an answer from Proverbs 25:11-13.
Grumpy OB is also the first stop in a July contest which encourages us to buy books for our friends.
[first posted August 16, 2003] This week's issue of World Magazine includes another great essay by one of my favorite essayists/columnists/journalists (whichever label fits best) Andree Seu. She says, "Writers know that you can find a source to say anything you want, so they move heaven and earth to scare up an expert who agrees with them." That and the pressures of marketing, whose goal is to turn a profit, makes some reporting and even fiction writing an exercise in building a pre-determined product. For some news sources, the stories they report are meant primarily to earn them money, not inform their readers. The right to know, if it exists, is subject to the desire for profit. She ends her essay expressing disappointment over the report that Tom Clancy doesn't write all of his novels. "I keep wondering about the poor schmo who writes for Mr. Clancy and doesn't get his name on the jacket," she says.


Does anyone have a picture of a Reeper without the entire upper cage bolted on? I would really like to see what it looks like without the cage. I mean the entire upper cage: roof bars, hoops behind the seats, bed bars, etc. It all looks like it just unbolts. Of course don't drive it like that, just want to see what it looks like. I Googled for such a picture but didn't turn up anything. I want to see what it looks like without the cage because I have an idea for replacement part for the entire cage that will be a one-piece carbon fiber truck cab that should be completely bolt-on and be as strong as the cage, though perhaps a bit heavier. It will include doors too (with windows) and a real back glass. Truck Reeper. Any help with a picture of a cage-less Reeper would be appreciated, thanks!
P.S. I kind of hijacked someone else's thread about this earlier, starting a dedicated one.
Hmmm interesting idea. I thought about doing similiar but with fiberglass and an internal cage. With so little room on the inside I imagined the design headache and decided to forget that idea lol. Takes a more creative and patient mind than mine to jump into a project like that.
I may pull mine apart this weekend just for shits and giggles to see what it looks like. I'll post pics if I do.
Not sure such a picture exists. I have yet to see one with that stuff stripped of.
I have to ask though. If making such a complete cab. What if I want to enjoy the open air motoring that the cage provides? If I remove the cab wouldn't I be cageless or at least have to re-install the old one?
Not so claustrophobic Scott. I've done a few of these Tracker cabs around here and have yet to have any "too small" complaints. One of the reasons I gave the idea of doing a reeper cab a thought. Just a thought though bc I can't see myself being patient enough to see it through.
Same as with the soft top room wise. Not terrible but is a bit confining given how small these cabs are. They are at their best with the top off, but at 10 degree not so much. Better to be cramped and warm then roomy and freezing ones A$$ off.
I just jump into my snowmobile suit and go, warmer than riding a sled for sure with the large windshield. Would be nice to have a reasonably priced hardtop though for winter.
Something similar to the below but with mostly just the upper half. The below are fiberglass and my first iterations will be too. I have always loved those mini Japanese trucks, you know the ones. Can't get those registered for street use very easily, but it seems you can for the Reepers. So this part I am going to create should make the Reeper sort of a cross between a mini truck and a RZR. It will be a one-piece unit that can be removed so the stock cage can be put back on. I am really really going to try to make it so there is very little modifications to the Reeper itself, maybe none (the door solution will determine this mostly I suspect). Since it will be a simple one piece part I am hoping the price won't be too bad, a fiberglass version should be really cheap but heavier than I would want. Plus a carbon fiber piece could actually be stronger than the stock cage, I mean they make "pods" similar to this for Top Fuel dragsters and drag boats but this one won't be nearly that strong but strong enough. Of course it can be as strong as I want but there is always a compromise between strength and weight, have to find that perfect middle.
Will it be done by Monday?
LOL, crash. I did actually bust out laughing on that one as I scrolled down to see your quote.
As for the sealed example above. That is an electric version so fumes were not a consideration.
I certainly like the concept you are working toward.
Their is a new fiberglass cover for RZR's that make them look kinda like an old manix dune buggy. I saw one one the price is right show a couple of weeks back. Looked interesting as a RZR doesn't have much styling like our machines have.
Treeper, you make it and I will give you the outlet to sell through my website.
I may take you up on that! I have a feeling that as soon as I get the first fiberglass one mounted and post pictures there will be others making something similar in no time, which I like! The more options the better.
That looks like a resin cast of a early 40s pickup also when finished will it look like this? If so i want 1!!!


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Text Trends newspaper: Environmental
The second issue of Text Trends newspaper, looking at environmental data, will be available in limited numbers from 14 January 2013 at The Open Data Institute.
Over the past twenty years, global climate change has emerged as the overarching narrative of our age, uniting a series of ongoing concerns about human relations with nature, the responsibilities of first world nations to those of the developing world, and the obligations of present to future generations. But if the climate change story entered the public realm as a data-driven scientific concept, it was quickly transformed into something that the ecologist William Cronon has called a 'secular prophecy', a grand narrative freighted with powerful, even transcendent languages and values. And though climate science can sometimes adopt the rhetoric of extreme quantification, it also — as has been seen throughout this book — relies on the qualitative values of words, images and metaphors. This can even happen simultaneously: during the discussions that led up to the IPCC's Third Assessment Report of 2001, for example, a room full of scientists discussed for an entire week whether or not to include the three-word phrase 'discernable human influence.' Only three words, perhaps, but three extremely potent words (both qualitatively and quantitavely speaking), that between them tell a vast and potentially world-altering story.
Martin John Callanan's ongoing Text Tends series offers a deadpan encounter with exactly this kind of quantification of language. Using Google data the series explores the vast mine of information that is generated by the search engine's users, each animation taking the content generated by search queries and reducing the process to its essential elements: search terms vs. frequency of search over time, presented in the form of a line graph.
In the online manifestation of the Text Trends animations the viewer watches as the animations plot the ebb and flow of a series of paired search terms keyed into Google over the last ten years by Internet users around the world. In the case of the environment sequence featured here, pairs of words such as: 'nature' — 'population'; 'climate' — 'risk'; 'consensus' — 'uncertainty'; 'Keeling curve' — 'hockey stick', spool out matter-of-factly, like a live market index, allowing the implied narrative content of these word comparisons (along with their accumulated cultural and emotional baggage) to play themselves out before us. In contrast to the hyperinteractivity of emerging news aggregators and information readers, Text Trends explores our perceptions of words presented as connotation-rich fragments of continually updated time-sensitive data.
As an investigation into both the generation and representation of data, Text Trends offers a visual critique of the spectacularization of information, a cultural tic that continues to generate the endless roll of statistically compromised wallpaper that surrounds so much public science debate, and which our book — Data Soliloquies — has in large part been about.
Richard Hamblyn
original version published in Data Soliloquies, UCL Environment Institute, 2009. ISBN 9780903305044
Category: 1. News, 2. Public Output, Data Soliloquies, Text Trends
Tags: Assessment Report, Callanan, Climate Science, Developing World, Discernable Human Influence, Ebb And Flow, Ecologist, Future Generations, Global Climate Change, Google, Grand Narrative, Human Relations, Ipcc, Line Graph, Manifestation, Metaphors, Quantification, Search Queries, William Cronon, Word Phrase


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Same research, but different outcome
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Collaborations do not necessarily have to end with working together on the same result, they can also begin with the same starting point. After meeting during a Type Design Course in Milan, Matteo Bettini and Carolina Festa were so impressed by each others work that they decided to work on new typefaces together. The interesting thing is: while each of the two typefaces in based on the same research they were doing together, they have chosen to split afterwards and work on each typeface independently. "At some point, mainly for reasons due to work deadlines and exams, we couldn't meet so often but we turned this little trouble into an exciting challenge, choosing to work in parallel, but separately, on two different versions. We were curious about the two different interpretations coming out of our common visual research. Now we're constantly sharing the progress with each other, giving each-other advices." The results of this unusual, but quite challenging collaboration are two typefaces that seem to be similar, but surprisingly different at the same time. Sharing the same visual basis, they are interacting with each other in a certain way, but are still leaving space to evolve independently. While Carolina would describe the look of her typeface as "whimsical, conflicting and dancing", Matteo would depict it as "darkly ornamental" or "a squashed insect."
Inspiration for two typefaces with different visual outcome
This description of the typeface immediately leads us the concept behind the two typefaces which is actually based on an insect – a spider. The two designers share a quite similar working process, by approaching the actual designing part of the type as faraway as possible from letters or type references. The visual research for the two typefaces started with collecting pictures which did not necessarily need to be related to graphic design or type design at all, but were all visually appealing to them in some way. After analyzing the similarities of the pictures, the idea for their final concept was born. "We found there was a sort of "fil rouge" in the majority of these images, a shared, hidden concept of thin lines and bold terminations, shattered linear shapes. We synthesized all these visual references in a unique written concept, the spider's nature, in particular a common domestic specie, defined 'Holocnemus pluchei' and started to work on our first trial together. These words become the main guideline for the first hand sketches and scribbles and slowly become letters."
Working at the same time, for the same purpose, with prior rules they determined together, Carolina sees this collaboration as a way to "enhance each others strengths and fill the gaps while working towards a common goal. We know we can rely on each other for advices about all the steps of this project." While collaborations in general can be "a negotiation and contamination of ideas" and therefore have their pros and cons, this sort of collaboration gave both of them the chance to preserve their individuality but sharing their strengths, advices and ideas at the same time. "The spider reference is really strong yet allows a big space for experiments on the shapes for both of our versions. We are satisfied with the rules we're sharing and with the rhythm we're slowly achieving in both typefaces. Of course there are still lots of adjustments to do and discrepancies to sort out."
Before working as an Editorial Art Director in Milan and pursuing her own creative projects, Carolina has always been interested in the concept of traces, signs and symbology made by humans since the ancient times. Out of this interest, her fascination for typography evolved which is, in her opinion, a possibility to fill the gap between abstract arts and communication. "You can approach the single letter in an 'artistic' way and then produce a functional system out of it that works effectively", she says. Her design style consists of "40% rationality and 60% impulse". "It's quite eclectic, bittersweet", Carolina says, "I like clean, rational geometries, blank surfaces, as well as raw sketches and elements of dissonance."
Just as Carolina, Matteo always had a crush on typography. "It is one of the primary tools for graphic works. It is interesting to me to manage to build this basic element of communication, knowing that it will be used by people with different purposes. You're not creating a single artwork but a system for hundreds or even thousands of artworks. It's a different layer of work compared to graphic design." At the moment, Matteo takes part in the master program of Visual Communication at Politecnico di Milano. His style is "driven by an effort to overcome a sort of anxiety about having a recognizable style." He describes it as a "few elements on a plain color background. Maybe something inbetween expressionism and strict minimalism."
Carolina's outcome of this research type collaboration
For both of them, collaborations are an important and also necessary part of their creative working process. They see collaboration as a natural consequence of interacting with each other, especially in the era of social media where connecting and sharing contents seems so easily. "It's important to develop sincere mutual appreciation rather than a sterile competition and therefore combining the good energies in a shared project", Carolina says. And Matteo adds: "Because of social media we are all more similar to each other, we have the same references. However collaboration is super important for me to question my certainties and reach different outcomes. Collaborations lead not only to strengthen connections but also to enrich your own identity. It helps to think outside the comfort zone." While Carolina names the Fluxus Movement as an inspiring example how artists can work collaboratively in "an ironic, critique and anarchic way in order to blend different artistic genres", Matteo names the "It's Nice That x Dropbox Paper Calls for Collaboration initiative" as "an inspiring way to connect creatives from different parts of the world and a powerful example of partnership between two companies."
First version of Matteos new typeface which is yet not published
At the moment Matteo dreams of working on an editorial project, like a magazine, with a writer and a photographer, but he also has many other interests, reaching from 3D typography, variable fonts and kinetic typography. In the future, Carolina would be interested in collaborating with "local realities and people that support and represent subcultures." From an independent music producer to a tattoo artists, she is open for any sort of collaboration: "Everything's interesting for me as long as I feel a matching vibe."


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The Younique Foundation is pleased to announce STACK Real Estate as one of its featured partners to help bring awareness to child sexual abuse.
STACK Real Estate's story started when it took a chance and purchased 120 acres of alfalfa fields next to Thanksgiving Point in 2006. Nathan Ricks and Andrew Bybee saw something more. In partnership with Lehi City, they designed a master plan of Class A office space, retail and high-density housing in the heart of Silicon Slopes that now includes many of Utah's budding and established tech unicorns.
In 2015, Ricks and Bybee founded STACK Real Estate to build, own and operate these and future projects in the heart of Silicon Slopes and along the Wasatch Front. Some of those projects include Thanksgiving Station, Thanksgiving Park, and Thanksgiving Retail, Sandy Towers, Sojo Station in South Jordan, North Slope at Traverse Mountain, Younique Headquarters and The Younique Foundation in Lehi. STACK Real Estate also donated the space for Silicon Slopes Headquarters to accommodate events, classes, and network gatherings.
Since its beginning, STACK Real Estate continues to maintain its original intent of building the best buildings, in the best locations, for the best people. Whether someone is looking for 5,000 or 150,000 square feet, it welcomes the challenge to build a customer's dream office.
STACK Real Estate's founders, Ricks and Bybee, have built a reputation for anticipating opportunities and making them real. They are focused on building communities that are sustainable, mixed-use, attractive, realistic, and transit-oriented. "In partnership with forward-thinking municipalities, we are building a better quality of life for Utahns amidst unprecedented growth," Bybee said.
As Utah prepares to double in population, STACK is making long-term investments to preserve Utah's unique lifestyle for current and future residents.
STACK's brand purpose to "Build People Up" aligns perfectly with the Younique Foundation's purpose to inspire, educate, empower, and advocate for women dealing with the effects of sexual abuse. "Supporting The Younique Foundation's mission and purpose was an easy decision. Life is about building people up. No one does this better than The Younique Foundation and we are honored to be both friends and partners in that effort," Bybee said.


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Therapeutic Schools for Boys in Temple, Texas
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A Therapeutic School for Boys Who are Struggling, Offering Adventure-Based Learning and Therapy that is Surprisingly Affordable When Comparing It to Other Therapeutic Boarding Schools Near Temple, Texas
Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch for Boys enrolls boys from Temple, Texas on its Northwest Arkansas Campus. It is unique in that it has private bedrooms for each of the boys, an awesome wilderness program, and it also features mission trips and equine therapy.
For teen boys coping with anger, emotional issues, depression, behavioral problems, legal problems, or substance abuse, hope exists. An opportunity for a new direction is available through Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch. We lovingly train at-risk boys to choose a better path in life, leading them to be godly and upright young men.
If you are searching for therapeutic boarding schools or boys ranches in or near Temple, Texas, take into account that Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch could possibly be just what you are looking for. Located in Northwest Arkansas, it is obviously a distance from Temple, Texas, but that may be a good thing. Consider this: For teens needing intervention, time spent away from your hometown — away from the negative impact of friends and familiar places — away–separate from the negative impact of friends and familiar places—could be just the thing to cause a change. Parents from all over the nation, including Temple, Texas, choose Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch for their son.
Strong Reputation for Healing and Hope for Hundreds of Boys
Since we became the initial residential Teen Challenge program for boys, Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch has been helping families for more than five decades. We are certain that a relationship with Jesus Christ is the primary avenue for transformation in the lives of the teenage boys we serve. Every major element of our program is biblically based.We have seen thousands of times over that our faith-based approach is why countless teenage boys have realized success here, even where other programs didn't work.
Several factors distinguish Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch from other therapeutic boarding schools:
MORE STAFF — First, we keep student-to-staff ratios low so that boys get plenty of supervision and one-on-one attention. Our staff are highly trained and most have bachelor or master's degrees in their area of work.
MORE PRIVACY FOR EACH BOY — Rather than housing all the boys in a large dorm filled with bunk beds, our students have their own bedrooms, separate from the noise and influence of the other boys.
MORE FAMILY VISITS — Residents are allowed to visit family on seasonally scheduled breaks.
MORE ADDICTION TREATMENT — Our program is a licensed dual-diagnosis Addiction Treatment Center with staff expertly trained to treat substance abuse, as well as harmful lifestyle addictions to gambling, pornography, or online gaming.
EXTENSIVE AFTERCARE PROGRAM — After completion of Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch, boys go home followed by a strong aftercare program to continue the forward momentum. Aftercare is included in our tuition package.
Christian Boarding School Offering a First-Class Education
Academics mean much to us at Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch for Boys, because we think education strongly supports future success. In our private Christian school with fully accredited classes, boys work on courses led by certified teachers, with individual tutoring available to aid those who are struggling. We offer a GED option for students with too many missing credits to complete senior high school in an appropriate time frame. Credits earned can transfer to public or private schools at home. Boys may also study basic vocational skills such as woodworking, basic electrical, construction and carpentry, shop skills, basic automotive, and others. After graduating from Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch, many boys choose to continue their classwork from home through dual enrollment with Alpha Omega Academy distance education.
Teens at Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch engage in a multitude of recreational activities, both on and off campus. We run an adventure program. As well as being fun and physically challenging for the boys, it teaches them about reaching goals, communicating and cooperating well with others.
Many young men have put their lives back on track and have gone on to make a difference for Christ after successfully finishing Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch. We would like to talk with you to determine if our boarding school is a good fit for your son. Whether you select Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch, a school in Temple, Texas, or another alternative, we hope your family can find the healing that Christ can bring. Please read the rest of our website and use our inquiry form or call us today.
We are glad you chose to look at Teen Challenge Adventure Ranch as you search for therapeutic schools in or around Temple, Texas.
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Temple is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. Located near the county seat of Belton, Temple lies in the region referred to as Central Texas. Located off Interstate 35, Temple is 65 miles north of Austin and 34 miles south of Waco. In the 2010 Census, Temple's population was 66,102, an increase of more than 20 percent from the 2000 census. It is a "principal city" in the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Called the "Wildflower Capital of Texas," Temple was founded in 1881 as a railroad town. It was named in honor of Bernard Moore Temple, a civil engineer and former surveyor with the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company who established the town. For many years it was the home of the Santa Fe Railway Company's hospital for its employees. Temple is known for its strength as a regional medical center . Scott & White is the largest employer in town with about ten thousand employees. With Scott & White, the Veterans' Hospital Center, and other smaller clinics, Temple is home to more physicians per capita than any other community in the nation. Temple is the site of one of two major campuses for the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. Medical students can elect to spend the full four years of medical education training or just two years of their clinical training on campus.
Besides health services, Temple is home to many regional distribution centers and headquarters to two large, multi-national companies, Wilsonart International and McLane Company. The Temple Daily Telegram is the daily newspaper.
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Q: Javascript/canvas renderer for CAD/AutoCAD files Does anyone know if there's a parser for autocad/cad formatted files in javascript? Or perhaps something server side which can translate cad files to collada so that three.js (and some of the other engines) could read them?
Thanks very much for any links and pointers.

A: Python has an autocad lib http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyautocad/ It provides json export. It works on Windows.
I think it can be a server-side solution if Python running on a Windows server is acceptable for you.

A: You can take a look at OpenCascade and the community edition developed in C++. There seems to be an experimental COLLADA exporter done by the community edition.
If you prefer working with Python, you should see the pythonOCC project and particularly what they've done with Three.js: article and sources.


Guess what!! Somebody is celebrating their birthday month with me. Well, if you are a blogger who is actively monetizing your blogs, I guess you already know who. Yup! Izea celebrated their second year as a company in providing quality blog ads for advertisers.
Izea has grown as an innovative web-based company having SocialSpark and PayPerPost under its umbrella. They have become an established company in the field of social media marketing. If you are an advertiser and want to make a mark in the world of online marketing, Izea can provide you with innovative ways to get your word cross to customers. They have many ground-breaking ways in doing this. For instance, SocialSpark can be a place for you as advertisers to virtually interact with bloggers. You can socially interact with them and so as the bloggers can market their blogs freely. You can also use PayPerPost for paid blogging to help you get the buzz you want.Izea does not only offer social media marketing services such as blog posts, but now you can have blog sponsorships and also product sampling.
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Laurelhurst is a Seattle neighborhood located on the shores of Lake Washington and Union Bay. The Laurelhurst neighborhood was largely developed in the 1920's and abounds in both view and waterfront homes with delightful architecture. Many Laurelhurst homes command impressive views of Lake Washington and The Cascade Mountain Range. The neighborhood is home to the Laurelhurst Beach Club, the ideal place for enjoying swimming, sailing and summer fun, as well as the Laurelhurst community center, park and tennis courts.


It's a halloween special on the science of DEATH with Dr Jamie Upton, death-enthusiast and founder of Art Necro. Full of DEAD-ly facts about body decomposition, real life zombies, and science's best explanations for those life-after-death experiences, we also muse on how science is redefining death, and celebrate our ultimate demise with Toxic Cocktails! Grab your shaker and join the party.


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Las Vegas, NV, October 11, 2007: This year, the Southern Nevada Association of Pride (SNAPI) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of supporting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Over the years, the role of SNAPI, as well as the name, has changed and evolved. The initial role for SNAPI was to support the GLBT community, through education of the community as a whole, and to operate the annual Las Vegas Pride Festival. We have been successful in creating recognition of the needs of our community and putting a "face" to GLBT issues. In addition, we have become a major fund raiser, providing funds for many GLBT‐supporting agencies. Two of those agencies SNAPI is most proud to support are Safe Nest (an agency providing safe harbor for those in need) and the Community Counseling Center (an agency providing behavioral health services in a safe environment).
With National Coming Out Day upon us, it is an opportune time to discuss the other most difficult issue facing us ‐ domestic abuse within a GLBT relationship. Domestic abuse, both verbal and physical, is a cancer that eats away at our community, every bit as much as HIV, but receives little attention.
Domestic abusers usually come from abusive childhoods and perpetuate the abuse on those closest to them. The abuse can take many forms, that of verbal abuse directly to the partner or through the spreading of malicious innuendo, stalking and creating a threatening environment, or through direct physical abuse. Since many GLBT persons have a limited support structure through their families, it has become even more important for friends to support domestic abuse victims and encourage the victims to seek assistance and end the cycle.
The SNAPI Board of Directors is currently in such a supporting position. One of its members has recently severed an abusive relationship that included being a victim of verbal abuse, threats and physical attacks. The SNAPI member is a gentle and supportive person by nature and fell prey to being victimized by an angry and controlling abuser. As with most victims of domestic violence, the SNAPI member rationalized the abuse and attacks as not being as bad as they obviously were. Intervention came at the hands of a head physician at a local urgent care facility. The SNAPI member came to urgent care with a fractured shoulder, the third "accident" treated by the urgent care facility. The physician urged the SNAPI member to either press charges or leave the relationship. The SNAPI member was placed on a "watch list" to ensure that if the SNAPI member sought treatment in another facility for an "accident," the issue would be referred to Metro. Based on this intervention, the SNAPI member confided in longtime friends regarding the abusive situation and the SNAPI member left the relationship with his health intact. The SNAPI Board is extremely grateful to the urgent care physician who may have saved the life of our dear friend.
Unfortunately, domestic abusers sometimes refuse to abandon their victims. The SNAPI member continues to be harassed, both personally and through SNAPI. The SNAPI Board of Directors will not allow one angry and vindictive person to undo the good work of so many dedicated volunteers and supportive community members. It is unfortunate when uninformed people weigh in on the subject and side with the abuser without knowing the background, but SNAPI will not be forced into abandoning its mission, supporting the community or supporting our member.
as we support our own members.
If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Ernie Yuen, please call Ernie at (702) 290‐3583 or e‐mail at president@lasvegaspride.org. For more information about SNAPI or Las Vegas PRIDE, visit www.lasvegaspride.org.


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#include "tensorflow/lite/experimental/micro/micro_allocator.h"

#include <cstdint>

#include "tensorflow/lite/experimental/micro/test_helpers.h"
#include "tensorflow/lite/experimental/micro/testing/micro_test.h"

TF_LITE_MICRO_TESTS_BEGIN

TF_LITE_MICRO_TEST(TestInitializeRuntimeTensor) {
  const tflite::Model* model = tflite::testing::GetMockModel();
  TfLiteContext context;
  constexpr size_t arena_size = 1024;
  uint8_t arena[arena_size];
  tflite::MicroAllocator allocator(&context, model, arena, arena_size,
                                   micro_test::reporter);

  const tflite::Tensor* tensor = tflite::testing::Create1dFlatbufferTensor(100);
  const flatbuffers::Vector<flatbuffers::Offset<tflite::Buffer>>* buffers =
      tflite::testing::CreateFlatbufferBuffers();

  TfLiteTensor allocated_tensor;
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteOk, allocator.InitializeRuntimeTensor(
                                         *tensor, buffers, micro_test::reporter,
                                         &allocated_tensor));
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteInt32, allocated_tensor.type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, allocated_tensor.dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(100, allocated_tensor.dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(400, allocated_tensor.bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(nullptr, allocated_tensor.data.i32);
}

TF_LITE_MICRO_TEST(TestMissingQuantization) {
  const tflite::Model* model = tflite::testing::GetMockModel();
  TfLiteContext context;
  constexpr size_t arena_size = 1024;
  uint8_t arena[arena_size];
  tflite::MicroAllocator allocator(&context, model, arena, arena_size,
                                   micro_test::reporter);

  const tflite::Tensor* tensor =
      tflite::testing::CreateMissingQuantizationFlatbufferTensor(100);
  const flatbuffers::Vector<flatbuffers::Offset<tflite::Buffer>>* buffers =
      tflite::testing::CreateFlatbufferBuffers();

  TfLiteTensor allocated_tensor;
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteOk, allocator.InitializeRuntimeTensor(
                                         *tensor, buffers, micro_test::reporter,
                                         &allocated_tensor));
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteInt32, allocated_tensor.type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, allocated_tensor.dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(100, allocated_tensor.dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(400, allocated_tensor.bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(nullptr, allocated_tensor.data.i32);
}

TF_LITE_MICRO_TEST(TestFinishTensorAllocation) {
  const tflite::Model* model = tflite::testing::GetMockModel();
  TfLiteContext context;
  constexpr size_t arena_size = 1024;
  uint8_t arena[arena_size];
  tflite::MicroAllocator allocator(&context, model, arena, arena_size,
                                   micro_test::reporter);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(3, context.tensors_size);

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteOk, allocator.FinishTensorAllocation());
  // No allocation to be done afterwards.
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteError, allocator.FinishTensorAllocation());

  constexpr int kExpectedAlignment = 4;

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteInt32, context.tensors[0].type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[0].dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[0].dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(4, context.tensors[0].bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(nullptr, context.tensors[0].data.raw);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(
      0, (reinterpret_cast<std::uintptr_t>(context.tensors[0].data.raw) %
          kExpectedAlignment));

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteUInt8, context.tensors[1].type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[1].dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[1].dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[1].bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(nullptr, context.tensors[1].data.raw);

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteInt32, context.tensors[2].type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[2].dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[2].dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(4, context.tensors[2].bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(nullptr, context.tensors[2].data.raw);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(
      0, (reinterpret_cast<std::uintptr_t>(context.tensors[2].data.raw) %
          kExpectedAlignment));

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(context.tensors[1].data.raw,
                          context.tensors[0].data.raw);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(context.tensors[2].data.raw,
                          context.tensors[0].data.raw);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(context.tensors[1].data.raw,
                          context.tensors[2].data.raw);
}

TF_LITE_MICRO_TEST(TestPreallocatedInput) {
  const tflite::Model* model = tflite::testing::GetMockModel();
  TfLiteContext context;
  constexpr size_t arena_size = 1024;
  uint8_t arena[arena_size];
  tflite::MicroAllocator allocator(&context, model, arena, arena_size,
                                   micro_test::reporter);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(3, context.tensors_size);

  uint8_t preallocated_input_buffer[4];
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteOk, allocator.RegisterPreallocatedInput(
                                         preallocated_input_buffer, 0));

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteOk, allocator.FinishTensorAllocation());

  constexpr int kExpectedAlignment = 4;

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteInt32, context.tensors[0].type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[0].dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[0].dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(4, context.tensors[0].bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(preallocated_input_buffer,
                          context.tensors[0].data.uint8);

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteUInt8, context.tensors[1].type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[1].dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[1].dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[1].bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(nullptr, context.tensors[1].data.raw);

  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(kTfLiteInt32, context.tensors[2].type);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[2].dims->size);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(1, context.tensors[2].dims->data[0]);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(4, context.tensors[2].bytes);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_NE(nullptr, context.tensors[2].data.raw);
  TF_LITE_MICRO_EXPECT_EQ(
      0, (reinterpret_cast<std::uintptr_t>(context.tensors[2].data.raw) %
          kExpectedAlignment));
}

TF_LITE_MICRO_TESTS_END

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Wigan food hygiene ratings: the restaurants, cafés, takeaways and canteens awarded new rating by the Food Standards Agency in December
Child rushed to hospital after being hit by a car on busy Wigan high street
Wigan nurse who has dedicated six decades of her life to nursing celebrates 80th birthday
A Wigan school nurse whose career has spanned six decades says she has no plans to slow down – despite celebrating her 80th birthday.
By Sian Jones
22nd Aug 2022, 3:45pm - 2 min read
Updated 23rd Aug 2022, 10:03am
Norma Newcombe started her career in August 1958 as a cadet at a hospital for babies in Liverpool, before working at a children's hospital after she qualified.
She took a break from nursing when she became pregnant in 1965 to care for her two children.
In 1973 Norma decided to return to work and was appointed as a school nurse based at Hindley Health Centre – where she still works full-time.
Norma at her WWL surprise party
Heroin and crack found at the scene of a Wigan road smash, police reveal
She believes the profession has changed a lot over the years.
During the pandemic, Norma was forced to work from home due to having a weakened immune system.
Conversion of disused Wigan pub site could turn area into 'troublesome estate', ...
Norma, who lives in Ashton said: "I like people not machines, I can still write quicker than I can type.
Norma, middle row in centre with blonde hair - in 1962.
"Obviously things have to progress but there is not the same personal contact.
"When I first started school nursing, I could name you every child in my primary schools but I can't now.
"I've had various illnesses over the past 10 years including being diagnosed with leukemia.
"So when Covid hit I worked from home for a long time. I couldn't get out in the community and some of the work got took off me because I couldn't do it justice."
f Norma with Sharon Swift, Community Public Health Specialist Practitioner at Hindley Clinic (left) and Amanda Cheeseman, Assistant Director of Nursing (right)
Norma does a lot of work with special schools and is appreciated across the school community.
For her 80th birthday, she enjoyed a surprise party thrown by her colleagues at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Despite hitting the milestone, Norma has no plans to slow down.
She said: "A lot of these schools kept ringing me up while I was working from home as they would only deal with me.
"One of them invited me to a barbecue before school finished and then took me out for lunch the week before my birthday.
"At this moment in time, I'm having a few mobility issues so I want to get them sorted first.
"I do a lot of long-haul holidays as my sister lives in Australia and we usually meet up halfway, so I want to be able to enjoy it.
"I'll probably do school nursing until I die!"
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So, what you got in the truck? Nothing but a bunch of zombies who terrorizes your town and now that they have been captured, your mission is to transport them to the zombie vault. Don't let any of them escape as they will just terrorize your town, but in case some of them did escape just proceed to your destination because you can't do anything about it.
If you tried to pick the escape zombie alone then they might eat you and that will be your end. That is the reason why you need to go on with your delivery. Let others deal with the escape zombies and catch or kill it.


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Mozilla's new e-mail effort looks beyond Thunderbird
Mozilla Messaging head says 'e-mail is broken,' and the cure is Thunderbird 3.0
Gregg Keizer (Computerworld)
The Mozilla Foundation early this week put a name to its e-mail subsidiary and said the first job of the spin-off will be to produce Thunderbird 3.0, the next update to the open-source group's e-mail client.
David Ascher, CEO of the just-named Mozilla Messaging, said that the company's short-range goal is to have Thunderbird 3.0 in final form by the end of 2008, although the exact timing will depend on, among other things, the number of volunteers who flock to the project.
Claiming that "e-mail is broken," Ascher said that Thunderbird 3.0 would build on the already-available Version 2.0 but add features such as calendaring, better and faster search, and a wide range of user-interface and usability improvements.
Mozilla won't be starting from scratch or working alone. The calendar addition, for example, will be based on the Lightning extension, which is currently at Version 0.7, and it will integrate scheduling and tasks with Thunderbird. Lightning was last updated in October 2007.
On search, Mozilla may collaborate with Qualcomm, owner of Eudora, a long-established proprietary e-mail program that was abandoned in 2006. Qualcomm will produce a new Eudora based on Thunderbird's open-source code, said Ascher. But it may make sense for the two companies to work together on small-scale projects, like search, that both could share.
Mozilla Messaging arises from decisions made last July, when Mozilla -- then the only for-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation -- stunned Thunderbird users by announcing that it would sever ties with e-mail development. In explaining the decision, then-CEO Mitchell Baker said that Mozilla's first priority is Firefox. "Mozilla doesn't focus on Thunderbird as much as we do browsing and Firefox, and we don't expect this to change in the foreseeable future," she said at the time.
Thunderbird, she added, should be cut loose "to determine its own destiny."
By September, Mozilla had seeded the new venture with US$3 million in start-up funds, and Ascher had been tapped to head the spin-off, dubbed "MailCo" at the time for lack of a real name.
When Mozilla booted Thunderbird, users worried that the departure of the software's only two paid developers meant the client was doomed; neither chose to stay when the program was spun from Mozilla. Ascher said those fears had proved unfounded. "It wasn't hard to recruit," he said. "People were excited about the opportunity to work as part of a Mozilla [Foundation] project." A "handful" of developers are on the payroll, Ascher said, but like its Mozilla sibling, Mozilla Messaging will heavily rely on unpaid programmers, testers and designers.
"The challenge is how do we evolve the platform?" said Ascher. In the long term, he said, Mozilla Messaging wants to beef up Thunderbird's back-end architecture and its development tools. In a long post that Ascher wrote for his personal blog, he noted that "Thunderbird hasn't had the resources devoted to it that Firefox has, and it's time to catch up, so that we can implement many of the features we have planned."
One thing not at the forefront of Messaging's corporate mind, according to Ascher, is how to pay the bills. The $3 million from Mozilla gives the new venture breathing room. "[A revenue stream] isn't a huge priority right now," he said. "We want to make the best product possible, and then we'll think about a revenue model on top of that." Ascher declined to give a deadline at which point Mozilla Messaging will have to be self-supporting, saying, "There's not a real sharp deadline there."
Mozilla, which posted revenue of nearly US$67 million for 2006, the last year for which figures are available, makes the bulk of its income from the deal it struck with Google that assigned the search giant's engine as Firefox's default and from click-throughs on ads placed on the ensuing search results pages. It's unclear if Thunderbird could tap into the same stream.
Money will at some point become important to the new spin-off, however. Last October, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker remained vague about whether the company would continue to support the mail project. "We would like the new mail company to have its own revenue source rather than it continuing to come out of Firefox," she said then. "It's our hope that it finds other sources of revenue. But do we expect that it would be 100 per cent? Not necessarily. Will we fund it for a while? Absolutely."
In a blog post of her own, Baker -- who is no longer CEO but retained her position as chairman of the Mozilla Foundation board -- urged Messaging to get cranking. "I am exceedingly eager to stop thinking so much about how to organize the Thunderbird/mail effort and to start seeing all that energy go to improving our product. That day has come," Baker wrote.


Why is gin so popular?
Gin is more popular now than it has been for more than a century.
Is it because of its flexibility when it comes to recipes or the simplicity of its production?
We spoke to Hope on Hopkins co-founder, Lucy Beard and noted mixologist, Haroon Hafajee about the craze behind gin.
Beard said it's a two-fold movement: partly driven by the "craft" movement, which saw the rise of coffee roasteries, craft beer breweries and markets, with a focus on artisanal products, with people valuing authentically, locally produced products, where they can see and get to know the individuals making these products and partly driven by the realisation that gin can be so unique.
"The joy of gin is that no two gins are alike: different botanicals are used, and gins are also influenced by the base spirit and distilling equipment. What has really driven the boom is the increasing focus on local botanicals. South Africa has unique flora and this is being celebrated in an increasing number of locally produced gins", she said.
Beard said a lot of people have been saying (actually for a few years now) that rum will be next but she does not think it will really be a match for gin though.
"I expect the gin "boom" will start to subside, but gin will continue to be popular, both in cocktails and in gin and tonics and people will continue to have a variety of different gins in their drinks cabinets and bars. Rum doesn't offer nearly the same breadth of flavour.
Hafajee said he thinks that gin offers consumers great flavour and variety at a reasonable price point.
price, which is something SA consumers are very sensitive to in these times", he said.


Amul pure ghee is one of the tastiest and commonly used product in India. It can be added to all the sweets, curries, rice, rotis, parathas, etc. It adds the most exquisite flavor to your meal. Amul pure ghee is made from natural ingredients.


Bill Gates had an interesting interview in Business Insider. He's suggesting we be integral with our hearts. God is too!
Life is about intentionally choosing and following through on what matters most — following through on your commitments, as Gates said. Maybe you feel stuck in a dead-end job, chose the wrong career, or feel that you were made for something else —something more significant.
While it's normal to question your career direction or motivation to do your job, what is not normal is for these feelings to reside permanently in the deepest crevices of your mind when you know you were made for something bigger.
If you grapple with thoughts about "what if," start the beginning of your journey with this question: Am I doing what I want — i.e., what most matters to me? At some point, a person needs to break the cycle of swallowing his own voice to speaking into his truth faultlessly about what matters. When you are asking yourself what you want and you hear from deep down inside your gut, "This is what I want," that discerning voice is the voice of truth to which you should commit wholeheartedly.
Change starts in the heart – Shifting to the "next thing" is always a challenge. We all naturally prefer sameness and safety until boredom or finances force our hand. There are times when the drawing power of a dream is a very positive motivation to woo our hearts toward adventure. Transition is often a mixed bag of both fear of changing the old and anticipation of experiencing the new.
If you look back on life's prior graduations (forced or voluntary), there is always a change of heart beliefs that finally permits us to graduate. We don't just change our minds and run off in a different direction. Our hearts are driving the bus, and the foundation of any promotion is a change in our heart beliefs. Nothing new happens until our hearts have a good reason and give the green light.
It shouldn't be too surprising that: 1) the philosophies and logic behind our heart beliefs are shared with many other people, and 2) those who have successfully made transitions may have experienced overcoming some of "our" heart boundaries. Sharing those new heart beliefs can be the truth that sets our hearts free.
A mental model is an explanation of how something works. It is a concept, framework, or worldview that you carry around in your mind (actually heart) to help you interpret the world and understand the relationship between things. Mental models are deeply held heart beliefs about how the world works.
World-class thinkers are often silo-free thinkers. They avoid looking at life through the lens of one subject. Instead, they develop an awareness of different mental models and view circumstances and people from a variety of perspectives. They recognize the mental models' other people carry without rejecting them.
This is why it is important to not only learn new mental models but to consider how they connect with one another and morph from one to another. Creativity and innovation often arise at the intersection of ideas. By spotting the links between various mental models, you can identify solutions that most people overlook.
Where is your heart? – In my own journey to Kingdom over several decades, there have been some key heart beliefs that helped me through transitions that are listed below. I wish someone would have sat me down and talked my heart through this list of boundaries and breakthroughs long ago. Here's your assignment: See which ones resonate with your transition. If you can think of others, please share them with me, and we'll expand the list.
Want More? – We're launching the Online Heart Plan Course to clarify your strategy for the dream in your heart. Navigating heart beliefs is an integral part.