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Juniper snares Apstra to automate data center operations with IBN
Dec 7, 2020 11:21am
Juniper Networks adds intent-based networking and closed-loop assurance to its data center portfolio with a deal to buy Apstra. (Getty Images)
On Monday, Juniper Networks announced a definitive agreement to buy Apstra in order to simplify data center operations by using intent-based networking (IBN) and closed-loop assurance.
Juniper said it plans to combine Apstra's solution network automation—which is based on an open, multi-vendor architecture—with its data-center networking portfolio, which centers on Juniper's JUNOS operating system. Juniper said the combined platform would help public and private cloud partners optimize their operations as they work their way toward AI-driven autonomous networks.
"Juniper has been pursuing the self-driving network concept for some time, most notably around the Juniper Contrail assets," said AvidThink's Roy Chua, principal and founder of AvidThink. "The Apstra acquisition, much like the Mist acquisition, is for a set of capabilities that they will apply across their product lines. In this case, the intent-based networking and closed-loop automation technologies from Apstra will be quite synergistic with Mist's AI and Netrounds' assurance capabilities."
RELATED: Juniper sprays Mist into analytics for enterprises
Juniper bought wireless LAN vendor Mist for $405 million last year and has integrated it across its SD-WAN, security, analytics, and cloud portfolios. In September, Juniper acquired assurance testing vendor Netrounds for an undisclosed sum.
Apstra's vendor-agnostic representation of the network extends support across various environments, including those running Layer-3 IP fabrics, EVPN-VXLAN and SONiC (software for open networking in the cloud). Apstra had previously announced SONiC-related announcements with both Juniper and Cisco, the latter of which also touts its own intent-based networking capabilities.
"This deal makes total sense," said Scott Raynovich, the founder and chief analyst of Futuriom. "Apstra and Juniper recently tightened their relationship and integrated Apstra Operating System (AOS) with Juniper's switching portfolio. Apstra's focus on driving networks with intent-based networking and artificial intelligence (AI) fits with Juniper's focus on developing more intelligent networking using AI technology, including its recent acquisition of Mist."
With hyperscale cloud providers, along with data center and colocation facilities, data center operations have become increasingly complex. While there's some level of automation today in data centers, it has largely been focused on repetitive tasks.
"With such practices, it is difficult to move at the speed of business and, from an IT perspective, to move at the speed of cloud, according to a blog post by Juniper's Manoj Leelanivas, executive vice president and chief product officer. "It is clear automation in the data center must change in profound ways. To truly simplify data center operations and provide optimum application and IT experiences, a different approach to continuous automation needs to occur.
"Apstra uniquely developed a distributed systems-level approach to data center networking and fabric automation that continues from initial design to deployment and through everyday management operations. The richness of this intent-based operation relies on the performance and programmability of the underlying infrastructure."
Gartner has forecast that by 2023, 60% of the data center networking configuration activities would be automated, up from 30% in earlier this year.
Apstra first used the term "intent-based networking" when it came out of stealth mode in 2016. IBN is a software driven automation model that allows an administrator to set the desired outcomes for network orchestration. Based on those policies, IBN can automate the provisioning and configuration of services while also managing application services.
Apstra, which was named to FierceTelecom's list of the top-eight telecom disrupters two years ago, also enables self-service delivery and its automation capabilities can accelerate the time to market while also lowering data center outages and opex.
Apstra was founded by David Cheriton, Mansour Karam and Sasha Ratkovic. Cheriton, who is Apstra's CEO, is slated to join Juniper as its chief data center scientist once the deal closes.
"Their (Juniper's) big win here might be getting the Apstra team and David Cheriton, assuming the key members of the team are retained and actively participate in Juniper's product development," Chua said.
Juniper didn't disclose the financial terms of its deal to buy Apstra, or when it's expected to close. Juniper said it doesn't expect the acquisition of Apstra to materially impact revenue in 2021.
"While the acquisition is expected to be approximately breakeven to non-GAAP earnings for the full-year 2021, it will likely be dilutive during the first half of the year," Juniper said in its press release. "The acquisition is expected to be accretive to revenue growth and non-GAAP earnings in 2022."
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When ever I make mash potatoes, it never turns out to be perfect. There's usually lumps, sometimes it's a little too dry or wet. When I make macaroni it doesn't always turn out the same either, some times it's good, sometimes it's great. You could say this about every thing I make. You might even relate to this game of kitchen hit-and-miss yourself. Cooking at home, and for a family can be hard work. You don't always have what you need, sometimes you have to improvise and sometimes things just don't go as planned.
But it is this culinary imperfection that, to me, encapsulates the joy of home cooking. Ask any chef in the world what his or her favourite meal is and they will most likely answer with a dish their mother used to make. Home cooking has a special ingredient that you won't find in restaurants and other controlled catering environments. It has the element of the imperfect and the unpredictable. But I think it is exactly this element that makes home food so desirable and comforting.
The Japanese have a word, wabi-sabi. It is a concept that means there is beauty in imperfection and transience. They have whole artistic and literary movements dedicated to this aesthetic. The image above is an example of a wabi-sabi bowl. It's flaws are what makes it beautiful. Wikipedia lists the characteristics of wabi-sabi as simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.
All of those things are what make home cooking wonderful and impossible to imitate. It is because home cooks are limited by budgets, skill and time that their meals are imperfect. It is the imperfections that we love. It is the natural and human inconsistencies that we seek and become synonymous with comfort and peace.


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Every good skin care regimen starts with a solid foundation so I want to highlight THREE essential (and simple) concepts of skin care to get you looking and feeling your best in 2016.
1. Microtrauma – This is an important concept that seems counterintuitive, but is great for overall skin health. The idea is to provide trauma on a microscopic level which stimulates skin cells to produce more collagen. Facial brushes, like the simple BufPuf (available through FPSI for $10) or Clarisonic brushes do a great job at doing this. Not only do they exfoliate your skin, but promote thickening of the deeper layers of your skin, or dermis. If you are being too aggressive you may experience some peeling or redness, if so back off for a few days and work back up.
2. Tretinoin (RetinA, retinol) – This topical medication is derived from Vitamin A and promotes many positive effects in the skin. For people prone to breakouts, this medication is also FDA approved for the treatment of acne. The effects of tretinoin include exfoliation, thinning of the epidermis (top layer of dead skin cells), and thickening of the dermis (deeper layer of skin that contains collagen). This provides most patients with a brighter skin tone as more of the healthier skin can shine through. Side effects may include some skin sensitivity and peeling. If that happens simply back down on your dosage and work up slowly.
3. Sunscreen and Sun-Avoidance – The best "treatment" is prevention. It is never too late to start wearing sunscreens DAILY. I advise all men and women to be on a daily moisturizer that contains SPF. Many of the dark sun spots (collections of pigmented cells) can be lightened by preventing sun absorption in those areas. Sun damage causes thinning of the skin and wrinkle formation so avoidance is key!
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{{Navbuttons}} [[File:John Boyle.jpg|thumb|274x274px]] John Boyle ([[October 28]], [[1770s#1774|1774]] – [[January 28]], [[1830s#1835|1835]]) was a United States federal judge and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Born in Botetourt County, Virginia, near what is now Castlewood, Boyle moved with his father to Whitley's Station, Kentucky (a settler's fort near present-day [[Crab Orchard]]) in 1779. Boyle was educated by private tutors and in private schools. He read law in 1797 and began private practice in [[Lancaster]], Kentucky from 1797 to 1802. He was also the deputy counselor at law for the Court of Quarter Sessions of Kentucky in 1797, and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1800. Boyle was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth U.S. Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1800s#1803|1803]] - [[March 4]], [[1800s#1809|1809]]). He was one of the managers appointed by the House in January 1804 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against John Pickering, and, in December of the same year, against Samuel Chase. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Land Claims in the Ninth and Tenth Congresses. Boyle was appointed Governor of the Illinois Territory in 1809, but declined the office. Boyle served as a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from April 1809 to April 1810, serving as chief justice from April 1810 to November 8, 1826. His tenure spanned the Old Court-New Court controversy. He resigned to accept a recess appointment from President John Quincy Adams on October 20, 1826, to the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky, filling the seat vacated by the elevation of Robert Trimble to the Supreme Court of the United States. Boyle was officially nominated on December 13, 1826, was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 12, 1827, and received his commission the same day. He served until his death in his home near [[Danville]], Kentucky in 1835. He is buried in [[Bellevue Cemetery]] there, and [[Boyle County]], Kentucky was later named after him. [[Category:Notable People|Boyle, John]] [[Category:Politicians|Boyle, John]] [[Category:Judges|Boyle, John]] [[Category:U.S. Congressmen|Boyle, John]] [[Category:Danville Deaths|Boyle, John]] [[Category:Boyle County Deaths|Boyle, John]] [[Category:1774 Births]] [[Category:1770s Births]] [[Category:1835 Deaths]] [[Category:1830s Deaths]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, John}}
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The long strain of the Andes dominates this image of South America, still snow-capped and including the Northern Patagonian Ice Field in southern Chile to the bottom left of the image.
Taken by Envisat on the 3rd of June of this year, southern Argentina dominates much of the image. In the centre are two lakes in the countries Chubut region. Lake Musters' depth of about 20 m gives it a dark hue, while Lake Colhué Huapi fills a shallow depression, about 2 m deep.
To the right of the lakes is the San Jorge Gulf, which measures about 228 kilometres at its mouth.
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May 1st, 2013, 08:20 pm
New Zealand Music Month - Day One
It's May again, which means that it's New Zealand Music Month again. This time I've got a proper theme worked out for the month... and it's "The Golden Age of Rock and Roll".
Before anyone reading this gets too excited and thinks I' m going to be plundering the long-lost classics described in Chris Bourke's latest book, I'd better explain myself. Considering that there are as many different "Golden Ages of Rock and Roll" as there are pop music fans on the planet, I've stolen someone else's idea and chosen to define the golden age of rock and roll as: High school.
I was at high school from late January 1981 to late April 1985. That may seem like a short stretch of time, but it was an incredibly fertile time for popular music. (I could probably find enough material for a month's worth of posts from 1981 alone).
New Zealand at the time was going through a typically understated New Zealand-style political and social upheaval, and one of the well-used outlets for individuality was pop music. Corporate music of that era was dire - anyone who thinks that Robbie Williams, or whoever is the latest teen pop star du jour. is the worst thing that's ever happened to music, is in the enviable position of having managed to permanently blank Stars on 45 from their mind - but the sort of people who turned their back on the corporate music industry and did their own thing without regard to popularity, made some of the most enduring music this country has ever produced. New Zealanders took part in the punk rock explosion of the late 1970s, with mixed results, but the same ethos fuelled an even more creative explosion of 'underground', 'alternative', 'lo-fi' or 'low-tech' music in the early 1980s in which production quality was optional, but 'the song' was the thing.
After all that, tonight's entry is from one of the more mainstream acts. The Swingers are best known for their huge hit Counting the Beat. This, the follow-up single, didn't get anywhere near that sort of success, but it too has its moments, particularly with its bass guitar track.
music: swingers, new zealand music month


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"""
usage: %prog interval_file data1[,data2,] [options]
-o, --outfile=OUTFILE: output file
-I, --included: print built-ins and quit
-S, --search=SEARCHPATH: prepend SEARCHPATH to default list
"""

from __future__ import division

import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require( "bx-python" )
pkg_resources.require( "lrucache" )
try:
    pkg_resources.require( "python-lzo" )
except:
    pass

import sys
import psyco_full
import bx.wiggle
from bx.binned_array import BinnedArray, FileBinnedArray
from bx import intervals
from fpconst import isNaN
import cookbook.doc_optparse
import misc
import os

from Numeric import *

def read_scores( f ):
    scores_by_chrom = dict()
    for chrom, pos, val in bx.wiggle.Reader( f ):
        if chrom not in scores_by_chrom:
            scores_by_chrom[chrom] = BinnedArray()
        scores_by_chrom[chrom][pos] = val
    return scores_by_chrom

# FIXME: Handle different builds better
DATA_SEARCH_PATH=['/depot/data1/cache/universe/binned_scores','.']
#DATA_SEARCH_PATH=['.']

class DataSet( object ):

    def __init__(self,datadir=None):
        self.lookup = None
        self.scores = None
        if not datadir == None:
            self.read_dir( datadir )

    def read_dir(self,  d):
        lookup = dict()
        scores_by_what = dict()
        if not os.path.exists ( d ):
            for p in DATA_SEARCH_PATH:
                if os.path.exists( os.path.join( p, d )):
                    d = os.path.join( p, d)
                    break
        for file in os.listdir( d ):
            if file.endswith(".match"):
                for line in (open( os.path.join( d, file))):
                    if line.startswith("#"): continue
                    line = line.strip()
                    f = line.split()
                    if len(f) >= 4:
                        chr,start,end,what = f[0:4]
                    else: continue

                    if not chr in lookup: lookup[chr] = intervals.Intersecter()
                    lookup[chr].add_interval( intervals.Interval( int( start), int( end ), what) )
            else:
                k = file.split('.')[0]
                if not k in scores_by_what:
                    scores_by_what[ k ] = FileBinnedArray( open( os.path.join( d, file) ))

        if lookup == {}:
            self.lookup = None
            self.scores = scores_by_what
            #return None, scores_by_what
        else:
            self.lookup = lookup
            self.scores = scores_by_what
            #return lookup,scores_by_what

def main():

    # Parse command line
    options, args = cookbook.doc_optparse.parse( __doc__ )
    try:
        # add searchpath
        if options.search:
            lr = options.search.split(",")
            lr.reverse()
            for x in lr:
                DATA_SEARCH_PATH.insert( 0, x)

        # print visible paths in the builtin directories
        if options.included:
            for p in DATA_SEARCH_PATH:
                if p == '.': continue
                for q in os.listdir( p ):
                    if os.path.isdir( os.path.join(p,q) ):
                        if not q.startswith("."):
                            print "\t\t",q
            raise "clean"
        elif options.outfile:
            out_file = open(options.outfile,"w")
        else:
            out_file = sys.stdout

        interval_file = open( args[0] )
    except "clean":
        sys.exit(0)
    except IOError,s:
        print >>sys.stderr,s
        cookbook.doc_optparse.exit()
    except:
        cookbook.doc_optparse.exit()

    datasets = []
    for i,datadir in enumerate( args[1].split(",") ):

        try:
            datasets.append( DataSet( datadir ) )
        except OSError,s:
            print >>sys.stderr, "skipped %s -- not in search path" % datadir

    for line in open( sys.argv[1] ):
        fields = line.split()
        try:
            chrom, start, stop = fields[0], int( fields[1] ), int( fields[2] )
        except ValueError,s:
            print >>sys.stderr, "skipping %s: %s" % (line,s)
            continue

        output = line.strip()
        for dataset in datasets:
            lookup = dataset.lookup
            scores_by_what = dataset.scores

            total = 0
            count = 0
            min_score = 100000000
            max_score = -100000000

            # if there was a regions.match file,
            # map chromosome interval into the region
            if lookup != None:
                if chrom in lookup:
                    region = lookup[chrom].find( start, stop)
                    if region == []: what = ""
                    elif len(region) != 1:
                        print >>sys.stderr, "%s maps to more than one region" % (line)
                        raise ValueError
                    else: what = region[0].value
                else: what = chrom
            else: what = chrom

            if what in scores_by_what:
                # Get all scores in the range
                scores_in_range = scores_by_what[what][start:stop]
                # Ensure it is a Numeric array (this should be a noop)
                scores_in_range = array( scores_in_range )
                # Determine indexes that are 'nan'
                is_real = logical_not( scores_in_range != scores_in_range )
                # Extract just the real values
                real_scores = compress( is_real, scores_in_range )
                # Compute aggregates
                count = sum( is_real )
                if count > 0:
                    total = sum( real_scores.astype( Float64 ) )
                    avg = total / count
                    min_score = min( real_scores )
                    max_score = max( real_scores )
                else:
                    total = avg = min_score = max_score = float( "nan" )

            output = "\t".join([ output, "%.6f\t%.6f\t%.6f\t%.6f\t%d" % ( avg, min_score, max_score, total or float("nan"), count) ])
        print >> out_file,output

    interval_file.close()
    out_file.close()

if __name__ == "__main__": main()

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El distrito de Hualmay es uno de los doce que conforman la provincia de Huaura, ubicada en el departamento de Lima en el Perú. Su jurisdicción está en su mayoría urbanizada y es parte de la conurbación de la ciudad de Huacho.

Dentro de la división eclesiástica de la Iglesia Católica del Perú, pertenece a la Diócesis de Huacho

Toponimia
La palabra Hualmay fue mencionada por primera vez en 1584 como "ayllu de Gualmay". No se sabe en que período del tiempo cambia la letra g por la h.

Historia
El pueblo de Hualmay, se encuentra ubicado en la margen izquierda del río Huaura, a 150 km de la capital de la República y a 32 m. sobre el nivel del mar. Este antiguo y fértil territorio existe oficialmente como Distrito desde el año 1918, pero su origen poblacional se remonta a tiempos inmemoriales. Las primeras poblaciones según opiniones de arqueólogos de renombres, podrían haberse instalado hace más de 5,000 años, existiendo una civilización contemporánea a Caral. Habría habido un fuerte vínculo entre la existencia de Bandurria, Végueta con su Dios Vichama, y Hualmay. En la época precolombina se desarrolló una civilización; la cultura Chancay, la misma que se desarrolló en el Valle de Huaura y al parecer su centro civilizatorio habría sido Hualmay, en la que ahora se denominan "Las Huacas" que son monumentos piramidales sobre la que habrían pasado distintas civilizaciones al expandir su área de influencia, como la mochica, Chavin y la Inca. La cultura Chancay se desarrolló sobre las áreas que ahora son provincias de Huaura y Huaral. En el Incanato, era una aldea y caleta de pescadores y agricultores, habitado por indígenas yungas, y es probable por los mitimaes sureños (quechuas) que llegaron por mandato del Emperador Pachacútec, cuando se produjo la incorporación de esta parte del Norte al Imperio de Tahuantínsuyo. Al llegar los españoles a este lugar, por primera vez hallaron a sus pobladores agrupados en ayllus dispersos. GUALMAY la comunidad nativa se hallaba bajo el mando de un cacique y este del curaca principal (Expediente C-4599-1775 Manuscritos Biblioteca Nacional de Lima). En 1584 el ayllu de GUALMAY era gobernado por don GONZALO GUAMAN PAYCO, principal y cacique de los indios del valle Huaura y Huacho, así lo hizo saber al Virrey don Francisco de Toledo. Según Enrique Torres Saldamando, en su obra indicada, la encomienda de "GUALMAY" (Huacho), en el año de 1581, tenía 240 naturales que pagaban 909 pesos por concepto de tributo al gobierno (Cabildos de Lima. Tomo 1 p. 440).

En un documento sobre la tributación de los ayllus de Huacho, del 17 de diciembre de 1806, GUALMAY debe pagar siete pesos y cinco reales por cada indio originario con tierras En 1600 la hacienda de Carquín tenía 70 fanegadas, en poder del Capitán don Juan Bayón de Campomanes. Pero pertenecían a la Comunidad de San Bartolomé de Huacho. En 1658, el Juez visitador de tierras, Fray Diego Miguel de Salazar, ordenó la devolución de dicho predio a la comunidad autóctona de GUALMAY; pero se impone la codicia de los Capitanes de Pizarro y se hace dueño de estas tierras doña Isabel Centellas Viuda de Ojeda.

A partir de 1764 Hualmay pertenece a la Parroquia de Huacho anota el Padre Fray Jordán Rodríguez, lo mismo refiere Córdova Urrutia en 1744. En 1776 el Dr. Berardo Balmando servía como cura, y en 1820, lo era el Dr. Gregorio Mier - Cura y Vicario.

El general San Martín, cuando llega a Huacho, que comprende Hualmay, nombró Cura interino al Dr. José Manrique López de Huacho.

Entre los Principales el ayllu de Carquin fue Martín Caxa y Gonzalo Guaman Paico de Hualmay en 1583, Blas de Candelaria en 1808 (Expediente 12520. Manuscritos. BibL Nac. Lima) En la Historia Republicana pertenece a la antigua Provincia de Chancay integrando el Departamento de la Costa, conforme con el Reglamento Provisional del 1821, expedido en la Vía de Huaura por el generalísimo don José de San Martín incorporada al Departamento de Lima por Ley del 4 de noviembre de 1823, a la "FIDELÍSIMA VILLA" de Huacho, por Ley del Congreso del 16 de abril de 1828, promulgada por el Presidente José de la Mar; a la capital de la Provincia por Decreto del 23 de enero de 1866 y a la ciudad de Huacho por ley del 10 de noviembre de 1874. Ahora pertenece a la Provincia de Huaura por Ley N.º 24886 del 6 de noviembre de 1988. Hualmay no fue ajeno a la gesta Libertadora del General Don José de San Martín, su territorio Carquín - Hualmay, Pescadores y Agricultores de este pueblo, se unieron al Libertador a su paso por estas tierras el 12 de noviembre de 1820. En la ocupación del litoral Huachano y sus tierras costeras los campesinos de Hualmay contribuyeron a la expulsión de los chilenos por el año 1879 en la Contienda Bélica Perú – Chile.

El distrito fue creado mediante Ley No. 2918 del 6 de diciembre de 1918, dado por el Presidente de la República José Pardo y Barreda. En 1919 se instala el primer Consejo Municipal siendo Alcalde el ciudadano Pedro P. Herrera.

Geografía
Abarca una superficie de 5,81 km².

División administrativa

Centros poblados
 Urbanos
 Hualmay, con 26 780 hab.
 Rurales
Truchero
Carrizal
Carquín Chico

Autoridades

Municipales

 2015 - 2018
 Alcalde: Críspulo Eddie Jara Salazar, del Movimiento Concertación para el Desarrollo Regional (CDR).
 Regidores:  Sandra Fiorella Churrango Valdivia (CDR), Carlos Acuña Guillén (CDR), Geovana Florencia Giraldo Alejo (CDR), Víctor Hugo Romero Ávila (CDR), Sonia Milagros Cárdenas González (CDR), Lauro Helge Zúñiga Rojas (Alianza para el Progreso), Marín Edgar Palacios Mejía (Fuerza Popular).
 2011 - 2014
 Alcalde:
 Regidores: Flores Ignacio Calderón Carrasco (CDR), Sandra Fiorella Churrango Valdivia (CDR), Luis Alberto Quiche Estupiñán (CDR), Geovana Florencia Giraldo Alejo (CDR), Carlos Acuña Guillén (CDR), Reynaldo Francisco Cherrepano Manrique (Fonavistas del Perú), Víctor Hugo Romero Ávila (Alianza para el Progreso).
 2007 - 2010
 Alcalde: Críspulo Eddie Jara Salazar.

Policiales
 Comisaría de Huacho
 Comisario: Cmdte. PNP. Silvestre Santamaría Obando.

Religiosas
 Diócesis de Huacho
 Obispo de Huacho: Mons. Antonio Santarsiero Rosa, OSI.
 Parroquia Sagrada Familia
 Párroco: Pbro. Juan Fernández.

Educación

Instituciones educativas

Referencias

Véase también
 Organización territorial del Perú
 Huacho

Enlaces externos
 Municipalidad distrital de Hualmay
  INEI Perú

Hualmay

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Nike Bent (born 1 December 1981) is a Swedish former alpine skier who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics.

On 18 August 2010, she announced her retirement from alpine skiing following knee injuries.

References

External links
 sports-reference.com

1981 births
Living people
Swedish female alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers of Sweden
Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics


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module RMeetup
  module Fetcher
    class Groups < Base
      def initialize
        @type = :groups
      end

      # Turn the result hash into a Group Class
      def format_result(result)
        RMeetup::Type::Group.new(result)
      end
    end
  end
end


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by ZXDunny
Forum: Other programming languages
Topic: Introduction to BBC BASIC
Re: Introduction to BBC BASIC
gives me a chance to fully grock the code A quick point of language - it's "grok", not "grock". Except...and I'm not totally sure on this, the Sinclair Spectrum had BASIC keywords on it's keyboard. I always imagined that hitting those keys produced their tokens directly. Never had a Speccy so I don...
I wonder if interpretive tokenized code is worth the effort these days? I believe it is still a good way to make code smaller, and make the interpreter faster. Those are always good things no matter how fast a computer or how much memory you have. I also think it has the potential to make an interp...
I expect that it was not stored as a jump table due to memory constraints. The 48k Spectrum had just that - 48kb of usable RAM, and a large program would need a largish table. And besides, Spectrum code lines were stored with a four byte header - two bytes for the line number, two bytes for the leng...
Well, back in the day they were a lot faster than procedures, so maybe for speed? Or just convenience? In BBC BASIC, procedure calls (without parameters) are typically faster than GOSUB. Specifically, the destination of a procedure call is looked up in the same way as variables are, in a relatively...
@ RichardRussell : I am looking at a bit of BBC BASIC code by you, and it uses GOSUB a lot, as well as GOTO. Kind of curious of why? In a language that has structured parameterised procedures and functions why are you using so much GOSUB and GOTO? I had not seen anyone use those two kewords in BBC ...
What? We called it "Assembly Language" back in 1974. Assembler had symbolic names for memory addresses and mnemonics for machine instructions and registers etc. "machine code" is that binary stuff you put into memory. Or more likely, later, enter as hexadecimal. Yes, that was what we did. Assembler...
Richard said it best - SpecBAS (by me, Paul Dunn - no idea how this Dunning chap is) is as tightly tied to Sinclair BASIC as I can make it. That means line numbers, string slicing Sinclair-style, UDG character sets and even using the same algorithms to generate graphics primitives as the original z8...
And the reason I am hesitant to make a submission, as I would be using native code and doing so in BBC BASIC V on RISC OS. Unless you want to use embedded assembler code, it ought to be relatively easy to write it in 'generic' BBC BASIC so that it will run in BBC BASIC for Windows , BBC BASIC for S...
In another thread, about another BASIC (!), there are some examples of how to incorporate GUI features from a toolkit like GTK or IUP. Whilst you can do that (in BBC BASIC too if you want to) it seems to me that it's neither a good demonstration of the capabilities of your BASIC nor conducive to gu...
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I would love to add an OpenGL shader to SpecBAS. Not for the display per-se, but for scaling to an integer multiple before using bilinear to get the rest of the way up to the screen size. Much nicer to look at than a straight bilinear filter :) Is there no way you can achieve that by judiciously sw...
one core to render the graphics and have the interpreter running on a separate core That's the BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 structure too, but with the addition of the GPU (which has hundreds or thousands of 'cores'). Admittedly where the benefit of the hardware acceleration really kicks in is in things l...
Yeah, SpecBAS has twelve modes in all (so far). That all the graphics are 8bpp doesn't help either. Tbh, I think it's probably gonna be fine leaving one core to render the graphics and have the interpreter running on a separate core as I am now - hardware acceleration isn't likely to help, I fear. A...
Interesting. I wonder if it can be made to work with SpecBAS's blend modes too (OVER command). I think at the very least I should be able to replace the window and sprite compositor, though at the expense of needing SDL dlls bundled with it.
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why do I want GPU acceleration?
I assume for the same reason I do in BBC BASIC, to make graphics faster! If you don't care about speed, it's a moot point.
Graphics? You mean things like drawing lines and circles?
Because windows in SpecBAS are not SDL surfaces and may be hidden Well, OK, to be able to clip writes to a hidden window (whilst allowing concurent writes to a visible window) you would either have to treat that as a special case (I imagine it's uncommon) or make each window a separate SDL surface ...
I support multiple windows (within the SDL surface, I only use one of those) so clipping has to be done manually - also there's the clipping commands which allow you to set your own custom clipping region. I don't see why either of those has any impact on whether SDL does the clipping or you do. In...
Literally the only thing I use SDL for under Linux is to get a pointer to the window surface which I then draw to by writing to that pointer (with offsets, natch). Clipping is performed by SpecBAS, not SDL. This is SDL 1.2, right? So whether clippng is done by your code or by SDL it's being done by...
Clipping is a fundamental function in SDL. None of my examples would have worked if I didn't enable viewport clipping support. Hmm. Literally the only thing I use SDL for under Linux is to get a pointer to the window surface which I then draw to by writing to that pointer (with offsets, natch). Cli...
Now as to clipping (defining a viewport) is something that is almost always OS specific. And an example of making a non language OS call. I probably don't understand something fundamental here, but why would clipping be an OS-specific operation? Surely it's just a matter of excluding writes to grap...
@ZXDunny, Have you tried to compile your SpecBAS with Lazarus for Raspberry Pi? https://www.getlazarus.org/setup/?download#linux Michal yes indeed, that's what I use to build it on mac and linux. However, the current code base has a lot of changes which will require that I rewrite the OS-specific s...
I think many posters here want a system that had the instantaneous impact of ROM BASIC on a home computer. This may not be realistic this days. There are also - despite the ANSI standard - so many BASIC variants. The one you started with was probably the best, even if it wasn't. Back when I were a ...
Going somewhat against what I was saying in my previous post, but I'm not seeing BASIC anywhere on that list...
Guys, why are we dithering over what BASIC should and shouldn't be? What does it matter? BASIC is, at best a prototyping language and at worst a toy. For most people it will be somewhere inbetween - I know many folks that are happy to mess around making interesting patterns on the screen or solving ...
It's already been ported to the Pi. Several years ago, if memory serves. I'll see if I can dig it out - it'll be on this forum somewhere, I'm sure... The current state of the editor is what isn't compatible as yet. Source is here: https://zxnet.co.uk/websvn/listing.php?repname=SpecBAS It's horrible,...
I almost forgot that would need to implement a screen editor if one were to go that way. <blah> Honestly, it's like I'm invisible or something :D I think it is to the limits of Sinclair BASIC. I also think people like the feel of the old fashioned screen editors from the 8-bit age of home computers...


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Force-responsive nanoreactors inspired by glowing plankton
As night falls on certain beaches around the world, the sea can glitter like stars in the sky. This 'sea sparkle' arises from single-celled organisms that have evolved to emit light at night when disturbed by movements such as a wave breaking or a fish swimming by. This natural phenomenon inspired NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers to create polymer-based nanoreactors that can be switched on by shear stress, allowing the activation of chemical reactions on demand. The nanoreactors could be used for drug delivery, 3D printing and scratch-and-smell items, among other applications.
In the plankton Noctiluca scintillans, mechanical stimulation generates an action potential that activates proton channels in the membrane of organelles called scintillons, changing their permeability. The influx of protons then triggers a chemical reaction that produces light. NCCR Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Nico Bruns - now at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany - and his colleagues set out develop mimics of scintillons made of synthetic polymers called polymersomes. "We didn't invent polymersomes, but we asked ourselves, can we switch the permeability of polymersomes by mechanical perturbation?" Bruns says.
To create such force-responsive polymersomes, the researchers turned to a second source of inspiration: DNA. The inside of the DNA double helix repels water; but when the nucleobases that join two DNA strands together unpair, the whole molecule becomes water-soluble.
Bruns and his colleagues created vesicles in which a fluid is enclosed by an outer, double-layered membrane. The membrane consists of heads made of water-loving polymer chains and tails made of water-repellent polymer chains that are linked to nucleobases. The nucleobases cluster together when paired, but after applying shear force to the vesicles, for example by aspirating them with a syringe, the nucleobases unpair, making the membrane permeable to water-soluble molecules.
Next, the team enclosed in the vesicles an enzyme that produces light and provided the substrate on the outside. "If the membrane is non-permeable for the substrate, nothing will happen, but when the membrane becomes permeable, then substrate can get into the vesicle and the enzyme can do its job," Bruns says. Indeed, in response to shear force, the polymersomes light up — like tiny glowing Noctiluca scintillans, the researchers found. "It was nice to show that we could mimic the biological role model," Bruns says.
Finally, the team used shear-responsive polymersomes to trigger a chemical reaction that transforms polymers into a gel. In this case, the force generated by mild ultrasound was enough to make the nanoreactors permeable and switch on the gelation reaction. Gel formation on demand could be used in biomedicine to create hydrogel patches that gradually release drugs. It could also be useful in 3D printing to turn liquid inks into gels only after the ink is squeezed through a nozzle.
Another possible application of polymer nanoreactors could be in scratch-and-smell items. "One could use mechanical perturbations — for example, rubbing a garment — to release a fragrance," Bruns says.
The researchers detailed the structure and the properties of the polymer nanoreactors in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The work stems from a collaborative effort between the research teams of Bruns, and NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials PIs Prof. Esther Amstad (EPFL) and Prof. Marco Lattuada (University of Fribourg). Lattuada brought fluid dynamics expertise to the project, while Amstad and her team provided a sophisticated experimental setup to prove that nanoreactors are activated by shear force, Bruns says.
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Reference: Rifaie-Graham, O.; Galensowske, N. F. B.; Dean, C.; Pollard, J.; Balog, S.; Gouveia, M. G.; Chami, M.; Vian, A.; Amstad, E.; Lattuada, M.; Bruns, N. Shear stress‐responsive polymersome nanoreactors inspired by the marine bioluminescence of dinoflagellates, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2020, 60, 904-909.
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Och-Ziff and Embraer join our Top Ten Disgorgement List
Two recent enforcement actions included disgorgements to the SEC that are among the ten biggest FCPA disgorgments of all time.
As part of its $412 million resolution with the DOJ and SEC in late September, hedge fund manger Och-Ziff Capital Management Group (and its affiliate OZ Africa Management GP LLC) agreed to disgorge about $199 million to the SEC.
Och-Ziff's disgorgement was the second biggest in an FCPA case.
And this week, Embraer SA agreed to disgorge up to about $98 million as part of a $205 million resolution with the DOJ and SEC.
In a litigation release, the said SEC said Embraer could receive up to a $20 million credit "depending on the amount of disgorgement it will pay to Brazilian authorities in a parallel civil proceeding in Brazil."
The SEC didn't publish a final amount that reflected the credit for disgorgement in the Brazil enforcement action.
But in a separate statement, Embraer said it reached a settlement with authorities in Brazil for about $20 million. Of that, about $18.5 million is disgorgement, Embraer said.
Assuming Embraer receives a credit of $18.5 million against the SEC's order to disgorge $98 million, then the company will disgorged about $79.5 million to the SEC.
That would be the tenth biggest disgorgement in an FCPA case.
So far in 2016, three companies have landed on the Top Ten Disgorgement List. Joining Och-Ziff and Embraer is VimpelCom. In February, it disgorged $167.5 million to the SEC as part of its $397.6 million FCPA resolution wtih the DOJ and SEC.
Disgorgement, according to contributing editor Marc Alain Bohn, is a remedy authorized by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that's "used to deprive wrong-doers of their ill-gotten gains and deter violations of federal securities law."
Disgorgement first appeared in an FCPA enforcement action in 2004 when ABB Ltd disgorged $5.9 million to resolve books and records and internal controls offenses.
Since then the SEC has used disgorgement in most of its FCPA-related enforcement actions.
Here are the current top ten FCPA-related corporate disgorgements. All amounts also include pre-judgment interest:
1. Siemens $350 million in 2008
2. Och-Ziff $199 million in 2016
3. KBR $177 million in 2009
4. VimpelCom $167.5 million in 2016
5. Alcoa $161 million in 2014
6. Total S.A. $153 million in 2013
7. Snamprogetti $125 million in 2010
8. Technip $98 million in 2010
9. Daimler $91.4 million in 2010
10. Embraer $79.5 million in 2016
For comparison, here's our current list of the top ten FCPA enforcement actions.
Richard L. Cassin is the publisher and editor of the FCPA Blog. He can be contacted here.
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Intersecting Fashion and Culture in Death: Cloth Beyond the Grave
French philosopher Albert Camus said, "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future" (Rabalais). On April 23, 2014, my grandmother Joan Ellen Brown-Breen had gone from alive, to being a memory. So, I think of that gentle woman, dressed in a classic Land's End blue gauge cardigan and bright white tights sitting across from the many meals we endured. I picture her making sure her lipstick stayed on after her sip of hot coffee and fidgeting with a handkerchief tucked under the white collared sleeve of her button-down shirt. And what is embedded in my grandmother's demeanor is a part of a culture, a history, and a materiality of that handkerchief that marks a memory. If Camus believes in culture bringing about a future, my grandmother has set up a gift for me, and the magic of cloth and dress behind those we have lost can set a philosophy of not only remembrance, but fashion living beyond the person in death; in that sense, there is a death in fashion.
The past life of cloth does not end, as a person's life does and in that death, the cloth remains as a symbol. Umberto Eco and Peter Stallybrass capture how clothes go beyond the idea of objects to become symbols of past and present motions. To start, we must understand how these symbols are interpreted in a broader sense. Eco's "Social Life as a System", shows a clear emphasis on fashion being used as codes, messages and symbols that are acted through gestures and demeanor. He states: "I am speaking through my clothes…Obviously, fashion codes are less articulate, more subject to historical fluctuations than linguistic codes" (Eco 144). His comparison of semiotics in clothing are interpreted just as easily and frequently as our movement is; as well, the history of fashion changes our interpretation of how we decode these symbols. Fashion symbolizes class and economic standards. It divides us in social boundaries, but somehow is our common thread, as well. To understand these linguistics, Eco states: "The task of semiotics is to isolate different systems of signification, each of them ruled by specific norms, and to demonstrate that there is signification and that there are norms" (Eco 145). Using these norms as a starting point of comparison can help us in decoding each other's symbols and signs. Just as Eco also echoes in "Lumbar Thought", a pair of jeans transformed his demeanor and he developed a new set of symbols embodied in his physical movement.
Stallybrass' analyzes the grief in clothing of those who have passed away in how even when the human movement is gone, there is still something; there is something almost magical, moving around in the fabric. That is what is called the imprint. When speaking of the death of his friend Allon White, he states: "For Jen, the question was whether and how to reorder the house, what to do with Allon's books and with all the ways in which he had occupied space" (Stallybrass 35). By his use of literary language, Stallybrass is emphasizing that the signs of remembrance, like Allon's books, still existed around them; his signs stayed even though his physical body had left. Stallybrass talks of memories as the imprint of a person and the power in processing that memory comes from within in us.
When my grandmother, on my mother's side, passed away, there was this spree and excitement for my aunts to gather as much of her personal items as quickly as possible. The stampede to her home in Waterbury empathized a true fetishism in my grandmother's belongings. The pearls she bought after my grandfather returned from war, the sapphire rings she collected, and the many cashmere sweaters she wore during the seasons seemed to be a commodity, as Karl Marx would see it; these items were so valued for their price that the memory of my grandmother faded. My mother, however, started fidgeting with the fake diamond pins she seemed to snag out of the items that were taken. They were my grandmother's, and when I asked my mother why she wore them, she said she could feel my grandmother's presence with her. Here is where I saw my mother's power in imprinting my grandmother's memory. She didn't need the most expensive item to feel her own mother's love; she needed something that reminded that she had strength from the ones who passed away in her life. My mother sat in a hospital for two months watching my grandmother withering away while my aunts sat in their homes, far away from the horror, and all they wanted was stuff. To them, all they saw was stuff, so it remained stuff.
The true reason why clothing becomes a memory is by the senses of the body, and the magic that makes you feel somehow secure knowing that that pin sat on someone else's shoulders for a long time. It's as if the pins, gathered on my mother, would be like having little imaginary former lives of memory helping her make decisions in the present. The magic of those moments, and the symbolism of some cheap Macy's pin, as I believe Stallybrass would agree, gathered meaning because some wore it.
Clothing is different because it touches the body; it has direct connection to that person's movement, the environments they both enter, and the way they live on that person and in return, the clothing becomes the life. It can be frightening in experience and this terror is captured by Vladimir Nabokov as he states: "Her dresses now wear their own selves, her books leaf through their own pages. We suffocate in the tightening circle of those monsters that are misplaced and misshapen because she is not there to tend them" (Stallybrass 40). And maybe that's the point: we need to keep this cyclic motion going of tending to these items so that they continue their own path of life along ours. The personification of cloth is what keeps the mystery, but also creates a sense of fear that the person who has passed, may still be around in that object. Clothing truly haunts us and that adds comfort, along with some mystery or terror, to how clothing is truly grieved. It becomes so grieved, we started to follow an understood and organized interpretation of what to wear to mourn those we have lost; we have created fashion, alongside the fashion that lives from those who have died.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art had an exhibition, reviewed by Glenda Tomi, called "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire" which examined the Victorian Era. "Her", which personified the actual attire that the person mourning was wearing, became a part of the textile industry after the Industrial Revolution; mourning attire, thus, became a staple in the fashion industry (Toma). Between 1815 and 1915, death in fashion has certain symbols and codes as an homage to Eco statements about coding, as Toma states:
"And while black does have a muting effect, it cannot hide careful attention to cut, detail and trim. One outfit, dated 1861 and displayed from behind, has thin threads of gray woven throughout the skirt, as if someone started sketching gardenias in charcoal. Lace is delicately draped around the shoulders, just sheer enough that the dress's black beads still manage to peek through" (Toma).
The question for present day mourning, amongst Stallybrass' and Toma's analysis of death, comes back to my grandmother's handkerchiefs; for that, the personal narrative from my mother explains the history behind why the magic of what could be a forgotten, a 1900's folded embroidered piece of cloth, becomes meaningful in remembrance and memory. My grandmother had her own fashion inspiration from Jackie Kennedy and Chanel, which why she loved carrying scarves or handkerchiefs. From my mother, also named Joan, there is further insight into my grandmother's, who we called "Mama Joan" history of style:
"Mama Joan grew up in the depression, then married Papa Frank who was very frugal, so money was always tight. On top of that, Mama Joan went to Catholic school and always wore a uniform. And her mother was English, and wore very simple clothes. I always thought her Mom looked like a nun. So, what's a girl to do? I think Mama Joan used scarves as her fashion statement piece. They were economical and she could change up her basic clothes to look new and different. She always wore short scarves around her neck. She didn't have money for jewelry, so scarves were her accessory".
That culture of wearing scarves and handkerchiefs during the 1940's and 1950's spread to my mother, who also accessories with scarves based on the influence of my grandmother. In a way, other than actual funeral attire we all wear, those scarves my mother creates a new definition of "mourning clothing". My mother is what Stallybrass would call giving "tribute" to my grandmother. Stallybrass believes in obligations to cloth in mourning as he states: "The particular power of cloth…is closely associated with two almost contradictory aspects of its materiality; it's ability to permeated and transformed be maker and wearer alike; its ability to endure over time…cloth is a kind of memory" (Stallybrass 38). More so, cloth is more human than we ever imagine it to be, and can endure its own death in a way. Cloth endures time just as we do as humans, it just dies differently; he decays differently. The one common ideal is that cloth and humans share is having a soul, which is how cloth is personified. Cloth only lasts longer than the human body, but it wears marks of time and it captures the memory of the human life.
Ironically, the future of our culture lies in the death of the past, in terms of cloth; we mourn clothes left behind while create an industry based on the death of others to fuel another capitalist perspective of the industry. Eco and Stallybrass understand the physicality and materiality of an object whether it's in how we move as people when wearing clothes, or the physical texture of clothing that imprints a person even after the person is gone. This is seen in the visual collections of photographs of the left behind, but still very alive, handkerchiefs of my grandmother. Beyond capitalism and fetishism, which do exist in the fashion industry, symbolic meaning of clothing is a long last influence, and is preserved by us as people, after the death of the person. Whether alive or not, the codes of a person are embedded in their clothing, truly shaped into it, so that their presence cannot leave. The materiality of clothing by sharing and reusing clothes, shows that clothing is also a sign of a long journey, collecting memories as if they item can be personified forever. The magic then, is accepting the movement of the present and how movement continues in the past to provide a real mystery to the definitions of life and death in fashion.
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Eco, Umberto. "Lumbar Thought." Umberto Eco (n.d.): 315-17. Web. 3 Sept. 2016.
Rabalais, Kevin. "Create Dangerously: Albert Camus and His Quest for Meaning." The Australian Arts. The Australian, 2 Nov. 2013. Web. 23 Nov. 2016.
Stallybrass, Peter. "Worn World." Clothes, Mourning, and the Life of Things (n.d.): 35-50. Web. 23 Sept. 2016.
Toma, Glenda. "At The Met, 'Death Becomes' A History Lesson Of The Fashion Variety." Forbes.Com (2014): 1. Business Source Complete. Web. 23 Nov. 2016.
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use std::fmt;
use std::io::prelude::*;
use std::io;

use term::color::{Color, BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW};
use term::{self, Terminal, TerminfoTerminal, color, Attr};

use self::AdequateTerminal::{NoColor, Colored};
use self::Verbosity::{Verbose, Normal, Quiet};
use self::ColorConfig::{Auto, Always, Never};

use util::errors::CargoResult;

#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
pub enum Verbosity {
    Verbose,
    Normal,
    Quiet
}

#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
pub enum ColorConfig {
    Auto,
    Always,
    Never
}

#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
pub struct ShellConfig {
    pub color_config: ColorConfig,
    pub tty: bool
}

enum AdequateTerminal {
    NoColor(Box<Write + Send>),
    Colored(Box<Terminal<Output=Box<Write + Send>> + Send>)
}

pub struct Shell {
    terminal: AdequateTerminal,
    config: ShellConfig,
}

pub struct MultiShell {
    out: Shell,
    err: Shell,
    verbosity: Verbosity
}

impl MultiShell {
    pub fn new(out: Shell, err: Shell, verbosity: Verbosity) -> MultiShell {
        MultiShell { out: out, err: err, verbosity: verbosity }
    }

    pub fn out(&mut self) -> &mut Shell {
        &mut self.out
    }

    pub fn err(&mut self) -> &mut Shell {
        &mut self.err
    }

    pub fn say<T: ToString>(&mut self, message: T, color: Color)
                            -> CargoResult<()> {
        match self.verbosity {
            Quiet => Ok(()),
            _ => self.out().say(message, color)
        }
    }

    pub fn status<T, U>(&mut self, status: T, message: U) -> CargoResult<()>
        where T: fmt::Display, U: fmt::Display
    {
        match self.verbosity {
            Quiet => Ok(()),
            _ => self.out().say_status(status, message, GREEN)
        }
    }

    pub fn verbose<F>(&mut self, mut callback: F) -> CargoResult<()>
        where F: FnMut(&mut MultiShell) -> CargoResult<()>
    {
        match self.verbosity {
            Verbose => callback(self),
            _ => Ok(())
        }
    }

    pub fn concise<F>(&mut self, mut callback: F) -> CargoResult<()>
        where F: FnMut(&mut MultiShell) -> CargoResult<()>
    {
        match self.verbosity {
            Verbose => Ok(()),
            _ => callback(self)
        }
    }

    pub fn error<T: ToString>(&mut self, message: T) -> CargoResult<()> {
        self.err().say(message, RED)
    }

    pub fn warn<T: ToString>(&mut self, message: T) -> CargoResult<()> {
        self.err().say(message, YELLOW)
    }

    pub fn set_verbosity(&mut self, verbose: bool, quiet: bool) -> CargoResult<()> {
        self.verbosity = match (verbose, quiet) {
            (true, true) => bail!("cannot set both --verbose and --quiet"),
            (true, false) => Verbose,
            (false, true) => Quiet,
            (false, false) => Normal
        };
        Ok(())
    }

    /// shortcut for commands that don't have both --verbose and --quiet
    pub fn set_verbose(&mut self, verbose: bool) {
        if verbose {
            self.verbosity = Verbose;
        } else {
            self.verbosity = Normal;
        }
    }

    pub fn set_color_config(&mut self, color: Option<&str>) -> CargoResult<()> {
        self.out.set_color_config(match color {
            Some("auto") => Auto,
            Some("always") => Always,
            Some("never") => Never,

            None => Auto,

            Some(arg) => bail!("argument for --color must be auto, always, or \
                                never, but found `{}`", arg),
        });
        Ok(())
    }

    pub fn get_verbose(&self) -> Verbosity {
        self.verbosity
    }
}

impl Shell {
    pub fn create(out: Box<Write + Send>, config: ShellConfig) -> Shell {
        // Match from_env() to determine if creation of a TerminfoTerminal is possible regardless
        // of the tty status. --color options are parsed after Shell creation so always try to
        // create a terminal that supports color output. Fall back to a no-color terminal or write
        // output to stderr if a tty is present and color output is not possible.
        match ::term::terminfo::TermInfo::from_env() {
            Ok(ti) => {
                // Color output is possible.
                Shell {
                    terminal: Colored(Box::new(TerminfoTerminal::new_with_terminfo(out, ti))),
                    config: config
                }
            }
            _ if config.tty => {
                // Color output is expected but not available, fall back to stderr.
                Shell { terminal: NoColor(Box::new(io::stderr())), config: config }
            }
            _ => {
                // No color output.
                Shell { terminal: NoColor(out), config: config }
            }
        }
    }

    pub fn set_color_config(&mut self, color_config: ColorConfig) {
        self.config.color_config = color_config;
    }

    pub fn say<T: ToString>(&mut self, message: T, color: Color) -> CargoResult<()> {
        try!(self.reset());
        if color != BLACK { try!(self.fg(color)); }
        try!(write!(self, "{}\n", message.to_string()));
        try!(self.reset());
        try!(self.flush());
        Ok(())
    }

    pub fn say_status<T, U>(&mut self, status: T, message: U, color: Color)
                            -> CargoResult<()>
        where T: fmt::Display, U: fmt::Display
    {
        try!(self.reset());
        if color != BLACK { try!(self.fg(color)); }
        if self.supports_attr(Attr::Bold) { try!(self.attr(Attr::Bold)); }
        try!(write!(self, "{:>12}", status.to_string()));
        try!(self.reset());
        try!(write!(self, " {}\n", message));
        try!(self.flush());
        Ok(())
    }

    fn fg(&mut self, color: color::Color) -> CargoResult<bool> {
        let colored = self.colored();

        match self.terminal {
            Colored(ref mut c) if colored => try!(c.fg(color)),
            _ => return Ok(false),
        }
        Ok(true)
    }

    fn attr(&mut self, attr: Attr) -> CargoResult<bool> {
        let colored = self.colored();

        match self.terminal {
            Colored(ref mut c) if colored => try!(c.attr(attr)),
            _ => return Ok(false)
        }
        Ok(true)
    }

    fn supports_attr(&self, attr: Attr) -> bool {
        let colored = self.colored();

        match self.terminal {
            Colored(ref c) if colored => c.supports_attr(attr),
            _ => false
        }
    }

    fn reset(&mut self) -> term::Result<()> {
        let colored = self.colored();

        match self.terminal {
            Colored(ref mut c) if colored => try!(c.reset()),
            _ => ()
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    fn colored(&self) -> bool {
        self.config.tty && Auto == self.config.color_config
            || Always == self.config.color_config
    }
}

impl Write for Shell {
    fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> io::Result<usize> {
        match self.terminal {
            Colored(ref mut c) => c.write(buf),
            NoColor(ref mut n) => n.write(buf)
        }
    }

    fn flush(&mut self) -> io::Result<()> {
        match self.terminal {
            Colored(ref mut c) => c.flush(),
            NoColor(ref mut n) => n.flush()
        }
    }
}


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Q: Why does Python add a whitespace after printing int then string? This is my code:
num = input('Amount of numbers:')
num = int(num)
for x in range(1, num + 1):
    if x == 1:
        print('1st')
    elif x == 2:
        print('2nd')
    elif x == 3:
        print('3rd')
    elif x >= 4:
        print(x, 'th')

This is the output(sample):
Amount of numbers:8
1st
2nd
3rd
4 th
5 th
6 th
7 th
8 th

As you can see, all numbers after 4 have a whitespace between it and 'th'. How do I fix this?

A: you can optionally give a separator argument of whatever you want for "how comma should behave" (as another option to the other answers...
print("a","b",sep="+")
a+b

so you could just use ""
print("a","b",sep="")
ab

if you do decide to use a single string as the other answers suggest you should really just use string formatting instead of + concatenation
print("{num}th".format(num=x))

A: Don't use , comma, that automatically gives a space.
So change the last line from:
        print(x, 'th')

To:
        print(str(x) +'th')

A: You can convert the number to a string and then print it as
print(str(x) + 'th')
Or you can change the value of the default separator to an empty string rather than the default space:
print(x, 'th', sep='')

A: Print function
You can convert the number to a string and then print it.
print(str(x) + 'th')
Or just use sep
num = input('Amount of numbers:')
num = int(num)
for x in range(1, num + 1):
    if x == 1:
        print('1st')
    elif x == 2:
        print('2nd')
    elif x == 3:
        print('3rd')
    elif x >= 4:
        print(x, 'th', sep="")

Using format strings
Or you can just use this though.
print("{num}th".format(num=x))

Or f strings
print(f"{x}th")

A: Use fornatted string to plugin a variable in a string.
f"{x}th"

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As the COIVD-19 pandemic continues, many Americans are asking if state government regulations mandating the use of masks in public areas are constitutional. To address the constitutionality of state regulations regarding masks, it is crucial to turn to case law precedent set by the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905).
In the early 1900's, Massachusetts was one of the few states that had compulsory vaccination laws in response to the smallpox outbreak. The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts mandated that all adult residents over twenty-one years of age were to undergo vaccination or to be fined a five-dollar penalty. Henning Jacobson—a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts—refused to comply with the newly passed legislation, claiming to have suffered serious medical complications from vaccinations in the past. In addition, Jacobson argued that compulsory vaccination was a violation of the 14th Amendment's due process clause, and a violation of his personal liberty protected under the United States Constitution.
In a 7-2 decision, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Massachusetts statute mandating compulsory vaccination. The Supreme Court reached the conclusion that, "the liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint." Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 22 (1905). The Court determined that the Massachusetts statute did not violate the 14th Amendment. In addition, the Court reasoned that under the 10th Amendment's state police powers, states have the authority to enact reasonable legislative regulations to protect public health and safety which the Massachusetts statute sought to achieve. The principle for upholding the Massachusetts statute is derived from the Supreme Court's belief that "The right to preserve life is the most sacred right of man." Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11, 22 (1905). In an effort to preserve such life, it was critical that Massachusetts enacted compulsory vaccination laws that mitigated the spread and transmission of smallpox.
The precedent set by Jacobson holds relevancy in contemporary society in the wake of COIVD-19. In an effort to mitigate and respond to COVID-19, many state governors have mandated the use of masks in public settings. Under Jacobson, governor orders requiring residents to wear a mask in public settings is constitutional under the 10th Amendment's state police powers, and is not a violation of the due process clause of the 14th Amendment because the mandatory use of facemasks is in response to a public health crisis, and serves a greater goal of protecting the life and safety of the public. The use of facemasks and face coverings not only protects the wearer but also those around the wearer from droplets and other bodily fluids that may contain COVID-19. While different facemasks and face coverings offer different levels of protection depending on the sealing and fabric, there exists a widespread consensus within the scientific community that the use of some face covering offers at least some level of protection against the virus.
Although the Supreme Court in Jacobson considered that residents could offer a defense to the mandatory immunization if they could provide evidence by a licensed physician regarding the harmful impact that they would suffer if vaccinated; it appears that not many defenses can be offered for an individual's failure to wear some sort of face protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals who experience trouble breathing or some level of asthma, anxiety, claustrophobia, or distress from the use of surgical masks or N-95 masks have the option to adopt face shields which provide a reasonable—although not as effective—alternative to facemasks.
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15:1 A. L. R. These are verses from the Book, and a clear Reading
15:2 Perhaps those who disbelieve would like to become Muslims.
15:3 Leave them eating and enjoying themselves; let hope distract them, for they soon will know (anyhow).
15:4 We have never wiped out any town unless it had [received] a known term;
15:5 no nation can forestall its deadline, nor will they ever postpone it.
15:6 Yet they say: "You to whom the Reminder has been sent down, why you´re crazy!
15:7 Why don´t you bring us angels if you are so truthful?"´
15:8 We do not send down any angels except with the Truth, and even then they would not be allowed to wait.
15:9 We Ourself have sent down the Reminder just as We are safeguarding it.
15:10 Even before you, We sent [some] down among the sects of early people;
15:11 yet no messenger ever came to them whom they did not sneer at.
15:12 Thus We slip it into criminals´ hearts;
15:13 they will not believe in it, even though the custom of early people has already preceded it.
15:14 Even though We opened up a gate to Heaven for them so they might keep on climbing into it,
15:15 they still would say: "Our eyesight has been dazzled-in fact, we are enchanted folk!"
15:16 We have placed constellations in the sky and embellished it for onlookers.
15:17 We have safeguarded them against every outcast Satan
15:18 except for such as may try to eavesdrop, so a blazing meteor follows him.
15:19 Earth have We spread out and cast headlands upon it, and planted a bit of everything to grow there (so it is) well balanced.
15:20 We have placed various means of livelihood on it for (all of) you as well as anyone you do not have to provide for.
15:21 There is nothing whose stores are not [controlled] by Us, and We send it down only according to a fixed quantity.
15:22 We send forth fertilizing winds and send down water from the sky and offer you something to drink from it. You are not the ones who store it up.
15:23 We give life and bring death, and We are the Heirs [to every- thing]!
15:24 We know which of you try to get ahead and We know those who hold back.
15:25 Your Lord will summon them; He is Wise, Aware.
15:26 We created man from ringing clay, from moulded slime;
15:27 while the sprites We had created earlier from smokeless fire.
15:28 So your Lord told the angels: "I am about to create a human being from ringing clay, from moulded slime.
15:29 When I have finished with him and breathed some of My spirit into him, then drop down on your knees before him."
15:30 The angels all bowed down together
15:31 except for Diabolis; he refused to be one of those bowing down on their knees.
15:32 He said: "Diabolis, what is wrong with you that you are not among those who bow down on their knees?"
15:33 He said: "I am no one to kneel before a human being You have created from ringing clay, from moulded slime."
15:34 He said: "Then get out of here, for you are an outcast!
15:35 On you lies the Curse until the Day for Repayment!"
15:36 He said: ´My Lord, let me wait till the day when they are raised up again."
15:37 He said: "You will be allowed to wait
15:38 until a day in known time."
15:39 He said: "My Lord, since You have let me go astray, I shall make things on earth seem attractive to them; I´ll mislead them all
15:40 except for any of Your sincere servants who may be among them."
15:41 He said: "Here will be a Straight Road [leading] up to Me!
15:42 You will not hold any authority over My servants except for someone who may follow you from among those who are misguided.
15:43 Hell will [serve as] an appointment for all of them together.
15:44 It has seven gates; each gate will have a portion assigned from them."
15:45 The heedful will be in gardens and by springs:
15:46 Enter them safely, at peace!
15:47 We will strip away any rancor that [lingers] in their breasts; like brethren they will face one another on couches.
15:48 Toil will not touch them there, nor will they ever be expelled from it.
15:49 Advise My servants that I am the Forgiving, Merciful One,
15:50 although My torment will be painful torment.
15:51 Advise them about Abraham´s guests
15:52 how, when they entered his presence and said: "Peace!", he said: "We feel wary of you."
15:53 They said: ´Don´t feel so wary; We bring you word about a clever boy."
15:54 He said: "Have you brought me word like this once old age has set in on me? What sort of word do you want to spread?"
15:55 They said: "We have brought you word of the Truth, so do not act so discouraged."
15:56 He said: "Who despairs of his Lord´s mercy except those who are lost?"
15:57 He said: "Yet what is your errand, you emissaries?"
15:58 They said: "We have been sent for some criminal folk,
15:59 except for Lot´s house; we will rescue them all
15:60 except his wife. We have decreed that she will be one of those who will be left behind."
15:61 When the emissaries came to Lot´s household,
15:62 he said: "You are folk who should be ignored."
15:63 They said: Rather we have come to you about something they have been puzzling over.
15:64 We have brought you the Truth, for we are reliable.
15:65 Travel with your family at dead of night; you should follow in their rear, and let none of you glance around! Keep on going wherever you are ordered to.
15:66 We have passed judgment on that case for him so that those people´s last remnant shall be cut off once morning dawns for them."
15:67 The people of the city came up gay with the news.
15:68 He said: "These are my guests so do not disgrace me.
15:69 Heed God, and do not shame me."
15:70 They said: "Didn´t we forbid you to have contact with [anyone in] the Universe [outside]?"´
15:71 He said: "These are my daughters if you are going to do (something)."
15:72 Upon your life, they were groping along in their drunkenness
15:73 so the Blast caught them at sunrise:
15:74 We turned things upside down and rained down stones which had been stamped with their names on them.
15:75 In that are signs for investigators;
15:76 and it lies along a permanent highway.
15:77 In that is a sign for believers.
15:78 The Companions in the Forest had been wrongdoers,
15:79 so We avenged Ourself on them. Both are a clear indication.
15:80 The inhabitants of Stoneland rejected the emissaries.
15:81 We gave them Our signs even though they had shunned them.
15:82 They had confidently hewn houses out of the mountains.
15:83 So the Blast caught them early one morning
15:84 and what they had been earning did not help them out.
15:85 We have only created Heaven and Earth and whatever lies between them for the sake of Truth. The Hour is coming on, so examine [matters] with fine discrimination.
15:86 Your Lord is the Clever Creator!
15:87 We have brought you seven Oft-Repeated (verses] plus the Mighty Qur´an.
15:88 Do not strain your eyes towards what We let some types of them enjoy; do not feel saddened by them, and lower your [sheltering] wing over believers.
15:89 SAY:"I am the plain Warner,"
15:90 (such as We have sent down for the quibblers
15:91 who have torn the Quran apart.
15:92 By your Lord, We shall question them all
15:93 about whatever they have been doing!)
15:94 So proclaim whatever you are ordered to, and shun associators;
15:95 We will suffice for you against such scoffers
15:96 who place another deity alongside God [Alone], They soon will know!
15:97 We already know how cramped your breast feels because of what they say:
15:98 so hymn your Lord´s praise and be one of those who bow down on their knees (in worship).
15:99 Serve your Lord until conviction comes to you!