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"""Functional tests for 3d convolutional operations."""
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import itertools

import numpy as np
import tensorflow as tf

class BetaincTest(tf.test.TestCase):
  use_gpu = False

  def _testBetaInc(self, dtype):
    try:
      from scipy import special  # pylint: disable=g-import-not-at-top
      np_dt = dtype.as_numpy_dtype

      # Test random values
      a_s = np.abs(np.random.randn(10, 10) * 30).astype(np_dt)  # in (0, infty)
      b_s = np.abs(np.random.randn(10, 10) * 30).astype(np_dt)  # in (0, infty)
      x_s = np.random.rand(10, 10).astype(np_dt)  # in (0, 1)
      with self.test_session(use_gpu=self.use_gpu):
        tf_a_s = tf.constant(a_s, dtype=dtype)
        tf_b_s = tf.constant(b_s, dtype=dtype)
        tf_x_s = tf.constant(x_s, dtype=dtype)
        tf_out = tf.betainc(tf_a_s, tf_b_s, tf_x_s).eval()
      scipy_out = special.betainc(a_s, b_s, x_s).astype(np_dt)

      # the scipy version of betainc uses a double-only implementation.
      # TODO(ebrevdo): identify reasons for (sometime) precision loss
      # with doubles
      tol = 1e-4 if dtype == tf.float32 else 5e-5
      self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(scipy_out, tf_out, rtol=tol, atol=tol)

      # Test out-of-range values (most should return nan output)
      combinations = list(itertools.product([-1, 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5], repeat=3))
      a_comb, b_comb, x_comb = np.asarray(
          list(zip(*combinations)), dtype=np_dt)
      with self.test_session(use_gpu=self.use_gpu):
        tf_comb = tf.betainc(a_comb, b_comb, x_comb).eval()
      scipy_comb = special.betainc(a_comb, b_comb, x_comb).astype(np_dt)
      self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(scipy_comb, tf_comb)

      # Test broadcasting between scalars and other shapes
      with self.test_session(use_gpu=self.use_gpu):
        self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(
            special.betainc(0.1, b_s, x_s).astype(np_dt),
            tf.betainc(0.1, b_s, x_s).eval(), rtol=tol, atol=tol)
        self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(
            special.betainc(a_s, 0.1, x_s).astype(np_dt),
            tf.betainc(a_s, 0.1, x_s).eval(), rtol=tol, atol=tol)
        self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(
            special.betainc(a_s, b_s, 0.1).astype(np_dt),
            tf.betainc(a_s, b_s, 0.1).eval(), rtol=tol, atol=tol)
        self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(
            special.betainc(0.1, b_s, 0.1).astype(np_dt),
            tf.betainc(0.1, b_s, 0.1).eval(), rtol=tol, atol=tol)
        self.assertAllCloseAccordingToType(
            special.betainc(0.1, 0.1, 0.1).astype(np_dt),
            tf.betainc(0.1, 0.1, 0.1).eval(), rtol=tol, atol=tol)

      with self.assertRaisesRegexp(ValueError, "must be equal"):
        tf.betainc(0.5, [0.5], [[0.5]])

      with self.test_session(use_gpu=self.use_gpu):
        with self.assertRaisesOpError("Shapes of .* are inconsistent"):
          a_p = tf.placeholder(dtype)
          b_p = tf.placeholder(dtype)
          x_p = tf.placeholder(dtype)
          tf.betainc(a_p, b_p, x_p).eval(
              feed_dict={a_p: 0.5, b_p: [0.5], x_p: [[0.5]]})

    except ImportError as e:
      tf.logging.warn("Cannot test special functions: %s" % str(e))

  def testBetaIncFloat(self):
    self._testBetaInc(tf.float32)

  def testBetaIncDouble(self):
    self._testBetaInc(tf.float64)

class BetaincTestGPU(BetaincTest):
  use_gpu = True

if __name__ == "__main__":
  tf.test.main()

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HOF announcement tonight.
Baseball makes its HOF announcement tonight, as we see who the writers put in the Hall to join Ted Simmons and Marvin Miller, who both were selected by committee earlier.
You need 75% to get in.
As of this writing, 211 votes, 51.2%, are known.
Derek Jeter is still running unanimously at 100%, we will see tonight if that still holds up and if Jeter will join Mariano Rivera as the only unanimous selections.
Larry Walker, in his last year on the ballot, is at 83.7%. Curt Schilling is at 78.7%.
But only a little over half of the votes are known. Usually when the other, non-publicized part comes in, players drop, and someone like Schilling then is really on the bubble.
Barry Bonds and one-time Yankee Roger Clemens are at 71.6 and 70.6% respectively, thus a little short and expected to drop once more votes become known.
So it appears as if Jeter and Walker get in and the question is whether Jeter is unanimous and if Schilling joins them
Other notables: staying on the ballot would be Omar Vizquel, Gary Sheffield (the one -time Yankee at 36%), Scott Rolen, Billy Wagner, Jeff Kent, Todd Helton, Manny Ramirez, one-time Yankee Andruw Jones (23.7%), Sammy Sosa, Andy Pettitte (the Yankees' great is at 10.4%) and another former Yankee, Bobby Abreu (6.2%).
You need 5% to stay on the ballot. Abreu is on the bubble. Pettitte stays on, but isn't getting much support.
It appears like these notables will drop off the ballot, among others:
Ex-Yankees Jason Giambi (1 vote), Alfonso Soriano (0). Eric Chavez (one vote). Brian Roberts (0) and Raul Ibanez (0).
Also dropping off would be Cliff Lee (1), Adam Dunn (0), and Paul Konerko (1).
The bold is players with Yankees' connections, even if ever so briefly.
Posted in Awards, Ex-Players, Media, Mike's Musings
Tagged Abreu, Chavez, Clemens, Giambi, Hall of Fame, Ibanez, Jeter, Jones, Pettitte, Roberts, Sheffield, Soriano
WS Perfect Game Pitcher Don Larsen passes away at age 90.
Don Larsen, who authored the only perfect game in WS history on October 8, 1956, has passed away from esophageal cancer at the age of 90. The only other pitcher to throw a postseason no-hitter was Roy Halladay in the NLDS in 2010.
Larsen pitched for the Browns (1953), Orioles (1954), Yankees (1955-1959) KC A's (1960-1961) White Sox (1961), Giants (1962-1964) Colt .45s/Astros (Houston was called the Colt .45s before going into the Astrodome–1964/1965), Orioles again (1965), and Cubs (1967).
He pitched in five WS, and was part of two WS Champions in 1956 and 1958. He won the 1956 WS MVP.
Pitching on the last St. Louis Browns team in 1953, and the first Baltimore Oriole team of 1954, he went 10-33 in those years, losing a MLB leading 21 in 1954.
But things changed when he was traded to the Yankees, for whom he went 45-24 in the next five years, and for whom he pitched that perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series—-a game my father attended. Things got rough again after leaving the Yanks, as he went 1-10 in 1960. Pitching on poor teams before and after pitching for the Yankees hurt Larsen's career numbers.
For his career, Larsen had an 81-91 record, ERA 3.78, ERA+ 99. His 162 game average would be 48 games, 20 starts. 9-11, 3.78.
He pitched in 10 WS games, starting 6. He was 4-2, 2.75 in WS play, and started Game 7 of both the 1957 (loss) and 1958 (ND) World Series for the Yankees.
He pitched seven shutout innings in winning Game 3 of the 1958 WS.
Larsen was also a good hitting pitcher, hitting .242 with 14 HR in his career. In 1958, he hit .306 with 4 HR.
Would be remiss in not pointing out the passing away of David Stern, age 77, former NBA commissioner who suffered a brain hemorrhage 3 weeks ago.
There hasn't been much action on the Yankees' front, so an update on the HOF voting, via a tracker set up by Ryan Thibodaux:
With 115 votes, 27.9% counted, as of now, these ex-players would reach the 75% necessary to get in:
Derek Jeter, 100%
Larry Walker 86.1%
Curt Schilling 79.1%
Barry Bonds 76.5%
Roger Clemens 76.5%
As late ballots come in, and some voters remain anonymous, those numbers generally DROP, thus really putting Schilling, Bonds and Clemens all on the bubble.
Bonds and Clemens will have some voters, especially the anonymous ones, NOT voting on them because of steroid suspicions.
We'll see if Jeter continues at 100% and joins Mariano Rivera as a unanimous selection.
Not getting one vote so far are sluggers Jason Giambi, Adam Dunn, Paul Konerko and Alfonso Soriano—all of whom hit over 400 HR in their careers.
Posted in Awards, Ex-Players, Mike's Musings
Tagged bonds, Clemens, Dunn, Giambi, Jeter, Konerko, Larsen, Schilling, Soriano, Stern, Walker
Game 84. Yanks win 6-2 behind 3 HR, but lose Gleyber to DL.
The Yanks kept pace with Boston, staying one game back (56-28, .667 winning pct., the Red Sox are 59-29, .670; with four less games, the Yanks would have to go 3-1 in those for a tie) by beating Atlanta 6-2, but had to put rookie sensation Gleyber Torres on the 10 day DL. The expectation and hope is that Gleyber comes back for the Subway Series against the Mets starting July 20.
It's a hip injury.
Neil Walker and maybe Brandon Drury will man second base until Gleyber returns. Time for Walker (.188) to step up and earn his keep. He was close to a DFA before this. Tyler Wade will most likely be called from from SWB. Ronald Torreyes is away from SWB dealing with personal, family, issues.
We'll see what happens. The Yanks were 10-9 when Gleyber made his MLB debut, and have gone 46-19 since he arrived. Some of the mediocre start you can blame on really cold weather, but you can also see the impact Gleyber had.
The Yanks got a run in the second on a double by Didi and a single by Bird.
In the third, Giancarlo Stanton hit HR #21, a 3-run shot, to make it 4-0.
Kyle Higashioka is 3 for 34 in his MLB career, but he become only the second Yankee (Alfonso Soriano) to have each of his first 3 hits be homers. HR #3 made it 5-0 in the third.
CC Sabathia gave up a run in the fifth and a solo HR in the sixth, but that was all the Braves would get on the day.
Aaron Judge closed out the scoring with HR #24 in the seventh.
6-2 Yanks.
Judge solo HR.
Stanton 3-Run HR.
Didi 2 hits.
Higashioka solo HR.
CC's 243rd career win ties Juan Marichal on the all-time list.
Sabathia (W, 6-3, 3.02) 6 IP, 2 R, 5 H, 3 W, 5 K. 2 HBP. Gave up 1 HR.
Green (H, 11) 1 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 0 W, 0 K. 1.96
Betances 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 2 K. 2.63
Holder 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 0 K. 1.83
Posted in Awards, Ex-Players, In-Season Moves, Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Betances, Bird, Drury, Green, Gregorius, Higashioka, Holder, Judge, Marichal, Sabathia, Soriano, Stanton, Torres, Torreyes, Wade, Walker
Game 94. Yanks shutout Orioles.
For the first time since they were 4-2, the Yanks are two games above .500 this season after they shutout the Orioles 5-0 Wednesday night.
The Yanks jumped on the board right away. Brett Gardner tripled leading off the bottom of the first and scored on a SF by Carlos Beltran.
Mark Teixeira's 8th HR of the year, #402 of his career, made it 2-0 Yanks in the fourth.
Teix walked with the bases loaded in the sixth to make it 3-0.
In the seventh, Ronald Torreyes, playing 3rd because Chase Headley was a last minute scratch to due personal issues (hope all is OK), tripled, and scored on a Gardner SF.
Beltran finished the scoring in the eighth, when he hit his 20th HR of the season. Career HR #412 tied Alfonso Soriano on the all-time list.
Pineda (W, 4-9, 5.25) 6 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 2 walks, 8 K.
Betances (H, 24) 1 IP, 0 r, 0 H, 0 walks, 1 K, 2.49.
Goody 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks, 0 K. 4.32.
Shreve 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks, 2 K. 4.30.
Posted in Ex-Players, Mike's Musings, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Beltran, Betances, Gardner, Goody, Headley, Pineda, Shreve, Soriano, Teixeira, Torreyes
Games 71-73. Yanks win 3 in a row.
This will be quick. I apologize for no recent recaps, but I didn't have home internet access. Something with Verizon and DSL lines.
Game 71. The Yanks got 3 HR, inc. a walkoff from Starlin Castro (10), to beat the Rockies 9-8. Chase Headley (4) had a grand slam, and Carlos Beltran hit his 19th HR,#411 career, to put him one behind Alfonso Soriano on the all-time list. Beltran's HR was huge, as it cut an 8-4 Colorado lead down to 8-7 late in that game. Didi Gregorius then tied it with a single. Aroldis Chapman got the win.
Game 72. Rob Refsnyder got the GW RBI single, and Aaron Hicks hit his 3rd HR of the year in a 5-3 Yankees' win. Tanaka (5-2, 3.01) with the win.
Game 73. The Yanks go over .500 to 37-36 with a 2-1 win. It was the best game Pineda pitched all year. RBI single for Beltran, and the winning run scored in the bottom of the eighth on an error. Once again, no runs DMC does the job. Teixiera returned to the lineup.
Pineda 6 IP, 1 R, 2 H, 1 walk, 8 K. Gave up HR. 5.51
Betances 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks, 1 K. 2.97.
Miller (W, 5-0, 1.10) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks, 2 K.
Chapman (S, 15) 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 walks, 1 K. 2.70.
Posted in Ex-Players, In-Season Moves, Mike's Musings, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Beltran, Betances, Castro, Chapman, Gregorius, Headley, Hicks, Miller, Pineda, Refsnyder, Soriano, Tanaka, Teixeira
Games 67 & 68. Yanks back at .500
I spent a few hours in the emergency room of the hospital yesterday, and have two kidney stones which I still have to pass, so that is the reason for no reports yesterday.
A brief recap of Friday night's game. The Yanks scored four in the first, keyed by a 2-run HR by Carlos Beltran (17/ 409 career) and that was all Masahiro Tanaka needed as he cruised to a 8-2 win. Tanaka is now 4-2, 2.91.
As for yesterday, the Yanks were down 4-0 in the top of the seventh when A-Rod homered (8, 695 career) to make it 4-2. Beltran tied it in the eighth with a 2-run shot (18, 410) and the Yanks got three in the ninth to go up 7-4. Jacoby Ellsbury's two-run single being the key ninth inning hit.
Aroldis Chapman gave us a scare. With two out, he gave up back-to-back HRs to cut the lead to 7-6 before getting a groundout to end the game.
The Yanks are back at .500 at 34-34. Beltran needs two HR to tie Alfonso Soriano on the all-time list.
Once again, Pineda was giving up runs with two out. Sometimes with two out and two strikes. He's had trouble closing out innings this year.
Pineda 5 1/3 IP, 4 R, 3 ER, 6 H, 0 walks, 9 K. Gave up 1 HR. 5.82
Swarzak 1 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 walks, 2 K. 2.84
Chapman (S, 13) 1 IP, 2 R, 2 H, 0 walks, 2 K. Gave up 2 HR, 3.18.
I have to admit. Sometimes I wonder if it should be Chapman setting up Miller.
Tagged a-rod, Beltran, Chapman, Ellsbury, Miller, Pineda, Soriano, Swarzak, Tanaka
The Minors.
AAA: SWB won 2-1 in the completion of the suspended game from yesterday. Bryan Mitchell 4 Ip, 1 R. Diego Moreno 3 scoreless innings, 2.01. Chris Martin , on rehab, one scoreless IP. CF Mason "Classical Gas" Williams 2 h, rbi, 2 hits for SS Cole Figueroa.
Other game: 5-1 win. Jaron Long 5 IP, 1 R. C Austin Romine 2, 2 RBI. CF Mason Williams 2 RBI.
AA: Trenton got just 3 hits in a 3-2 loss.
High A: Tampa lost 6-2. Gregorio Petit 1 for 4 on rehab. DH Dante Bichette, Jr. just sent down to High A from AA, 3 hits. RBI.
A: Charleston lost 5-2. OF Dustin Fowler 2 hits.
The Yanks signed Sergio Santos to a minor league deal. He is a righty reliever, 7-12, 3.95 in his MLB career, ERA 3.95. Soon to be 32. Worth a gamble, he saved 30 for the 2011 White Sox.
The Cubs signed Rafael Soriano to a minor league deal.
Posted in In-Season Moves, Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Regular Season
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CHICAGO (TNS) — If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, how does a comfort food tour begin? With a single recipe? With a kind word? With a generous, loving offer of safe harbor?
Emily Nunn's journey of a thousand miles began with all of those things, leading her down a road reconnecting with friends and family she had thought lost to her, and into a kind of healing she needed more than anything in life, and which she thought would never come. Eventually, it led to "The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart," her singular, poignant and beautifully written memoir chronicling that search in vignettes so personal and at times so dark yet moving, that the words will rip your heart right out of you.
She wanted to cook with and be around people — people who maybe had difficult lives — "I wanted to see how they did it." How they coped.
Nunn is a journalist and food writer. A Southerner, born and raised in Virginia but living in North Carolina now, she writes freelance for such publications as Food52. Her comfort food tour was born in Chicago after a particularly cruel fall from what seemed the top of the world.
After nearly 10 years at The New Yorker, she moved to Chicago about 15 years ago to take up arts and food writing for the Tribune, a job she loved. In 2008, she moved to Good Eating (the former name for what is now Food & Dining), where she wrote deftly about such topics as her love of the toum (a garlic sauce) at Fattoush restaurant, or her fangirl crush on Ina Garten. I was a fan of Nunn's writing (her 1,400-word rant against 2004's rather new plague of made-up food holidays made me her fanboy), but I didn't know her well. Certainly not well enough to know what was going on in her life away from Trib Tower.
By 2009, she had been laid off by the paper, like so many in those dark days of Tribune's bankruptcy (from which the company emerged in 2012). I didn't know what she was up to, where she was living or how she'd find work in a recession, when like hundreds of other Facebook friends, I read her raw cry for help in the night.
Nunn was struggling with much more than a lost job. Her brother had killed himself, her fiance had broken off the engagement — and basically taken away his daughter, whom Nunn had come to love as if she were her own. In the book, Nunn reconstructed that post, writing, in part: "I have almost no money, no job, no home, no car, no child to pick up after school, no dog to feed, no one to care for. I am cold and alone" — and she was drinking again after being sober for years.
In short, that's what Nunn did. She launched a comfort food tour and it was brilliant. Though real life is not as pat as a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland plot, as Nunn references, the idea appealed because it gave Nunn something to do.
"Comfort Food Diaries" is not an addiction and recovery book, per se; Nunn handles that subject quickly. She doesn't dismiss it; she gives it weight — including a breakdown that led to a psychiatric ward stay and a separate stint at The Betty Ford Center — but she spends her time with the reader talking about other things: focusing on how she got to where she was in life and how to be happy.
The tour started in earnest with a visit to her cousin Toni in Atlanta and continued with visits to other family members and friends: her aunt Mariah in Virginia, her sorority sister Portia on her Georgia farm, Wyler in Athens, Ga. Dot in North Carolina. All along the journey, she allowed these people who loved her to cook for her, to comfort her — generosity she hadn't felt worthy of accepting before, and which continually surprised and humbled her.
"Comfort Food Diaries" chronicles those visits in frank detail, the restorative conversations, the affirmations of long-ago cemented bonds, and because it's a culinary memoir, Nunn shares recipes, 56 in all. They finish off a story or underscore an emotional homecoming. Each illustrates a memory or acts as a coda to a chapter — Martha's Virginia sweet chunk pickles, angel biscuits (to make country ham sandwiches) and great-grandmother's mean lemon cake. (Though Nunn remembers her grandma Augusta as mean, the title is a compliment, as in, "that's one mean cake you baked, Grandma.") And there's Nunn's spoon bread.
The recipe illustrates Nunn's message. She writes about first tasting spoon bread at the Roanoake Hotel when she was 10: "What was this stuff that made me want to push everyone out of the way in order to eat their serving?" It took a good deal of work to get the results she wanted, which makes it all the more comforting.
Nunn, however, suggested I include a dish she made with North Pond chef and owner Bruce Sherman, cheesy eggs on toast. At one point during her journey, Nunn was living in Charleston, S.C., but came to understand it wasn't right.
"It had all the signs of home, but it didn't feel like a home to me. So I split. That's when I needed to face Chicago down," she said.
She went to see Sherman, whom she had covered while working for the Chicago Tribune. At the restaurant, they cooked the eggs on a portable burner in the dining room, because the staff was prepping for lunch, while she asked Sherman about how he came to start the restaurant. From the story about the path he took, Nunn took inspiration for her own — "Trust who you are, what you do, eventually you can't be anything other than yourself," he told her.
But about that subtitle, "My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart." Book publishing and the need for a hook being what they are, it wasn't quite accurate. Nunn wasn't really looking for a dish to mend a broken heart, nor was the broken heart caused by the man. ("People thought it was a chick-lit book," Nunn said.) It was everything: her family, her brother's death, losing her job, the breakup.
And that's what she set out to discover.
"It's kind of like a hero's story. You face these dragons. I would take a step forward, and I would realize something, and I would take a step back. I was leaving my comfort zone and taking a step toward a dark past.
And she came to look at cooking differently.
When she lived in Chicago, she cooked a lot.
Did she ever really find the answer to her quest? This is where she said she might cry.
"It's like the really corny line: It's the journey. You have to keep going with your life. The journey became the end.
"It was not the idea of wrapping it up into a neat little bow at the end. That is never what I was after. I was after finding out how to live, how other people live." An open heart with kindness, forgiveness. Not a wary way. "I'm a completely different person now. Not completely different, but I'm changed. My relationship to things, the way things look, achievements, the exterior signs of a great life, I'm a lot less attached to those things now.


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The Hill Cumorah (Hill Ramah)
Contents of all BMAF publications are the sole responsibility of the individual authors and therefore do not necessarily
represent the views of BMAF or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
By: Joseph L. Allen and Blake J. Allen
Many members of the Church are not aware that the hill Ramah of the Jaredites is the same hill as the hill Cumorah of the Nephites (see Ether 15:11). Scientific and scriptural analyses have been presented beginning in the 1940s proposing the hypothesis that the Hill Cumorah in New York is not the hill Cumorah of the Book of Mormon.
The hypothesis is stated as follows: If the Olmecs, who had their headquarters along the Gulf of Mexico, are the same people as the Jaredites in the Book of Mormon, then the hill Cumorah referred to in the Book of Mormon is in Veracruz, Mexico, and not in upstate New York. That hypothesis is based on Book of Mormon givens that the hill Ramah was located in Jaredite territory and that the Jaredite hill Ramah is the same hill as the Nephite hill Cumorah.
Nevertheless, the issue is still a sensitive one. Traditional history of the Church affirms that the hill in New York is, indeed, the hill Cumorah referred to in the Book of Mormon. In the year 1868, Orson Pratt, an Apostle of the Church, presented an overview of Book of Mormon geography that is recorded in the Journal of Discourses (vol. 14:324–31) wherein he states that "the great and last battle, in which several hundred thousand Nephites perished was on the hill Cumorah, the same hill from which the plates were taken by Joseph Smith."
Very few members of the Church ever lived in Palmyra where the Prophet Joseph Smith received the gold plates because, within just a few years, the Church moved its headquarters from New York to Ohio and subsequently to Missouri, Illinois, and Utah. Nevertheless, tradition dictated that the "hill of considerable size" (Joseph Smith—History 1:51), where the Prophet retrieved the plates and which was located near the Smith home in Ontario County, New York, was the actual hill where the final Nephite-Lamanite battle was fought (see Mormon 6:6).
A careful reading of Mormon 6:6 has caused adherents of a Mexico hill Cumorah to reinforce their position by illustrating that Mormon "hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records" that the Lord entrusted to him except "these few plates" that he gave to his son, Moroni (Mormon 6:6). The "few plates," they say, are the plates (our Book of Mormon) that Moroni carried from Mexico to New York. In his own words, he writes, "I will write and hide up the records in the earth; and whither I go it mattereth not" (Mormon 8:4).
Fifteen years later, at about AD 400, Moroni wrote that he had made an end of abridging the book of Ether and had not yet left the lands of the Lamanites. He wrote that he would wander "whithersoever" for the safety of his life (Moroni 1:3). It is during that time of wandering from AD 400 to his last entry in AD 421 that adherents of the Mexico hill Cumorah say he would have wandered from Veracruz, Mexico, to upstate New York.
This concept, which became known as the "two-Cumorah theory," proposed the existence of two separate hill Cumorahs—one in Mesoamerica where the last battles were fought and another in upstate New York where Joseph Smith was directed to the plates left there by Moroni. However, that thinking is not a totally accurate assessment because the Book of Mormon speaks of only one hill Cumorah—and it is the same hill that the Jaredites called Ramah (see Ether 15:11). As far as we know, no valid information has come forth between 1823 when Moroni first appeared to Joseph Smith to the present time to suggest that Joseph Smith ever stated that the hill in New York is the hill Cumorah/Ramah where the last battles of the Nephites/Lamanites and Jaredites took place.
Further, as far as we know, when Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith yearly over a four-year period, Moroni never referred to the New York hill as the hill Ramah or hill Cumorah. In writing about the hill at a later time, Joseph simply says, "Convenient to the village of Manchester, Ontario county, New York, stands a hill of considerable size, and the most elevated of any in the neighborhood" (Joseph Smith—History 1:51). This statement does not mean that at some point Joseph or other members of the Church did not feel that the hill where the plates were retrieved is not the hill Cumorah referred to in Mormon 6:6. A case in point is a letter written by Joseph Smith to the Church dated September 6, 1842, which is now section 128 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph uses what might be considered poetic, figurative language in this letter when he writes, "And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfillment of the prophets—the book to be revealed" (D&C 128:20). If current members of the Church view this statement as a revelation on Book of Mormon geography, then they would probably not want to entertain the idea that the hills Ramah and Cumorah are in Mexico. On the other hand, if Joseph's words are considered a generalized statement about events that occurred during the restoration process and leading up to the section 128 central theme of baptism for the dead, then Joseph's words should not be viewed in connection with Book of Mormon geographical issues.
A hill in Mesoamerica that has received the most attention over the last thirty years as a candidate for the hill Ramah/Cumorah is the Hill Vigia (Va..hee...a) located near the Papaloapan water basin about ninety miles southeast of the city of Veracruz.
David Palmer wrote a book in 1981 called In Search of Cumorah: New Evidences for the Book of Mormon from Ancient Mexico in which he writes: "The impact of placing Mormon's Cumorah in the State of New York is to grossly distort the geography of the Book of Mormon. Doing this makes it impossible to reconcile the internal geography of the Book of Mormon with actual maps. Without a valid geography of the Book of Mormon there cannot be any serious studies of the correlation between the geography and the Book of Mormon."1
The Hill Vigia is a rather free standing hill, and with the exception of some volcanic mountains in the area, Vigia is the most prominent. The community of Santiago Tuxtla rests peacefully at the base of the Hill Vigia, and the ancient archaeological Olmec site of Tres Zapotes flanks the opposite side of the hill. Families live on the hillside of Vigia, and cows and other animals graze in its pastures. Springs of water spout up at different places on the hill. The Hill Vigia is considerably larger than the hill in Palmyra, New York. The local people from the town of Santiago Tuxtla require about two hours to walk to the top of the Hill Vigia. From the top of the hill, on a clear day, visitors can observe the plains to the south and the rolling hills that extend to the Gulf of Mexico to the north.
Proposing the Hill Vigia to be the same hill as the hill Cumorah of the Book of Mormon, Palmer writes: "After examination of satellite pictures, visits to the hill and the ancient mounds which surround it, and analysis of the topography and archaeology of the immediate area, I have become fairly convinced it is the correct spot."2
Palmer then proceeds to outline the qualifications necessary for the hill Cumorah preceded by the following statement: "At the present time it does not appear that there is any alternative site which has archaeological support to the degree that the Cerro Vigia does."3
Reasons for Labeling the Hill Vigia to Be the Hill Cumorah
A careful reading of the Book of Mormon will pinpoint several requirements for the hill Cumorah, all of which are met by the Hill Vigia and the surrounding area.4 The hill Cumorah must be
1. Near an eastern seacoast. The eastern side of the Gulf of Mexico constitutes an eastern seacoast and is in close proximity to the Hill Vigia.
2. Near both the hill Shim and the narrow neck of land. The Hill Vigia is about sixty miles from the top of the pass that runs through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
3. Situated so it overlooks a coastal plain, possibly near other mountains and valleys. The Hill Vigia meets those requirements.
4. Located a distance of a one-day journey from a large body of water called the waters of Ripliancum. The Papaloapan water basin that empties into the Gulf of Mexico is about eighteen miles from the base of the Hill Vigia.
5. Located in a land of many waters and rivers. The Hill Vigia is located in a land of beautiful lakes and picturesque rivers and water falls
6. Located in a land where "fountains" are found. The Hill Vigia is located in a land of pure water where streams of underground water spring forth. Springs are often called fountains.
7. Located in an area where an abundance of water is available to provide sustenance for men, women, and children and a military advantage. The Tuxtla Mountains area, where the Hill Vigia is located, meets that requirement.
8. Located in an area wherein Nephites escaping to the south countries could escape without being captured by the Lamanites. A secluded route between the coast and the Tuxtla Mountains meets this requirement.
9. Large enough for Mormon to view hundreds of thousands of bodies. The Hill Vigia is about twenty-four hundred feet high and fulfills that requirement.
10. A significant landmark because two nations perished on the spot and because sacred records were hidden there.
11. Freestanding so people could camp around it. It must also be situated in such a manner that it could serve as a protection for the women and children. The Hill Vigia meets those requirements.
12. Located in a temperate climate because of the absence of any reference to snow or cold in the Book of Mormon. The Tuxtla Mountains area is the "Hawaii of Mexico."
13. Located in an area that is subject to volcanoes and earthquakes, a requirement for the land northward. Mesoamerica is a land of volcanic activity and earthquake eruptions. The San Martin Volcano last erupted in 1793.
Although the above list is compelling, the primary reasons that the hill Cumorah is in the area of the Tuxtla Mountains are the facts that it is the same hill as the hill Ramah of the Jaredites and that it is close to the hill Shim, a hill identified by both the Jaredites and the Nephites. This reasoning simply means that if the Jaredites and the Olmecs are the same people, as defined in Exploring the Lands of the Book of Mormon, then the hill Cumorah is in the area of Veracruz because that is where the hill Ramah is located. The words Ramah and Vigia have the same meaning—that of a lookout hill, or a hill overlooking a designated area.
1. David A. Palmer, In Search of Cumorah: New Evidences for the Book of Mormon from Ancient Mexico (Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishers, 1981), 18.
2. Palmer, In Search of Cumorah, 91.
4. See Palmer, In Search of Cumorah, 96–101. In addition to Palmer's analysis, we have made several editorial comments on the requirements outlined in the text.
For a complete discussion on the Hill Ramah/Cumorah and the events associated with those hills in The Book of Mormon, see Exploring the Lands of the Book of Mormon, chapter 27, Hills and Valleys, pages 686-704)
Copyright © 2011 by Joseph L. Allen and Blake J. Allen, Authors, Exploring the Lands of the Book of Mormon. All rights reserved.
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All content copyright © by Book of Mormon Tours and Research Institute, LLC 2012
Allen, Joseph L.


Taking cues from The Pixies and The Fall, YOUTH MAN are a raucous trio lining up as Marcus Perks and Adam Haitof� providing the jazz influenced rhythm section with Kaila Whyte on guitar and urgent speak-sing vocals. Their Bandcamp tags include afropunk, riotgrrl, and noise rock, which seems a fair assessment of their self-released Youth EP which features propulsive, jagged and jerky clattering numbers Patterns, Pretty Little Idiot, The Word and Youth Man with Cold a narcotic psychedelic fog that shows they can control the tension as well as just let it explode.
It's a case of bid farewell to Betty & The Id, quite literally as the band have split and guitarists Allan R Murphy and Jim Smith have joined forces with Rob Peters (who sometimes seems to be behind the drum kit of half of the bands in Birmingham) to become BID.
Going by their self-titled debut EP, acid folk has been elbowed aside but the Stranglers throbbing bassline influence remains, as does the metal, prog and space rock. Making their entrance into the world, the instrumental Oh! No! conjures a sort of Hawkwind acid jig before Remaindered echoes past marriages of The Fall and Barrett-era Floyd, Insides Out offers a hefty gloom metal dirge instrumental introduced by a sample of Malcolm McDowell doing his 'I have existed from the morning of the world..' speech from the opening credits to Caligula, and Hypno winds it up with a driving psychedelic prog juggernaut.
Also flying the flag for� Birmingham experimental alt-rock, Glenn Smyth and David McCabe� return as electro duo EVIL ALIEN whose debut EP, Factotum, is released next month. It includes� the 'poppy' Anxiety Attack, a paranoid-driven, dark swirly affair with a marching rhythm and nagging chorus hook, the hollow drum driven post industrial sound of Life In A Fishbowl recalling the more brutalist work of Cabaret Voltaire, and doomily claustrophobic ballad Out Of Love. All are previously released (twice in the case of the latter), but there's also two previously unavailable tracks, TV Gameshow, a gathering squall underpinned by a looping repetitive percussive beat, and Walking With You (In My Mind), which, in their world, probably passes for a ballad with its Lynchian lushness and distorted crooned vocals against the electronic hiss. A full album's due later in the year, hopefully this time featuring all new material.
Joining Dexys Midnight Runners in time to feature on Geno �and the Searching For The Young Soul Rebels album, ANDY LEEK quit just before the single hit #1, subsequently teaming with fellow former Dexy's man Kevin Archer to form the short lived Blue Ox Babes. Pursuing a solo career throughout the 80s, as singer, songwriter and actor, he released two singles as Andde Leeke (one a Tony Visconti produced cover of Dancing Queen) and, in 1988, recruited George Martin to produce his solo debut album, Say Something.
Since which time, he's recorded two further albums, Eternity Beckons and the still unissued Sacrifice and Bliss, and a couple of singles and spent most of his working time fronting party band The Blue Angels. However. In 2008 he was diagnosed with an incurable and potentially terminal condition that understandably left him devastated and brought everything grinding to a halt. But, refusing to just give up, he changed his lifestyle, took stock, recharged the batteries, kicked some personal demons out of doors and began writing again. The result of which now emerges as Waking Up The World (Matchbox), a 16 track album of new material he regards as the true follow-up to his debut.
Featuring brass, Spanish guitar (courtesy Ian Price), strings and organ, it tackles themes of youthful dreams, love, spiritual healing and corrupt society, variously conjuring thoughts of Mick Hucknall, Chris De Burgh, McCartney and Dylan. It opens with the Latin flavoured soulful title cut (a hint of Curtis Mayfield here, perhaps) as it points the finger at those (bankers, etc) behind today's ills, before moving on to Here In Our Youth's brass-driven 60s soul-pop nostalgic celebration of youthful idealism and, in complete contrast, She Is A Doorway To Love with its De Burgh-like ballad dramatics and an intro borrowing from The Beatles Because.
On then to a Natalie, a keyboard backed number that mingles 60s psychedelic folk and blues with some tasty underplayed electric guitar, and Here Comes The Night, not the Morrison classic, but an upbeat, breathily-sung slice of organ grounded soul-pop �before you arrive at one of the album's centre pieces, Love Is Your Soul. Gliding through the octaves to the accompaniment of a simple strings enriched piano backing as it builds to a climax and gradual fall, it's the track he regards as the greatest song he's ever written and, built from a healing instrumental, the album's thematic lynchpin.
Together takes things back to classic Beatles-influenced pop filtered through a prism of Northern soul while elsewhere further highlights would have to include Maybe, the reaching out love song he wrote after learning of the diagnosis, the Spanish guitar accompanied Magdalene, Don't Ask with its salsa percussion, searing bluesy guitar solo and Dylanesque vitriol, and Forgive Me, a harmonica introed and organ backed soul groove that wouldn't sound out of place alongside the very best of Simply Red.
But, truth to tell, there's not a weak number throughout and, if you buy the CD online, you also get a link to download 12 further new numbers. I once called him the greatest undiscovered talent in pop.� With the release of this album, hopefully that won't be the case for much longer.
SWIM DEEP gear up for July's debut album, Where The Heaven Are We, with the release of new single, She Changes The Weather (Chess Club). Like previous single, the laid back druggy The Sea, it continues the band's shift away from the Kaiser Chiefs tinged King City towards �a more dreampop sensibility and sound, the vocals not even entering until almost the two minute mark, the mood building on a repetitive keyboard pattern and the gradual appearance of shuffling drums and shimmering synth swirls before Austin Williams' honeyed voice arrives to evoke thoughts of the Stones Roses at their most Waterfall blissed. It's a truly gorgeous number and bodes well for the album which Williams says they want to be "really bright and sunny, feelgood, funky and just real cool" and which will feature the four singles to date alongside new numbers� Francisco, Colour Your Ways, Make My Sun Shine, Red Lips I Know, Soul Trippin' and �Stray.
Those who only remember Birmingham's KELLI ALI as the singer with trip hop outfit Sneaker Pimps might have a hard time recognizing her today. Since leaving the band, she's been on quite a musical and spiritual journey, exploring folk, rock and electronic soul and working with Waltz With Bashir composer Max Richter, investing in string and woodwind �dominated instrumentation and, on her last album, collaborating with composer and pianist Christophe Terrettaz, aka Ozymandias, on A Paradise Occupied By Devils, a contemporary classical minimalist piano and vocal album inspired by the short stories of Mary Shelley.
Working with several producers and co-writers, Band Of Angels, her latest, self-released Pledge-funded album, is a more mainstream and accessible affair built around dreamy melodies and frequent skittering dance beats and electronic pulses.
Backward tapes and a lurching percussive beat introduces The Art Of Love, a trippy Arabic tinted drone with whispery vocals and operatic-sounding backing that induces a similar trance-like feel to that of early Massive Attack. On the more jittery The Hunter, her voice conjures the young Kate Bush, especially in the soaring chorus while, as the title hints, Silent Requiem has dreamy elements of the gothic building to a glistening majestic climax at once choral and electronic.
Urgency's the name of the game for Kiss Me Cleopatra, the album's most club dance oriented number with its echoes of 80s Depeche Mode, its motorik heart also beating on In The House Of Love, a track as cold and icy as anything off the early Ultravox albums while Ali's voice offers a contrastive sweetness.
When Darkness Falls is another number that evokes the same European gothic mood, but personally, I prefer her more atmospheric numbers, the narcotic lullaby of Falling, �the hypnotic, soul-shiveringly beautiful Fear My Shepherd, a hymnal number featuring just her pure voice and a simple keyboard melody and the title track itself, another emotionally intense supplicant's prayer, again set to sombre piano with those Bush colours to her delivery.
The album closes with its longest track, the eight minute Eternity which, opening with cinematic string arrangement, takes a sensual, intoxicating journey across mysterious Eastern landscapes and star-rimmed skies, a breathtaking end to her most ambitious and richest work yet. That she has a following out there is demonstrated by the response to the Pledge funding process, but she deserves to reach a far wider audience than those already committed to her music. Hopefully, the angels will enfold many more inside their wings.


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Joel Cross, Internet celebrity, is still most at home playing his music at a local bar
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Paige Skinner | October 8, 2015 | 4:00am
As Joel Cross walks into East Side bar in Denton, one bar patron announces, "Joel Cross, ladies and gentleman." A few others around him erupt in applause. Cross grins and visits with them. This is old hat for the local guitarist, a well-known figure in the city's music and bar scene. But it's a little different today. Cross has gone viral.
The reason was a video of Cross, recorded without his knowledge, of him playing a jazzy cover of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." Cross had performed the song while playing for several hours last Saturday at the Dallas Arboretum, and one onlooker, Travis Porter, uploaded the song to YouTube.
Within a day, it had more than 100,000 views. Come Monday, it had been picked up by outlets across the country like Time, MTV News and Huffington Post. Suddenly, Cross is Internet famous.
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"I didn't think anything of it and then I woke up the next morning to a message from my buddy saying, 'Hey, man, you're Internet famous. You're all over the Web today,'" Cross says. "I looked at it and it was the Huffington Post saying that video had over 100,000 views and I was like, 'What the heck?'"
Cross, who is from Cleburne, has been playing music since he was 12 years old, getting his start in gospel music. He then went on to study at the University of Houston and UNT before teaching guitar for a few years. After realizing teaching guitar wasn't something he wanted to do for the rest of his life, he began performing full time.
Here and there, people would randomly ask him to cover a Swift song. "People just love Taylor Swift and it just kept coming up and I was like, 'This would be really funny if I actually did it,' and I did," he says. From there, Cross says he listened to the song while driving to a gig and figured out how to make it his own. "I sat down with the guitar and was just playing the chords until I found a groove I liked and then I just sang through the song and it just slowly developed."
Today the video has more than 650,000 views on YouTube. Cross lists off some nice things he has read about the video, but says he tries not to read them all. "To be honest, I'm trying not to read all the comments. I don't need to hear that," he says. (Wise man.)
Cross remains philosophical about his newfound fame. "I like what I do regardless of when I was getting national attention or very little attention to begin with and it really doesn't make any difference," he insists. He's long since been able to make a living from playing music full time.
"The reason I play music is because I love it and it makes me happy," Cross continues. "I'm happy people are into it. In whatever way I was introduced into the world — as the big black guy who plays Taylor Swift. But it's more important to me, not what they think, but that I think well of myself and I remember why I play."
As Cross sits in the bar booth and drinks his beer, he is relaxed and cool, occasionally throwing around the words "good vibes." He is thankful to Porter for uploading the video, adding that Porter deserves any money that comes along with uploading a video to YouTube. However, he is still blown away by the media storm happening around him — it's just him answering all the emails and phone calls. He sits and thinks about the past few days and everything that has happened. He nonchalantly mentions that America's Got Talent asked him to audition, a prospect he seems lukewarm on despite acknowledging the exposure it could earn him.
But it's when he's talking about his own music that he lights up. He just released an EP to iTunes, featuring five original songs. "One of my favorite parts of music is creating your own," he says. The EP includes a lot of acoustic soul "sad, love songs," and those are what he's playing at shows now.
Whatever comes from his viral success, Cross wants to make sure his love for music is apparent.
"I just hope that people feel the same love for music that I have anytime they get to experience my music in one way, shape, or form. It's something that's magical to me," he says. "It's spiritual, it's holy, it's a gift, what music can do for the soul. I know what it does for me and I hope it does some amazing things for anybody who ever gets a chance to listen to it."
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Thomas W Malnight is Professor of Strategy and General Management and Faculty Director of the Business Transformation Initiative (BTI). His fields of interest are strategy, leading and accelerating transformational organizational change, and the role of purpose in redefining businesses and their impact on society.
Malnight works extensively with top leadership teams in challenging how they view their emerging volatile and uncertain competitive landscape, how they shape future strategies and organizations for moving forward, and how they engage and align priorities and actions across their organizations and leadership teams. This work has led to the creation of the BTI at IMD, focused on partnering with senior business leaders as partners and provocateurs in addressing and co-creating responses to major challenges.
His research focus has been on trends reshaping the future of business strategies and organizations. He is the co-author of Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy (2019), The 3Rs of Preparing Your Organization for the Future, Must Win Battles: How to Win Them, Again and Again and Accelerating International Growth. Malnight co-authored the Global Trends Reports 2011, 2012, and 2013 and has written for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Journal, McKinsey Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Academy of Management Journal. He has also authored more than 30 case studies on various aspects of global strategy and organization.
Prior to joining IMD, he was on the faculty of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1999. He has attended graduate studies at Harvard Business School, Boston, MA where he obtained a Doctorate of Business Administration and wrote a dissertation on Managing the Globalization Process: An Exploratory Study. He obtained an MBA from The Wharton School in 1979 and a BA from Northwestern University in 1977. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for 10 years at Mitsubishi International Corporation, including two years working in Japan.
Malnight also consults extensively with companies from around the world on the topic of emerging future strategies and organizations.
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All multicellular organisms harbor an unimaginably large number of microorganisms in and on their bodies. The microbiome, i.e. the totality of these microbes, forms a functional, abilify et depression symbiotic unit with the host organism. From supporting nutrient uptake to protecting against pathogens, microorganisms perform vital tasks for the host. On the contrary, disturbances of the microbiome can cause various serious diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease.
In recent years, scientists have presented a large number of microbiome studies. Therein, they investigated connections between the composition and function of the body's microbiome and the development of disease. Most of this work has focused primarily on bacteria, whose various species dominate the microbiome in terms of numbers. One particular group of microorganisms has received little attention so far: the archaea. Although they make on average "only" 1.2 percent of the total microbiome in the intestine, archaea have vast regulatory effects on the microbiome, as shown in earlier studies.
An international research team with the participation of Kiel University, the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and other international partner institutions from the UK and France, has now presented a characterisation of the hitherto insufficiently profiled "archaeome" of the human intestine on the basis of extensive genome data from large cohorts from various global locations. With this inventory, the researchers led by Professor Ruth Schmitz-Streit from Kiel University's Microbiology and her colleague from Graz, Professor Christine Moissl-Eichinger, want to expand knowledge about this clade of microorganisms. In the process, they were able to identify so far unknown archaeal species. The scientists recently published their research results in the scientific journal Nature Microbiology.
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The new analysis provides the first comprehensive description of the human archaeome. The research team used data sources from numerous existing microbiome studies, each of which includes the complete genetic information of the individual intestinal microbial colonization of the participating test persons. "First of all, we were able to establish that the human archaeome is far more diverse than was previously known and that it features a core composition of roughly the same species in most people regardless of external factors such as geography, gender or age," emphasizes Dr. Cynthia Chibani, a research associate in Schmitz-Streit's working group. "In addition to the numerous newly discovered species, we were also able to identify previously unknown types of viruses that can infect archaea," Chibani continues.
In addition to just compiling the species, the research team also looked for connections with already known patterns in the genetic information of the archaea. To do this, they examined more than 28,000 so-called protein clusters, which indicate significant correlations between the archaeal colonization in the intestine and socio-demographic characteristics of the human hosts. "The occurrence of certain species and the proteins they produce can potentially be used to draw conclusions about age groups or lifestyles, for example," explains Chibani, who carried out the bioinformatic analyses together with shared first author Dr. Alexander Mahnert. "At present, however, such meaningful correlations cannot yet be reliably read with regard to possible archaeome-associated disease patterns," Chibani continues.
One other important finding was the split of the previously known species Methanobrevibacter smithii into two species-level clades based on genomic information. M. smithii and its new "sister" Methanobrevibacter intestini are highly prevalent in numerous persons. The interplay of those two closely related species and the relevance for human health remains to be deciphered.
So far, the link of these methane-forming archaea with disease, such as colon cancer or inflammatory bowel disease has not clearly been resolved, probably due to the missed species-resolution to date. For sure, such methanogens are able to support the activity of pathogenic bacteria, for example by consuming inhibitory metabolic products. The research work now published expands the understanding of the human archaeome and provides an extensive genome and protein catalog for future analyses.
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Kwesta Dakar speaks on upcoming Tory Lanez collaboration
Kwesta has declared that his forthcoming collaboration with Canadian rapper Tory Lanez will be "flames" in a recent interview.
The hit making rapper refused to put a release date on his new record and says it will be a surprise drop. "I want it to be a surprise drop (release) so I can't comment on when fan's can expect to hear the full song. It will be soon though. It is going to be monumental. It is going to be flames," Kwesta said.
On his next album he says, "I have always said that I want my next album to be different. I want to be challenged by it in a new way. I am trying to do that by working with a range of artists both locally and internationally,"
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Q: Prevent browser from caching input control value Most browsers will remember what you've typed into an input control so that you don't have to type it in again. Usually, this is useful
I have a field in which the user needs to enter a unique reference for a newly created resource.  The reference us unique and a user should never type the same in twice (this would return an error).
Is it possible to tell the browser not to cache the entries for this field only?  Auto-complete is causing user input errors in this case.

A: You can input attribute autocomplete="off" to prevent browsers from filling in forms.
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Bear in mind, forms that are actually submitted will save the data to Autofill database in the browser. Forms submitted through AJAX will not result in saving inputs.


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Q: I wrote a loop in MIPS but for some reason it keeps running infinitely? I'm writing this code for class, but for some reason even after I reach the limit of the loop the code keeps running infinitely hoping someone can see why it is doing that. msg2 is just a prompt to enter an integer and numbers is an array, and $s0 is the number of elements in the array (e.g if its 6, ask for 6 inputs from user before terminating). (this is just a snippet of the code everything is in the main class)
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U.S. Soccer Fans Chant 'F— Trump' During Live Fox News Segment (Video)
Segment was broadcast from sports bar in Lyon, France
Jeremy Fuster | July 7, 2019 @ 12:57 PM
Following the U.S. Women's Soccer team's victory in the FIFA World Cup on Sunday, a Fox News segment from a sports bar in France took an expletive-filled turn after American fans can be seen and heard chanting "f— Trump" in the background.
The segment from Fox News reporter Greg Palkot was broadcast live from a sports bar in Lyon, France, where the final match between the U.S. and the Netherlands took place. While Palkot was explaining how an outdoor broadcast of the match was cancelled for security reasons, one of the fans near the camera started the chant against the president.
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Later, while Palkot interviewed fans at the bar, some yelled "U.S.A. Democrats" and "Get that racist out of the White House!"
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Donald Trump became part of the discussion surrounding the U.S. soccer team after captain Megan Rapinoe said she would not go "to the f–ing White House" if the team won the World Cup. President Trump was swift to respond in a series of tweets.
"I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women's Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job! We haven't yet invited Megan or the team, but I am now inviting the TEAM, win or lose. Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her & the team," the president wrote in part.
"I think that I'm particularly and uniquely and very deeply American," Rapinoe told ESPN Wednesday. "If we want to talk about the ideals that we stand for, all the songs and the anthem and sort of what we were founded on, I think I'm extremely American."
Trump did congratulate the team, tweeting Sunday afternoon, "Congratulations to the U.S. Women's Soccer Team on winning the World Cup! Great and exciting play. America is proud of you all!" Whether he will invite them to the White House — and if he does, if they accept — remains to be seen.
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Q: Android Studio Basic's First Excercise I have been using Android Studio to create my first app. I am not using another IDE, Having gone thought the exercise I have reached errors in the following areas.

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    package com.company.myfirstapp;

     import android.content.Intent;
     import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
     import android.os.Bundle;
     import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
     import android.view.Menu;
     import android.view.MenuItem;
     import android.view.View;
     import android.widget.EditText;

     import com.company.myfirstapp.DisplayMessageActivity;
     import com.company.myfirstapp.R;

     public class MyActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
      final public static String EXTRA_MESSAGE =                                                                                "com.company.myfirstapp.MESSAGE";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_my);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_my, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();

        //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, DisplayMessageActivity.class);
        EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_message);
        String message = editText.getText().toString();
        intent.putExtra(EXTRA_MESSAGE, message);
        MyActivity.this.startActivity(intent);
        }
    }
}

Ap
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

final def extension = android {
compileSdkVersion 22
buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.company.myfirstapp"
    minSdkVersion 8
    targetSdkVersion 22
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'),     'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
 }
}
final def extension1 = extension
extension1

dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.1'
}

My First App
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to                 `all sub-projects/modules.

    buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
     }
    }

    allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
  }

I have errors on Override and public void in Display Message Activity and Display Message in My Activity.

A: First fix from (MyActivity.java):
   final public static String EXTRA_MESSAGE = "Some message";  // fix this line

Your gradle script is all messed up, please change to this for the build.gradle of your app:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.company.myfirstapp"
        minSdkVersion 8
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }

    buildTypes {
         release {
             minifyEnabled true
             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'),     'proguard-rules.pro'
         }
 }

 dependencies {
     compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
     compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
 }

change to this then recompile, and errors should go away, also download any updates you need based on this script running. your on old versions of build tools, appcompat, etc.
And not sure what is going on with your first code snippet, it is not complete...


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