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The Minimalist Programmer
On reducing the square footage of your virtual living space
Jamis Buck
May 7, 2016 · 4 min read
Photo by Tammy Strobel, https://www.flickr.com/photos/rowdykittens/9529901153, shared under CC-BY 2.0
I've always been fascinated by the tiny house movement. I love the idea of living small, making the most of a 100 sq. ft. space, and owning nothing that can't justify its existence every day.
The thought makes me giddy, honestly. Giving everything at least one job — two or more, if possible. Using a simple pan to grill sandwiches, instead of using a dedicated grill. Using a knife to peel asparagus rather than purchasing a tool specifically for that task. Making do with what you have, and doing without as much as possible.
I like that. But it's not a lifestyle I can imagine doing all-out with four kids in tow. For now, I do what I can. And I dream.
Recently I was surprised when a friend expressed his love for SOAP. In the circles I frequent, people typically express affection for SOAP about as often as they extoll the virtues of paper cuts and hangnails. When, out of genuine curiosity, I asked him what he liked about SOAP, he explained that he appreciated how the WSDL establishes and enforces a contract, so that both sides understand what is needed and what is at stake.
At this point, I just nodded and moved on, because I could see that we weren't going to see eye-to-eye on this. Also, I couldn't quite figure out my own feelings there on the spot, and I needed time to think about it.
So I thought about it. What was it about SOAP, and "enterprise", and contracts, and WSDL, that made me so uneasy? I don't doubt that there are use cases where SOAP makes a lot of sense. I don't question that code contracts are valuable to understand and think about, and can make it a lot easier to reason about your code. But do we really need tools and protocols that enforce these things? Are they really appropriate everywhere?
It came to me that these tools are the electric asparagus peelers of software development. If you need to peel a lot of asparagus, by all means, invest in a tool dedicated to that task. For most of us, though, a knife does just as well. An asparagus peeler would take up space in my kitchen, and make me feel guilty for not using it more. In fact, I might wind up using it for jobs where it was ill-suited, simply because it was there.
Just so — automatically enforced code contracts, and XML-based specification languages, and enterprise-strength service protocols may be just the thing you need, but for most use cases, they're overkill. They take up space. They bloat your virtual kitchen, and distract you from the focus that minimalism can bring.
(To clarify, I'm not arguing that good software architecture is superfluous. An understanding of code contracts is useful, for instance. I'm simply saying that — using code contracts as an example — a tool that enforces them is not a panacea, and cannot replace a programmer actually understanding contracts. Make do with the tools you have, as much as possible, is what I'm saying.)
It occurs to me that this is very much what Martin Fowler refers to as an "enabling attitude," and I get that it's not the only way to view the world. But it seems like it might go hand-in-hand with minimalism. Being an "enabler" (as opposed to a "director") meshes well with being a minimalist. Fewer guards and tools implies a smaller toolbox, and a tighter application.
As a software developer, the code I'm working in quickly becomes a virtual home. I live there. I may be adding rooms and carpeting, or knocking out walls, or replacing cabinetry, or even just simply repainting, or hanging pictures, but I spend a lot of time there. An uncomfortable or crowded space — virtual or otherwise — is not a pleasant one to be in. I want my projects focused, and tidy. I want every line of code to be able to justify its existence, and work multiple jobs, too. I want the square footage to be as small as possible, without being cramped.
If a tiny house will do, why mess with the increased maintenance and cost of a mansion?
I appreciate tiny code. If you like tiny code, too, drop me a line and let me know! I'm @jamis on Twitter, or email me at jamis@jamisbuck.org.
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Live in London è il secondo e ultimo album live dei Judas Priest con alla voce Tim "Ripper" Owens, è stato pubblicato nel 2003 in seguito all'album Demolition.

Tracce

Disco 1
Metal Gods
Heading Out to the Highway
Grinder
A Touch of Evil
Blood Stained
Victim of Changes
The Sentinel
One on One
Running Wild
The Ripper
Diamonds & Rust
Feed on Me

Disco 2
Beyond The Realms Of Death
Burn In Hell
Hell Is Home
Breaking The Law
Desert Plains
You've Got Another Thing Comin'''Turbo LoverPainkillerHellion / Electric EyeUnitedLiving After MidnightHell Bent For LeatherUntitled'' - (hidden track)

Formazione
Tim "Ripper" Owens: voce
K.K. Downing: chitarra
Glenn Tipton: chitarra
Ian Hill: basso
Scott Travis - batteria

Collegamenti esterni

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ECONOMYNEXT - Dialog Axiata, a Colombo based telecommuniations firm, announced successfully achieving download speeds of up to 1 Gbps making Sri Lanka the first in South Asia to test the latest generation technology.
Dialog, the Sri Lankan unit of Malaysia's Axiata Group, said they established the capability to deliver super broadband connectivity that is 10 times faster than the fastest connection currently available.
"The demonstration established the capability of the network to deliver throughputs in excess of 1 Gbps on the LTE Radio (Air) Interface," the company said in a statement.
A company official said that they hoped to roll out a new generation 4.5 network even as the 4th generation network covered more than half of the island.
Sri Lanka became the first country in South Asia to introduce mobile phones in 1989 and the first to roll out a 3G network in 2004. It was also the first in the region to commercially unveil a 4G, or 4th generation, network two years ago.
The 4.5G is expected to give speeds 10 times faster than the 4G network that is available in the island.
Sri Lanka has one of the lowest broadband charges in the region and earlier this year the government taking a 25 percent stake in a joint venture with Google to expand mobile high-speed Internet services across the island.
Official figures show there are 3.3 million mobile Internet connections and 630,000 fixed line Internet subscribers among Sri Lanka's more than 20 million population at the beginning of this year.


As we enter into Week 16 there are a lot of potential playoff teams still playing for something. That something can be a playoff berth, home field advantage, or a divisional title. Either way, there is still a lot of football left in the 2018 calendar year. For the Los Angeles Chargers, there is no rest for the wary. For a player like Melvin Gordon III, not even a knee injury will keep him from playing against the Baltimore Ravens. Playing a player like Gordon III can be risky, but with the AFC No. 1 seed on the line, all bets are off.
In an industry where health and player availability reigns supreme, red flags about a players safety is always a concern. What makes playing Gordon III so questionable is the current success of the Chargers. With a record of 11-3, the Bolts are currently tied with the Kansas City Chiefs. So, that means there is still a chance for either team to clinch the AFC West Division and the AFC No. 1 seed. Oddly enough, that makes it very difficult for players such as Gordon III to sit out for any length of time as they recover from an injury. December for playoff-bound teams like the Chargers can decide everything. Barring any setbacks or injuries with players, the Chargers will have to risk it all in their quest for a Championship.
The easiest option for potential Coach of the Year candidate Anthony Lynn is to rest Gordon III even if healthy, but when so much is on the line you can't. Once again, opportunities like this don't come often for the Chargers. Quite frankly, simply having a successful season with a winning record is not going to cut it either. Luckily, even with Gordon's absence, the Chargers have maintained a winning record. But, overall, it's hard to replace his productivity. Gordon III, even after missing three games, is ranked 5th in rushing yards per game at 80.2. He also ranks 5th in rushing touchdowns with 9. While attempting to substitute his production with Austin Ekeler and Rookie Justin Johnson has been okay, the Chargers offense overall showed signs of looking one dimensional. With Gordon III in the backfield, there is no doubt the Chargers are legit Superbowl contenders.
The Los Angeles Chargers need a spark to bring more relevance to their historic organization. Unfortunately, a 2018-19 playoff appearance with a plethora of players being voted to the Pro Bowl doesn't help the fan base. The Chargers hoisting up a Vince Lombardi Trophy will be the only thing that can help bring more stability to this organization. Teams that win Championships in this era of football don't do a lot of moving from city to city. This current roster and coach staff of the Los Angeles Chargers is well equipped to bring home a championship. So, if a Melvin Gordon III is 100% ready to play, then he must play. Period.


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Elders and youth: a night to enjoy
OHSWEKEN – The Six Nations Community Hall opened its doors to get youth and elders interacting more and to bring awareness towards elder abuse. The hall hosted a free meal, information booths and positive activities to bring the younger and older generations closer. Health Advocacy Officer and Chair of the Youth and Elders Round Table
OHSWEKEN – The Six Nations Community Hall opened its doors to get youth and elders interacting more and to bring awareness towards elder abuse. The hall hosted a free meal, information booths and positive activities to bring the younger and older generations closer.
Health Advocacy Officer and Chair of the Youth and Elders Round Table Elissa Smith said the event is geared towards focusing on elder abuse awareness and prevention.
"This is one of the things that we always promote at our events," said Smith, as she grabbed a magnet listing hotlines geared toward empowering the elderly. "It says 'empowering our elders,' so it's all about stopping abuse and restoring respect to the community. So, there's many different types of elder abuse and with a lot of these events we help to reduce isolation and just to raise awareness," she said.
Smith explained that the magnets allow elders to know that there is always help and are not alone, and the event is to bring the community together to learn and participate.
"This is just an opportunity for anyone in the community to come together, have a meal, learn about combating elder abuse most importantly, and enjoy some wellness activities," she said. "Tonight there's massage, foot massage, raiki, foot assessments, and craft station," she said, including that Willy's World, Our Sustenance Farmers Market and Karen Hill.ca put up booths.
"This is just to say that we are going to stand up to abuse in our community and not let it happen," she said.
As participants and visitors made their rounds to the various booths, many elders sat down to enjoy the atmosphere. Of these elders included Rodd Hill, a member of the Youth and Elders Round Table.
Hill said that he was "really excited" about the event for its focus on connecting youth to the elders.
"It's a really good feeling. You get to see the faces of the elders when they leave or after the meal they put on," said Hill. "It shows [the elders] that we're still here for them."
"We talk about looking after our elders, but we have to do what we preach now," he said.
"At first I was a little hesitant, but after I joined it I loved it," he said. "I love being a part of this and doing something for the community, it's an awesome feeling to be able to do that."
Behind the scenes of the event were not only community sponsors, but also community volunteers from the Healthy Spirits Youth Group.
Volunteer Mackenzie Bomberry said the event "was really nice" as she helped cook and clean alongside many others.
"It's nice for the elders because they [might not get out like this much]," said Bomberry. "But I would like more youth to come and support the elders and just get involved."

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Trichoplites is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae.

Species
Trichoplites albimaculosa Inoue, 1978
Trichoplites cuprearia (Moore, 1868)
Trichoplites ingressa Prout, 1939
Trichoplites lateritiata (Moore, 1888)
Trichoplites latifasciaria (Leech, 1897)
Trichoplites moupinata (Poujade, 1895)
Trichoplites tryphema Prout, 1934

References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Larentiinae


⚙ D15313 Update the ACBF library.
Authored by woltherav on Sep 6 2018, 11:47 AM.
This updates the ACBF library to handle references, stylesheets, frames, jumps, reading direction and some extra keys, meaning that all current ACBF features can be fully written and read.
Stylesheet parsing can be done a little better, but I suspect we'll first need to look at how we want to use it.
Open ACBF documents, check the output.
Yeah, I figured that we should first get the library parsing done and then treat creator separately.
woltherav marked 2 inline comments as done.
Added fixes to the docs and used concatenation for the stylesheet.
woltherav added a commit: R157:31bcf02c48e1: Add git ignore file..


The Teenagers are a French indie-synthpop band formed in late 2005, originally as a joke.
They achieved some degree of notoriety with the song "Homecoming" for its explicit language and arguably misogynistic content.
Their debut album Reality Check was released in the UK on 17 March 2008 and 18 March 2008 in the rest of Europe and the United States.


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OECD Home Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social AffairsFamilies and childrenLatest Documents
Family Database in the Asia-Pacific Region
•Family Database in the Asia-Pacific Region
Rejuvenating Korea: Policies for a Changing Society
Korean families are changing fast. While birth rates remain low, Koreans are marrying and starting a family later than ever before, if at all. Couple-with-children households, the dominant household type in Korea until recently, will soon make up fewer than one quarter of all households. These changes will have a profound effect on Korea's future. Among other things, the Korean labour force is set to decline by about 2.5 million workers by 2040, with potential major implications for economic performance and the sustainability of public finances. Since the early 2000s, public policy has changed to help parents reconcile work and family commitments: Korea has developed a comprehensive formal day-care and kindergarten system with enrolment rates that are now on par with the Nordic countries. Korea also has one year of paid parental leave for both parents, but only about 25% of mothers and 5% of fathers use it, as workplace cultures are often not conducive to parents, especially fathers, taking leave. Cultural change will take time, but this review suggests there also is a need for additional labour market, education and social policy reform to help Koreans achieve both work and family aspirations, and contribute to the rejuvenation of Korean society.
Part-time and Partly Equal: Gender and Work in the Netherlands
The Netherlands performs well on many measures of gender equality, but the country faces a persistent equality challenge between women and men: the high share of women in part-time jobs. Nearly 60% of women in the Dutch labour market work part-time, roughly three times the OECD average for women, and over three times the rate for Dutch men. The Netherlands' gender gap in hours worked contributes to the gender gap in earnings, the gender gap in pensions, women's slower progression into management roles, and the unequal division of unpaid work at home. These gaps typically widen with parenthood, as mothers often reduce hours in the labour market to take on more unpaid care work at home.The Dutch government must redouble its efforts to achieve gender equality. Better social policy support can help level the playing field between men and women, contribute to more egalitarian norms around the division of work, and foster more gender-equal behaviour in paid and unpaid work in the Netherlands.
Good Practice for Good Jobs in Early Childhood Education and Care
Recruiting and retaining skilled staff is a long-standing challenge for the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector. OECD countries are increasingly demanding that ECEC staff be highly skilled and highly qualified, but a combination of low wages, a lack of status and public recognition, poor working conditions, and limited opportunities for professional development mean that recruitment and retention are frequently difficult. What can countries do to build a highly qualified and well-trained ECEC workforce? What is the best route to increasing staff skills without exacerbating staff shortages? How can countries boost pay and working conditions in the context of limited resources? Building on past OECD work on early childhood education and care, and drawing on the experience of OECD countries, this report outlines good practice policy measures for improving jobs in ECEC and for constructing a high-quality workforce.
Gute Strategien für gute Berufe in der frühen Bildung
LGBTI inclusiveness
Despite a shift toward greater acceptance in most OECD countries, homo-, trans- and intersexphobia remain widespread, thereby putting LGBTI at risk of being discriminated against in dimensions critical for their well-being: family life, education, economic outcomes and health.
Inclusión de la comunidad LGBTI
English, PDF, 3,252kb
How can we help stop child labour (Policy brief)
Eradicating the worst forms of child labour is not only a moral imperative, it is also essential for ensuring that children can fully enjoy their childhood and fulfil their potential. To reach this goal, it is necessary to monitor child labour trends and identify the forms of child labour that have the most serious consequences on children's lives.
OECD Child Well-Being Portal
OECD Policy Workshop on Enhancing Child Well-being, 16th January 2019
A policy workshop held at the OECD headquarters on the 16th January 2019 consisting of four sessions of a panel discussions among key experts and civil society, to discuss how to make poverty reduction policies more effective and sustainable for the hardest to reach population groups and how best to meet the multiple needs of families.
Child poverty in the OECD : Trends, determinants and policies to tackle it (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 218)
This paper provides an overview of the main trends in child income poverty since the mid-2000s, and explores to what extent child poverty trends are linked to demographic, policy and/or labour market changes. Trends in poverty and the standard of living of children in low-income families since the onset of the Great Recession are also closely examined.
Tackling child poverty in Korea (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 219)
Tackling child poverty in Canada (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working papers, N°220)
English, PDF, 662kb
Poor children in rich countries: Why we need policy action (Policy brief)
Today, nearly 1 in 7 children lives in poverty on average in the OECD, and children often face higher poverty risks than other population groups. To tackle the issue, this policy brief says that a significant reduction in child poverty can be achieved through better coverage and targeting of benefits towards poor children. Among the other recommendations are making work pay for both parents ...
Figures and data - Poor children in rich countries: Why we need policy action
Is the Last Mile the Longest? Economic Gains from Gender Equality in Nordic Countries
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, commonly known as the Nordic countries, have been leaders in the development of modern family and gender policy, and the explicit promotion of gender equality at home, at work, and in public life. Today, on many measures, they boast some of the most gender-equal labour markets in the OECD.This report shows that improvements in gender equality have contributed considerably to economic growth in the Nordic countries. Increases in female employment alone are estimated to account for anywhere between roughly 0.05 and 0.40 percentage points to average annual GDP per capita growth – equivalent to 3 to 20% of total GDP per capita growth over the past 50 years or so, depending on the country.The Nordic countries are closer than most to achieving gender equality in the labour market. But the last mile may well prove to be the longest one. To make further progress, a continued assessment of the effectiveness of existing public policies and workplace practices is needed. Only with resolve and a continued focus can Nordic countries ensure that men and women contribute to their economies and societies in gender equal measure.


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Q: Django Channels ws url not connecting when page loads I'm trying to setup django channels with the following code
consumery.py
from channels.generic.websocket import AsyncWebsocketConsumer
import json

class ChatConsumer(AsyncWebsocketConsumer):
    async def connect(self):
        self.room_name = self.scope['url_route']['kwargs']['room_name']
        self.room_group_name = 'chat_%s' % self.room_name

        # Join room group
        await self.channel_layer.group_add(
            self.room_group_name,
            self.channel_name
        )

        await self.accept()

    async def disconnect(self, close_code):
        # Leave room group
        await self.channel_layer.group_discard(
            self.room_group_name,
            self.channel_name
        )

    # Receive message from WebSocket
    async def receive(self, text_data):
        text_data_json = json.loads(text_data)
        message = text_data_json['message']

        # Send message to room group
        await self.channel_layer.group_send(
            self.room_group_name,
            {
                'type': 'chat_message',
                'message': message
            }
        )

    # Receive message from room group
    async def chat_message(self, event):
        message = event['message']

        # Send message to WebSocket
        await self.send(text_data=json.dumps({
            'message': message
        }))

routing.py
from django.conf.urls import url

from consumers import ChatConsumer

#supposed to be on the main routing
from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack
from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter

websocket_urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^ws/chat/$', ChatConsumer),
]

#after linking to above as chat.routing
application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    # (http->django views is added by default)
    'websocket': AuthMiddlewareStack(
        URLRouter(
            websocket_urlpatterns
        )
    ),
})

settings.py
ASGI_APPLICATION = 'chatsys.routing.application'
CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer',
        'CONFIG': {
            "hosts": [('127.0.0.1', 6379)],
        },
    },
}

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'channels',
]

script.js
//Sockets
var myWebSocket = new WebSocket("ws://" + window.location.host + "/chat/");

myWebSocket.onopen = function(evt) {
    alert("Connection open ...");
};

myWebSocket.onmessage = function(evt) {
    alert( "Received Message: " + evt.data);
};

myWebSocket.onclose = function(evt) {
    alert("Connection closed.");
};

// Call onopen directly if socket is already open
if (myWebSocket.readyState == WebSocket.OPEN) myWebSocket.onopen();
//End Sockets

That's the entirety of the whole code. The script is loaded on the homepage and expects to connect to the ws /chat/ url but instead throws the alert alert("Connection closed."); as soon as the page loads so the connection never completes.
Diagnosis where the bug is, is also not as easy since Channels is still relatively new and changing.
Debugging
new WebSocket("ws://35.185.80.98/chat/")
WebSocket { url: "ws://35.185.80.98/chat/", readyState: 0, bufferedAmount: 0, onopen: null, onerror: null, onclose: null, extensions: "", protocol: "", onmessage: null, binaryType: "blob" }
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ws://35.185.80.98/chat/.

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Home » Are you my Mummy?
First you will want to bake your favorite cupcake. I used a chocolate box mix.
Next, use a dab of icing to attach (2) M&M's to each cupcake for the eyes.
You will want to place your icing in a Disposable Decorating Bag and use a large icing tip like Wilton's Decorating Petal Icing Tip #104 .
The icing does not have to be perfect so these are actually really quick to ice and make a really cute, really simple Halloween cupcake!
A project like this is always hard to track the "original" source of, so forgive me if I am wrong. But I believe it is originally from here.


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FROM nginx:1.19-alpine

ADD conf/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

ADD script/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
ADD script/le.sh /le.sh

RUN \
 rm /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf && \
 chmod +x /entrypoint.sh && \
 chmod +x /le.sh && \
 apk add --no-cache --update certbot tzdata openssl

CMD ["/entrypoint.sh"]

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Q: Trying to Perform Vtune Analysis Using Python 3.6 I am created Tensor Flow (1.15.5) environment using python 3.6
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
OS:Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
import tensorflow as tf

w1=tf.Variable(tf.random_normal(([2,3]),stddev=1.0,seed=1) )

I trying to run Intel Vtune Analysis in tensorflow environment.
vtune --collect hotspot python train.py

After using this command I am getting Error. How to fix this error.
vtune: Error: Valid setenv symbol is not found in the binary of the analysis target.
vtune: Error: Binary file of the analysis target does not contain symbols required for profiling. See the 'Analyzing Statically Linked Binaries' help topic for more details.

A: You might be getting this error as you have an outdated end-of-life python version.
Please refer https://endoflife.date/python
Please try installing later versions i.e. 3.7 or more.
conda install python==3.7

The issue doesn't exist when tried with python 3.7 as shown below:
(tf) :~$ cat train.py
import tensorflow as tf
w1=tf.Variable(tf.random_normal(([2,3]),stddev=1.0,seed=1))

(tf) :~$ vtune -V
Intel(R) VTune(TM) Profiler 2022.3.0 (build 624050) Command Line Tool
Copyright (C) 2009 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

(tf) :~$ python -V
Python 3.7.0

(tf) :~$ python -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.__version__)"
1.15.0

(tf) :~$ vtune --collect hotspots python train.py
vtune: Collection started. To stop the collection, either press CTRL-C or enter from another console window: vtune -r /home/jyothisvjames/r002hs -command stop.
WARNING:tensorflow:From train.py:2: The name tf.random_normal is deprecated. Please use tf.random.normal instead.
vtune: Collection stopped.


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About Robert Garcia
Posts Tagged 'Hillary Clinton'
An Election Prediction a Year and a Half Out
April 22, 2015 garciamedialife	1 comment
Do not mistake this as endorsement or repudiation. I don't really care one way or the other if Hillary Clinton gets elected President. Whatever happens, I'm sure the Republic will survive. But as an amateur pundit who watches politics like a ghoulish NASCAR fan watches car racing- waiting for the spectacular crash- I'm sorry to inform you that my prediction is fairly mundane: Hillary Clinton will be elected the next President of the United States.
It doesn't matter how many scandals are brought up, dredged up, or created. It doesn't matter how many Republican-backed books hit the best-seller lists on a monthly basis. Whitewater won't matter. Monica Lewinsky will not matter. The State department e-mails will not matter. The Clinton Foundation and which foreign governments did or did not contribute to it will not matter. We don't even need to get into the latest CNN poll that finds she is ahead by double digits against all the potential GOP candidates. Surely, that will narrow significantly.
But Hillary Clinton's narrative is set. She has been such a long-time player in American political life that opinions about her are concluded, cemented, done and finished. The real question is this: Is the tiny number of American voters who have no opinion of Hillary Clinton larger than the roughly 2 to 3% margin that her positive ratings generally outpace her negative ratings?
The opposition will have a new attack line every month right up until Election Day. And every single time, regardless of the merits of the arguments, Hillary Clinton will call it predictable partisan vitriol and the slight majority that supports her will completely agree. Partisan attacks on Hillary Clinton will be eaten up like candy by the anti-Hillary faithful but will change not one single mind among her supporters and I'm not sure there are enough "undecideds" left to make any difference.
The Soft Launch
There was much criticism of the "soft launch" of the Hillary campaign. Many liberals and just about all conservatives, seemed to blanch at what they saw as the emptiness of her announcement video. She was waging identity politics, they argued, featuring nothing more than a cartoonish smorgasbord of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Gays in her ad. She had no policy details whatsoever. Her vow to be the champion of the middle-class echoed hollow to the critics from the left and the right.
Politically/strategically- it looks like it pretty much did the trick. You could see it in the grudging back-handed compliments from the opposition's punditry class. "Slick but empty," was the common refrain from conservative commentators like Jennifer Rubin. What was noticeable was the recognition that the ad was actually pretty smooth. It was, like her or hate her, good packaging.
Politico had these quotes from Republican operatives in Iowa and New Hampshire, about Hillary Clinton's soft launch:
"Honestly, I was very impressed," said a top Iowa Republican…"She's always been seen as cold. I think this helps warm her up for the general election. It also creates a soft launch for her."
"She can be very hard to listen to speak, at times shrill, so this was refreshing and a little inspirational," said a second Iowa Republican. "She knows she needs to earn people's vote. It's a smart way to brush off being the 'anointed one.'"
"The drive to Iowa is the smartest play I've seen her make in a while," declared a New Hampshire Republican.
A second Granite State Republican described the road trip as a masterstroke. "The campaign is, rightly, underplaying it and letting the social media activity promote her and her travels," he said. "Really, really well played."
But "where's the beef?" Of course, this was all empty calories. That's the nature of American politics. Joe McGinnis articulated it all quite nicely in the Selling of the President written in 1968. Forgive my cynicism, but when was the last time we expected any kind of substance at all from a politician? Besides, everybody knows Hillary Clinton is a total policy wonk and would greatly prefer noodling policy then actually campaigning. I would bet she's being urged to NOT be that policy wonk, and instead is being counseled to be warm, approachable, humble, Grandmother-like (who doesn't love grandmothers?) and also generic, non-specific and pure pabulum.
But does it really matter? Whether she articulates to the granular level or not on every issue known to man, don't most folks have a pretty good sense that Hillary Clinton will govern quite differently than whoever the Republicans will nominate (Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, is my current pick to get GOP nod)?
Keeping the Obama Block
Some argue she will never approximate the block of voters put together by the Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012. I would concur. But she doesn't need to get to that level in order to win. What she does need is a big turn-out election. While polls are currently finding there may be less novelty and fascination with a woman becoming President than may have been generally assumed- I don't believe those numbers.
On the eve of election day next year, a woman standing on the precipice of the American presidency, taking the mantle of Commander-in-Chief for the first time in history, potentially elected as the leader of the free world- will be a really big deal. It will be historic in every sense of the word. As has become patently obvious in the last two elections, large turn-out amplifies the country's changing demographics just as surely as low-turn-out, mid-term elections distort them.
It's just a prediction ridiculously offered more than year and a half before the main event. A lesser margin than either of Obama's victories, but a victory nonetheless.
Categories: Politics Tags: Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Joe McGinnis, Politics, Predictions, Presidential Race, Republicans, Soft Launch, White House
Mitt's Really Bad Week: The Moment of Truth
January 19, 2012 garciamedialife	2 comments
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All presidential candidates are tested to the breaking point. Bill Clinton endured adultery accusations just days before the New Hampshire primary. Barack Obama, seemingly cruising after an Iowa victory four years ago, found himself losing to Hillary Clinton the very next week in New Hampshire. Both recovered.
Mitt Romney has had a nightmare of a week heading into Saturday's South Carolina primary. At Monday's debate, in addition to the little stuff, like confusing the big game he was hunting in Montana, he also gave one of the world's longest and meandering and confused responses ever about the release of his tax returns. Maybe in April. If that's the tradition. He was going to release them eventually sometime. It was quite the exhibit of red-faced tap-dancing. Meantime, Newt Gingrich played the conservative and vocal audience in the debate hall like a Stradivarius.
Then Romney hinted his tax return just might reveal he paid a fairly low 15% tax rate and then basically declared that his $350,000 in annual speaking fees was chump change. Which, of course, it is, compared to his estimated $25 million annual income from investments, but still enough to put him in the top 1% of American wage earners.
He then wakes up Thursday morning to find out he may actually have lost the Iowa caucus to Rick Santorum- trailing in the final but incomplete vote count officially released today. Not sure it'll help Santorum- but it takes the luster off the Romney camp's brag about being the first non-incumbent Republican presidential candidate in history to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. He is no longer undefeated.
Meantime, recent polling finds a large erosion in Romney's South Carolina and national leads. As I write, Rich Perry is getting out of the race and apparently headed toward a Gingrich endorsement.
The only bright spot for Romney is anticipating the possible damage that might be done tonight when ABC News releases an interview conducted with Newt's ex-wife Marianne on Nightline. Careful what you wish for. A "lame-stream" media interview with a surging conservative candidate's ex-wife 48 hours before the voting- seems to me to be the perfect storm for a voter backlash against the establishment media- and a potential boon for Newt Gingrich if he plays it right.
Mitt Romney is still formidable. He still has a lot of money and the best and deepest campaign organization. He still has a large lead in the Florida primary set for Tuesday, January 31st. History has shown that politicians in a seeming free fall can correct and conquer.
I'm not in the business of advising presidential candidates on tactics, but Jon Stewart offered Mitt some advice on the Daily Show last night that might be his ultimate answer to surviving this critical juncture in the campaign. That advice: stop pretending not to be rich. Embrace your wealth. Embrace your success story. Lose the pretenses about being middle class and once having worried about getting a "pink slip." Nobody believes that stuff.
Americans strive to be rich no matter what their circumstance or background. They can respect that. What they pick up on fast is phoniness and a lack of authenticity. He ought to release his tax returns, tell people he did everything lawfully available to him to save on his tax bill, and proclaim himself rich and proud of it. "You know what?" the New Romney might say, "I earned everything I have. Maybe it's time America had a President who knows how to create a little bit of wealth."
Why, it's so crazy, it just might work.
Categories: Politics Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Romney Taxes, South Carolina Primary, Wealth
Michele Bachman and the Newsweek Photo
August 11, 2011 garciamedialife	Leave a comment
I don't know if it was sexist. I do think it was as an adolescent move by a nearly defunct magazine and a tactic used to lampoon men and women alike and across all sides of the political spectrum.
Look at the prototypical negative political campaign ad. Dark, grainy footage of the dreaded, villainous opponent, the most unflattering photos that can be found, usually punctuated by foreboding music and a deep, serious announce voice. That's an ad either party would use.
How many unflattering photos of George W. Bush did liberals use to lampoon him?
Here's one:
But he also looked like this:
Perhaps those on the political right expressing so much outrage over the Bachmann photo forget the pictures of Hillary Clinton they were putting up on their web sites just a couple of years ago. Here's one:
Actually, Hillary can also look like this:
Here, by the way, is what Michele Bachmann usually looks like:
Love her, hate her or indifferent, as more than a few have said over the past few days, you have to work pretty hard to find a bad picture of the Minnesota Congresswoman.
Here's Newsweek/Daily Beast head honcho, Tina Brown's words in defense of the magazine's use of the picture:
Not cross-eyed. Listen she has – the intensity in her eyes is in all the photographs of her, you know. This is the thing that's connecting with people. We have people in the crowd saying, you know, something about her tells me I should follow her And there is something about Michele Bachmann with the eyes looking out. She has a very very, this very kind of intense demeanor.
Really? The Newsweek cover photo depicts an "intense" demeanor? I kind of think the photo says "psychopath," and I think its use was designed to get people talking about Newsweek magazine. I don't actually think it will help increase its tiny circulation by much because, sadly, it's an outmoded medium. But, I digress.
I unashamedly give credit to John Stewart for this, but, really, anybody can photograph badly, even Tina Brown:
Who, in all fairness, also looks like this:
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Conquer the Village: Reset and Rematch at the Commons
With the same winners from Arcadia back on the line, a very different course-and different challengers-put everyone back to square one.
On paper, the start list looks like a small but fast start list pitting the victors and animators of the past few weeks together once again. But on a course like no other, there's nothing certain about Conquer the Village. Jorden Wakeley rode to an impressive win last year against a solid field, and he's the last to be worried about the additional race added for the Elite men. On the women's side, Lauri Brockmiller will have to find an answer for the indomitable Beth Craven, who won her Elite race debut last week at Arcadian Grit and Gravel.
Challenging Wakeley on the men's side are some local familiars, including Derek Graham and the Einstein Racing trio of Nate St. Onge, Cody and Wes Sovis. The big new name is Justin Morris, a pro cyclists new to TC and ready to test his legs on 6 circuits behind Building 50. Morris, perhaps the nicest guy you'll ever meet, is just a few weeks removed from the Tour of Azerbaijan, and certainly ready to see how his mountain bike skills are holding up after a few years primarily on the road.
Those 6 laps are going to be more than enough to split the field a few times over. After doing 5 last year, the Elite men will have an extra 3.7 miles and 400 feet of climbing to contend with. The two main features of the race are, as they were last year, the Fire Road Climb, which brings racers up 300 feet at an average gradient approaching 7%, with two distinct pitches of 11% and 15% at the bast and at the very top. The only change to the course for 2014 is a new section that runs along the top of the ridge that plays host to much of the trail system, and adds perhaps a minute or two to each lap, plus a short but steep technical climb to get to the downhill. The curving, switchback descent that is so notorious is so tough that the beginner race won't even go down it. Even experienced riders have bailed, walking it down rather than risk a crash.
It's a course that demands a complete rider, and Beth Craven is looking to confirm herself as such. She's a great climber and descender, and this could be her second win in as many tries in the Elite class. She'll be joined by Einstein Racing teammate Stacy Smith as the pair take on defending champion Lauri Brockmiller of Hagerty Cycling.
Registration is still open, and there's plenty of time for more contenders to join up. Racing starts at 10am Saturday, May 24 with the Beginner race, followed by Sport at 11.30, and the Elite/Expert race at 1.30pm.
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Its back again to make a splash in Downtown Springfield. The Craft Beer Bash allows local to sample over 100 beers from all over the world, the event is held this Saturday July 29th at Park Central Square. The event is open to the public and all ages are welcome but to participate you must be 21 years old and have a ticket.
One of the many things we love about Southwest Missouri is the variety of events and adventures you can have. With lakes, valleys, rivers, shows, and events, we have something for everyone. So come out Saturday and enjoy yet another event this area is known for. Be responsible and get an UBER, Springfield is happy to have just brought Uber to our community last year.
Sampling tickets $30 in advance. $35 at the gate. Includes Craft Beer Bash sampling glass and access to over 100 craft beers! Sampling begins at 4:00 p.m..
VIP Tickets: $50 in advance. Limited quantity! Includes Craft Beer Bash sampling glass, 2 hour early access, including access for rare/limited release beers. Ticket also includes two pint passes for a 16oz beer at the beer garden. Check in begins at 2:00 p.m.. VIP Sampling begins at 2:30 p.m..


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As much as these girls like our boots and sweaters, we'll trade them in for flip flops and sunshine any day! BUT.....We have noticed that every year we start to strip down and wear less clothes, we become more and more conscious of the skin on our body, how its changing, and revealing it for the first time in months can be daunting.
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WHAT: Exclusive sneak peek screening of the highly anticipated high-seas STARZ Original drama from Executive Producer Michael Bay, "Black Sails." The first episode will be screened for fans only during Comic-Con 2013. Special guests to be announced.
ABOUT: The pirate adventure "Black Sails" centers on the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island." Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver (Luke Arnold). Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
The series also stars Zach McGowan ("Shameless") as rival Captain Charles Vane; Toby Schmitz as Rackham, Vane's right hand; Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie, a determined young woman who runs the smuggling operation on New Providence; Jessica Parker Kennedy as Max, a tortured young prostitute who sees the dark side of New Providence; Clara Paget as the beautiful but cold-blooded Anne Bonny and Tom Hopper ("Merlin") as Billy Bones, boatswain of Flint's ship.
"Black Sails" is executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) and his Platinum Dunes partners Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, producers on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Nightmare on Elm Street (2009). The series was created by showrunner and executive producer Jonathan Steinberg (creator "Jericho," "Human Target") and co-executive producer Robert Levine ("Touch").
"Black Sails" will debut with an eight-episode season in January 2014, exclusively on STARZ.


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Why Agencies Could Win the Talent Fight with Startups
October 19, 2012 • 3 min read | By Jack Marshall
Agencies are competing for digital talent with an ever-growing list of startups — and frequently losing out as candidates opt for the larger salaries, offers of equity and the challenge of building something new. What's more, working for a startup is far cooler than toiling for an agency.
But the conditions appear set for the pendulum swing back to agencies as venture capital money gets harder to come by and as startups themselves are placed under increasing pressure to generate revenues and find sustainable business models. Pretty soon, the cool startup becomes another small business under pressure to make payroll.
As investor Chris Dixon wrote in a much quoted blog post earlier this year, "Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. But there are signs this is ending." Consumer startups now need closer to 10 million users than 1 million users to make attractive series A investments, he said.
Added to that recent IPOs of mature startups such as Zynga, Facebook and Groupon have fallen short of expectations, leading many investors to reevaluate their potential upside in the sector.
The effect is that startup life, in many cases, is getting tougher. Though he expressed frustration at the fact his employees are frequently approached by startups and tech firms, Roundarch Isobar CEO Geoff Cubitt predicts this trend could ultimately be drawing to a close. Soon, those who ditched their agency gigs hoping to help build the next Facebook or Twitter might find that the grass once again looks green in the agency yard as their days get longer and their search for revenues becomes more desperate.
"I wouldn't be surprised if we see things start to swing the other way," he said. "As funds for some of these startups begins to dry up, so will this insatiable appetite for agency talent. The other thing is, these companies become less attractive places to be as the pressure increases. I think we'll see a little bit of a recoil."
Cubitt runs an agency, of course, so that could be wishful thinking on his part. But in support of his argument, these trends are, to an extent, cyclical. Five or six years ago it was fashionable to work at an agency, but now those at startups are widely regarded as the "rockstars" of digital. That momentum could easily shift back in the other direction.
"To me, it's mostly one of those cyclical things," said forester analyst and former agency employee, Jim Nail. "Mobile is going through that stage right now, for example, where people have the stars in their eyes and see this pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If they can't cash in on the bonanza, or if it doesn't work out, I can see them becoming disillusioned and opting back in for the regular agency paycheck."
Nail pointed to the social space as one area in which that shift might already have begun. There have been some big acquisitions of companies like Buddy Media and Radian6, but activity in the area seems to be slowing down, he suggested. Meanwhile, agencies are building out far more robust offerings of their own.
There remain, however, plenty of startups and technology companies out there looking for agency talent, and an increasing number of senior agency execs are jumping ship to start their own endeavors, often with former staffers at their sides. Former SapientNitro global strategy director Freddie Laker is one example, having left the agency to start a stealth-mode social TV startup called Gui.de. Agencies remain, he says, "training grounds for startup talent." Bant Breen is another, who left behind a long agency career to create a personal identity management platform called Qnary.
So if the talent pendulum does, in fact, begin a swing back towards agencies, it is difficult to see it happening any time soon.
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Brands stay silent on Tyre Nichols killing as marketers signal it as an industry backslide
Compared to the things that were said and acted upon during the murder of George Floyd and the protests that took place three years ago, many brands have been relatively quiet around Tyre Nichols.


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Q: How to diagonalize a matrix when it has more eigenvectors than eigenvalues? I'm trying to solve this problem:
Give an example of a matrix A with the following three properties:

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*A has eigenvalues −1 and 2.

*The eigenvalue −1 has eigenvector (1,2,3).

*The eigenvalue 2 has eigenvectors (1,1,0) and (0,1,1).

I tried solving it using
 $$A= PDP^{-1}$$
But D is 2x2 and P is 3x3 so multiplication is not possible. How do we deal with cases like this when a matrix has more eigenvectors than eigenvalues?

A: Each eigenvalue appears once in $D$ for each eigenvector it has in your collection of eigenvectors. So in this case, $D$ has $2$ twice along the diagonal. A few requirements, though:

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*The collection of eigenvectors for any given eigenvalue must be linearly independent

*There must still be a full set of eigenvectors, which is to say there must be $n$ of them for an $n\times n$ matrix

As long as these are fulfilled, the are no issues.

A: Since you have three linearly independent eigenvectors the diagonalization is possible. The matrix $P$ whose columns are the eigenvectors serves as the engine in the process of $$P^{-1}AP=D$$
The matrix $A$
is found by solving the equations $$AV=\lambda V$$ for given eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
My calculation resulted in $$A=\begin {bmatrix}1/2&3/2&-3/2\\-3&5&-3\\-9/2&9/2&-5/2\end{bmatrix}$$


Kenneth Katzman, Ph.D., a specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs Congressional Research Service; Michael Eisenstadt, Kahn Fellow and Director of Military and Security Studies Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Elizabeth Rosenburg, Senior Fellow and Director of Energy, Economics and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.
In the opening remarks by the sub-committee chair, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, she noted that Iran has used the nuclear deal as leverage to increase its "illicit" activities, including taking hostages and demanding ransoms for their return, many which they have received. She also said that the Trump administration needs to step up its activities regarding monitoring of North Korea and Iran as part of the non-proliferation act. "Iran only responds to strength and pressure," said Ros-Lehtinen.
"It is clear that left unhindered, the scale and sophistication of the Iranian missile program will only grow and it is incumbent on this Congress to act decisively to halt its progress," said Deutch. He also noted that Iran has defied international will in regards to its missile tests and the acts of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) within the region.
Mr. Katzman talked about Iran's objectives in terms of keeping its ballistic missile program, which seem to be focused on their power within the country and the region. "There are a number of options available to the Trump administration to counter Iran's missile program. One of those is sanctions…" said Katzman.
He also included that military options are available, including an increasing missile defense program by the U.S. in the region. However, he noted that sanctions might not be affective if they can't touch Iran economically and that designating the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization will only have a nominal effect, since the IRGC is already heavily sanctioned.
"Missiles and rockets are central to Iran's way of war and that of its proxies," said Mr. Eisenstadt. He noted that the growth of their missile defenses could be a significant threat to the region. "Washington should also continue to press allies, partners and others…to tighten enforcement of export controls to prevent Iran from acquiring technology, equipment and special materials that are essential to its missile program," said Eisenstadt. He also noted that the U.S. needs to strengthen its deterrent posture, by building up missile defenses in the Middle East with its allies.
"The United States needs a comprehensive strategy toward Iran that pushes back against destabilizing Iranian activities, strengthens the JCPOA and deters Iran from building an industrial scale nuclear infrastructure or a nuclear breakout down the road," said Eisenstadt. He also noted that the U.S. could take steps to make Tehran reevaluate the cost balance of its actions in the region that might bring it into conflict with the U.S., including a comprehensive defense partnership with Iraq and assisting the rebel groups in Syria.
The U.S also needs a strategy to address Iran with the time gained by the JCPOA, including addressing loopholes in the agreement and strengthening it, creating a coalition to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear plan instead of building a nuclear infrastructure once the 15 years is up, and to push back against the Iranian destabilizing activities within the region, according to witnesses.
Ms. Rosenberg noted in her testimony that the sanctions on the IRGC were important, as they addressed not only its terrorist activities, but proliferation of missiles and the nuclear program, as well as human rights abuses. However, she noted that the IRGC's limit economic exposure to the U.S. and its avoidance of using the dollar has limited its sanction exposure, allowing it to function even during the tough international sanctions of the last few years.
She testified that the U.S. needs to use the sanctions in place to actively go after Iran's supply chain for its ballistic missiles, as it works with outside sources to obtain materials, technology and parts. Rosenberg also noted that success comes from "multilateral action" against Iran. She also noted that the IRGC's activities can be better targeted through sanctions as well.
The witnesses all iterated that it was key to focus on disrupting the supply chain for the Iranian missile program, as it is evident that exports are being received of materials that are banned under international agreements. Ms. Rosenberg noted that specific entities involved in the missile program under the control of the IRGC could be targeted for sanctions without targeting an entire sector of the Iranian economy.
Throughout the question and answer period, the witnesses offered a variety of options to address the relationship between Iran and Russia, as well as how to move forward with various allies to cut Iran off from Hezbollah and its other terrorist activities within the region.
Why Iran needs a ballistic missile with the range to reach into New Delhi or Rome is never mentioned because there is no reason other than to hold a dagger over Europe, Asia and the rest of the Middle East like the sword of Damocles.


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Abu Soma
On the shores of the Red Sea, where dazzling blue waters lap pristine white sands, lies the five star Intercontinental Abu Soma hotel, just a 40 minute transfer from Hurghada airport. Offering a vast array of activities on, off and below water, it's a superb Egyptian holiday destination. Watersports Where to start? The consistent cross-shore breezes and flat water at Abu Soma make this beach resort world class for watersports. There are windsurfing, sailing and kitesurfing tuition to all levels and provide a wide selection of dinghies and windsurfers. Waterskiing and wakeboarding are available on a pay as you ski basis, and there is a PADI scuba dive centre in the resort (courses pre-bookable in the UK). Tennis Coaching Newly built in 2008, Abu Soma now boasts three new hard painted courts. Racquets and balls are available to hire, and courts can be booked for play free of charge. Individual or group tennis lessons are available. Other Activities There are too many fascinating excursions to list, but The Intercontinental Abu Soma is perfectly located for a trip to Luxor, or a felluca ride across the Nile to the West Bank for a visit to the Valleys of the Kings and Queens.
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Sublime synth-pop outfit Moon Rituals has announced its long-awaited LP, filled with eight tracks of glittering arrangements. 'Sky Dance' is the album's lead single, and depicts a meeting of opposed forces – an interaction between Yin and Yang and the undeniable attraction that draws them together.
Grizzled rock outfit Deaf Wish are back, baby! After pummelling eardrums with 2015's Pain, the group have announced a new long player by the name of Lithium Zion. The first single from the album – 'FFS' – is a blistering hurly-burly reminder of the band's potent disquiet, with an empowering outburst that seems to say that no matter how many times you get knocked to the dirt, no one can bury you.


I have a number of blueberry muffin recipes that I love,but I thought I would try a different recipe today. One I found on another blog "Helena Bakes".
The blueberries were local and I made a couple of minor changes to the recipe. I subbed sour cream for most of the milk and added a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
This is a very nice moist muffin and was perfect for breakfast with a cup of coffee.
Those look lovely Ann...my fave Blueberry muffin recipe has sour cream in it also...love that!
Thanks Linda, yes sour cream is a nice addition to almost any muffin.
Valerina, I wish you could too. I'll eat one for you.
Gosh, these look so nice and tender! Looks as if they are from a bakery.
Those look wonderful, Ann. I need to try this soon!
These look light and moist. I wish I would have had one this morning!
I have a sweet tooth. I don't like sour cream. But I do lobe blueberry muffins. They are lovely for evening snack.


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Spiritual Practices and Disciplines
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The following are just a few of the beautiful testimonies from our priest-sons:
"May you women of profound prayer and holy desire for your priest sons, bring to us all the conviction that we act, not only "In Persona Christi" but are, in the words of the Church, "Ipse Christus," other Christs, and our lives are given in great sacrifice, united with our brother Jesus on His Cross! You dear sisters do not live, act, and pray just for yourselves, but for the whole Church!! Again, much gratitude for your loving concern and the work of this most blessed ministry!"
"The Lord Jesus greatly protects His representatives on earth. How closely He is united with them; and He orders me to give priority to their opinion over His. I have come to know the great intimacy which exists between Jesus and the priest. Jesus defends whatever the priest says, and often complies with his wishes, and sometimes makes His own relationship with a soul depending on the priest's advice. O Jesus, through a special grace, I have come to know very clearly to what extent You have shared your power and mystery with them, more so than with the Angels. I rejoice in this, for it is all for my good."
"I remember well the day I was given a 'spiritual mother,' an edifying presence entered my soul; I felt a significant loving and prayer-filled awareness, and to further define this, a few years ago in a pilgrimage to Quito Ecuador, I was privileged to celebrate holy Mass before the miraculous image of our Lady of Sorrows, endearing a greater love for my spiritual mother! A couple of weeks ago I read the following from St. Faustina (#1240) that impacted me in a new way, especially with the times we find ourselves in. We priests must claim this awareness, this union and relationship with Jesus as our own. This blessed ministry of Spiritual Mothers brings to us the grace of saying yes and inspires an ever greater zeal to more fully embrace our holy priesthood!"
"Ever since I was ordained years ago, the Spiritual Motherhood of Priests has played an important role in my Priesthood. The world today is, more than ever, in need of good, holy, orthodox Priests who love the Church and who are faithful to the Magisterium — and ready to defend and protect it. Priests today are often engaged in a very deep spiritual battle for souls. We need the aid of faithful laypeople to strengthen us in our mission of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, without compromise, to a world that needs it more than ever. Ever since I have had a Spiritual Mother, I understood the importance of this crucial apostolate in the Church. Spiritual Mothers, through their prayers and sacrifices, help us Priests to carry out faithfully our three-fold mission of teaching, governing, and sanctifying the members of Christ's Mystical Body. I often think of my Spiritual Mother as the humble and faithful presence of Our Lady at the foot of the Cross. The Blessed Virgin could do nothing at that moment but pray, suffer, and offer up her Son for the salvation of souls and in reparation for sin. Mary's silent prayer, her "com-passion" (suffering with) Christ, and her act of offering helped bring redemption into the world. Spiritual Mothers of Priests do the very same. I am profoundly grateful, every day, for the prayers and sacrifices of my Spiritual Mother and for all Spiritual Mothers of Priests. I pray that Our Lord may bless this apostolate abundantly and help it to bear much fruit so that God may be glorified in His Church through Holy Priests and their Spiritual Mothers."
"I thank the Lord for the Spiritual Motherhood of Priests and for my own spiritual sponsor, who makes a sacrifice of her life for me and for my priestly vocation, including, perhaps, the greatest sacrifice of all; namely, that she will never know my name, and I in turn will not know hers. I think of the sacrifices that my natural mother made for me from the time of my birth to the time, last year, when she died. Just as Our Lady shared in her Son's vocation to the point of His death on the Cross and beyond, so my mother shared significantly in my own vocation and in its sacrifices. Now that she has died, it is a great consolation to know that a sister in Christ is sharing in my vocation with the kind of unconditional generosity that a mother shares. In a very real way, every day when I don my Chasuble and climb the steps to the altar in order to celebrate the Holy Mass with my parishioners, my spiritual mother climbs those steps with me. May she, and all the women of this wonderful apostolate, be richly blessed today, and in eternity."
"I am not exactly sure when I began being under the spiritual umbrella of the 'Spiritual Motherhood of Priests', probably after submitting my letter to a spiritual mother speaking to her about my priesthood, but I do know that since that time, I have begun to notice subtle and beautiful changes in my life. So many graces which I have received.
Difficulties that I was struggling with have lessened and my prayer life has increased. I have found new vigor in my devotional life and my approach to issues has changed.
These may seem like small things, but they are not. We all believe in faith, about the power of prayer. If we did not, how could we possibly explain the innumerable miracles that have happened in human history. With prayer, often through the intercession of others, so much can be accomplished in our lives. We can be drawn all the more into the loving arms of the Father who desires nothing more than we trust and believe in Him. He desires to shower us with his graces in this life, so that we will be united with him in the life to come. For me to recognize the beautiful women who have taken upon themselves the mantle of prayer for spiritual priest sons, it is a grace and a debt, that I as a priest, can never repay. There is a surety in knowing that there is a prayer warrior out there who is offering prayers, fasting and penances for the sanctification of my priestly vocation. The Spiritual Motherhood of Priests is, in my opinion, a great grace that comes to us from Our Lord Jesus Christ, through his Mother Mary, Queen and Mother of Priests.
May this apostolate grow and flourish and may the women who have taken this upon themselves, know the edification of their prayers and actions in their own lives. May our Lady of Sorrows be their constant consolation in this life and admirable conductor into the life to come.
"St. John Vianney, the Cure of Ars, patron saint of priests, once said that the priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus… when you see a priest think of our Lord Jesus Christ… and, if we truly understood the gift of the priest, we would die, not of fear but of love. These inspiring words of the holy Cure, we trust, will lead us priests to a great desire to be holy and to unite ourselves ever more fully to Jesus, especially embracing His Cross, for the salvation of souls!
I feel you blessed mothers have such an understanding of our priesthood and why you have made such sacrifice for our sanctification and union with our Master! Your prayers, sacrifices, and love for us moves me to tears and such a desire to be a holy priest!
Dear Mothers, thank you for loving us!
A very grateful priest/son!!"
The Holy Father leads by example how important it is for all priests to contemplate receiving an anonymous spiritual mother...
Pope Benedict meets with Sr. Teresa Kereketa in Santiago de Cuba. Photo courtesy of
L'Osservatore Romano.
Santiago de Cuba, Mar 27, 2012 / 08:59 pm (CNA).- After beginning his day on Tuesday with a
private Mass in Santiago de Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI met a religious sister from India who has
been his "spiritual Godmother" for 20 years.
The Pope celebrated the private Mass during his historic March 26-28 visit to the country
before departing for the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre. The service was attended by
10 religious sisters from the contemplative branch of the Missionaries of Charity, which was
founded by Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
When the Mass ended, Cuban Archbishop Dionisio García, presented Sister Teresa Kereketa to
the Pope. Following the practice of her order, 20 years ago she received the task of praying
daily for a specific priest, thus becoming his "spiritual Godmother." The priest whom she was
assigned was Cardinal Josef Ratzinger.
During the emotional encounter, and following an Indian tradition, the sister presented a crown
of flowers to Pope Benedict.
"The Pope was quite moved meeting her," said Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi,
during a press conference.
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Jean-Pierre "J.P." Bordeleau, född 13 juni 1949, är en kanadensisk före detta professionell ishockeyforward som tillbringade tio säsonger i den nordamerikanska ishockeyligan National Hockey League (NHL), där han spelade för Chicago Black Hawks. Han producerade 213 poäng (97 mål och 116 assists) samt drog på sig 143 utvisningsminuter på 519 grundspelsmatcher. Bordeleau spelade också för New Brunswick Hawks i American Hockey League (AHL); Dallas Black Hawks i Central Hockey League (CHL) samt Canadien junior de Montréal i OHA-Jr.

Han draftades i första rundan i 1969 års amatördraft av Chicago Black Hawks som 13:e spelare totalt.

Han är bror till Christian Bordeleau och Paulin Bordeleau, farbror till Sébastien Bordeleau samt farfars bror till Thomas Bordeleau. Samtliga har spelat i NHL under sina aktiva spelarkarriärer.

Statistik

Referenser

Externa länkar
J.P. Bordeleau NHL Statistics – Hockey-Reference.com
J.P. Bordeleau hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com

Män
Födda 1949
Levande personer
Personer från Rouyn-Noranda
Kanadensiska ishockeyspelare
Kanadensiska idrottare under 1900-talet
Spelare i Canadien junior de Montréal
Spelare valda i NHL:s amatördraft 1969
Spelare valda av Chicago Blackhawks i NHL Entry Draft
Spelare i Dallas Black Hawks
Spelare i Chicago Blackhawks
Spelare i New Brunswick Hawks


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Q: How can I clear the image cache after my user scroll down the screen, and reload if it scroll up? How can I clear the image cache after my user scroll down the screen, and reload if it scroll up?
I have a lazy listview while the user scroll down the news cards with imagens are loading from web. when many imagens loaded around 500, the app begin be "slow", I guess it's bacease there many imagens in cache, My imagens are 100pxs only.

A: Important note, it is unlikely that simply having more images in your image cache will result in bad performance, especially if you are displaying them with a ListView.builder(). Check you are not running in debug mode, which severly hurts performance, and make sure you profile before trying to optimize performance.
That being said, if you know the the key for an image in Flutter's image cache, you can remove the image by calling
imageCache!.evict(key);

Different types of ImageProvider have different keys, but given that you are getting your images from the web, I'm assuming you're using NetworkImage (or Image.network which uses NetworkImage under the hood).
You could then create a Widget that wraps an Image, and evicts it from the cache once it is disposed. Perhaps something like this:
class DisposingNetworkImage extends StatefulWidget {
  final NetworkImage image;
  // boilerplate
}

class DisposingNetworkImageState extends State<DisposingNetworkImage> {
  @override
  void dispose() {
    imageCache!.evict(widget.image);
    super.dispose();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext) => Image(
    image: widget.image,
  );
}

Then you can use this in your other widgets like:
DisposingNetworkImage(image: NetworkImage('https://example.com/my-image'))

A: You should try using CachedNetworkImage widget from cached_network_image plugin.
It takes cacheHeight and cacheWidth params. Don't forget to provide these values.
Ref: https://pub.dev/packages/cached_network_image.


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High‐frequency variability of small‐particle carbon export flux in the Northeast Atlantic
Bol, Roséanne, Henson, Stephanie, Anne, Rumyantseva, Anna and Briggs, Nathan. 2018 High‐frequency variability of small‐particle carbon export flux in the Northeast Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32 (12). 1803-1814. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB005963
Bol_et_al-2018-Global_Biogeochemical_Cycles.pdf
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GB005963
The biological carbon pump exports carbon fixed by photosynthesis out of the surface ocean and transfers it to the deep, mostly in the form of sinking particles. Despite the importance of the pump in regulating the air‐sea CO2 balance, the magnitude of global carbon export remains unclear, as do its controlling mechanisms. A possible sinking flux of carbon to the mesopelagic zone may be via the mixed‐layer pump: a seasonal net detrainment of particulate organic carbon (POC)‐rich surface waters, caused by sequential deepening and shoaling of the mixed layer. In this study, we present a full year of daily small‐particle POC concentrations derived from glider optical backscatter data, to study export variability at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) sustained observatory in the Northeast Atlantic. We observe a strong seasonality in small‐particle transfer efficiency, with a maximum in winter and early spring. By calculating daily POC export driven by mixed‐layer variations, we find that the mixed‐layer pump supplies an annual flux of at least 3.0 ± 0.9 g POC·m−2·year−1 to the mesopelagic zone, contributing between 5% and 25% of the total annual export flux and likely contributing to closing a gap in the mesopelagic carbon budget found by other studies. These are, to our best knowledge, the first high‐frequency observations of export variability over the course of a full year. Our results support the deployment of bio‐optical sensors on gliders to improve our understanding of the ocean carbon cycle on temporal scales from daily to annual.
Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB005963
23 Jan 2019 10:50 +0 (UTC)
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522078


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The terms and conditions below and the data processing details in Annex A constitute this "Data Processing Addendum" or "DPA". This DPA forms part of any ordering document or agreement between the parties under which the Processor provides services to the Controller (an "Agreement").
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"IDTA" means the International Data Transfer Agreement, as issued under Section 119A(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018, and in force 21 March 2022, as may be updated by the Information Commissioner's Office from time to time;
"New Sub-processor" means any Sub-processor to which Sylvera wishes to delegate the Processing of Personal Data;
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"Restricted Transfer" means a transfer of Personal Data to a Restricted Country where such transfer would be prohibited without a legal basis under Chapter V of the UK GDPR; and
"Sub-processor" means any Processor appointed by or on behalf of Sylvera to Process Personal Data.
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Any capitalised terms used in this DPA but not defined shall have the meaning given to them in the Agreement.
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5.5.2 ensure that Sylvera shall be liable for the acts and omissions of such Sub-processors in relation to the Processing of such Personal Data.
5.6 With respect to any Restricted Transfer from Sylvera to a Sub-processor in a Restricted Country, Sylvera shall not cause or permit such transfer or Processing without ensuring that the IDTA is entered into as required by applicable Data Protection Legislation, or an alternate safeguard is implemented pursuant to Article 46 of the UK GDPR.
5.7 Upon termination or expiry of the Agreement, at the written request of the Customer, Sylvera shall cease all Processing of any Personal Data Processed on the Customer's behalf under the Agreement and shall return or destroy all such Personal Data, unless Sylvera is required by applicable laws to store the Personal Data or to retain the Personal Data in accordance with Sylvera's data retention policies.
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Annex A
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4. Type of Personal Data. Personal details including name and contact information, user activity details and user preferences, device details, browser history details, location details and electronic identification data including IP address and information collected through cookies.


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There will also be a high profile in-conversation programme, with Kobalt Music founder Willard Ahdritz already confirmed for that, plus TGE:DIY for future talent and the Courtroom Sessions from TGE's industry partners.
CMU Insights has been presenting sessions at The Great Escape in Brighton each May since 2011, and introduced the unique full-day conference concept in 2015. By presenting a whole day of talks, interviews, case studies and discussions around a specific aspect of the music industry, these conferences can dig much deeper than other music business events, and also include aspects of CMU Insights' training programmes and research projects.
For the first time this year, the TGE:CONVENTION will also kick off the day before the festival, on Wednesday 16 May, with the first of the CMU Insights conferences. That innovation comes as TGE also partners with the Unsigned Music Awards, which will take place in Brighton on that Wednesday evening.
The Education Conference on Wednesday 16 May will bring together music educators and music industry employers to discuss how to better prepare aspiring musicians and future music executives and entrepreneurs for a career in music.
The AI Conference on Thursday 17 May will look at the new technologies set to impact on the music business in the next decade, including the latest developments in audio-recognition, platforms for connecting with fans through messaging apps, and the machines that write music.
The China Conference on Friday 18 May will provide a substantial beginners guide to this key emerging market – with experts from China itself and leading European music executives already working there. Along the way the conference will cover copyright, streaming, social media and live opportunities.
All three CMU Insights conferences will be hosted by CMU's Chris Cooke. Three speakers have already been announced for each conference, with many more to be confirmed soon. Organisations already taking part include Urban Development, Featured Artists Coalition, BIMM, Deviate, Mycelia, Reed Smith, IFPI, Outdustry and NetEase Cloud Music.
Commenting on all this, the boss of Great Escape owner MAMA, Rory Bett, says: "The programme we present for industry delegates at The Great Escape always breaks new ground, repeatedly putting the spotlight on the challenges and opportunities that will then dominate the conversation in the music industry in the year ahead".
Honing in on this year's conferences, he adds: "This year we'll consider the future of music education; demo and discuss the new technologies that will drive the next phase of the industry's development; and provide an insider's guide to China, the emerging market which is becoming increasingly key for all of us in the music business".
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