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Hadoop developers usually test their scripts and code on a pseudo-distributed environment (also known as a single node setup), which is a virtual machine that runs all of the Hadoop daemons simultaneously on a single machine. This allows you to quickly write scripts and test them on limited data sets without having to connect to a remote cluster or pay the expense of EC2. If you're learning Hadoop, you'll probably also want to set up a pseudo-distributed environment to facilitate your understanding of the various Hadoop daemons.
These instructions will help you install a pseudo-distributed environment with Hadoop 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 14.04.
There are a couple of options that will allow you to quickly get up and running if you are not familiar with systems administration on Linux or do not wish to work through the process of installing Hadoop yourself. District Data Labs has provided a Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) configured exactly as the instructions below, available for you to download directly. You can then use this VMDK in the virtualization software of your choice (e.g. VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion). Alternatively both Hortonworks and Cloudera supply virtual machines for quick download. Be aware that if you do use Cloudera or Hortonworks distributions, then the environment may be subtly different than the one described below.
Click here to download the VMDK we have put together.
If you're brave enough to set up the environment yourself, go ahead and move to the next section!
Before you can get started installing Hadoop, you'll need to have a Linux environment configured and ready to use. These instructions assume that you can get an Ubuntu 14.04 distribution installed on the machine of your choice, either in a dual booted configuration or using a virtual machine. Using Ubuntu Server or Ubuntu Desktop is left to your preference, since you'll also need to be familiar working with the command line. Personally, I prefer to use Ubuntu Server since it's more lightweight, and SSH into it from my host operating system.
In order to secure our Hadoop services, we will make sure that Hadoop is run as a Hadoop-specific user and group. This user would be able to initiate SSH connections to other nodes in a cluster, but not have administrative access to do damage to the operating system upon which the service was running. Implementing Linux permissions also helps secure HDFS and is the start of preparing a secure computing cluster.
This tutorial is not meant for operational implementation. However, as a data scientist, these permissions may save you some headache in the long run, so it is helpful to have the permissions in place on your development environment. This will also ensure that the Hadoop installation is separate from other software applications and will help organize the maintenance of the machine.
Once you have logged out and logged back in (or restarted the machine) you should be able to see that you've been added to the Hadoop group by issuing the groups command. Note that the -r flag creates a system user without a home directory.
If this completes successfully without asking you for a password, then you have successfully configured SSH for Hadoop. Exit the SSH window by typing exit. You should be returned back to the hadoop user. Exit the Hadoop user by typing exit again, you should now be in a terminal window that says student@ubuntu.
Hadoop and most of the Hadoop ecosystem require Java to run. Hadoop requires a minimum of Oracle Java™ 1.6.x or greater and used to recommend particular versions of Java™ to use with Hadoop. Now, Hadoop maintains a reporting of the various JDKs that work well with Hadoop. Ubuntu does not maintain an Oracle JDK in Ubuntu repositories because it is proprietary code, so instead we will install OpenJDK. For more information on supported Java™ versions, see Hadoop Java Versions and for information about installing different versions on Ubuntu, please see Installing Java on Ubuntu.
Hadoop is currently built and tested on both OpenJDK and Oracle's JDK/JRE.
It has been reported for a while now that Hadoop running on Ubuntu has a conflict with IPv6, and ever since Hadoop 0.20, Ubuntu users have been disabling IPv6 on their clustered boxes. It is unclear whether or not this is still a bug in the latest versions of Hadoop, however in a single-node or pseudo-distributed environment we will have no need for IPv6, so it is best to simply disable it and not worry about any potential problems.
If the output is 0, then IPv6 is enabled. If it is 1, then we have successfully disabled IPv6.
To get Hadoop, you'll need to download the release of your choice from one of the Apache Download Mirrors. These instructions will download the current stable version of Hadoop with YARN at the time of this writing, Hadoop 2.5.2.
Of course, you can use any mechanism you wish to download Hadoop - wget or a browser will work just fine.
After obtaining the compressed tarball, the next step is to unpack it. You can use an Archive Manager or simply follow the instructions that follow next. The most significant decision that you have to make is where to unpack Hadoop to.
You can read more about these directories in this Stack Exchange post.
A good choice to move Hadoop to is the /opt and /srv directories.
/opt contains non-packaged programs, usually source. A lot of developers stick their code there for deployments.
The /srv directory stands for services. Hadoop, HBase, Hive and others run as services on your machine, so this seems like a great place to put things, and it's a standard location that's easy to get to. So let's stick everything there!
These commands unpack Hadoop, move it to the service directory where we will keep all of our Hadoop and cluster services, and then set permissions. Finally, we create a symlink to the version of Hadoop that we would like to use, this will make it easy to upgrade our Hadoop distribution in the future.
In order to ensure everything executes correctly, we are going to set some environment variables so that Hadoop executes in its correct context. Enter the following command on the command line to open up a text editor with the profile of the hadoop user to change the environment variables.
These simple aliases may save you a lot of typing in the long run! Feel free to add any other helpers that you think might be useful in your development work.
If that ran with no errors and displayed an output similar to the one above, then everything has been configured correctly up to this point.
The penultimate step to setting up Hadoop as a pseudo-distributed node is to edit configuration files for the Hadoop environment, the MapReduce site, the HDFS site, and the YARN site. This will mostly entail configuration file editing.
Edit the hadoop-env.sh file by entering the following on the command line.
With these files edited, Hadoop should be fully configured as a pseudo-distributed environment.
The final step before we can turn Hadoop on is to format the namenode. The namenode is in charge of HDFS, the distributed file system. The namenode on this machine is going to keep its files in the /var/app/hadoop/data directory. We need to initialize this directory and then format the namenode to properly use it.
You should see a bunch of Java messages scrolling down the page if the namenode has executed successfully. There should be directories inside of the /var/app/hadoop/data directory, including a dfs directory. If that is what you see, then Hadoop should be all set up and ready to use!
If the processes are not running, then something has gone wrong. You can also access the Hadoop cluster administration site by opening a browser and point it to http://localhost:8088. This should bring up a page with the Hadoop logo and a table of applications.
You can now exit from the hadoop user's shell with the exit command.
The processes should start up again as the dedicated hadoop user and you'll be back on your way!
No other configuration for Hive is required, although you can find other configuration details in HIVE_HOME/conf including the Hive environment shell file and the Hive site configuration XML.
After you source your .profile or restart your terminal, you should be able to run a pyspark interpreter locally. You can now use pyspark and spark-submit commands to run Spark jobs.
At this point you should now have a fully configured Hadoop setup ready for development in pseudo-distributed mode on Ubuntu with HDFS, MapReduce on YARN, Hive, and Spark all ready to go as well as a simple methodology for installing other services.
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Trump immigration chief caught pretending not to know about his racist tweets
Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli said it's not racist to demand American-born women of color "go back" to home countries.
Josh Israel Twitter Jul 15, 2019, 9:47 am
Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli tried to block President Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Now he is defending Trump's racist tweets. (Photo credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was asked during an interview Monday about President Donald Trump's racist tweets calling for American-born congresswomen of color to be thrown out of the country.
After unsuccessfully pretending to have been too busy focusing on deportations and litigation to know about the tweet, Cuccinelli argued that they were not racist and might even help spur congressional action on border reform.
One day earlier, Trump attacked Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Twitter, claiming they had "originally come from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world," and suggesting they should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," a common racist trope.
Three of the four women were born in the United States. Omar emigrated from Somalia as a child.
….and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how….
Cuccinelli, an arch-conservative former Virginia attorney general who joined the administration last month after attempting to block Trump's nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention, was asked about the tweets on CNN on Monday morning.
Cuccinelli first pretended not to know about the tweets, saying he was busy. "I didn't see that tweet, actually," Cuccinelli claimed. "I can hear what you're reading, but I spent the weekend reading litigation and regulatory materials related to asylum. I can see the president's commenting on some of the splits in the Democratic caucus in the house, presumably."
Host Alisyn Camerota eventually forced Cuccinelli to admit that fellow CNN anchor Jake Tapper had, in fact, read him the same tweets a day earlier.
Cuccinelli also claimed Monday that Trump's demand that American citizens of color — including those born here — leave the country was not in fact racist. "I see that as presumably political hand grenades," he said. But calling it racist, he said, "I wouldn't go that far, no. Certainly not."
He then blamed congressional Democrats for Trump's racism, saying "all they do is complain, they don't fix anything."
Finally, Cuccinelli suggested that Trump's attacks might even be helpful and might "jar them into actually addressing the problem, whether it's out of happiness or being upset with him or whatever it may be."
Cuccinelli is no stranger to racism. In 2012, he praised white nationalist Rep. Steve King (R-IA) as his "very favorite" congressman.
Cuccinelli himself also compared immigrants to rats in 2012. When asked during an interview with conservative radio show The Morning Majority on January 12 that year about how to best deal with rats at Occupy D.C. protests, Cuccinelli replied, "If you don't move an animal at least 25 miles, it'll come back. And so what's the solution to that? Well, cross a river… it is worse than our immigration policy — you can't break up rat families. Or raccoons or all the rest and you can't even kill them. Unbelievable."
#Donald Trump, #Immigration, #Politics, #Racism

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The week in review (September 22-28)
I spent much of the week sick, but that doesn't stop me. I care about you, people.
All black holes, great and small (Galileo's Pendulum): As my regular readers have probably figured out, I love black holes. I could probably find an excuse to write about them most days. So, why not take an online class from me and learn about black holes? The class begins this Tuesday (October 1), and runs for four one-hour sessions. Sign up today!
A Holographic Big Bang: Did the universe start with a five-dimensional black hole? (Slate): Much as I love black holes, however, I cast a skeptical eye on a new paper proposing that the Big Bang had an event horizon. This Slate piece examines what we mean by the "Big Bang model" (which isn't quite how it's often described), and the reasons why this five-dimensional theory probably won't solve the mystery of our Universe's origins.
Scientific grumpfiness and open-mindedness (Galileo's Pendulum): All three pieces I've written for Slate thus far, in addition to a number of other articles published elsewhere, are critical responses to scientific reporting. Generally, I find myself on the opposite side to those who promote radical new theories, which makes me worry sometimes that I'm just a naysayer with no positive commentary to make. Here's my examination of that worry. (Yes, it's a bit meta, I suppose.)
Pulsar's magnetic field strong enough to clean up after nuclear explosion (Ars Technica): While pulsars are all fast-spinning objects, some are extremely so, rotating hundreds or thousands of times each second. A new observation caught one of these pulsars in the act of feeding off material from a companion star, lending strong support to the theory of how they spin so fast. Bonus: runaway nuclear explosions! on the surface of a dead star! Who needs science fiction?
Snobbish photons forced to pair up and get heavy (Ars Technica): Photons don't usually interact in the usual sense that matter particles do. Researchers produced a weird medium by pumping a diffuse gas of rubidium atoms with laser light until they puffed up. The result: the interactions between the atoms made an environment where photons have an effective mass (!) and attract each other, forming pairs. Beyond being really cool, this could have all sorts of applications in quantum logic and even "photon materials".
And just because I can, here's Cookie Monster playing with his Newton's cradle again.
Cookie Monster is me brother from another mother.
Posted in Ars Technica, Galileo's Pendulum, Slate, Writing for Other Sites
Tagged black holes, CosmoAcademy, cosmology, how science works, quantum entanglement, quantum optics
The week in review (September 15-21): Patrick Stewart edition
Who knew that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan were fans of Bowler Hat Science?
Another light week for publishing, but you'll see the fruits of my labors soon! In the meantime, I note that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan are also bowler hat connoisseurs.
Three years of black holes and "yo momma" jokes (Galileo's Pendulum): Monday marked the third anniversary of my first post at Galileo's Pendulum, or rather "Science Vs. Pseudoscience" as it was known then. Since then, I've published more than 500 posts on the blog and who knows how many words. (I is wordy, yo.)
The Big Bang model is successful for a reason (Galileo's Pendulum): A lot of cosmology can seem mysterious or even arbitrary, so many people criticize or try to find alternatives to it. However, they often end up attacking the most successful features of the Big Bang model, an enterprise almost inevitably doomed to failure.
Measuring the rotation of Earth (Galileo's Pendulum): This week marked the birthday of Léon Foucault, best known for the huge pendulum he constructed in the Panthéon in Paris. (Google celebrated the occasion with a Doodle animation of the pendulum.) In my post, I explained how Foucault's pendulum works — and what it has to do with spinning black holes. I also made a bunch of animations to demonstrate how a pendulum can measure the rotation of Earth.
The Solar System boundary and the week in review (September 8-14)
Cthulhu at NASA Wallops, for the LADEE launch last weekend. (I didn't wear the hat the whole time. I'm not that weird.)
'Twas a busy week!
High-resolution observations show how black hole jets churn galactic gas (Ars Technica): One portion of my PhD thesis involved galactic feedback. That's the process by which jets from black holes at the center of galaxies push material away, potentially affecting star formation and other activity. This article addressed the observation of galactic feedback, showing exactly where the hot jet of plasma from the black hole meets the colder atoms in galactic clouds. Very awesome stuff!
Parallel Earth and the Evil Matthew Hypothesis (Double X Science): I don't know if Star Trek was the original source of the "evil twin from a parallel world" trope, but it's the most famous. The idea is that there's a mirror universe to ours, in which things are almost the same, but not quite. I discussed that trope in light of the multiverse, the concept that during rapid expansion right after the Big Bang, the Universe split into a number of disconnected regions that might obey different laws than our own.
Do-it-yourself science at GeekGirlCon (Galileo's Pendulum): We're still raising money to send a group of us to GeekGirlCon in Seattle next month! We're willing to embarrass ourselves in public to accomplish this! However, the real purpose is to have hands-on science activities at the con.
Status of the book-in-progress (Galileo's Pendulum): On a more somber note, I have suspended work on my book indefinitely and released my agent. I haven't completely given up on either the book or getting it published, but the frustrations around the whole process have exhausted me, so it's time for a break.
Cosmic coincidence and a potato eclipse (Double X Science): The Moon is nearly the same size as the Sun in our sky, which has led to all sorts of mystical musings and apocalyptic fears, especially during eclipses. However, that appearance is a coincidence, which we can understand using simple geometry. What's even more fun to contrast our Moon to Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, which is much smaller than our own but manages to create its own eclipses.
Voyager 1 really has left the Solar System…probably (Ars Technica): Sometime last year, the venerable spacecraft Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space. While there have been a lot of announcements along these lines (I compared the number with Spinal Tap drummers), this time the probe seems to have actually done it. The necessary measurement is the plasma density, which is much higher in interstellar space, but Voyager's plasma instrument had been knocked out by a solar flare. Researchers pieced together the appropriate data from other instruments. There's still an anomalous measurement that needs to be accounted for — the magnetic field doesn't behave as predicted — but I think it's pretty safe to say that's an issue for theorists, not ambiguity about Voyager's position. (See below for a discussion of whether Voyager has actually "left the Solar System" or not.)
Mapping the dark matter in the tiniest of galaxies (Galileo's Pendulum): Dwarf spheroidal galaxies don't look like galaxies at all. They have so few stars and so little gas or dust, they're nearly see-through, yet they have as much as 1000 times more dark matter than ordinary matter. (In regular galaxies, dark matter is more like 10 times the amount.) Two astronomers analyzed the motion of stars within dwarf spheroidals to see if they could map the distribution of dark matter, and they found something similar to what is seen in larger galaxies.
Finally, I participated in the Weekly Space Hangout, sponsored by Universe Today and CosmoQuest. I joined hosts Fraser Cain and Nicole Gugliucci, along with Amy Shira Teitel, David Dickinson, and Nancy Atkinson to talk about the space and astronomy news from the last week. The whole thing is archived at Google+, or you can watch the video on YouTube.
Where's the edge of the Solar System?
Returning to Voyager 1, I think stories about its passage into interstellar space fell into two major categories: those saying "Voyager 1 has left the Solar System!" and variations on "Stop saying Voyager 1 has left the Solar System!" Despite what the headline on my story said, the second group of people (which includes writers I respect like Phil Plait and Amy Shira Teitel) is correct: the Solar System includes the Oort Cloud, a diffuse region of icy bodies loosely bound to the Sun by gravity.
A radio image of Voyager 1, as seen by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Green Bank Telescope. Click for a larger image and more information. [Credit: Alexandra Angelich, NRAO/AUI/NSF]
However, if you want to say Voyager has left the Solar System, I'll back you up: the boundary between the Oort Cloud and the "rest of the galaxy" isn't very well defined. Gravity technically extends forever, though it weakens substantially with larger distances. As a result, the Oort Cloud is a fuzzy edge, and one we can't measure. Is the end of the Solar System the point where the last Oort Cloud body resides?
Now, I agree with the pedants that the Oort Cloud truly does define the end of the Sun's influence, and therefore is the edge of the Solar System. But the magnetic boundary of the Solar System, which is arguably the more important one from the point of view of astronomy, is defined by the edge of the heliopause, where the solar wind hits interstellar gas. That boundary, while it fluctuates with solar weather, is a much clearer division, and one we could conceivably measure near other stars.
So, I'm a both/and kind of guy in this case. Since there's no single, sharp boundary between the Solar System and "everything else", let's just say there are two edges: one for the Sun's electromagnetic influence (the heliopause), and one for its gravitational influence (the Oort Cloud). Voyager crossed the first one, but won't reach the second one for 300 years. Now, can we get back to talking about how awesome Voyager is?
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Tagged dark matter, interstellar gas, multiverse, Phobos, Sun, supermassive black holes, the Moon, Voyager 1
The week in review (September 1-7)
A full-size wooden mock-up of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE). [Credit: moi]
The last week was especially busy because I attended the launch of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. I will have a lot to say about that launch, LADEE, and related topics later on, but suffice to say it was a great experience — increased because it was my first successful rocket launch viewing. (I attempted to watch the Antares rocket test in April, but that was scrubbed at the last minute and I couldn't attend the rescheduled launch.) So, here's my very small list of articles published this week.
Turbulence ahead: Interstellar wind changes direction, blows faster (Ars Technica): The Solar System orbits the center of the Milky way, and as it does, it's passing through a diffuse nebula known as the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC). Various satellites and probes have measured the passage of atoms through the Solar System since the 1970s; analysis of that data shows that the direction of this wind has changed and its rate has picked up. That reveals some interesting new detail about the environment surrounding the Solar System.
Of maps and math and Buckminster Fuller (Galileo's Pendulum): Mapmaking will never be perfect because there's no way to create a flat representation of the curved surface of Earth without some distortions. This post goes a little into the math of projection, the art of converting positions on a globe onto a flat map, and how the eccentric utopian architect Buckminster Fuller tried to solve the problem. The result was his wonderful Dymaxion map, which as a physicist I'm very fond of.
I also wrote a brief viewing guide for the LADEE launch, which is now necessarily obsolete. However, you can find a lot of photos and video from the launch at NASA's LADEE site.
Posted in Ars Technica, Galileo's Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites
Tagged interstellar gas, LADEE, NASA, Solar System, the Moon


The Definition of Done (or "DoD") is by far the most powerful item in Scrum… The DoD tells us when we're actually "DONE!" with a task or issue. Done means that there's no more work left in the task and it's cleared from the sprint backlog.
A good DoD makes it easier for the team to agree with the Product Owner and the Stakeholders as to when a task is done (meeting all the acceptance criterias). It's common known that in traditional workflows a tasks will continue to live on from "sprint to sprint" because something was either forgotten in the description or in the actual resolution of the task. Such tasks are expensive to have in the sprints and multiple issues like this could cause the sprint to fail entirely because the amount of "unknown work" will make it hard to estimate and commit to the sprint.
The DoD is a list of sorts that includes the product owner's and team's criteria for declaring a product backlog item as potentially shippable, or done. It's important for several reasons.
The amount of items in the DoD would vary from team to team. Also, it's very important not to put items in the DoD that is impossible to obtain. If that happens the DoD will be loosing its effect and the team will eventually ignore it.
The team must see the DoD as a tool to state when the issue is Done. It's a tool to ensure that code quality and test coverage is in place. It's a guardian of the development process and therefore something that they should enforce and extend over time.


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Q: Prevent Looping Inside Geocoder Google Maps API I'm using Google Map API. I want to get lat and long with a given address. I did this
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
    geocoder.geocode({ 'address': 'Stockholm' }, function(results, status) {
        if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
            var latitude = results[0].geometry.location.nb;
            var longitude = results[0].geometry.location.ob;
            console.log(latitude);
        }
});

However i get that console log run repeatedly. I just want to have it running once, but i didn't find any idea.

A: Declare a new variable that shows whether the geocoding has been called, and change it to true the first time this happens.
var geoCalled = false;

var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
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Chrissy's dad was the police chief for a while, and frankly, I knew him better than I knew her. Not because I did anything wrong (well, not too much, and nothing he ever knew about), just because I was of that age that the cops tend to keep an eye on the kids, especially in a small town.
But I certainly knew of her, and when I saw a Facebook post to a "Christine" sending condolences from many of my friends on the passing of her dad, I knew right away who she was.
And so we became friends. FB, and in the traditional sense. We shared some private messages, and when I went down to Arizona over the New Year's break, we met for breakfast to catch up. And it was great.
So little when little Chrissy told me she was about to hit the half century mark, I figured she could tell me about it—how she was feeling, what she was doing with her life…that sort of stuff.
It was so much fun chatting with her, we decided to do a podcast to talk about what it meant to her to hit the milestone of heading "North of 50". Have a listen.
…And some more, from here and there.
So you heard Christine say that she has another name these days, and that is PICTURE LADY . The photos you see on this page were all taken by her—go to her FB page and take a look at some of her other work, and drop her a line to tell her what you think…and if you live in the Phoenix area, connect with her!


Will the program work on both a PC and a Mac computer?
How long will it take to learn how to use the program?
Do I have to be a techy computer nerd in order to be able to use it?
How many words are there in the program?
How did you select which words to include in the program?
What do I do if the program doesn't include some of the words I want to review?
I want to use the program a lot, but I might forget which sentences I've already used with my class.
Can I try it out, so I can decide whether I want to buy it?
What are the JMatch and JCloze buttons for?
Who is Martin and why isn't the program called Martin & Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher?
What dialect of English is used in the program?
How is the new version different from the previous version?
I have the old version. What is the cost for the new version?
Yes. The program can work on both a PC and Mac platform. However, the Mac must be running OSX 10.6 as a minimum. Just click on the appropriate link for PC or Mac when you are downloading the software.
30 minutes or so – it's very user-friendly.
There are presently over 2,600 keywords, each with a minimum of 15 sentences in context, including different derivations, for a total of over 50,000 sentences and 750,000 words in the program.
2. Words included in the Academic Word List (AWL).
3. Other words which Gerry has personally needed to prepare his students for field trips and guest speakers during his own teaching career.
Teachers of intermediate to advanced ESL students, or teachers of native speakers in need of extra help with vocabulary development.
A single-user registration is US$50.
Well, first of all, it may actually be there under the root word. For example, the word reliable can be found within the contexts for the word rely. You may also want to ask yourself if perhaps the word is so infrequent that it doesn't merit the time required to teach or learn it. However, if the word is not there and you feel it should be, no problem! The program allows you to add, edit or delete words and sentences.
No problem! Each time a sentence is used, the program marks it with a number. At the end of the term, you can then zero all the numbers and begin again with a new class.
Of course! Download an evaulation copy for free. The demo allows you to see all the data, and allows you to produce an exercise with a maximum of 5 sentences, using words starting with letters from the first half of the alphabet. If you decide to purchase the program, we will send you a user name and key. This will instantly enable the entire program.
The JMatch and JCloze buttons allow you to create interactive web-based exercises for vocabulary review online. These formats are included in the Hot Potatoes suite, which consists of six different applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher will work in conjunction with the JMatch and JCloze formats to automatically generate online vocabulary review exercises. Hot Potatoes is freeware and can be obtained by downloading it from their website.
Gerry Luton is an ESL instructor and has been teaching English as a Second Language for almost 25 years. He has taught in both Canada and Japan. Gerry is currently the senior instructor at the University of Victoria's English Language Centre, in Victoria, Canada. Together with Martin Holmes, Gerry created the program over a period of about 10 years.
Martin Holmes is a former ESL teacher who is now a software designer. Martin is also the founder and director of Half-Baked Software Inc., which is responsible for creating the Hot Potatoes suite, which includes JMatch and JCloze, programs which can allow users of Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher to create interactive online gap-fill exercises for use on a website. And of course Martin also built the software program for Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher, and in fact, it was Martin himself who came up with the name. See other excellent software programs created by Martin Holmes, including the Hot Potatoes suite, Markin, TexToys, and hotpotatoes.net.
The program comes complete with files in American English, British English, and Canadian English. All three dialects are downloaded with the program but users choose the default setting during the downloading process. The other files, including the Academic Word List sublist files, can be opened by clicking on the file option at the top of the program interface and selecting "Open a database".
How is the new version of the software different from the previous version?
The new version has a number of different features.
The most important change is that the new version is now fully compatible with both a PC and a Mac. The previous version could only be used on a Mac if it was running Windows. The new version will run on a any Mac provided it is running OSX 10.6 as a minimum.
In addition, the new version, instead of marking used sentences with a star, marks the sentences with a number. This is useful if you need to know how many times you have used a sentence (for example, if you have two different classes you are reviewing the vocabulary with).
Another difference is that the new version now includes a button to put the gapfill exercise on the clipboard so that it can be pasted into a pre-existing document, and a button to create an exercise in HTML format.
Finally, the new version has arrows to the right of the sentence box which allows users to move sentences up or down in the list of available sentences for each keyword.
I have the old version. Do I need to pay for the new version?
If you purchased a previous version of Gerry's Vocabulary Teacher, you can get the updated version for a nominal fee of US $10. Just download the demo version and then send us an email with your name. Once your previous purchase has been confirmed, you will be sent the necessary information to register the new version of the software.


Continuous delivery is one of those goals that is very easy to understand but very difficult to implement. The gist of continuous delivery is that the development team delivers a feature as soon as it is ready. This reduces overhead and the lag time between the process of developing a feature and seeing it to the next stage. Overall, this is a good idea because it allows for features to be developed and deployed at a more rapid pace as well as enabling users to interact with the new functionality in as little time as possible.
This is a great and simple idea, in theory. In practice, there are some inevitable complications with that process. One of those difficulties is how to develop new features while keeping your application deployable at any given time.
Imagine this situation: you're doing a continuous delivery pipeline for your product. You've told business that they can deploy at any time that they wish; they have informed the team that release is to go out tomorrow night. You've just finished a feature and pushed; the pipeline went green. Now, you have 4 hours left to work on new features. However, the next story to be played is rather large and is going to take around two days to complete. Obviously, you cannot finish the feature before the next release. What is the best practice in continuous delivery going forward?
This is a question with a very complex answer. The one sentence answer is: you isolate your new code from the users in the simplest way possible. "The simplest way possible", though, is up to the developers of the story and they must use their judgement to implement one of the follow set of practices.
In this practice, you develop your feature locally until your are finished before you push any code. In a DVCS like git, this might mean that you are committing multiple times locally for a multi-day story but do not push until you are completely done. This is essentially a short-lived feature branch that is not visible to anyone else.
You should use this practice for very small stories. If a story is going to take 1-2 hours to develop, go ahead and use this one. It is, by far, the easiest practice of any and it will work for smaller stories.
While this practice says that you should not push, it does not mean that you should not pull. Continually pull and merge your changes with what is on the master branch.
The downsides of this are the same of those of feature branches: the longer the local changes are not shared, the more divergent your code becomes to others. It becomes more and more a pain to refactor without significant merge conflicts and to understand the impact of any changes you make to code the longer the changes are not shared.
For anything of medium-to-large size, I would recommend against this practice.
In this practice, you are modifying the underlying system to a degree that is not permeated to the client. Then, when the underlying system is ready, you use another strategy (normally #1 Don't push until finished) to do the "view" part. This can be useful for refactoring-heavy stories.
For MVC web applications, a simple example is if you were adding a new endpoint that modified the controller and model as well as adding a new view. You can do the controller and model part first and then circle back to the view.
This can apply to non-MVC contexts, too: imagine a service that was exposing a RESTful JSON API. The JSON is the "view" in this case and if you can keep that the same you can monkey about behind it at will without effecting your consumers.
Personally, I like to work outside-in. I like to write ATDD tests that guide me through the entire story. Unfortunately, this practice is at odds with the working style. I would probably not employ this practice very often.
Feature branches are always a controversial topic. Please see feature branches and continuous delivery are incompatible for more information on my take of that topic. However, for code isolation, short-lived ad-hoc feature branches can be useful. There are a slew of issues that make this an almost-last-resort type of thing for me.
Short-lived ad-hoc feature branches have a life cycle the same as a story in development and are one off sorts of decisions that a developer must make.
The can isolate code very neatly; the code is never seen on the master branch.
The isolation is at cost: we are wanting to isolate features from users not code from developers. Developers need the code as soon as it is written so that they have context for a variety of circumstances. Having a pile of code being "dropped" into a code base at irregular intervals can wreak havoc on a developers ability to make changes.
I would only use this strategy as a last resort for a really big, breaking change that we are consciously internalizing the cost of the Big Merge.
Feature toggles are switches that exist inside of the production system which hide features from consumers. These switches can be implemented in a number of ways but all have the same effect: code is able to be continuously pushed without affected consumers.
These are a bit more expensive to implement than other strategies. They also introduce technical debt and complexity into the code base.
Feature toggles lifecycle should be the same as the story is "in development." They should be created at the start of the story and removed when the developer thinks the story is done.
There is a risk that business will use the feature toggles, which is a developer tool, as a system feature. Push back on this very hard. If business wants the ability to turn features on and off, it should create requirements and go through the normal product analysis. Feature toggles can become crazily complex otherwise.
There are multiple ways to implement feature toggles. I have heard or seen of the following methods: using a flat text file to set values true/false that gets read on launch, using Rails environments to set boolean configuration options, using URL parameters to turn a feature on or off, using server-level redirects to prevent new features from being accessed. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Remember: just do what is the simplest way to isolate your code.
When developing an entirely new feature, it can sometimes be easier to build a new route (or endpoint) that is inaccessible in production. This is a relatively narrow use case: only when the new feature is entirely on its own is this useful. However, it is an important pattern to know because when it can be used, it is often the simplest method.
Build the new route as you would any other feature. Leave off the linking until the end (and use strategy #1). If its a sensitive feature, consider turning off the route for production.
You can use any development method for this (including outside-in TDD--yay!).
You can also use this method if you're overhauling another view entirely. Build the new view on a new route that will be swapped in at the end.
Use this whenever it makes sense.
Some places have existing systems in place to do feature level system turn on and turn off in production. This is a product level system. It is, however, very close to what we want and surely we can reuse the system? Not from experience reports from friends on projects that are doing just this. It quickly becomes confusing what the job of the system is and whether a particular feature is a "development toggle" or a "product toggle".
Facebook has a system that helps them develop features and roll them out independent of the codebase. This is a really cool idea (that I unfortunately have no more insight than others about). Maybe your team should be doing this?
Maybe. Consider the engineering effort to build and maintain the system. Is it worth it?
What is the best practice to keep a system production-ready while still being able to continuous deliver? The answer is: it depends. You should probably be using a mixture of the seven patterns described above. There could even be other simple ways to isolate your code. The goal is to isolate your code from the users as simply as possible.


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Victoria's regulatory framework for radiation
Victorian radiation laws
Serious offences under the Radiation Act 2005
The Radiation Act 2005 establishes a number of offences.
The Act also fixes the corresponding number of penalty units for each offence.
The value of a penalty unit for a financial year is fixed by the Treasurer.
The Radiation Act 2005 (the Act) establishes a number of serious offences relating to such matters as:
performing unlicensed activities
failing to report radiation incidents
not complying with licence conditions
abandoning a radiation source
causing another person to receive a higher radiation dose than what is prescribed
causing serious harm to the environment.
The Act also fixes the corresponding number of penalty units for each offence. The value of a penalty unit for a financial year is fixed by the Treasurer under s. 5(3) of the Monetary Units Act 2004. The Treasurer has fixed the values for 2021-2022 at $181.74.
As a guide, for the 2021-2022 year:
600 penalty units is in excess of $109,000
1,200 penalty units is in excess of $218,000
6,000 penalty units is in excess of $1,090,000
9,000 penalty units is in excess of $1,635,000.
Some examples of penalties include the following:
Section 12 creates an offence for a person to conduct a radiation practice unless they hold a current management licence that authorises that practice or they are exempted from that requirement under s. 16 of the Radiation Act. The penalty for an individual is up to 1,800 penalty units; for a company it is up to 9,000 penalty units.
Section 13 creates an offence for a person to use a radiation source unless they hold a current use licence that authorises that use or they are exempted from that requirement under s. 16 of the Act and they are using the source in accordance with that exemption OR they are an approved tester who is using the source in line with their tester's approval. The penalty for an individual is up to 1,200 penalty units.
Section 14 creates an offense for an owner or occupier of land to (i) construct a radiation facility on land they own or occupy, or (ii) permit or allow another person to construct a radiation facility on land they own or occupy, or (iii) change the use of land that they own or occupy to use for a radiation facility, or (iv) change the use of a building that they own or occupy to use as a radiation facility unless they hold a facility construction licence. The penalty for an individual is up to 600 penalty units; for a body corporate up to 3000 penalty units.
Section 15 creates an offence for a person to not comply with the conditions of their licence. In the case of management licences, the penalty for an individual is up to 1,200 penalty units. For a company or other type of body corporate it is up to 6,000 penalty units. In the case of individual use licences, it is up to 600 penalty units.
Section 18 creates the offence for a management licence holder to allow persons to use a radiation source when the management licence holder knows that the person does not hold the appropriate use licence. The penalty is up to 1,200 penalty units for individuals, or up to 6,000 penalty units for a company or other type of body corporate.
Section 19 creates the offence for a management licence holder to allow persons to use a radiation source in a manner that the management licence holder knows is contrary to the conditions of the person's use licence. The penalty is up to 1,200 penalty units for an individual, or up to 6,000 penalty units for the company or other type of body corporate.
Section 20 requires that the management licence holder, on becoming aware that a radiation source that was in their possession is lost or has been stolen, must immediately notify the Secretary of the department. The penalty for not notifying is up to 600 penalty units for an individual, or up to 3,000 penalty units for a company or other type of body corporate.
Section 21 requires that the management licence holder must not abandon a radiation source. The penalty for an individual is up to 1,800 penalty units; for a company it is up to 9,000 penalty units.
Section 22 creates an offence for a person - when conducting a radiation practice - to knowingly, recklessly or negligently cause another person to receive a radiation dose that is greater than the dose prescribed in the regulations. The penalty is up to 600 penalty units for an individual, or up to 3,000 penalty units for a company or other type of body corporate. There are similar offences for a person using a radiation dose to cause a 'high radiation dose' to another person.
Section 23 creates the offence of causing serious harm to the environment when conducting a radiation practice. The penalty is up to 1,800 penalty units for an individual, or up to 9,000 penalty units for a company or other type of body corporate.
Section 36 creates the offence for a person in possession of a prescribed radiation source to allow use of a prescribed radiation source unless there is a current certificate of compliance in respect of that source. The penalty for individuals is up to 1,200 penalty units, and for companies or other type of body corporates it is up to 6,000 penalty units.
Reviewed 17 April 2018
Radiation Act 2005
Radiation Regulations 2017
Mutual recognition for use licence
Indexation of fees and penalties
@ Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance website
Our phone service is available Monday to Friday, from 9.00am to 1.00pm or we can be contacted via email.
Radiation Safety Department of Health GPO Box 4057, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Department of Health, GPO Box 4057, Melbourne VIC 3001, Melbourne, VIC
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The U.S. Officially Recognizes China's Uyghur Genocide
McConnell Wants Senate Power-Sharing Agreement to Protect Filibuster
A New Agenda for the GOP
By Robert Stein
About Robert Stein
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Conservatives need to rethink economic policy if they want to build a viable political coalition.
The Donald Trump who ran for president in 2016 was a populist. And, as president, Donald Trump used tariffs and slowed immigration, just as you'd expect a populist would. But when it came to tax policy, President Trump might as well have been George W. Bush.
While Bush cut the top tax rate for the highest earners from 39.6 percent to 35 percent, Trump cut it from 39.6 percent to 37 percent; while Bush cut the tax on dividends from 39.6 percent to 20 percent, Trump cut the tax on corporate profits from 35 percent to 21 percent. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
And yet opposition to Republicans in general and Trump in particular was largely led by the people and companies for whom Trump cut taxes the most. A recent analysis by Bloomberg News shows that the employees of law firms and Big Tech companies, among other Fortune 500 businesses, all tilted their donations heavily toward Biden. Just look at the companies that boycotted Facebook earlier this year because it wasn't being aggressive enough about muting President Trump and his supporters: Chipotle, Coca-Cola, CVS, Levi's, Microsoft, Patagonia, Starbucks, Target, Verizon . . . the list goes on and on.
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Cutting taxes was the prime goal of the economic wing of the GOP led by Larry Kudlow, Stephen Moore, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page. But why? For what? The result, we now know, was a few years of slightly faster economic growth while the managerial class supported cultural leftism at every turn.
It's not 1980 anymore: Political capital is a limited and valuable resource and the GOP needs to stop using it to cut taxes for people who hate conservatives. The next time these companies want a tax cut, tell them to call their Democratic friends. Instead, Republicans need a policy agenda that encourages family formation, weakens public-school monopolies, stops academia from abusing its subsides, and fights cronyism in Corporate America. The goal would be to nurture an emerging multi-ethnic Republican coalition of middle-class and working-class families that respect our nation and its history.
Helping Parents
The biggest bias in fiscal policy isn't against capital formation; it's the perverse anti-natal incentive built into Social Security and Medicare. Those programs require every generation of adults to perform two tasks: (1) work and pay taxes so the previous generation gets to retire and (2) raise children so there are future taxpayers to pay for benefits. But your retirement benefits have almost everything to do with your work career and almost nothing to do with how many children you raise.
Don't think this matters? Imagine living before these government programs existed, when your ability to retire at all depended on raising children, amassing sufficient personal savings, or relying on charity. Or imagine a Social Security program with benefits determined by your own kids' earnings. No kids, no Social Security: If you want to retire, you'd better have raised an investment account. In either scenario, many adults would decide to raise more children and invest more in their future productivity.
The problem is that directly tying retirement benefits to your own kids' earnings would introduce a great deal of idiosyncratic risk to retirement planning. Instead, the child tax credit, now $2,000, should be increased to $5,000 and taxpayers should be able to use it to offset both income taxes and payroll taxes.
Also from Robert Stein
In addition, the federal government should provide a fully refundable tax credit of $5,000 per child for children who are enrolled in private school or home-schooled. The goal would be to reduce government power over our kids. Public schools have become a play-toy of the radical left, having removed the heroic narrative about our nation's founders and replaced it with an obsession about misdeeds in our national past. Want to know where many college social-justice warriors head after graduating? To public schools, to indoctrinate your kids. If you haven't noticed it yet in your community, you will, and soon.
Among all self-designated occupations, one stood out for giving the most to President Trump during the 2020 campaign: homemakers. An astounding 96 percent of their donations went to the GOP candidate. It's about time their families got in return for their support, not just the crumbs left over after a tax cut is designed. Will these proposals cost money? Of course, but less than the 2017 tax cut, the revenue loss from which could be redirected to better use.
Reforming Higher Education
There was a time in the U.S. when student loans were designed to help people of limited means get ahead in life. Those days are long gone. Student-loan programs are now a jobs- and wage-subsidy program for the leftists who work as administrators and professors in higher education, using young adults as "mules" (yes, the drug reference is on purpose) to carry money from taxpayers to academics who have minimal marketable skills but want to indoctrinate your kids.
A large portion of the revenue that funds academics' salaries comes from the government. According to the GDP accounts, the value of higher-education services totaled $196 billion in 2019. Meanwhile, housing and meals at schools totaled $57 billion. For comparison, federal loans and grants totaled $134 billion in the 2018–19 school year, with an additional $13 billion in state grants. And these figures exclude direct government spending sent to colleges themselves.
Imagine if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had a program to buy all the mortgages that banks made to 18-year-olds who bought homes with no money down. Obviously, that would lead to excessive homeownership among teenagers, who would have little idea of the long-term consequences. Well, that's what's happened with colleges. Except a mortgage has a home collateralizing the loan; you can't foreclose on a degree in victim studies.
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The Democrats' plan is straightforward: forgive some portion of student loans and move toward "free college," which would mean even more subsidies funneled to leftist academics, but with more of the burden on taxpayers. Most in the GOP want to keep the burden off taxpayers but are okay with the subsidies for academics as long as former students pay for them, no matter how absurd, useless, or harmful the "education" they received, and no matter how these institutions impinged on their free-speech rights.
Neither party is taking on the core problem, which is the subsidies. Here are some suggestions to end the windfall for the intellectual class and make them put some skin in the game, so they have an incentive to provide students with marketable skills, not political indoctrination.
First, similar to the new banking rules that were passed after the subprime crisis, let's require 50 percent clawbacks of federal-loan money from a college if its students don't repay loans. If they default, students will still be on the hook for 50 percent themselves. And if a college thinks a defaulting former student could still repay the full amount, let the college go after the student for the other 50 percent. Second, colleges should lose their charitable status and no longer be tax-exempt. Third, wealthy colleges with massive endowments should be taxed like the hedge funds that they are.
Ninety-four percent of professors' donations went to the Biden campaign in 2020. They know who butters their bread and it's time Republicans take away the spigot of taxpayer money that makes their way of life possible.
In addition, the GOP has an acute problem with the legal profession, so let's hit it where it hurts. The next Republican-appointed attorney general should aggressively use antitrust laws to go after the combination of bar organizations and law schools that demands three years of legal education. Two years is more than enough. The collusion in favor of three years lines the pockets of legal academics and artificially constrains the supply of lawyers, hurting consumers.
Fighting Crony Capitalism
In addition, the GOP needs to address crony capitalism, which often exacerbates the gap between the rich and poor. All else equal, more economic growth is always better than less, but all else is rarely equal. Citizens don't just care how much they have; they care how much they have relative to their neighbors, their co-workers, their relatives, their friends, even the images they see in the media. The problem is that policies that directly redistribute income tend to deaden work incentives. Meanwhile, raising the minimum wage can throw low-skilled workers out of jobs.
One idea is to ban the use of stock options for corporate insiders. There are plenty of legitimate incentive-based reasons for a company to offer stock options. The problem is that options can also put pressure on insiders to lean on accountants or adopt business practices that temporarily fool investors into thinking a company is worth more than it really is, so the insider can cash out a massive payday. By contrast, restricted stock, where an insider has to hold stock for at least several years, doesn't generate short-term thinking among insiders hell-bent on hitting artificial targets. Entrepreneurs who create wealth would have no problem shifting into restricted stock.
Another way to address cronyism is to gradually and dramatically raise capital standards for the largest financial institutions. Periodic financial crises have made it clear that when push comes to shove, the federal government will bail out the largest banks. One way to try to prevent a future crisis is to tightly regulate them, but regulators don't always know what's best, or they get captured by the industry. In addition, a tight regulatory regime opens the door to abuse, like requiring banks to pursue politically favored goals.
American taxpayers shouldn't be in a position where they have to bail out bankers. Gradually raising capital standards would de-lever the financial system, reducing the risk of future bailouts and limiting one way the super-rich in the financial sector magnify their wealth.
Last, the GOP needs to head off the increasingly dangerous power in the hands of the largest asset managers. These asset managers possess enormous amounts of capital on behalf of clients who invest in mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. In turn, these managers are in the process of forming "cultural trusts," by which they use their shareholder-voting power to impose leftist values on corporate America and on America as a whole through corporate America. The kinds of people that impose speech codes and harass conservatives on campuses are not content with only controlling college kids; they want it all.
Woke capitalist asset managers should not be America's social dictators. These firms should be stripped of the right to vote their shares, which should either be voted by the individual investors who ultimately own them or not be voted at all, leaving corporate control to shareholders who own their corporate shares directly.
Every Republican presidential campaign since the 1990s has put tax cuts at the forefront of its economic agenda. In some cases, those tax cuts have been well-designed and successful. But cutting tax rates temporarily only to have the Democrats raise them back up is of little long-term consequence. Instead, the GOP needs to let its supporters in the middle and working classes know that it is on their side. The next cycle, 2024, offers a choice: are Republican candidates ready to take their own voters' side in a fight or keep on offering a soft echo of 1980?
Robert Stein is an economist for an asset-management firm and a former deputy assistant Treasury secretary for macroeconomic analysis.
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Review: The Lawless Kind – Matt Hilton
Posted on 20/12/2017 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Crime Fiction, Fiction
Series: Joe Hunter 9
My version: Hardback
Fiction Action, Crime
Hodder & Stoughton
Ex-counterterrorist soldier Joe Hunter, has been called to Mexico to bring an end to a cartel that preys on the people they smuggle across the US border. Once the job's done, however, Joe's mission leader and mentor, CIA Black Ops director Walter Hayes Conrad, confesses that the bloody mission is not the real reason Joe has been summoned south of the border.
For years, Walter has kept the details of his private life – especially his family – secret from everyone, even his closest friends. But disaster has struck; his great-grandson Benjamin has been abducted, kidnapped by Walter's sworn enemy, the leader of one of Mexico's largest drug cartels. Walter will do whatever it takes to get the boy back. And he knows Hunter is the man for the job.
But there's one complication – the drug boss just happens to be Benjamin's father.
It pains me to say this, but…This one really annoyed me. Seriously, badly, however you want to describe the level of annoyance.
It was all going so well. Up to page 61 in fact, before this happened:
A quite clearly fake cop has waved them over, at night, with a huge flashlight, in the middle of the night. Not long after their suspicions about someone having been tipped off about them have been raised crossing the border.
As the incident starts, I guarantee the only ones not thinking 'fake cop!' are Joe Hunter and mates. Indeed, Hunter is at least second to realise all is not as it should be:
"I swung my SIG to cover him but was loath to shoot him. Despite firing on us, he was still a cop and out of bounds where my codes of practice were concerned."
That is the kind of thing that absolutely does not need to be written. As said, the only one who now still thinks, after being fired on, while slowing to a stop, then again when stopped, that it's a legit cop, is Hunter. Everyone reading this knew before it happened – and whilst it was happening – that it was a fake cop. If Hunter had (Reacher-esque) "said nothing," we'd have thought him as clever as, if not more, us. But, after his pathetic "look, I've got codes" outburst, we're not thinking "what a bad ass," we're thinking "you dumb fuck!" And that sort of feeling doesn't go away. Not even if Rink punches his lights out, and bangs his head off an anvil several hundred times. Hunter, from now on in, is a lilly-livered, accountant. So to recap kids; all you need to do to kill Hunter, is wait until it's dark, wear gear that maybe, possibly, if you screw your eyes nearly shut, might look to Stevie-bloody-Wonder like a police uniform – and you can drill Hunter full of lead at your leisure. Because he'll give you the benefit of the doubt even after you've unloaded a Uzi up his backside. His last croaking words will be "he might be a cop and…my rules…"
That one completely unnecessary passage ruined an otherwise promisingly good start and unfortunately it's back downhill from there on.
A page or so after, he's still the only one not convinced that the cameras and shootings and pick-up trucks coming at them from all angles, are not related.
"Even though the cameras at the checkpoint had observed us, it didn't follow that an ambush should have been laid for us up here."
Yes it does! Screams every reader who ever read this. You don't need to write that!
"This had to be random: robbers lying in wait for the unwary."
Sweet Jesus!
Probably as well he's only thinking this shit, not saying it out loud. If he did and Rink heard it, you gotta hope he'd punch Hunter into next week for such sissy shite.
Even allowing for the above, there's too much stopping you in your reading tracks here. We're rushing head-long into danger, when "Rink concentrated on driving. He had a gun in a shoulder rig, but to go for it now would compromise his control of the car."
Stop! What?! 'Compromise'? Really?!
"Thankfully it was a glancing blow and the shot didn't embed itself in my cranium."
What?! 'Embed'?! 'Cranium'?! Whilst American thriller writers might all be over-dependent on characters 'punching in' telephone numbers (even, one suspects on rotary-dial phones), none of them would ever use 'cranium' or 'compromise' in those taught, tense, situations! Even though the publishers have pitched this, and Matt Hilton has written this, to compete with, take a share of, the Lee Child market, you can't imagine Lee Child writing that.
But then, as I pointed out last time, the problem is partly Matt Hilton's decision to have Hunter as narrator. By being inside his head, we have to go through all that. It could well be that Reacher is that sort of wailing ninny inside, but we don't hear that and consequently he is a hard-headed, decisive bad ass.
Another problem in from the start of the series, has been too much emphasis on making sure, every couple of chapters, we know Hunter is a conscientious killer. No women, no children, no 'innocents.' Which all women are (discuss). When threatening one of the bad guys, a former colleague, with shooting in the head – the we all know Hunter won't do it, as does the baddy. There's no doubt, no 'oh shit, maybe Hunter will do it, he's so unpredictable!' So the threats are meaningless. A waste of space, ink, time.
To further put the icing on the non-existent cake, On page 109, he says "But, recalling the crimes these men were responsible for, I'd no qualms about dropping a few of the sadistic butchers."
That made me laugh. Because by now we know 'no qualms' from Hunter is utter nonsense. He has qualms on every page! He doesn't know who is inside, it's a 'rushed plan,' he doesn't know who committed the atrocities he's referring to. Man, or heaven forbid for his stomach ulcer, woman. So, if it's two people, a woman and a man dressed as a cop – Hunter and his team are dead as disco. Because, as Rink is bleeding out after being chopped in half by bullets, Hunter will console him and himself by saying "but my conscience is clear, Rink; it was a woman and a bloke dressed as a cop, and I can't shoot either." "Fair enough Hunter, stop wittering, I just need to die here.."
Then, just four pages later, P113. "Neither of us was prepared to hurt a civilian."
Yes, yes! We got that the other billion times you said it. Don't need to say it again. What are you worried about?
Five pages after that, the bullshit about 'no qualms' about killing the men inside is proved bullshit. P118, as they're making their escape: "I didn't intend to kill the guard, only to show him he'd best get the fuck out of my way."
So no qualms didn't last long. Nine pages at my count.
But we still have to sit through Hunter's total lack of self-awareness. He still thinks he's a hard-headed killer. Other characters occasionally say things like "Fleetingly, she thought of Joe, and how she'd seen in him a man who did have the necessary cold edge to kill a man in combat." I'm thinking "is she on about Hunter?" I'm flicking back a few pages to see if it's someone else I've missed. But, we're being told it, I will suggest, because Matt Hilton knows he's weakened Hunter by all the "but what if…" stuff, and so has to add in that Hunter is total bad-ass. But then, has to add in that Hunter isn't total bad-ass. But then he needs to add in something that says Hunter is total bad-ass…
A couple of books back, the series finally looked like it was where it should be. But now, I really don't know. If he wants to be Lee Child, he needs to come out of Hunter's head. If he wants to be his own man, he needs to have Hunter's attitude more "Fuck it! Let's do this!" The scenarios, the writing in between the Women's Institute stuff, is there, and the background characters are good enough to elevate this over Lee Child, Hunter though, as he stands, isn't.
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New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday again refused to attend the Tuesday meeting of a committee to select the Lokpal, saying he wouldn't do so until he gets the status of a full-fledged member instead of a 'Special Invitee'.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha said that to exclude the voice of the opposition in a parliamentary democracy would be to exclude and subjugate Parliament.
"Despite my earlier letters, the government continues to invite me as a Special Invitee, knowing very well what the outcome will be. Perhaps, the government intends this outcome to create another strawman to attack by suggesting that the opposition is not cooperating in implementing the Lokpal Act… there is no provision for a Special Invitee under the Lokpal Act.
The senior Congress leader said that he believed that the process of appointing the Lokpal under such circumstances is "vitiated".
"…instead of genuinely involving the opposition, the invitation as a Special Invitee without the right of participation, recording of opinion or voting, is being sent out to the opposition.


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Due to all of the valuable information stored in the Roadfly forums database it is necessary to have a dedicated, customized search engine. A general purpose search engine like Google isn't very good at drilling deep into web forums and finding answers like, "how to fix the window motor in my E30 BMW?" Essentially each individual Roadfly forum has its own search engine. If you own a BMW X5 and your horn doesn't work you won't be served search results pages on how to fix the horn in a Jaguar XKE you will be shown search results specific to a BMW X5.
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This map shows the possibilities of Command blocks by introducing to us working copy of the IPhone 6 in Minecraft PE.
Mystery Shack is a house from Gravity Falls TV show - it is a place well hidden in the woods, that provides to its visitors a lot of different mysteries.
There are a lot of maps of different kinds, but not many of them recreates the whole big city in game.
If you are a big fun of space, you will be pleased of this cool copies of Space shuttle and ISS.
Bikini Bottom is map for Minecraft PE 1.0.0 made for the fans of SpongeBob SquarePants series.
Slimeblock Elevator - is map which demonstrates how to realize working elevator in Minecraft PE.
Have you ever dreamed of vending machine in Minecraft, that can give useful resources?
This map is the best demonstration of what you can make using redstone and brains.
This map for Minecraft copies the battle on the planet Hoth - one of the key episodes of the original Star Wars trilogy.
The map of biggest city ever made on Minecraft Pocket Edition - hours of exciting exploration guaranteed.
Winterfell is a small town located in north part of Westeros, and residence of the king in the north.
On this map you will find a big castle situated on the hill, near the river.


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I was telling a friend today it's that time of year that two things happen to me: I decide I want a baby like right now and that I only want to wear sweaters and jeans. Since 9 months stands in the way of the first thing happening, I shall go with a simple pair of jeans and a sweater. It's the cheaper alternative, really.
Also, this is not an announcement that I am having a baby. But this is an announcement that at some time in my life I will hopefully have a baby around Christmas time. Till then, I shall hold my dog baby tight and dress him in children's clothing and wigs.
hahahah! my dog is my baby too, and i always get baby fever around the holidays too! love that sweater! happy holidays!
Love love love that sweater, by the way. So cute.
If the thing about your dog baby in clothes and wigs is true, which it probably isn't, then you must post photos online.
Oh, I feel exactly the same way. Christmastime is the only time when I can honestly picture myself wanting a baby. Giving presents and dressing cute kids up in winter clothing is the best.
Also, I am obsessed with those shoes! Are those cutouts or studs?
1. My dog baby doesn't cry or keep me up at night – and she totally looks adorable in Christmas clothing – so I'm with you there.
2. I love your sweater AND your jeans. I really need to get in on the boyfriend fit thing. Two years late in the game.
& I thought I was the only one… I always want to send out those sweet little announcement-picture-Christmas-card-thingys, they are too adorable. Alas, I'm not pregnant (on purpose), but my friend is & she got to send out those card-thingys, so I shall live vicariously through her!
Oh, & love your shoes!
I still think of the lost, crazed poodle sign you posted here. Maybe he would have been cuter in a wig.
Love it – HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Please post your dog outfits and wigs. Maybe he needs a blog too???
lol I'm trying to picture the dog with the wig. I love that sweater.
Lovely sweater and beautiful earrings!
That sweater looks so incredibly comfy!! Love the booties, too!!
Absolutely love the sweater and I have the same jeans. They are so comfortable! I have to force myself not to wear them everyday!
you may want to rethink the baby at christmas! my little guy was born last year on the 22nd and i'm already getting sad about people not being able to make his first b-day party b/c of christmas plans. 🙁 i think we are going to do some half birthday celebrations in the future!
Poor dog! 😉 I adore your shoes!!
With a sweater like that, I'd want to wear it all the time too!
That sweater is so adorable!
Oh my man, when you have kids, they are going to be the most stylish tikes on the block!
ha ha! need to see a photo of your dog in children's clothing and wings!
Dog babies are a great filler while waiting for baby babies 🙂 Have a Merry Christmas!
Meh, I'm not into babies. I'm much more into sweaters. So I'm happy with what's going on here.
Great sweater! I love it when you dress casual. It makes my casual look frumpy, but I'm okay with that. I just need to find cuter shoes w/o heels b/c heels and my feet are not friends.
Feeling the same things around here, too! We're contemplating our 3rd, and all I want to wear is sweaters and jeans! But I only have a couple of sweaters – might need to shop!
My sister is the one carrying the baby right now (her 2nd), not me. I'm still enjoying my regular sized clothes! Love the color combo on that sweater:)!
lmao. It is so hectic having kids with December Birthdays. My two have the SAME bday at the beginning of December and it is unreal. Aim for March, and loan me that sweater since you will be growing!
Love this outfit. I could live in sweaters and jeans :). Having a child around Christmas time is so much fun. Seeing Christmas through their eyes is magical. I love it.
love the sweater! cute outfit!
Just a perfect outfit!! Love a good sweater and boyfriend jeans!
I demand pictures of said dog-baby in cute clothes, STAT!
Gorgeous colors and you look lovely!
You look so pretty! The color combination is flawless as well! Great outfit!
Two things: Have a baby by next Christmas; this is my favorite outfit of yours.
Having kids around at Christmas is wonderful (I have 4 yr. old twins). They just get so excited, it's priceless! Love your looks, so simple and chic.
Wait you with a baby – that would be the most precious thing ever!!!! Can't wait to hear that announcement 🙂 And this sweater… so gosh darn cute!
Babies are good. Dogs in wigs are…disturbing. Love that sweater.
you say two i say four "i want your sweater" go make that baby!
So simple but so pretty! Love your pretty earrings!
Maybe Santa will bring the baby this year.
This look is awesome on you.
Absolutely LOVE that sweater and the colors!
Can never go wrong w stripes. Also, got the shock of my life may 2010 when I found out I was due w a surprise baby last Christmas. I'm happy to hear you LIKE the idea of having a Christmas baby! Mine's a gem who turns one on Christmas Eve, and was a fantastic little Santa surprise. Plus I'd love to see 6 mos of maternity posts from you!
That is such a lovely sweater!
Boo! Babies are too expensive! Stick with jumpers.
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I'm right there with you, but in sweatpants and a less attractive sweater.
Bahaha! I love reading your posts they're always so humorous! I agree with you I love wearing simple jeans and a sweater! So easy and so cute.
you are just too funny! love the sweater, colors are amazing…. in that first picture you look a little but like jenny lewis.
hahah I love this post. (: Great look! Nothing is better than a good pair of jeans and a cozy sweater!
You are so funny! But I totally agree with wanting a baby around the holidays! I had my son end of Oct so he would be little and cuddly for the holidays!!
I absolutely LOVE the shoes & the sweater! Way cute!
I usually just create a Pinterest board dedicated to babies / baby clothing / baby style / baby room decor / baby activities and that makes my desire for children go away. Also I realize I'm 19 and can barely manage to put gas in my car let alone care for a human being. But ya know.
Love the boyfriend style jean on you and the payless heels are too cute!
God, I love Antropologie! Such a great mix of colors on your sweater!
Are you planning to reinstate 30 for 30? I only discovered it after the last one ended, and I, and I am sure many others, love the idea.
Love that sweater! I want it! And your booties are cute too. By the way, you're not the only one who treats their fur baby as a human baby. My little Todd eats it up!
That sweater is awesome! And your shoes look perfect with it!
Love it! The sweater is PERFECT!
This is one of my absolute favorites. You look so darling all the time but there's something so feminine and graceful you've added to the basic sweater and jeans.
beautiful! how do you maintain the red in your hair?
Sweet but at the same time precise.
Cute post and outfit! Wishing your wishes for a chrismas baby may someday be a reality!
I am loving the navy!
And dont worry, i dress up my cat lol.
You.are.hilarious. Fingers crossed for a Christmas baby for you so poor baby Carlos can give up wigs and children's clothing.
Really like the color block sweater! It reminds me of J.Crew's version of the color block sweater. Great find!
I want to see the dig wigs!
So where do I start if I want to look cute but don't know how???????
I bought the bag. Enough said!
Is it wrong that I want you to have a baby just so I can ooh and aaah over your maternity fashion? Of course even if you got busy rightthissecond it wouldn't do me any good since I'm already 7 months along. Ah well.
You are so adorable! Love love that sweater.


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NY Times Covers BHR Partner Word of Life International's Work in Promoting Vaccinations
Bronx Health REACH partner Word of Life International was recently featured in a The New York Times article, 'A Safe Space': Black Pastors Promote Vaccinations from the Pulpit, about the work Word of Life International is doing in the Bronx getting people vaccinated against the Coronavirus. 'Listen, we have suffered together, now let's get vaccinated so we can stay safe and so life can return to normal,' said Pastor John John S. Udo-Okon, pastor of World of Life International Church in the Bronx. "Pastor Udo-Okon, his wife and children all got sick with Covid-19 in the first weeks of the pandemic, he said. Telling members of the congregation about his experience with the virus and the vaccine made it easier to persuade them, he said.
"It makes us authentic when we approach people: 'Listen, we have suffered together, now let's get vaccinated so we can stay safe and so life can return to normal,'" he said. At the recent food pantry event, the crowd filed out of the storefront church and lined up on the sidewalk to take canned goods, dried pasta and fresh produce from volunteers who stood before towers of cardboard boxes and thick plastic bags. Pastor Udo-Okon told the crowd: "I took Johnson & Johnson, my son took Johnson & Johnson, my wife took Pfizer. The F.D.A. has given final approval to the Pfizer vaccine, and it says all of the vaccines are safe."
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Q: In Anaconda, How to install packages in NON-ROOT environment? I am using my own environment called datascience in anaconda.
When I found that I need the Geopandas package and installed it using conda install, the Geopandas package was installed in the "root environment".
Is there any way to install packages directly to the environment or copying from the root environment to another?
Thanks!

A: See the documentation for the conda install command: https://conda.io/docs/commands/conda-install.html and the tutorial on managing packages: https://conda.io/docs/using/pkgs.html#install-a-package
In short, you can specify the environment to install to in the install command
conda install -n env-name package-name

or you can activate the environment, then install
conda activate env-name
conda install package-name

A: You can also achieve this by Anaconda GUI.

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*Go to environments tab.

*select your preferred environment Right click and open in cmd .

*Then install geopandas package from cmd window.
This way you will be isolating your package installation from root environment.


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Biography of Perry D. Cover
Perry D. Cover is one of Riverside's early settlers, and has been associated with her various industries for the past fifteen years. He is a native of Richland County, Ohio, dating his birth in 1843. His parents were Daniel Cover, a native of Frederick County, Maryland, and Lydia Cover, nee Stevenson. Mr. Cover was reared to agricultural pursuits on his father's farm until 1862. He then volunteered in the service of his country and enlisted as a private soldier in Company D, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteers. His regiment was sent East, and after some time in camp at Baltimore, was placed on duty at Harper's Ferry. During Lee's invasion of Maryland, in 1862, he was on duty at various forts on the Potomac River. At the surrender of the Union forces at Harper's Ferry, his regiment was so unfortunate as to be included in the surrendered troops. He was then paroled, and in October 1862, his term of service having expired, was discharged the service.
The next year he decided to seek the Pacific Coast, and he came overland with a drove of horses belonging to Samuel Crine. Upon his arrival in California he located in San Francisco, where he stopped for nearly a year. He then went to the mining districts of Nevada and Montana, and was for about four years engaged in mining and other enterprises. In Montana, he was with his brother, Thomas W. Cover, at Alder's Gulch. He was one of the pioneers of Bozeman, and was engaged in building the first house ever erected at that place. In 1868 Mr. Cover settled at Fort Scott, Kansas, and for the next four years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1872 he established himself in Chicago, and was there engaged in the grocery business until 1874. At that time the health of his wife became so impaired that a complete change of climate was necessary, and he decided to make his home in Southern California, and in the spring of that year he came to Riverside. Upon his arrival here he purchased a twenty-acre tract of wild, uncultivated land on Jurupa Avenue, two miles south of Riverside and entered into horticultural pursuits. Mr. Cover was a successful horticulturist and built up the orange groves upon his land. In 1882 he sold ten acres of his tract, and in 1886 sold the balance and established his residence on the corner of Orange and Eighth streets. In 1885 he entered into the drug business on Main Street in partnership with J. D. Sebrell, under the name of Sebrell & Cover. He was in that business until April 1889, when Mr. Sebrell purchased his interest. He was also engaged in real-estate dealing and other enterprises.
He was one of the incorporators and the president of the Eighth Street Improvement Company, and was at the head of that company during the time the magnificent Arlington Hotel, one of the company's improvements, was erected. He was a member of the well known firm of Stewart, Chamberlain & Cover, and was an incorporator and president of the Mound City Land and Water Company. This company purchased 500 acres of land and founded Mound City, perfecting a fine irrigation system by piping water from Bear valley, built a $30,000 hotel, etc. Mr. Cover is quite largely interested in improving lands, planting orange groves, etc., at Mound City. He has a firm faith in the future wealth of the city of his creation. He is also the owner of valuable business property in Riverside, and never fails in his support of Riverside enterprises. His support of churches and schools is well known. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and was for many years a school trustee of the Arlington district.
In politics he is a Republican, and has been called upon many times to serve as a delegate in county conventions. Of the fraternal societies, he is a member of Riverside Lodge, No. 282, I. O. O. F. Mr. Cover has been twice married: His first marriage was in 1869, when he wedded Miss Mary E. Fowler, a native of Indiana, the daughter of Colonel A. Fowler, a well-known citizen of that State, and a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars. She died in 1877. In 1882 he married Miss Julia E. Fowler, a sister of his deceased wife. Mr. Cover is the father of two children, viz.: Charles A. and Grace E.
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