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Q: How to punctuate groups of school grades: "3,4,5 students and teachers" I cannot seem to find the style guidance for mentioning groups of school grades in a sentence. In this case the school uses mixed grade classrooms, i.e. Kindegarten, 1st and 2nd grade students are in one classroom; 3rd, 4th and 5th—in another and so on.
My first inclination was to use the en-dash: "K–1–2", "3–4–5" etc, but then I realized that it's probably wrong since these are not ranges but enumerations (K–8 and K–12 makes more sense).
I saw examples in school's writing which used comma without spaces to reflect the way people pronounce the grades in a sentence: "The other day, 3,4,5 students and teachers talked about rules for kickball". Is this an acceptable way to do it? If not, what would be a better way? Hyphens maybe?

A: What you're describing is a range. But a range is normally expressed with the lowest consecutive number followed by the highest consecutive number. For instance (1) 1–20, (2) 1–5, 7–20, or (3) 1–5, 7, 9–20.

If just writing (composing) the example sentence in the question, it would be handled differently:

The other day, students and teachers from grades 3 to 5 talked about rules for kickball.
The other day, students and teachers from grades 3, 4, and 5 talked about rules for kickball.

The following would not work as original written text:

✘ The other day, 3–5 students and teachers talked about rules for kickball.

It wouldn't work, because the common interpretation is that you're talking about a range of people, not of grades.

But when transcribing speech, there is no ability to correct grammar. The words that are said, in the order they're said, need to be faithfully reproduced.
However, symbols that are used, and the particular spelling of words, can all be changed when representing the speech in text.
One common style guidance is that when you write dialogue you do not use numerals. Instead, you spell out the numbers. This helps prevent ambiguity over what the person is actually saying (how they are pronouncing it).
For instance, the following would not normally be written:

"I hear that 2012 was a good year."

The reason for this is that 2012 can be pronounced in multiple ways, and authors want to communicate exactly how the character is actually pronouncing it:

I hear that twenty-twelve was a good year.
I hear that two-thousand-and-twelve was a good year.

So, following this, if the spoken dialogue about students and teachers were transcribed (or written as dialogue), it would likely look like the following at a minimum:

"The other day, three four five students and teachers talked about rules for kickball."

Once there is that base form, a decision would need to be made about punctuation (if any at all aside from spaces) between the numbers. Since punctuation is not part of speech, how to punctuate it is somewhat subjective.
You can use en dashes in this specific phrase, even though you might not in non-dialogue text, or any number of different notations—including hyphens:

"The other day, three–four–five students and teachers talked about rules for kickball."
"The other day, three-four-five students and teachers talked about rules for kickball."
"The other day, three/four/five students and teachers talked about rules for kickball."
"The other day, three, four, five students and teachers talked about rules for kickball."

There might be some particular style guides that indicate how this situation should be handled, but I suspect there is no general consensus.

In short, consider the following:

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*If composing narrative text, the sentence in the question would be constructed differently.

*If composing dialogue, the sentence could be constructed differently, but the numbers would be written out rather than expressed in numerals.

*If transcribing speech, only spelling and symbols can be changed. In this case, since the expression in speech is a little strange, there is no clear guidance on what particular symbols should be used.


It's fire safety week, and we enjoyed a visit from the Mill Valley Fire Department. They shared some very important safety tips. See if your child can name them all! We learned what to do when a smoke detector goes off (touch a door to feel if it is hot, get out, walk low under the smoke, go to the family meeting place, and NEVER go back into a building until the fire department says it's safe.) We all practiced (!!) dropping and rolling, and then had some great fun with picture searches and word scramble materials the firefighters left for us. In your child's take-home folder is a postcard with information about the MVFD open house this Saturday from 11-2. Lots of kids are hoping to go.
While none of us really love the 5 minute multiplication timings, your child bar graphed the last 5 weeks results and many saw a very encouraging upward trend. When the children color in their bar graphs they often get a sense of ownership and become really motivated. Again, I am sending out a plea to continue to quiz your child at home on their 0, 1, 2, 5, and 10 facts. Before you know it, we will add the other numbers and this can be daunting if the basic facts aren't secure. Check your child's folder for their Unit 1 test, and celebrate the success!
In science, we began a fun rotation that includes fossil sorting and graphing, and fossil-rub art. These activities are a true blend of math, science, and art. Several children brought in bones, fossils, stones and skull models to add to my odd assortment that includes antlers, petrified wood, porcupine quills, various skulls, a rattlesnake and a lizard skeleton. We made scientific observations and discussed all sorts of 'wonderings' and known facts. I am so impressed by the curiosity and depth of knowledge in this room!
Our Kiddo! poet Ms. Glass visited us twice this week. One day, the children pulled a stone from a bag and wrote a poem about the life of the stone. On Friday, we learned about alliteration and onomatopoeia and wrote some very spooky and delightful Halloween poems. Your child will be typing these into a Google Doc over the next few weeks to get some practical and fun keyboarding practice. I hope to compile the "best of" poems in a poetry book by the end of the year.
School counselor Meredith Mishel is visiting our class this month to help build empathy, compassion, and a stronger sense of self and community. She read some really awesome books and led deep conversations circling around ways to get along at school. As your 3rd grader is becoming more mature, these conversations become much more meaningful. She will visit our class a couple more times and focus on conflict resolution and friendships before she moves on to other classrooms throughout the school.
I spent Monday representing our school at a coding conference in Berkeley and I am really looking forward to introducing some fun and challenging coding experiences for your children later this fall. Coding is such a great way to build critical thinking, problem solving, collaborative skills in our young scholars...plus, it's fun!
That's all for now, have a fantastic weekend!


On 16 June 2018, 737-800, EI-FHD, (39011/3946), of Norwegian Air International, was en-route from KEF (BIKF) to MAD (LEMD) when the crew reported a hydraulic failure and elected to divert into Birmingham (EGBB).
A video posted on YouTube shows that the left hand inboard tyre was deflated in flight and shredded on landing. Also flight spoilers 8 & 10 were the only spoilers in use (there was a crosswind from the right) which suggests that hydraulic system A had been lost in-flight.
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The block of flats in Monks Way, Swaythling, from which Rodney O'Dell fell. Photo: Google.
A FATHER who was breaking neighbours' TV aerials so he could laugh at them the next day fell to his death while trying to get back into his flat, an inquest heard.
Rodney O'Dell had been on the roof of his block of flats overnight when he slipped, falling around 40ft and suffering multiple traumatic injuries.
Winchester Coroner's Court heard paramedics battle to save the 41-year-old, of Monks Way, Swaythling, but he died at Southampton General Hospital the following day.
A witness told the inquest that before Mr O'Dell went back inside after looking up at the stars from the roof, he "wanted to go break people's aerials off and laugh at them the next day".
The witness said he then tried to break through a skylight to get back into the building. Failing to do so, he tried to climb along the roof, but when a pole he was holding broke, he slipped and fell.
Mr O'Dell was described as an alcoholic during the inquest and was a drug user. Pathologist Dr Mark Walker confirmed he was around four times the drink-drive limit and there was evidence of cocaine in his system when he died.
Dr Walker also confirmed he had liver cirrhosis, which is usually caused by alcohol abuse.
His sister, Bianca, said he had spent a couple of stints in rehab, but "he never really got over" the breakdown of his relationship.
Recording a conclusion of accidental death, senior coroner Grahame Short described Mr O'Dell's decision to go out on the roof as "foolhardy".
He said: "I believe that his tolerance to alcohol is likely to have been high. However, he did not always use cocaine and I think, therefore, the cocaine would have had an effect on him.


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He has served as a technical book reviewer, and has written articles and manuals, and produced training videos on a range of subjects related to digital cinema.
He is a member of one of the AMPAS ACES Technical Advisory Committees, a mentor on ACES Central, and is also a contributor to the open-source Colour Science for Python project.

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62578 Archibald Charles William NOEL, MC, 1 Welsh Guards
Discussion in 'The Brigade of Guards' started by dbf, Jul 6, 2015.
military cross
oflag 79
welsh guards - military cross
welsh guards - prisoners of war
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7376077
Reference: WO 373/57/702
Name Noel, Archibald Charles William
Regiment: Training Battalion Welsh Guards
Theatre of Combat or Operation: Repatriated PoWs
Award: Military Cross
Date of announcement in London Gazette: 29 November 1945
dbf, Jul 6, 2015
P/62578 Captain Archibald Charles William NOEL, Training Battalion, WELSH GUARDS
Captain NOEL was Adjutant 1st Batt. WELSH GUARDS during the operations in FRANCE and BELGIUM 17 May - 29 May 1940.
From 17 - 23 May the Batt. was heavily engaged as part of the Garrison of ARRAS. Many units were placed under command of the Batt. which entailed much extra duty for Captain NOEL as a staff officer, which he performed in an exemplary manner, often under trying conditions & heavy fire.
On 29 May the Batt. was heavily attacked by German tanks and Infantry at VFY WEG. After a prolonged engagement in which the enemy infiltrated and in some cases encircled our positions, and withdrawal was ordered in circumstances of great difficulty. Captain NOEL was in command of the rear party of Batt. H.Q. With the enemy in close proximity and under heavy fire, he organised the withdrawal. He remained to the last with a small party and withdrew with the enemy in close pursuit. Forced to take cover during a dive-bombing attack, in which the R.S.M. and others were wounded, his party was overrun and made prisoner.
Undoubtedly Captain NOEL's cool conduct and willingness to sacrifice himself enabled many others to effect their withdrawal to safety.
Very strongly recommended. Not forwarded before as the Commanding Officer at the time, Brigadier COPELAND-GRIFFITHS, had to wait till the release of prisoners-of-war so as to verify certain of the facts.
Signed Date 4 Aug 45 V. COPELAND-GRIFFITHS formerly Commanding 1st Batt. WELSH GUARDS, 26 Jan 1938 to 14 July 1940
WO373/57-ir367
Army Number: 62578
Name: A C W NOEL
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Diocese of Buffalo Updates List of Accused Priests Yet Continues to Omit Names
Church officials in Buffalo have updated their lists of accused priests. However, while providing more information, they continue to omit names, not presenting parishioners and the public with the full truth.
Buffalo church officials split hairs when they refuse to list the names of deceased priests who have "only" one allegation against them. If it weren't for the Church's history of obfuscating allegations, minimizing knowledge about them, and declining to investigate them in the first place, it is likely that some of those claims would have been corroborated many years ago. We also know that it is often after seeing that someone else has named an abuser that other victims realize they are not alone and come forward too. This has happened in the #MeToo movement, with university abuse scandals, and within the church abuse scandal.
It is notable that this update has occurred only after the Bishop Richard Malone began to be formally investigated by the Vatican. Once again, more information is revealed in Buffalo only after intense, outside pressure has been applied.
So, we hope that New York Attorney General Letitia James is applying that pressure in her investigation into cases of clergy abuse. We urge victims, witnesses, and whistle-blowers who see this news to come forward, make a report to both A.G. James and local police, and help uncover the full truth of what has gone on in Buffalo.
CONTACT: Zach Hiner, Executive Director (517-974-9009, zhiner@snapnetwork.org)
(SNAP, the Survivors Network, has been providing support for victims of sexual abuse in institutional settings for 30 years. We have more than 25,000 survivors and supporters in our network. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)


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import sys
from elementtree import ElementTree as ET

import redis
import cPickle
import string, random

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
from django.db.models import Count
from django.conf import settings

import pyevolve
from pyevolve import G1DList, G2DList
from pyevolve import GSimpleGA
from pyevolve import Selectors
from pyevolve import Statistics
from pyevolve import DBAdapters

from django_haikus.models import BaseHaiku
from haikus.evaluators import HAIKU_EVALUATORS

class Command(BaseCommand):
    args = '<video_id>'
    help = 'Add a youtube video to the app'

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        # This function is the evaluation function, we want
        # to give high score to more zero'ed chromosomes
        r = redis.Redis()

        evaluator_set = getattr(settings, 'HAIKU_EVALUATORS', HAIKU_EVALUATORS)
        def eval_func(chromosome):
            closeness = []
            EVALUATORS = []

            i = 0
            for eval_cls in evaluator_set:
                print chromosome
                EVALUATORS.append((eval_cls, float(chromosome[i])/100))
                i += 1
            try:
                rated_comments = BaseHaiku.get_concrete_child().objects.rated()
            except AttributeError:
                raise CommandError("BaseHaiku child-classes' manager must implement rated/unrated (see django_haikus.models.HaikuManager")

            result_queue = "haiku:results_" + ''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_uppercase) for i in range(5)])
            for c in rated_comments:
                data = (c.pk, EVALUATORS, result_queue)
                r.lpush(settings.REDIS_CALCULATE_QUEUE, cPickle.dumps(data))

            results = []
            while True:
                results.append(float(r.blpop(result_queue)[1]))
                if(len(results) == len(rated_comments)):
                    break

            # `results` contains the *distance* from the target score
            #   i.e. a lower average score is better.
            # results = [100, 91, 80, 100, ...,]
            print results
            average_fitness = sum(results) / len(results)
            print "Average fitness: %s, scaled: %s" % (average_fitness, 100 - average_fitness)
            return 100 - average_fitness

        pyevolve.logEnable()

        genome = G1DList.G1DList(len(evaluator_set))

        # Sets the range max and min of the 1D List
        genome.setParams(rangemin=0, rangemax=100)

        # The evaluator function (evaluation function)
        genome.evaluator.set(eval_func)

        # Genetic Algorithm Instance
        ga = GSimpleGA.GSimpleGA(genome)

        # Set the Roulette Wheel selector method, the number of generations and
        # the termination criteria
        #ga.selector.set(Selectors.GRouletteWheel)
        ga.setGenerations(5)
        # ga.terminationCriteria.set(GSimpleGA.ConvergenceCriteria)

        # Sets the DB Adapter, the resetDB flag will make the Adapter recreate
        # the database and erase all data every run, you should use this flag
        # just in the first time, after the pyevolve.db was created, you can
        # omit it.
        sqlite_adapter = DBAdapters.DBSQLite(identify="ex1", resetDB=True)
        ga.setDBAdapter(sqlite_adapter)

        # Do the evolution, with stats dump
        # frequency of 20 generations
        ga.evolve(freq_stats=1)

        # Best individual
        print ga.bestIndividual()

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Home Music Grammy Awards Snubbed Lifetime Achievement Winners Again, With Roberta Flack, Iggy Pop,...
Grammy Awards Snubbed Lifetime Achievement Winners Again, With Roberta Flack, Iggy Pop, Chuck D, Philip Glass Ignored
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by Roger Friedman - January 29, 2020 1:03 am
There are already plenty of articles about how the Grammys spelled Ric Ocasek's name wrong during the In Memoriam segment, and omitted a number of important musicians who died this past year including Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead and Mark Hollis of Talk Talk. (Also no introduction to the segment, which was really awful.) For some reason, no awards show can figure out how to do In Memoriam without forgetting someone important.
But it's what the Grammys do to living people that's worse. Every year the Grammys announce Lifetime Achievement Awards. They call them Special Merit Awards. For years, there was a ceremony that took place on Saturday night around 5pm, the night before the show. The Special Merit winners were highlighted. The ceremony overlapped with Clive Davis's pre-Grammy dinner, but at least it took place.
Then three or four years ago, it was decided to scrap that event and have a special TV show at which the Merit winners would be honored. The show airs on PBS. But by doing this, there was almost no mention of the Merit Winner on the Grammy telecast. (And the PBS show gets zero promotion anywhere. It's a sop.)
On Sunday night's show, the Merit winners were announced in a pre-recorded video. They were not shown live. John Prine was highlighted by a short performance of his song, "Angel of Montgomery," by Bonnie Raitt. But the others were ignored. Roberta Flack, who is using a wheelchair, came from New York. She cut her time short at Clive Davis's dinner so she could go home and rest for the Grammys. Alas, the audience had no idea she was there at the Staples Center. Iggy Pop was present, and also not shown. I don't think anyone came from Chicago. Philip Glass didn't come. And you didn't see Chuck D of Public Enemy. (He's been rightly critical of the show.)
Last year, and I'm sure it was true this year, too, the Grammys made no effort to bring the Special Merit winners to the show. Anyone who came had to pay their own way, and were basically ignored. Because of this, Julio Iglesias and Ozzy Osbourne each skipped the TV taping in May in Los Angeles. This was the same TV taping that newly signed Grammy CEO Deborah Dugan didn't think was important enough to attend.
The exiting Grammy producer, Ken Erhlich, saluted himself at the end of Sunday's show with an all-star musical number worthy of Busby Berkeley. Nipsey Hustle, a dead rapper, got a salute. Prince was also saluted, even though he's had tributes in the past. The show could have made a big deal of Roberta, whose work has influenced so many stars including Alicia Keys and HER. They could have done a segment on Public Enemy, a musical and political force. And Iggy Pop, who invented punk rock. Why even bother coming?
And Philip Glass? Don't get me started. One of the world's most important composers, and he was basically ignored.
If there are changes coming with the new production team including Ben Winston, this continuing oversight may be a place to begin.
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Create a quiz / survey - Make Me Droid, free Android/IPhone mobile application builder.
As part of the custom layout screens, Make me Droid provides an item named Quiz / Survey. It allows you building lists of questions that you ask users to answer. These questions can be either a game (quiz) or a survey to collect information.
Add a Quiz / survey screen type.
Or add a quiz / survey item to one of your existing screens.
From your screen, select the quiz / survey item. From its properties, click the Attached quiz / survey icon. Now you can add a new quiz / survey, or edit an existing one.
Quiz and surveys are made of pages. Every page contains a single question, multiple choices, and optionnally a "right" answer that you define (for a quiz). Besides this, there are additional pages such as a welcome page or a score page.
Note: Pages and choices can be reordered whenever you like.
Each page contains a question, first shown before the choices. A question can be made of a text and/or a picture.
Choices provided to users are either a list, in case of texts or pictures, or a single choice, when users have to input text.
The choices layout, and their format, depend on what you define as a content type.
The selection mode lets you decide if users can select one, or multiple choices.
Build your choices list, they will show right under the question.
For quiz games, you have to provide a "right" answer for every question. There are two kinds of answers: check selection, or check text. In case choices are made of pictures and texts, you have to tell which choices have to be chosen by users in order to get a right answer. In case of text inputs, you should provide the right text, that will be compared with user's input.
Every answer can then get a score (the score can be different for every question, if you want to give more weight to some of them), and you can also define the text to show in case of right and wrong answers. The final score is shown at the end of the quiz.
Besides questions/choices/answers, your quiz or survey can also show, if you wish, a welcome screen, a goodbye screen, or the user score. You can also choose to let the survey run only once per user.
Survey results can be sent by email automatically. If you want so, you have to provide the destination email address.


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History of the Saints: The Great Mormon Exodus and the Establishment of Zion
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From the creators of the critically acclaimed television documentary series History of the Saints comes this richly illustrated companion book, a poignant chronicle of the journey of the early Saints as they charted a course from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley. This epic depiction of one of the most notable exoduses in history details pivotal moments in the journey west, beginning with the martyrdom of Joseph Smith in June 1844 and culminating in the Saints' contribution to westward expansion. The authors detail the successes and failures of the pioneers, whose vision of the future took them beyond the American West into Mexico, Canada, and Hawaii in their quest to establish Zion.
History of the Saints: The Great Mormon Exodus and the Establishment of Zion masterfully depicts the trials and triumphs of early members of the Church through discussion by top scholars in LDS history, including William G. Hartley, Susan Easton Black, Sherman L. Fleek, Richard E. Bennett, Michael N. Landon, Ronald O. Barney, W. Randall Dixon, Ronald W. Walker, and Thomas G. Alexander. These experts present the latest in historical research alongside striking images that bring to life the people and places made famous—and infamous—by the exodus of the Mormon pioneers.
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Turkish Delights Found at Delicious Kebab Place in Greenpoint
Published in Restaurants
Kestane Kebab offers delicious Turkish food at reasonable prices in Greenpoint.
This small restaurant with Turkish ornaments on the optimistic orange walls was an American dream for its owner, Mustafa Duru, 30, who came to New York 12 years ago.
"I started with dishwashing and, now, I am the restaurant owner," said Duru, who is proud of his well-managed place. "It needs a lot of work, but it's worth it."
Duru didn't know how to cook when he came to America, but he learned after working for other Turkish chefs. Today, his restaurant is a favorite not only among Americans, but among local Turks as well, which proves the authenticity of its cuisine.
"I didn't expect to have Turkish clients," he said. "They are coming back, so I guess they like my kitchen."
The most popular item on the menu is vegetarian falafel, $5, which is made of chick peas, onions, parsley and garlic. The restaurant also serves chicken and lamb gyro, $8. These are layers of marinated meat wrapped around a large vertical spit and grilled in front of a charcoal fire.
All entrées are served with rice, lettuce, onion, grilled tomatoes and pita bread. It could also be topped with a local favorite - homemade garlic sauce.
"I don't have a cooking secret," said Duru. "I just smile and I think that it helps."
Since the portions are large, we didn't have any room for a dessert, but baklava, $4, seemed to be a perfect finishing touch. It is a sweet pastry made of thin sheets of phyllo dough layered with chopped nuts and honey syrup. It is baked with butter and cut into diamond shapes.
Each client prefers something different in Kestane Kebab.
"They have the best hummus in Brooklyn," said Iwona Hejmej, who often orders a chicken gyro sandwich with extra hummus, $6. "You can tell that it's always fresh."
The restaurant doesn't serve alcohol, but offers cooked Turkish coffee, $2.50, instead.
KESTANE KEBAB
Greenpoint, 110 B Nassau Ave.
Sunday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.
www.kestankebabny.com
Eat in, take out or free delivery
Specializes in Turkish dishes, like chicken gyro, adana kebab and lamb chops, with appetizers like eggplant salad, hummus and stuffed grape leaves. A meal for two - including drinks and two entrées - came to $23. Cash and credit cards accepted.
Source: Daily News, By Izabela Rutkowski
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2011/06/30/2011-06-30_turkish_delight_in_greenpoint.html#ixzz1Qo2ToaUX
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JMKO, JEREMY G, MIGUEL AND SAM Serenades in a "SONG FEELS" CONCERT
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4 rising singers and artists will get your night into a mood of good feels. Giving you a good serenade and warmth feel of their voices. These hottest new male artists, JMKO, Jeremy G, Miguel Odron, and Sam Mangubat headlines the upcoming "Song Feels" concert, happening this coming January 24 (Friday) at the Music Museum.
These ABS-CBN Music artists will usher in the new decade with an evening of heartfelt love songs as they perform their freshest singles and favorites from yesteryears.
JMKO, also known as Miko Manguba, just dropped his new single "Aahon," after the successful release of his single "Timeless" featuring Miss Philippines Universe 2019 Gazini Ganados.
Emerging as a triple threat artist, Jeremy G has shown flair for hosting and dancing aside from his singing skills discovered in the first season of "The Voice Teens." His collaboration with Jayda, "Perfectly Imperfect," was released late last year.
Filipino-American performer Miguel Odron joined last year's "Idol Philippines" and was able to advance as one of the Top 5 contenders. He is currently working on his single that is set to have an international release.
Multi-awarded singer Sam Mangubat, who is also into songwriting and song production, rose to fame as the first runner-up in the first season of "Tawag ng Tanghalan" on "It's Showtime." His "Ikaw at Ikaw Pa Rin" single was one of the most streamed tracks on Spotify last year.
Together, these four singers will shine with their music and bring in the 'feels' in their much-awaited show.
"Song Feels" is one of the many exciting events under ABS-CBN Music and Star Events, which seeks to bring OPM to the next level with thrilling Kapamilya experiences and outstanding live performances. It is directed by Dido Camara with musical direction from Rey Cantong.
Tickets to the "Song Feels" concert are priced at P3,500 (VIP with exclusive meet and greet), P2,500 (patron), and P1,000 (balcony), available at the Music Museum or via Ticketworld (8891.9999).
Welcome the season of love with JMKO, Jeremy G, Miguel, and Sam on January 24 (Friday), 8 pm at the Music Museum. For more details, follow @stareventsph on Twitter and Instagram.
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2018 3rd Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Conference (CCIOTC2018) will be held in Chengdu, China during Jul. 23-25, 2018. Chengdu, the capital of China's southwest Sichuan Province, is famed for being the home of cute giant pandas. Located in the west of Sichuan Basin and in the center of Chengdu Plain, the city covers a total area of 12.3 thousand square kilometres (4,749 square miles) with a population of over 11 million. It is now one of the most important economic, financial, commercial, cultural, transportation, and communication centers in Western China.
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Sigmar Polke Untitled from Full Moon in Aries (Vollmond im Widder) 2004
One from a portfolio of forty screenprint and lithographs
composition: 10 7/8 × 8 1/4" (27.6 × 21 cm); sheet: 17 5/16 × 13 11/16" (43.9 × 34.8 cm)
Mike Karstens, Münster
Gift of Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
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Full Moon in Aries (Vollmond im Widder)
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November 15, 2019 - Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies and RBC Foundation Award $28,000 to Youth-Led Projects (This article has been condensed)
In conjunction with November 15th as National Philanthropy Day, the Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies (CFKR) and RBC Foundation are thrilled to announce that they are providing a total of $28,000 in grants to local, youth-led projects.
In Cranbrook, $10,500 has been granted to the June 2020 BC Performing Arts Festival (Provincial Festival 2020).
"It's so exciting to receive this support to help our communities. Thank you to the Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies and RBC Foundation for recognizing the impact young leaders can make," said Mya Robinson, youth leader with the BC Performing Arts Festival in Cranbrook.
As a part of the RBC Future Launch Community Challenge, grants like these are being made to youth-led projects in 150 small and medium sized communities across Canada.
"The Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies is so pleased to partner with RBC Foundation to bring these funds and this opportunity to our region," stated Michele Bates, CFKR Board President.
The goal of the RBC Future Launch program is to shift the power to young leaders making positive social or environmental change in their communities, while gaining valuable skills and experience.
"Young people are not future leaders — they are leading social and environmental change right now. We are honoured to play a role in the bold change that youth are leading across the country through this national initiative with RBC," said Andrew Chunilall, CEO of Community Foundations of Canada.
Karl Sterk, RBC Branch Manager-Cranbrook added, "We are thrilled to see the results of this important partnership with the Community Foundations of Canada, supporting positive, youth-led projects in communities across the country."
**About the Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies:
Established in 2003 as a federally incorporated not-for-profit and a CRA-registered charity, the Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies is governed by a 13-member, volunteer Board of Directors and employs one staff person. CFKR holds a total of approximately $2.5 million in 37 permanently invested funds. Since its first community grants in 2004, the Community Foundation has shared almost $500,000 with local projects and programs in our communities. Participating in the RBC Future Launch Community Challenge builds on the Community Foundation's long-time support to local youth and youth leadership.
**About RBC Future Launch Community Challenge:
The RBC Future Launch Community Challenge is hosted by Community Foundations of Canada and participating community foundations and is made possible thanks to a $5M donation from RBC Foundation. It is part of RBC Future Launch, a commitment by RBC and the RBC Foundation to empower Canadian youth for the jobs of tomorrow. Over the next 10 years, RBC Future Launch is dedicating $500 million to help young people access meaningful employment through practical work experience, skills development opportunities, networking solutions and mental well-being supports and services.
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The director of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 starts a new studio – Games – News
Halsey Cohen February 16, 2022 3 min read
Konrad Tomaskiewicz, former game manager From The Witcher 3 and game manager In Cyberpunk 2077, he started his own studio called Rebel Wolves. The new team includes developers who previously worked on Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher series.
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A new studio has been called Wolves Rebel† Tomaszkiewicz will play the role of CEO and game manager accomplished. On the site, the team says that it has decided to set up a new studio in order to be able to operate under its own conditions. According to the statement, the importance of team, camaraderie and fun is central, because "happy people make great matches."
In response to GamesBeat's questions Tomaszkiewicz . says That moving into an independent studio was primarily driven by chasing one's dreams. "CD Projekt RED works with well-established intellectual property and we wanted to create our own world based on our preferences and needs. We felt we needed a separate place to do that," said Tomaszkiewicz. He underlines his pride in CD Projekt RED's past, stresses that it is a great company and wishes the Polish developer all the best.
The Rebel Wolves team says they want to revolutionize the RPG genre. She wants to take this genre one step further. "We don't want to create another game; we want the game The studio is currently working on an epic story RPG for next-generation computers and consoles. An AAA title should be based on dark fiction with the necessary stories and emotions. The title will be part of the story and will also be based on the Unreal 5 engine. Further details are not available yet.
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Tomaszkiewicz and Jakub Szamatek, the current Narrative manager And the writer in the new studio, they insist they won't be chasing trends and numbers. They see games as a great way to tell stories in which player choices and immersion are very important elements. The developers do not promise in advance that their game will provide a certain number of hours of gameplay. They say they want to focus on quality. Each mission and dialogue will be handcrafted so that players will remember it long after completing the game.
Rebel Wolves is in talks with potential business partners and according to Tomskeewicz, there are already some great offers, but he says it will take some time to make a decision. This is possible, because the new studio is self-financed and does not currently have financial problems.
There are currently about eight people on the Rebel Wolves website who are members of the team. In addition to Tomaszkiewicz and Szamatek, among others design manager Daniel Sadowsky, Animation Director Tamara Zouadeh and Technical Manager Bartlemage Joel is part of the studio. Szamatek has worked on The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Thronebreaker, and Zawada has worked on The Witcher 3 and Shadow Warrior 2, bringing Gawel's expertise from the three games into the The Witcher series.
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Kindness is at the very heart of our wellbeing. With the support of JRF, over the past nine months we have been working with seven organisations to test what, if anything, could be done to encourage kinder communities, exploring ideas around the importance of places and opportunities to connect, and the intrinsic values underpinning our interactions and relationships.
This report by Carnegie Associate Zoë Ferguson sets out what we have learnt, highlighting powerful examples of where kindness and everyday relationships can affect change and support the wellbeing of individuals and communities. You can hear about some of these in our film. But there are major factors that get in the way of engaging and encouraging kindness both in individuals and organisations, including real and imagined rules relating to risk; funders and policy makers valuing the formal and organisational over the informal and individual; and modern definitions of professionalism and good leadership crowding out everyday kindness and intuitive human interactions.


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ALTER BRIDGE To Release 'The Last Hero' Album In October
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NIGHTRAGE Mainman Interviewed On Sweden's 'Backstage-TV' (Video)
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Marios Iliopoulos, the leader of multinational thrashers NIGHTRAGE, was interviewed for a recent episode of the "Backstage-TV" program on the Swedish TV channel Öppna Kanalen Göteborg. You can now watch the in-depth chat below.
Due to scheduling conflicts, singer Antony Hämäläinen was unable to perform with NIGHTRAGE at the Gothenburg Sound Festival on January 5 at Trädgårn in Gothenburg, Sweden. His replacement for this show only was NIGHTRAGE's former frontman Tomas Lindberg from AT THE GATES.
Lindberg — who is also known for his work with THE CROWN and LOCK UP — appeared on NIGHTRAGE's first two albums (2003's "Sweet Vengeance" and 2005's "Descent Into Chaos") before being replaced by Jimmie Strimell, who sang on 2007's "A New Disease Is Born".
NIGHTRAGE's fifth album, "Insidious", was released in September 2011 via Lifeforce Records. The CD featured guest appearances by Gus G. (OZZY OSBOURNE, FIREWIND), Tomas S. Englund (EVERGREY), Apollo Papathanasio (FIREWIND, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS), John K (BIOMECHANICAL) and Lindberg.
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My roots, my journey
by Jennifer DeCoste
Jenn uncovers the roots of her passion for grassroots learning and introduces her new role with Social Innovation Canada.
After recently learning more about my grandfather's storied life, I came to realize that there's a reason I'm driven to tackling complex problems. It's in my blood. My grandfather, J. Clyde Nunn, came of age after the First World War. He was an educated man, attending St. Francis Xavier University and then Holy Heart Seminary in Halifax, where many of his peers went on to become priests and professors. This peer group, actively associated with the inspired Antigonish Movement, supported Clyde in his pitch to use "new technology" to broaden the reach of advanced education—taking information from the university out to farmers, truck and train drivers, and coal miners. He wanted to use radio.
In a meeting held in Antigonish in 1940, Father Leo Sears, Father Michael Gillis and the legendary pioneer Father Jimmy Tompkins rallied around Clyde's idea to build a radio station in Antigonish, despite the fact that they were in the midst of a World War where materials and funds were in short supply. It was likely the fact that the goal was near impossible to achieve that catalyzed this group into action.
One story describes the arrival of a long-awaited order of copper wire needed to connect the transmitter tower to the newly constructed station. Later that same day a telegram from Ottawa arrived stating that the wire was being recalled for the war effort. Clyde and a number of hands from the newly emerging Coady program dug a shallow hole, where they then put the unopened wire. They sent a telegram back to Ottawa saying, "Cannot return wire… already in ground."
By 1942, Clyde was touring radio stations and universities across the United States, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. On this tour he spread his message about the need for greater partnership between universities and the communities they reside in. He spoke of StFX as having a responsibility to form a "whole new department that might be called an "Extension Department," arguing that "a university must give democratic leadership and not just turn out young lawyers, doctors, and clergymen who have no appreciation of the problems of the community." He saw radio as a means to "convince (the people) to break down the defeatist attitude that has been referred to so often in the Maritimes… following that logically will be a program of how to do it." On March 25, 1943, their station went on the air.
More than 70 years later, I find myself channelling the energy of my ancestors, engaging in social projects that will support collective advancement, even if this means taking action with next to no resources and relying on an unusual (to NS) approach. I am the founder of Life.School.House, a cooperative not-for-profit that has created a network of adult Folk Schools, bringing education to small group learning environments entirely on a barter basis—removing the financial barrier to accessing education. This intensive micro work at the grassroots as a volunteer in my community has given me an opportunity to work 'hands on' - addressing some really complex social problems like isolation, creating space for people to work across differences like culture and socio-economics. This works makes no money but offers rewards to me, my family and my community in ways that need to be measured different. We are creative in finding "work arounds" by burying the wire when the system fails us. We persist with limited or no resources because emergent work is difficult territory for funders to navigate and because we know that the work is important and recently the movement has started to grow with eleven other homes opened up for Folk School classes in NS and more coming every month!
In this work I will follow in my grandfather's footsteps. Using radio, he captured and shared the stories of his region with members in community who could turn that knowledge into action in their towns, villages, and families. Seventy-five years later, I host space for people to share their stories with each other and I invite you to follow this journey at www.lifeschoolhouse.com, to contribute your own stories of systems change work in your area to the Thrive blog to inspire those of us working in this field! I look forward to traveling and learning with you.
Jennifer DeCoste leads LifeSchoolHouse on a volunteer basis but also works as a Weaver for Social Innovation Canada and fulltime with Inspiring Communities providing support for a regional ecosystem of social innovators in Atlantic Canada Read more about Social Innovation Canada and Life.School.House.
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By Stephanie Stace and Debi Roker, Antisocial behaviour has moved to the top of the political agenda and the focus is now on early action to stop it developing. The behaviour of the great majority of teenagers is not antisocial, so how do 'ordinary' families guide their children through the difficult years? The authors have looked at 'ordinary' families to see how parents successfully monitor and guide their children and found common approaches. They suggest that these conclusions have clear implications for various government initiatives, such as Parenting Orders.
Work is set to begin on a new website to help small businesses find out about the smaller public sector contracts that are available for them to bid for. It is hoped the site will be launched before the end of the year.The site, to be called the new National Opportunities Portal, is part of the Supplier Route to Government project which is being run by the Small Business Service and the Office of Government Commerce.
Environmental campaigners are painting a stark picture of an England a generation from now with no real countryside. A report today from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England says that the picture could become reality unless current development trends are reversed and it sets out broad policy hopes for change.The report "Your countryside, your choice" looks at the major influences on the landscape and their likely long-term effects on the character and extent of the country. It opens with a portrait of England in 2035 when the countryside as we understand it today has all but disappeared.


A Smile Makes Every Day Shine – Bliss & Co.
Words to Live By: When we stop to look around we find happiness everywhere - the sun, f lowers, a child's smile, a cat's purr, a wagging tail. When we live with sunshine in our hearts life can only give us joy. Brighten your day with this book filled with happiness thoughts and wisdom to inspire and uplift each time you read them.


The authors are Kuan-Pin Su, MD, PhD1,2,3; Ping-Tao Tseng, MD4; Pao-Yen Lin, MD, PhD5,6,7; Ryo Okubo, MD, PhD8; Tien-Yu Chen, MD9,10,11; Yen-Wen Chen, MD12; Yutaka J. Matsuoka, MD, PhD3,8.
Anxiety, the most commonly experienced psychiatric symptom, is a psychological state derived from inappropriate or exaggerated fear leading to distress or impairment. The lifetime prevalence of any anxiety disorder is reported to be approximately 1 in 3. Anxiety is often comorbid with depressive disorders and is associated with lower health-related quality of life and increased risk of all-cause mortality. Treatment options include psychological treatments, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and pharmacological treatments, mainly with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Individuals with anxiety and related disorders tend to be more concerned about the potential adverse effects of pharmacological treatments (eg, sedation or drug dependence) and may be reluctant to engage in psychological treatments that can be time-consuming and costly, as well as sometimes limited in availability. Thus, evidence-based and safer treatments are required, especially for anxious patients with comorbid medical conditions.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), are essential nutrients that have potential preventive and therapeutic effects on psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety and depression,7-15 as well as comorbid depression and anxiety in physically ill patients,16-19 patients with coronary heart disease, and pregnant women. Preclinical data support the effectiveness of omega-3 PUFAs as treatment for anxiety disorders.
Although participants and diagnoses were heterogeneous, the main finding of this meta-analysis was that omega-3 PUFAs were associated with significant reduction in anxiety symptoms compared with controls; this effect persisted vs placebo controls. Furthermore, the association of treatment with reduced anxiety symptoms of omega-3 PUFA were significantly higher in subgroups with specific clinical diagnoses than in subgroups without clinical conditions.
Interestingly, the results are also consistent with our recent findings that somatic anxiety is associated with omega-3 PUFA deficits and the genetic risks of PUFA metabolic enzyme cytosolic phospholipase A2 in major depressive disorder62,63 and interferon α–induced neuropsychiatric syndrome. Brain membranes contain a high proportion of omega-3 PUFAs and their derivatives and most animal and human studies suggest that a lack of omega-3 PUFAs in the brain might induce various behavioral and neuropsychiatric disorders,16,65-70 including anxiety-related behaviors. Emerging evidence suggests that omega-3 PUFAs interfere with and possibly control several neurobiological processes, such as neurotransmitter systems, neuroplasticity, and inflammation, which is postulated to be the mechanism underlying anxiety and depression.
"Despite the significant heterogeneity, no significant publication bias was found among these 19 studies. To evaluate the potential placebo effect, we made further subgrouping analyses. In the subgroups of studies using placebo controls, the omega-3 PUFAs still revealed a consistent positive anxiolytic association with anxiety symptoms.


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Von Grey, 'Dawn' [Exclusive Premiere]
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Von Grey, a trio of classically trained musicians (and sisters), are premiering their new song "Dawn" exclusively for readers of The Boot. Press play below to listen.
Comprised of Annika, Fiona and Kathryn Von Grey, the self-named trio brings richly layered harmonies and precise musicianship to this simple, sparse song. According to the band, "Dawn" was written to be a comforting tune, with a vulnerability that showcases compassion and the nurturing presence of a sister.
"Hope will be in the light corners of the dawn," the trio sings. "I have watched you break under what you don't deserve / I've watched you mix up the touch of love and hurt / I want you to know you're not alone."
"While tenderly consoling the individual, the singer gently reminds her that despite her experiences of trauma, which are so frequently silenced and distorted, she shouldn't lose hope," explains Annika Von Grey. "The song's singer represents a nurturing sister, sympathetically comforting a loved one and creating unity between the two."
Considering that the oldest member of Von Grey, Kathryn, is only 23 years old, the band has already racked up an impressive list of accomplishments. They've performed on The Late Show With David Letterman and Late Night With Conan O'Brien, as well as made appearances at major festivals such as Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits.
"Dawn" appears on Von Grey's forthcoming album, In Bloom: Acoustic, set for release on July 20. Visit VonGreyMusic.com for more on the band and the record.
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The MS Hanseatic is a purpose-built luxury expedition ship with ice-strengthened hull. Adventurers sailing on board the Hanseatic enjoy a full expedition experience with zodiac cruising and landings, but always return to the highest standards of comfort and service.
The Hanseatic is a five-star, purpose built expedition ship offering exceptional comfort combined with a superb personal atmosphere on board. If the ship was full, there would be a maximum of 184 passengers on board, however, in practice, this rarely happens. Nevertheless, there is always a feeling of space aboard the Hanseatic with spacious cabins and suites and large open areas.
All cabins and suites on board the Hanseatic have windows allowing ocean or scenic views. There are is also a minibar, TV monitor with on-demand entertainment and luxury towels and linen. Room service is available in all cabins and a butler service for occupants of suites. Wi-fi is available in most parts of the ship.Meals are taken in the main dining room where elegant crockery and cutlery complements beautifully presented and appetising meals. Silver service is available at all meal times, although there is also the option take informal, buffet style breakfasts and lunches in the lounge or even out on deck in good weather conditions. The Hanseatic also features a traditional Viennese tea-time with sachertorte and pastries.
There is a spa and beauty parlour on board the Hanseatic, along with a gym and sauna. There is also plenty of deck space for enjoying the outdoors.
A team of experts in a variety of subjects such as natural history, marine biology, geology and history give informative lectures whilst at sea and in the evening and also travel on the zodiacs when cruising amongst the ice or landing ashore. Otherwise, entertainment on the Hanseatic is limited to a pianist playing in the lounge in the evening.
The Hanseatic is suitable for travellers of any age, however most on board tend to be in the 50+ age-group, active and seeking authentic expedition experiences without compromising high levels of comfort.


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Wake Forest's Jennifer Kupcho ties course record on first day of NCAA DI Women's Golf Championship
STILLWATER, Okla. –– Wake Forest junior Jennifer Kupcho shot a 65 on the first 18 holes at Karsten Creek Golf Club, a par 72, 6,328-yard course, tying the course single-round record on the first day of the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships, hosted by Oklahoma State University.
"I didn't know until my teammates said it," Kupcho said. "It was super cool and super exciting. That would have been cool to get, but it's cool to tie it."
The mark is one stroke off the best one-round score in NCAA women's golf championships history, which was shot by LSU's Megan McChrystal in 2010. Kupcho is just the seventh in championships history to shoot a 7-under round, most recently done by Oregon's Caroline Inglis in 2016.
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Kupcho tied Wad Phaewchimplee's round in Stillwater in 2014, recording seven birdies through 18 holes. She capped off her round with an eagle on the 490-yard, par-5 No. 9 to complete her second 7-under of the season.
Shoot 65. Talk to @GolfChannel. Well done Jennifer Kupcho. pic.twitter.com/qHtCb1Xvtu
— Wake Women's Golf (@WakeWGolf) May 18, 2018
No. 6 Southern California sits atop the leaderboard with a 3-over team score of 291. The team total is the sixth-lowest in course history and the best since 2014.
"I think this is a very difficult golf course," head coach Andrea Gaston said. "Shooting around even or a little over isn't a bad score out here."
Led by freshman Jennifer Chang and sophomore Allisen Corpuz, Southern California finished the day a stroke ahead of No. 1 Alabama and three ahead of No. 3 UCLA. Kent State (296) and Duke (298) round out the top five.
Individually, Chang and Corpuz sit in a tie for 11th, carding an even-72.
2018 CHAMPIONSHIP: Live updates and scores from Karsten Creek Golf Club
"It was a pretty solid round," Corpuz said. "I kind of struggled coming in, but those are really tough holes so I'm pretty happy with it."
The Trojans are seeking the program's fourth national title, being one of only five NCAA schools with at least three team titles. Southern California also has a nation-leading streak of 12 straight top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships.
USC secures the NCAA first round lead at +3 291 as Corpuz and Chang, who birdied 3 of her final 5 holes, both finish with even rounds of 72. Six teams left on the course, but Corpuz and Chang currently T11 with their par rounds. #FightOn pic.twitter.com/NLLqt0QQla
— USC Women's Golf (@USCWomensGolf) May 19, 2018
The second round of the championships at Karsten Creek will tee off tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. CT, with Alabama, Arkansas and UCLA on No. 1, and Duke, Stanford and Southern California on No. 10.
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Q: Python - Syntax error on colon in list I've been trying to create a simple dictionary to define a word that the user inputs. After defining the dictionary and it's words, I'm trying to print the definition of the input'd word. For some reason, when I try to run this program there is a syntax error on the colon in the list. I'm not sure how to fix this problem, I am aware that there are easier ways to do this but I'm trying to practice using lists.
Here is the code so far:
dictionary
dic1 = [
    'bug':'A broken piece of code that causes a program to stop functioning'
    'string':'A piece of text'
    'integer':'A whole number'
    'float':'A decimal number'
    'function':'A block of organized and clean code that performs a task/action'
    'syntax':'A set of rules that says how a program will be coded'
    ]

q = input("What coding related word do you want defined?")
if q in dic1:
    print(dic1[q])

A: You forgot a comma at the end of each entry in the dict. Dicts use curly braces "{...}"
dic1 = {
    'bug':'A broken piece of code that causes a program to stop functioning',
    'string':'A piece of text',
    'integer':'A whole number',
    'float':'A decimal number',
    'function':'A block of organized and clean code that performs a task/action',
    'syntax':'A set of rules that says how a program will be coded',
    }

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Personhood Theory: A Primer
Quite some time ago, I wrote a blog post about the notion of inalienable rights, in which I mentioned the concept of personhood theory, an ethical structure that provides a framework for deciding what is and is not a "person."
The idea of inalienable rights isn't necessarily the same as the idea of personhood, though in most moral systems they're certainly related. Most of us at least recognize the term "human rights," and tend to think of them as being good things, and something separate from, say, animal rights.
Now, I will grant that the notion of human rights, if history is any example, is more of a pretty sound-bite than anything we as a species actually take seriously.
To quote from one of my favorite George Carlin skits: "Now, if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you're at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, I want you to type in "Japanese Americans 1942, and you'll find out all about your precious fuckin' rights, okay? ...Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took 'em away. And rights aren't rights if someone can take 'em away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, a bill of temporary privileges."
So it is with some skepticism, leavened with a dash of cynicism, that I talk about the notion of "rights" at all.
However, the fact that we tend not to be very good at respecting things like "human rights" doesn't mean the idea has no value. In fact, quite the opposite; I think that the notion there are certain things which one simply should not be permitted to do to others, and certain things which all of us ought to be able to expect that we can do, is not only valuable but also absolutely essential--not just in an ethical sense, but in a practical sense too. I believe quite strongly that respecting the idea of "human rights" is not just a moral imperative; it has immediate, utilitarian benefits to the societies which respect them, and the more a society respects these ideas, the better (in many tangible ways) that society becomes.
But that's a bit off the point. What I actually want to talk about is personhood theory specifically, rather than the idea of rights in general.
In the US these days, the idea of "personhood" has become conflated with the abortion debate. The Religious Right has been advocating the notion of "personhood" as a way to promote an anti-abortion agenda, so when i've talked about "personhood theory" in the last few months a lot of folks have assumed that what I'm talking about is abortion.
Personhood theory as an ethical framework isn't (directly) related to abortion at all. As an ethical principle, the idea behind personhood theory is pretty straightforward: "Personhood," and with it all the rights that we now call "human rights," belongs to any sapient entity.
Put most simply, that means that a hypothetical intelligent alien organism, a hypothetical "strong" AI, a person whose consciousness has been transferred into a computer, or an animal that has been modified to be sapient would all qualify as "people" and would be entitled to the rights and responsibilities of people, just like you or I.
Now, there is one potential pickle in this definition, of course, and that's in the notion of sapience.
It's impossible to prove that a computer, or an uploaded person, or even your next door neighbor down the street is sapient. We can apply the Turing test to a computer to see if it can converse fluently and flexibly enough to be indistinguishable from a human being, but that presupposes that artificial intelligence would be similar to natural intelligence, which isn't necessarily so. We can test generalized problem-solving capability, though it's possible to imagine that what looks to be intelligent problem-solving is actually brute-force, blind pattern matching done very quickly, of the kind that a computer chess-playing program does.
But ultimately, it may not really matter that we can't ever come up with a way to step into the subjective experience of an alien or an uplifted animal or a computer and say that it is sapient, because we can't do that with a person, either.
I can't be absolutely, 100% certain that I am not the only person in the world with self-awareness and a rich subjective internal experience. It might be that my neighbor and the clerk at the convenience store down the street and the cute blond lesbian with facial piercings who used to work in the sandwich shop near me are actually "philosophical zombies," utterly devoid of any internal experience, repeating words and phrases, paying taxes, doing their jobs only through some kind of incredibly complex clockwork. It doesn't matter because when I make ethical decisions, the negative effects of assuming everyone else to be an empty clockwork shell, should I be wrong, are much more profound than the ethical consequences if I assume that they are aware, living people and I am wrong. The ethical principle of least harm demands that if they seem to be people, I treat them as people. The alternative is sociopathy.
The same moral logic applies to uploaded people and smart computers. No, I can not objectively prove that they are self-aware entities instead of fabulous automatons, so basic ethics demand that if they appear to be self-aware entities, I treat them as I would treat self-aware entities.
All this is, I believe, a pretty straightforward idea. But the concept of personhood theory often runs off the rails when people, particularly socially or religious people, talk about it, for reasons that I find very, very interesting.
The arch-conservative, Creation "Science" Discovery Institute says of personhood theory, "In this new view on life, each human being doesn't have moral worth simply and merely because he or she is human, but rather, we each have to earn our rights by possessing sufficient mental capacities to be considered a person. Personhood theory provides moral justification to oppress and exploit the most vulnerable human beings."
An that takes a similar approach article in SFGate says, "Relying on personhood instead of humanhood as the fundamental basis for determining moral worth threatens the lives and well-being of the most defenseless and vulnerable humans among us. Here's why: In personhood theory, taking life is only wrong if the being killed was a "person" who wanted to remain alive. [...] Basing public policy on such theories leads to very dark places. Some bioethicists justify the killing of Alzheimer's patients and infants born with disabilities. Others suggest that people in comas can be killed and their organs harvested if their families consent, or used in medical experiments in place of animals."
Self-described ethicist Wesley J. Smith, who has worked with the Discovery Institute, claims that personhood theory is nothing more than an attempt to legalize infanticide: "'After-Birth Abortion' is merely the latest example of bioethical argument wielded as the sharp point of the spear in an all-out philosophical war waged among the intelligentsia against Judeo/Christian morality based in human exceptionalism and adherence to universal human rights. In place of intrinsic human dignity as the foundation for our culture and laws, advocates of the new bioethical order want moral value to be measured individual-by-individual — whether animal or human — and moment-by-moment. Under this view, we each must earn full moral status by currently possessing capacities sufficient to be deemed a 'person.'"
Now, I will admit that when I first heard of some of these objections to personhood theory, I was absolutely gobsmacked. It seemed beyond all reason to misinterpret and misrepresent what, to me, seemed like such a simple idea in such a profound way.
But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense that people would interpret personhood theory in such a bizarre, backwards way...because the principle idea simply does not fit into their conceptual worldview. They interpret the idea incorrectly because their frame of reference doesn't permit them to view it as it was intended.
The gist of personhood theory is expansive. It expands the conventional definition of "person" beyond "human," to include a number of hypothetical non-human entities, should they ever exist. Personhood theory says "It's not just human beings who are persons; anything which is sapient is a person, too."
The objections to personhood theory see it as a constrictive or limiting framework. This suggests to me that these objections betray a worldview in which human beings are the only things which are persons, so any definition of the word "person" that is not "a human being" must necessarily limit personhood to only a subset of human beings.
It is trivially demonstrable, even if we can not objectively state with absolute certainty, that something is sapient, that all of us at some time or another are not sapient. A human being who is under general anesthesia would fail any test for sapience, or indeed awareness of any sort. A sleeping person is less sentient than an awake dog. I myself am rarely sapient before 9 AM under the best of circumstances. (It is beyond the scope of this discussion to ponder whether a person who is in an irreversible coma or whose mind has been destroyed by Alzheimer's still has the same rights as any other person; whether or not things like euthanasia are ethical is irrelevant to the concept of personhood theory as I am discussing it.)
Personhood theory, at least in its original formulation, clearly applies only to classes of entities, not to individuals within a class. So for example, human beings are sapient, regardless of the fact that each of us experiences transient non-sapience from time to time; ergo, human beings are people. Strong AIs, if they ever exist, would (by definition) be sapient, even if individual AIs themselves were to be disabled or shut down or whatever; therefore, strong AIs are people.
Personhood theory as a construct works on a general, not an individual, level. No transhumanist or bioethicist who talks about personhood theory proposes that it can be used to justify shooting sleeping people on the basis that they aren't sapient and are therefore not really people; such an interpretation is, on the face of it, absurd. (I will leave it as an exercise to the reader as to whether or not it's more absurd than the notion that dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden and were present on Noah's ark.)
Rather, transhumanists and bioethicists who talk about personhood theory--at least in my experience--use it as a way to construct some sort of system for deciding who else gets "human" rights in addition to human beings, with the obvious candidates being the ones I've mentioned.
There is, though I hate to say this, particular irony in Wesley Smith's talk of "Judeo/Christian morality based in human exceptionalism and adherence to universal human rights," considering the Judeo/Christian track record on such issues as slavery. "Universal human rights," in the Judeo/Christian literature, are anything but universal. The cynic in me is reluctant to place the application of universal rights to anyone, much less non-human entities, in the care of conservative guardians of Judeo/Christian morality.
It took quite a long time for people to figure out that human beings with a different color of skin were people; the Southern Baptist Convention was doctrinally white supremacist until after WWII, and the Mormon church was doctrinally white supremacist until 1977. To this very day, the Discovery Institute seeks to deny "universal human rights" to gays and lesbians, using one of the most bizarre chains of logic I've ever witnessed outside of questions about how we know dinosaurs and human beings shared the same space at the same time.
I frankly do not envy the first uploaded person or the first true AI. Any non-human sapience will, if history is any guide, have a rough time being treated as anything other than property. The people who object to personhood theory because they see it as a constriction rather than an expansion of the idea of personhood are, I think, quite literally incapable of recognizing the personhood of something like an AI; it exists so far outside their worldview that the argument doesn't even seem to make sense to them.
And in a world where strong AI exists, I fear for what that means for us, and what that says about our abilities as moral entities.
This is fascinating and informative. Thank you.
khall
While this is sufficiently tangential that it might seem like a derailment...any system of philosophy that does not explain how one form of life is more precious than another, how intelligence or sapience are necessarily...'more valuable' than claws or egg-laying, seems self-serving to me.
I don't mean to be sophistric, but a plant has as much 'right to life' as a human fetus, in an objective sense. We have to kill something to eat, usually. We birth and destroy millions of little creatures every time we breathe too. While a biological impulse against same-species murder and cannibalism makes sense...from a logical, objective point of view, it's not necessarily something to hang the trappings of a fleshed-out philosophy on.
Recently I was watching a TED talk, that talked about how something like 60% of our bio-mass is made up of bacteria and other little creepy-crawlies; that so much of what we think of as 'us' is shaped by viral-mutations in our past, or even viral interactions now. The point being, even at the cellular level life and death struggles are what makes a complicated organism possible. I don't have good answers to the questions. But...any system that puts humans at the top, because they're smarter, isn't much different than one that puts them at the top because God said so? That I see anyway.
It seems to me that the next big gain we could make in philosophy, though, is to find a coherent, cohesive system that makes sense and doesn't require willfully embracing obvious cognitive dissonance.
likethewatch
I was going to make the point about plants. I really love trees, and have wondered many times if something that is clearly alive, responds to its environment, and is so old, might have a consciousness that I might be able to someday perceive or understand. I began reading this essay with a personal interest, because I'm struggling with the idea of entitlement recently. I'm dimly beginning to register the utility of the notion, rather than accepting that I might have only some temporary privileges. The good of believing I have an entitlement to, say, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is that I will fight for justice: mine and that of others.
There are a few problems with dividing the world into the conscious and the non-sapient, and proceeding from there. Categories don't tell you what individual experiences are, and so are not a way to deal with individuals justly or mercifully. The weakest of the "strong AIs" and the ridiculously smart pig who has achieved humanly recognizable sentience would be accorded voting rights and relegated to my breakfast plate, respectively, when the right thing to do might have been to unplug the AI (for any reason: I need to charge my cell phone and there's only one outlet is as good as any) and to allow the pig to pursue an education.
As khall points out, we have to kill other living things to live, and we are literally made up of thousands of species all forming a kind of supercolony that is ourselves. Abortion debate is a ridiculously small sliver of the question of life, in such a context, but whether we can eat a cow or should refrain from eating a dolphin might only be a step removed from being ridiculous, when it's always us eating ourselves. How to do so with kindness and respect: that is the question.
Yes. To live with the most kindness and respect should be the goal.:)
rekre8
I love how scifi authors handily give us options of how that first AI intelligence could go - sky net being one result, and here are some others:
Androids Dream by Scalzi
Fools War by Zettel
red_girl_42
Thanks for a thought-provoking post! Let's see if I can put my response in some kind of coherent form...
I don't think defining "personhood" is particularly useful when determining rights. I'm less concerned with defining "personhood" than I am with minimizing suffering of *all* living things, whether they quality as "people" or not. We extend more rights to humans as a result of their sapience, but to me that's still related to avoiding suffering. The more you know the more ways you have to suffer.
If a strong AI has the ability to suffer, then we should avoid making it do so. If it has the ability to value and desire its existence, we should not erase its existence. But I feel the same way about other living things. A dog is not sapient, but I would never abuse my dog, because she would suffer. I don't know if she values her life, but I would only take her life if she were suffering so much that I felt I had to end her misery.
Humans, like all animals, MUST kill in order to survive. We have to eat something. But we can take steps to ensure that the things we eat live and die with as little suffering as possible.
I support abortion rights because a fetus at the age of most abortions cannot possibly suffer. It doesn't value its own life, it can't feel pain, and it won't lose anything it already had by not being born.
Your sleep analogy, however, is a good one. If you can kill me in my sleep and I won't suffer, should that be allowed? I do think there's a difference between a life that is established and valued by its owner (and others) and a life that has never come into sentient being. And then there is the opposite end of the spectrum...people who are in a vegetative state, being kept "alive" on machines, who are never going to regain consciousness. They are "people," but legally they don't have an inherent right to life. Their next of kin is in control of when to pull the plug. Or the hospital, when the family runs out of money.
So to me, defining "personhood" seems kind of irrelevant. Although I hate to agree with creationists on anything, I do think they are right in saying that sapience is not the best determinant of worth. However, I don't think that simply being alive and genetically human is, either.
pickledginger
The Jesuits must be loving that "living fossils" poster; how often* does one see such a great example of a logical fallacy? So clearly laid out.
(* On second thought, don't answer that.)
crysthewolf
This conversation always gets me edgy right around the point that it brings my severely Autistic sister, who displays little more sapience (?) than my cat, to the forefront of my mind. Which I realize is akin to your point about coma patients, but it seems negligent to try to seperate the two. I've always been sorta practical-minded though. Thinking ever translates to doing, conjecture to consequence. So figuring out who should be able to determine the nature of a sapient being and where that line should be drawn is tricky at best, and I have trouble with some of the justifications for arguing for one individual's rights and against the others. Not to say I'm anti-abortion. Just thinking out loud.
bikil
Maybe the Discovery Institute should go talk to Data about how HE feels about Personhood Theory before they make their weird-ass assumptions!


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Karhumäki is the Finnish name of Medvezhyegorsk, a town in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.

Karhumäki may also refer to:

People
Juhani Karhumäki (born 1949), Finnish mathematician and one of the students of Arto Salomaa
Urho Karhumäki (1891–1947), Finnish poet
Karhumäki brothers, consisted of Niilo and Valto Karhumäki, Finnish aircraft manufacturers, airline founders, and aviation pioneers

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Karhumäki Karhu 48B, a Finnish 1950s four-seat monoplane
Karhumäki Airways, former name of Karair, a Finnish airline


In this iconic movie, Kevin Costner's character hears a voice that tells him to plow part of his cornfield and build a baseball field. Once he builds it, they will come—the people he is supposed to help. And when he builds it, they do come.
As a former open source developer, I'm quite familiar with the build mentality. It's in my DNA to build things.
But, unlike the movie, just because you build it (e.g., a web app or an iPhone app), it doesn't mean they (users or customers) will come.
Don't fall into the trap of building to build. Build something that solves a real problem, ideally one that you have faced. As Paul Graham writes, you don't want your startup solving a problem no one has.
No one is going to pay you money or spend serious time with your product if it doesn't solve a problem they have.
Many startups and "wantrepreneurs" believe a product is a business. It is not. A product is not a business, rather, a business sells products.
I continue to be amazed by how many startups fail to understand this simple fact.
A startup is an experiment to find a repeatable business model.
A business model implies an inherent business—you have a product that people are willing to pay for. Or, in the case of a free product like Facebook or Twitter, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product (e.g., your data is sold to personalize ads shown to you).
Figure out what business you're in before you get too far. Keep it manual at first to find product / market fit.
Groupon started off as a simple blog emailing PDF coupons. Up and running in a few hours and a billion dollar business was off to the races.
Yipit was built in 3 days and raised more than $7M. One of my favorite examples, illustrating how little you need to build to find a business.
Kickstarter lets you sell your idea before you build it. Probably one of the greatest ways to build less and sell more. The entire point of Kickstarter is to convince people to fund development of your project. Only after is there enough demand to back a project, does it get funded so the team can get to work. Throw in the power of $1 campaigns and you can experiment with a product before building it.
Hemingway has a link to download a desktop version it hasn't built yet. This is the app I use to edit every blog post. They are testing demand for a desktop version (which I want) with a simple "download link" in the upper left. When you click it, it asks if you would pay $5 for a desktop version. Then it asks for your email to be notified, since it hasn't been built yet. Now they can compare how many people use the web app verse how many signup for the desktop version. This will give them a good sense of the demand for a desktop version—without having to build it. Build less, sell more.
Ship code and new versions often. Focus on a single or small set of features. Iterate.
It's far too easy to over think and over engineer a product. If you build in a vacuum, you have no data on if your approach is solving a real customer problem or not. You might even blow through $40M on a product no one ever wanted (ahem, Color).
When I was building MothersClick, as co-founder and CTO, I suffered this same problem. We had some incredible technology (part of the reason Lifetime Television acquired us), but we had many unused features. I burned countless hours building features that didn't really help our users. I built more and sold less.
Quick iterations, with built in feedback loops, would have let me build the features that really mattered, instead of developing ones no one wanted.
Looking back to every piece of code I shipped, every website I made (including this blog), the first iteration has always been embarrassing. Even with lots of planning, in retrospect, it always stunk. So why waste so much time on it?
Ship it and fix it.
Rap Genius calls this "worse is better" and I love it.
It's also how Sir Richard Branson started Virgin Airlines. He sold something before it was ready. In retrospect, his inaugural flight was quite embarrassing, but it worked. He addressed a real problem, ran an experiment, and didn't over engineer. His first flight is quite embarrassing when compared to today's fantastic Virgin America.
He built less, and sold more.