Leeds City College's brand new Printworks Campus opened on Hunslet Road on the site of the former Alf Cooke Printworks, one of the most recognisable industrial landmarks in Leeds.
The facilities have a unique setting within the restored buildings alongside new, 21st century architecture. The Campus is now going through its second phase of developments which includes the restoration of the Grade II listed Printhalls, and will cover 14,500 square metres on its final completion.


The Center for Health Affairs Medicare Reimbursement Basics page offers convenient access to the latest information and regulations that hospitals professionals need to know. Today's healthcare marketplace is characterized by ever-changing regulations and financial pressures, which means it is more important than ever for hospital leaders to understand the latest Medicare reimbursement changes and how they may impact the bottom line.
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Hospitals are reimbursed for the care they provide Medicare patients by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) using a system of payment known as the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Under this system, hospitals are paid predetermined, fixed amounts by CMS based on a patient's diagnosis and treatment. A host of additional factors play into the reimbursement formula, such as wage index (a factor that adjusts for regional variations in the cost of labor) and an additional amount for medical education. More information on the many factors that impact the inpatient Medicare reimbursement formula can be found in CMS' informative Payment System Fact Sheet Series.
Each year CMS makes changes to IPPS payment rates, which apply to the upcoming fiscal year (FY). More information about the most recent changes to the IPPS is available at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acute Inpatient PPS Homepage.
Since 2001 outpatient hospital care provided to Medicare patients has also been based on a prospective payment system, which is aptly termed the "outpatient prospective payment system" (OPPS). As with the IPPS, CMS makes changes each year to OPPS reimbursement rates. These changes apply to the calendar year (CY). Additional information about OPPS payment rates for the current calendar year can be found on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Outpatient Regulations and Notices webpage.
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276. Our country is spiritual country, theirs ..... religious.
277. Our sir teaches Mathematics .......... English.
278. Please, come .......... the bathroom.
279. Please, don't laugh … those beggars.
280. Please, stop .... so many mistakes.
281. She ….. her husband for 15 minutes.
282. The English ….. English.
283. The rain comes .......... the clouds.
284. The ship ….. , Robinson arrived on the Island.
285. The stars ….. counted.
286. Three Idiots ..... really a watchable movie.
287. Choose the correct spelling.
288. Chirag hardly ever cooks,……. ?
289. I don't know the city …..he lives.
290. Choose the appropriate option that correctly completes the sentence.
He always stammers in public meetings, but his today's speech……..
A. was fairly audible to everyone.
B. was not liked by the audience.
C. was not received by the audience.
293. Choose the most suitable alternative in accordance with the correct use of tense.
A. She just has her lunch.
B. She has just had her lunch.
C. She has had just her lunch.
D. She just had her lunch.
294. Our armed forces are …… those of any other country in the word.
295. Do not cry ……spilt milk.
296. He deserves my thanks for …..my purse and returned it to me without taking anything from it.
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299. The electricity is ……. than coal.


Discussion in 'Magazines' started by LolitaLuxe, Nov 6, 2003.
Influence is the ambitious name of a new publication launched last month by former American Vogue creative director Raul Martinez. Billed as an art magazine at the convergence of visual culture, the moody debut issue features the likes of Nigel Cooke, power duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, and Gerhard Richter, while posing questions like "Where will we mark the distinctions between the sacred and profane?" and "What place is there for the unknowable within the everyday?" The essays are good, but be ready for a heavy dose of art speak.
ooo i can't wait! i'm always looking for constant inspiration!
Looks interesting Lo, but I doubt I'd find it here!!
sounds interesting but pretentious at the same time.
I agree. But if it ever hits the stands here I'll be sure to check it out.
Interesting. I'll definitely be on the lookout for it.
Thanks for posting this, Lo.
very good quality mag with tons of beautiful sophisticated photography & ineresting essays.
may be i'll post some of my faves later!
Thank you for the preview, Serena.
hmmm pictures of cat fleas and matthew barney, i was right it is a pretenious magazine.
you have a point ... lots of pretentious words in their essays too.


The Green Bay Packers received good news Monday on running back Eddie Lacy, who could reportedly be back in the lineup as soon as next Monday.
Test results on his sprained ankle came back negative and ESPN reports the third-year running back "hopes" to play in next week's Monday Night Football game against Kansas City. Lacy was carted to the locker room after playing eight snaps on the first series of Sunday night's 27-17 win over Seattle.
Lacy's early exit left sixth-year veteran James Starks as the only other running back available with third-string rookie Alonzo Harris among the team's seven inactives. Starks responded with 20 carries for 95 yards in 51 offensive snaps.
Lacy has dealt with a bad wheel before. He played through a badly sprained right ankle during the final stretch of his rookie season in 2013. He often was seen in the locker room with an air-boot during the practice week, but didn't miss any games because of the injury.
Packers coach Mike McCarthy is scheduled to meet with the media at approximately 6 p.m. Central Time.


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Q: How can I test if a prop is passed to child? My component looks something like this: (It has more functionality as well as columns, but I have not included that to make the example simpler)
const WeatherReport: FunctionComponent<Props> = ({ cityWeatherCollection, loading, rerender }) => {
  /* some use effects skipped */
  /* some event handlers skipped */

  const columns = React.useMemo(() => [
    {
      header: 'City',
      cell: ({ name, title }: EnhancedCityWeather) => <Link to={`/${name}`} className="city">{title}</Link>
    },
    {
      header: 'Temp',
      cell: ({ temperature }: EnhancedCityWeather) => (

          {`${temperature}°C`}
          {` (~${Math.round(temperature * (9 / 5)) + 32}°F)`}

      )
    },
    {
      header: '',
      cell: ({ isFavorite } : EnhancedCityWeather) => isFavorite && (
        <HeartIcon
          fill="#6d3fdf"
          height={20}
          width={20}
        />
      ),
    },
  ], []);

  return (

  );
};

Now, I wrote some tests like this:
jest.mock('../../../components/Table', () => ({
  __esModule: true,
  default: jest.fn(() =>
),
}));

let cityWeatherCollection: EnhancedCityWeather[];
let loading: boolean;
let rerender: () => {};

beforeEach(() => {
  cityWeatherCollection = [/*...some objects...*/];

  loading = true;
  rerender = jest.fn();

  render(
    <BrowserRouter>
      <WeatherReport
        cityWeatherCollection={cityWeatherCollection}
        loading={loading}
        rerender={rerender}
      />
    </BrowserRouter>
  );
});

it('renders a Table', () => {
  expect(screen.queryByTestId('Table')).toBeInTheDocument();
});

it('passes loading prop to Table', () => {
  expect(Table).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
    expect.objectContaining({ loading }),
    expect.anything(),
  );
});

it('passes items prop to Table after sorting by isFavorite and then alphabetically', () => {
  expect(Table).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
    expect.objectContaining({
      items: cityWeatherCollection.sort((item1, item2) => (
        +item2.isFavorite - +item1.isFavorite
        || item1.name.localeCompare(item2.name)
      )),
    }),
    expect.anything(),
  );
});

If you check my component, it has a variable called columns. I am assigning that variable to Table component.
I think, I should test that columns are being passed as props to the Table component. Am I thinking right? If so, can you please tell me how can I write a test case for that?
Also, it will be helpful if you can suggest me how can i test each cell declared inside columns property.

A: It is not recommended to test implementation details, such as component props, with React Testing Library. Instead you should be asserting on the screen content.

Recommended
expect(await screen.findByText('some city')).toBeInTheDocument();
expect(screen.queryByText('filtered out city')).not.toBeInTheDocument();

Not Recommended
If you want to test props anyways, you can try the sample code below. Source
import Table from './Table'
jest.mock('./Table', () => jest.fn(() => null))

// ... in your test
expect(Table).toHaveBeenCalledWith(props, context)

You might consider this approach mainly on the two following scenarios.
You already tried the recommended approach but you noticed the component is:

*

*using legacy code and because of that it makes testing very hard. Refactoring the component would also take too long or be too risky.

*is very slow and it drastically increases the testing time. The component is also already tested somewhere else.

have a look at a very similar question here

A: You can use the props() method, doing something like this:
 expect(Table.props().propYouWantToCheck).toBeFalsy();

Just doing your component.props() then the prop you want, you can make any assert with it.

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Despite going down to Old Geelong by 13 points, it was the coming of age for our new look Senior team on Saturday. It was also a coming of age for our Football Club.
Club Historian Ron Nicholson said it was the youngest Senior team he had ever seen and they acquitted themselves with distinction.
A number of the new boys were part of last years Premiership winning U17s team and if anything is certain this new wave of players will have an enormous impact at the BFC in years to come.
In effect we could have won the game, but in a close encounter where every possession counted, Old Geelong held firm and came out winners in a very spirited, but fair contest.
Special mention to all the new players: Nat Bazzani, Riley Virtue, Nathan Lynch, Oscar McMaster, Kyle Yorke, Josh Gibbins, Brent Lynch and Harry Houlahan. You all did the club very proud.
Best players on the day were Chris Grigoriadis, Taylor Grace, Josh Trew, Cal Heath, Jono Nash and Riley Virtue. Lewis Diggins was at his impassable best while the Lynch twins proved they will be a great acquisition for the club.


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Hear from the people who put together this month's culture section of Monocle. We find out about the factory that produces film sets for 'Saturday Night Live', discover what it's like to be a TV critic and meet the woman behind a new arts concept in Toronto.
Marisa Mazria Katz is a seasoned Monocle writer. She tells Robert Bound about her latest story for the magazine: a sneak peek at how sets are made for TV giants such as 'Saturday Night Live' at the family-run Stiegelbauer Associates factory in New York.
Toronto is well known for its thriving music scene but that doesn't stop it from facing the same issue as many other cities: the closing of live venues. A start-up called Artery is trying to change all that by turning living rooms, backyards, rooftops, bathroom walls and any other nooks and crannies of the city it can find into pop-up performance spaces for musicians and artists to showcase their work. Monocle bureau chief Tomos Lewis meets one of Artery's co-founders, Salimah Ebrahim, to find out how it's pumping life back into the city's arts scene.
'Broadcast' magazine's Peter White joins Robert Bound in the studio to discuss how he stays on top of global TV trends and his latest story on television's obsession with cars in Monocle.


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The Jordan Movie Blog
Movie Reviews, insights and other random thoughts from a guy with a journalism degree
2012 has been an excellent year in film. Out of the 31 movies I have seen in the theater over the past 12 months, a whopping 12 of them scored a 4.5 rating or better. The Academy has deemed that 9 movies are worthy of a Best Picture nomination. I agree with a few of their picks but there are quite a few that they omitted from their list. I plan on posting an Oscar preview post in a couple of weeks with my own take on the major award categories. What follows is my personal list in reverse order of my favorite 10 films that were released in 2012. The final four films on this list were the only movies of the year to achieve a perfect 5 JR rating.
#10 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Peter Jackson's triumphant return to Middle Earth was a personal joy for me to watch. Contrary to other critical reviews of this film, I thought the movie went by quickly for a three-hour film. Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and the rest of the familiar cast of characters brought life once again to J.R.R. Tolkien's prose. The delightful cave riddle sequence between Bilbo and Gollum was the highlight of an exciting intro to the Hobbit movies series. I just wish I didn't see it in 48 FPS.
#9 - Flight
A realistic and revealing look at an airline pilot's struggle with alcoholism, made by an underrated director returning to his live-action roots. Robert Zemeckis allows Denzel Washington to shine in the lead role as Whip Whittaker, a maligned hero who can't shake his addiction to the bottle despite a horrific plane crash. This is easily Zemeckis' (Roger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Contact, Cast Away, etc..) most adult movie to-date and he and Denzel knock it out of the park with a raw depiction of the troubles that addiction can bring.
#8 - Argo
The fact that Ben Affleck was snubbed in the Best Director category by the Oscars for this film is ridiculous. In a growing trend of directing quality films, Affleck has finally found his niche in Hollywood and comes up big in both directing and starring in this true story of a hostage extraction in Iran. Under the cover of a science fiction film, a group of CIA operatives help lead several US hostages out of a hostile environment. A great ensemble cast and tight pacing by Affleck combine to make this movie a must-see and just might lead it to Oscar gold for Best Picture.
#7 - The Amazing Spider-Man
This movie was the biggest surprise of the year for me. I went into it wondering why a Spider-Man reboot was being made at all in Hollywood. I left the theater absolutely blown away by just how entertaining this version of Spider-Man was. Thanks to human and engaging performances by Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone and excellent oversight from director Mark Webb, Amazing Spider-Man manages to bring the fun back to the web-slinging franchise. This was sheer popcorn entertainment in fine form.
#6 - Life of Pi
Ang Lee managed to take a novel that was called "un-filmable" by some Hollywood experts and turn it into a visual feast. The story of a young indian boy and his struggle to survive a shipwreck aboard a lifeboat with a tiger is an enjoyable epic tale of resolve. Filmed in 3D that helps tell the story rather than detract from it, Life of Pi is a true big-screen theater film. I found myself amazed at the visual effects used to animate a multitude of wild animals and at the sheer vast land-and-sea scapes used by Lee to tell this amazing story.
#5 - Django Unchained
Tarantino in his element once again in a strong follow-up to Inglorious Basterds. Django is an epic western set in the south during the height of slavery in America. With over 100 occurrences of the N-word and a penultimate sequence that features pint after pint of blood, Tarantino pulls no punches in letting Jamie Foxx and the rest of the cast trade lines of bravado through beautifully shot sequences. The acting in this movie (especially the performances from Christoph Waltz, Leo DiCaprio and Sam Jackson) is amazing and the typically awesome Tarantino movie score does a good job of tying it all together in a very satisfying package.
#4 - The Dark Knight Rises
My favorite director working today is Christopher Nolan and he didn't let me down at all with his epic final chapter of the Batman trilogy. Not quite as amazing as The Dark Knight but pretty damn close, this movie showcases Bruce Wayne's demise and rebirth as he fights to save the citizens he has always longed to protect. Anne Hathaway gives a good turn as Catwoman and Bale is solid as usual, but the star of this film is Tom Hardy who gives a steely and intimidating presence to Bane. Complete with a weird-cool voice over and creepy mask, Hardy dominates every scene he's in. Nolan demonstrates his command of the pace and scale of this film and gives us a fitting end to one of the best franchises in movie history.
#3 - Silver Linings Playbook
I think it's impossible to see this movie and not feel really good afterwards. David O. Russell proves he's a master of down-to-earth dialogue in his follow up to The Fighter. SLP is a very realistic look at how family and friends get together to watch sports. With an engaging relationship between the two main characters (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence - both of who deserve serious consideration for winning the top acting awards at the Oscars) as the backbone of the film, the rest of the strong supporting cast (including Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker and Jackie Weaver) is given plenty of good material to work with. Russell mixes serious themes about mental illness with important family dynamics and throws in a bunch of good laughs to boot. Overall, this is probably the best-acted movie of the year.
#2 - Prometheus
Ridley Scott returns to his science fiction roots with a quasi-prequel to the Alien film franchise. While I wasn't quite as satisfied with the connection of this film to Alien/Aliens, I was pleasantly surprised by the direction that Scott took in creating a new world of mythology with Prometheus. Noomi Rapace and an extra creepy / cool Michael Fassbender lead a group of excellent actors in showcasing the strange unknowns of outer space. Our creationist roots are questioned by the key characters throuhgout the film but in the end it's the tense action combined with the awesome score from Marc Streitenfeld that make this movie truly engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed taking another sci-fi ride with Ridley and I hope he's got another Alien-esque film or two left in him before he decides to retire.
#1 - Looper
Joe.... Meet Joe.
Not many people went out to see this one but what they missed was truly a gem of 2012. Rian Johnson's sci-fi time-bending tale is a totally unique spin on the genre as Joe (a hired assassin) finds himself face-to-face in a battle against his older self. With amazing performances by Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (the MVP of 2012 in my book), Looper manages to blend plot twists with well crafted characters that are worth rooting for. Johnson weaves in a multitude of clever moments that make you think about the present and future at the same time to fully understand the ramifications. The tense climactic ending is perfect in its finality and genius. If you missed this one, please go rent Looper on DVD.
There you have it. Notice that Lincoln just missed the list and I'd like to give honorable mention kudos to The Avengers, Les Miserables (ESPECIALLY the amazing Anne Hathaway) and The Raid: Redemption. Agree? Disagree? Let me know via Facebook or in the comments section below.
Posted by Jordan at 1/21/2013 10:01:00 PM 4 comments
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Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to her 2008 Best Picture winning film The Hurt Locker is a snapshot of the US war on terrorism which features a blow-by-blow reenactment of the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound and the years of CIA research that led to the mission. Zero Dark Thirty is a well crafted look at the inner workings of the intelligence agency that blends some genuine authentic excitement and intrigue with some slow and tedious bureaucratic scenes. You can clearly see that Bigelow feels at home in documenting American wartime conflict.
As with The Hurt Locker, the bulk of the action in this film is set in the Middle East. The film opens with a black screen while we hear about a minute of various voicemail recordings from 9/11. This serves as an appropriate catalyst for making sure we understand the drive to catch and serve justice against the most notorious terrorist in US history. Throughout the first two-thirds of the movie, we are bombarded with a slew of Arab names who are all part of a giant interconnected web of terror that eventually lead the CIA to Bin Laden's courier in Pakistan. Some of the plot gets confusing but in the end, none of the findings and leads uncovered are all that interesting considering we know that Bin Laden will be found and killed in the end. The bulk of this movie is tailor-made for CIA/terrorism junkies and I'm just not that type of person.
Jessica Chastain is excellent as Maya, the lead analyst in the film. She gives a very confident performance with some mixed in vulnerability when she encounters some unexpected bumps and roadblocks in her plight to catch Bin Laden. She is without a doubt one of the best up and coming young actresses in Hollywood, but I just don't think she was nearly as strong as Jennifer Lawrence was in Silver Linings Playbook. Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke and Jennifer Ehle round out a strong supporting cast. (Bonus kudos to Chandler who managed to star in two of the most critically praised films of the year - Argo being the other)
I wasn't blown away by this film. Bigelow does a great job of putting the audience directly in the squad during the raid on the compound. The final third of this movie is extremely intense and engaging. The realism of the squad chatter and the pop-ping-cracks of gunfire mixed with spent shell casings are some of the best I've ever seen on film. It's clear that Bigelow knows how to stage and shoot extremely realistic combat scenes. The problem I have with the movie is that everything leading up to the raid is plodding and frankly boring at times. I believe this movie could have been cut down to two hours with a little better overall pacing. I find myself feeling nearly exactly the same way about this movie as I felt about The Hurt Locker when I saw it. Both movies are authentic snapshots of war but both films just didn't engross me that much from start to finish. I know others (especially publications like Entertainment Weekly) believe this is the best film of 2012. I can't say the same as I felt disappointed in the full body of work that Bigelow delivers. I can't give Zero Dark Thirty any more than 3.5 out of 5 JRs. This is definitely worth seeing, but mostly for the last 40 minutes of the movie.
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Lorraine Stoneman
Lorraine Joan Stoneman, of Costa Mesa passed away peacefully on Tuesday afternoon, December 21st 2021 at the age of 93. She lived in her home in Mesa Verde for over 60 years and was surrounded by her loved ones. Lorraine was married to the love of her life Marcus Waldo Stoneman Jr. with whom she shared 50 years of matrimony. Her husband passed away on the same day Dec 21st of 2005. The heavens received two very special angels on these days. Lorraine is survived by her "three beautiful daughters" Barbara, Debbie, Joanne, son-in-law Len Hunt, her grandchildren Kathryn, Jennifer and grandson-in-law Arash, Laraine, Sarah, great grandchildren Kayden, Maziar, and Rose. Lorraine was born to Leslie and Ruby Beldin on May 26th 1928 in Wymore, Nebraska. After graduating from high school she went on to college and majored in English. She landed her first job as a Secretary for a local firm and met Marcus shortly after when he returned from serving in WWII. They loved to dance and she often spoke about her love for his dancing. Lorraine loved spending time in the kitchen creating delicious meals for her family, church, and friends. They moved to Costa Mesa, CA from Lincoln, Nebraska in 1958. Lorraine was a charter member of the Mesa Verde United Methodist Church. Her family and church were the center of her life. She truly was the kindest person, she would always be a warm ear and offer the strongest words of support. Her home was your home and if you couldn't find a mom close, she was yours to have. She loved deeply and fully with many family traditions for her descendants to remember her by. She absolutely adored her daughters and her grandchildren; they brought many smiles to her in her final days. While she will be deeply missed by all, "We will dance for you Lorraine, have a Mascoto, and of course carry on your family traditions"
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package storm.trident.operation.impl;

import backtype.storm.tuple.Fields;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import storm.trident.operation.Aggregator;
import storm.trident.operation.TridentCollector;
import storm.trident.operation.TridentOperationContext;
import storm.trident.tuple.ComboList;
import storm.trident.tuple.TridentTuple;
import storm.trident.tuple.TridentTupleView;
import storm.trident.tuple.TridentTupleView.ProjectionFactory;

public class GroupedAggregator implements Aggregator<Object[]> {
    ProjectionFactory _groupFactory;
    ProjectionFactory _inputFactory;
    Aggregator _agg;
    ComboList.Factory _fact;
    Fields _inFields;
    Fields _groupFields;

    public GroupedAggregator(Aggregator agg, Fields group, Fields input, int outSize) {
        _groupFields = group;
        _inFields = input;
        _agg = agg;
        int[] sizes = new int[2];
        sizes[0] = _groupFields.size();
        sizes[1] = outSize;
        _fact = new ComboList.Factory(sizes);
    }

    @Override
    public void prepare(Map conf, TridentOperationContext context) {
        _inputFactory = context.makeProjectionFactory(_inFields);
        _groupFactory = context.makeProjectionFactory(_groupFields);
        _agg.prepare(conf, new TridentOperationContext(context, _inputFactory));
    }

    @Override
    public Object[] init(Object batchId, TridentCollector collector) {
        return new Object[] {new GroupCollector(collector, _fact), new HashMap(), batchId};
    }

    @Override
    public void aggregate(Object[] arr, TridentTuple tuple, TridentCollector collector) {
        GroupCollector groupColl = (GroupCollector) arr[0];
        Map<List, Object> val = (Map) arr[1];
        TridentTuple group = _groupFactory.create((TridentTupleView) tuple);
        TridentTuple input = _inputFactory.create((TridentTupleView) tuple);
        Object curr;
        if(!val.containsKey(group)) {
            curr = _agg.init(arr[2], groupColl);
            val.put((List) group, curr);
        } else {
            curr = val.get(group);
        }
        groupColl.currGroup = group;
        _agg.aggregate(curr, input, groupColl);

    }

    @Override
    public void complete(Object[] arr, TridentCollector collector) {
        Map<List, Object> val = (Map) arr[1];
        GroupCollector groupColl = (GroupCollector) arr[0];
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This post is mildly motivated by the INFORMS blog challenge this month dealing with 'OR and politics'. This tab dabbles with OR-eyed viewpoints of Indian political events from time to time. Past posts on OR and politics can be found here, here and here. The idea for this post arose from real issues in OR practice and business analytics. Yet, there is an interesting element of politics as well.
Consider this hypothetical experiment. We select a list of many thousand past political leaders from around the world and generate ratings on multiple attributes that provide valuable insight into their their 'level of honesty' derived from fact-driven records during their leadership tenure. On the right hand side, we have a yes/no binary indicator on whether that politician was generally considered "honest" or "dishonest". Our objective is simple: generate the probability that an input politician is honest, given a set of scores for each of his/her performance attributes.
We use a binary logit model (i.e. logistic regression) to do this and use historical data to calibrate the parameters using the maximum likelihood estimate approach. Since we have a fairly large sample size, we get a good model fit and hit all the right notes as far as confidence intervals, etc. The statistical model shows a good fit. But how well will it predict in real life? These are two different stories.
Politicians strongly rated as honest and statesmanlike are a rare species. Indian legend regards King Harishchandra as an exemplar for honesty in public life, which is not surprising given that he never uttered a single lie in his life, and greatly influenced the the first person in the next list. More recently, 'Mahatma' Gandhi, Abe Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela. In current times and keeping with contemporary mores, a Barack Obama (perhaps), Dr. Abdul Kalaam of India, or a Helen Clark of New Zealand, ..., the list of people keeping it on the level is quite short. It is likely that we will find our predictive analytical model is (far too) good as far as picking crooked politicians. If 99% of politicians are dishonest, then it is very easy to get a good fit. In fact, a 1-line model that simply returns "crooked politician" is a good one - it is 99% accurate. However, this model is not very interesting. Our focus and curiosity is driven by finding those that fall in that elusive 1%. A "NO" model fails 100% in this regard. How well did our statistically calibrated predictive model fit the "YES" instances? Most likely it did a pretty poor job and far below the expected rate of good guys. In fact, if you were very careless, your computer program may even treat some of these 'YES' data points as nuisance value/outliers! This situation is kinda like the inverse of the analytical problem of fraud detection (pun unintended). Consequently, if we fed the model, say, 'Honest' Abe Lincoln's attributes, we would be disappointed with the output. Our model moves into the domain of truthiness. On the other hand, a 'monkey model' that randomly generates answers with a mean "YES" rate of 1% may be more useful. Our challenge is to be able to do better than the monkey.
To do that, we turn to analytical work done in political science. Folks here (and in areas like new drug discovery) often work with predictive math models for rare events and some literature search in these areas indicate that there are quick (but not obvious) fixes to such plain-vanilla predictive models that we tend to use mechanically in OR projects. In particular, these corrections ensure that the natural imbalance inherent in the training data is accounted for in the right way and by the right amount.
The lesson, if any, from this experiment is that the basic act of testing predictive models on hold-out or hidden samples must never be bypassed. Fitting well to historical data is necessary for our validation, but certainly not sufficient for a customer's satisfaction. It does NOT imply "useful predictor". Not even if we have a lot of data. Furthermore, when we build a prescriptive analytical layer by embedding our predictive model within an optimization framework to determine the optimal attributes that maximize some objective, the external effects of a bad predictive model become pronounced. Optimization magnifies the silliness of a bad prediction. It literally takes it to an extreme point. In fact, an advantage of having a prescriptive layer is that it can often tell if the underlying predictive layer is playing politics with you.
Continuing with the new year theme, we take a first look at CQuotient, an analytics-driven start-up in the retail industry based in the Boston area. I just finished reading this interview on a business info site. It's interesting to hear what the founder and CEO Dr. Ramakrishnan has to say (he's also got a blog listed on the roll at the bottom right of this tab. I don't expect frequent updates for a while :). A couple of things were eye-openers.
They seem to be among the very first to sharply focus on individual customer behavior. Are we seeing some of the first practically viable applications of microanalytical (copyright, 2011 :) techniques this year ? Retail science normally thrives on aggregating individual customers into sufficiently big bunches so that the law of large numbers kicks in. Then you can reliably analyze statistical and econometric models to realistically predict and optimize based on these high-level purchase patterns. A retail microanalytical approach that drills down to the individual customer level looks pretty challenging to pull off in reality, but looking at the team assembled at CQuotient and the computing power available today, I wouldn't be surprised if they are onto something here.
Next, CQ will provide an 'optimal prescriptive' answer to a retailer. This convinces me that they have an application with "OR Inside" and their 'coolness quotient' just went up :). Rather than just dump a bunch of charts and qualitative insights on a tired, caffeine-deprived store manager-type and wish good luck, CQ seems to take it a step further and provides optimal decision recommendations to the retailer. Practical decision analytics can give you a pretty powerful edge since it can potentially eliminate or minimize a lot of costly guesswork. In the retail industry, which is characterized by wafer-thin margins and brutal competition, such OR-based innovations can be a big deal.
A minor grouse is that the word "OR" doesn't show up in the interview, but the content shows that all the good stuff is likely to be hidden inside. The scope for OR in the new world remains undiminished, especially if somebody is brave enough to dip their hands in messy data and put their money where their model is!
The first post this year is for OR students who plan to put their ideas into practice.
There is a significant ongoing transformation in the landscape of OR practice. At the end of the first ten years of this century, we see that traditional industries where OR has succeeded in the past such as airlines and logistics will continue to use OR methods. However, due to the saturation and the lack of radical breakthrough ideas, the minor incremental returns for spending R&D dollars will continue to discourage management from enhancing the science behind these OR approaches, and they will further outsource such tools to 3rd party vendors. In such a support mode, there is little that differentiates you from your competition.
On the other hand, the application of OR methods to new industries is very exciting, even lucrative. This year, OR will quietly make its way into more new industries. Most of the world (including the OR community?) will not know this, since OR is likely to remain hidden within a 'business analytics' agenda.
A new graduate who wants to practice OR should possess sound 'traditional' math and OR skills as well as the ability to work with large data sets locked in databases. You should be strong enough in your fundamentals to perform proof-of-concepts without asking your boss (typically one who cares not for OR or even knows what OR is) to shell out big $$ to buy you a new CPLEX or Gurobi license or a new SAS license to analyze patterns in data.
Familiarity with open-source tools such as COIN-OR and R will help since they are free for R&D. In such new industries, the ability to work with and analyze large volumes of messy data is perhaps more important, so being at ease there will give you an edge over non-OR types since you can 'take it all the way'. Remember, OR is an applied field that is tailor-made for analytics, and that is a powerful plus point.
A PhD would be preferable unless you are OK with being tagged as an OR-programmer/data analyst. Ability to communicate technical ideas with a non-OR audience in plain English is very, very important.
Business problems do not show up with "use OR" on it. The stalwarts of our field in the 1950s-1980s came up with original approaches that best suited the practical problem at hand, and using the best computing technology available, and these breakthroughs eventually became part of OR folklore and textbooks. OR best succeeds when it is explainable and insightful, and at times, a smart 10-line answer may just do the trick.
Finally, It's worth restating the obvious. The most important component of OR practice is that you build reliable solutions for real people who spend real $$ in a tough economy.


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School district superintendent leaves for third Middle East deployment
Posted 9:00 am, November 28, 2019, by Digital News Desk
HARDEMAN COUNTY, Tenn. — A Tennessee school administrator is taking the role of public servant to the next level, as he's about to be deployed for his third mission in the Middle East.
Outside Hardeman County School headquarters, the American flag flies with pride, and inside the team couldn't be more proud of their patriotic leader, Superintendent Warner Ross.
"In this role, he is Mr. Ross. In this other role, he is Colonel Ross," said Bobby Doyle, interim director of Hardeman County Schools. "I've known Mr. Ross as long as I can remember."
Right now, Colonel Ross, brigade commander with the 194th Engineering Brigade out of Jackson, Tennessee, is at a mobilization station out of state, getting ready to go to the Middle East.
This will be his third deployment while working for the district.
"Maybe in some ways, it gets a little tougher," Ross told WREG over a video call. "A year is a long haul, it's a long ride. You're going to miss a lot of birthdays, Easters, Christmas."
Ross has served in the National Guard for three decades. He's been been an educator in Hardeman County for almost as long, following in the footsteps of family, he says he always felt a higher calling for public service.
"Just his deployment and his service and the kids watching him I think instills patriotism in our students," Doyle said.
Ross said he's even been able to interact with some former students within the military.
"I've had deployments where I've actually had students I've taught in the classroom or coached on the football field or was a principal for," Ross said. "At this point in my career, I can reflect back and say I know they made it. I know they understand the lessons that we were trying to teach them in school, and now here they are serving, and I get to see them as adults, as soldiers, as responsible folks, and that's just a great honor."
The colonel was quick to credit his family and his team within the district for keeping things moving steadily while he's gone.
"They all understood and supported my other job as a soldier, and my students have supported me, too, so I'm just blessed," Ross said.
Ross noted he's far from the only one sacrificing. When times get tough, comradery and the bigger picture of service keeps them going.
"Every one of these soldiers that are with me here left a job and left a family, and whether they're young or whether they're my age, they probably had those same thoughts, but at the end of the day, you look to your left, you look to your right, you see those soldiers there, they're going through those same things," Ross said. "You say, 'No, I'm going to continue to do this.'"
Ross will be gone for about the next year. He still speaks to those at the district frequently for school updates.
He and his brigade wanted to wish everyone in west Tennessee a Happy Thanksgiving.
Those we spoke with believe he is also one of a few district administrators who have also served in their current role and been actively deployed.
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The song is featured on her freshly released 'Big Diva Energy' EP.
Big Freedia has officially unveiled her uplifting new EP Big Diva Energy today (Sept. 17). The Queen of Bounce keeps the energy going as she premieres her brand new music video for "Not Today" exclusively with REVOLT. On the new track, Freedia enlisted the Scissor Sisters' own Jake Shears alongside Anjelika "Jelly" Joseph of Tank and the Bangas to add their flavor to the collaboration. The high-energy visual opens up with a scene of Freedia in an office meeting before taking matters into her own hands after she realizes she will settle for nothing less than what she is worth.
Along with the new video release, the New Orleans star made sure to take some time to explain the message she wanted to send with the new track. "'Not Today' is about that feeling you get as an artist sometimes when people forget your humanity and look at you as just a money maker" she tells REVOLT. "I'm saying, 'Hold up. I see what you are doing and it's not gonna happen today, not tomorrow — not never bitch.'"
Big Freedia shared a series of sizzling bounce anthems serving as appetizers before the new EP arrived. These tracks included "Betty Bussit" featuring Soaky Siren, and Tank and The Bangas, "Judas," "Platinum," and she even dropped off a Christmas EP titled Big Freedia's Smokin' Santa Christmas to brighten people's holiday cheer.
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An integrated approach to conservation of the Belizean Rainforest
Written by Staff Writers & Contributors on July 20, 2018
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Ornella "Nelly" Cadle, photo courtesy BFREE
Written by Melanie Lippert
Ornella "Nelly" Cadle, a field course leader at the Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education (BFREE) station, grew up in the Bladen Village. She spent her childhood surrounded by the vibrant Belizean rainforest, living with thousands of colorful plants, a myriad of unique mammals and numerous endangered species. Yet, she did not fully understand or appreciate the diverse organisms around her until she began working at BFREE.
Cadle joked that for much of her life she thought that the jaguar tracks she had seen were just from dogs. She loved watching the vibrant birds in her village but could only identify them by their features and sounds, rather than specific names.
In 2014, Cadle was hired to guide education programs in the rainforest around BFREE. Once at BFREE, Cadle began learning about the rainforest and the ecological roles of the organisms within it. She also learned to identify each of "her" birds by their names. "It's no longer just something I fancy," Cadle said about how her curiosity for the rainforest has now developed into reverence since working at BFREE.
BFREE is a private research and educational facility that was established by Jacob Marlin in 1995 to develop a program to conserve the Bladen Nature Reserve. This organization has changed the way Belize approaches conservation by educating the local people about their environment and getting them personally invested in the protection of it. "In order to make a difference you must get involved with the community and people," said Michael Dobbins, a Ph.D. researcher who works with Cadle in the rainforest around BFREE.
photo courtesy Melanie Lippert
When Dobbins first started researching terrestrial mammals in Belize, conservation seemed to be done on a strictly academic level. Collegiate researchers came in, completed their project and then wrote a scientific paper to be published. But that wasn't enough to encourage the community to join the conservation efforts, Dobbins said.
The locals respect the wildlife, Heather Barrett, deputy director of BFREE, said. Unfortunately, they also need the wildlife for food and money, making it hard to balance conservation with the community's needs. However, if you understand the local people and their motivation for doing things, you will have an easier time showing them how conservation directly affects them, Dobbins added.
BFREE trains local citizens to identify the organisms that they share the environment with and use as resources to sustain their community. BFREE provides eco tours, field courses and outreach programs to educate people about the rainforest. This training not only informs the citizens about what is around them, but it also allows them to develop a personal connection with their environment. Integrating the community into conservation efforts and helping them foster an interest in their environment has proven to be a sustainable and effective way to protect natural resources for the long term.
Yet, BFREE's work showed that successful conservation not only requires the community to be emotionally invested in the protection of their environment, but it also entails working with the local community to develop practical, sustainable ways to use their natural resources. In many of the communities that surround these degrading ecosystems, the local people have more urgent concerns – like feeding their families – than conserving their environment. Thus, conservation must also look to support the people in these communities so that residents have the means to be able to protect their environment along with their livelihoods.
"Any attempt to conserve the natural environments in these ecologically sensitive areas must include innovative solutions to improve the socio-economic conditions of the communities," Colin Young, author of a 2008 study on conservation in Belize, said.
There are many ways to use the natural resources in Belize to benefit the community without having to destroy the environment, Cadle said. BFREE educates locals about some of these sustainable methods, such as making money through eco-tourism, rather than killing the wildlife to sell.
Many people in Belize have used slash-and-burn farming to produce enough crops to support their livelihoods, but that practice is burning down the rainforest. Because of slash-and-burn agriculture, coastal development and illegal logging Belize currently has a deforestation rate that is two times higher than that of Central America. If the current deforestation rate in Belize continues, the forest cover will decrease to 58 percent by 2020 and be completely gone in the next 40 years.
Jaguar paw print, photo courtesy Melanie Lippert
As a sustainable alternative to slash-and-burn, BFREE gave the local community cacao seeds to plant. Cacao farming allowed the community to still produce a profitable yield, but in a way that requires fewer resources, provides a habitat for migratory birds and does not contribute to deforestation.
The future of conservation in Belize seems bright, as the community has steadily stepped in to conserve and sustain their land. With the help of local volunteers, BFREE has established the Hicatee Conservation and Research Center (HCRC), as well as documented the rediscovery of the endangered Harpy Eagle in their film "Wings of Hope."
This conservation, however, is not the only goal of BFREE's programs. Barrett hopes that community members and tourists not only gain an understanding of the rainforest when they visit but also a love for it. "I hope people can take away a love for nature or at least respect for it, especially rainforests. They have huge value," Barrett said.
Topics covered in this article: Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education, BFREE, Bladen Nature Reserve, Hicatee Conservation and Research Center, Ornella Cadle
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#pragma once
#ifndef HYDROSIG_FUNCTOR_4_HPP_INCLUDED
#define HYDROSIG_FUNCTOR_4_HPP_INCLUDED

#include "src/macros.h"
#include "src/functors/functor_base/functor_base.hpp"

HYDROSIG_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

/**
 * Class declarations:
 * -------------------
 */

/**
 * @brief   This class encapsulates a free function, such
 *          as a global or static member method with four
 *          arguments.
 */
HYDROSIG_TEMPLATE_4_ARG
class functor_to_free_4 : public functor_4_base<HYDROSIG_4_ARG>
{
public:
    /**< Typedef for the function type */
    typedef Return_type(*function_type)(Arg1_type, Arg2_type, Arg3_type,
                                        Arg4_type);

    /**
     * @brief   Constructs a functor_to_free_4 from the
     *          given function pointer.
     */
    functor_to_free_4(function_type function);

    /**
     * @brief   Calls the encapsulated function.
     * @return  The result of the function call.
     * @param   arg1 The first argument.
     * @param   arg2 The second argument.
     * @param   arg3 The third argument.
     * @param   arg4 The fourth argument.
     */
    Return_type operator()(Arg1_type arg1, Arg2_type arg2, Arg3_type arg3,
                           Arg4_type arg4);

    /**
     * @brief   Compares this functor with another for equality.
     * @details four functors compare equal, if they refer to the
     *          same free function.
     * @param   other The other functor.
     * @return  True if the functors compare equal.
     */
    bool operator==(const functor_to_free_4 &other);

private:
    /**< Pointer to the encapsulated function */
    function_type m_function;

};

/**
 * @brief   This class encapsulates a callable object, such
 *          as a lambda-expression, expecting four arguments.
 */
HYDROSIG_TEMPLATE_CALLABLE_4_ARG
class functor_to_callable_4 : public functor_4_base<HYDROSIG_4_ARG>
{
public:
    /**
     * @brief   Constructs a functor_to_callable_4 from the
     *          copy of the given callable object.
     */
    functor_to_callable_4(Callable_type callable);

    /**
     * @brief   Calls the encapsulated function.
     * @return  The result of the function call.
     * @param   arg1 The first argument.
     * @param   arg2 The second argument.
     * @param   arg3 The third argument.
     * @param   arg4 The fourth argument.
     */
    Return_type operator()(Arg1_type arg1, Arg2_type arg2, Arg3_type arg3,
                           Arg4_type arg4);

private:
    /**< The callable object */
    Callable_type m_callable;

};

/**
 * @brief   This class encapsulates a bound member function
 *          with four arguments.
 */
HYDROSIG_TEMPLATE_OBJECT_4_ARG
class functor_to_member_4 : public functor_4_base<HYDROSIG_4_ARG>
{
public:
    /**< Typedef for the function type */
    typedef Return_type(Object_type::*function_type)
            (Arg1_type, Arg2_type, Arg3_type,
             Arg4_type);

    /**
     * @brief   Constructs a functor_to_member_4 from pointer to
     *          the given object and a member function pointer.
     */
    functor_to_member_4(Object_type* object,
                        function_type function);

    /**
     * @brief   Calls the encapsulated function on the object.
     * @return  The result of the function call.
     * @param   arg1 The first argument.
     * @param   arg2 The second argument.
     * @param   arg3 The third argument.
     * @param   arg4 The fourth argument.
     */
    Return_type operator()(Arg1_type arg1, Arg2_type arg2, Arg3_type arg3,
                           Arg4_type arg4);

    /**
     * @brief   Compares this functor with another for equality.
     * @details four functors compare equal, if they refer to the
     *          same member function of the same object.
     * @param   other The other functor.
     * @return  True if the functors compare equal.
     */
    bool operator==(const functor_to_member_4 &other);

private:
    /**< Pointer to the target object */
    Object_type*  m_object;

    /**< Pointer to the encapsulated function */
    function_type m_function;

};

/**
 * @brief   This class encapsulates a const bound member function
 *          with four arguments.
 */
HYDROSIG_TEMPLATE_OBJECT_4_ARG
class functor_to_member_const_4 : public functor_4_base<HYDROSIG_4_ARG>
{
public:
    /**< Typedef for the function type */
    typedef Return_type(Object_type::*function_type)
            (Arg1_type, Arg2_type, Arg3_type,
             Arg4_type) const;

    /**
     * @brief   Constructs a functor_to_member_const_4 from pointer to
     *          the given object and a member function pointer.
     */
    functor_to_member_const_4(Object_type* object,
                              function_type function);

    /**
     * @brief   Calls the encapsulated function on the object.
     * @return  The result of the function call.
     * @param   arg1 The first argument.
     * @param   arg2 The second argument.
     * @param   arg3 The third argument.
     * @param   arg4 The fourth argument.
     */
    Return_type operator()(Arg1_type arg1, Arg2_type arg2, Arg3_type arg3,
                           Arg4_type arg4);

    /**
     * @brief   Compares this functor with another for equality.
     * @details four functors compare equal, if they refer to the
     *          same member function of the same object.
     * @param   other The other functor.
     * @return  True if the functors compare equal.
     */
    bool operator==(const functor_to_member_const_4 &other);

private:
    /**< Pointer to the target object */
    Object_type*  m_object;

    /**< Pointer to the encapsulated function */
    function_type m_function;

};

/**
 * @brief   This class encapsulates a volatile bound member function
 *          with four arguments.
 */
HYDROSIG_TEMPLATE_OBJECT_4_ARG
class functor_to_member_volatile_4 : public functor_4_base<HYDROSIG_4_ARG>
{
public:
    /**< Typedef for the function type */
    typedef Return_type(Object_type::*function_type)
            (Arg1_type, Arg2_type, Arg3_type,
             Arg4_type) volatile;

    /**
     * @brief   Constructs a functor_to_member_volatile_4 from pointer to
     *          the given object and a member function pointer.
     */
    functor_to_member_volatile_4(Object_type* object,
                                 function_type function);

    /**
     * @brief   Calls the encapsulated function on the object.
     * @return  The result of the function call.
     * @param   arg1 The first argument.
     * @param   arg2 The second argument.
     * @param   arg3 The third argument.
     * @param   arg4 The fourth argument.
     */
    Return_type operator()(Arg1_type arg1, Arg2_type arg2, Arg3_type arg3,
                           Arg4_type arg4);

    /**
     * @brief   Compares this functor with another for equality.
     * @details four functors compare equal, if they refer to the
     *          same member function of the same object.
     * @param   other The other functor.
     * @return  True if the functors compare equal.
     */
    bool operator==(const functor_to_member_volatile_4 &other);

private:
    /**< Pointer to the target object */
    Object_type*  m_object;

    /**< Pointer to the encapsulated function */
    function_type m_function;

};

/**
 * @brief   This class encapsulates a const volatile bound member function
 *          with four arguments.
 */
HYDROSIG_TEMPLATE_OBJECT_4_ARG
class functor_to_member_const_volatile_4 : public functor_4_base<HYDROSIG_4_ARG>
{
public:
    /**< Typedef for the function type */
    typedef Return_type(Object_type::*function_type)
            (Arg1_type, Arg2_type, Arg3_type,
             Arg4_type) const volatile;

    /**
     * @brief   Constructs a functor_to_member_const_volatile_4 from pointer to
     *          the given object and a member function pointer.
     */
    functor_to_member_const_volatile_4(Object_type* object,
                                       function_type function);

    /**
     * @brief   Calls the encapsulated function on the object.
     * @return  The result of the function call.
     * @param   arg1 The first argument.
     * @param   arg2 The second argument.
     * @param   arg3 The third argument.
     * @param   arg4 The fourth argument.
     */
    Return_type operator()(Arg1_type arg1, Arg2_type arg2, Arg3_type arg3,
                           Arg4_type arg4);

    /**
     * @brief   Compares this functor with another for equality.
     * @details four functors compare equal, if they refer to the
     *          same member function of the same object.
     * @param   other The other functor.
     * @return  True if the functors compare equal.
     */
    bool operator==(const functor_to_member_const_volatile_4 &other);

private:
    /**< Pointer to the target object */
    Object_type*  m_object;

    /**< Pointer to the encapsulated function */
    function_type m_function;

};

/**
 * Member definitions:
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Ace uber-talented music producer Drey Beatz officially kicks off the yuletide with a grand slam he calls 'Blood On The Dance Floor' and he enlists the vocal performance of rising singer Ceeza Milli.
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Well, even for someone as opinionated as I am, it is hard to answer such a question. But, I do think "good" and "bad" are "bad" labels for children's behavior.
For another, you know that you often do "bad" things for "good" reasons, and vice versa, like the video of the little boy comforting his little sister after he slapped her in the face. It is hard to know the thinking behind something. Is it good to get an ice cube for Gramma's drink? Yes. Is it bad to climb up the refrigerator shelves with your muddy boots and to leave the refrigerator open so that the dog can eat tonight's dinner? Yes. Is it bad to take your sister's doll? Yes. Does it make it okay to hand her a a spoon to play with instead? Maybe, let's see.
This also puts all morality into our heads, and not in theirs. It reminds me of the scene in Harry Potter when Mrs. Weasley says: "RON! I'd better not catch you doing that again!" And he replies: "You won't (catch me, that is.)" We want children to have their own experience of morality. To me, we learn this when others tell us how what we do effects them. This is why "I messages" are important in communication. "I am frustrated that I washed your laundry and you let the dog sleep on it. Now it is dirty again. This time you will help me wash it." It may or may not be "good" or "bad" to make a bed for the dog, but it effects you. Children are the best teachers of each other in this way. It is almost completely ineffective for us to tell children what is hurtful or harmful to other children, but very effective for children to tell each other. Although it takes a lot of time.
It is the beginning of the school year, again, and, again, we have 6 new families. After two weeks of school, I think some (all?) of them think I am nuts. They may NOT feel comfortable; they may feel unsure, judged, lost, scared, annoyed….Who the heck am I to ask them to trust this process? Why was this a good idea, again? I tried, so hard, to write and post and talk about what we do, and they thought it sounded great, and yet….
1) It is all for the children (well, almost all.) Some of it is for us, and some is for you 🙂 We believe that children are happier when they feel competent, and that the way to feel competent is to learn to be competent. And, much of the time, that is EXACTLY what we cannot do for them. Think about the first day of a new job, and what a fumblefingers you felt. But you had to go through that to become the firefighter, computer programmer, contractor, lecturer, editor, therapist, toilet-cleaner, gardener, plumber you are today! There are no shortcuts to this, and it starts as small as pulling off your own socks.
2) The good news is, children are hard-wired to struggle (and ) to learn. To struggle, and to struggle to learn. Remember how many times they fell down when they were learning to walk? Montessori has a great passage about this in The Absorbent Mind; that we know children can work hard, because they learn to WALK and SPEAK A LANGUAGE (or two, or three), with no stickers, punishment, rewards. They watched and listened and figured it out! That's what they'll do at school, too, as soon as we get out of their way, and they get out of their own way.
3) Everyone has barriers to learning. Everyone can be too extroverted, too introverted, too fast, too slow, too loud, too quiet, too angry, too compliant, too busy, too distracted…So, the good news is that EVERYONE IS WORKING HARD AT SOMETHING. It seems that the children pick up on this instinctively at some point, that everyone is (was) struggling, so that this is a safe place to struggle. I hope the rest of the places they are are safe for this as well.
4) And, everyone needs help. 4b) Everyone needs to learn to ask for it.
5) Everyone can give help. 5b) It is often good to wait until someone asks for it.
6) As a child said last week, to a child who wanted their mom: "Don't worry, your parents don't know everything!" (Bwahahahahaha! What did that mean???) Well, I think it meant that other people can help you with stuff, too. How can we have 6 new two year olds in the class every year? Because there are 12 other teachers in the room, besides the 3 adult ones.
7) Everyone needs to feel that we believe that they can do it. Lucky for me, I have seen children figure things out for a long time; it is literally mind boggling what children can figure out in three years! I don't worry much about young children any more. However, as with the children, I cannot make parents feel better, much. I can only ask them to trust themselves and their children. It is very hard to watch parents struggle. Much harder than watching their children struggle. I remember being a parent of young children. I AM a parent of grown (gasp) children. They still struggle. I still have to have faith in them. It is still hard. And I still can't do it for them, even by giving advice, most of the time. Even though I am SO SMART and have made SO MANY MISTAKES that they could learn from.
So, that's about it, in a nutshell. And the materials are just a means to and end, so it doesn't matter much if your child is painting pictures, washing their plates or counting to 100, the process of learning is in there.


Engineering services firm EnerMech has concluded its sale to private equity firm Carlyle Group and announced a number of senior appointments to its board.
The Aberdeen-headquartered company announced in October it was being acquired by Carlyle Group from Lime Rock Partners in a deal worth £450m.
The investment is coming from Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP), a £1.9 billion fund that invests in the global oil and gas sector outside North America.
With the deal now concluded, oilfield services veteran John Kennedy has been appointed as the group's chairman.
Mr Kennedy has held several senior positions over his 40-year career with businesses including Halliburton, Root & Brown and rig manufacturer Lamprell.
He led the buy-out of Vetco International from ABB, and was chairman of Wellstream Holdings when it completed an initial public offering in 2007.
It was later acquired by US conglomerate General Electric for £800m in 2010.
According to news reports from the time, the deal saw Mr Kennedy pocket £18.2m with his stake in the business.
Meanwhile Joost Droge and Bob Maguire, both managing directors and partners at CIEP, and Philippe Boisseau have been appointed as non-executive directors on the EnerMech board.
The firm, which employs 3,500 staff across 40 locations globally, said the deal would allow it to "push forward" internationally over the next decade.
Chief executive Doug Duguid said: "John Kennedy's experience in the upstream sector and successful corporate track record will add a breadth of expertise and knowledge which will shape the next chapter of EnerMech's growth strategy.
"With the operating experience, financial resources and international support network of The Carlyle Group and CIEP, EnerMech is in an excellent position to consolidate our presence in our existing markets whilst pushing forward in exploiting new geographic and sector opportunities.
"There is a renewed confidence in our core energy sector client base and we are committed to working collaboratively with clients to identify and provide the best solutions possible.


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Colorado driver replaces tail light with red sports drink
DENVER (AP) — Colorado police say a driver tried to replace a broken tail light with a red sports drink.
Denver news station KMGH-TV reported that Longmont police stopped a driver Monday who placed a red-colored bottled drink where his car's rear light should have been.
Authorities say the driver was on his way to get the tail light fixed when officers stopped him in Longmont, 38 miles (61 kilometers) north of Denver.
Officials say officers didn't ticket the driver, who was seen repairing his car later that day.
Police say tail lights prevent crashes and "while we appreciate the ingenuity of this taillight, this is not a permanent solution."
Authorities say vehicles must have a red tail light that can be seen at least 100 feet (30 meters) away during the day.
Information from: KMGH-TV, http://www.thedenverchannel.com
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Hell to pay: Arson shakes a Church of Satan community
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — Members of the Church of Satan are grieving the destruction of a historic "Halloween House" north of New York City that authorities say was set ablaze this week by an unidentified arsonist.
The historic home, built in 1900, served as an Addams Family-style hub for local adherents of the religion, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. One member of the church likened the arson to a terrorist attack.
PERINTON, N.Y. (AP) — Nearly 100 cats have survived a house fire in a town outside Rochester, New York, according to an animal protection group.
The Lollypop Farm shelter had been told as many as 70 cats lived in the Perinton home when it caught fire.
Over 5,000 COVID-19 deaths confirmed in Alabama; Houston County reports highest death total in SE district
Rep. Mo Brooks blames Capitol attack on 'fascist ANTIFA,' says need to 'fight for honest & accurate elections'


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Q: Programly add empty section to iOS MachO file? It seems that adding -Wl,-sectcreate,__RESTRICT,__restrict,/dev/null in Other Linker Flags will add an empty section.
And in code we can __attribute((used,section("segmentname,sectionname"))) to declare a var or function.
But how to declare an empty section in code?

A: You already discovered the section(...) attribute, but no matter what you apply it to (even struct {} and char[0]), it's gonna take up some space and create a non-empty segment.
It seems there is no way to do exactly what you're asking from actual C code, but you can achieve a workaround by using inline assembly.
Include this code block somewhere outside of a function:
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Turkish Culture & Cuisine
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Türkiye has an incredibly rich and diverse history and culture. The development of the Turkish culinary culture and cuisine, with its great variety of local traditions and associated customs can be linked to a wide variety of foods that originated from the lands of Asia and Anatolia some millennia ago. This long history can be traced through the kitchens of the Hittites, Seljuk, Greeks, Persians, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires. With Istanbul as its capital and control of lands around the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for six centuries.
Türkiye strides Europe and Asia, separated by the Bosphorus seaway upon which Istanbul, the largest city is built, partly in Europe and partly in Asia as was once the capital of three great empires, the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. Türkiye is surrounded by seas on four sides (Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara dividing the European and Asian land masses). With well-defined natural borders between its eight neighbors, Türkiye has been well positioned throughout the centuries as the gate way into Europe and containing abundant arable land and biological wealth much richer than any of its neighbors.
The European portion known as Thrace, 3% of the country, consists mainly of plateaus, the Asian part is known as Anatolia (or Asia Minor) consisting of a large central plateau. With altitudes ranging from sea level to mountain ranges over 5,000 metres (Mount Agri) Türkiye's diverse regions have different climates, with the weather system on the coasts contrasting with that prevailing in the interior. With a coast line covering more than 8000 klm (5000 miles) in length one would expect the harvest from the sea to be most important in regional cuisines.
In June 1941, the First Geography Congress, held in Ankara, divided Türkiye into seven regions. These geographical regions were separated by their climate, location, flora and fauna, human habitat, agricultural diversities, transportation, topography. The four coastal regions and three inner regions were named according to their proximity to the four seas surrounding Türkiye, and their positions in Anatolia.
• The Black Sea Region
• The Marmara Region
• The Aegean Region
• The Mediterranean Region
• The Central Anatolia Region
• The Eastern Anatolia Region
• The Southeastern Anatolia Region
These regions bring a diverse agricultural heritage and a multicultural inheritance. Türkiye produces 75% of the total number of plant species found in Europe, and ranks 9th in terms of biodiversity richness with over 33% of its flora. Are you aware that cherries, apricots, almonds and figs all originated in Türkiye? Many important domestic species (e.g. wheat, chickpea, lentil, apple, pear, apricot, chestnut, and pistachio) owe their existence to wild relatives also originating in Türkiye and the cuisine varies across the country. The cuisine of Istanbul, Bursa, Izmir, and rest of the Asia Minor region inherits many elements of Ottoman court cuisine, with a lighter use of spices, a preference for rice over bulgur, koftes and a wider availability of vegetable stews (türlü), eggplant, stuffed dolmas and fish.
The cuisine of the Black Sea Region uses fish extensively, especially the Black Sea anchovy (hamsi) and includes maize dishes. The cuisine of the southeast (e.g. Urfa, Gaziantep, Adıyaman and Adana) is famous for its variety of kebabs, mezes and dough-based desserts such as baklava, şöbiyet, kadayıf, and künefe. Western parts of Türkiye, where olive trees grow abundantly, olive oil is the major type of oil used for cooking. The cuisines of the Aegean, Marmara and Mediterranean regions are rich in vegetables, herbs, and fish. Central Anatolia has many famous specialties, such as keşkek, mantı (especially from Kayseri) and gözleme.
Did you know that Türkiye is also home to a number of ornamental flowers, most notable the tulip? The oldest known human settlement located in Çatalhöyük, overlooking the Konya Plain in south central Anatolia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, dating back to 7,000 B.C. Interestingly, the earliest known landscape painting was found on the wall of a Catalhöyük house, illustrating the volcanic eruption of nearby Hasandag. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Bodrum, two of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World were located in Türkiye.
Other interesting facts were that the Turks introduced coffee to Europe, the first minted coins, 7th century BC, were credited to Sardis, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lycia, and the word "turquoise" comes from "Turk" meaning Turkish, representing the deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea.
This diverse cultural heritage and climatic variations have given rise to the Mediterranean diet, reflective of traditions within Türkiye and the surrounding seas. The core of this diet are the everyday whole grains, dried and fresh vegetables and fruits, dried and fresh legumes, herbs, spices, nuts, interspersed with fish, seafood, dairy foods, eggs, occasional meats and sweets and of course healthy fats such as Turkish olive oil. In 2013, the Mediterranean diet was inscribed on UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Humanity. Although the Mediterranean diet has become well known in many countries, it is important to concentrated more on acknowledging the cultural rituals and culinary tradition that make this diet important.
Some strengths of the Mediterranean diet include using few ingredients to make flavorful dishes while reducing or even eliminating food waste. Eating with an emphasis on sharing this occasion with family and friends and viewing food and diet as a social ritual have enhanced the importance of culture and cuisine.
One example of food being used socially would be street food culture throughout Türkiye. It is common to purchase and consume well known foods such as Döner, Simit, Kokoreç (informally, known as "hangover food"), Çiğ Köfte, Gözleme, and Lahmacun (one of the most popular dishes in Turkish cuisine) Türkiye's answer to the Pizza.
Another important feature of cultural identity is the role that local markets have on Turkish. There are large, central markets in all Turkish cities, each featuring stalls with local vendors selling their family's specialty. Many markets will also include a small cafe-bar where you can enjoy traditional Turkish coffee, another Turkish product on the UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List, while enjoying the endless assortment of foods available.
Food names directly cognate with mantı are also found in Chinese (mantou or steamed bun) and Korean cuisine (mandu) and it is generally considered to have originated in Mongolia during the 13th century. Specialty foods are often named for places, and may refer to different styles of preparation.
Although meat-based foods such as kebabs are common in Turkish cuisine abroad, meals in Türkiye largely center around rice, vegetables, and bread. Did you know there are at least 110 different kebabs only in Türkiye, and each one has its unique taste?
Şiş Kebab: The most common variety of kebab is marinated lamb or beef cooked on a skewer called a "shish," or written in Turkish as şiş. Vegetables are sometimes cooked along with them, wherein typical vegetables include eggplant, tomato, bell pepper, onions, pickles and mushrooms.
This cookery book will take you on a culinary journey the length and breadth of Türkiye and introduce you to foods that you may not have cooked with previously. However, my advice is to embrace what this wonderful culture and cuisine has to offer and let your taste buds enjoy the explosion of flavors with friends and most importantly family.
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A paramedic delayed treating a man who had been trampled by a herd of cows because she refused to walk into the animals' field.
Retired herdsman Paul Williams, 68, was walking his pet dog Bonnie across a field when a young calf bounded towards him followed by protective adults in a stampede.
He was knocked to the ground and suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung and his legs were badly cut by the hooves of the cattle.
The pensioner was saved by walker Luke Johnson, 25, who heard his screams for help and bravely carried him away from the herd before dialing 999.
Luke then waited in the field with him until a paramedic arrived - and was shocked when she waited ten minutes before treating the casualty.
Instead of climbing the locked gate into the field she sat in her car until firefighters arrived to cut open the entrance so she could drive in.
Luke, a plasterer, said: 'The emergency responder turned up and I saw her, then she vanished for 10 minutes, then she came back.
'I was going mental to the operator and Mr Williams was complaining about breathing and stuff.
'In that situation if you can't drive down you get the backpack on and you run down there.
'I thought he was dying in front of me and she was just sitting up the road.
Mr Williams was rushed to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge where surgeons operated on his badly cut legs.
He also needed 12 stitches above his left eyebrow and is now recovering in a high-dependency ward.
The East of England Ambulance Service defended their paramedic and said she was following procedure over the incident in St. Neots on August 26.
A spokesman said: 'The reason for this was to ensure her safety and the patient's at all times.
'The response car by her side would be used if she had to retreat to it immediately if the cows in the field became agitated further.


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Created on Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:00
Written by Samantha See
Based on journalist Mark O'Brien's true story "The Surrogate", "The Sessions" is a surprisingly poignant yet heartwarming film.
John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) plays 38-year-old journalist O'Brien, who is eager to lose his virginity though his Catholic guilt requires him to elicit permission from his priest (William H. Macy). The problem is, he is hardly desirable having to stay in a manmade iron lung, which helps the polio-stricken him survive – he can stay no more than four hours out of it. His crush on his caregiver doesn't work out and he turns to an extremely patient sex surrogate Cheryl (Helen Hunt) instead.
We loved Hawkes' acting here, both confident yet vulnerable at the same time. The chemistry between the two leads are surprisingly convincing, and comic relief in the form of a cool longhaired priest helped as well. Sex is treated as it is in its physical form rather than romanticized and the leads discuss it as a form of primal need and satisfaction that even the disabled would crave and could fulfill.
In all, we would say, look beyond the superficial sex and you will see a tender love story about overcoming emotional and physical barriers with the right touch on the sometimes taboo topics of disability as well as sex.
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