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Surkin is the wild boy of Institubes, known for ripping up dance floors, surfing frenzied crowds and questionable stage antics. And he's a remixer of renown. Whether it's tracks from label mates like Para One or from the neighbours, Ed Banger's DJ Mehdi; aggressive tracks from Boyz Noize or a quiet killer from the Klaxons, Surkin gives them a once over and the script is flipped every time.
Surkin is also known as Benoit Heitz (b. 1985). He's from Avignon in the south of France but he's based in Paris now. He once studied contemporary art, but became fed up with the convoluted theory. He's now an occasional graphic designer and a full-time music producer, with a mid- to up-tempo (rhythm & fuse) focus. A former four to the floor hater (rap was his main interest until 2003), Surkin got into dance music after hearing DJ Assault and other Detroit Ghettotech dons like DJ Nasty, DJ Godfather or Disco D.
He also owes much to his countrymen, Jess & Crabbe, or Cassius and obviously Daft Punk. As a Nintendo generation lad, Heitz feels more comfortable mixing with Ableton Live than vinyl. The sound he has at the moment has been describes as ruthless house, though his sets at the Rex and Triptych in recent months have been pitched down to a sexier 120-130 bpms.
Heitz collaborates with Bobmo on a project called High Powered Boys – they produce ghetto tracks done through MSN Messenger within a handful of hours.


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Q: Axiom class cannot be found I'm trying to compile a simple SOAP client example shipped with Axis2. However the Java compiler cannot find the imports:
import org.apache.axiom.om.OMAbstractFactory;
import org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement;
import org.apache.axiom.om.OMFactory;
import org.apache.axiom.om.OMNamespace;
import org.apache.axis2.AxisFault;
import org.apache.axis2.addressing.EndpointReference;
import org.apache.axis2.client.Options;
import org.apache.axis2.client.ServiceClient;

I have checked my classpath variable is up-to-date on the command line and it includes:
C:\axis2-1.6.1\lib

I have also checked the lib directory contains the required Axiom jars (it does)
axiom-api-1.2.12
axiom-dom-1.2.12
axiom-impl-1.2.12

And that these jars match the package I'm importing (they do). How can I still be getting the error:
 error: package org.apache.axiom.om does not exist

?

A: Asix2 User Guide describes the directory structure and the use of Axis2 tools to prevent the need to set the CLASSPATH environment variable:

The bin directory includes a number of useful scripts. They include
  axis2.bat (or axis2.sh), which enables you to easily execute a Java
  command without having to manually add all the Axis2 jar files to the
  classpath

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HomeFeaturedLocal Girl Scouts use cookie sale earnings to buy supplies for Hurricane Ida victims
Local Girl Scouts use cookie sale earnings to buy supplies for Hurricane Ida victims
October 6, 2021 Monique Roth Featured, St. Charles Parish
Girl Scouts in Junior Troop 20104 and Cadette/Senior Troop 20179 banded together recently to purchase supplies for the community.
Despite dealing with their own personal losses and altered school schedules because of Hurricane Ida, Girl Scouts in local Junior Troop 20104 and Cadette/Senior Troop 20179 banded together recently to purchase cleaning items, toiletries and other essential supplies for residents in need in St. Charles Parish.
Norco resident Hollie Pfister, who along with Destrehan resident Andrea Carter, leads the troops. Pfister said the troops usually meet together at Sacred Heart on Sundays, but that their Sept. 26 gathering was unique for a couple of reasons – it was the first time the girls had all gotten together since the hurricane, and instead of a normal meeting they did the giveaway.
"It was really sweet when they all started arriving you could tell they were overjoyed and hugging each other to see each other," Pfister said. "They were really excited too that they were able to lend a hand and help people out."
Pfister said the girls made a decision to come together and use funds from cookie sales in March to buy supplies for hurricane victims. The giveaway was planned for the same time as a Red Cross meal distribution, which Pfister said worked out perfectly for residents.
"People were able to get meals and supplies," she said. "We had paper towels, toilet paper, gloves, toothpaste, toothbrushes, feminine products … the little bit we had left over we donated to Sacred Heart Church."
Pfister said the scouts thought of the giveaway on their own, which made it even more special. She said that many of the girls have also recently donated their time to the United Methodist Church's Matthew 25:35 food ministry to help with hurricane relief efforts there.
"A good bit of the girls in our troop have some sort of damage to their homes," Pfister said. "I think they are some pretty strong girls … their work ethic is great despite their own troubles. They saw that it's worth it to lend a hand … it's sort of a pay it forward. They wanted to be able to do something."
Girl Scouts participating in the supply giveaway included Ella Comeaux, Jordan Robin, Spencer Robin, Eva Braud, Jenna Carmouche, Britten Rodriguez, Breelyn Oster, Kinsley Housewright, Gracie Piper, Evelyn Carter, Leah Carter, Savanna Burnham, Kahlan Rodriguez, Hazel Roberts, Phoebe Bolden, Shelby Bordelon, Madison Brannon, Addison Revere and Brooklyn Robin. Participating troop leaders were Carter, Pfister, Stephanie Chiasson and 'Paco' Rodriguez.
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White and Porter were among four officers charged with felonies in connection with Gray's arrest and death. They had been suspended without pay since May 1, 2015, under police department policy. Having been acquitted, they are now entitled to back pay under that policy.
Earlier this month, the Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, authorized a payment of $126,916 to Lt. Brian Rice, the highest-ranking officer charged in Gray's death.
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The Bayesian method is the natural approach to inference, yet it is hidden from readers behind chapters of slow, mathematical analysis. The typical text on Bayesian inference involves two to three chapters on probability theory, then enters what Bayesian inference is. Unfortunately, due to mathematical intractability of most Bayesian models, the reader is only shown simple, artificial examples. This can leave the user with a *so-what* feeling about Bayesian inference. In fact, this was the author's own prior opinion.

After some recent success of Bayesian methods in machine-learning competitions, I decided to investigate the subject again. Even with my mathematical background, it took me three straight-days of reading examples and trying to put the pieces together to understand the methods. There was simply not enough literature bridging theory to practice. The problem with my misunderstanding was the disconnect between Bayesian mathematics and probabilistic programming. That being said, I suffered then so the reader would not have to now. This book attempts to bridge the gap.

If Bayesian inference is the destination, then mathematical analysis is a particular path to towards it. On the other hand, computing power is cheap enough that we can afford to take an alternate route via probabilistic programming. The latter path is much more useful, as it denies the necessity of mathematical intervention at each step, that is, we remove often-intractable mathematical analysis as a prerequisite to Bayesian inference. Simply put, this latter computational path proceeds via small intermediate jumps from beginning to end, where as the first path proceeds by enormous leaps, often landing far away from our target. Furthermore, without a strong mathematical background, the analysis required by the first path cannot even take place.

*Bayesian Methods for Hackers* is designed as a introduction to Bayesian inference from a computational/understanding-first, and mathematics-second, point of view. Of course as an introductory book, we can only leave it at that: an introductory book. For the mathematically trained, they may cure the curiosity this text generates with other texts designed with mathematical analysis in mind. For the enthusiast with less mathematical-background, or one who is not interested in the mathematics but simply the practice of Bayesian methods, this text should be sufficient and entertaining.

The choice of PyMC as the probabilistic programming language is two-fold. As of this writing, there is currently no central resource for examples and explanations in the PyMC universe. The official documentation assumes prior knowledge of Bayesian inference and probabilistic programming. We hope this book encourages users at every level to look at PyMC. Secondly, with recent core developments and popularity of the scientific stack in Python, PyMC is likely to become a core component soon enough.

PyMC does have dependencies to run, namely NumPy and (optionally) SciPy. To not limit the user, the examples in this book will rely only on PyMC, NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib only.

Contents
------

See the project homepage [here](http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/) for examples, too.

The below chapters are rendered via the *nbviewer* at
[nbviewer.ipython.org/](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/), and is read-only and rendered in real-time.
Interactive notebooks + examples can be downloaded by cloning!

* [**Prologue:**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Prologue/Prologue.ipynb) Why we do it.

* [**Chapter 1: Introduction to Bayesian Methods**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter1_Introduction/Chapter1_Introduction.ipynb)
    Introduction to the philosophy and practice of Bayesian methods and answering the question, "What is probabilistic programming?" Examples include:
    - Inferring human behaviour changes from text message rates

* [**Chapter 2: A little more on PyMC**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter2_MorePyMC/MorePyMC.ipynb)
    We explore modeling Bayesian problems using Python's PyMC library through examples. How do we create Bayesian models? Examples include:
    - Detecting the frequency of cheating students, while avoiding liars
    - Calculating probabilities of the Challenger space-shuttle disaster

* [**Chapter 3: Opening the Black Box of MCMC**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter3_MCMC/IntroMCMC.ipynb)
    We discuss how MCMC operates and diagnostic tools. Examples include:
    - Bayesian clustering with mixture models

* [**Chapter 4: The Greatest Theorem Never Told**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter4_TheGreatestTheoremNeverTold/LawOfLargeNumbers.ipynb)
    We explore an incredibly useful, and dangerous, theorem: The Law of Large Numbers. Examples include:
    - Exploring a Kaggle dataset and the pitfalls of naive analysis
    - How to sort Reddit comments from best to worst (not as easy as you think)

* [**Chapter 5: Would you rather lose an arm or a leg?**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter5_LossFunctions/LossFunctions.ipynb)
    The introduction of loss functions and their (awesome) use in Bayesian methods.  Examples include:
    - Solving the *Price is Right*'s Showdown
    - Optimizing financial predictions
    - Winning solution to the Kaggle Dark World's competition

* [**Chapter 6: Getting our *prior*-ities straight**](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter6_Priorities/Priors.ipynb)
    Probably the most important chapter. We draw on expert opinions to answer questions. Examples include:
    - Multi-Armed Bandits and the Bayesian Bandit solution.
    - What is the relationship between data sample size and prior?
    - Estimating financial unknowns using expert priors

    We explore useful tips to be objective in analysis as well as common pitfalls of priors.

* **Chapter X1: Bayesian methods in Machine Learning and Model Validation**
    We explore how to resolve the overfitting problem plus popular ML methods. Also included are probablistic explainations of ridge regression and LASSO regression.
    - Tim Saliman's winning solution to Kaggle's *Don't Overfit* problem

* **Chapter X2: More PyMC Hackery**
    We explore the gritty details of PyMC. Examples include:
    -  Analysis on real-time GitHub repo stars and forks.

**More questions about PyMC?**
Please post your modeling, convergence, or any other PyMC question on [cross-validated](http://stats.stackexchange.com/), the statistics stack-exchange.

Using the book
-------

The book can be read in three different ways, starting from most recommended to least recommended:

1. The most recommended option is to clone the repository to download the .ipynb files to your local machine. If you have IPython installed, you can view the
chapters in your browser *plus* edit and run the code provided (and try some practice questions). This is the preferred option to read
this book, though it comes with some dependencies.
    -  IPython v0.13 (or greater) is a requirement to view the ipynb files. It can be downloaded [here](http://ipython.org/). IPython notebooks can be run by `(your-virtualenv) ~/path/to/the/book/Chapter1_Introduction $ ipython notebook`
    -  For Linux users, you should not have a problem installing NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib and PyMC. For Windows users, check out [pre-compiled versions](http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) if you have difficulty.
    -  In the styles/ directory are a number of files (.matplotlirc) that used to make things pretty. These are not only designed for the book, but they offer many improvements over the default settings of matplotlib.
    -  while technically not required, it may help to run the IPython notebook with `ipython notebook --pylab inline` flag if you encounter io errors.
2. The second, preferred, option is to use the nbviewer.ipython.org site, which display IPython notebooks in the browser ([example](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/master/Chapter1_Introduction/Chapter1_Introduction.ipynb)).
The contents are updated synchronously as commits are made to the book. You can use the Contents section above to link to the chapters.

3. **PDF versions are available! Look in the PDF/ directory.** PDFs are the least-prefered method to read the book, as pdf's are static and non-interactive. If PDFs are desired, they can be created dynamically using Chrome's builtin print-to-pdf feature or using the [nbconvert](https://github.com/ipython/nbconvert) utility.

Installation and configuration
------
If you would like to run the IPython notebooks locally, (option 1. above), you'll need to install the following:
-  IPython 0.13 is a requirement to view the ipynb files. It can be downloaded [here](http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/install/index.html)
-  For Linux users, you should not have a problem installing NumPy, SciPy and PyMC. For Windows users, check out [pre-compiled versions](http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) if you have difficulty.
   - also recommended, for data-mining exercises, are [PRAW](https://github.com/praw-dev/praw) and [requests](https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests).

-  In the styles/ directory are a number of files that are customized for the notebook.
These are not only designed for the book, but they offer many improvements over the
default settings of matplotlib and the IPython notebook. The in notebook style has not been finalized yet.

Development
------

This book has an unusual development design. The content is open-sourced, meaning anyone can be an author.
Authors submit content or revisions using the GitHub interface.

### How to contribute

####What to contribute?

-  The current chapter list is not finalized. If you see something that is missing (MCMC, MAP, Bayesian networks, good prior choices, Potential classes etc.),
feel free to start there.
-  Cleaning up Python code and making code more PyMC-esque
-  Giving better explanations
-  Spelling/grammar mistakes
-  Suggestions
-  Contributing to the IPython notebook styles

####Commiting

-  All commits are welcome, even if they are minor ;)
-  If you are unfamiliar with Github, you can email me contributions to the email below.

Contributions and Thanks
-----

Thanks to all our contributing authors, including (in chronological order):

Authors | | | |
--- | --- | --- | ---
[Cameron Davidson-Pilon](http://www.camdp.com) |  [Stef Gibson](http://stefgibson.com) | [Vincent Ohprecio](http://bigsnarf.wordpress.com/) |[Lars Buitinck](https://github.com/larsman)
[Paul Magwene](http://github.com/pmagwene) |  [Matthias Bussonnier](https://github.com/Carreau) | [Jens Rantil](https://github.com/JensRantil) |  [y-p](https://github.com/y-p)
[Ethan Brown](http://www.etano.net/) |  [Jonathan Whitmore](http://jonathanwhitmore.com/) | [Mattia Rigotti](https://github.com/matrig) |  [Colby Lemon](https://github.com/colibius)
[Gustav W Delius](https://github.com/gustavdelius) |  [Matthew Conlen](http://www.mathisonian.com/)  | [Jim Radford](https://github.com/radford) |  [Vannessa Sabino](http://baniverso.com/)
[Thomas Bratt](https://github.com/thomasbratt) |  [Nisan Haramati](https://github.com/nisanharamati) |  [Robert Grant](https://github.com/bgrant) | [Matthew Wampler-Doty](https://github.com/xcthulhu)
[Yaroslav Halchenko](https://github.com/yarikoptic) |  [Alex Garel](https://github.com/alexgarel) | [Oleksandr Lysenko](https://twitter.com/sash_ko) |  [liori](https://github.com/liori)
[ducky427](https://github.com/ducky427) |  [Pablo de Oliveira Castro](https://github.com/pablooliveira) | [sergeyfogelson](https://github.com/sergeyfogelson) |  [Mattia Rigotti](http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~mrigotti/)
[Matt Bauman](https://github.com/mbauman) | [Andrew Duberstein](http://www.andrewduberstein.com/) |  |

We would like to thank the Python community for building an amazing architecture. We would like to thank the
statistics community for building an amazing architecture.

Similarly, the book is only possible because of the [PyMC](http://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc) library. A big thanks to the core devs of PyMC: Chris Fonnesbeck, Anand Patil, David Huard and John Salvatier.

One final thanks. This book was generated by IPython Notebook, a wonderful tool for developing in Python. We thank the IPython
community for developing the Notebook interface. All IPython notebook files are available for download on the GitHub repository.

####Contact
Contact the main author, Cam Davidson-Pilon at cam.davidson.pilon@gmail.com or [@cmrndp](https://twitter.com/cmrn_dp)

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This package provides a client application to query a dictd server. The client-server protocol is TCP-based; the server may then be local or accessed through the network.
The DICT Development Group maintains several public servers which can be accessed from any machine connected to the Internet. The default configuration is to query one of these servers first. This may be changed in the configuration file /etc/dictd/dict.conf.
Queries may be customized by numerous command line options, including specifying the database(s) to be queried and the search strategy to be used.
This package also provides dictl, which allows using UTF-8 encoded dictionaries with terminals that do not support UTF-8.


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La L-xilosio 1-deidrogenasi è un enzima appartenente alla classe delle ossidoreduttasi, che catalizza la seguente reazione:
L-xilosio + NADP+  L-xilono-1,4-lattone + NADPH + H+
L'enzima è anche in grado di ossidare D-arabinosio e D-lixosio.

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With a packed bag at the door, yours truly thought it was as good a time as any, then, to think and talk about doo-doo…while being in it. (My blog "Power From The People," upstream, were earlier thoughts.) As climates change and population increases, one by-product of life, our doo-doo, is going to become an increasing concern to everyone, for myriad reasons, here on planet earth. It could be a bane or a bonanza. In this post I'll tell you about some facts you might not know and give some links to companies and articles you can further pursue on the subject, if you wish.
Well, US astronauts once wanted to 'take home' 96 pounds of moon rocks. The 'car' (space capsule) was already fully packed. (I can attest to this scenario.) So what do our 'Spacemen' do? What every hero in filmdom has done when their balloon or aero plane starts losing altitude: start chuck'n!
What did our Spacemen have to 'chuck' from their craft in order to successfully get 'air-borne'? Double that weight, in doo-doo. When the moon is finally an International Park, I hope the 'rangers' send NASA a bill (and a citation). Rude Americans. But thanks to another American, Bill Gates, we still have some esteem in the conscious world.
One of Mr. Gates's funded developments in the sanitation context, aside his waterless toilet (see references), is a 'machine' that can make pure drinking water from doo-doo. Fresh water from doo-doo? (Doo-doo is 75% water.) His machine produces that water primarily for electrical generation. Now if he would team up with Professor Bruce Logan at Penn State, maybe someday we'll be able to have both electricity and drinking water produced from our poop, in a cabinet outside our house in the middle of nowhere. And enough 'water-to-air' generator capacity might allow us to live almost anywhere.
One of the strangest facts about poop (if you happen to be a bibliophile) is a phenomenon nicknamed 'the bookstore urge.' Many readers may need no more words spent on the topic. It is well documented that not long after entering a bookstore you may be told by your bowels that it's time to head to the bathroom. Many guesses why this is, but it is named the Mariko Aoki Syndrome, after a woman of the same name.
PtP recalls the days that he was installing espresso machines and public bathrooms in bookstores. This even accelerated the 'need to go.' It is/was a known fact that caffeine can start contracting the end of your intestine. The author wonders if he was putting in those machines and facilities just because the owners thought it was the 'cool' thing to do in those hippy times, or were those caffeine howitzers trained on the passerby to 'aromatize' them into the store and then 'rush' them into a choice and to the cash register? In time it was discovered the food business was best not mixed with books and the coffee fad faded.
The American Chemical society heard from scientists that gold, platinum, silver and others were present in doo-doo at commercially viable amounts. (At one of Pete's old mining claims he could get 2.67 ounces of gold and 4 ounces of silver in one ton of concentrates…at a time when it was commercially mined for twenty-five cents per ton.) It has been estimated that the doo-doo from one million Americans can contain $13 million in metals. Another: about $13 per person per year. This gives Pete hope. Capital knows no bounds on demand and greed. Might we experience another golden wave of '49ers' by 2049?
Why wait though. Right now there is a research institute that will pay you $15K for all of your poop, for one year. Collection and two types of paperwork are a monumental consideration though.


RIOLIS-Counted Cross Stitch Kit. Express your love for arts and crafts with these beautiful cross stitch kits! Find a themed kit for any taste! This package contains 14 count even-weave cotton fabric, color chart, woolen and acrylic yarn in twenty-six different colors, metallic thread and one needle. Design: Starry Night After Van Gogh's Painting. Finished size: 11-3/4x15-3/4 inches.
The picture makes it look like there is backstitching at the bottom, but there is not. It's kind of just a mess of colors. Pretty colors, but not as detailed as I was expecting.
Always wanted to do this one. But not in this kit. Haven't used 14-count in decades.
Just a little confused on why the "on sale price" is actually higher than the original price. It's a beautiful cross stitch and actually my favorite painting. Just a little confused.
I have not done any count cross-stitching in a long time. Just would like to know if this is easy or NOT???
What color is the background fabric?
Is this kit whole stitches only?


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/*    NAME: Mike Bogochow                                   */
/*    ORGN: UNH                                             */
/*    FILE: UtilMOOSArduino.cpp                             */
/*    DATE: February 2014                                   */
/************************************************************/
/* A set of functions written for use in iMOOSArduino.      */
/************************************************************/

#include "MOOS/libMOOS/MOOSLib.h"
#include "UtilMOOSArduino.h"

// This is a rewrite of MOOSValFromString from MOOSUtilityFunctions.cpp.  It
// adds support for specifying the token for which key value pairs are
// separated.  Also now returns a list of strings through the out parameter
// to allow for detection of multiple copies of the key.
bool ValsFromString(std::list<std::string> &sVal,
  const std::string &sStr, const std::string &sTk, bool bInsensitive /*=true*/,
  const std::string delimiter /*=","*/)
{
  const char *whitespace = " \t";

	if(sTk.find(delimiter) != std::string::npos)
		return false;

  size_t nPos = std::string::npos;
  size_t k = 0;
  while((nPos = MOOSStrFind(sStr.substr(k), sTk, bInsensitive)) !=
    std::string::npos)
  {
    nPos += k;

    // We have the start of the token at nPos. We need to be careful here =
    // there could be many spaces between token and '='.
    size_t nEqualsPos = sStr.find('=', nPos);
    size_t nLastDelim = sStr.find_last_of(delimiter, nPos);
    size_t nLastChar;

    if(nLastDelim == std::string::npos)
    	nLastChar = sStr.find_first_not_of(whitespace, 0);

  	// Starting from previous delimiter, when is the first non-whitespace char?
    else
    	nLastChar = sStr.find_first_not_of(whitespace, nLastDelim + 1);

    if(nLastChar != nPos)
    { // Extra chars found
    	k = nPos + 1;
    	continue;
    }

  	// Look for a "="
    if(nEqualsPos != std::string::npos)
    { // There should only be whitespace twixt token and equals
      std::string t = sStr.substr(nPos + sTk.size(), nEqualsPos -
        (nPos + sTk.size()));
      MOOSTrimWhiteSpace(t);
      if(!t.empty())
      {
        //k = nEqualsPos;
        k = nPos + 1;
        continue;
      }

      //sVal.clear();
      //sVal = "";

      int nDelimPos = sStr.find(delimiter, nEqualsPos);

      std::string sub = sStr.substr(nEqualsPos + 1, nDelimPos - nEqualsPos - 1);
      MOOSTrimWhiteSpace(sub);

      sVal.push_front(sub);
      //sVal.append(sStr, nEqualsPos + 1, nDelimPos - nEqualsPos - 1);

      k = nPos + 1;
      continue;
      //return true;
    }

    else
      return false;
  } /* while */

  if (sVal.empty())
    return false;

  else
    return true;
} /* ValsFromString */

/**
 * Convert a list of strings to a list of doubles.  Any values within the
 * string list which are non-numeric will not be added to the double list.
 */
void strListToDblList(std::list<std::string> strList,
  std::list<double> &dblList)
{
  for (std::list<std::string>::iterator it = strList.begin();
    it != strList.end(); it++)
  {
    if (MOOSIsNumeric(*it))
      dblList.push_back(MOOS::StringToDouble(*it));
  }
} /* strListToDblList */


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Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh
1964: Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh, Chilton Hard cover book, 234 pp.
(from Chilton 1964)
He has been called the world's first idealist, the first temporal ruler ever to lead his people toward the worship of a single God. His name was Akhnaten, the strange Pharaoh whose influence on history went far beyond Egypt and far beyond his era. Here Robert Silverberg brings to life one of the founders of the modern world.
When Akhnaten came to the throne more than 3000 years ago, Egypt dominated the world. But behind this panoply of power was a cowering citizenry plagued by gods and demons conjured up by a sinister priestcraft. Akhnaten swept aside old gods and demons. Then, creating his own priesthood, he proclaimed a new religion—a religion of a single God. This visionary Pharaoh, more interested in philosophy than power, was unlike any other Egyptian ruler. When he introduced his concept of monotheism, Akhnaten was at an historic crossroads, for, at that point in time and place, the Hebrews were in Egypt. The author explores the relationship between Akhnaten's religion and the Hebrews' religion, and in the light of modern archaeological findings, he compares the spirituality of Akhnaten and Moses.
Akhnaten: The Rebel Pharaoh is more than the story of a man and his personal imprint of history. It is also the story of the grandeur that was Akhnaten's Egypt, a land where men, released from the bondage of a fear-laden religion, produced a magnificent civilization. In the new environment Akhnaten fostered, minds bloomed and artists flourished. The artists immortalized Akhnaten's queen, Nefertiti, whose serene beauty still lives today in works of Egyptian art.
This book deals with the same Egyptian Pharaoh as his juvenile novel The Mask of Akhenaten . I don't know definitively whether researching the biography spawned the novel or vice versa. This book was published first of the two.


Big Brother presenter Emma Willis, 41, announced the news to the Borehamwood compound during last night's live eviction show, confirming that the 56-year-old housemate had been voted out by the public.
Joe then said his goodbyes before exiting the house to a mixed reaction from the crowd, receiving his fair share of boos.
During his post-eviction interview with Emma, he admitted: "I didn't want to go. I was looking forward to it.
Big Brother 2017: The sexiest moments from the BB house.
"What they don't tell you," he continued. "I'm 56 years old and when you go from seven to two, three hours of sleep per night, it's hard. The age gap affects me a lot."
He also called the age difference between him and the majority of his ex-housemates "a problem", adding: "You're shattered, you're mentally drained. They're younger, physically I was drained after five days."
Joe went on to hit back at the negative side of the crowd's reaction to his exit, blasting: "To the ones that cheered, thank you! To the w****rs, you got no idea what it's like in the house!"
Shortly after leaving, the latest Big Brother evictee opened up about his experience in the house, telling the Metro: "I think I was the only person in that house from the start that actually got bullied because I'm the older man, and I find that quite disturbing."
He added that he had found the younger housemates difficult to deal with at times, finding himself "physically drained".
Although Joe insisted that he had good fun in the house as well, he confessed to being slightly isolated from the rest of the group, saying: "When I'd be outside having many cigarettes not many of them would come out and speak to me and I found it very lonely."
Big Brother continues tonight at 9pm on Channel 5.


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A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (1954) DVD-R
Starring Mary Martin, Ed Sullivan, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy
Paul Page
Directed by Ralph Levy
This is a DVD of the General Foods 25th Anniversary Special from March 28,1954. A tribute to Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstain II with musical scenes from his shows "The King & I", "Carousel", "Oklahoma", "South Pacific" with hosts
Groucho Marx & Mary Martin, Yul Brynner, Jan Clayton, Florence Henderson, Gordon MacRae, Patricia Morison, Enzio Pinza,
John Raitt, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II. Runs 90 minutes. DVD !
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XPeng Is a Proxy for Alibaba and Chinese Industrial Policy
It's amazing how many people who rail at the Chinese Communist Party still want to buy the country's electric vehicle stocks, such as Xpeng (NASDAQ:XPEV) stock.
Source: Andy Feng / Shutterstock.com
Like other electric vehicle specialists, from Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) on down, Xpeng carries a valuation that's divorced from reality. The best estimate for 2021 revenue is $2.1 billion. Its market cap is $32.4 billion. That's almost as much as Ford (NYSE:F), which should do $130 billion in business next year.
Xpeng is backed by Alibaba Group Holding (NASDAQ:BABA), which boosted its stake in the company to 19% in September, as it came public. Since then, XPeng is up 143% and Alibaba down over 20%.
XPeng is a proxy for Chinese industrial policy. Almost half the electric cars on the world's roads are Chinese and Tesla's success there is an embarrassment.
China means to destroy Tesla and is backing its Chinese companies to do the job. The idea of bidding up the Chinese companies because Tesla's valuation is out of whack thus makes no sense.
Each of China's electric car start-ups is backed by a cloud. Tencent Holdings (OTCMKTS:TCEHY) is backstopping Nio (NYSE:NIO), which needed government investment to stay in the game last year. Xpeng was founded by a former Alibaba executive. Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) is backing WM Motor, which has yet to go public.
Until recently, most of China's electric vehicles were utilitarian. They were made by companies like BYD (OTCMKTS:BYDDF), originally a battery maker backed by Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A, NYSE:BRK.B). It's the move of these companies into high-end sedans, into Tesla's market, that's driving the stocks.
Why are the Chinese cloud companies even interested? They say it's for the same reason Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) launched Waymo a decade ago, self-driving software. Alibaba has an operating system called YunOS, which includes mapping, voice control and cameras. It's also using Lidar from DJI, best-known as a maker of drones.
The government's aim is to recapture the domestic and international markets simultaneously. Xpeng is already exporting its G3 electric to Norway, where half the market uses electric motors.
American investors are more concerned with Xpeng's stock price than the industrial policy behind it.
Our Mark Hake sees how fast the Chinese electric market is growing and thinks Xpeng could be worth twice what people are now paying for it. Chris Lau calls it "a worthwhile gamble for speculators" because of the coming Biden Administration clean energy push. Tyler Craig is just looking for a change in the stock's technicals before jumping in.
But even if Xpeng achieves analyst goals in 2021, you're paying 18x revenue for it. That's part of the attraction. A start-up can go from $900 million in 2020 sales to $2.1 billion in 2021 sales and sell at a premium. Sales of gas-powered cars, like those of General Motors (NYSE:GM) or Ford, are seen to be a burden.
Thus, the American market is following the Chinese market, backing the promise of start-ups like Fisker (NYSE:FSR), Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ:RIDE) and Faraday Future rather than people who know how to make cars.
The Bottom Line for XPEV Stock
Either all the companies making gas-powered cars now are going to go bust in the next five years, or the electric vehicle start-up boom is going to end in tears.
All these stocks are behind held up by Tesla's ridiculous valuation. China is taking advantage of that to pursue its industrial policy. Xpeng is a product of that policy.
When you buy XPEV stock, you may think you're betting on Jack Ma. You're really betting on Xi Jinping.
Dana Blankenhorn has been a financial and technology journalist since 1978. He is the author of Technology's Big Bang: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Moore's Law, available at the Amazon Kindle store. Write him at danablankenhorn@gmail.com, tweet him at @danablankenhorn, or subscribe to his Substack https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/. At the time of publication, he owned shares in BABA.


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Major-General Sir Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton  (17 February 1854 – 30 March 1944) was an officer of the British Army during the late 19th century. Originally a junior officer in the Queen's Royal Regiment, he oversaw signalling in the Indian Army during the late nineteenth century, before commanding a battalion and then a brigade in the South African War. He was later the commanding officer for Army forces in West Africa and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey before retiring in 1914; on the outbreak of the First World War, he briefly returned from retirement to command a division in the New Armies.

Early career
Hamilton was born in Ireland in 1854, and after studying at the Hermitage School, Bath, joined the army as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment, on 9 August 1873. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878 to 1880 as the aide-de-camp to General J. M. Primrose, and was mentioned in despatches.

In 1883 he was promoted to captain, and served with the 2nd Battalion in the Third Anglo-Burmese War before being appointed a brigade-major under Sir William Lockhart in 1887. He then was appointed a brigade-major at Cawnpore from 1887 to 1888, continuing in India as the Inspector of Signals in the Punjab and Bengal from 1888 to 1893. During this period, he oversaw signals in the Hazara Expedition of 1891. He married Isabel Harris, daughter of General Philip H. F. Harris, in 1886; they had one son and two daughters. The best man at their wedding was Hubert Hamilton, a fellow captain in the regiment.

He served in the Tochi Valley in 1895 under Lockhart, and served on the staff of the Malakand Field Force in 1897. He returned to field service that same year with the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment, as the second-in-command of the Tirah Expedition, with a brevet-promotion to lieutenant colonel.

Regimental and senior command
He commanded the 2nd Battalion, the Queen's Royal Regiment during the early stages of the Second Boer War, in 1899, and then commanded the 2nd Brigade from April 1900 to the end of hostilities in May 1902. For his services in South Africa, he was mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the South Africa honours list published on 26 June 1902. He left Cape Town on board the  in late June 1902, and arrived at Southampton the following month. His period of service in command of the 2nd battalion ended in late September 1902, when he was placed on half-pay. He received the actual decoration of CB from King Edward VII during an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.

In early October 1902 he was placed under orders to go to India, where he was to take up command of the Wellington (Southern) district in Madras. Later, he was appointed to command the 1st Brigade of the Secunderabad Division in India, promoted to major-general in 1906 and relinquishing command in 1907.

He was general officer commanding of Army forces in West Africa from 1908 to 1911, and then Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey—and correspondingly commander of the forces in Guernesy and Alderney—from 1911 to his retirement in 1914.

Shortly after his retirement, following the outbreak of the First World War, he was brought back to serve as the first commander of the newly raised 20th (Light) Division in the New Armies. He held the command less than a month before handing over to Richard Hutton Davies, a New Zealand officer who had been invalided home from the Western Front. His final military position was a purely ceremonial one; from 1914 to 1920 he was colonel-in-chief of the Queen's Royal Regiment.

Notes

References
"HAMILTON, Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Owen Fisher ". (2007). In Who Was Who. Online edition.
Hamilton, Major-General Sir Edward Owen Fisher, Access to Archives.
Lieutenant General Sir Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton KCB 1914–1920, Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association.

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British military personnel of the Tirah campaign
British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Burmese War
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THE GAME: The Dodgers scored eight times in the first three innings and went on to beat the San Diego Padres 12-0 Thursday night in Peoria. Earlier in the day, another Dodgers' split-squad team played to a 3-3 tie with the Cincinnati Reds at Camelback Ranch.
PITCHING REPORT: Left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu gave up three hits and two runs in the first inning but allowed just two more hits while going four innings against the Reds. … Lefty reliever Scott Alexander gave up a solo home run to Phillip Ervin in his one inning of work. … Relievers Dylan Floro, Jaime Schultz and Pedro Baez each pitched a scoreless inning. … Against the Padres, Kenta Maeda called it his "best outing of spring training" after he pitched four scoreless innings, allowing two hits and striking out six. … Top prospect Dustin May followed with three scoreless innings, allowing an infield single while striking out three.
HITTING REPORT: Yasiel Puig was 1 for 3 with a single off Ryu in his first game against the Dodgers. … Infielder Jeter Downs (one of the two prospects acquired from the Reds in the trade that included Puig and Matt Kemp) was 1 for 2 with a double against his former team. … Kiké Hernandez was 1 for 3 and is batting .371 (13 for 35) this spring. … Catcher Will Smith tied the score with an RBI single in the sixth inning and went 2 for 4. … The Dodgers had 11 hits including five doubles and three home runs in the first four innings against the Padres. Austin Barnes, Cody Bellinger and Brad Miller hit the homers. … A.J. Pollock (a single, double and walk) was on base in each of his first three plate appearances and scored runs each time. … Barnes was on base four times – two walks, an RBI double and a solo home run. … David Freese had two doubles and Joc Pederson three RBIs on his double. … Maeda had a double in his first at-bat of the spring.


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Q: Sending mail through python by using SMTP To reproduce my issue, here is my code:
import smtplib
from email.message import EmailMessage
email=EmailMessage()
email['from']='Pratik Mishra'
email['to']='pratikmishra79@gmail.com'
email['subject']='Hi there! congratulations you won $10,000'
email.set_content("i am a python master ")
with smtplib.SMTP(host='smtp.gmail.com', port=587) as smtp:
    smtp.ehlo()
    smtp.starttls()
    smtp.login('pratik.jgd17@gmail.com','password')# can't write password here
    smtp.send_message(email)
    print("hello this was a joke")

I am getting this output message from the command prompt:
C:\Users\prati\Documents>python email_sender.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "email_sender.py", line 11, in <module>
    smtp.login('pratik.jgd17@gmail.com','password')
  File "C:\Users\prati\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\smtplib.py", line 734, in login
    raise last_exception
  File "C:\Users\prati\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\smtplib.py", line 723, in login
    (code, resp) = self.auth(
  File "C:\Users\prati\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\smtplib.py", line 646, in auth
    raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, b'5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n5.7.8  https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials a23sm994647pfo.145 - gsmtp')

A: From my experience, this means one of 3 things. 1, your username and password aren't correct, 2, you haven't enabled allow less secure apps on your google account, or 3, you have 2-Step Verification on. You can enable less secure apps by following these steps:

*

*Click Here to Access Less Secure Apps Settings

*Next to "Allow less secure apps: OFF," select the toggle switch to turn ON.
If you want to use it with 2-Step Verification, you will need to generate a personal access token for your google account and use that for your password, here


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MANUFACTURING|03 November, 2019
Alba unveils new custom-made Fire Truck
Designed and manufactured in the US, the Fire Truck was built in compliance with international fire safety standards as well as Bahrain's requirements to serve Alba's operational plants.
In line with its philosophy of 'Think Safety First and Always', Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) added a state-of-the-art, custom-made Fire Truck to its existing fleet of emergency vehicles in order to enhance the effectiveness of response to emergencies within Alba.
Designed and manufactured in the US, the Fire Truck was built in compliance with international fire safety standards as well as Bahrain's requirements to serve Alba's operational plants. Alba's Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) and Fire team played a key role in the design, construction and commissioning of this Fire Truck.
A ceremony to inaugurate the new Fire Truck was held in Alba on 21 October 2019, which was attended by Alba's Acting Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali, Director for SHE Moh'd Khalil and Sr. Superintendent Fire & Security Hamad Janahi and Deputy Director of Operations - Bahrain Civil Defence Colonel Mohammed Ahmed Al Ghadeer along with other key officials.
Speaking on this occasion, Alba's Acting CEO Ali Al Baqali said:
"While policies and procedures are key to maintaining Safety on the job, the right Safety equipment enables us to keep our people and plant safe. An ultramodern Fire Truck is not just the need-of-the-hour but a long-term investment to meet the current and future Safety demands of a production facility as big as Alba."
Deputy Director of Operation Department at Civil Defence, Colonel Mohammed Ahmed Al Ghadeer, added:
"As one of the leaders in Public Safety, Vocational Health, Safety and Fire Prevention, Alba has identified the potential direct and indirect risks to employees' health in its plant and taken the necessary steps to protect its facilities and environment through prevention and readiness for any emergencies.
The new Fire Truck will certainly enhance the Company's preparedness and effective response to different incidents, especially electric fires, as it is equipped to remotely handle electric fire incidents, which would help control the fire at early stages."
The new Fire Truck is equipped with new fire appliances and modern technology which will enable the team to carry-out emergency operations more effectively.
About Alba
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the 1 million-metric tonnes smelters in the world, is one of the largest aluminium producers in the world. Alba is listed on both the Bahrain Bourse and London Stock Exchange, and the Company's shareholders are Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (69.38%), SABIC Industrial Investment Company (20.62%) and the General Public (10%).
Starting-out as a 120,000 metric tonne per annum (mtpa) smelter in 1971, Alba's production for 2018 stood at plus-1 million metric tonnes. Alba's product portfolio comprises high-grade aluminium and Value-Added Products that include standard and T-ingots, extrusion billets, rolling slabs, properzi ingots and molten aluminium. The Company is well-known for its strong Safety culture, employee development and work culture for value-creation and sustainable operations.
About Line 6 Expansion Project
The pride of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Alba's Line 6 Expansion Project will make Alba the world's largest aluminium smelter.
Alba's Line 6 Expansion Project is one of the biggest brownfield developments in the Middle East Region. With a CAPEX of approximately US$ 3 billion, the Line 6 Expansion Project involves the construction of a sixth pot line using EGA's proprietary DX+ Ultra Technology, a 1,792 MW Power Station (Power Station 5) utilising the world's first H-class General Electric (GE) 9HA Gas Turbine (GT) and other industrial services.
Alba Potline 6 was commissioned on 13 December 2018, ahead of schedule, with the delivery of the First Hot Metal. Line 6 Expansion Project progress has been fast-paced since then with successfully starting 212 pots, which is equivalent to 50% of Potline 6 total capacity. Alba is now looking at the safe commissioning of the remaining 212 pots and to move closer to full production by Q3 2019.
Bechtel is the EPCM contractor for the Line 6 Expansion Project smelter. For Power Station 5 (PS 5), GE and GAMA Consortium was awarded the EPC contract, while Siemens is the Power Distribution System contractor. J.P. Morgan, Gulf International Bank (GIB) and National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) are the Financial Advisors for this Project. In June 2015, Alba Board approved the Line 6 Expansion Project and in November 2015, Alba secured the natural gas supply for this Project.
Alba successfully closed a US$1.5 Billion syndicated term-loan facility comprising two tranches Conventional Facility & and Islamic Facility in October 2016. The 1st tranche of the Export Credit Agencies (ECA) Financing of c. US$700 million for Euler Hermes and SERV-covered facilities was closed in July 2017 while the first part of 2nd ECA-tranche of EUR204.5 million for Bpifrance Assurance Export ("BpiAE") and Euler Hermes-covered facilities was secured in April 2018. Alba successfully closed the final instalment of the 2nd ECA-tranche - c.US$136 million and c. EUR90 million from ECA supported-facilities - by end of 2018.
As of 30 September 2019, Line 6 Smelter's Overall Progress exceeded 98%. Power Station 5 & Power Distribution System Overall Progress exceeded 97% and by over 99% respectively.
Line 6 Expansion Project will be transformational for the Kingdom of Bahrain as it will significantly boost employment opportunities for Bahrainis at both Alba and the local downstream market. It will also present many co-investment opportunities through local and foreign aluminium investments in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Alba External Grievance Mechanism
Alba, in line with the Performance Standards of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank affiliated lending organisation, has launched its External Grievance Mechanism to receive and facilitate the resolution of the affected communities' concerns and grievances about Alba's Environment and Social (E&S) performance.
External grievances about Alba's E&S performance can be logged via the Alba Integrity Line - an independently operated confidential reporting hotline in multiple languages - via a toll-free phone system or via the intranet 24 hours a day, every day.
For further details, please contact:
Eline Hilal
Senior Manager, Investor Relations & Corporate Secretary
Investor Relations Department
E-mail: eline.hilal@alba.com.bh
Website: www.albasmelter.com
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Former NCAA players seek to certify antitrust class action against NCAA
July 18, 2013 by Steve Larson
Former college basketball standout Ed O'Bannon and his lawyers seek to expand his lawsuit challenging the NCAA's ban on compensating athletes into a class action.
The lawsuit demands that the NCAA find a way to cut players in on the billions of dollars earned by college sports from live broadcasts, memorabilia sales, video games and in other areas.
U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken didn't rule on either the merits of O'Bannon's case or his demands to turn the case into a class action. Instead, she ordered O'Bannon's lawyers to revise the complaint to include current players. Lawyer Michael Hausfeld said he will file a new lawsuit that includes current players, but will seek to keep their names confidential. He said the current players are afraid of retaliation.
NCAA lawyer Greg Curtner argued against certifying the lawsuit as a class action, contending that the claims of thousands of collegiate athletes are too different to be treated the same. For instance, certain athletes bring in more revenue than others and have different legal claims at stake.
The NCAA also contends that many of the athletes receive scholarships in exchange for playing sports and to pay student athletes would ruin amateur athletics. To pay athletes more than that would ruin collegiate sports, the NCAA argues.
The debate over compensating college players is almost as old as the NCAA, founded in 1906. Amateurs have been expected to compete for free and the love of sport — or at least the cost of a scholarship and the pursuit of an education. The NCAA is steadfast in its position that student-athletes are prohibited from receiving payment for participating in sports. It also says it has done nothing wrong in marketing itself for the benefit of its member schools and will continue to vigorously contest the lawsuits.
The NCAA's revenues have skyrocketed in recent years — it recently signed a $10.8 billion, 14-year television deal for basketball — and so have the demands of athletes to share in the money.
O'Bannon first became aware that others were profiting from his image in 1995, when he visited a friend's house and was shown an avatar resembling O'Bannon playing for the 1995 Bruins in the game. Two years later, he filed a lawsuit that focused attention from lawmakers, college administrators and others on just how much money the NCAA and its member schools earn each year.
Categories: Class Actions of Interest
An experienced trial lawyer who handles both hourly and contingent fee cases, Steve has expertise in class actions, consumer cases, antitrust litigation, securities litigation, corporate disputes, intellectual property disputes, unfair competition claims, employment matters, and disputes involving family wealth. Steve regularly represents individuals and businesses in federal and state court and has obtained class-wide recovery in multiple class actions. A veteran practitioner, Steve's clients value his creative approach to resolving complex litigation matters.


The USDA-funded Tribal Food Security Project team includes members of the Karuk, Yurok and Klamath Tribes along with UC researchers. In front row, Jennifer Sowerwine is second from left and UCCE farm advisor Deborah Giraud is far right. Photo courtesy of Karuk Píkyav Field Institute.
As California and the nation grapple with the implications of persistent drought, devastating wildfires and other harbingers of climate change, researchers at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources are building on a decade-long partnership with the Karuk Tribe and the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station to learn more about stewarding native food plants in fluctuating environmental conditions. UC Berkeley and the Karuk Tribe have been awarded a $1.2 million USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative grant for field research, new digital data analysis tools and community skill-building aimed to increase resilience of the abundant cultural food and other plant resources – and the tribal people whose food security and health depend on them.
Jennifer Sowerwine, UC Cooperative Extension specialist at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative, and Lisa Hillman, program manager of the Karuk Tribe's Píkyav Field Institute, will co-lead the xúus nu'éethti – we are caring for it research project.
UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Karuk Department of Natural Resources will support the project with postdoctoral researchers, botany, mapping and GIS specialists, and tribal cultural practitioners and resource technicians. Frank Lake, research ecologist and tribal climate change liaison at the USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station, will contribute to research and local outreach activities. The San Rafael-based nonprofit Center for Digital Archaeology will help develop a new data modeling system.
Project activities include expanding the tribe's herbarium (a research archive of preserved cultural plants launched in 2016 with UC Berkeley support), developing digital tools to collect and store agroecological field data, and helping tribal community members and youth learn how to analyze the results.
Sowerwine, right, shown cleaning tanoak mushrooms, an important cultural food, will study effects of climate change on the Karuk food system.
The research team will assess the condition of cultural agroecosystems including foods and fibers to understand how land use, land management, and climate variables have affected ecosystem resilience. Through planning designed to maximize community input, they will develop new tools to inform land management choices at the federal, state, tribal and community levels.
All project activities will take place in the Karuk Tribe's Aboriginal Territory located in the mid-Klamath River Basin, but results from the project will be useful to other tribes and entities working toward sustainable management of cultural natural resources in an era of increasing climate variability. Findings will be shared nationwide through cooperative extension outreach services and publications.
The new project's name, xúus nu'éethti – we are caring for it, reflects the Karuk Tribe's continuing commitment to restore and enhance the co-inhabitants of its aboriginal territory whom they know to be their relations – plants, animals, fish, water, rocks and land. At the core of Karuk identity is the principle of reciprocity: one must first care for these relations in order to receive their gifts for future generations.
This work will be supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate Challenge Area, grant no. 2018-68002-27916 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
For more information, visit the Karuk – UC Berkeley Collaborative website at https://nature.berkeley.edu/karuk-collaborative.


Today's recreational vehicles are truly luxury homes on wheels, with options for pretty much every amenity a person could want. But they haven't always been that way. Here's a quick look at recreational vehicles, from their inception to present.
If you look past the automobile, the first recreational vehicle was simply a wagon that was designed for travel and sleeping. These first showed up in France around the turn of the 18th century, and were used more for practical purposes than easy vacations.
When wagons came to America, the covered wagon was the iconic symbol of western expansion, and the life of a pioneer. Again these wagons were designed for pure efficiency and function; there were no water beds or satellite televisions. They were the difference between life and death on the open prairie.
The recreational vehicle as we know it came about shortly after the invention of the automobile. Wise people saw that while a car was great, a car you could sleep in was greater. These early creations were dubbed, fittingly enough, 'House Trailers'. One of the earliest manufacturers, Airstream, is still doing business today!
One of the most iconic RVs, the Volkswagen Camper, debuted in 1951. This was the ancestor to today's immense RVs, some large enough to store a VW camper inside!
From humble beginnings as creaky wooden wagons, to the luxury liners speeding down the highways today, the recreational vehicle has always provided that missing element in travel: home.


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About Style Matters Conflict Style Inventory
Taking Style Matters requires about ten minutes to answer 20 questions on responding to conflict. Users then receive scores showing their typical responses in conflict and a set of suggestions for optimizing their responses.
Style Matters is available in two forms.
The 24 page paper version is self-tallied and designed for use in a standard face-to-face training setting. Pricing and ordering info here.
Download a review copy here. The paper version provides scores but no interpretation of them, and thus assumes the presence of a well-prepared trainer (supported by our free Trainers' Guide) to assist interpretation.
The online version is similar to the paper version but goes much farther in interpretation and requires less trainer experience to facilitate. A complex algorithm creates a 10 page score report based on a user's unique scores, providing many specific suggestions for the user. View a sample score report from the online version here. View pricing and ordering info here.
The score report of the online version is sufficiently in-depth for individuals to do entirely self-directed learning. However, conflict is a social experience, and people gain a valuable additional layer of learning if they have conversation with others about scores. Many trainers use the online version even when they are doing an in-person workshop - that way users get in-depth feedback from their score report plus group conversation in the workshop.
In a 2018 blog post, author Ron Kraybill reflects on benefits of the online version that overcame his bias for the traditional paper version.
Detailed trainer guides for both versions are available free to trainers and make it easy for anyone with basic group facilitation skills to lead a successful learning experience.
Style Matters is psychometrically valid and culturally flexible, and designed for solo use or in a trainer-led workshop. See side-by-side guide to formats here.
Style Matters scores users on five styles of conflict - Directing, Avoiding, Harmonizing, Cooperating, and Compromising - indicating which conflict styles they prefer most and least. Several pages are devoted to each style, outlining its strengths and caution points, and giving tips for working with people who favor this style. Style Matters scores users in settings of both Calm and Storm Shift, and for some users this reflects a significant change in behavior as conflict becomes more intense.
How does Style Matters achieve cultural adaptability?
The Style Matters inventory gives users a choice of two different set of instructions while taking the instrument, one appropriate to low-context cultures and one to high-context cultures. More info on this unique feature here.
Conflict Styles Resources for Trainers
Riverhouse ePress publishes a free "Trainer's Guide to Successful Conflict Styles Workshops" by Ron Kraybill. This is a concise, step-by-step, 40 page guide designed to support anyone with basic group leadership skills to lead a workshop on conflict styles. We also publish an auxiliary guide, Training with Style Matters Online. The former is about underlying concepts of conflict styles; the latter is about procedures for training online. Online trainers need both.
Intro to Conflict Styles is a 10 slide presentation accessible for free on our site for a quick overview of the basic logic underlying conflict styles. Users can view it on their own or trainers can use it as an early foundation of a teambuilding, conflict resolution or mediation skills workshop. View it as a Prezi here or as a Powerpoint here.
Access Code for quick setup. Trainers who pre-pay for their users can order an Access Code. We reply within minutes with a short email to send to your users with a link and full instructions for them to go to our site and login. Users simply register their name and email and enter the code - our site then transfers them directly to the inventory. There's no learning curve for the trainer and login is simple and quick for users. Details and infographic here.
Dashboard is a more powerful alternative to Coupon Access for inviting and managing your users. On one page, you can: register and send personalized invitations to users; view, email, and print score reports; send followup instruction notes with one click, or aggregate conflict style scores of a whole group. When you send invitations to your users, they receive an email with a button that transfers them straight to Style Matters, automatically logged in and ready to take the assessment. Details and infographic.
For detailed comparison of Coupon Code access and Dashboard access, see this page.
Who uses Style Matters?
Thousands of students in leading colleges, university, and professional schools every year as part of academic courses.
Partners in families and businesses take it separately and then discuss the results together.
Teams take it and discuss results together as a positive, practical teambuilding exercise.
Managers and project leaders learn how to bring the best out of each team member.
Human resources professionals help staff members, departments and teams develop better conflict resolution skills and create a better working atmosphere.
Professors in dozens of universities and colleges use it to introduce conflict management skills to students. These include medical and nursing school professors who use it to train doctors and nurses for conflict management in medical settings, business school professors who train students in MBA programs, law school professors, and leading peace studies programs.
OD specialists, consultants, and coaches use it to work with individuals and teams.
Mediators and negotiators improve their effectiveness in conflict resolution, and use it to train people entering talks.
Trainers in conflict resolution or leadership skills structure training sessions ranging from one hour to half a day around it.
Pastors and other religious leaders strengthen their skills in congregational conflicts and include Style Matters in leadership training.
Call center staff use it in training for dealing with difficult clients.
Service staff in several large US state and federal agencies use it in training for interacting with populations they serve.
A large multi-national corporation administers it to staff in six countries as a routine skill for communication.
Military trainers administer it to units across an entire national defense force.
Development workers in numerous countries use it to train organizational staff and community workers.
What are the time requirements for taking a conflict style assessment?
While taking the conflict style inventory, most users answer the twenty questions in about ten minutes. With the Online version, scores are tallied automatically and a report with recommendations based on scores is issued immediately. With the print and PDF versions, users tally scores by hand with instructions in the inventory, which takes 3-5 minutes.
Reflection about conflict styles is, of course, the point of the exercise. An individual can do this solo, working through the key parts of the Online tutorial in half an hour or less. These include access to our "Intro to Conflict Styles" visual presentation. However, conflict is a social experience - learning about it is more effective as a social experience.
A trainer can present the basics in a workshop in as little as 30 minutes. For best results, plan for 1-2 hours of interpretation and discussion time. The print and PDF versions contain two pages of suggested discussion questions, so you can easily tailor discussion according to the time available. You can fruitfully spend up to a day of learning and discussion around this inventory.
Our free trainers guides make it easy for anyone with group facilitation skills to lead a conflict styles workshops.
Download 40 page comprehensive guide Download 12 page auxiliary guide to Online Version
Comparison to Thomas Kilmann and other conflict style quizzes
Style Matters is an easy-to-use, all-purpose learning tool about conflict resolution. It is research validated and the subject of several current studies. Since several other instruments already address certain specialized uses, it is designed to be the instrument of choice for learning and teaching about conflict resolution and relationship management in general. After more than five years, we don't know of a single trainer who went back to their old inventory for general teaching purposes after trying Style Matters! But for certain purposes, other inventories may be preferable.
Comparison to The Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. Style Matters is similar to the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, a conflict styles inventory created in the 1970s, in that both are based on the Mouton Blake Axis. A large number of former TKI trainers now use Style Matters and find the switch an easy one.
Click here for detailed comparison of Style Matters and Thomas Kilmann!
Unique benefits of Style Matters:
Reflects up-to-date awareness of the consequences of stress, measuring users in both Calm and Storm settings. The TKI reflects out-dated 1970s assumptions of linearity of response.
Designed for users of diverse cultural backgrounds. Provides different instructions for users from individualistic and collectivist cultures.
Scores users for their Storm Shift, a change in conflict style that many people experience when conflict escalates.
Designed to encourage conversation between partners and in teams, with a special section in score report to facilitate this.
Unique Trainer Dashboard provides powerful tools for easy administration and monitoring use of Style Matters in classroom and group settings.
Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory. Unlike the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory by Mitch Hammer, Style Matters is not a full-blown cultural comparison instrument. The ICS is designed to facilitate awareness of ways that differing cultures deal with conflict, whereas Style Matters is a tool for learning and teaching conflict resolution. While Style Matters works in both individualist and collectivist cultures, if the purpose is primarily cultural awareness, the ICS may be the instrument of choice.
We are so confident you will like Style Matters: The Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory that we'll cheerfully return your money if you are disappointed. (If you purchased physical products, you must of course return booklets in good shape and we will not refund shipping costs.)
If you use our inventory in a training workshop and do not agree that it is more effective than any other conflict style inventory you have used as a teaching tool, keep the booklets you've already used and we will refund 50% of their purchase price (less shipping). We will also refund 100% of any booklets you return in good shape and 100% of any user rights to the Online Version or Rights to Reproduce you purchased.
Individual users, go here. Trainers, buy for groups and get support materials here or to our frontpage at www.RiverhouseEpress.com. Payment is by Paypal, credit card, bank transfer, or with prior approval for recognized institutions, by check. All credit card purchases are processed for us by Paypal but it is not necessary for you to have a Paypal account in order to use your credit card. After you have placed your order in the shopping cart, you will be transferred to a Paypal page where you can fill in credit card info.
For help with ordering, please send us a note at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. We will get back to you within 24 hours.
Is this conflict style assessment research validated?
Yes, twice! A 2005 doctoral study using Style Matters conflict style inventory found that the instrument performed well in reliability testing and is "valid and reliable". Jean Chronis Kuhn, who received her Doctorate in Nursing Practice at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, administered Style Matters to Massachusetts nursing home directors to assess conflict management styles before and after a conflict management teaching intervention. In her conclusion, Chronis Kuhn wrote that inventory performed well in reliability testing, "leading to the conclusion that the model and conflict measurement tools have immense applicability to other nursing settings as well as sustainability."
A larger research project conducted by researchers in the Communications Department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2009-2010 administered Style Matters to more than 300 subjects and tested various wordings of questions for validity and reliability, standard benchmarks of consistency and accuracy of measurement in testing. Adjustments were then made to reflect these findings. Based on the results of their research, the researchers rated Style Matters well on both counts, and reported their findings in a peer-reviewed essay by M.E. Braz, B. Lawton, R. Kraybill, & K. Daly, K., "Validation of the Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory," submitted to the 2010 Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Fransisco, CA. A related essay by Mary Braz and Bessie Lawton, "Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory Validation" was published in the Humanities and Science University Journal, 2, 2012, pages 9-24.
Riverhouse ePress actively supports objective scholarly research into conflict styles by providing access to Style Matters at no cost to serious academic research projects, while maintaining a policy of complete objectivity regarding findings.
Our Story - How Style Matters Developed
Early Draft - 1980s
Style Matters developed because a conflict resolution trainer had learned from personal experience how effective a conflict style inventory can be as a training tool. Dr. Ron Kraybill was an early pioneer in conflict resolution in the 1980s, leading conflict resolution workshops in a wide variety of settings in the US, Canada, and Europe for Mennonite Central Committee, an early pioneer in the field of conflict resolution in the US, Canada, and abroad. He used the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument for several years and experienced its effectiveness as a tool for introducing core concepts of conflict resolution.
But he often encountered complaints about the "forced choice" format of that inventory. When groups included people from diverse cultural backgrounds, he heard complaints that the inventory "didn't fit" the context of some people. And working primarily with community, educational, and religious groups, the high per copy cost for purchasing the inventory was prohibitive. He began experimenting with the development of an alternative version, also based, like the Thomas Kilmann, on the five-styles Mouton Blake Grid, but with different wording and offering a spectrum of choices in answering.
In the mid-1980s, Kraybill was introduced by Dr. Barbara Date to the Gilmore-Fraleigh personality-type inventory and used it for several years. He was particularly impressed with two aspects of this instrument. One is a feature that recognizes the impact of stress and anxiety on behavior by having users answer some questions about calm settings and some about settings where people are frustrated. Though it is not a conflict style inventory, this feature of the Gilmore-Fraleigh proved to be highly relevant to situations of conflict.
A second feature of the Gilmore Fraleigh that impressed Kraybill was its "Hot Tips", which provide users with specific suggestions for helping others to function at their best, based on their styles. In workshop and practitioner settings, Kraybill saw that users were highly responsive to these practical suggestions for supporting best functioning in others. And in organizational settings, when presented and discussed in a group, this feature helped shift from negativity to a climate of positive, mutual support. He incorporated a Calm/Storm differential into his own experimental inventory.
Carried abroad by trainers in the global network of Mennonite peace and development workers, the Kraybill inventory circulated informally for many years, its reputation spread by word of mouth. It is still used in its early form by some trainers, though often not identified as the Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory.
Major Upgrade - 2004
Recognizing the widespread use of the KCSI that had developed completely unattended, in 2004, Kraybill revised it, incorporating ideas and comments accumulated from trainers and users over a period of years. In 2005 the upgraded version was published by Riverhouse ePress, as Style Matters: The Kraybill Conflict Style Inventory.
The updated version added a component of cultural sensitivity, differentiating between users from collectivist and individualist cultures, and providing different instructions for each. It also added a lengthy section of tips for bringing out the best in each style, expanded interpretive guidance, and a discussion guide with questions for group reflection.
Psychometric Validation - 2008
At a conflict resolution conference in 2006, a peace studies professor with special interest in psychometrics challenged Kraybill in a friendly hall conversation to standardize the instrument. You really shouldn't be administering an instrument that is scoring people, he said, if you haven't put it through recognized procedures for standardization. Although Kraybill had devised and circulated the inventory for conflict resoution training purposes, not for personality measurement, he recognized the wisdom of the argument.
In 2008, Kraybill was approached by Bessie Lawton and Mary Braz, faculty in the Communications Department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania, with an offer to perform standardization research. Over an 18 month period, they administered the conflict style inventory to 300 students, testing various wordings of questions to achieve psychometric validation. These findings were incorporated into the inventory in 2009. (See section on page above.)
Online Version - 2009
With useage by conflict resolution trainers in many settings increasing rapidly, the need for an Online Version became apparent. In 2009 Kraybill developed the Online Version, which adds features to the paper and PDF versions, in particular an interactive tutorial enabling solo use. In 2010-11, we added a Trainer Dashboard based on extended feedback from many trainers, enabling easy management of users from one online location, including a facility to deliver the Score Report to users at a time of the trainers choice rather than at time of taking the inventory.
Anonymous User Version - 2019
Pressed by provincial regulations requiring maximum protection of user anonymity, users in several locations in western Canada requested that we make Style Matters Online available in ways that do not require users to enter their name or email address. In 2019 we created an Anonymous User version of Style Matters. Users receive a login link from their trainer that allows them to take the inventory and print out a score report without entering any data about themselves.
Commitment to Accessible Pricing
Riverhouse ePress retains the commitment of its founder, Dr. Ron Kraybill, to making Style Matters available at affordable cost to all who wish to use it. We do our best to remove cost as a major hindrance to using Style Matters by any group committed to building a more peaceful world and we invite proposals when this is the case. Please include the name and location of your organization, when and how you plan to use the inventory, estimated number of users, and the reason you are requesting special pricing consideration.
Support for Research
Riverhouse supports academic research and has a policy of providing free rights of use to students doing bona fide research. Requests must be submitted in writing (email) and indicate:
- Name of student, institution, and supervising professor;
- A description of the research, including the research questions, the number of users for whom permission to use Style Matters is sought, and the time frame within which the inventory will be administered;
Riverhouse will review this request and reply. If permission is granted, Riverhouse requires the researcher to make a $50 deposit via Paypal or other means of transferring funds in order to gain final authorization. We impose this reluctantly because we are eager to learn from research, and have learned that, all good intentions notwithstanding, only if there is money on deposit do we hear again from most students after they secure our permission. We will immediately refund the money upon receipt of the final research paper, or a summary thereof, or a notice that the research project was abandoned. All research findings remain the property of the researcher and we will not release them without permission of the researcher.
There is a good general introduction at this Wikipedia page on conflict style inventories. On the Riverhouse site we maintain a directory of resources and topics related to conflict styles.


Our dad's will enjoy getting colourful, useful books like this Do It Yourself and Woodwork, as the information on these books will help do quick fixes and larger projects. These go-to books are simple, easy to follow, and has lots of practical tips and techniques.
My husband has used the Canadian edition of Do It Yourself to help him fix lots of things around the home from small to big jobs such as adjusting loose toilet seats, changing fuses, unblocking drains, fixing gutters and more.
- What to have in the basic tool kit, about ladders, renting equipment, work clothes for protection, specific tools and materials.
- Information on how to find the correct people for a job such as painters, plumbers and more.
- Shows us how to assess the exterior and interior of the home.
- There are lots of information about windows, doors, molding, gutters, kitchens, bathroom, paint effects, tiling, landscaping, installing electrics, flooring, child proofing, and more.
My husband, just like my dad enjoys woodwork and doing upgrades around the home on his own. The recent projects he did were adding accent windows to the garage, placing tiles, and this permanent bench for the deck.
One 4x4 piece was cut into 6 for the legs. The other 3 pieces were put on the top and was attached with brackets and wood screws.
"Wood has been fundamental to the development and survival of mankind throughout history." Although tools have advanced in sophistication, the fundamentals of woodworking hasn't changed much over the centuries.
I think woodworking is a life skill and must be part of the school syllabus. Unfortunately the schools are removing this program. This Woodwork book allows us to understand the equipment, develop skills by using the techniques, and know the different types of wood so we can make informed decisions. There are 25 step-by-step simple and challenging woodworking projects such as coat rack, coffee table, wall cabinet, bed, buffet, chair and more. This is a wonderful reference book for woodwork enthusiasts of all levels.
DK Canada in celebration of Father's day will be having 30% off of a collection of their books for a limited time.
Hubby would love these books!


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Chef Aly | What's Cooking on the Final Show?
What's Cooking on the Final Show?
The last in series of All Round To Mrs Brown's, Agnes packs the house full of guests including Casualty actress Sunetra Sarker and her mum and West End legend Michael Ball.
Chef Aly cooks up Sunetra's favourite dish with a twist, prawn curry with lobster.
He also builds a spectacular croquembouche, which is a tower of profiteroles! A real show stopper!
How's that for ending the series on a high?!