The questions is: Should I use market or limit orders to enter and exit my trades?
A limit order is a resting order at a price to buy or sell. If the bid/ask is currently 1122.25/1122.50 you might have a limit order to sell at 1124.00. Your limit order will be sitting in a queue with other limit orders at that price and if the market moves up to that price and trades at that price then the orders ahead of yours will be filled first and then your order will be filled if enough buyers trade at that price. If the market trades above 1124.00 then your order will definitely be filled. If your order is filled it will be filled at your limit price and not above or below.
I am specifically excluding stop limit orders from this discussion.
A limit order can be used to enter a position at a predetermined price or exit a trade or a partial position.
A market order is executed in the market immediately at the best possible price. If you issue a market order to buy it will buy the lowest available offer in the market. Limit and market orders can be seen as the flip sides to the same coin. Limit orders are filled by market orders and market orders buy/sell resting limit orders.
Getting into a trade - Which to use?
What you are about to read is my opinion and you should research this subject further and tailor it to your trading method, style and signals.
In a fast trending market you need to use market orders. If you use a limit order it's going to be trailing behind the market and won't get filled until the market turns. In a churning trading market with contracting volume you are better off using limit orders to get the best fills at the edges of the market and reduce risk exposure.
This is easily said but obviously very difficult in practice. How do we know before the market reveals itself whether it's in a trading or trending mode? We can only see with hindsight. How do we know if a market is about to change from one mode to another?
Generally we don't know the answers to these questions but we can use probability analysis to work this out. If for example we've had 2 back-to-back trending days then the chance of a third trending day is greatly reduced. We may then switch our trading strategies from one type to another and with that we may switch the type of order we use from market to limit.
The converse is true as well. Say we have a number of narrow range low volume days in a consolidation pattern. We may have then set upper and lower limits of that range and trade in that range using limit orders but when we break out of the range and see volume in the market we may then decide that this is going to be a trending day and switch from using limit orders to market orders to take advantage of and get into the trend as early as possible.
The other thing to consider is whether or not your strategy is more successful with one type of order or another. I developed a strategy for trading the E-mini S&P500 (which I no longer use because it's become part of a more complex strategy) which worked well in back testing but in forward testing performed worse when using limit orders and better (than the back test) when using market orders. This was because once the strategy had signaled the market tended to move in the signal's direction fairly quickly and using a limit order didn't get you in on the really juicy moves. If the market moved in the opposite direction to the signal then your limit order was often filled but you were stopped out because that's when the signal invariably failed.
So when you're back testing any strategy you should also back test it with both limit and market orders and see which produce better profits. If you are forward testing a strategy and you're forward testing it with market orders you can paper trade the equivalent limit order part of the strategy in parallel and compare the results.
Getting out of a trade - Which to use?
Before entering a trade you should have a plan. That plan should include profit targets and stop levels.
Having said that and taking that approach one could easily place limit orders at your profit target(s) and a stop order at your stop level.
So why the question? Well the stop level generally shouldn't be violated. If the market is moving against you then the signal failed and you want to be out of the market and looking for the next signal.
What about the target? If you have a target objective then why not just place limit orders at the target levels and leave them. The reason for this is that you can take advantage of runaway markets in the direction of your trade if you don't place a target limit order in the market. You can also "work" the trade to gain more points than the simple strategy dictates.
If the market takes off in your direction and blasts straight through your target it will allow you to use a market order at a more advantageous price to take more money out of the market. This strategy is best used in liquid and fast moving markets. If you're not in a trending market then a runaway move in your direction is not as likely.
The strategy here is to cover your position into panic buying/selling as the market overshoots your target and take the extra points.
You may have a target on a long trade of say 4 points. Instead of placing a limit order there you carefully monitor and watch the market. The market makes a panic move on high volume and quickly moves your trade to 2.5 points in profit. You know from market patterns and behavior that this is unlikely to reach your target right now as the market readjusts itself to the overshoot but your target is still highly probable. So you close out your position at the 2.5 point profit and when the market drops back down by 1 to 2 points you re-enter your long position creaming off a couple of extra points in the process.


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The 4th International Conference on "Human-Computer Interaction, High Education, Augmented Reality and Technologies" (HCIHEART 2020) carries implicitly an innovating and revolutionary vision in the domain of the college education of the present and the future, excluding all those groups or castes that prevent the harmonious evolution of scientific knowledge, the use of the new technologies and the growth of the common wealth in the local and global village.
This is an annual event that is aimed at four domains that interrelate with each other in a bidirectional way such as human-computer interaction, high education, augmented reality, and information and communication technologies. In this scientific space new original proposals are admitted that are in a stage of elaboration or with already reached final results. Briefly, it is a kind of heart of different converging disciplines, tending to set up bridges between users and professionals of the new technologies. Allowing to all of them a greater ability to look towards the future in the short, middle and long term, with a much sharper accuracy and sharpness in their daily activities.
We do not tend to the large numbers of participants but rather to the qualitative factor of human communication, where the students, professors, researchers, businessmen, among others, have the chance of interacting positively to offer new horizons to the research and development works. In other words, the qualitative element of the group prevails over the quantitative aspect, as it happens in many other conferences, where students, for example, are not considered, and many of their works in the continuous research stage are only sidelined to the poster sections. Besides, we are working with zero "G factor" (G = Garduña).
In short, it is a new field of debate for the streamlining of the sciences and education focusing on human-computer interaction, augmented reality and new technologies that boost the learning process, the communicability between interactive media, professors and students, the supervision of the evolution of the research projects, the technology transfer between the university and the industry/business, and vice versa, and a long etcetera. Leaving the possibility open of including other potential contexts and new information and communication technologies where the human being is the center of the educational process.
Many conferences are focussed on specific aspects of computer science, programming, education., final users, human factors, advanced visual interface, ergonomics, etc., and bring together leading experts in a particular field or sometimes on a specific technology. The conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc., are not a big scale and aim to promote dialogue between established professors, research experts, pedagogues, etc., and students, programmers, mobile designers, etc. working on new directions. Hence topics from the whole range of human-computer interaction, dynamics and static media, 3D computer graphics, apps programming, software quality, communicability, interactive systems design and evaluation, e-learning authoring tools, online learning in higher education, educational video games, virtual agents, mixed reality, display technologies, global positioning system, information architecture, big data analysis,, etc. are welcomed.
Last year's symposiums, workshops, conferences, etc., organized by AInCI and ALAIPO, for instance, included papers, demos, research-in-progress, doctoral consortium, posters, etc., on the topics (see below the alphabetical order). An extensive listing connotes and reflects the requirement and also skill necessary to find intersection zones of the disciplines among the different domains, fields, and specialities; which at the same time potentially boosts and merges the formerly different scientific views.
In short, we focus on the following main and secondary subjects, which do not exclude others of great current or future interest, alphabetically listed in the following way:
:: Collaborative Systems
:: Computational Thinking
:: Gestural Interaction
:: Human-Computer Communicability
:: Information Visualization
:: Intelligent Interfaces
:: Interface Design and Assessment of Interactive Systems
:: Multimedia and Social Networking
:: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
:: User Experience
:: Computer Science and Engineering
:: Cultural Systems
:: Digital Libraries
:: e-Learning
:: m-Learning
:: Pedagogy
:: Social Sciences
:: Video Games and Education
:: Virtual Agents and Virtual Education
:: Virtual Classroom and Virtual University
Augmented / Mixed Reality (AR / MR)
:: Architecture of AR / MR Systems
:: Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
:: Digital Literacy
:: Global Positioning System
:: Haptic Rendering
:: Interaction and Output Modalities
:: Multimedia Design and Spatial Experience
:: Multimodal Displays
:: Software Tools
:: Static and Dynamics Media
:: AR / MR Hardware
:: Design Technology
:: Educational Technology
:: Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
:: Mobile Devices and Sensors
:: Networking and Security
:: New Display Technologies
:: Research and Emerging Technologies
:: Tracking Technology
:: User Interface Technology
All contributions –papers, workshops, demos, posters, research-in-progress and doctoral consortium, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance and impact. Besides, all submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted contributions who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their works, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers, demos, research-in-progress, etc.
Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (Chair - coordinator)
Doris Edison and Pamela Fulton (International Secretariat)
ALAIPO: Asociación Latina Interacción Persona-Ordenador –Latin Association of HCI (www.alaipo.com) and AINCI: Asociación Internacional de la Comunicación Interactiva –International Association of Interactive Communication (www.ainci.com). Address: Via Tabajani 1, S. 15 (7) - 24121 (Bergamo) Italy :: c/ Angel Baixeras, 5 - AP 1638 - 08080 (Barcelona), Spain. Email: info@alaipo.com :: info@ainci.com
P.S. If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info@ainci.com or info@alaipo.com with "remove" in the subject line. Thanks.
2. The events have the following deadlines
Works Submissions: Open. Consequently, as they are received, they will be evaluated. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the international conference, visa requirements, should plan travel well in advance, etc. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process.
Deadline: 02.29.2020 – 23:59 local time in Hawaiian Islands.
Authors Notification: Two/three weeks after the submission/s
Camera-ready, full papers: May, 25th 2020
3. Program Committee:
- Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (chair - coordinator)
Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, and Doctoral Consortium:
Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy), Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan), Miguel C. Ficarra: AInCI and ALAIPO, Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland), Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan), Work in progress ...
Honorary Committee:
- Alejandro Frangi. University of Leeds (UK)
- Francesca Bocchi. University of Bologna (Italy)
- Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
- Nela Načinović. University of Rijeka (Croatia)
- Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Alejandro Frangi. University of Leeds (UK)
:: Ana Martínez. Complutense University (Spain)
:: Ana Pérez. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Andrea Bernardoni. University of Florence (Italy)
:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy)
:: Annamaria Poli. University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
:: Chia-Wen Tsai. Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)
:: Carlos García Garino. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Claudia Rébola. University of Cincinnati (USA)
:: Claudio Germak. Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
:: Constantine Stephanidis. University of Crete (Greece)
:: Daniela Tamburini. Sperimenta Centro Studi Cinema e Formazione di Milano (Italy)
:: Danny Barrantes. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Diego González. IMM - National Research Council (Italy)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gerrit van der Veer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
:: Gustavo Hirchoren. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Immaculada Vilches López. University of Granada (Spain)
:: Jeff Williams. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Karen Woodman. Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
:: Kim Yeltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Laurence Bender. National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina)
:: Leda Digion. National University of Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
:: Liliana Māţă. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău (Romania)
:: Marek Wyleżoł. Politechnika Slaska (Poland)
:: Marko Mladineo. University of Split (Croatia)
:: Maria Pia Morigi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Maria Soledad Pera. Boise State University (USA)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nela Načinović. University of Rijeka (Croatia)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Pablo Marrero Negrón. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Roberto von Sprecher. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Rosa Smurra. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sebastián Gabo. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Timothy Read. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland)
:: Urška Fekonja Peklaj. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Virginia Guarinos Galán. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
... to be completed


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For their book "The Freshman Survival Guide," authors NoraBradbury-Haehl and Bill McGarvey of BustedHalo.com interviewedprofessors, administrators, campus ministers and students.
What's the biggest mistake freshmen make when they start college?
They assume that everybody is going to be trustworthy, and a few weeks or months into the semester, you might realize that person you befriended can be not really worthy of your trust. You spend 18 years getting to this point and you have friendships and networks with people that know you and who you are: Don't just chuck them out the window because you're in college and everything is exciting and new.
Why did you choose to include matters of faith in your book? A lot of college guidebooks don't.
That's kind of the reason why. There's a lot of books out there about getting into school and making yourself a success in college, but there was nothing in there that dealt with the whole student. These books almost seem to assume that these students were a collection of brain cells and hormones. College kids are less religious but they're definitely getting more spiritual.
You're spending good money to get an education and there are enormous resources at your fingertips. You're gonna run into challenges, but there are places to turn and people that are there to help you.
Can you expand on the book's Web component?
I came from a Web background, and I wanted to make sure that our book reflected the way younger college students read and interact with the media now. Throughout the book there are chapters where you can go online and get special information or contribute, but there's also this thing called the Interactive RA [where] resident assistants from around the country volunteer to take questions.


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Whenever you consider medical equipment you naturally consider a healthcare facility or even the doctor's office. These two places have medical equipment they use to identify and treat their sufferers with. You might not understand that there are plenty of various kinds of medical equipment which is used privately residences. This kind of medical devices are accustomed to help someone which has a chronic condition that needs strict monitoring, in order to help somebody that is dealing with an injuries of some form.
Individuals with diabetes need to monitor their sugar levels to make sure they're within safe ranges. The medical devices that permit them to perform these sugar checks are known as bloodstream glucose meters. The individual uses a clear, crisp needle known as a lancet to prick their finger to allow them to place a small amount of bloodstream on the test strip. The exam strip will be placed in to the bloodstream glucose monitor and also the device rapidly informs them how high the sugar within their blood stream is. They are crucial medical devices. You don't have to possess a prescription to buy one of these simple devices.
Individuals with difficulty in breathing like bronchial asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and emphysema, frequently have devices within their home that enables these to have a breathing treatment to assist using their condition. These units are known as nebulizers plus they assistance to turn a liquid type of medication like albuterol right into a mist the patient can inhale. These units are often provided to parents of young children who're getting upper respiratory system complications. You don't have to possess a prescription to buy one of these simple devices. Most pharmacies ask them to easily available.
You might want to possess a bloodstream pressure machine in your house should you suffer hypertensions. The bloodstream pressure machines that individuals use at home permit them to check their bloodstream pressure and determine if they're within normal limits. The physician will sometimes suggest that someone place their bloodstream pressure 2 or 3 occasions each day once they begin a new prescription medicine that may affect them. The products are not costly and you may purchase them at nearly all pharmacies, stores, and shops.
For those who have severe the like you might require an oxygen tank in your own home that will help you breathe. You'll need the physician to create orders for this kind of equipment. You will find medical supply stores that carry this sort of equipment and they'll generally deliver your tanks of oxygen and needed supplies to your house. There's also oxygen tanks which are small and could be transported using the patient.
Wheelchairs and hospital beds are really regarded as medical devices. When the physician writes a prescription of these products then most insurances covers their cost. You can purchase them physician, however your insurance won't purchase them with no physician saying they're medically necessary.


The northern border of Kryptgarden Forest.
There are two obvious exits: southeast and southwest.
You are physically very hurt and mentally in full vigour.
The sharp-fanged brown-maned wolf is feeling very well.
The grouchy yellow-tusked orc is feeling very well.
You attack the grouchy yellow-tusked orc.
You prepare to execute the lethal attack.
The effects are wearing off.
You brutally pummel the grouchy yellow-tusked orc's body with your black heavy battleaxe.
The grouchy yellow-tusked orc died.
You killed the grouchy yellow-tusked orc.
The white robed hooded female elf panics and flees west.
You study the thin spindly broom carefully.
A broom with a full swatch of bristles at the bottom that looks suspiciously more like something a witch might ride upon than one used to clean a home. Hmmmm.
You determine that the weight is 65 grams and you appraise its volume is about 65 milliliters. You estimate its worth to 9 copper coins. The thin spindly broom seems to be able to last a while. It rejects being sold as it is keep protected.
Seriously? Who are you? Harry Potter? You have no idea how to ride this thing.
hah! I got one of these, and for a female character, it asks "Who are you? Hermione Granger?"
Recoverable It seems to be able to last a while.
The evil priest says: You look like a good candidate. Are you a virgin?


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News Walt Disney World (FL)
Additional Details About New Year's Eve at Walt Disney World
December 30, 2015 December 29, 2015 Rikki Niblett	1 Comment Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Magic Kingdom, New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is rapidly approaching and as we say goodbye to 2015, there are a few things you should know about celebrating at the theme parks of Walt Disney World. Disney is the ultimate party atmosphere on New Year's Eve, so you want to make sure to get the most out of your experience. Here's what you should know, both in general and park by park:
If possible, eat at off-peak times. Avoid dining from noon-2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Stay in the parks after midnight to avoid the rush to the parking lot.
Magic Kingdom:
There will be two fireworks show on December 30 and 31: Holiday Wishes New Year Celebration – 6:30 p.m. and Fantasy in the Sky – 11:50 p.m.
Guests will be able to experience special dance parties on both December 30 and 31. One in Frontierland from 7:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. and one at the Castle Stage from 9:30 p.m. until 2:00 a.m.
Complimentary cookies and cocoa will be available for Guests on December 31 from midnight until 1:00 a.m. at Columbia Harbour House and at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe.
Hats and Horns will be distributed on December 31 beginning at 4 p.m. in the following locations, while supplies last:
Near Splash Mountain
Near Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid
East FastPass+ viewing lawn
Epcot:
Illuminations will take place twice on December 31: Holiday finale at 6:00 p.m. and the New Year's Countdown at 11:40 p.m.
Hats and horns will be distributed beginning at 4:30 p.m. and last until supplies run out at the Disney Performing Arts stage in Future World West, the Wonders of Life walkway in Future World East, and at the American Adventure.
DJs will be found at the following locations:
Future World West Fountain Stage
Japan (Silent Groove)
America Gardens Theatre
Disney's Hollywood Studios:
Lights! Camera! Happy New Year! Fireworks will take place at 12:00 a.m.
Hats and horns will be distributed beginning at 4:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve. The can be found at the following locations:
Echo Lake-entering at Min & Bill's Dockside Diner
Toy Story Midway Mania-Entering toward Toy Story Midway Mania and exiting at the Coke bottle.
Fantasmic! pre-show-the 7:00 p.m. show only
Disney's Animal Kingdom:
Guests can enjoy continuous entertainment on December 31 from 3:30-8:30 p.m. in Africa, including Burudika Band, DJ Khalifa and character greetings with Rafiki and friends. Food and beverage will be available for purchase.
For more information, be sure to check out the New Year's Eve page.
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I have been fortunate to have been in the parks for a few NYE celebrations. The only enervating aspect of WDW's hospitality are those 50 thousand one-note horns constantly sounding for hours and hours before midnight. My advice: bring aspirin and ear plugs.


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Q: Mendeley Custom OAuth Strategy Mendeley has a great API (in fact they have put up a contest using their API, this question is not specific to that though), that uses OAuth.
I am trying to write a strategy to allow Mendeley Authentication, and am having quite a bit of trouble doing so..
I go to /auth/mendeley, it redirects me to Mendeley.com, I authenticate, then it redirects me to a page with nothing on it but this

{"error":"Consumer key not found"}

They mention this is a 3 leg OAuth, is that something that requires an extra step than what OAuth typically does?
Here is what I have:
# /config/initializers/omniauth.rb

module OmniAuth
  module Strategies
    # tell omniauth to load the strategy
    autoload :Mendeley, 'lib/mendeley'
  end
end

# gather oauth credentials from the yml file
OAUTH = YAML.load_file(File.join(Rails.root, "config", "oauth.yml"))

# load all the possible oauth strategies
ActionController::Dispatcher.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do
  provider OmniAuth::Strategies::Mendeley, OAUTH['mendeley']['consumer_key'], OAUTH['mendeley']['consumer_secret']
end

# lib/mendeley.rb

require 'omniauth/oauth'
require 'multi_json'

module OmniAuth
  module Strategies

    # Omniauth strategy for using oauth2 and mendeley.com

    class Mendeley < OAuth2
      def initialize(app, consumer_key = nil, consumer_secret = nil, &block)
        client_options = {
          :site => 'http://api.mendeley.com'
        }

        super(app, :mendeley, consumer_key, consumer_secret, client_options, &block)
      end
    end
  end
end

A: I know you asked this a long time ago, but I needed an OmniAuth plugin for Mendeley myself. As a result, I wrote a gem that should help people out in the future. It works very similarly to other OmniAuth strategies.
https://github.com/fractaloop/omniauth-mendeley

A: By looking at this page, it looks like they support OAuth 1, but in your code you subclass OAuth2.
Are you sure they support it?

A: Did it myself - Pull request: https://github.com/intridea/omniauth/pull/587/files#diff-13

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Built in 2012, Abdo's award-winning community adds another layer of inventory to the upscale condos in Arlington. The community stands out by offering residences that will vary drastically to the luxury condo market in Rosslyn that is currently occupied by the Turnberry Towers and Waterviews of the world.
While these high-rise communities excel at providing white-glove service with seemingly every amenity in the book, condos at Gaslight Square will provide its residents with the same lifestyle without the fanfare. There is no valet, no front desk, and no gym trainer anxiously awaiting your arrival.
Gaslight Square has more discretion than that. Condo fees are significantly lower because the community's emphasis is on individual condos, and not the amenity package. That being said, Gaslight Square condos for sale will come at a premium price tag.
The community is comprised of one and two-bedroom condos that emphasize the loft layout. There are a number of one-level units that will be of the one and two-bedroom variety. These layouts easily exceed 1,000 square feet (for both one and two-bedroom floor plans) and will have direct elevator access (for those above the first level) and a private outdoor space.
Two-level condominiums can reach up to 2,000 square feet and will all feature a half bathroom. The two-bedroom layouts will have 2.5 bathrooms while one bedrooms will have one and a half bathrooms. Spiral staircases or floating staircases are usually the two options unless previous owners have modified the condo.
Kitchens are open and will feature the best appliances and features that money can buy. The open layout will look out over the living and dining room and through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Top-floor units will have private rooftop terraces. First-floor units will most likely have multiple outdoor spaces; one balcony outside of the master bedroom to go along with an outdoor terrace off of the living room on the courtyard side of the community.
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11/27/2017 - Riviera Beach OffShore Race Teams Win the 37th Annual World Championships!
RIVIERA BEACH (November 2017) – At the 37th Annual World Championships in Key West, FL (November 6-12, 2017) two local Riviera Beach offshore race teams claimed world titles.
Shadow Pirate, owned by Nick's Creative Marine Offshore Race Team, won the Superstock Class World Title. This 32' Doug Wright catamaran boat weighing 4,300 pounds and reaching speeds of 120 mph captured its first world title by dethroning the former world champion. This father-son team of Nick Scafidi at throttles and Austin Scafidi as driver overcame a spin out in turn three on the last day of racing and patiently clawed their way back before overtaking its competitors.
To say that their victory was an upset is an understatement but Nick Scafidi kept the faith. "To win a world title you have to be patient over the three days of races. On Day One we came in third but we felt we should have been better. On Day Two we definitely improved our position in the boat and by Day 3 we were ready to win. It is an unbelievable feeling to beat the best of the best."
Miss GEICO, owned by AMF Riviera Beach, LLC, won the Unlimited Class World Title. This 47' Victory catamaran boat weighing 12,400 pounds and reaching speeds in excess of 180 mph captured its ninth world title by also defeating the former champion.
On Day One Miss GEICO lost a propeller and had to settle for fifth place. With its back against the wall and the team had to win out to claim the tile. Throttleman, Steve Curtis, and Driver, James Sheppard, came up with a strategic race plan with Crew Chief, Gary Stray, that worked to perfection as Miss GEICO won both Day Two and Day Three to claim their world title.
It is unprecedented to have two Riviera Beach race teams that practice out of Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach capture their respective World Titles against competitors from all over the world.
Both teams have only a couple days to savor their victories before travelling to the 2017 Englewood Beach Waterfest Racefest on Nov. 17-19. The three-day festival will host the world championship races for the Offshore Powerboat Association (OPA) racing series.
Both Shadow Pirate and Miss GEICO are the 2017 OPA National Champion and hope to continue their season long winning streaks by concluding its racing season with the OPA World Title. The race teams are ready and prepared to take on the fastest boats in the world and offer the spectators in Englewood a full weekend of world-class racing action.
The third-annual event kicks off Friday evening with a race boat block party on Dearborn Street. Racing action begins on Saturday and continues through Sunday with three heats of races each day along the shores of Englewood Beach. More than 60 teams will compete across 11 separate classes of watercraft. Given their list of racing accomplishments and recent wins in the OPA racing series, both teams are hopeful to add another world championship title in Englewood.
For more information on the Miss GEICO Racing Team, visit http://www.missgeicoracing.com.
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Замкнуте відображення — відображення одного топологічного простору на інший, при якому образ будь-якої замкнутої множини є замкнутою множиною. Клас неперервних замкнутих відображень відіграє важливу роль в загальній топології і її застосуваннях.

Неперервні замкнуті компактні відображення називаються досконалими.

Властивості
 Неперервне відображення є гомеоморфізмом тоді і тільки тоді коли воно є замкнутим.
 Композиція замкнутих відображень є замкнутим відображенням.
 Відображення є замкнутим тоді і тільки тоді коли
 Неперервне відображення   -просторів є замкнутим тоді і тільки тоді, коли розбиття  є неперервним в сенсі Александрова (неперервним зверху) тобто коли для кожною відкритої у  множина  множина  є відкритою в . Тобто  є замкнутим тоді і тільки тоді, коли обернене (багатозначне) відображення є неперервним зверху.
 Кожне неперервне замкнуте відображення -просторів є проєкцією на фактор-простір; зворотне твердження є хибним.
 Для неперервних замкнутих відображень при переході до образу зберігаються наступні топологічні властивості: нормальність, колективна нормальність, досконала нормальність, паракомпактність, слабка паракомпактність. Повна регулярність і сильна паракомпактність можуть для неперервних замкнутих і навіть досконалих відображень не зберігатися. При переході до прообразу для неперервних замкнутих відображення перераховані вище властивості можуть не зберігатися. Це пояснюється тим, що для неперервного замкнутого відображення прообрази точок можуть не бути компактними, хоча в багатьох випадках неперервні замкнуті відображення мало відрізняються від досконалих.
 Якщо f — неперервне замкнуте відображення метричного простору  на простір  з першою аксіомою зліченності, то  є метризовним, а межа прообразу  є компактною для будь-якого .
 Якщо f — неперервне замкнуте відображення метричного простору  на -простір , то множина всіх точок при яких  не є компактною, є -дискретною.

Приклади
 Якщо топологічний простір  є дискретним, то будь-яке відображення топологічних просторів  є замкнутим.
 Ортогональне проектування площини на пряму є неперервним і відкритим, але не замкнутим.
 Також не всяке неперервне замкнуте відображення є відкритим. Прикладом може бути функція  на дійсній прямій із стандартною топологією.
 Поставимо у відповідність кожній точці одиничного кола її кутовий коефіцієнт. Задане так відображення  є замкнутим, відкритим бієктивним відображенням, яке не є неперервним. Іншим прикладом замкнутого і відкритого відображення, що не є неперервним є ціла частина числа, як відображення з множини дійсних чисел із стандартною топологією на множину цілих чисел з дискретною топологією.
 Кожне неперервне відображення компакта на Гаусдорфів простір є замкнутим відображенням.

Див. також
 Відкрите відображення
 Неперервне відображення

Джерела

 Gaal, Steven A.(2009), Point set topology, New York: Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-47222-5

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Life at the Last Moment
By ROBERT ALTER AUG. 9, 1987
August 9, 1987, Page 007011Buy Reprints The New York Times Archives
PAST PERFECT By Yaakov Shabtai. Translated by Dalya Bilu. 291 pp. New York: Viking. $18.95.
WHEN Yaakov Shabtai died of a heart attack in 1981 at the age of 47, he had already created a revolution in Hebrew prose. I stress prose before fiction because Shabtai's work is a magisterial solution to a dilemma of style that has troubled most Israeli writers. The older tradition of modern Hebrew writing, originating in Europe, drew its language chiefly from the sacred texts and developed a densely allusive style that was often a kind of virtuoso play with phrases from the classic Hebrew sources. The first generation of native speakers of a revived Hebrew, who came of age as writers roughly around the time of the establishment of the state of Israel, did not, as one might imagine, introduce a new colloquial language but, on the contrary, used a self-consciously literary prose that was often a labored imitation of the cliches of European fiction.
Shabtai's 1972 collection of stories, ''Uncle Peretz Takes Off'' (as yet untranslated), though it shows nothing of the bold innovation in narrative form of the two novels he would write, is a stylistic trailblazer. Its language is supple, evocative, unstrained, free of formulaic mannerisms and in touch with the immediacy of spoken Hebrew while richly exploiting the resources of the modern literary language. His justly celebrated novel, ''Past Continuous'' (1977; English translation, 1985), realizes the most radical imaginative possibilities of this new prose. In it, Shabtai, like Proust and the later Henry James, deploys serpentine, elaborately metaphorical sentences that subtly weave in and out of different times and different levels of consciousness, conjuring up, again like Proust, a vision of all things of value crumbling under time's corrosive touch. It lacks, however, the Proustian sense of redemption through art and memory.
''Past Perfect'' was completed during the last year of the writer's life but only partly revised by him. As his widow explains in an afterword, with the aid of the prominent Israeli critic Dan Miron she made selections from the two chapters - there are four in all - her husband had left in multiple versions. The text she and Mr. Miron produced seems in no way fragmentary or unfinished. (And Dalya Bilu's translation is precise, fluent and generally quite apt, despite an occasional lapse in English usage - ''chimneys'' instead of ''smokestacks'' on a ship, ''merry as a bird'' instead of ''happy as a lark,'' ''like'' instead of ''as'' at the beginning of subordinate clauses.) The writing gives abundant evidence of Shabtai as a prose master, and there are sections of haunting power, but the novel is not a masterpiece like ''Past Continuous.''
The chief problem is the ambiguous feeling the book conveys of a writer ridden by a private obsession and intermittently transforming the obsession into a larger vision of human life. Shabtai had already experienced a serious heart attack, and as he worked on this novel he was afraid he had little time left. He imparts this predicament to his protagonist, Meir, a 42-year-old structural engineer living in Tel Aviv, who discovers he has seriously high blood pressure, begins to feel symptoms of fatigue, dizziness and lassitude, and has terrifying premonitions of his own impending death. Meir's response is what one might imagine would be the reaction of an homme moyen sensuel to a premature confrontation with mortality: nagging resentment, unfocused desperation, a self-defeating greediness for as many pleasures as can be taken in during the brief time left. These pleasures in Meir's case are chiefly sexual, but until the last part of the book they never go beyond masturbatory fantasies, accompanied by repeated waves of bitter regret over all he could have enjoyed but never did. His wife, whom he leans on emotionally with no sign of sexual interest in her, adds to the bitterness because Meir torments himself with the thought of a single act of infidelity she has confessed to him. Instead of the dreamed-of genital gratification, Meir, regressively, settles frequently for oral gratification, stuffing himself with his mother's pot roast and butter cookies and the manifold junk foods of the streets of Tel Aviv - all of which serves, of course, only to compound the graveness of his medical condition.
An Israeli friend complained to me at the time of the novel's publication in Hebrew that the book was simply one long kvetch. The narrator's characterization of Meir's consciousness in fact bristles with terms like ''nagging anxiety,'' ''bitterness and humiliation,'' ''impenetrable alienation,'' ''unutterable weariness.'' He is a man who, as we are told more than once, ''lacked the talent for life.'' This lack of talent is demonstrated in excruciating detail in an expedition Meir makes to Amsterdam, in which every single plan to enjoy himself goes awry through his own doing in ways that are likely to prove almost as frustrating to the reader as they do to the character. There is, nevertheless, more in this novel than kvetch, largely because of Shabtai's prodigious ability to make things happen resonantly through words. I cannot represent this ability adequately by quotation because many of the really grand Shabtai sentences would run to almost half the length of the review. Let me instead trace one major line of thematic development through imagery. As Meir becomes aware of his illness, he is repeatedly troubled by a split between consciousness and body, by a sense of having become estranged from his own body, or of his body having turned into a barrier between himself and the world. Shabtai conveys this sense, with endlessly inventive variations, through images of insulation and imprisonment. The character is encased in lead, swathed in cloud, ''he felt like a gray bubble floating inside another, much bigger bubble''; and in a telling associative extension of the bubble metaphor, ''he was becoming detached from himself and his surroundings, and being enveloped in a balloon of gray, porous air separating him from something in which he was floating, like a dead embryo being detached from the placenta.'' In these imagistic terms, the problem of the novel becomes how to move from insulation to connection, from stillbirth to rebirth.
What compensates for the long moments of irritation in ''Past Perfect'' is the concluding section, a splendidly imagined transcendence of the prison house of numbing fear for oneself and crippling preoccupation with self. At the crisis of Meir's long-deferred sexual consummation, ''it seemed to him that a river of tenderness had opened up inside him and was streaming toward her.'' In the logic of the novel's metaphors, the separating membrane between self and other has at last been ruptured.
In the euphoric somnolence that follows consummation, the mind of the protagonist drifts off into a dream or hallucination or vision of moving back in time through a pastoral landscape to young manhood, to childhood and finally to birth itself, where everything is once again limitless, unsullied possibility. As a prose-poem imagination of the world beyond the dread of death, dislocation and despair, the last 25 pages of ''Past Perfect'' constitute one of the memorable set pieces of recent fiction, almost worthy of comparison with Molly's soliloquy at the end of ''Ulysses.''
HERE is the beginning of the final paragraph. It is a view from the womb, though we do not become fully aware of the anatomical location until later in the paragraph, so that the leading edge of narration is visionary rather than physiological. Indeed, the ripple movement of the passage, traveling out from the uterine darkness to the brightness of the sun, to an oneiric landscape over which a strange bird passes, is characteristic of Shabtai's writing at its best, moving in great associative sweeps from the burning gases of the interstellar spaces to the shadowy depths of the ocean floor:
''Afterward he opened his eyes and saw a pristine darkness, dense and black as could be and at the same time absolutely translucent, which did not prevent him from seeing the colored circles of light appearing and disappearing in the twinkling of an eye, or the spots of light trembling somewhere in the darkness and instantly swallowed up in it, nor yet the tender radiance like the brightness of the sun before dawn that appeared whenever he opened his eyes - but he did not open them often, and most of the time he lay curled up or floated upright or perhaps upside down with his eyes closed, half awake and half asleep, steeped in a fresh, pure serenity and a pleasurable weightlessness, hearing no sounds and feeling no pain, and at the same time he saw the faces of his mother and grandmother, which were nothing but the same spots of light, staying a while and vanishing, but he felt no longing for them or sorrow at parting, as if there were vast deserts of time and distance yawning between them, and once or twice a bird flew over, too, leaving a slight crease in the darkness, which was immediately smoothed out, behind it.''
Here, too, the protagonist is floating in a bubble, but there is no deathly grayness, and in a moment he will be propelled down the canal we all descend only once, to enter the world and to be greeted by the words - the last ones in the novel - ''What a beautiful child.'' THE SKY REFUSED TO BUDGE
A feeling of pleasant languor encompassed him . . . and the earth exuded warmth and drowsy vapors, which seeped into him and wrapped around him like the silken threads of a cocoon, and he turned on his side and unthinkingly took the newspaper out of his pocket and . . . he browsed through it and read an item about a society whose center was located in the town of Hebron in America, which claimed that the earth was hollow and that we . . . lived inside it, stuck to the inner side of its crust . . . and he saw a hollow globe with himself and the tree he was lying under stuck to the inside of its crust, and an infinite sea of blue air outside it . . . and on the same impulse of thought he saw the hollow globe inside another hollow globe, and this other hollow globe inside another one . . . he tried to imagine himself lying on the inner circumference of the hollow globe with the sky underneath him . . . until in the end he felt that he was indeed lying on top of the world as in an upside-down hammock with the sky underneath him, and he delighted in his triumph and in the sense of floating and space, but these feelings gave way immediately to uneasiness . . . until all he wanted was to revert to his former feeling that he was below and the sky was above, but the opposite feeling persisted stubbornly until in the end he covered his face with the newspaper . . . and slept as blissfully as if he were in a cradle. - From ''Past Perfect.''
Robert Alter's most recent book is ''The Art of Biblical Poetry.'' He is completing ''The Invention of Hebrew Prose,'' a study of European Hebrew fiction around the turn of the century.
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Why change a system that already works?
An incredibly valid question. And if you don't mind having a filing cabinet or drawer or bin, then going paperless may not be for you.
If you're thinking that you'd like to try out a paperless system, then organizing instructions and warranties is a great starting place. Rather than shocking your system with a lofty goal of scanning every important document, receipt, record, certificate, license, photo, contract, and report, start with a manageable task.
1. Gather all of your instructions and warranties.
4. Save to your digital world of choice.
5. Whenever new instructions or warranties enter your home, scan them right away.
If you have a smartphone or tablet, then there are numerous apps that allow you to use the camera in the phone or tablet as a scanner.
I find Scannable to be quite reliable. While I store many documents in Evernote, I don't have to. I can use Scannable and send the document to email, message, my camera roll, Cloud services like DropBox, or my iCloud account. Check out more about this great little app: Scannable: An Evernote Enhancing App!
How do I decide where to store these documents?
I'm not overly concerned about storing instructions and warranties in Evernote. I don't consider these documents highly personal or private. However, if you're considering digitizing even more, then you do want to do some research on different Cloud services and what levels of privacy and encryption they offer.
If you're not comfortable with the Cloud, then you don't have to use it. You can store all of your digital records on your hard drive, so long as you have enough space. And as long as you recognize that you need to protect your data with layers of security...unless you're planning on going all Bill Adama and not ever networking your Battlestar.
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India Supports Sustainable Development Through UN Tax Fund
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – India has provided a voluntary contribution of US $100,000 to encourage the participation of developing countries in the work of a key UN committee on tax matters tasked with finding ways of mobilizing resources for sustainable development.
This is the second year India has contributed to the UN Tax Trust Fund and is still the only country that has funded so far. The Fund aims to support the work of the UN Tax Committee.
The Committee is a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ESOSOC). It deals with key issues that could help developing countries to unleash their potential to achieve sustainable development through technical support on areas such as double taxation treaties, transfer pricing (profit shifting) taxation of the extractive industries and taxation of services.
India's contribution is a response to the call of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, which was adopted at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in 2015, to further resource mobilization in support of sustainable development and which reiterated a request for countries to make contributions to the UN Tax Trust Fund.
In Addis Ababa, UN Member States committed to work together to enhance the UN Tax Committee's resources to strengthen its effectiveness and operational capacity. The Addis Agenda also specifically called on the Member States to support the UN Tax Committee and its subsidiary bodies through the voluntary Trust Fund, supporting the increased participation of developing country experts at subcommittee meetings.
The Trust Fund for International Cooperation in Tax Matters was established in July 2006, in order to support the activities of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.
The Fund now seeks voluntary contributions, in order to support the activities of the Committee's active Subcommittees, including the updates to the United Nations Model Double Taxation Convention between Developed and Developing Countries and the Manual for the Negotiation of Bilateral Tax Treaties between Developed and Developing Countries, preparation of the United Nations Manual on Transfer Pricing, as well as making recommendations on capacity-building and providing technical assistance.
India is also supporting developing countries through the India‑United Nations Development Partnership Fund. The Fund aims at supporting sustainable development for low-income nations with 22 projects having already been approved in 25 partner countries ranging from hurricane rehabilitation and climate early warning system to government accountability and agriculture.
Managed by the UN Office for South-South Cooperation, the Fund seeks to assist projects for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in partner countries. South-South cooperation in the UN context refers to the exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge between developing countries.
Speaking at an event marking the first anniversary of the India‑United Nations Development Partnership Fund in New York early June 2018, UN Secretary‑General António Guterres commended India's "very important role in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals".
Guterres said: "Even before the Goals were crystallized, India's own development efforts and vision reflected many of the same priorities and aspirations." He added: "India is, for all of us, a very important inspiration."
In the third year of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the UN chief thanked India for its "strong commitment to multilateralism and to partnership with the United Nations."
The partnership, he said, is expressed in many ways across the global agenda "and which we see again through the activities of this important Fund." The Fund, he added, shows "the further deepening of South‑South cooperation," which is "an increasingly valuable dimension of our work for development."
But this is also the moment to remind that South‑South cooperation is not an instrument aiming at replacing North‑South cooperation, said Guterres. "South‑South cooperation is not an instrument for the commitments that were made by developed countries now to be put aside," he warned.
"South-South cooperation must be a stimulus for an intensified North‑South cooperation, for the Addis Ababa Agenda to be fully implemented and for everybody to assume their responsibilities in the context of a world in which we want a fair globalization, in which justice prevails in international relations," the UN Chief declared. [IDN-InDepthNews – 05 July 2018]
Photo: India makes voluntary contribution for the second consecutive year to UN Tax Trust Fund. 03 July 2018. Credit: UN DESA
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The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) today announced the opening of state-of-the-art pedestrian bridges with moving sidewalks connecting Terminal B with Central Parking at Logan International Airport. The $37 million walkways contain sparkling terrazzo floors depicting the undersea creatures native to New England waters and will make traveling easier for Terminal B's 9.8 million passengers per year.
At 12 feet high and 26 feet wide, the walkways make a dramatic visual statement and provide stunning views of Logan's airfield and the city. The walkways complement the Terminal A & E walkways which opened in September of 1998. When the final walkway opens this June, connecting from Terminal C, each or Logan's terminal will have a direct, convenient connection to Central Parking.
Like the Terminal A & E walkways, travelers connect to the new walkways through the fourth level of Central Parking. Prior to the opening of the new walkway, travelers connecting between Central Parking and Terminal B had to carry their baggage through a small, dark passageway and down a flight of stairs. Terminal B is Logan's busiest terminal.
The artwork in the Terminal B walkway's terrazzo floor was developed by Somerville artist Jane Goldman. Goldman also created the marine artwork that appears in the Terminal A &E walkways. The vibrant and authentic sea creatures that appear in the walkways were painstakingly researched and recreated in the terrazzo floors, forming the largest piece of public art in New England. The marine images provide a warm welcome for travelers and help conjure images of New England's rich marine life.
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The disingenuous hypocrite Pope strikes again citing woes his ideology helped create
By Donald A. Collins | 11 April 2017
(Credit: Catholic Church England and Wales / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Page one of the Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Washington Post featured a story entitled, "How Pope Francis is leading the Catholic Church against anti-migrant populism" which begins thusly,
As politicians around the world including President Trump take an increasingly hard line on immigration, a powerful force is rallying to the side of migrants: the Roman Catholic Church led by Pope Francis.
Catholic cardinals, bishops and priests are emerging as some of the most influential opponents of immigration crackdowns backed by right-wing populists in the United States and Europe. The moves come as Francis, who has put migrants at the top of his agenda, appears to be leading by example, emphasizing his support for their rights in sermons, speeches and deeds.
The pro-migrant drive risks dividing Catholics—many of whom in the United States voted for Trump. Some observers say it is also inserting the church into politics in a manner recalling the heady days of Pope John Paul II, who stared down communism and declared his opposition to the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The Vatican is standing in open opposition to politicians like Trump not just on immigration but also on other issues, including climate-change policy.
One cannot imagine such a blatant act of cynicism except that this is far from the first time in recent memory the RCC has hidden behind its self interest to feather its own nest at the risk of everyone else. Recall its denial of wide spread Pedophilia or paedophilia, which Wikipedia tells us "is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children."
What could be another hypocritical example than calling for more aliens to migrate when the Pope's own institution is suffering from an acute shortage of priests and a population of nuns whose average age is over 75?
Let's be very clear. The refugee crises certainly bears strong relationship to the population crisis and the Pope's organization has been wildly against birth control which in large measure has helped balloon human numbers around the world.
Even as American Catholic women were practicing birth control including abortion in the same manner as other American women, the Vatican hierarchy including the powerful American Catholic Bishops were heavily fighting against any means of birth control except the rhythm method known to many as "Russian Roulette". The ideal doctrine espoused by such family planning pioneers as Margaret Sanger that each child be a wanted child was cynically ignored by this heinous hierarchy of self interested men.
The literature of this church reeks with well documented histories of brutal misbehavior masked as concern for the souls of its adherents. And we don't have to go as far back as the Spanish Inquisition.
But their political savvy is nonpareil. Trump, in many ways so justifiably wrong and consequently very unpopular with a majority of Americans, becomes the perfect target for attack. As the Post article tells us "In the United States, individual bishops, especially those appointed by Francis, have sharply criticized Trump's migrant policies since his election. They include Newark Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, who last month co-led a rally in support of a Mexican man fighting deportation. Tobin has decried Trump's executive orders on immigration, calling them the 'opposite of what it means to be an American.'" Anything to replenish the sagging number of priests and nuns??
More anguish from the RCC hierarchy: "In Los Angeles, Archbishop José H. Gomez, the first Mexican American vice president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which leads the U.S. church, described migrant rights as the bishops' most important issue. He has delivered blistering critiques of Trump's policies, and instructed his clerics to distribute cards in English, Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese informing migrants of their rights in 300 parishes."
In short, anything to benefit the Vatican and the RCC, including getting the US Supreme Court packed with Catholic or with non Catholic, Neil Gorsuch, a justice trained by Catholic Justices Kennedy and Scalia.
The immigration issue and the family planning issues are conjoined by moral humanity and the need for the rule of law. Promoting reckless migrant numbers into our sovereign nation beyond any reasonable need has added over 100 million immigrants, legally and illegally since our laws were changed in 1965. What is moral or ethical about urging illegal behavior by immigrants or dangerous lack of birth control services for women? Go figure!
At last—after far too long—many Americans and Europeans woke up and got wise to what happened with immigration and now are seeking reasonable amends. Those amends can only be achieved by reestablishing the Rule of Law by making legal immigration only a reality despite the efforts of both major parties to do the bidding of the RCC, the ethnic minorities and the cheap labor seeking by American business.
Oh, and another factor to consider. The arrival of massive new robotic employees has made the claim of adding American jobs ever more hypocritical. That covers Trump too.
This Pope says no women priests ever, is anti gay marriage, hates safe birth control and pretends that the mental health is better by attacking those people who are by no fault of their own gay or LGBT. What a list!
Talk about my way or the highway! Pope Francis' statement in the Post article is so contradictory of reality: "I appeal not to create walls but to build bridges," Francis said in February on an international day of prayer against human trafficking. "To not respond to evil with evil. To defeat evil with good…. A Christian would never say, 'You will pay for that.' Never." Talk about utter inanity if you really look at the facts.
The Post adds this quote: "Cardinal Peter Turkson, one of the Vatican's most senior voices, said last month that it was wrong to portray the Holy See as 'against' Trump. But a day earlier, he said that the Vatican was counting on the U.S. Catholic Church—as well as checks and balances—to stop Trump's policies."
We know that Trump was elected because of huge dissatisfaction with the treatment of many citizens who felt their government was not listening. Whether Trump will be able to fulfill his promise of getting immigration handled under the Rule of Law remains in serious doubt as explained above.
And the funding of reproductive health services such as Title X (a Nixon accomplishment in 1970) or Planned Parenthood, women's main reproductive health provider, by our Federal Government also is very much at risk.
Then yet another cynical political angle gets played when the Post notes that "The Vatican is standing in open opposition to politicians like Trump not just on immigration but also on other issues, including climate-change policy."
Just as the RCC attacked the Rockefeller Commission report on population as it would affect America's future, which counseled full attention to the population problem. Thereafter and with huge damaging effects, the RCC and its agents in government sought to and did undermine any US government support for family planning while the US population soared from about 200 million to 330 million now and the world's population more than doubled despite the known damage to our planet and the lives of its human inhabitants.
Why do we keep listening to people who want to treat people without political clout badly derives from more and more power being lodged at the top?? Is it a function of the USA now being run by the best government money can buy? Or are we just going to continue being lazy or stupid about our future and that of our children and grandchildren?
As you, Pope Francis, kiss the feet of a few poor refuges, and are opining thusly, "Facing the tragedy of tens of thousands of refugees—fleeing death by war and famine and journeying towards the hope of life—the Gospel calls, asking of us to be close to the smallest and forsaken. To give them a concrete hope," don't you realize how much your institution's orthodoxy and your institution's actions have much to be ashamed of?? Guess not as the PR game continues with apparently no conscience.
Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC., has spent over 40 years working for women's reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013.
From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013
By Donald A. Collins
Publisher: Church and State Press (July 30, 2014)
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Will Americans vote to abandon the rule of law on immigration?
Predicted Changes Have Come True for the Worst
When Will US Leaders See the Dangers of Excess Unneeded Immigration and Act?
NY Governor Cuomo hides racism in his Christian hypocrisy about his open border immigration views
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Q: Can someone explain this piece of code for identifying difference between two dataframes? resultBool = (results_01 != results_02).stack()
resultdiff = pd.concat([results_01.stack()[resultBool], results_02.stack()[resultBool]], axis=1)
resultdiff.columns=["output_01", "output_02"]

I found this piece of code online for comparing two csv files and print the difference, I'm not quite sure about the logic behind the first two lines, can someone explain many thanks.

A: For example, lets consider two newly created data frames below:
import pandas as pd

# Creating the first dataframe
df1 = pd.DataFrame({"A":[1,5,7,8],
                  "B":[5,8,4,3],
                  "C":[10,4,9,3]})

# Creating the second dataframe
df2 = pd.DataFrame({"A":[5,3,6,4],
                  "B":[11,2,4,3],
                  "C":[4,3,8,5]})

They look like this:

The not equal to expression!= simply returns a new df with true/false where the values are not equal.

stack reshapes the dataframe with new indexes. More info here.

resultBool = (df1 != df2).stack()

The above line saves the resulting df (as shown in the second picture) in a variable.
The following line filters out all the false values from our original dataframe.

Notice how the index 2 B is missing as the value in resultBool df is false.
This means that the values in df1 and df2 for this particular cell are equal thus the result of != operator is false.
We are doing the same for df2 and simply concatenating the results horizontally. More info on pandas concatenation here.

In the above image, column '0' referes to values in df1 and column '1' refers to values in df2.
Finally, we rename these columns to be 'output_01' and 'output_02':

The end result is a new df highlighting values that are different in both the dataframes.

A: resultBool is the result of a DataFrame.stack() which unravels the results of the 2 csv files named result_01 and result_02 into singular column of True and False values, with column names now being stacked as MultiIndex, which represent whether there are differences between both, with True representing a difference since results_01 != results_02.
resultdiff is doing a pd.concat horizontally by passing in resultBool which will only save the results of the aforementioned resultBool.
After which, resultdiff is setting the columns.
For more information, you should look at the pandas functions involved as well as print the dataframes after each line of code to see whats happening.
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.stack.html
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.concat.html


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