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Socialism on Parade in the Capital
There was a brief flurry of excitement among conservatives last summer as a new opinion poll came out with this stunning news: Fifty-five percent of likely voters thought President Obama could best be described as a socialist. For conservatives, for older voters who remember the Evil Empire and Americas 45-year Cold War with the old USSR, it seemed that that would be all Americans would have to know: Socialism is bad. Socialism was a colossal failure. Socialism was the watered-down version of Marxist-Leninism, that poisonous old hammer-and-sickle snake oil.
That early summer poll was viewed as all the more important because it was done by the Democracy Corpsa reliably left-wing outfit run by former Clinton White House hands, James Carville and Stan Greenberg. Nobody could say this was a questionable poll done by Human Events or National Review. This poll was done by and for liberals.
Some conservative blogs pounced. The one-word description of the poll results for liberals was: DOOM. Our friends could hardly contain their glee.
Not so fast. How many Americans who have come of age in the 21 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall really know the record of Socialism? Did we expect them to learn it in their public high schools? Check out the social studies textbooks. The late Howard Zinns Peoples History of the United States has been a required text in hundreds of advanced placement history courses at the high school and college levels. Zinn was a proud Marxist whose analysis of our past was arguably even more anti-American than that of old Joe Stalin. (Zinn blamed the U.S. for forcing Japan to attack us at Pearl Harbor; Soviet dictator Stalin welcomed the U.S. entry into World War II and agreed at Yalta to go to war against Japan.)
Consider last weekends big labor union rally on the National Mall. It was big for organized labor, but it was a pale shadow of Glenn Becks August rally to Restore Honor. Nonetheless, what was notable about the labor rally was the openness with which thousands of young Americans proclaimed their allegiance to Communist and Socialist causes.
Watch this video, helpfully provided for us by Americans for Prosperity (AFP). The background music was added by AFP, the now-almost-forgotten Stalinist anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Think of that name when you see these naive young Americans appearing in broad daylight on our National Mall, advocating for a socialist America:
Marxism enjoys a continuing prestige in the red-bannered halls of academe. It might even be argued that Marxism got a new lease on life with the collapse of the old Soviet Union.
No longer do campus reds have to defend that empire built on bones. They dont have to make excuses for a political system that walled its people in, that shot workers as they tried to escape the Workers Paradise. Moscows Communist rulers deliberately starved millions through state-sparked famines, sent millions more to die in the Gulag, suppressed all civil liberties over 1/7 of the globe, and consigned dissidents to mental hospitals, where they were drugged into silence.
One hundred million people were killed by world Communism in the 20th Century. These are not wild charges hurled by right-wing zealots. They are the sober, carefully discounted figures produced by Stephane Courtois and a group of French leftists. Their 912-page compendium is titled The Black Book of Communism.
Courtois and company are careful to analyze the numbers of victims widely reported in the West. The very numbers of victims of Communism defy comprehension. These unimaginable numbers have a numbing effect. Dictator Stalin acknowledged shrewdly: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
I would like to share this passage from the Black Book with some of those young Marxists-on-the-Mall:
What moved us most [said a former Cambodian government official who miraculously survived] was the fate of twenty young children, most of whom belonged to people who had been evacuated after 17 April 1975. These children stole because they were too hungry. They had been arrested not so that they could be punished, but so that they could be put to death in an extremely savage manner:
Prison guards hit them or kicked them to death.
They made living toys of them, tying up their feet, hanging them from the roof, swinging them, then steadying them with kicks.
Near the prison there was a pond; the executioners threw the children into it and held them down by their feet, and when they started to thrash about they would let their heads up, and then start the process all over again.
We, the other prisoners, cried in secret about the fate of these children, who were leaving this world in such an atrocious manner.
Earlier that year, in March, 1975, Congressman Don Fraser (D-Minn.) chaired a House Committee hearing. Do you want Cambodia to fall [to the Communists?] an official of the Ford administration asked. Yes, said the liberal Fraser, under controlled circumstances to minimize the loss of life.
If you watched network TV coverage of last Saturdays rally, you would have seen none of the red banners, the Communist and Socialist broadsides and literature. Can you imagine what the reaction of the media would have been if theyd been able to find even one banner from the Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan at Glenn Becks rally?
Those of us who lived through the Cold War have a duty to bear witness to the young. We have a holy obligation to warn them not to go down that bloody path again. There is nothing any young American should admire or seek to emulate in the bloody record of Communism.
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Mozilla Firefox OS Releases WebIDE
Firefox's recent update should come as a surprise to many users and developers, as the Nightly release channel now allows them to test WebIDE, a development environment for HTML5 apps that are built into the browser, a move that is hot on the heels of their recent collaborative effort with Google's Android.
For long-time Firefox users, Bespin, a project Mozilla undertook in the same vein, some time ago would be fresh in your memory. Bespin, tried to build a code editor into the browser, but like most initial efforts did not work out the way Mozilla envisioned it. But instead of chucking the idea down into the trash can of failed efforts, Bespin now forms the core of Cloud9IDE, a similar improvement. Being a project in its initial stages, the WebIDE betters Bespin in terms of its ambition to be the first browser based IDE.
Christian Heilmann, a developer with Mozilla explained that WebIDE is not only a code editor that is built into the browser, but includes a set of tools that creates responsive apps for the desktop and the mobile platform. This is a subtle move on Mozilla's part, they're trying to market the Firefox OS for phones relentlessly to make it at least the third popular OS for smart phones. Not withstanding this act of marketing, users will now possess a built-in simulator and a suite of tools that not only allow you to test apps on a device but also build it on the same device itself.
WebIDE comes with an app that helps developers understand how it works, thus giving them a starting point for their own work. Mozilla simplified it quite well for developers using just a few clicks to get started on a new web app right in the browser itself. The sample they provide also offers new users with all code needed so that every time the code it edited and reloaded, WebIDE will validate the changes and repackage the code.
An interesting factor Heilmann pointed out is the fact that there are not many IDEs out there that offer a built-in code editor, and even if there are mock-ups, they are not the right tools to write the code for web apps and the task of configuring them can really be a headache. The challenges with creating such web apps may be challenging for new developers and more often than not this can lead to a premature death of the web app. The inclusion of the built-in code editor and the suite of tools provided by WebIDE is probably the best feature of the IDE that will attract interest from techies.
David Camp who is the director of Mozilla's developer tools, also highlighted the fact that although WebIDE was based on CodeMirror and Bespin, since they share the same tern.js code analysis framework, developers can easily ignore the effort Firefox has put in and choose to work with the framework they personally choose to work with. With the built-in editor turned off, developers can still use the interface to manage run times and validate the apps. WebIDE plays a role that caters to three different positions. WebIDE can simply look for changes, allow developers to use a feature that is yet-to-be-released, a command-line API or simply integrate third party code editor vendors to integrate with Mozilla to work on these web apps.
WebIDE, is now the focus of serious hard work, with attempts to integrate it with Firefox's Remote Debugging Protocol. The aim of the integration process is to allow the developers to test web apps with ease after they create them with ease, after all they have been created on the mobile or desktop based browser. The best part of the entire deal is the fact that they do not need an emulator, allowing testing and editing to happen in real-time. An optimistic Camp, hopes that the protocol adapter that currently works with Firefox on the desktop and Android, will try to extend this across all platforms including Chrome for Android and Safari on iOS.
If you are a developer and want to try this feature, install Firefox Nightly and try about:config. Once there, set devtools.webide.enabled to true, although Mozilla plans on enabling it to by default by their next stable release which is still a few months away.
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Q: IForest spark scala I'm trying to use scala implementation of IForest https://github.com/titicaca/spark-iforest, but when i build (like reported in README with mvn clean package), it give me these errors:

[ERROR] IsolationForest_Spark/spark-iforest/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/iforest/IForest.scala:290:
        error: value getAndSetParams is not a member of object org.apache.spark.ml.util.DefaultParamsReader
[ERROR]       DefaultParamsReader.getAndSetParams(model, metadata)
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[ERROR] IsolationForest_Spark/spark-iforest/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/iforest/IForest.scala:480:
        error: value create is not a member of object org.apache.spark.ml.util.Instrumentation
[ERROR]     val instr = Instrumentation.create(this, rddPerTree)

Does someone knows why?
Thank you
scala version 2.11.12
spark version 2.4.0
maven version 3.5.2
I modified pom.xml adjusting version of scala, spark and maven, but I leave the same dependencies.

A: The project has been updated since this answer was written see F.Z.Yang's answer.
The spark iforest is using a spark internal api getAndSetParams which was moved in spark 2.4.0 according to this commit and issue SPARK-23455.
It seems spark iforest was compiled with spark 2.2.0, so you should probably start with that version.
You could try the pervious version (2.3.2) but if there are other breaking changes that may not work either.

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Dashiin Byambasüren (idioma mongol: Дашийн Бямбасүрэн; nacido el 20 de junio de 1942) es un político del Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo Mongol y Primer Ministro de Mongolia entre 1990 y 1992, siendo el primero en ser nombrado por un partido electo democráticamente.

Graduado como economista, fue jefe de la Oficina de Estadística del Estado y del Instituto de Mantenimiento, a pesar de que su influencia fue inicialmente afectada luego de la caída de su mentor Jambyn Batmönkh. Hacia 1989 alcanzó la posición de vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros y luego de las elecciones de 1990 (primeras elecciones democráticas) fue elegido como el Primer Ministro de la República Popular de Mongolia. Su gobierno fue reformista, pero con elementos de tecnocracia, con antiguos comunistas que habían cambiado de posiciones para ajustarse a la nueva realidad del país. También desarrolló una reputación por la diplomacia, visitando Alemania, Bélgica y Francia, así como hacia Moscú e hizo la primera visita de un líder mongol a la República Popular China en más de 30 años.

Fue sucedido en 1992 por Puntsagiin Jasrai. Byambasüren buscó mejorar las relaciones externas de Mongolia y trabajó particularmente con las relaciones con Japón, que, junto con el Banco Mundial, condonó una deuda de 320 millones de dólares.

Abandonó el Partido Revolucionario del Pueblo Mongol en octubre de 1992, criticando su hegemonía continua y su cercana relación con los partidos comunistas. Formó su propio grupo pro-democrático llamado Partido Renacimiento Democrático Mongol en 1994.

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Ever wondered about Asif Ali Zardari Net Worth, Current Age & Personal Life in 2023?
Asif Ali Zardari is a Pakistani Politician. He is well-known in Pakistan because of being a Politician. Let us take a quick glance at his professional life then we will check his net worth.
Name Asif Ali Zardari
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Born on July 26, 1955 in Pakistan, He isn't famous only because of being a Politician but also because, former president of Pakistan .
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"I am well aware that people are skeptical of me discussing the topic," Mrs. Trump said at a roundtable discussion with technology industry leaders at the White House. "I have been criticized for my commitment to tackling this issue, and I know that will continue, but it will not stop me from doing what I know is right."
She asserted, "I am here with one goal: helping children and our next generation."
Mrs. Trump convened the meeting with executives from Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft and others to discuss the effects of technology on young people. About one-third of U.S. middle and high school students say they've been the victim of cyberbullying, according to the Cyberbullying Research Center.
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Guna/Bhopal, February 27, 2019 (Muslim Saleem):Congress national general secretary and MP Jyotiraditya Scindia once again appeared in different style. Scindia attended the Labor Conference in Guna on Tuesday and provided food to the workers with his hands. Not only that, he himself also had lunch with them.
A few days back, Scindia was seen as a confectioner at a hotel in Ashoknagar, where he eaten samosas and fed them. Scindia, who has been made in-charge of Western Uttar Pradesh for Lok Sabha elections 2019, is currently on a tour of his constituency.
Actually, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined Labor Department in the program organized by the labor department in Guna and the Jai Kisan Debt Waiver scheme. There he sat down with the workers to eat and also provided some workers with food from his hands. On this occasion, Kamal Nath Cabinet Minister Imarti Devi was also present.
Along with Scindia, his wife Priyadarshini Raje Scindia is also on her visit to Guna-Shivpuri these days. On Monday, spouse played cricket match among the public. If the representatives of the people are less likely to see such behavior But Scindia couple is heading the spotlight these days.


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Years ago, while working as a software publisher for a very large company, I was sent an unreleased graphology (handwriting analysis) app by a programmer looking for a publisher.
It was an example of what was then called an "Expert System". You answered a series of questions while looking at a paragraph of someone's handwriting alongside three of their signatures. After a garishly fanciful animation of computerised thought, it fed back guesses about the character of the author, some of them apparently accurate. If you wanted more, you could then put the samples in the post and get a detailed analysis by return. I tried this out with half a dozen colleagues and compared it to results from the widely used 16PF personality test. All the subjects agreed that the graphology results were better.
'I found no writer who even once produced that link with the sharp point closing the circle and forming an a with a long, flat bottom.'
It mainly illustrated how this type of analysis relies on placing whatever is being analysed into a series of simple generic categories. All the finishing touches that personalise it and make it sound accurate can then be left to the subject. "Yes! I am a person who prefers intelligent company to boozy nights out."
Everyone secretly likes to believe in magic, especially magic that produces a flattering analysis of one's personality. Later, I worked on signature recognition software. In both cases, having the original handwriting was vital because, crude as they were, both techniques relied as much on the nature of stroke and pressure as on letter form. In fact the signature recognition software designers eventually discarded analysis of letter forms altogether, preferring to use a pressure pad on the pen barrel and a touch pad to analyse contact between fingers, pen and writing surface. No reference to what was being written was needed.
In the case of Will's signatures, for obvious reasons, very few scholars have been allowed to handle the artefacts. Much of the controversy surrounding Shakespeare's signatures therefore, particularly those arguments in the SAQ debate attempting to characterise him as illiterate, can only be based on elementary cod palaeography. Or Kite-Flying as it is otherwise known.
Despite the availability of high-quality photographs of Shakespeare's signatures, the illustration on the left shows the collection that most Oxfordians and other anti-Stratfordians use for their analysis, taken from an engraving first published in 1817 in Shakespeare and His Times by Nathan Drake. On the right are photographs which give a better impression of how those signatures actually appear.
Photographs show a great deal more than PMT reproductions.
Now if you have ever tried to write with a goose quill you know that the technique of 'stroking and scratching' the paper surface, rather than pressing down hard, transmits copious information about stroke and pressure, more than almost any other writing implement. Quill tips also react depending on the surface being written on--the cheaper and rougher the paper, the more spray, blotting and inked-in loops. Still in use today for high quality calligraphy, quills transmit more personality than pencils or steel-nibbed pens. None of that, however, is discernible on digital high contrast scans or photocopies. You are not looking at Will's marks unless you are fortunate enough to be looking at the originals.
What is, however, clearly discernible is that the Oxfordian argument that each signature is so different from the others that they could all be written by different people is specious. Despite the deterioration evident in the last three signatures made when a terminally ill Shakespeare was signing the pages of his will, even the untrained eye can see similarities and discern that they are sufficiently alike to be from the same hand.
In every case except 3, the 'W' begins below the baseline of the rest of the signature.
The 'W' in 1, 2 and 5 have a scrivener's dot in the curve of the final arm, which curves back down to the base line.
The 'W' in 2 and 4 have an extra small ornamental curve attaching the final leg and the arm.
The 'i's in William are made with an up-stroke and a down-stroke and left undotted.
In all but signature 5, the double 'll' in William has a distinctive change of stroke at the bottom of the first 'l' and another before the second 'l' loops into the 'i'.
The 'illiam' in 2 and 5 are extremely similar in both slant and letter formation.
The medial 'a' in 1 and 2 are formed similarly: both are open, and both begin well above the letter. No. 1 is linked with the previous "h" and No. 2 appears as that it was at one time or that both letters were made cursively, the pen leaving the paper as the upstroke of the upward bow of the 'h' was formed.
The medial 'a' in the given name of 2 and 5, and in the surname of 3, 4, and 5 are all formed the same.
The initial 'S' in all the surnames are formed alike, save for the reversed loop in 5, which doesn't make it all the way over the letter.
The slant of the 'h' stem in 3, 4, and 5 are the same.
All of the signatures except for 4 use the italic long 's'.
The 'k' is made like a 'b'.
In addition to the paper, the space allowed for the signature plays a role. At least two of the signatures have been cramped into a restricted space. Just as silly as the idea that these are the signatures of different people, is the Oxfordian idea that a scribe signed on an illiterate Will's behalf. The stylish, professional scribal hand above the signature is not the same hand or even on the same calligraphic planet.
Even high quality colour photographs of the original don't add much information about what the pen was doing.
To make their judgements, real palaeographers work with originals, microscopes and all manner of kit they don't like sharing. Soon, maybe, we'll have 3D EMR scans enabling us to examine handwriting on our 3D tablets using free palaeography apps. This will open up a whole new ball game but for now, we must content ourselves with the work of Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, a top palaeographer from the early 20c who had microscopes and expertise galore and unfettered access to the originals.
Giles E Dawson reviewed Thompson's work in Shakespeare Survey Volume 42: Shakespeare and the Elizabethans: CUP 1990.
The first of Thompson's important observations takes us to a scene near the end of Shakespeare's life. We may suppose that when Shakespeare prepared to subscribe his signature to the third page of his will he was conscious of the solemnity of the occasion. Five of his neighbours stood by to witness this important signature. He started with the words 'By me', and in forming the m in 'me' he began with a little flourish, a preliminary up-stroke of the pen. This he repeated on the W of 'William'. These strokes were not a form of embellishment that he thought up on the spur of the moment. He had been making them for years, and others, a few others, had been making them for a long time. The earliest I have seen were produced in 1572.
Thompson saw these embellishments, and he made a further important observation - that in making the up-stroke on the W Shakespeare began with a down-stroke. This is not readily seen because the up-stroke retraces, or nearly retraces, the down-stroke, and this can be seen only where the retracing is imperfect and leaves what Thompson calls a 'needle-eye'.
The writer of the 147 lines of Hand D made use of these up-strokes. He attached them to initial i,m,n,r,v,and w, but those on m and w far exceed the others in number. In the 147 lines 65 words begin with m, and on 44 of these the up-stroke may be seen. Of 79 initial 'W's, 34 bear the up-stroke.
This is analysis we cannot recreate. However hard we stare at photographs, without the originals, we can't see the up and downstrokes unless they an obvious artefact of letter formation, like the two strokes in the 'i'.
Oxfordians and more than a few academics are looking for 100% certainty from Thompson's handwriting comparison.
The witnessed signatures are unquestionably those of Will Shakespeare and the owner of Hand D is unquestionably that of an Elizabethan playwright who is really good at his job. There simply is no space for the Oxfordian horse and cart to be driven through the proof offered by the physical evidence, even before it is augmented with context.
When we eliminate playwrights whose handwriting is known to be different, the number of candidates for Hand D sinks to a single handful.
So why, when the range of possibilities is so small, hasn't Thompson's virtual certainty been accepted as definitive proof?
Dawson addresses the this question and concludes that while his analysis is sound and his conclusion secure, Thompson makes a weak case overall. Thompson dismisses the pressure-based 'needle-eye' feature of Will's hand as generic. Dawson spent a lot of time looking at 250 different Elizabethan hands and found it to be much less common than Thompson implied. In fact, he found only one other instance of the characteristic down-stroke preliminary to an upstroke in the letter v in all 250 writers.
There are other unusual features of Hand D which appear in the signatures which do not depend on pressure, one of which is the 'spurred a'.
In line 105 of Hand D, if we look closely at the word 'that' in the middle of the line, we can see that the h-a link is exactly like the one we have been examining in the signature in having the sharp point precisely touching the up- stroke, and also the same straight line forming the bottom of the misshapen a. Again, the word 'harber' near the middle of line 127 exhibits the same sharp point (which here fails by a hair's breadth to close the circle) and the same flat-bottomed a. And compare the pointed 'a' (third word in line 119) and the a in 'against' (line109).
In my examination of the hands of many writers I found twelve who linked h and a with those faddish bulbous spurs, but I found no writer who even once produced that link with the sharp point closing the circle and forming an a with a long, flat bottom. I have seen such an h-a link only in Shakespeare's signature to the Belott-Mountjoy deposition (5 A) and in Hand D.
Some Oxfordians, like Nina Green in another of her 'Oxmyths' essays, cleave for support to Samuel Tannenbaum who rejected Maunde Thompson's analysis and conclusions. Tannenbaum was a self-taught palaeographer, a psychiatrist by profession. Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman produced an authoritative work on forgery in the 19c¹, described his investigative monographs as 'fringe at best'. Amplifying, they point out that 'Tannenbaum's eccentric palaeographical claims were not always sceptical, nor restricted to Collier: in 1927 he made the only extendeded modern attempt to rehabilitate Madden's unlucky purchase of the 'Shakespeare' Montaigne, with its signature ridiculed by Collier himself, discredited by Maunde Thompson, and disowned by the British Museum. Tannenbaum found its genuineness 'unquestionable." Robert Elrodt when writing in Shakespeare Survey², went further, quoting an Assistant Keeper of The British Museum, W H Kelliher, who said,"Tannenbaum's arguments offer no serious challenge to Maunde Thompson".
So. Green's claim that Tannenbaum has yet to be refuted turns out be as specious as her claim in the same document that you can't analyse handwriting by analysing handwriting. Large samples are nice to work with but small ones, especially from witnessed documents, can be used to produce results where large samples are not available. And in this case, the signatures ARE being compared to a satisfactorily large sample.
So. Nowhere close to damaging the overall case. And definitely no cigar.
A seventh example of Will's signature was found lurking in a border of typographical ornament in a copy of William Lambarde's Archaionomia, a book on Anglo-Saxon law published in 1568. This volume is at the Folger library and the discovery was made after Maunde Thompson's essay but before Giles Dawson's. Despite its somewhat unlikely location and the fact that one of the Folger curators has doubts, Dawson is warily happy with it. If it's a forgery, it's a good one in an extraordinary place where it may never have been discovered. It shares a couple of the obvious features of Will's other signatures and has satisfied Dawson who cautiously concluded it was authentic. Nick Knight agreed and Sam Schoenbaum leaned towards authenticating it as having "a better claim to authenticity than any other pretended Shakespeare autograph". The best argument for its authenticity, palaeography aside, is the fact that it is written on typographical ornament - a place where it is not just difficult to see it but where it would be extremely difficult for a forger to do accurate work or gauge his success. It's a good place to put an inaccurate forgery in the hope of concealing a few inadequacies from close examination. It's an extremely bad place to put one where the letter formation will stand up to analysis far beyond the capability of contemporary scrutiny.
Real or fake? It doesn't matter.
The latest news from the Folger Library seems to indicate forgery. It's importance lies only in the fact that the fuss over its existence illustrates the crumbling fragility of one of the core Oxfordian arguments, the claim that Will left nothing behind. It's authenticity adds nothing to one side of the argument any more than its lack of authentication will prove devastating to the other.
The signature on Archaionomia is virtually unreadable as it is written in a
border of typographical ornament. This image is a horizontal reflection
of what can be seen showing through on the reverse of the title page.
I strongly recommend Dawson's article since I cannot in all conscience steal any more from it. It is written in clear English, with no jargon and is (if you're not a palaeographer) absolutely conclusive. Of course he leaves a smidgen of doubt—a door open—by presenting his final conclusion in the form of rhetorical questions rather than outright statements. But then he is not expecting a horde of Oxfordians to try and get their horse and cart through a minuscule crack with amateur analysis of rough photocopies.
If we return to the very small number of candidates, we can eliminate everyone except a few very talented Elizabethan playwrights, solely on the evidence of the manuscript itself. There are fewer than five possibilities. From those we can eliminate the remaining playwrights on the internal, stylistic evidence. What possible doubt is left?
Dawson puts the question in his conclusion:
What then is the mathematical probability that two skilled dramatists, writing simultaneously about the year 1600, would be engaging in all of those unusual practices, some highly unusual?
Nil. That's the answer.
Above: A comparison of letterforms in the signatures and the Hand D additions. Click for larger version.
Below: Enlarged photograph of the Archaionomia signature.
¹ Arthur Freeman & Janet Ing Freeman, John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. (Yale University Press, 2004), v. 1, 1025
² Robert Ellrodt, "Self consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare," Shakespeare Survey, Volume 28, p. 38
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In Newsletter #39: Gourmet genomics coming to a hotel near you | The human side of integrations | Facebook may be your cheapest customer.
The new year is the time for predictions, and as we put together our own, we came across two other great visions of the future hotel (see the summaries below). These two pieces take very different approaches to the future of the hotel -- one is all about (weird and wondrous) technological innovation, while the other, my favorite, is about the human side of things, and how the hotel of the future will be a networking hub (albeit one with a strong technology underpinning).
The last piece we highlight this week isn't a news article, but instead a spotlight on Facebook. I was really surprised by how excited the crowd at ALIS was to listen to Facebook's Head of Travel, Christine Warner. I realize now perhaps we take Facebook for granted as a channel. We won't make that mistake anymore.
Lastly, much praise for Best Western's CEO David Kong, who, at ALIS, candidly addressed the challenge of Airbnb to the chains. While so many of the industry's biggest CEOs still call it "alternative lodging" (there's nothing alternative about booking over 150 million guests), David stood up and acknowledged the industry underestimates the company's disruption.
ALICE's Alex Shashou addresses the crowd at ALIS, with co-panelists Christine Warner of Facebook, Choice Hotels' Bill Ramsey, and PwC's Ali Abidi.
Why it matters: Gourmet genomics. Neurotechnology. Supersonic travel. DNA-driven spa treatments.
These are just some of the many technologies futurist Dr. James Canton predicts for the hospitality industry within the next few decades, if not within the next few years. Dr. Canton, a former Apple exec, author and social scientist, says we should be excited about his "Hotels of the Future Study" because it showcases "how innovation may positively enrich the hotel and travel experience." While he concedes many of his ideas may seem strange today, he anticipates they'll soon become part of the cultural firmament, just as computers, mobile phones, and even TVs were once the thing of science fiction and now we can't imagine the world without them.
Indeed, to hear Dr. Canton tell it, hotels will see more innovation in the next 30 years than they've seen in the last 300, which makes it easy to dismiss this study as improbable. Yet, there's another way to look at this. Last month we published a shortlist of technologies we predicted would make a big difference for hotels in 2017. In contrast with Dr. Canton's, ours is a list of imminently achievable technological upgrades. But more than that, ours is largely a list of foundational technologies and configurations - such as the "platform approach to hospitality," and "breaking with legacy thinking" - that, once in place, provide a future-proofed infrastructure for larger industry transformation. With an open tech stack, a platform technology foundation and all staff connected through software, hotels will be able to make the leaps and bounds in technology Dr. Canton foresees, as anyone will be able to build into this foundation and connect new technologies to it with ease. 2017 could be a year that seeds the kind of innovations Dr. Canton envisions.
Putting the human back into "integrations"
Just like Dr. Canton's predictions, however, Deloitte's prescriptions for the hotel of the future can only be successfully implemented if the same technological foundation we prescribe in our list of hotel technologies for 2017 is in place. For hotels (which means every guest-facing staff member) to act as curators, matchmakers, neighbors, architects, or choreographers, there needs to be a break with legacy thinking. Every person and every resource (asset, vendor, inventory, etc.) needs to be connected via a platform in an interactive ecosystem (click here for our full list of recommendations).
- 80% of time spent on mobile apps is done in just the top 5 most popular app, of which Facebook occupies the two top slots (as the Facebook app and Facebook Messenger).
Facebook is quite the opportunity to engage guests!
So, last week, when we were invited to speak on a panel at ALIS, the Americas Lodging Investment Summit, alongside Facebook's Head of Travel, Christine Warner, we were quite excited. The hoteliers we knew in the audience were similarly excited about Christine's explanation of how Facebook can help hotels target guests today. So, we wanted to share the conference resource with you, which explains how to use Facebook to target, advertise, and measure.
But a quick word of caution. Any technology (or customer marketing channel) is only as powerful as your ability to use it. Using Facebook successfully does start and end at the intent phase. As Christine and Bill Ramsey (our co-panelist from Choice Hotels) attested to, the influence has to happen from the top for technology to be successfully implemented. There has to be a supporting mindset, a willingness to experiment and test strategies when adopting new technology to unlock their long term full potential.


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Q: How to link elements from a string with numbers in Python? I'd like to link elements from a string with numbers in Python.
Users need to give an input string (one word such as "world") and then the elements of that string (here the letters of the word "world") needs to be linked to numbers starting from 0.
Then, when you give another string as an input, the corresponding numbers need to be printed.
What I tried:
# input
string = str(input())

# loop to link numbers with string input
number = -1
for letter in string:
    number += 1

Now I'd like to link the first letter of the input string with the number 0 and so on.
E.g.:
string = "world"

than "w" = 0, "o" = 1, "r" = 2, "l" = 3 and "d" = 4.
And then when you give another string such as "lord" I want to get the following output:
3124

Because "lord" --> "l" = 3, "o" = 1, "r" = 2 and "d" = 4
I don't know how I can save these numbers to their corresponding letter.

A: a = "world"

tracker = dict()
for index, value in enumerate(a):
  tracker[value] = index

b = "lord"
result = ""
for str_char in b:
  result += str(tracker[str_char])

print(result)

A: There is built-in data structure that can store key value pairs and it is called
dictionary
You can make it as such:
string = "world"
letters_numbers = {}
numerator = 0

for char in string:
  if char not in letters_numbers:
    letters_numbers[char] = numerator
    numerator += 1

then you can get another string, such as lord:
string2 = "lord"
numbers = []

for char in string2:
  numbers.append(str(letters_numbers[char]))

print("".join(numbers))  # prints 3124

This way you can use words that has same letter multiple times and still get correct results.


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May 21, 2017 vote Voting on Switzerland's energy future
By Luigi Jorio
This content was published on April 10, 2017 11:00 AM Apr 10, 2017 - 11:00
Switzerland's five nuclear power plants produce about a third of the country's electricity.
The Swiss must decide if they are ready give up nuclear energy and rely more on renewables, as part of a vote on May 21 on the government's future energy strategy.
In 2011, a few weeks after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, the Swiss cabinet called for an end to the country's reliance on nuclear power. From this decision came the government's Energy Strategy (ES) 2050external link – a vast undertaking that forms the basis for a major upheaval of the Swiss energy system.
As well as the gradual closure of five nuclear plants across the country, which will be deactivated at the end of their life cycles, ES 2050 targets the promotion of renewable energy sources and increased energy efficiency. The cabinet's objective is to guarantee a secure energy supply, and decrease dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Although the cabinet's initial objectives were downsized, the first package of ES 2050 measures were accepted by parliament, with the ambitions of the political left prevailing over the fears and reluctance of the right.
The new federal law on energy, adopted after two years of debate, anchors the ban on constructing new nuclear plants and sets benchmark values for the promotion of "new" renewable energy sources (wind, biomass, etc.). It also provides support for the hydroelectric sector – one of the pillars of the Swiss energy system, which is currently under pressure – as well as reduced energy consumption by buildings, motor vehicles and electrical appliances.
Opposed from the start to this energy shift, the conservative right Swiss People's Party successfully launched a referendum against the new law. Supported by Switzerland's Energy Alliance and several economic and industry umbrella associations, the People's Party collected 68,000 signatures (surpassing the 50,000 required). Thus on May 21, it will fall to the electorate to decide Switzerland's future energy policy.
Quitting nuclear: an opportunity for Switzerland
"The energy sector is undergoing a total transformation at a global scale, supported by low prices and the development of new technologies," declared energy minister Doris Leuthard at the launch of the ES 2050 campaign. She emphasised that with this revision of the law, the cabinet and parliament want to guarantee a secure future supply of energy, while protecting the climate and creating jobs.
"It is a great opportunity for our country," echoed Stefan Batzli, director of the Agency for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, one of ES 2050's supporters.
"Our energy infrastructure is continually ageing and is subject to dysfunction, as we saw with the Beznau 1 reactor, which was stopped two years ago. We must therefore modernise. Over the next 10-20 years, we will still use nuclear power, so that's an interval of time that will allow us to replace the atom with renewable energy sources. It is not a revolution, but a process already in motion," Batzli told swissinfo.ch.
During the parliamentary debates, Adèle Thorens Goumaz, co-president of Switzerland's Green Party, said: "Companies and individuals want to participate in the transition to secure and clean local supply of energy." This is evidenced, she added, by the long waiting list of projects that have applied for financial support via a government tariff, which guarantees producers of electricity from renewable sources a price that corresponds to their production costs.
To finance renewable energy, households will be called upon to pay more for electricity. The grid surcharge to encourage electricity production from renewable energy will go from 1.5 to 2.3 cents per kilowatt hour. For a family of four, that would translate to an annual electricity bill increase of about CHF 40 ($40), according to Leuthard. It's an estimate that does not convince opponents of ES 2050 at all, who speak of a "flagrant lie aimed at deceiving the people".
What if the sun isn't shining?
Albert Rösti, president of the People's Party and of a pro nuclear energy group, thinks that halving energy consumption would be "extremely costly".
"It would mean for example having to replace all existing heating oil systems, which are currently used in one out of every two buildings in Switzerland. It would also mean reducing by half the number of kilometres travelled by motor vehicles, and imposing drastic measures in the realms of real estate and business," says Rösti.
According to a committee opposed to ES 2050, the energy shift would cost some CHF 200 billion, which is CHF 3,200 annually for each family of four in the country – an estimate that Leuthard calls "erroneous".
But going beyond figures, opponents of ES 2050 are especially worried about securing the country's energy future. They fear that renewable energy will not permit reliable, affordable energy production in sufficient quantities. "We will have to import more electricity, especially in winter, and we will be even more dependent on other countries," says Rösti, who wants to maintain the nuclear option.
"What will we do when the sun isn't shining or when there is no wind?" asks the head of Switzerland's Radical Party, Christian Wasserfallen, who is among the most vehement detractors of ES 2050. Instead of subsidising renewable energy and introducing regulations and bans in the energy sector, he believes the electricity market should be totally liberalised.
Nuclear exit at the top of the polls
As was already the case in November 2016, energy politics in Switzerland will be decided by vote. Six months ago, the electorate rejected (by 54.2%) a popular initiative that called for banning the construction of new nuclear plants, and limiting the lifespan of existing ones to 45 years.
Interestingly, an analysis of the vote revealed that three voters in four favoured a Switzerland without nuclear power. On May 21, it will become clear if this majority also supports the plan proposed by the cabinet and parliament.
One strategy, two phases
ES 2050 is divided into two phases. The first package of measures provides for the step-by-step closure of nuclear power plants, the development of renewable energy, and increased energy efficiency. This is the package on which the people will vote on May 21.
The second phase includes the introduction of climate and electricity taxes levied on fuels and fossil fuels, as well as on electricity consumption. But following the refusal to bring the matter before the House of Representatives last March 8th, the project already seems doomed to fail.
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Voting on Switzerland's energy future Luigi Jorio Apr 10, 2017 - 11:00 The Swiss must decide if they are ready give up nuclear energy and rely more on renewables, as part of a vote on May 21 on the government's future energy strategy. In 2011, a few weeks after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, the Swiss cabinet called for an end to the country's reliance on nuclear power. From this decision came the government's Energy Strategy (ES) 2050 – a vast undertaking that forms the basis for a major upheaval of the Swiss energy system. As well as the gradual closure of five nuclear plants across the country, which will be deactivated at the end of their life cycles, ES 2050 targets the promotion of renewable energy sources and increased energy efficiency. The cabinet's objective is to guarantee a secure energy supply, and decrease dependence on imported fossil fuels. Although the cabinet's initial objectives were downsized, the first package of ES 2050 measures were accepted by parliament, with the ambitions of the political left prevailing over the fears and reluctance of the right. The new federal law on energy, adopted after two years of debate, anchors the ban on constructing new nuclear plants and sets benchmark values for the promotion of "new" renewable energy sources (wind, biomass, etc.). It also provides support for the hydroelectric sector – one of the pillars of the Swiss energy system, which is currently under pressure – as well as reduced energy consumption by buildings, motor vehicles and electrical appliances. Opposed from the start to this energy shift, the conservative right Swiss People's Party successfully launched a referendum against the new law. Supported by Switzerland's Energy Alliance and several economic and industry umbrella associations, the People's Party collected 68,000 signatures (surpassing the 50,000 required). Thus on May 21, it will fall to the electorate to decide Switzerland's future energy policy. Quitting nuclear: an opportunity for Switzerland "The energy sector is undergoing a total transformation at a global scale, supported by low prices and the development of new technologies," declared energy minister Doris Leuthard at the launch of the ES 2050 campaign. She emphasised that with this revision of the law, the cabinet and parliament want to guarantee a secure future supply of energy, while protecting the climate and creating jobs. "It is a great opportunity for our country," echoed Stefan Batzli, director of the Agency for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, one of ES 2050's supporters. "Our energy infrastructure is continually ageing and is subject to dysfunction, as we saw with the Beznau 1 reactor, which was stopped two years ago. We must therefore modernise. Over the next 10-20 years, we will still use nuclear power, so that's an interval of time that will allow us to replace the atom with renewable energy sources. It is not a revolution, but a process already in motion," Batzli told swissinfo.ch. During the parliamentary debates, Adèle Thorens Goumaz, co-president of Switzerland's Green Party, said: "Companies and individuals want to participate in the transition to secure and clean local supply of energy." This is evidenced, she added, by the long waiting list of projects that have applied for financial support via a government tariff, which guarantees producers of electricity from renewable sources a price that corresponds to their production costs. To finance renewable energy, households will be called upon to pay more for electricity. The grid surcharge to encourage electricity production from renewable energy will go from 1.5 to 2.3 cents per kilowatt hour. For a family of four, that would translate to an annual electricity bill increase of about CHF 40 ($40), according to Leuthard. It's an estimate that does not convince opponents of ES 2050 at all, who speak of a "flagrant lie aimed at deceiving the people". What if the sun isn't shining? Albert Rösti, president of the People's Party and of a pro nuclear energy group, thinks that halving energy consumption would be "extremely costly". "It would mean for example having to replace all existing heating oil systems, which are currently used in one out of every two buildings in Switzerland. It would also mean reducing by half the number of kilometres travelled by motor vehicles, and imposing drastic measures in the realms of real estate and business," says Rösti. According to a committee opposed to ES 2050, the energy shift would cost some CHF 200 billion, which is CHF 3,200 annually for each family of four in the country – an estimate that Leuthard calls "erroneous". But going beyond figures, opponents of ES 2050 are especially worried about securing the country's energy future. They fear that renewable energy will not permit reliable, affordable energy production in sufficient quantities. "We will have to import more electricity, especially in winter, and we will be even more dependent on other countries," says Rösti, who wants to maintain the nuclear option. "What will we do when the sun isn't shining or when there is no wind?" asks the head of Switzerland's Radical Party, Christian Wasserfallen, who is among the most vehement detractors of ES 2050. Instead of subsidising renewable energy and introducing regulations and bans in the energy sector, he believes the electricity market should be totally liberalised. Nuclear exit at the top of the polls As was already the case in November 2016, energy politics in Switzerland will be decided by vote. Six months ago, the electorate rejected (by 54.2%) a popular initiative that called for banning the construction of new nuclear plants, and limiting the lifespan of existing ones to 45 years. Interestingly, an analysis of the vote revealed that three voters in four favoured a Switzerland without nuclear power. On May 21, it will become clear if this majority also supports the plan proposed by the cabinet and parliament. One strategy, two phases ES 2050 is divided into two phases. The first package of measures provides for the step-by-step closure of nuclear power plants, the development of renewable energy, and increased energy efficiency. This is the package on which the people will vote on May 21. The second phase includes the introduction of climate and electricity taxes levied on fuels and fossil fuels, as well as on electricity consumption. But following the refusal to bring the matter before the House of Representatives last March 8th, the project already seems doomed to fail.
Referendum Swiss voters to decide on energy strategy
Voters will have their say on Switzerland's new energy strategy that would gradually phase out the nation's five nuclear power plants.
By Armando Mombelli
Arabic (ar)الناخبون السويسريون سيقرّرون مصير الإستراتيجية الحكومية في مجال الطاقة
German (de)Energiewende: Das Stimmvolk wird entscheiden
Spanish (es)Política energética: el pueblo decidirá
French (fr)Tournant énergétique: ce sera au peuple de trancher
Italian (it)Svolta energetica: sarà il popolo a decidere
Japanese (ja)エネルギー戦略の是非をスイスの有権者に問う
Russian (ru)Народ определит «Энергетическую стратегию»
Press review Media: 'The days of nuclear energy are numbered'
A half-hearted no, a clear no or a snub? Swiss papers can't decide what to make of voters' rejection of phasing out nuclear energy.
By Thomas Stephens
Nuclear power Two Swiss nuclear plants to be checked for irregularities
Steam generators at the Beznau and Gösgen nuclear plants must be checked for possible anomalies in components made in France and Japan.
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Keep calm and brew coffee' could be Starbucks barista Teddy Nzama's mantra. He's the first (and only) barista from Africa to have won the prestigious Starbucks Barista Championship, which he did in London in 2019 against the national champions from 29 other Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) countries. He kept calm throughout and brought the trophy home to South Africa.
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It is with great sadness that the family of Jim Middleton announces his peaceful passing on Saturday, September 13, 2014 at his beloved home of 22 years on Dewar Lake, 150 Mile House. Jim passed away after a short fight with cancer at the age of 68 years, with his children and wife by his side.
Jim will be lovingly remembered and missed by his wife of 45 years, Sandi and his children, Heather (Glenn) Wood, Mike (Mary Ann), Tim (Tena) and adopted daughter Agi (Trevor) Bye. Jim will be forever remembered by his granddaughters Nicole and Jessica, and by his adopted grandchildren Alexandra, Lucas, Sophie and Jackson, by his sisters Anne Finkle, Heather (John) Mueller and brother Gord. Jim will also be fondly remembered by numerous family members and friends and by former dorm residents from the Cariboo Chilcotin (Columneetza) student residence in Williams Lake where Jim and Sandi were proud dorm parents for 16 years from 1991 until 2007. Jim is missed by his faithful friend Chica, his dog.
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