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Re: AI GAN TAKES A WHOLE NOTHER LEAP & U CAN TRY IT O M G GOTTA SEE THIS!!!!!!!
Here is a link. This was a lot of fun! Sort of brings out the "Mad scientist" in us all.
It seems 512x512 chooses a path to that module. Can't increase it.
BigGANs said they make it get good at 1 view of them looking right at you, to help with not knowing how many legs to give spiders. Hinton is working on making cortical columns have different views of an object. Cortical columns may achieve redundancy (so a memory no easily dies if 1 neuron dies) by being invariants of different angels. ?


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Ethnicity, party is stronger than faith in determining vote among evangelicals: poll
CP Politics | Thursday, October 01, 2020
By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter | Thursday, October 01, 2020
Voting machines are set up for people to cast their ballots during voting in the 2016 presidential election. | Reuters/David Becker
A majority of voters who identify as evangelical support the reelection of President Donald Trump but this support remains skewed along ethnic and party lines, a new poll from Lifeway Research shows.
The online poll of 1,200 Americans conducted Sept. 9-23, with a plus or minus 3.2% margin of error, shows that among likely evangelical voters, 61% overall plan to vote for Trump while 29% are backing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Some 8% were undecided while about 2% supported other candidates.
Breaking down evangelical voters by race, the poll shows that most of Trump's support from the group comes from white evangelicals. He leads Biden 73% to 18% among this group. When it comes to African American evangelicals, however, President Trump trails Biden 69% to 19%. Among other ethnicities, Trump holds a 58% to 32% lead among this group.
The top issues influencing evangelical voters in 2020. | Life
Among general Christians who attend church at least once a month, the poll shows Trump and Biden evenly split at 46% to 45%, respectively. The racial divide also remained persistent.
White churchgoers support Trump over Biden 59% to 30%, while African American churchgoers are solidly behind Biden, 86% to 9%. Biden also led Trump among Hispanic churchgoers, 58% to 36%, and among churchgoers of other ethnicities, 49% to 36%.
"Different ethnic groups are more attuned to specific failures of our country and of specific candidates," Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research, said in a report on the poll. "One's ethnicity and political party are more powerful in predicting the vote of someone with evangelical beliefs than their shared religious convictions alone."
The divided outlook among evangelicals along racial lines exploded online as recently as Tuesday night during the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden when moderator and "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace asked the president:
"You have criticized the vice president [Biden] for not specifically calling out ANTIFA and other left-wing extremist groups. But are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups, and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and we've seen in Portland?"
President Trump said "sure" he was "willing to do that," but noted that "almost everything I see is from the left-wing."
Biden then mentioned the Proud Boys, a far-right group led by Enrique Tarrio who's half black and half Cuban, while Wallace said white supremacists.
"The Proud Boys," Trump replied. "Stand back and stand by. But I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about Antifa and the left, because this is not a right-wing problem."
The statement "stand back and stand by" appeared to appall many watching the debate including prominent black Southern Baptist Convention Pastor Dwight McKissic who called out his peers for their silence on Twitter Wednesday.
"SBC didn't hesitate to distance themselves from Prez Obama, in a resolution that was passed to congratulate him. Most SBC leaders will not distance themselves from Prez Trump's failure to denounce White Supremacy, last night. Politics, emotions & race explains, why not? Sad!" he wrote.
In response to the media's accusations that the president has failed to condemn white supremacy, radio show host Annie Frey posted a thread on Twitter listing 16 times since 2016 that Trump has publicly condemned white supremacy.
Wallace asked the same question of Trump during a Republican primary debate in March 2016. In response, Trump said in part, "I totally disavow the Klu Klux Klan, I totally disavow David Duke."
In his first comment on the debate Wednesday, Trump said he did not know who the Proud Boys are.
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Trump voters were more likely to cite the economy, 82%; national security, 67%; immigration, 62%; religious freedom, 49%; abortion, 44%; Supreme Court nominees, 42%; and the size and role of government, 40%, among the more important issues that determine their vote. Biden voters were more likely than Trump voters to point to COVID-19, 75%; racial injustice, 68%; and personal character, 66%, as behind their top issues for supporting the candidate.
When asked about the single most important issue in determining their vote, 26% of registered voters pointed to the economy, 22% said slowing the spread of COVID-19, while 15% said personal character. No other issue garnered more than 8%, according to the LifeWay report.
"Most evangelicals are not single-issue voters," McConnell said. "Eighty-nine percent of those with evangelical beliefs selected more than one important issue that is influencing their vote. Like other Americans, their top concerns reflect the current recession and pandemic, but more than 1 in 10 with evangelical beliefs will vote for the candidate they think will protect their religious freedom."
5 takeaways from first presidential debate: COVID-19 response, Trump taxes, systemic racism
Trump proposes plan to increase black communities' access to funding by $500B
Tony Evans urges Christian voters on life issue: Don't ignore 'abortion' outside the womb
'We have been blind to our white privilege,' evangelical pastor says at racial justice event

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Remember the adage of "Do something wrong instead of nothing right"? It really applies here – folks who get their reports in this week are highly unlikely to see any fines. You can amend your report any time…people are still amending some 2008 reports (11 years later)!
Filing in May, maybe yes, maybe no fines. By July 1, if not a little sooner, the Water Board will have a list of everyone who is going to get fined no matter what, and it's just a matter of fighting it or paying the lower settlement amount.
Is it not having your storage or flow data ready to file your worry? There are a lot of engineering companies, including mine, that can help you get that done quickly. Processing data can be a big pain, as it was for me over the last few weeks with 50 reports to file. So talk to someone who does it all the time and stop your headaches, get some peace of mind.
Whatever you do, file something now! Fix it later, get help with amendments, call an engineer for help with the data. Incomplete action now is a lot less expensive than $500/day, $15,000/month.


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Q: which algorithm does google keyboard uses for automatic suggestions (personal vocab included)? I am confused since google cannnot train their text generation models with each individuals personal vocabulary.
I was trying to develop something similar but i got stuck when the number of classes became dynamic during neural network training.
if i dont know the number of classes , how can 1 give the size of the layers and the dimension of input.
lets say google knows words from english vocab and i include some words from my slang into my personal dictionary, it is able to suggest those words to me in future.
assume that the google vocab consists of 10 words and i give it 5 words in a sequence , it one hot encodes them to a size of (5x10) vector of 1's and 0's.
and i then include 4 new words . now total vocab size = 14
but the RNN (if used) was trained using a vocab size of just 10 words. it cannnot encode those new words since those didnt belong in the vocab while training.
does it retrain its text generation model using (5x14) sized vectors?

A: According to this Google AI article, they used a combination of two things:

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*Neural Spatial Model: that addresses cognitive and motor errors ( manifesting in misspellings, character insertions, deletions or swaps, etc) at the character level. They used a character-level LSTM model trained using CTC loss function inspired from speech processing.

*Finite-State Transducers: that provides language lexical constraints (what words occur in a language) and grammatical constraints (what words are likely to follow other words). The latter is done using a probabilistic n-gram model to represent the language model for the keyboard.

In your case, I suggest the following:

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*Your RNN needs to be trained on the character-level not the word-level to trace misspellings.

*Use an n-gram model to track which words are usually accompanied by which words. This needs to be trained on your preferred vocabulary.

*Lastly, it's not easy but it's doable!!

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Roswell Park holds first ever LGBTQ pride flag raising ceremony
The cancer center says it also partners with local organizations that specialize in LGBTQ healthcare.
Published: 6:48 PM EDT June 7, 2021
Updated: 6:49 PM EDT June 7, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. — For the first time, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center held an LGBTQ pride flag raising ceremony on Monday, June 7.
Organizers of the event say they wanted to honor and celebrate LGBTQ people within Roswell Park, and in Western New York in general.
One speaker specifically acknowledged that while there is a lot to celebrate during pride month, there is also still progress to be made. She says this especially matters when it comes to society accepting members of the LGBTQ community.
Roswell Park also partners with organizations like Evergreen Health and the Pride Center of Western New York, which provide inclusive health care options.
To plan your LGBTQ pride celebration, visit our "Guide 2 Pride"
Juneteenth Festival flag raising held at Niagara Square
Pentagon won't fly Pride flag at military bases, citing policy on 'unofficial flags'
60 Seconds of Pride: Celebrating LGBTQ+ History


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Technical Fellow John Shewchuk and Principal Group Manager Dennis Pilarinos explain the past, present and future of the Azure's .NET Services. John and Dennis are the orginal thinkers behind .NET Services.They started this project a few years ago. The services layer on top of Windows Azure is rife with functionality and wide open for innovation. It's a brave new world, my friends. Get ready to get your hands dirty. This is great stuff!
Hi Charles, I would love to see a cloud specific show, maybe have John, Dennis as regulars. You could even call it "cloud7"
These guys are articulate, and I love the story with the can of paint.
Great information and thanks John & Dennis.
I am very much excited on this technology. I had registered in www.azure.com and I have installed azure SDK to work on some sample (ASP.NET Hello world sample) but whenever I try to create host service none of the services are availble there. I noticed the below message.
*Due to pre-release CTP status, you may be temporarilyplaced on a waiting list for certain services.
Also I noticed that, under the "Account" section in the site, I need to put Resource Token ID and need to claim the token. But I haven't recieved any email with that information.
Any body know how I can get host services to work on some samples ?
Please try to keep the audio volume at a normalized level as best you can. The audio dropped out for me, and this is one of the most interesting topics for me. It's really hard to watch, thanks!
That is some exciting stuff coming, I hope they can get this out soon. As I see it the only problem is that this is a vision of the future. I just hope that we can use the Service Bus soon.
The volume was fine the 2nd time I watched, something wrong with my machine at the time.
I also just got my invite code, I can't wait to start playing with it.


Strudel and Baklava are layered pastries made with a very thin unleavened dough prepared using flour, water, oil or butter, both delicious in their own way, artfully prepared with meticulous care, attention and love.
The carefully crafted layers of strudel and baklava with its variety of fillings capture the essence of human ingenuity and the spirit of learning and improvising , for it is not one person that invented these delicious pastries, but many in their own way contributed to pushing the boundaries of its craft and deliciousness.
A strudel is a type of sweet or savory layered pastry made of thin layers of dough, with a filling inside, made famous by the Austrians and improvised with different fillings by pastry chefs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The foundation of the strudel based on thin layers of dough called phyllo is attributed to the baklava introduced into Austria during the period of the Ottoman Empire, which in the period of 15th and 16th centuries had entered a long period of extending its borders into Europe.
Strudel is a German word which in the form spoken in the High Middle ages (1050 - 1350) literally means 'whirlpool'. The first documented strudel recipe is for a milk-cream strudel (Millirahmstrudel) which originated in Vienna. The original handwritten recipe from 1696 can be found at the Viennese City Library.
The preparation of the strudel can vary across different regions in terms of the individual technique used for creating and rolling the elastic dough, and the mixture of fillings used. The most fundamental element of the strudel is the crisp paper-thin elastic dough which wraps around the filling and creates a layered wafer thin pastry.
For preparing the strudel, the unleavened flour dough, water and oil or butter is kneaded, rolled out and stretched on a table until it is very thin. A light coat of melted butter is usually applied to the stretched dough and often sprinkled with toasted bread crumbs before the fruit filling and other ingredients is laid on it. The tablecloth under the dough is then carefully lifted as the dough is rolled over the filling until it's all rolled up. The sides are carefully tucked in or adjusted before the strudel is rolled onto a parchment paper and transferred to a baking dish.
A more simpler approach uses ready-made sheets of phyllo dough which are brushed with melted butter, layered, sprinkled with toasted bread crumbs, before the filling is laid on it and then rolled up.
Though strudels were being made during the era of the Habsburg Monarchy, their popularity and variety surged during the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867 to 1918), a union between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary after the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy were reorganized.
Many different strudels were created during the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, some of which include apple strudel, milk-cream strudel, apricot strudel, peach strudel, cherry strudel, almond strudel and savory strudels made from meat and vegetables.
The best-known strudels are Apfelstrudel (German for apple strudel) which is considered to be the national dish of Austria and Topfenstrudel (German for quark) made from quark, a fresh cheese that is very popular in Austria.
In Hungary they are called rétesek and the traditional apple strudel is called Almás Rétes.
Strudel is also popular in Slovakia where it is referred to as štrúdľa, in Slovenia as štrudelj or zavitek, in the Czech Republic as štrúdl, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia as štrudla, in parts of northeast Italy as strudel, and Romania as ștrudel. Though each of these countries/regions were influenced by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, they have their own style and preference for the fillings in preparing the strudel.
Baklava is a rich, sweet pastry made of thin layers of unleavened dough filled with chopped nuts such as almonds, walnuts or pistachios, sweetened with syrup or honey. It is a popular and widespread pastry in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkans.
The history of Baklava is as rich as its finely constructed layers of deliciousness and though the Ottoman Empire is credited for introducing the pastry into Europe, it is more likely the culinary confluence of many different traditions and cultures from the Middle East, Central Asia and the Balkans that played a part in creating this deliciously rich pastry.
The preparation of the baklava can vary across different regions in terms of how the syrup is prepared or the mixture of fillings used in between the layers of dough. The most fundamental element of the baklava is the crisp paper-thin dough which creates its multiple layers.
Baklava is prepared in large trays using layers of crisp paper-thin sheets of unleavened flour dough, brushed or lightly sprinkled with melted butter or oil, with a filling of chopped nuts, which typically includes almonds, walnuts or pistachios, sprinkled across the layers. Before baking, the layers are cut into square or diamond pieces using a sharp knife. After baking, a sweet syrup freshly made with honey or a mixture of sugar, water and lemon juice is gently poured across the baked baklava.
The predecessor of the baklava was a pastry made of dough filled with nuts or a savory filling. This was a popular dessert or a savory snack in the Middle East and the Balkans. One of the early references to a dessert called 'lauzınaj' made from crushed almonds, wrapped in a dough and covered with a syrup, can be found in the medieval Arab cookbook called Kitâb al-Tabîkh (The Book of Dishes) written by Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi. The book contains a collection of Persian-inspired recipes and the original manuscript can be found at Süleymaniye Library in Istanbul, Turkey.
In Medieval Turkey, the predecessor of the baklava was a pastry called börek made with yufka, a term that refers to a thin sheet of unleavened flour dough. The term yufka is also used to refer to a thin flatbread that is typically folded up around a savory filling.
In Medieval Greece, a similar pastry to the börek, called tiropita was popular among the Greeks. This is made with layers of buttered phyllo and filled with a mixture of cheese and egg. A reference to cheese pies, called bökountas tetyromenous and tyritas plakountas can also be found in the Byzantine era. Prior to that, the history of making pastry using dough, cheese and honey goes back to the Roman period, where Cato a Roman historian describes a recipe called Placenta in his 'De Agri Cultura' essay which is considered as the oldest surviving work of Latin prose.
The history of baklava is not well documented; and often disputed or claimed by different ethnic groups.
The use of thin bread dough and chopped nuts to make desserts was part of the cuisine of the Middle East, the Balkans and Central Asia. It is more likely that the dessert went through constant refinement in these regions and its adoption by the Ottoman palace particularly aided that refinement process. It must also be noted that the palaces and royal houses employed the best cooks from different ethnic groups, who brought with them, their own regional culinary knowledge and refined it.
During the Ottoman era, baklava was distributed by the Sultan of the Topkapı Palace to the new soldiers in a ceremonial procession called the Baklava Alayı. It was a popular pastry among the Ottoman sultans who with their expansion of the empire into parts of Europe, introduced the art of making baklava to Europe.
On the Greek island of Crete, an old recipe called 'gastrin' is quite similar to the baklava. It is made of nuts, seeds and pepper layered between sheets of dough using a sweetener made of grapes. Baklava is also considered to be an important part of the Greek cuisine. In fact, the name 'phyllo' comes from the Greek language which means 'leaf', and refers to the thin dough, which was achieved by the creation of the dough technique, that allowed it to be rolled as thin as a leaf.
One of the early recipe for a pastry similar to the Baklava can be found in a Chinese cookbook written in 1330 by Yinshan Zhengyao a court therapist and dietitian in the Yuan dynasty. The book documents Han Chinese, Mongol and Turkic dishes. The pastry called güllach, from the Mongol era is created from layers of thin dough cakes filled with nuts and sugar. A dessert called güllaç can also be found in the Turkish cuisine, especially consumed during Ramadan, and like the baklava has multiple layers. It is made of thin layers of cornstarch, soaked with sweetened milk which is flavored with rose water, and has mixtures of nuts and sugar between the layers.
For me, Baklava is a representation of the human spirit to learn, share and innovate, with each passing generation having contributed to its rich layers of deliciousness.
There are many variations of the baklava which include the use of different nuts (almonds, walnuts or pistachios), different flavors of the syrup (honey, or sugar, water and lemon juice), different number of layers of dough, different ingredients used for the filling (cardamon, cinnamon, cloves), the preference of butter or oil for sprinkling on the layers of dough and even the shapes into how the pieces are cut.
So the next time you have a bite of the strudel or baklava, take a moment to appreciate the human ingenuity in creating both this delicious layered pastries and the years of refinement in their rich historical journeys.


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Q: How to loosely couple user-defined exceptions? I have a bunch of entities that I do CRUD on, ex. Car, Boat, Banana, etc. All of these have similar exceptions that I throw when something goes wrong. For example, if I'm trying to retrieve something but it doesn't exist I throw an EntityNotFoundException (defined by me, not jpa), or if I'm creating something but it hits some unique constraint I throw an EntityAlreadyExistsException.
What I'm worried about is that I have (or will have) 60 classes that are coupled to these exceptions I defined in another utility library class. If the jar is missing then there's red everywhere, so I can visually see the coupling.
Is there a way around this? I'm reusing these exceptions because they're all for the same purpose and I'd hate to duplicate code (ex: duplicate the exceptions for every package), so in my mind it makes sense that it'd be used everywhere, but something about it makes me feel uneasy.
Thanks.


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Not cooking? Here's a list of NOLA restaurants open on Thanksgiving Day 2019
By Shan Bailey
NOLA Weekend
Whether you've slammed shut the cookbook on Thanksgiving this year or need suggestions to offer loved ones visiting the city, we're here to help if your plan is to dine out.
We gathered a list of restaurants open on Thanksgiving around the New Orleans area. Space at many of these restaurants fill up fast. Make your reservation before time runs out. Check back for updates as we get them.
Fried Oysters from Galatoire's Restaurant. Photo courtesy: Galatorie's Restaurant
Here's a look at some restaurants in the New Orleans area open on Thanksgiving and offering special holiday menus:
Arnaud's: Arnaud's will serve a $55 four-course menu including an appetizer, salad, an entrée choice of fish, turkey or pork and a dessert.
Bombay Club: It's a New Orleans-inspired Thanksgiving feast at the Bombay Club. Twenty-five dollars will get you roasted turkey with sides like oyster dressing, smothered green beans, brandied sweet potatoes, whipped potatoes, giblet gravy and cranberry sauce. The restaurant serves this feast in addition to an abbreviated dinner menu. Service is from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Boulevard American Bistro: The Metairie restaurant is serving a three-course menu for $28. The dishes include turkey and a choice of starter and dessert.
Copper Vine features pork belly with braised collards, cornbread pudding and mushroom demi on the menu. Photo courtesy: Sara Essex Bradley
Brennan's: The French Quarter landmark, known for its famous breakfast dishes, serves up a three-course meal for $65. The menu includes soups, salads, turkey, egg dishes, rabbit, seafood and, of course, bananas foster. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Broussard's: This elegant French Quarter restaurant offers a special Thanksgiving prix-fixe menu for $40. Items include a choice of soup or salad, a choice of entrée and Oreo pumpkin cheesecake or bread pudding for dessert. Service is from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Chophouse: The steakhouse is open on Thanksgiving from noon to 8 p.m. There isn't a special holiday menu.
Commander's Palace: The grand dame of New Orleans restaurants opens on Thanksgiving with a holiday menu.
Compere Lapin: James Beard-winning chef Nina Compton offers a family-style Thanksgiving menu at her flagship restaurant. Priced at $85 per person, the three-course menu includes roasted turkey leg, jerk sweet potatoes and cauliflower gratin, along with other starters, sides and sweets. The menu is available from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Copper Vine: The CBD's popular wine pub and eatery will open at 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving day and feature the full a la carte dinner menu, in addition to holiday specials. Sumptuous offerings include roasted chicken and boudin gumbo; short rib with whipped parmesan, edamame and veal demi; pork belly with braised collards, cornbread pudding and mushroom demi; and more.
Couvant: For Thanksgiving, the restaurant features a special prix fixe menu featuring a Wild Mushroom Veloute, Turkey Leg & Foie presse with sour cherry marmalade and Roasted Turkey Breast, among other options. Pricing is $62 per person. Seating hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
See also: What is the best Thanksgiving pie? We ranked them!
Couvant will offer a special prix fixe menu for Thanksgiving. Photo courtesy: Andrew Thomas Lee
Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse: A Dickie Brennan's a special three-course Thanksgiving menu will be served in addition to the regular menu. Carved turkey, prime rip, roasted bell pepper and andouille soup and sweet potato pecan pie are some of the menu options. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Domenica: The restaurant located within the Roosevelt Hotel will have a four-course menu with choices of wild mushroom soup, pumpkin tortellini, fried turkey, red fish and wagyu beef short rib, among others. The prix-fixe menu is $60 per person.
Galatoire's: Galatoire's will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving plate consisting of Fried Turkey Breast accompanied by seafood eggplant stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and turkey gravy. Galatoire's a la carte menu will also be available.
Galatoire's 33 Bar & Steak: Galatoire's "33" Bar & Steak's Thanksgiving menu includes a dessert choice, choice of Roasted Chicken Soup or Frisee and Roasted Squash Salad, along with family style pairings of Thanksgiving sides. Thanksgiving dinner is $85 per person, excluding beverages, tax and gratuity. Kids 12 and under $40. It's available from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (last seating).
Jack Rose: This Thanksgiving, step into one of New Orleans' liveliest eateries for what is sure to be a memorable feast. The Thanksgiving meal features a range of offerings combining seasonal and Cajun flavors. Thoughtfully crafted by Chef Brian Landry, the four-course prix-fixe menu ($60–$69, depending on main course) will be offered from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
See also: Here's a little Thanksgiving inspiration from WAFB's talent
Jack Rose will feature restaurant favorites and spins on Thanksgiving classics. Photo courtesy: Randy Schmidt
Josephine Estelle: The Italian by-way-of-American-South restaurant inside Ace Hotel from James Beard award-winning chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman in collaboration with executive chef Chris Borges open for Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving, chefs are offering a four-course menu for $65.
Luke: Luke offers a Thanksgiving menu featuring a choice of one entree and two sides for $28. Entrees include turducken with wild mushroom and giblet gravy, mayhaw glazed pork shank and cortbouillon.
Muriel's: This Jackson Square gem has a three-course prix-fixe menu for $62 and includes choices like gumbo ya ya, turtle soup, coffee-brined duck, oven roasted turkey and filet mignon.
Palace Cafe: The restaurant will serve special Thanksgiving favorites in addition to its regular menu. Entrees include roasted turkey, filet mignon and grilled fish. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Ralph's on the Park: Fifty-eight dollars gets you three courses on Thanksgiving Day at this restaurant overlooking City Park. Some of the items include turkey and andouille gumbo, blackened redfish, grilled filet mignon and others. The restaurant will also offer a kids menu for $21. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Chicken Boudin Gumbo from Copper Vine; Photo courtesy: Brandt Vicknair
Seaworthy: The oyster bar and sustainable seafood restaurant set in a classic Creole cottage at Ace Hotel puts a different spin on Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving, Seaworthy is offering a Shrimp Boil from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., for $32 per person. The Shrimp Boil features two pounds of Louisiana shrimp, andouille sausage, red potatoes, corn and button mushrooms. There will also be happy hour specials with local breweries.
SoBou: Diners can join SoBou for breakfast from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Lunch will be served starting at 11:30 a.m. with service lasting until 9:30 p.m. featuring a special Thanksgiving menu. Items include an autumn apple cider brined turkey plate, blacked Yellowfin Tuna, sweet potato beignets and a chargrilled berkshire pork chop.
Tableau: Dickie Brennan's Jackson Square restaurant offers a special three-course menu for Thanksgiving. You have a choice of soup or salad and entrees like prime rib roast or a traditional turkey dinner. Cap your dinner off with dessert. Pricing ranges from $38 to $48 based on entree. Thanksgiving hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Galatoire's and Galatorie's "33" Bar & Steak will open for Thanksgiving. Photo courtesy: Galatoire's
The Country Club: This Bywater spot serves up a Thanksgiving Feast featuring a special menu. Starters include items like crab beignets and crispy Gulf oysters. Entrees feature roasted turkey, double-cut pork chop, braised lamb shank and grilled drum. Guests can also select from typical Thanksgiving side dishes and desserts. Pricing varies. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Grill Room: The elegant restaurant in the Windsor Court Hotel serves a four-course $100 prix fixe menu from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and again from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Soups, salads, small plates, desserts and four entrees choices of roasted turkey, red snapper, pork chop and beef strip are some of the items featured on the menu.
The Roosevelt Hotel: The historic hotel offers two Thanksgiving Day specials, a luxurious brunch buffet served in the Waldorf Astoria Ballroom from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a Thanksgiving-inspired, four-course dinner served in the Fountain Lounge from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. The brunch is $89+ for adults and $35+ for children ages 3 to 10. Dinner is priced at $69, plus tax and gratuity.
Tujague's: This historic French Quarter landmark serves up a three-course menu. Entrée options include Tujague's Thanksgiving plate, slow-cooked beef short ribs, Abita Amber BBQ shrimp and grits or braised Colorado lamb shank. The restaurant prices the holiday meal at $48 per person.
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Sarah Yerkes is a fellow in Carnegie's Middle East Program, where her research focuses on Tunisia's political, economic, and security developments as well as state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Public education in Lebanon: Facts and figures
Teachers granted 16 "exceptional pay grades" from 2000 to 2017
83,186 students passed the Lebanese official exams in 2017
The results of the 2017 official exams were marked by a high rate of success (General Sciences: 84.2%; Brevet: 81%). In total, 83,186 students passed the exams, distributed as follows:
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Is Lebanon still a francophone country?
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Official Exams Between Pass Statements and Official Certificates -Success of 9000 Baccalaureate students
The official Brevet and Baccalaureate exams have become just another controversy piling atop the many problems causing concern among the Lebanese. Turbulence in security was not to blame this time, for the controversy was the result of frequent strikes staged by teachers to push towards the...
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So a very exciting morning of adding stuff to Etsy.com means that if you see something on my blog that you like, chance are you may be able to buy it! At the moment there are just a few paper cuts up there but there will be more up there over the coming months! Have a look at what's up there here.
So I don't know if you know but I've recently had the pleasure of working on the Wilton's Music Hall re-branding. I've mentioned Wilton's in another post but for those of you who don't know it is the oldest surviving grand music hall in the world. Originally 5 terraced houses, John Wilton opened Wilton's Music Hall in 1858.
It's an amazing building that has pretty much had nothing done to it since the 1880's when the music hall closed and was taken over by a Methodist Mission. During the first ever Docker's strike of 1889 the Methodists served 2000 meals there a day, during the 1936 Battle of Cable Street Wilton's was used as a safe house. During the war it provided shelter for those bombed out of their homes and, in the 1950s it became a sorting place for rags. In one way or another, Wilton's has always been at the centre of its community and, thanks to the Wilton's Music Hall Trust, it is once again.
I'm hoping there will be more of the branding to show you soon.


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Q: Convert "float;#22.0000000000000" into just "22.0" in C# I'm doing a ToString() on an object and the output I am getting is float;#22.0000000000000. I just need 22.0.
How do I achieve this in C#?
Additional info:
The object is the value from a Number column in a SharePoint list. The value is being retried in my code with a CAML query. I'm sure it's the use of a CAML query that's causing me this issue. If I retrieve the item just by iterating through all the items in the list I don't have this issue, but this approach is not as efficient as a CAML query.
Update:
It seems it is not the ToString() that's causing this output. The object that I'm calling ToString() on already seems to be set as float;#22.0000000000000, so this is what's coming straight out of the CAML query.

A: Use given code to get only 22.0
string value = "float;#22.0000000000000";
var number = value.Split('#')[1];
double num = double.Parse(number);
Console.WriteLine(num.ToString("0.0"));

Result: 22.0

mentioned code should be work.
item.GetFormattedValue("ColumnName")

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Polish bishops call for 'clinics' for LGBTQ+ people to "regain natural sexual orientation"
By Matt Moore
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The bishops are calling for these 'clinics' despite acknowledging scientific evidence is against them.
Bishops in Poland have called for 'clinics' to be set up for LGBTQ+ people to "regain their natural sexual orientation" following a plenary meeting of the Polish Episcopal Conference (KEP).
The three-day conference, which ended on Saturday (29 August), was the first one held since the coronavirus pandemic began.
In a 27-page document, the KEP set out their stance on the LGBTQ+ community, and while they condemned violence against LGBTQ+ people, they hardly offered their support.
In the document, they set out that it is "necessary to create clinics (including with the assistance of the church) to help people who want to regain their sexual health and natural sexual orientation."
They wrote this despite acknowledging that it "stands in clear contradiction to positions regarded as scientific, as well as to so-called 'political correctness'."
These 'clinics' are essentially 'conversion therapy' camps, a practice that has been discredited by the NHS and the World Psychiatric Association and often involves techniques like electroshock therapy or prayer. Numerous countries have taken steps to ban the practice, and the UN is urging for a worldwide ban.
The language used is clear, as the bishops say that these 'clinics' would help people realise that being LGBTQ+ is "a symptom of wounds on various levels of their personality."
Irish government 'commits' to banning conversion therapy
One Polish priest, Father Jacek Prusak spoke out against the document, telling TVN24 that the KEP were "treating the bible as a psychology textbook and a constitution for all Poles, and this cannot be done." He added that the timing of the document wasn't accidental, and that it was partially aimed at Polish politicians.
During the recent Polish election, President Andrzej Duda, made opposition to LGBTQ+ rights a key plank of his re-election campaign, promising to ban same-sex couples from marrying or adopting children.
Elsewhere in the document, the KEP condemned violence against the LGBTQ+ community, writing: "The requirement of respect for all people, including people identifying with LGBT+, is entirely correct, and a democratic state with the rule of law should ensure that none of the fundamental rights of these people are violated.
"Any acts of physical or verbal violence, any forms of hooligan behaviour and aggression against LGBT+ people are unacceptable."
However, they added that they rejected "the right of a person to self-determine their gender without reference to objective criteria determined by their genome and anatomy" noting a "radical separation between biological sex and cultural gender."
They also added that LGBTQ+ people need to respect "the rights of other members of society, especially their religious feelings, moral principles and the principles of public order."
Last week, a gay Polish couple, Dawid Mycek and Jakub Kwiecinski, travelled to the Vatican and unfurled a Pride flag calling for help. They hoped that the Pope may assist them in condemning the wave of homophobia that is currently enveloping Poland, particularly coming from the country's religious leaders.
Writing about their decision to fly the flag, the couple said on Instagram: "Our big rainbow flag flew proudly for several dozen minutes, and on it a large inscription HELP. Because if Pope Francis himself wears a rainbow cross and says: 'It doesn't matter that you are gay! God loves you as you are', it's time for the Polish Church to teach the same thing, which still fuels hatred against LGBT people.
"We were amazed how many Catholics from different countries approached us with words of support. Nobody felt offended by the rainbow, the police did not chase us out, and when we were alone in the square an hour longer, one of the priests came to us, offered water and listened to what we had to say."
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Tensions on the Russian-Ukrainian border continue to grow
While national news is focused on the 3rd confinement announced by the President of the Republic, an otherwise more dangerous scenario is playing out at the moment at the borders between Ukraine, Russia, its allies and its occupied territories. As we had already indicated two days ago, numerous observations corroborated the abnormally high troop movements initiated by the Russian armies in Crimea and on the border between Donbas and Russia. At the same time, the Ukrainian armies were deploying forces in these areas. This brought the US European Command to place its forces on heightened alert "Imminent crisis", the highest peacetime alert level. But the nature of the deployed forces, essentially units appearing to belong to the Russian airborne forces, and the noted absence of a massive deployment of logistical support, could suggest a spring show of force, as there have been many since 2014 on this theater.
In two days, the situation has changed significantly, and not in a reassuring way. Indeed, not only has the flow of Russian troops massing in Crimea and around the Russian-Ukrainian border not ceased, but other observations have apparently led NATO to call a meeting of emergency of the military chiefs as well as of the political office of the alliance. Contacts between Western HQs and their counterparts have also increased, but it seems that Moscow's response to the legitimate questions of Europeans and Americans has always been the same: the movement of troops to Russia only concerns Russia. Otherwise, Moscow warns NATO against all will to intervene in this crisis.
7 BM21 Grad systems like this one disappeared from the warehouses of Donbass where they were stored in application of the ceasefire conducted under the aegis of the OSCE
Among the more worrying signs observed over the past 2 days, figure the disappearance noted by the observation mission in Donbas of several artillery systems stored by the independence forces, in this case 7 multiple rocket launchers BM21 Grad, and 5 towed 152 mm Msta guns. In addition, the authorities of the secessionist provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk announced the immediate conscription of all young men born between 1994 and 2003 for a 6-month military service, with the reassuring assurance that the conscripts will not be sent to the combat zone. Troop movements were also reported in Belarus, without being able to be formally confirmed or assessed.
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Outstanding pianist, Jamie Syer from Calgary, with be performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major. The companion piece will be a late symphony by Haydn (Beethoven's teacher) accurately described by the famous critic, H.C. Robbins Landon, as "a striking work", and Black Eyed Susan by local composer Stephen Brown.
Plus a Giant Silent Auction.


Avinash was very busy in the past weeks and was all excited the past couple of days. Why? Yahoo! Map API was released and he worked on it. He's also written a neat demo for it.
The finale before the release was quite interesting… because Google also released its maps API – a difference of mere 2 hours between the announcements!
McManus has written about his take on the comparison of the two APIs and details of the announcements are in this DevSource article.
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If the rumor is true then Microsoft is surely trying to stuff users with latest features with the preview version of Windows 9. We expect Windows 9 may bring a lot of new features and one of them is hopefully the Cortana integration. Cortana is the Artificial Intelligence adapted from Halo Game series and is implemented in Microsoft's latest computers and flagship devices. We wish to see more modifications in Start screen and the UI is surely gonna be more brushed up.
Microsoft is aggressively marching forward maintaining their timelines. If you are a Windows fan then not only you need to get adept to the version of the operating system but also be adaptable enough to switch to the newer version.
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It's impossible to mimic the Spurs' success
Try as other teams might, they will inevitably fail.
By Bram Kincheloe@BramKincheloe Apr 4, 2016, 10:46am CDT
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The San Antonio Spurs have been so good for so long that it might be easy to take them for granted. Sure, they win 50 plus games every year. Just like the sun, they rise every day.
SB Nation's own Tom Ziller recently wrote a great piece about how it is completely impossible to mimic the Spurs' success. I highly recommend you read the whole thing, obviously, but here are a few of our favorite passages.
On the Spurs' mind-numbingly consistent excellence:
The Spurs have 50 wins in each of the last 17 seasons, and that includes a 66-game season. The Spurs' streak of winning at least 60 percent of their games (equivalent to 50 wins) is 19 seasons; over that span, San Antonio has 1,069 regular season wins and a .711 winning percentage. (Dallas is in second place with 155 fewer wins). The Spurs have five championships in that span, matched only by the Lakers, who got theirs in two spurts interspersed by spells of mediocrity. No one has been as consistently great for as long as these Spurs since there were only eight teams in the NBA.
On how the Spurs differ from the other dominant team in the league:
Teams can say they want to be more like the Warriors and list actual action items (play small, shoot tons of threes). It's futile, of course, because it's not simply tactics that make the Warriors the Warriors (or that made the Suns the Suns in a previous generation). Elite talent matters. But there is a distinct, knowable basketball ethos to mimic.
That isn't the case in San Antonio. The Spurs just do everything extraordinarily well.
Trends? The Spurs don't need your trends.
The Spurs don't set trends and they don't chase them. They exist in almost a parallel NBA where they do whatever is best for the franchise, every single time, regardless of what everyone else is doing.
Go read the article!


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Constructing a Governance Index for Cook Islands, 1985-2005
Azmat Gani, Ronald Duncan
This article presents an index of governance performance for Cook Islands for the period 1985 to 2005. Three dimensions of governance (rule of law, government effectiveness, and regulatory quality) are measured using various indicators. The constructed index indicates that Cook Islands' governance performance improved between 1996 and 1999 but stagnated from 2000 to 2005. The improvement was largely due to fiscal austerity measures resulting in better economic management, competition in the essential services sector, and an expansion of the private sector. The stagnation in the post 1999 period is largely attributable to increased political instability and rising corruption. The governance index provides a useful basis from which to monitor future changes in governance performance.
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