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5 May 2022 - Part 4 of the Zondo Commission report into state capture came out last week. It primarily rehashes and reaffirms the story of how Eskom was captured by the Gupta family with the help of former President Jacob Zuma. But, despite the commission's ever-growing price tag (R1bn and counting), it provides the country with little new information.
Cost efficacy in the procurement of goods and services for the state was a much-ignored top requirement under Zuptoid state capture when a host of tender rules were manipulated to siphon trillions. Yet, an overarching 2017 legal amendment upping the threshold of BEE requirements to force all tenders to go only to 100% black-owned companies was struck down by the Constitutional Court after a Sakeliga challenge in mid-February this year. Minor chaos ensued in provincial government departments after a Treasury circular froze all tenders from 15 February onward. Treasury has yet to spill the beans on the full impact of this. This story contends that the Zondo Commission – its first report far outshone the fourth (a reprise of nearly all we already know) – has brushed over the massive and manipulative role BEE plays in advancing the interests of a select few. Those in power know how to use the rules to punish their opponents and reward their acolytes. Some near-satirical examples follow. Article courtesy of the Daily Friend. – Chris Bateman
Anthea Jeffery
Part 4 of the Zondo Commission report into state capture came out last week. It primarily rehashes and reaffirms the story of how Eskom was captured by the Gupta family with the help of former President Jacob Zuma. But, despite the commission's ever-growing price tag (R1bn and counting), it provides the country with little new information.
Part 1 of the Zondo report, released in January this year, is arguably more instructive in describing many of the mechanisms that have long been used to circumvent the National Treasury's comprehensive anti-corruption procurement rules.
Patterns of abuse
As Zondo Part 1 recounts, "patterns of abuse" include the ordering of goods or services that are not in fact required "either because they have already been supplied or … could be provided in-house". These 'patterns' also involve the provision of "premature payment (before delivery)" and "payment for work not done at all".
"Deviations from normal tendering rules" are particularly common because they "dispense with the usual competitive requirements". This is generally justified by some emergency need, or "where there is supposedly only one supplier available or likely to come forward". Deviations are supposed to be the exception but are increasingly "the norm", says Zondo.
Other patterns of abuse involve unwarranted "confinements", where a single supplier is erroneously identified as having unique capacity to provide the (often complex) goods or services required. Also common is "parcelling", where a high-value contract is split into many smaller ones – all concluded with the same supplier – so that each tender falls below the threshold at which stricter controls would otherwise come into play.
Zondo Part 1 pays some attention to the problem of BEE preferential procurement too. The report acknowledges that "the ideals of empowerment have been grossly manipulated and abused to advance the interests of a few individuals". By implying this is relatively rare, the report brushes over the magnitude of the BEE procurement malaise and the damage it has done over 15 years and more.
Different standards for different parties
Also ignored by the commission is the key question of how the relevant rules have been so easily circumvented in the context of ANC procurement when they are so strictly applied against the ruling party's main political rival, the Democratic Alliance (DA).
DA federal chairperson Helen Zille provides a telling example from 2018, when she was premier of the Western Cape. Her office needed to send an official out to probe a local government problem in a distant municipality. He had to stay in the town overnight, so her office chose the cheapest of three quotes and booked him in at Guesthouse A. But when he arrived, Guesthouse A was full – so he booked himself into nearby Guesthouse B, which happened to be R76.90 more expensive than Guesthouse A.
As Zille records, "this automatically triggered a chain reaction that resulted in a full-blown investigation lasting six months". It also yielded "two reports (comprising over 70 double-sided pages, with annexures) that had to be read and signed off by now fewer than seven officials".
During this investigation, her office had to provide full explanations of why the cheapest quote had not been used, who had approved the change, why supply chain officials had not been informed, and (a matter clearly beyond the DA's ken) "why Guesthouse A was fully booked", for which supporting documentation was also required.
Zille's point in telling the story is not to decry these spending controls but to illustrate the "forest of rules" the Treasury has developed to counter potential spending abuses. These rules kick in over even very small amounts, where the costs of investigation far outweigh the sums in issue.
Yet, ANC cadres have been able to "steal a city", as ANC insider Crispian Olver writes of corruption in Nelson Mandela Bay. Zupta abuses at Eskom and Transnet alone total close on R60bn, as Zondo reports, and roughly half the state's R1trn annual procurement budget is tainted by fraud and inflated pricing, as Willie Mathebula, acting chief procurement officer at the National Treasury, told Zondo at the start of the commission's work.
In Zille's view, corruption on this massive scale can remain undetected and undeterred only if entire networks of ANC officials are willing to turn a blind eye to it. This indicates that almost everyone within the ruling party is party to the abuse and expects to get away with it.
The harm to the majority of black South Africans is enormous, as scarce tax revenues are repeatedly siphoned off for the benefit of deployed cadres and the ANC's patronage machine. The illicit gain to the ruling party is equally immense, as this unchecked corruption gives the ANC a level of clandestine funding that no political rival can begin to match.
The sheer scale of the corruption explains why the Zondo Commission is likely to prove meaningless in practice, why few prosecutions for corruption will succeed, and why the ANC cannot in fact be salvaged by President Cyril Ramaphosa's fictitious 'new dawn'.
It also underscores why a 'wild dog pack' of opposition parties – many of which are already working together to govern hung municipalities – must steadfastly focus on bringing down the ANC 'buffalo' and its EFF 'calf' and ousting them from power in the 2024 election.
In the run-up to that election, the corruption-fuelled patronage machine that gives the ANC such an extraordinarily unfair advantage must also be curtailed. This can be done, in part at least, by bringing BEE procurement back within the relatively narrow bounds of what Section 217 of the Constitution allows.
Bringing BEE procurement back within the Constitution's bounds
According to Section 217(1), all organs of state "contracting for goods or services … must do so in accordance with a system which is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive, and cost-effective". This wording is peremptory in requiring cost-effectiveness and competitiveness.
Under Section 217(2), this peremptory obligation "does not prevent" organs of state from "implementing procurement policies" that "provide for categories of preference…and the advancement of [people] disadvantaged by unfair discrimination" (emphasis supplied).
'Does not prevent' is not peremptory. It is permissive, at most. In addition, preferences may be implemented only if they 'advance' the great majority of poor black people, not harm them in the way that corrupt BEE procurement inevitably does.
Maintaining cost-effectiveness under Section 217(1) is also more important than BEE preferencing and must always be the over-arching requirement. As Zondo Part 1 correctly concludes, "the primary national interest is best served when the government derives the maximum value-for-money in the procurement process" and "procurement officials should be so advised". [para 532]
Next comes Section 217(3) of the Constitution, where the wording is again peremptory. If an organ of state chooses to apply preferences in its procurement policies, as set out in Section 217(2), then it "must" implement those policies "within a framework" laid down in "national legislation".
The Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA)
The national legislation referred to in Section 217(3) is the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA) of 2000. This sets out a framework for preferential procurement under which tenders must generally go to the bidder with the highest points, as calculated under a points system.
This system gives 80 points for price and 20 for BEE status for tenders below a specified threshold (currently set at R50m). It gives 90 points for price and 10 points for BEE status for tenders above that threshold.
Under the principle of subsidiarity, once legislation has been enacted to give effect to a constitutional provision, that statute provides the lens through which the constitutional obligation must be viewed.
In the preferential procurement context, the PPPFA (as the required 'national legislation') sets the parameters for the interpretation of Section 217(2). The PPPFA is thus binding on all organs of state that choose to provide BEE preferences and its provisions must prevail over all conflicting BEE procurement rules.
Since ANC cadres are unlikely to start enforcing Treasury and other rules that curtail corruption, ordinary citizens and their political parties should at least step into the breach with strategic litigation to cut BEE preferences down to PPPFA size.
Conflicting BEE procurement rules – whether in the BEE generic or sector codes or the pending Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEB) of 2020 – should also be challenged and struck down.
In the procurement context, the EEB seeks to bar companies that fail to meet unrealistic racial targets (to be set by the minister of employment and labour for all job appointments in different sectors) from doing business with the state at all. This is contrary to the PPPFA, under which all tenders must be taken into account and weighed according to its BEE points system. Instead, the EEB seeks to impose "pre-qualification criteria" that are inconsistent with the PPPFA and have already (albeit in a different context) been struck down by the Constitutional Court as ultra vires the PPPFA.
The Zondo Commission is in many ways a distraction being used by the ANC to create the impression that "something is being done" about corruption. Its report does, however, help drive home what is at stake.
In roughly two years' time (some 730 days from now), the country has its best chance to date of ousting the ANC and its EFF offshoot. Between now and then, the ANC will use all the tricks in the book to fuel its patronage machine and gain unfair advantage over its political rivals.
In this key period, Section 217 of the Constitution should at the very least be used to limit the abuse of BEE preferences, help ensure the honest use of tax revenues for the benefit of all – and prevent the political playing field from being still further skewed.
Dr Anthea Jeffery holds law degrees from Wits, Cambridge and London universities, and is the head of Policy Research at the IRR. She has authored 11 books, including People's War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa and BEE: Helping or Hurting? She has also written extensively on property rights, land reform, the mining sector, the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system, and a growth-focused alternative to BEE.
This article was first published on the Daily Friend.
https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/05/05/bee-procurement-laws-privileged


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Q: SQL Server trigger latency? I have created a trigger for a table in SQL Server 2008
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_mytable
ON dbo.mytable

FOR INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE

AS

EXTERNAL NAME mycode.[trig.mytable].myfn

The code for mytable.myfn is in C#. It opens a connection to the database and queries the inserted or deleted table based on the event to get the trigger data. Can it be possible that an entry is inserted and immediately deleted (in like a fraction of a second or say ms) from the table and the trigger function is never called? In short can there be a latency or absence of trigger? My understanding is that triggers use interrupt sort of mechanism rather than polling. I am very new to SQL Server and triggers.

A: No: there is no latency or lag
The trigger is part of the INSERT and DELETE statement. When the trigger completes, then SQL Server reports the INSERT or DELETE as complete
Note: you'd typically keep triggers short and concise and not use external code or calls

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The ability to show both <title> and <description> information and not just the <title>.
The ability to set an indefinite duration as at the moment assets have a fixed maximum duration which customers are looking to improve on.
When you add more players to your network it would be great if you could simply copy the content of an existing player without re publishing schedules individually.
At the moment 'Matching Tag' is just for one tag only. It would be great if we altered this to be for multiple tags, perhaps 3 or 5 instead of just 1.


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Das Freies Radio Wüste Welle Tübingen/Reutlingen versteht sich als Freies Radio für die Städte Tübingen und Reutlingen, sendet seit 1995 auf UKW und ist auch über Kabel in Tübingen, Reutlingen und Rottenburg sowie per Internet zu empfangen. Redaktionssitz ist das Tübinger Sudhaus.

Verein und Radiosender
Das Freie Radio Wüste Welle ist ein werbefreier Sender und versteht sich als Medium der Gegenöffentlichkeit mit rund 120 Mitarbeitern. Die Wüste Welle ist seit Juli 1995 auf Sendung, die Frequenz muss die Wüste Welle mit Radio Helle Welle und der Uniwelle teilen jedoch hat die Wüste Welle die meiste Sendezeit. Im Jahr 2003 wurde die Lizenz bis 2011, im Frühjahr 2011 bis 2015 bewilligt und die Gemeinnützigkeit um drei Jahre verlängert. Das Programm  besteht zu mehr als 65 % aus Livesendungen.

Projekte

Durch Kooperationen finden im Sender regelmäßig medienpädagogische Projekte zur Medienkompetenz statt, etwa das Projekt "EinMission Possible" als internationales Jugenddemokratieprojekt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Freien Radio BCB aus Bradford, England.

Wellenreiter

Jeweils zum 1. Januar und zum 1. Juli gibt das Freie Radio das aktuelle Programmheft, den "Wellenreiter" heraus, das in Tübingen und Reutlingen kostenlos ausliegt.

Finanzierung und Mitgliedschaft

Das Radio finanziert sich über Zuschüsse und Mitgliedsbeiträge. Der Radiobetrieb lebt hauptsächlich von der ehrenamtlichen Arbeit der Mitglieder und Sendungsmachenden. Das Freie Radio wird ermöglicht durch einen Förderverein, der sich im Wesentlichen über Mitgliedsbeiträge, Spenden und Landeszuschüsse finanziert.

Sendungen
Es gibt einige feste Sendeplätze für Info- und Regionalsendungen:

Andere Sender auf der Frequenz 96,6 MHz

Stundenweise senden auch das Uniradio der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen und das evangelikal-christliche Radio Helle Welle auf den Frequenzen der Wüsten Welle. Diese beiden Anbieter haben jeweils eigene Sendelizenzen und sind somit offiziell nicht Teil der Wüsten Welle, auch organisatorisch sind sie von dieser getrennt.

Weblinks
Offizielle Website

Einzelnachweise

Nichtkommerzieller Lokalfunk
Hörfunksender (Deutschland)
Hörfunk (Baden-Württemberg)
Medien (Tübingen)
Medien (Reutlingen)
Sendestart 1995

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it seems its a firefox problem also ?
1. am in mac in ja locale, using pseudo localized netbeans but that is not required.
have multibyte in its name and/or have the project name itself have multibyte.
4. get errors as in attached gif and nothing is placed in the dist/javadoc dir.
Reassigning to java/j2seproject that implements the generate javadoc action.
Not fixable in NB, see also #118203 which has the same root case.
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The only workaround that I found is to override -javadoc-build target in the build.xml and disable useexternalfile.
According to it seems that the behavior differs depending on FS type.


Each year, the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache e. V. (Society for German Language) [GfdS] issues a comprehensive list of names given to newborn babies in Germany. There's usually not a lot of change in the top baby names from one year to the next, but aside from the addition on two names in 2017, the GfdS has discovered an interesting trend in the evolution of German names.
So which names topped the list? Marie/Mari remained the top girl's name in 2017 while the top boy's name from 2016, Elias, got bumped into seventh place with Maximilian moving to the number one spot last year.
Luisa/Louisa was a new addition to the Girl's top ten list for 2017, moving up one spot to land at number ten. On the boy's side, Felix moved it's way from from number twelve in 2016 to number ten in this year's top German baby names.
What the GfdS has been discovering though is that Germany's days of picking strong and often harsh sounding names are fading as simpler and more androgynous names are favored.
Looking at the top ten list for 2017, most of the names are quite short in comparison to the past. The top two boy's names, Maximilian and Alexander, are of course an exception. Though both names are often shortened to Max and Alex in normal use.
The GfdS believes that if the current trends continue, we will see more gender non-conformity in name choices in future years.


Detectives with the Dover Police Department have charged a Dover man with a hate crime offense and several other charges following an incident at the Delaware Pride Festival.
Department spokesman Master Cpl. Mark Hoffman said the incident took place at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 on Legislative Mall as police were called in to investigate a report of a fight.
Officers contacted a 62-year-old man who was bleeding from the mouth, learning he had been assaulted by 31-year-old Sean Wiley.
Wiley, whom Hoffman said was "showing obvious signs of intoxication," shouted homosexual slurs at the injured man and others while police were questioning him, and openly admitted to punching the man.
Police also learned Wiley had assaulted a 46-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man by grabbing their private body parts, Hoffman said.
Wiley also took a swing at a Dover officer while they were trying to get his identification; he was taken to the ground while still resisting and ultimately put in a police cruiser and taken to police headquarters.
Wiley was initially charged with three counts of offensive touching, third-degree assault, menacing, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, third-degree trespass and a felony count of resisting arrest.
He was freed from custody after posting a $3,900 secured bond.
However, a post-incident investigation led to the decision to charge Wiley with a hate crime, prompting his surrender to police on Aug. 16, Hoffman said.
Wiley was committed to the Vaughn Correctional Center, Smyrna, in lieu of a $500 secured bond on the hate crime charge, but later was released on bail.


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Mini Review - Journal of Brain and Neurology (2022) Volume 5, Issue 4
Current concepts and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease.
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Rui Suqing
Mount Sinai Health System
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Received: 02-Jul-2022, Manuscript No. AAJBN-22-69525; Editor assigned: 04-Jul-2022, PreQC No. AAJBN-22-69525(PQ); Reviewed: 18-Jul-2022, QC No. AAJBN-22-69525; Revised: 19-Jul-2022, Manuscript No. AAJBN-22-69525(R); Published: 26-Jul-2022, DOI:10.35841/aajbn-5.4.117
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Impairment of various aspects of cognition is recognized as an important non-motor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD). Mild cognitive impairment of PD (PD-MCI) is common in patients without dementia and is often associated with the severity of motor symptoms, duration of illness, and aging. In addition, PD-MCI can have a significant adverse effect on the performance of activities of daily living and can be a precursor to the development of PD dementia. Therefore, there is great interest in developing therapeutic strategies to improve cognitive impairment in PD and improve cognitive function in PD patients. However, due to the remaining important questions about the pathophysiology of cognitive dysfunction in PD, cognitive dysfunction in PD has proven difficult to resolve. This article focuses on PD-MCI and reviews some of the current therapeutic approaches adopted to improve cognitive function in patients with PD-MCI [1].
Parkinson's disease most commonly considered a motor disorder, is a complex disorder further characterized by a variety of non-motor symptoms such as cognitive dysfunction, autonomic dysfunction, fatigue, pain, and mental illness. Cognitive impairment of PD is a fundamental problem that adversely affects quality of life, and mild cognitive impairment of PD may foretell the subsequent onset of dementia Aasland Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease occurs in a series of severity and can be present in patients without dementia, affecting more or less multiple cognitive areas. Patients with Parkinson's disease often experience cognitive impairment even in the early stages of the disease Hietanen and Teravainen, affecting a variety of cognitive functions. Giving neurobehavioral disorders are detectable across.
In a recent study the frequency of MCI in newly diagnosed PD was and in another study, patients with an average disease duration of about 3 years Many of the cognitive deficits, especially in the early stages of the disease, appear to be associated with frontal lobe dysfunction, impaired attention Stam executive function difficulty in shifting building attention groups, Includes including difficulty in chronological ordering. Sequences and Planning and Working Memory Disorders Grossman. As the disease progresses, the severity and severity of cognitive impairment can lead to serious disability and poor quality of life for patients and caregivers. These disorders can have a significant negative impact on social behavioral [2].
Sleep disorders affect about two-thirds of people with Parkinson's disease. They usually appear before typical motor symptoms, and their frequency and severity increase as the disease progresses. The causes of sleep disorders in patients with Parkinson's disease are thought to be multifactorial. It can be caused by nighttime involuntary movements such as restless legs syndrome or periodic limb movements during sleep, or immobility due to rigidity, but it can also be associated with the underlying condition of the disease itself. Sleep problems also include sleep fragmentation and early-morning awakening, which can lead to excessive daytime sleepiness. Obstructive sleep apnea, a risk factor for cognitive decline in the general population, is a known comorbidity of Parkinson's disease. REM sleep behavior disorder is a characteristic non-motor symptom of Parkinson's disease. RBD affects of PD patients and is characterized by vibrant dreams, dream-managing behaviors, and loss of muscle tone associated with REM sleep Clinical studies have shown that after a sufficiently long follow-up period [3].
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Aaron Hernandez murder conviction expected to be vacated by 'quirky' rule
by: Cailyn Blonstein, News 8 Online Content Producer
Posted: Apr 19, 2017 / 11:24 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 19, 2017 / 11:24 PM EDT
(CNN) — Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction is expected to be dismissed posthumously because of a legal rule called "abatement."
That would mean, legally speaking, Aaron Hernandez died an innocent man.
Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell and was found dead early Wednesday morning, the Massachusetts Department of Correction said. Hernandez had been serving a sentence of life in prison without parole after being convicted of the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd.
But a court will vacate that conviction because Hernandez's appeal was pending, said Rosanna Cavallaro, a law professor at Suffolk University who has written about abatement.
"The idea is that if an appeal hasn't happened, there's a chance that a conviction has an error in it," she told CNN. "Rather than have someone with that incomplete decision that they're guilty, the state chooses instead to say that conviction is abated — as if it never had happened."
The conviction's dismissal is "pro forma," or automatic, she said.
Hernandez, who was acquitted last Friday in a separate murder trial, had appealed the Lloyd murder conviction. A date for a hearing had not been set.
The abatement law is "quirky" and "esoteric," Cavallaro said, but not without significant consequences.
Civil lawsuits, in which a harmed party sues for damages, often rely on a criminal conviction as its basis of facts.
"You could piggyback off that criminal conviction to get to the place where you're only litigating damages," Cavallaro said. "Now that's not available anymore."
Rule aims to serve justice
The issue of abatement has come up in other high-profile examples, such as after the death of convicted Enron executive Kenneth Lay.
In Massachusetts, John Salvi was convicted of murder in 1996 for opening fire at a Planned Parenthood in Brookline. He committed suicide in his prison cell before his appeal, officials said, and so his conviction was abated.
The death of John J. Geoghan, a priest at the center of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal, also led to the abatement of his conviction.
Though often frustrating, the rule is still a solid one for ensuring a just system that includes appeals, Cavallaro said.
"If you die before that part of the process, it's as if we're saying you didn't get the full process," she said. "We'd rather err on the side of erasing convictions, than allow convictions to stand that have not been reviewed."
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Discussion in 'Playstation Forums' started by Capes, Jan 23, 2008.
Is it possible to listen to online radio stations VIA the PS3 ??
I can access the stations website via the PS3 web-browser, but the 'listen now' link doesnt work.... i have the option to click 'listen with winamp/WMP/ITunes' but obviously these arent used by the PS3.
Any ideas ?? Can i stream it thru my Laptop to my PS3/HifI as i would normal MP3's ??
At a guess the version of flash the website works on is newer than the version on the PS3; probably a case of waiting for a sony update.
i know virgin radio used to work, i think its down to the websites to make it compatible.
In general embedded media playback will not work on the PS3 as most websites use a much more current version of the embedded playback software, for example Flash. The PS3's browser is not as up to date or as robust as standard computer browsers and untill Sony decide to update it through firmware most content will not work.
The only way i could get most online radio stations to work was to stream them from my PC to the PS3 using Tversity, not an ideal solution but better than nothing.
It would be great if you could watch BBC's iPlayer.
Give tvcatchup.com a go, it will have bbc if you are a UK resident. I have had a couple of problems with watching it on the PS3, but it does work most of the time. Handy site for the PC/laptop anyway.


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For Merrill College visiting professor Dave Owens, his road to the sports anchor desk could be summed up by Robert Frost's great poem, "The Road Not Taken." "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference."
A Naval Academy graduate, six years of service and then a career as a sports anchor, that is a road less traveled.
Owens' path began at the Naval Academy where he played football for the Midshipmen. Two seasons with the varsity and two more with the lightweight team allowed Owens to be part of college football's most historic game.
"The Army-Navy game is one of those special moments that you don't forget, running out on to the field at Veterans Stadium," Owens said. "Those are the moments you remember."
Football memories were just some of the many things Owens gained from Navy. He says that Navy prepared him for a wide variety of professions by what he experienced on a daily basis.
"Attention to detail is the first thing," Owens said. "I think when you are in the military and your job is combat readiness, attention to detail is a really important thing. I mean you have to live that on a daily basis or else people get hurt, people die."
After graduation, Owens served in the Navy for six years. The next step was in sports journalism.
His career began in Redding, Calif., and then moved to Shreveport, La., where he was the sports anchor at both stops. As a lifelong athlete, a career in sports was not something out of the ordinary.
"For me, yes it is a little bit different path, I didn't go to a traditional journalism school," Owens said. "Being in the Naval Academy, the things you don't know, you learn, you pick them up and then move forward."
His career brought him to WUSA, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., where he is the lead sports anchor and reporter.
Owens has always enjoyed teaching, from the Navy Academy to sports broadcasting. When he was in the military, he ran training courses. In his sports anchor jobs he is always working with interns.
"I was always in and around teaching in some sort of form in the military and then when I got into my job it just became a normal thing to do," Owens said. "So that's why I do it and I am happy to be at Maryland now fulfilling that dream."
Owens' teaching ability is enhanced by his many experiences. A valuable asset for Owens is that he has been on both sides of coverage. As a Division I athlete at Navy he was answering the questions.
"I think when you are an athlete and you are not a journalist, you don't really understand what is going on. You don't understand why people are asking you questions", Owens said. "I mean you are so focused on the game, so focused on the moment, you are so focused on what just happened, you really don't have that big picture."
Now he is asking the questions.
"When it comes to being on the side of covering," Owens said, "I think the good thing is that having been on the other side, you are little bit more sympathetic, compassionate, careful. You understand that hey these guys, these girls just played, it is an emotional thing. I think it kind of gives you an added perspective to what they just did."
Part of that added perspective is that Owens understands where the business is headed. He wants to make sure his viewers don't have to wait until 6 or 7 o'clock to hear the news. The news cycle is instantaneous, so either through Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, he always updates his followers on his daily activities concerning the D.C. sports scene.
Owens approaches his broadcasts in a distinctive manner. In his on air broadcasts, he has been dressed in "Soul-Train" outfits, different color sport coats weekly and even one night without shirt.
"I think especially in television, sports coverage there is a lot of sameness and that happens just because there is just so much of it," Owens said. "One of the things that I try to do is be unique in my delivery, in what I say, how I say it… It is not easy, but it is certainty something that I try to do."
With so many different ways to receive sports highlights, Owens feels that there is a need to produce something different in order to stay relevant.
"Honestly people under a certain age are not watching the news anymore," Owens said. "They don't have to. I think the traditional news business has to understand that and have to accept that and change with that."
Along with teaching his students about ways to stand out, he will also teach them about the core of not just sports broadcasting, but also any job.
"The one thing that I tell my students is that if you prepare you can do those kind of things, you can do it differently," Owens said. "The preparedness part is never going to change, knowing the topic of discussion is never going to change, knowing the statistics, knowing the information, having done the research that stuff never changes."


arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF frustrating me to no end!
...same error. However, the same line interestingly works in the ArcMap Python Window (I'm trying this in the Python GUI).
What is frustrating is that I followed the ESRI example for data-driven page export to PDF, and the syntax in the online-documentation worked, however, the example for exporttopdf is misleading.
I think you should post your entire code if possible.
Seems your incorrectly declaring variables and parameters based on your errors.
i.e your range is wrong having 3 values in it.
if you were only using these codes here, there shouldn't be any issues.
[HR][/HR]I am ONLY using the code posted previously, with no other code, and it returns the error message. Perhaps this warrents a call to ESRI tech support?
I know I've just given variable names... After this go into the map document properties and copy the file location and paste into the mapDoc variable. I had the 'NoneType' error the other day and spent half an hour staring at it wondering what was wrong and then realised I'd missed a folder in the path.
Not sure, never got an update after the last suggestion. Can you export from the UI via File Export (to PDF)? If it works from the UI and your code is as simple as the example post above, and it still doesn't work, I would suggest contacting Tech Support.
Yes, I can export from the UI. Tech support seems to the next step. Thanks.
...in your case, looks like the case is wrong in the method, should be 'ExportToPDF' not what was quoted in the error, 'exportToPDF'.
hmmm, I question why there is 'NoneType object' quoted in there too...make sure your mxd obj is set to something too.
I have had the same error with the exportToJpeg tool when I was trying to assign an invalid filename ( 100-B/C.jpg ). It didn't like the slash in the filename and give me the NoneType error.
Sorry to revive this old dead thread, but I was recently having this problem. Turns out it was caused by mxd's saved in different ArcGIS desktop versions.
I successfully upgraded from ArcMap 10.3 to 10.5. I saved my MXD from 10.3 using 10.5 (thereby making it an 10.5 mxd). Ran my python script: NO PROBLEMS.
Other issues came up with 3rd party extensions, so I reverted back to 10.3. Now when attempting to run my python script I get the same error as above.
Found old versions of the same MXD and attempted to run my python script: NO PROBLEMS.
Reloaded ArcMap 10.5, saved each document as a 10.3 mxd again, reran my python script: NO PROBLEMS.
Definitely an mxd versioning problem with arcpy.


Yesterday I un-moulded my first batch of goat's milk soap and it is too soft.
I should say that the color come out beautifully creamy white because I followed all the instructions about the frozen milk, temperatures of mixing the oils on 27-30 C and freeze for 2.30 h (it was 30 C when I put it in and went to 0 C), then refrigerated for 4 hours (from 0 C it went to 11 C and stayed there for 2 hours) and because it's temperature stopped rising I took it out from the fridge and let it stay in the mould in my room for 18 hours (from 11 C went to 26 C then came back to 22 C and stay there for 2 hours).
Then I decided to un-mould it. I knew it was not as hard as it should be but I wanted to try some stamping so I took it and cut it. I forgot to mention that I used a wooden mould.
But- here's my problem- The goats milk soap wasn't really hard enough. When I cut it, it just stuck a little bit on my knife, and when I tried to stamp it, it was a disaster because my soap just stuck on the stamp.
So my question is do you think it's going harden anyway now when it's cut and out of the mould?
For details I've made a 500 g try soap- with recipe of 7% super fat, and decreased amount of water- 30% as % of oils.
Though I haven't run your recipe through a lye calculator, from what you have described, I think your soap will harden just fine given time.
Any soap that doesn't go through the gel phase (and spending time in the freezer or fridge will often stop the gel phase from occurring) will take longer to harden.
I suggest leaving the soap as a full block for longer next time before attempting to cut it and stamp it. Test the soap by pressing your finger into an edge.
If you leave a dent without having placed much pressure on it then it is too soon to cut.
As for stamping the soap, I don't think you need to rush the cutting process in order for the stamping to work. A freshly cut, fully cured block of soap is still quite soft on the inside (unless you've made a very hard type of soap) and should still be able to be stamped on the cut sides.
I am not very experienced but I did a little research and there's lots of soapers claiming milk based soaps are a bit softer because of milk fat content. I did milk soap three days ago, kept it in the fridge and unmoulded without any problems. I cut it and got drag marks so I have decided to leave it for a day or two and then try again. I hope that will help. I like milk soaps, they are so nice and creamy.
Yes as Cathy said, your soap will harden but as for stamping, you should never try it if its soft at cutting time, soaps need to be hard , I use a much harder recipe than yours and a bigger water discount, my soaps are hard bars and I stamp at 4 days.


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Shortly after accepting a position at Oberlin, I was encouraged to put together a flamenco symposium. Although that's a pretty broad request, I knew immediately the theme I wanted to explore.
Ever since I started to discover that flamenco has no limits—flamenco's gamut extends far beyond the traditional aesthetics, each artist can express their own stories and ever-changing self through the form, and many artists in North America and beyond acknowledge their unique histories and the very hybridity of flamenco in doing so—I wanted to bring together these artists daring to cross both cultural and conceptual boundaries and raise awareness of flamenco's possibilities and current expansions.
I believe flamenco owes its ever-evolving aesthetics to its inherent openness to individuality and expressing the inner-self. And yet, within this expanding horizon the following questions remain: what is flamenco? What is it as noun? As adjective? As verb? And how do these definitions interact and shift, overlap, and contradict? Those were some of the questions I wanted the various puzzle pieces of the symposium to address.
The poster for the symposium, featuring a photo of Niurca Márquez by Nicole Wolcott of Keigwin & Co.
In putting a symposium together, I had to envision how different voices, approaches, perspectives could come together in dialogue, opening space to generate new knowledge, ideas, and questions—all adding to the patchwork that is flamenco.
I kicked things off with a performance of Labyrinths in Mudd Library at Oberlin. Originally choreographed for my MFA thesis, I transposed the work to Oberlin's library and took full advantage of the letterpress as part of the site-specific work.
That evening, I showed a series of experimental flamenco screen dance pieces that showed a two-dimensional and often innovative perspective on flamenco movement. The artists included Rosanna Terracianno, Cristian Hall, Niurca Márquez, Anna Natt, and a documentary/art film about the lesser seen sides of Sevilla by María Cañas.
The next evening, Oberlin alum and flamenco flute player Moises López Ruiz joined Oberlin students at the Cat in the Cream for a performance.
…and getting the chance to talk with the artist about his technique!
Friday was filled with guest lectures. Students of a Spanish language section of the Politics and Poetics of Flamenco practiced their oral history research skills, interviewing Marcia Loebick "La Romera,"; Intro to Flamenco Dance Students took class with Wendy Clinard; Intro to Musics of the World students learned more than they could have imagined in 50 mins in a lecture/demonstration with Niurca Márquez and José Luis de la Paz.
Friday night, Clinard Dance performed Everyday People/Everyday Action in Warner Main Space. The performance explored how place shapes people and the beauty in everyday occurrences with performances by flamenco dancer Wendy Clianrd, singer/guitarist Marija Temo, violinist Steve Gibons, beat boxer Yuri Lane, and hip hop dancer Chris Cortney, and a backdrop of photos by Akido Tsuda of Wendy's neighborhood in Chicago, Pilsen. Wendy's weaving of these different disciplines into one show astounded me and captured the constant unfolding that is life. From bouncing a basketball in compás to sounds and photos of a basketball court in Pilsen (Chicago), to the opening of the performance with two performers mimicking a photo of two people arm wrestling, to footwork performed to the rhythm of a sewing machine, the work brought to my attention the rhythms we often tune out, the magic of even the most trivial interactions. Clinard created onstage the possibility of seamless coexistence.
Saturday morning kicked off with a series of paper presentations. Yuko Aoyoma shared her research that looks at flamenco from an economic standpoint, bringing in her own experience as a flamenco aficionado with Japanese heritage, addressing the complexities of the global markets and how flamenco often gets framed by outsiders/non-aficionados vs. from the inside. Theresa Goldbach brought in a theoretical perspective, looking at how spaces shape and define flamenco. And Niurca Marquez shared her practice as research and what it means to embody the theoretical ideas of hybrid flamenco. The round-table discussion that afternoon brought to the forefront many important answers, including; Is flamenco folk art? How flamenco is taught in the U.S. vs. Spain and how that has shifted recently and different ways to study/learn the forms and codes? What is the cultural work flamenco is doing and how has that shifted?
Saturday night, the symposium finished off with Resonancias by Niurca Márquez and José Luis de la Paz. Drawing from family stories, the artists took us into the memories of the Spanish Civil War. With film clips created for the performance, it was as if we could see both the character and their inner self through Niurca's live and recorded movements, all staged with the enrapturing music of José. Niurca's presence onstage made something as intangible as memories and family legends embodied and real.
Both main-stage performances examined place, memory, improvisation, within and outside and overlapping flamenco and other disciplines. Their use of film and photos brought the past into the present each in unique ways, allowing their performances to communicate across time and space.
Seeing each piece of the symposium unfold and fit into place—watching the questions develop, the knowledge and connections accumulate over a few days astounded me. I chose the presenters because I knew their work would speak to each other, I could see the overlaps before the symposium, but placing their work in dialogue and opening a space for further developing both the theoretical/critical spaces and the actual dance spaces created more connections than I could have imagined.
The Flamenco Symposium was one of the coolest events I've been a part of while at Oberlin, and I'm so very glad that I had the opportunity to experience so many different performances, speakers, and perspectives!
The symposium Breaking Boundaries in Flamenco changed my conception of flamenco's interdisciplinary artistic possibilities and flamenco as a way to express cultures beyond that of Andalusia cultural flamenco while deepening my understanding of traditional flamenco.
flamenco in different, but equally as thought-provoking ways. These talks were interesting in that they expanded the breadth of flamenco, in my mind, to beyond just the realm of dance.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing the personal stories of Níurca Marquez and the others on the panel when they detailed their own involvement with Flamenco. It became very clear to me at that point that Flamenco is an amalgamation of individual stories, and that telling each of those stories can take many forms even under the singular umbrella of Flamenco. I am not quite sure what kinds of stories I want to express in my own practice of Flamenco, but I look forward to finding out as I continue in this class!
Clearly, everything that I saw was so thought provoking and beautiful and I have so many thoughts about it, and I will be thinking about it for a long time!
I hope to keep this momentum going, and continue to bring guest artists and speakers who continue to add to this conversation, making new connections and adding to the field in ways we cannot yet imagine!


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VATICAN II DECREE ON LITURGY STUDY
The Reformation Page 32: Luther's Revelation
For all of Luther's personal and spiritual difficulties, the young Augustinian monk was nothing short of a prodigy in the discipline of the sacred sciences, and his Augustinian superior Johannes Staupitz exercised his authority to situate Luther in university placements where he might expand his scholarship and original thought. For two years (1513-1515) Luther lectured at the Wittenberg university about the Psalms, that part of sacred revelation most familiar to a monk, as monasteries prayed all 150 psalms in a perpetual cycle (as would anyone today who prays the full Liturgy of the Hours.)
In this timeframe Luther came to understand that, as Eric Metaxas puts it, "the only way to read the Word of God properly involved seeing beyond the mere words." (p. 77) To approach the text without nuance, as some fundamental approaches tend to do, is to limit the power of Scripture to the level of any other written book. Again, Metaxas summarizes this well: "Therefore, one must not merely see what the devil could see, which is to say the words on a page, but see what only God could see and would reveal to those who desired it, which was in the words and around them, too."
Clearly Luther is drawing from his own experience, one that is common even today to any priest or religious bound to the daily recitation of the Hours. As a monk Luther had already recited or sung the Psalms in common with his monastic brothers for some years, but this recitation was obviously bringing him no religious peace of mind, most likely because the common prayer was a duty of monks and approached in routine fashion. As a duty, the recitation of the 150 Psalms that composed the Hours was viewed as an obligation to God, but no one expected to experience God or undergo anything resembling a profound religious experience except, perhaps, over the long run of a lifetime of fidelity. When I was in training and taking up the common praying of the Hours [or praying the "breviary" as it was called then], my superior told a story—most likely apocryphal—about a community of friars reciting the psalms in San Francisco when the great earthquake struck. The local superior supposedly halted the recitation and emotionally ordered the friars to start praying.]
Luther was putting forward the reality of a dynamic encounter with the written Word of God. His principle here is the power of every Scriptural encounter. The Bible was given to be experienced, not used. He came to regard the thoughtless routine of monastic recitation, for example, as blasphemous in the sense that constant repetition without a profound encounter of the divine would, over time, harden the heart against any future possibilities of being touched by God. He cited how the devil had quoted Scripture flawlessly for his nefarious purposes and he placed much greater emphasis upon the reader of sacred texts to approach the Bible with purity of heart and, equally important, the hope and expectation of being filled with God's life.
Luther had history at his back. The medieval Church was not biblically oriented. In fact, history books will make the argument that most Christians were not aware that there was such a thing as the Bible at this juncture, at least until the invention of printing in the 1400's when a peasant coming through town might actually see one, in the imperfect Latin translation of St. Jerome from 400 A.D. In the early thirteenth century, when Francis of Assisi wished to model his young community after the Gospel, he selected at random texts from the local church's altar missal, which was as close to the Bible as anyone of that time could come.
Luther, in his reflections on the Psalms, was unconsciously pursuing the same route as Francis three centuries earlier, another tortured soul looking for an intense experience of God in a time when the Church was underperforming and in need of renewal. Curiously, Francis's conversion involved mystical experience, direct inspiration from God, ["Rebuild my House"] that in turn made the Gospel understandable in its command to give up all riches and "come follow me." The most powerful stirrings of faith and renewal in medieval times came through the experiences of mystics and the communities they inspired.
Luther's true conversion moment came in his study and his class notes. Less dramatic than Francis's, perhaps, but no less real and essential: salvation would come through a living encounter with the Word of God. It is hard to imagine how much hope Luther's future preaching and writing would bring to a broad swath of Europe. I have posted on this stream at several points that Catholicism in 1500 was divided between those who despaired that any good works could save them, those who sought salvation by any means including monetary, and a growing class of cynics who turned to pagan classics and philosophers as more reliable source of discussion and speculation.
Luther would say that there is no chaining of the Word of God. He had rediscovered the depth and meaning of Hebrews 4:12, the famous "two-edged sword" biblical analogy. A struggling believer would hear three reasons for newfound optimism: (1) There is no limit to the forgiving power of God's Word; anyone of pure intention who approached the Word in humility would be justified or saved by faith; (2) The heart of the salvation process rested in conscience, the good intention to live as guided by constant communion with the Word of God, and (3) there was now a clear roadmap for Church reform, conformity of practice to God's living word.
I have simplified the Lutheran reformation here, and much discourse, contention, and bloodshed would follow from the implications of Luther's thought as will be chronicled in future blog posts. But I can make this very personal, too. I read the bulk of Eric Metaxas's biography of Luther [see home page] during the breaking scandals in the American Catholic Church and the anguishing division in our country during this recently concluded election campaign. When the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre took place, I was stunned that my own Church mumbled along in routine worship like the monks at choir in Luther's monastery. I have many moments where I ask myself, "What kind of a game are we playing here?"
I have to say that following Luther's life story and reflecting on his work has brought me back to reflective sanity. I realized afresh that the Bible is alive, and God is present there to sustain me and give me hope. I believe it was the twentieth-century Trappist monk and mystic Thomas Merton who observed that for all of us there is the great temptation to go out into the woods and build a one-man chapel. I could never do that as a lifestyle because I cannot pretend to know the mind of God on my own. I remain a Catholic because in my formative years I had the good fortune to learn the Scripture from giants just as Luther's students had five centuries ago.
But yes, I can still take up the Bible and hold it close to my heart, in times of joy and times of pain, in the knowledge that the Promise of Israel and the Coming of the Christ wrap me up in a world that never ends. And I can move on constructively.


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Abnormal user detection is one of the key issues in online social network security research. Attackers spread advertising and other malicious messages through stolen accounts, and malicious actions seriously threaten the information security of normal users with the credit system of social networks. For this reason, in the literature, there are a considerable amount of research work which detect abnormal accounts in social networks, however, these efforts ignore the problem of the seamless integration of machine learning with human behaviour-based analysis. This paper reviews the main achievements of abnormal account detection in online social networks in recent years from three aspects: behavioral characteristics, content-based, graph-based, and proposes a new social network abnormal user detection method based on system calls in computer's kernel. Using enumeration sequence and hidden semi-Markov method, a hierarchical model of anomaly user detection in social networks is established.
We applied system calls and investigated their relations to the detection of abnormal behaviors of social network users for the first time. It is a completely new approach. The article has only described the fundamental work in this direction, more work will be reported in the next stage on the new progress on this basis. The authors would like to thank the support of National Natural Science Foundation of China (61762018), the Guangxi 100 Youth Talent Program (F-KA16016) and the Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Intelligent Integrated Automation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China (GXZDSY2016-03), the research fund of Guangxi Key Lab of Multi-source Information Mining & Security (18-A-02-02), Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi (2018JJA170109).


Saint-Michel-des-Saints is located in Québec. In Saint-Michel-des-Saints the majority of the population are Married (and not separated) and have children living at home between the ages of 6 to 14 years. The top three occupations people in Saint-Michel-des-Saints are in employed in are Sales and service occupations, Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations and Occupations in manufacturing and utilities. The average personal gross income in Saint-Michel-des-Saints is $27,957 per year while the average after-tax income is $24,505 which means the average personal income tax rate is 12.35%. Most of the population in Saint-Michel-des-Saints lives in Single-detached house and the average home value is $141,043. The majority of the homes in Saint-Michel-des-Saints were constructed 1960 or before. The the most predominant religious faith is Christian. The majority of the population who live in Saint-Michel-des-Saints are Canadian citizens. The most common non-official languages spoken in Saint-Michel-des-Saints are Spanish, African languages, n.i.e. and Afrikaans. The most predominant continent of origin for most migrants to Saint-Michel-des-Saints is Africa.


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The law aimed at blocking no-deal Brexit
Dario Thuburn
If a delay is agreed, then the government must publish a report by November 30 "explaining what progress has been made in negotiations on the United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union".(Simon Dawson/Reuters)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the law will bind his hands while he tries to get a new Brexit deal in Brussels while his opponents say it is a vital precaution to avert economic disaster.
The Brexit law that received royal assent on Monday is at the centre of a constitutional stand-off with enormous implications for Britain.
Ultimately the decision of whether or not to delay Britain's European Union departure if no divorce deal has been agreed is one that must be taken by all 28 EU leaders unanimously.
But the law would place important limitations on what a British prime minister can and cannot do even though Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the government has said it will "test to the limit" the law in court.
Here are the main points in the proposed legislation which Johnson calls a "surrender" document:
October 19 deadline
The bill states that if by October 19 the government has not reached a separation deal with the EU, the prime minister must ask to delay Brexit until January 31, 2020.
The deadline is set after an EU summit on October 17-18 and before the current scheduled Brexit date of October 31.
The only exception to the delay is if MPs vote in favour of a no-deal Brexit before October 19 — an unlikely prospect.
"The purpose of the bill is to ensure that the UK does not leave the European Union on the 31st of October without an agreement, unless parliament consents," said Hilary Benn, the Labour MP who presented the legislation.
Johnson has stated that he will not accept any delay and says the law will undermine the government's negotiating position with Brussels and force it to accept their terms.
Letter to EU council
The legislation includes a copy of the letter that the prime minister would have to write to EU Council president Donald Tusk to formally request a delay to Brexit.
"The United Kingdom is seeking a further extension," the letter states, adding that the Brexit date could be brought forward if a deal is ratified before January 31.
Two day limit
Under the law, the prime minister would have to immediately accept an offer from EU leaders to delay Brexit until January 31.
If the extension offered by the EU is to a different date, the prime minister would have two days in which to accept.
The only way of not accepting a delay in that case would be if parliament votes against it within those two days.
More delay?
If a delay is agreed, then the government must publish a report by November 30 "explaining what progress has been made in negotiations on the United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union".
The government would then have to make another report by January 10, 2020 on setting out its Brexit plans.
If there is still no deal by January 31, the law implies that Brexit would have to be delayed again.
It forces the government to report at least every 28 calendar days from February 7 2020 until an agreement with the European Union is reached or until otherwise indicated by a resolution in the House of Commons.
Johnson has warned that the legislation could have the effect of delaying Brexit "potentially for years".
The exception, again, would be a parliamentary vote in favour of a no-deal Brexit.
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Eu Summit
Hilary Benn


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Q: Fill empty pandas column based on condition on others columns Suppose I have the following toy dataframe:
# Import pandas library
import pandas as pd
# initialize list of lists
data = [['tom', 10], ['nick', 15], ['juli', 14]]
# Create the pandas DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns = ['Name', 'Age'])
# print dataframe.
df

and I create an empty column which I want to fill later:
df['foo'] = df.apply(lambda _: '', axis=1)

I want to fill the empty column based on conditions on the other two columns. For example:
 if (df['Name']=='tom' and df['Age']==10):
     df['foo'] = 'x1'

I got the following error:

The truth value of a Series is ambiguous. Use a.empty, a.bool(), a.item(), a.any() or a.all().

What I am doing wrong?

A: Dataframe needs to be indexed and accessed differently:
df['foo'] = ''
df.loc[(df['Name'] == 'tom') & (df['Age'] == 10), 'foo'] = 'x1'

A: df['foo'] = np.where((df['Name'] == 'tom') & (df['Age'] == 10), 'x1', '')

Using np.where functionality is simpler in my opinion.

A: According to error ,here you are comparing whole series df['Name'] with 'tom' and same with other condition. you have to write this condition for every value  pandas series.
For that you can use apply function.
def new_column(df1):
    if (df1['Name']=='tom' and df1['Age']==10):
        df1['foo'] = 'x1'

df.apply(new_column)


Jacob deGrom took a page out of Nolan Arenado's interview book after the Mets lost to the Marlins 5-2 Saturday, expressing his displeasure with the state of the team to the media.
"I'm frustrated," deGrom told reporters, via MLB.com. "I'm tired of losing, to be honest."
Jacob deGrom: "I'm frustrated. I'm tired of losing, to be honest."
deGrom delivered a quality start for the Mets Saturday allowing three runs in six innings while striking out eight, but it simply wasn't good enough as it hasn't been most of the month of June for the 30-year-old.
The Mets' ace allowed a mere eight earned runs in 36 innings pitched in the month of June. That amounts to a 2.00 ERA. Yet he won just one game.
What's worse is New York won a total of five games in the month finishing with a 5-21 record. That is the worst month of June in the history of the franchise. They have not posted such a terrible record since Aug. 1982 when they went 5-24. The absolute worst month came in July 1963 when the team went 4-25, according to MLB.com.
New York has been so bad they now have the worst record in the National League behind the Reds, Padres and Marlins, all of which are in rebuilding mode. The Mets are 32-48 after starting the season 11-1.
deGrom continues to be involved in trade discussions as the Mets' season goes down the tubes. The Yankees are one of the teams on the lookout and as the season gets worse, their odds to land the ace may increase.


How will my credit be damaged after a short sale or foreclosure?
The impact a foreclosure, short sale or bankruptcy have on credit scores can vary depending on the credit profile of a particular person. The amount of the score's drop is based on the person's starting score. In general, a foreclosure will reduce a credit score by 140 points, he added; a short sale will drop the score by 130 points.
While both a foreclosure and a short sale will remain on a credit report for seven years, they are often reported differently. A foreclosure is reported as a foreclosure, but short sales can appear as "settled for less than balance owed," or similar terminology.
2) Deed-in-Lieu is 4 years < 80% LTV and 5 years > 80% LTV for primary residences. 7 years for second homes and investment properties regardless of LTV.
According to TransUnion foreclosure won't in and of itself impact credit, particularly since it arrives on the heels of hard financial times.
Note: its the MISSED payments that do the most credit damage vs the actual short sale or foreclosure.
A bankruptcy causes a credit score to tumble a maximum of 365 points and appears on the credit report for seven to 10 years, depending on the type of bankruptcy. Again, if the starting score is already low, bankruptcy will drop that score significantly fewer points than if the starting score is high. So, if you have a B/K and your credit score is already low the actual credit point drop is LESS compared to someone with a higher score.
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